Fred, man, those are some of my favorite movies, *ever*. I'm getting verklempt.

That's the one. Also there's an amnesiac and corporate assassins.

I think I like it, a lot. The characters aren't really so much characters as Line Delivery Devices, but it's odd and funny.

My take on the Big 10:
1. CITIZEN KANE (1941)
I get why it's here, but I can't rewatch it.
2. CASABLANCA (1942)
There is no limit to my love for this movie.
3. THE GODFATHER (1972)
Stunningly good, but won't be in my personal Top 10.
4. GONE WITH THE WIND (1939)
Haven't made it through; hate all the characters.
5. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962)
Awesome.
6. THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939)
Watched this once a year on my birthday until age 12.
7. THE GRADUATE (1967)
Didn't speak to me.
8. ON THE WATERFRONT (1954)
Not sure if the whole movie deserves to be in the Top 10.
9. SCHINDLER'S LIST (1993)
I can't objectively judge this movie. It's too Spielbergy.
10. SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (1952)
Was this a movie? I thought it was gratuitous Gene Kelly. Which is perfectly fine.

The Graduate (though I probably should have seen it at 21 instead of 41)

I saw it recently and also didn't really see what was so ultrabrilliant about it, but I generally liked it.

Chinatown (but Nicholson and Dunaway both make my teeth hurt)

I haven't puzzled out what makes this one of the best screenplays ever, but again, I liked it.

Annie Hall

I saw this again a few months ago. Still funny. Subtitle scene? Brilliant. Waiting for the movie scene? Great. And I don't know, it seems to do a good job of tracking the rise and fall of a relationship without making judgments. And now that I think about it, the final line makes me think the movie's not too different from Eternal Sunshine.

I haven't puzzled out what makes this one of the best screenplays ever

Have you read Story by Robert McKee? He works a lot on the screenplays of Casablanca and Chinatown and if you agree with his criteria for what's a good screenplay, he'll convince you.

I wish I was all analytic like y'all so I could describe why I love them. But I'd get boring, anyways, like the Homicide pimpage.

Erika, I'll give you The Graduate. I can see how the youth of the '60s took it to heart. But I think you need to see it at a certain time of your life to appreciate it. And I saw it a lot later. (Edit: And Raquel said it in 4 words....)

And I saw Godfather on basic cable. So it may have been edited for content. (And the novel has special meaning for me as a sex ed class, but that's another story....)

Have you read Story by Robert McKee? He works a lot on the screenplays of Casablanca and Chinatown and if you agree with his criteria for what's a good screenplay, he'll convince you.

I haven't. files name away in brain for future reference

But hey, any movie where the director gets to slit the lead actor's nose is a winner, right?

Hmm, depends on which channel... And maybe I do watch movies like a renegade member of Woodstock Nation. And it's not every mom and daughter that have a tender moment because "Luca Brassi sleeps with the fishes."

The Graduate (though I probably should have seen it at 21 instead of 41)

I did see it at 21. I didn't like it at all, and thought the main character was pretentious and whiny. Also, by the time we got to yet another underwater shot, I was just rolling my eyes and saying, "OK, we get the point, can we move on now?"

Might have been TBS. I was at a friend's when it came on -- and it's his favorite, too. It may be that gangster movies tend not to be my cuppa.

Well, I liked Little Caesar, but I have an enormous crush on Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.