Huh. I had 12 Angry Men in my Netflix queue. Of course there are 400+ others in there too, but at least it's definitely on my list.

I've seen 72 of the 100 (including, oddly, 4 of the 5 on Hec's not-seen list -- Raging Bull being the exception). My gaps are mainly the newer ones, war, and Westerns.

I second what everyone has said about Sturges and will even say that Sullivan's Travels is not the one Sturges to have if you're having only one. Or even two. (I'd go with Palm Beach Story and Miracle of Morgan's Creek first.)

I used to love 12 Angry Men, but it doesn't hold up for me any more. It seems overly stagey.

I'd go with Palm Beach Story and Miracle of Morgan's Creek first.

I'd go Lady Eve, then PBS, then Unfaithfully Yours, then Sullivan's Travels, then Morgan's Creek.

I found 29 movies on each list that I love and would keep on my own personal list. Each list has 3/19 unique to it, so that's 32% agreement between me and the AFI. I hope someone is keeping notes.

I saw Citizen Kane as a pre-teen, and I think I rate it more boring than the Elizabeth Taylor/Richard Burton Cleopatra, which is nowhere on the list. Of course, I was 10 at the time.

The movie high on the list that I am unsure of is Schindler's list. I mean, it makes me cry. It moves me. I quite love how the war/Nazi occupation brings out the good in one very ordinary man and the bad in another. But I hate the girl in the read coat. Hate, hate, hate.

I saw Citizen Kane in senior year of high school and loved it. It was my first film class, and I think it just astounded me that one of them old black-and-white movies could have such an interesting narrative style.

I first saw Casablanca as a senior in high school and thought it came across as incredibly cliched. Saw it again a few years later after realizing that it was the source of a lot of the cliches as well as learning a lot more in-depth about the era. That's when I realized that it's a masterpiece of its kind.

The Spectral Bovine One speaks truth: Citizen Kane has an astoundingly interesting Rashomon-like structure. It's not a movie for kids. That said, I think the AFI gives it the No. 1 slot out of a knee-jerk response to its reputation, which is also how I think the criminally overrated Network maintains a slot on the list.

Sean, I don't remember that tidbit in particular since I only read the book once, but I remember there is more sex than the movie shows, being more explicit about the deal Forrest's mother makes to keep him in school. I know the movie does show that his mother has sex with the school official, but I can't remember if the movie shows the conversation or if it's inuendo and then a cut away so to hearing what's going on and Forrest imitating the sex sounds.

The only other thing I remember clearly is Forrest at college trying to make peach ade with a sweat sock.

That said, I think the AFI gives it the No. 1 slot out of a knee-jerk response to its reputation

Oh, of course. It's been THE GREATEST MOVIE OF ALL TIME OMG for so long that there would be public outcry if it were dethroned.

I haven't seen it again since I first saw it eight years ago. I ought to. Just to point out the pterodactyls.

I think I first saw Casablanca in that same film class, senior year. I believe I really liked it but spent the entire movie waiting for someone to say "Play it again, Sam."

Citizen Kane has an astoundingly interesting Rashomon-like structure. It's not a movie for kids.

I have mad love for Citizen Kane. Much like Casablanca, it made many innovations that are thought of as routine now, and the script is so nicely twisty.

One of the best courses I took in college was Film History - we went from the Lumiere Bros. all the way up to the present (then) day. Lots of movies, and the context that surrounded them. Shakespeare In Film rocked, as well.