AFI's NEW TOP 100

[Mr. Socko]

Tis ok. I never liked 'A Tango in Paris' and in certain movie elitist circles, that would get you shot, stabbed, burned, and tickled to death. I also don't like Dustin Hoffman that much, although I like some of his movies a lot. Weird.

You know you loved him as Cap'n Hookt:

 

[SolidSnakeMGS]

i can accept a lot of people's differing opinions I guess I'm not an elitist snob.

You don't think I was calling you one do you, cuz I wasn't.

Anyway, its funny when Eva Mendes appears and states the completely most obvious thing ever.

 

[Mr. Socko]

You don't think I was calling you one do you, cuz I wasn't.

Anyway, its funny when Eva Mendes appears and states the completely most obvious thing ever.

What did she say?

 

[SolidSnakeMGS]

What did she say?

She's just like "oh it was such a great romantic comedy and they're hard to do" or " she was so beautiful in the movie". Stuff like that.

 

[Catman]

"A streetcar named Desire"? I never liked that movie. I know for a film fan to say this is like an act of treason, but I really hated that movie.

The movie is crap. Its the story and Brando's performance thats brilliant. I think its a better stage production than a movie.

 

[shapeshifter]

You don't think I was calling you one do you, cuz I wasn't.

Anyway, its funny when Eva Mendes appears and states the completely most obvious thing ever.

don't worry I didn't take it that way.
They had to put mendes in there somewhere but they didn't want to give her a lot of lines to mess up. Poor Eva.

 

[shapeshifter]

The movie is crap. Its the story and Brando's performance thats brilliant. I think its a better stage production than a movie.

yeah unless you don't like Brando's early acting. Apoc now was great, but I just could not get into his early stuff. On the waterfront put me to sleep too.
sorry

 

[Hobgoblin]

Honestly, I don't see what's so great about Forrest Gump.
It's a good movie though, I just don't see what's great about it.

I just think its interesting, considering all of the things that he's seen in his life. Kennedy, Vietnam, meeting John Lennon, etc. Its all about the last half of the 20th century.

 

[shapeshifter]

I just think its interesting, considering all of the things that he's seen in his life. Kennedy, Vietnam, meeting John Lennon, etc. Its all about the last half of the 20th century.

forrest gump was the yearbook for that generation.
It would be like if someone made a movie for us in 20 years where a likable bumpkin met Kurt Cobain, Bill Clinton, Michael Jordan, W, Robin Williams, helped out with Katrina, El Nino, and saved a baby during 9/11

 

[SolidSnakeMGS]

I always considered Chinatown highly overrated. I've watched it several times and the only thing I get out of it is Nicholson's performance. I love Polanski and Nicholson, but this movie just doesn't do it for me.

 

[Catman]

forrest gump was the yearbook for that generation.
It would be like if someone made a movie for us in 20 years where a likable bumpkin met Kurt Cobain, Bill Clinton, Michael Jordan, W, Robin Williams, helped out with Katrina, El Nino, and saved a baby during 9/11

Exactly!

 

[Majik1387]

Yah all right I guess. Maybe that's why I find parts boring.

 

[shapeshifter]

wow with the exception of "eyes wide ****" and "Full Metal Jacket" Kubrick has all of his movies in this. I expect to see FMJ later on.

 

[Catman]

wow with the exception of "eyes wide ****" and "Full Metal Jacket" Kubrick has all of his movies in this. I expect to see FMJ later on.

No, he doesn't. His early films aren't on the list. The Shinning isn't there. Barry Lyndon isn't on there either. And the ones you mentioned as well.

 

[shapeshifter]

No, he doesn't. His early films aren't on the list. The Shinning isn't there. Barry Lyndon isn't on there either. And the ones you mentioned as well.

right I forgot about those. thanks. Well he is doing well anyway. Hitchcock too.
by the way who is the chick in your avy?

 

[Majik1387]

Yay for Hairspray trailer. up:

 

[SolidSnakeMGS]

No, he doesn't. His early films aren't on the list. The Shinning isn't there. Barry Lyndon isn't on there either. And the ones you mentioned as well.

