What exactly is the premise of this AFI 100? Just the greatest films? I love to disagree with these (though I can't fault a large number of choices, except maybe as top 100), but they aren't giving me any context (especially when they flashed back to the last decade of AFI topics).
One of you is gonna fall and die, and I'm not cleaning it up!
Mal ,'War Stories'
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Frankenbuddha - Jun 20, 2007 4:50:55 pm PDT #9366 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Nutty - Jun 20, 2007 4:54:37 pm PDT #9367 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I always liked the stuff happening in Houston
What I liked about that part of the film was that those characters most of them didn't even have last names (if they even had first names), but they were well-cast and distinctive and looked like real people and plausibly geeky. (Also, Loren Dean puts on a Chicago accent for no explicit reason, and hearing geeks talk nasal-Chicago is twice as funny.)
Amy - Jun 20, 2007 5:16:16 pm PDT #9368 of 10001
Because books.
What exactly is the premise of this AFI 100?
Morgan Freeman's introduction explained that it's still the 100 greatest American films, but that the list has changed in the past 10 years, to reflect attitudes, add new films, etc.
It shames me every time I watch one of these things how many films I still haven't seen, or have only seen bits and pieces of. Probably watching shows like this.
Polter-Cow - Jun 20, 2007 8:03:30 pm PDT #9369 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
This just in: Knocked Up is really funny.
Aims - Jun 21, 2007 4:12:26 am PDT #9370 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I *LOVE* the final episode.
Pffft. Like you're normal.
Kathy A - Jun 21, 2007 7:21:39 am PDT #9371 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I like all the Harrison "Jack" Schmidt stuff in both the final episode and the Apollo 15 ep. The fact that NASA caved in and put a geologist on the moon in the final moon shot was a victory for all science geeks!
Kathy A - Jun 21, 2007 7:29:46 am PDT #9372 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Loren Dean puts on a Chicago accent for no explicit reason
Was he the kid genius who worked Ken Mattingly on the start-up procedure? If so, he was HAWT!! When I first saw Apollo 13 in the theater, I told my mom afterwards that the guy who played that NASA guy was drool-worthy, even in those horn-rim glasses.
IRL, that NASA guy was also the one who saved the Apollo 12 launch by telling the astronauts to "Try SCE to aux," as shown in From the Earth...:
"FCE to aux? What the hell is that?" Pete
"No--SCE, not FCE..." Mission Control
"I know what that is!" Al, who saves the day
DavidS - Jun 21, 2007 7:41:27 am PDT #9373 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
So I checked the AFI Top 100 Movie list and I've seen 95.
I haven't seen:
Raging Bull
High Noon
Sunrise
The Gold Rush
In the Heat of the Night
Raging Bull is just a weird oddity in my film going since I've been holding out to see it on screen instead of on a TV and though it's played around SF at the rep theaters, I've never managed to go.
This list on Wikipedia also notes which movies were bumped.
I can't believe they bumped The Third Man and The Manchurian Candidate and Frankenstein!
§ ita § - Jun 21, 2007 7:43:34 am PDT #9374 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
In The Heat Of The Night? Seriously?
Dude. Remiss.
DavidS - Jun 21, 2007 7:45:39 am PDT #9375 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Dude. Remiss.
The Gold Rush too.
Five isn't so bad. I can knock those off this year.
How many have you seen?