AFI's Top 100 Films

[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).

[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.

[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

[innerSpaceman]

Um, Toy Story is better than Ben-Hur.


Watched Ben-Hur lately? It hasn't aged well. Bloated, soap-opera, cheesy melodrama. Shouldn't even be on the list.



Toy Story is likely the best buddy movie ever made, or up there with the best of that venerable genre. It's got brilliant story construction (which its sequel lacks completely), great characters, wonderful art direction, and a clever comedic script brought to life by great performances throughout.


It's not the best Pixar ... but as the first, and certainly one of the best, it tips the Cultural Impact meter in favor of being on the list.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

I have a soft spot for epics of all eras. Ben Hur, Spartacus, Towering Inferno, Poseidon Adventure - these were fed to me with a bottle (along with 1/4 mile drag racing and National Geographic specials).

Which is why I liked Titanic, though I completely understand why others didn't.

[innerSpaceman]

Oh, I like 'em, too. I just don't consider any of them "best" material.



(Unlikely as it might seem ... I gave the original Poseidon Adventure a recentish viewing - after its retarded remake came out - - and it's actually a very good movie, easily the best of the bloated epics and far and away the best "disaster" movie.)

[blueerica]

I need to take some time later and go through the list. Maybe.

[Alex]

I don't consider The Towering Inferno and The Poseidon Adventure to be "epics." At least not in the same way that Ben-Hur, Spartacus, Lawrence of Arabia are.

In fact, I'd view them as the opposite of epic. One narrow event in one narrow slice of time involving one small group of people. However, as early disaster movies, they are way better than most that followed.