AFI's Top 100 Films

[€uroMeinke]

I'm happy about Cabaret.
I still like Bladerunner, though it's suffered overtime so I'm not sure it's Listworthy.
Titanic still baffles me as to why it makes these lists.
Sad to see Third Man and Rebel without a Cause get bumped

[innerSpaceman]

I think the list is very heavy on "cultural impact" - and I've no problem with that, since this list is simply a popularity contest and not a good measure of "good."

To me, that explains why Snow White is there, when so many Disneys are better ... and why Toy Story is there when so many Pixars are better.

Titanic is there for this reason, as is The Sixth Sense. Say what you will about their quality, they were public phenomena in their time that spilled out of the movie house.

I'm baffled about some of the additions, and moreso about the deletions. I think I'm much more in agreement with the previous list.

Perhaps I'll go thru a point-by-point of the changes, if I get a chance.

[€uroMeinke]

Yeah how many of these films would you be willing to see more than once?

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

Yeah how many of these films would you be willing to see more than once?

1. "Citizen Kane," 1941.
2. "The Godfather," 1972.
3. "Casablanca," 1942.
4. "Raging Bull," 1980.
5. "Singin' in the Rain," 1952.
6. "Gone With the Wind," 1939.
7. "Lawrence of Arabia," 1962.
8. "Schindler's List," 1993.
9. "Vertigo," 1958.
10. "The Wizard of Oz," 1939.
11. "City Lights," 1931.
12. "The Searchers," 1956.
13. "Star Wars," 1977.
14. "Psycho," 1960.
16. "Sunset Blvd.", 1950.
17. "The Graduate," 1967.
18. "The General," 1927.
19. "On the Waterfront," 1954.
20. "It's a Wonderful Life," 1946.
21. "Chinatown," 1974.
22. "Some Like It Hot," 1959.
23. "The Grapes of Wrath," 1940.
24. "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial," 1982.
25. "To Kill a Mockingbird," 1962.
26. "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," 1939.
27. "High Noon," 1952.
28. "All About Eve," 1950.
29. "Double Indemnity," 1944.
30. "Apocalypse Now," 1979.
31. "The Maltese Falcon," 1941.
32. "The Godfather Part II," 1974.
33. "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," 1975.
34. "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," 1937.
35. "Annie Hall," 1977.
36. "The Bridge on the River Kwai," 1957.
37. "The Best Years of Our Lives," 1946.
38. "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre," 1948.
39. "Dr. Strangelove," 1964.
40. "The Sound of Music," 1965.
41. "King Kong," 1933.
42. "Bonnie and Clyde," 1967.
43. "Midnight Cowboy," 1969.
44. "The Philadelphia Story," 1940.
45. "Shane," 1953.
46. "It Happened One Night," 1934.
47. "A Streetcar Named Desire," 1951.
48. "Rear Window," 1954.
49. "Intolerance," 1916.
50. "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring," 2001.
51. "West Side Story," 1961.
52. "Taxi Driver," 1976.
53. "The Deer Hunter," 1978.
54. "M-A-S-H," 1970.
55. "North by Northwest," 1959.
56. "Jaws," 1975.
57. "Rocky," 1976.
58. "The Gold Rush," 1925.
60. "Duck Soup," 1933.
61. "Sullivan's Travels," 1941.
62. "American Graffiti," 1973.
63. "Cabaret," 1972.
64. "Network," 1976.
65. "The African Queen," 1951.
66. "Raiders of the Lost Ark," 1981.
67. "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", 1966.
68. "Unforgiven," 1992.
69. "Tootsie," 1982.
70. "A Clockwork Orange," 1971.
71. "Saving Private Ryan," 1998.
72. "The Shawshank Redemption," 1994.
73. "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," 1969.
74. "The Silence of the Lambs," 1991.
75. "In the Heat of the Night," 1967.
76. "Forrest Gump," 1994.
77. "All the President's Men," 1976.
78. "Modern Times," 1936.
79. "The Wild Bunch," 1969.
80. "The Apartment, 1960.
82. "Sunrise," 1927.
84. "Easy Rider," 1969.
85. "A Night at the Opera," 1935.
86. "Platoon," 1986.
87. "12 Angry Men," 1957.
88. "Bringing Up Baby," 1938.
89. "The Sixth Sense," 1999.
90. "Swing Time," 1936.
92. "Goodfellas," 1990.
93. "The French Connection," 1971.
94. "Pulp Fiction," 1994.
96. "Do the Right Thing," 1989.
98. "Yankee Doodle Dandy," 1942.
100. "Ben-Hur," 1959.

[innerSpaceman]

Oh, I've seen almost all of them more than once.





ETA: Specifically, there are 25 films on the "new" list that I've seen only once ... and I'd gladly see roughly half of those at least once more.


There are about 6 films I've never seen ... and have an interest in seeing only 2 of those.

[Alex]

Based on cultural impact Stagecoach needs to go back on the list. A pretty good movie and it began the phenomenon that was John Wayne (whether you consider that a good thing or not).

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Toy Story is better than Ben Hur! Bwahahaha! That just strikes me as a wonderful absurdist example of why this list, and all best-of lists, are ridiculous.

'Cause seriously, if you put the chariot race up against the part where Woody and Buzz ride the remote control car...

[cirquelover]

Wow GC likes the whole list. Wait maybe he made the list, hmm

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by cirquelover

Wow GC likes the whole list. Wait maybe he made the list, hmm

Ha. To clarify, I'd watch those films over and over. Not all are on my list.

[Snowflake]

Overall a decent list, but I'm in the camp of splitting out the list, pre-1960 and post-1960.

I'm with Alex, All About Eve, needs to be higher, I'd rank it in the top 5.

Besides, splitting the list up, I agree with the addition of foreign films, they are under-represented. I always ask myself, WHO is the AFI polling among the people in the business?

Anyway, it's a fun bit of fluff to mull over, but this harkens back to thread about popular=good, and I see a lot of popular on this list (and much of it good) at least in my august opinion.