I'm confused. Are people saying Manchurian Candidate is not on the list? I'm seeing it (newly added) at #67. (edit: ohhhh I'm reading it backwards. Yep new list = teh dumb)
Also
The African Queen
is one of my hatiest movies of all time and I will never understand why she didn't get tossed into the river after the booze.
Ditto on
My Fair Lady.
I'm sorry but these sterotypical masculine/feminine movies Do Not hold up over time.
Unless we're talking about
The Quiet Man.
For some reason it's OK for John Wayne to drag Maureen OHara around by her hair. I can't explain why but... I'll be in my bunk.
The list makers dropped Doctor Zhivago from the list? May they be cursed to frozen-toed heartbreak in an empty landscape forever!
There are 37 movies On the current list that I haven't seen, but Annie Hall is the only one I'm really moved to rectify, and for that I'm holding out for a projection screen like I did with Casablanca.
Was The Sixth Sense really THAT good? Maybe I need to watch it again.
I've generally loathed Bruce Willis since about two years before the end of Moonlighting, but enjoyed him in that. Thus the ghosts weren't the only thing magical about the movie.
I would, if I had finished it.
(I start watching thing too late at night)
Why would American Graffiti ever be a Best? It's cute, but...and unleashing George Lucas on the movie world is not much to be celebrated by me, anymore.
And my mother completely complains about the chronology of the soundtrack.
I come by it honestly.
Tell me about Mean Streets,
I remember that you didn't like it, but I think it was a little slice-of-life picture that actually had a point about the people involved and the society they lived in. It's not one of my favorites, but I can see why the people who think it's brilliant feel that way about it. I think Raging Bull was shooting for that, but it was just dull brutality to me. I don't get why anyone would like that movie, and I'm usually an advocate for the movies on the more brutal side of the equation.
I'm not a Welles fan. Citizen Kane bored me to tears and I thought Touch of Evil was eh. The Philadelphia Story is far too low on that shiteous list.
The Philadelphia Story is far too low on that shiteous list.
"See Kay Dexter Hayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyvvvvvvvveeeeeeeeeeeee
nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!"
Holy Cow they dropped
Giant
&
Rebel Without a Cause
and
East of Eden
was never on the list? Am I to understand that James Dean has no place in the 100 greatest movies of all time? gah!
Speaking of movies not on the AFI top 100 list... watched
Waiting...
last night. Absolutely non-essential viewing Unless you have ever worked in a restaurant in which case it is a Must See.
I can't believe they bumped The Third Man
Seriously. I've just read the last 200 posts and I still can't get over this bit, which was the first thing Hec said after the list was linked. I mean... WHY? The Third Man is pretty much my favourite film of all time (it's either this, or Vertigo, or A Matter of Life And Death depending on my mood) so I'm admittedly biased, but honestly, I don't get it. For Titanic and Sixth Sense? The hell? And I don't buy the explanation that it was not American enough, because the flick is narrated by a goddamned American! Holly Martins is the central character!
Uhm, I'm actually getting kinda upset...? Which is lame, I know. STUPID LIST.
The ones I haven't seen:
Godfather (I've seen snippets of it, but never the whole thing)
The General
Raging Bull
Apocalypse Now
The Godfather II
Dr. Strangelove
Midnight Cowboy
Intolerance
M*A*S*H
The Gold Rush
American Graffiti
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
In the Heat of the Night
The Wild Bunch
Sunrise
Goodfellas
The French Connection
Do the Right Thing
18. Mostly, it's a big 70's-shaped hole, plus my weird aversion to anything Coppola, Kubrick, and to a lesser degree, Scorsese.
I have yet to see
The Third Man,
but Vonnie, you haven't seen
Dr. Strangelove
? It's so fun!
The French Connection
was all right, mostly notable for the cool car chase and the last five seconds.
I really liked
Do the Right Thing.
