Film meme

[pbray]

Gacked from mizkit

The American Film Institute has released an updated 100 best films listing. Bold those you've seen, strike out those you couldn't make it through, italicize the ten *you'd* have put in the top 10.


1. Citizen Kane
2. The Godfather
3. Casablanca
4. Raging Bull
5. Singin' in the Rain
6. Gone with the Wind
7. Lawrence of Arabia
8. Schindler's List
9. Vertigo
10. The Wizard of Oz
11. City Lights
12. The Searchers
13. Star Wars
14. Psycho
15. 2001: A Space Odyssey
16. Sunset Boulevard
17. The Graduate
18. The General
19. On the Waterfront
20. It's a Wonderful Life
21. Chinatown
22. Some Like It Hot
23. The Grapes of Wrath
24. E.T.
25. To Kill a Mockingbird
26. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
27. High Noon
28. All About Eve
29. Double Indemnity
30. Apocalypse Now
31. The Maltese Falcon
32. The Godfather Part II
33. One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest
34. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
35. Annie Hall
36. The Bridge on the River Kwai
37. The Best Years of Our Lives
38. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
39. Dr. Strangelove
40. The Sound of Music
41. King Kong
42. Bonnie and Clyde
43. Midnight Cowboy
44. The Philadelphia Story
45. Shane
46. It Happened One Night
47. A Streetcar Named Desire
48. Rear Window
49. Intolerance
50. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
51. West Side Story
52. Taxi Driver
53. The Deer Hunter
54. M*A*S*H
55. North by Northwest
56. Jaws
57. Rocky
58. The Gold Rush
59. Nashville
60. Duck Soup
61. Sullivan's Travels
62. American Graffiti
63. Cabaret
64. Network
65. The African Queen
66. Raiders of the Lost Ark
67. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
68. Unforgiven
69. Tootsie
70. A Clockwork Orange
71. Saving Private Ryan
72. The Shawshank Redemption
73. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
74. The Silence of the Lambs
75. In the Heat of the Night
76. Forrest Gump
77. All the President's Men
78. Modern Times
79. The Wild Bunch
80. The Apartment
81. Spartacus
82. Sunrise
83. Titanic
84. Easy Rider
85. A Night at the Opera
86. Platoon
87. 12 Angry Men
88. Bringing Up Baby
89. The Sixth Sense
90. Swing Time
91. Sophie's Choice
92. Goodfellas
93. The French Connection
94. Pulp Fiction
95. The Last Picture Show
96. Do the Right Thing
97. Blade Runner
98. Yankee Doodle Dandy
99. Toy Story
100. Ben-Hur

Looking over the list, I can see how many of these movies I caught during the first years I had cable, when I went on a spree of watching westerns on TBS and classic movies on AMC and Bravo.

Comments

[atateatarin.livejournal.com]

Wow, I've seen a whole 17 of them XD!
Some of those films (mainly the classics) belong on the list, but some of them (in my personal opinion) really don't. I think Snow White would belong, as the first full-length animated motion picture it's a hallmark of modern animation and the Walt Disney enterprise... And Titanic, yeah, I suppose that gets to be there.

IMO, but...Toy Story? If Toy Story gets to be on that list, then Jurassic Park should be there too :P It pioneered the use of complete cgi to render realistic movie monsters, and I think it's just a generally awesome film, and a few years ahead of its time.

And I wonder which King Kong they mean?

[pbray.livejournal.com]

That's why I didn't bother picking my top 10, since at least half of them aren't on this list.

Wrong List

[randomfreshink.livejournal.com]

Taking the easier way to do this:

Top of their pick:

66. Raiders of the Lost Ark
88. Bringing Up Baby
44. The Philadelphia Story
3. Casablanca
89. The Sixth Sense
83. Titanic
31. The Maltese Falcon
13. Star Wars
5. Singin' in the Rain
16. Sunset Boulevard
28. All About Eve
12. The Searchers
25. To Kill a Mockingbird
6. Gone with the Wind
7. Lawrence of Arabia

Second Tier:

22. Some Like It Hot
61. Sullivan's Travels
45. Shane
46. It Happened One Night
68. Unforgiven
47. A Streetcar Named Desire
55. North by Northwest
62. American Graffiti
65. The African Queen
73. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
26. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
27. High Noon
36. The Bridge on the River Kwai
38. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
39. Dr. Strangelove
24. E.T.
81. Spartacus
86. Platoon
87. 12 Angry Men

They got these just wrong:

50. The Lord of the Rings -- ALL (I mean, how can you do just one?)
60. Duck Soup -- No, Night at the Opera -- Duck Soup only has moments
90. Swing Time -- No, Top Hat or A Gay Divorcee,
97. Blade Runner -- Only if it's the director's cut

MIA:
Beauty and the Beast (Disney doing Disney's best)
The Incredibles (the real best of Pixar's best)
She Wore a Yellow Ribon (John Ford, John Wayne, and it doesn't get better)
Iron Giant (the movie Warner-Bros couldn't figure out how to market)
The Uninvited (a movie I still can't watch alone in the house)
Serenity (just because)
The Mummy (it keeps up with the Jones and then some)
The Mummy (with Boris becasue it's creepy as hell)
Chocolat (which defines yummy)
Enchanted April (a perfect gem)
Gosford Park (Altman's real masterpiece)
Henry V (both Sir Larry and Branaugh's versions)
Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare done beautifully)
Shakespeare in Love (for utter brilliance in a script)
Moulin Rouge (for dance that sets the celuiod on fire)
Band Wagon (see above)
An American in Paris (also see above)
The Black Swan, The Pirate and Pirates of the Caribbean (triple the fun)
Harvey (because I still laugh and I know what's coming)
Laurel and Hardy (pick any short)

Them's the basics.