I love Barry Lyndon. Great movie. The Killing and Paths of Glory are some of the earlier films you mentioned.

 

[shapeshifter]

I'm so mad that when they showed ET they had to use clips from the CG redux.

 

[Catman]

Let's compare

Original list:

1. CITIZEN KANE (1941)
2. CASABLANCA (1942)
3. THE GODFATHER (1972)
4. GONE WITH THE WIND (1939)
5. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962)
6. THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939)
7. THE GRADUATE (1967)
8. ON THE WATERFRONT (1954)
9. SCHINDLER'S LIST (1993)
10. SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (1952)
11. IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946)
12. SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950)
13. THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI (1957)
14. SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959)
15. STAR WARS (1977)
16. ALL ABOUT EVE (1950)
17. THE AFRICAN QUEEN (1951)
18. PSYCHO (1960)
19. CHINATOWN (1974)
20. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (1975)
21. THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940)
22. 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968)
23. THE MALTESE FALCON (1941)
24. RAGING BULL (1980)
25. E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (1982)
26. DR. STRANGELOVE (1964)
27. BONNIE AND CLYDE (1967)
28. APOCALYPSE NOW (1979)
29. MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (1939)
30. THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (1948)
31. ANNIE HALL (1977)
32. THE GODFATHER PART II (1974)
33. HIGH NOON (1952)
34. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1962)
35. IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934)
36. MIDNIGHT COWBOY (1969)
37. THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (1946)
38. DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944)
39. DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (1965)
40. NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959)
41. WEST SIDE STORY (1961)
42. REAR WINDOW (1954)
43. KING KONG (1933)
44. THE BIRTH OF A NATION (1915)
45. A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (1951)
46. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971)
47. TAXI DRIVER (1976)
48. JAWS (1975)
49. SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS (1937)
50. BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (1969)
51. THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940)
52. FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (1953)
53. AMADEUS (1984)
54. ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (1930)
55. THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965)
56. M*A*S*H (1970)
57. THE THIRD MAN (1949)
58. FANTASIA (1940)
59. REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (1955)
60. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981)
61. VERTIGO (1958)
62. TOOTSIE (1982)
63. STAGECOACH (1939)
64. CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (1977)
65. THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991)
66. NETWORK (1976)
67. THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (1962)
68. AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (1951)
69. SHANE (1953)
70. THE FRENCH CONNECTION (1971)
71. FORREST GUMP (1994)
72. BEN-HUR (1959)
73. WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1939)
74. THE GOLD RUSH (1925)
75. DANCES WITH WOLVES (1990)
76. CITY LIGHTS (1931)
77. AMERICAN GRAFFITI (1973)
78. ROCKY (1976)
79. THE DEER HUNTER (1978)
80. THE WILD BUNCH (1969)
81. MODERN TIMES (1936)
82. GIANT (1956)
83. PLATOON (1986)
84. FARGO (1996)
85. DUCK SOUP (1933)
86. MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY (1935)
87. FRANKENSTEIN (1931)
88. EASY RIDER (1969)
89. PATTON (1970)
90. THE JAZZ SINGER (1927)
91. MY FAIR LADY (1964)
92. A PLACE IN THE SUN (1951)
93. THE APARTMENT (1960)
94. GOODFELLAS (1990)
95. PULP FICTION (1994)
96. THE SEARCHERS (1956)
97. BRINGING UP BABY (1938)
98. UNFORGIVEN (1992)
99. GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER (1967)
100. YANKEE DOODLE DANDY (1942)

