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Jun 22
2007
10:26 PM ET
A closer look at the AFI's new 100 Best Films list
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Kane is so over-rated. The Third Man, for example, if you wanna use a Welles flick, is better, interesting, etc. that to me is a keeper. Why they omit things like ‘You Can’t Take it With You’, ‘Big Sleep’ or ‘Yankee Doodle Dandy’, well ya got me.
Pulp Fiction and The Shawshank Redemption should’ve been much higher on the list. And Titanic and Forrest Gump shouldn’t even be in the Top 300 movies of all time.
Casablanca or Citizen Kane? I find myself in the formers camp. I’ve seen Citizen Kane and it was good. It may be technically groundbreaking and technically superior but Casablanca is just so much more engaging and entertaining. Maybe it’s the subject matter?
If I happen to stumble upon Casablanca on TV I’ll think, “oh, good!” and settle in to watch the rest of the movie. If I stumble on to Citizen Kane, I’ll probably pause for a a minute or two and think to myself something like, “interesting camera angle — you can see the ceiling” and then change the channel.
Why shouldn’t “Singin in the Rain” be higher on the list than “Gone with the Wind”? (We can debate “Vertigo” and “Lawrence”…) I loved GWTW as a melodramatic teenager, but now it just seems overlong and overblown. And furry_tom, I’m with you on “Spinal Tap”…perhaps for the next iteration of this list we can play a bit of Mach and turn the voting up to 11.
‘The Crowd’ and ‘American Beauty’
I was pulling for Casablanca to hit #1 as well. And I’m happy to see I wasn’t the only one thinking “Eternal Sunshine!!” in the back of my head while watching, knowing it surely wouldn’t be on there. Boo. Titanic, Sixth Sense=overrated. WHY, GOD, WHY do we lose The Manchurian Candidate for TITANIC? REALLY?????
“Kane” is a snoozer–and no way better than Godfather 1 or 2
Swing Time WASN’T on the list before? That’s criminally stupid. I’m with all the Casablanca lovers, as well as the Titanic haters. I still can’t believe James Cameron thought he needed to add an overwrought love story to make the movie dramatic. Dude, an unsinkable ship sank drowning/freezing hundreds; that’s dramatic enough.
Movies that by no way deserve to be on the list:
Saving Private Ryan
Star Wars
Psycho
Sixth Sense
Both Godfathers (the Conversation is the best Coppola)
Shane
Rear Window
Modern Times
City Lights
MASH
LORD OF THE RINGS (what the hell is this doing here?)
Rocky
Bonnie and Clyde
American Graffiti
Forrest Gump
A Clockwork Orange (not even an American movie, plus Kubrick’s worst film)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (of all Cagney’s films they pick his worst)
Pulp Fiction (come on)
Titanic
Good call on the Conversation being better that the overrated Godfathers. I agree with that those should have been excluded, They put too many Chaplin and Hitchcock movies on there. And Lord of the Rings was fantasic garbage, especially that overblown last one. The Man Who Show Liberty Valance should have mad it on there. Also, if you’re going to pick a James Cameron movie at leats pick a decent one, why not Terminator 2 instead? I mean it’s better than Titanic.
I can’t believe Star Wars and Pulp Fiction are still on the, definitely agree with Anonymous’ ones to exclude.
http://www.chicagoreader.com/movies/100best.html
Here’s a far better list than AFI could ever come up with, extra congrats to Rosenbaum for including Dead Man.
Damn, the link doesn’t work anymore. But he did include John Cassavetes (sp?) which is blasphemy excluding from any top 100 list. Also, where are some Cronenberg movies? I would actually axe every
thing AFI put on their list, none of those movies are any good really. Besides Vertigo, Sunset Boulevard, and Do the Right Thing there isn’t one decent pick on there. Both Welles and John Ford have done better work. The list completely disregards all horror despite how influential horror is. Put some Romero or maybe Re-Animator on there to make the list somewhere neare decent.
puke to the titanic that should not even be on the top 100 all anyone gets out of that movie is a sore azz from sitting there for 3 hrs
To anonymous: uhh how the heck does star wars not belong on the list? Have you even watched it?!?!