New list

#100: Ben-Hur
#99: Toy Story
#98: Yankee Doodle Dandy
#97: Blade Runner
#96: Do the Right Thing
#95: The Last Picture Show
#94: Pulp Fiction
#93: The French Connection
#92: Goodfellas
#91: Sophie's Choice
#90: Swing Time
#89: The Sixth Sense
#88: Bringing Up Baby
#87: 12 Angry Men
#86: Platoon
#85: A Night at the Opera
#84: Easy Rider
#83: Titanic
#82: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
#81: Sparticus
#80: The Apartment
#79: The Wild Bunch
#78: Modern Times
#77: All the Presidents Men
#76: Forest Gump
#75: In the Heat of the Night
#74: Silence of the Lambs
#73: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
#72: The Shawshank Redemption
#71: Saving Private Ryan
#70: A Clockwork Orange
#69: Tootsie
#68: Unforgiven
#67: Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf
#66: Raiders of the Lost Ark
#65: The African Queen
#64: Network
#63: Cabaret
#62: American Graffiti
#61: Sullivan's Travels
#60: Duck Soup
#59: Nashville
#58: The Gold Rush
#57: Rocky
#56: Jaws
#55: North by Northwest
#54: M*A*S*H
#53: The Deer Hunter
#52: Taxi Driver
#51: West Side Story
#50: LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring
#49: Intolerance
#48: Rear Window
#47: A Streetcar Named Desire
#46: It Happened One Night
#45: Shane
#44: The Philadelphia Story
#43: Midnight Cowboy
#42: Bonnie and Clyde
#41: King Kong (33)
#40: The Sound of Music
#39: Dr. Strangelove
#38: The Treasue of Sierra Madre
#37: The Best Years of Our Lives
#36: The Bridge on the River Kwai
#35: Annie Hall
#34: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
#33: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
#32: The Godfather Part II
#31: The Maltese Falcon
#30: Apocalypse Now
#29: Double Indemnity
#28: All About Eve
#27: High Noon
#26: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
#25: To Kill A Mockingbird
#24: E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
#23: The Grapes of Wrath
#22: Some Like it Hot
#21: Chinatown
#20: It's a Wonderful Life
#19: On the Waterfront
#18: The General
#17: The Graduate
#16: Sunset Blvd.
#15: 2001 A Space Odyssey
#14: Psycho
#13: Star Wars
#12: The Searchers
#11: City Lights
#10: The Wizard of Oz
#09: Vertigo
#08: Schindler's List
#07: Lawrence of Arabia
#06: Gone With The Wind
#05: Singing in the Rain
#04: Raging Bull
#03: Casablanca
#02: The Godfather
#01: Citizen Kane

 

[Kmack]

Eh, just watched it. I prefer the old list.

 

[Catman]

Eh, just watched it. I prefer the old list.

They are both about the same. Its just re-arranged with a few new additions.

 

[DACrowe]

Watched the whole thing. A damn fine list.

I am not one to rank the best movies oro the best movie as I think that is impossible considering how different films are. I can say "well LA Confidential deserved to be added over Toy Story or Titanic," but in the end it is a damn fine list.

Those are 100 classics whcih all are fantastic films. I liked it. I also love Citizen Kane for its technical achievments and how it revolutionized cinema forver. Compare what came before it and then after, for example....but just because it was fresh in my mind The Godfather's better.

Still a great compilation and an enjoyable viewing of some of America's finest movies.

 

[McVenom]

forrest gump was the yearbook for that generation.
It would be like if someone made a movie for us in 20 years where a likable bumpkin met Kurt Cobain, Bill Clinton, Michael Jordan, W, Robin Williams, helped out with Katrina, El Nino, and saved a baby during 9/11

not kurt cobain, Axl Rose

 

[deathshead2]

why do they do this every year. They never really change anything. Now if they put something like the thing, or evil dead 2. Then yeah thats a change. Then I might start likeing these lists.

 

[Mr. Socko]

why do they do this every year. They never really change anything. Now if they put something like the thing, or evil dead 2. Then yeah thats a change. Then I might start likeing these lists.

I do sorta agree. If they were to just post the list on the internet, would it really make a difference then having to show a 2 hour countdown show? It was unnecessary. I've never seen the AFI one before just now, I was expecting a celebration with huge stars and giving out honorary awards.