AFI Top 100 U.S. Films by cljohnston108

GENERAL DISCUSSIONS

AFI Top 100 U.S. Films

POSTED BY: CLJOHNSTON108
UPDATED: Friday, June 22, 2007 03:31
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Thursday, June 21, 2007 5:56 PM

Joss just barely made the list with Toy Story, so maybe in a few years Serenity'll be up where Star Wars is now.

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
15. "2001: A Space Odyssey" 1968
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
59. "Nashville" 1975
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
81. "Spartacus" 1960
82. "Sunrise" 1927
83. "Titanic" 1997
84. "Easy Ride," 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
91. "Sophie's Choice" 1982
92. "Goodfellas" 1990
93. "The French Connection" 1971
94. "Pulp Fiction" 1994
95. "The Last Picture Show" 1971
96. "Do the Right Thing" 1989
97. "Blade Runner" 1982
98. "Yankee Doodle Dandy" 1942
99. "Toy Story" 1995
100. "Ben-Hur" 1959

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Thursday, June 21, 2007 6:48 PM

REGINAROADIE

I was planning on starting this thread myself, but I'm glad someone beat me to the punch. Too lazy.

Glad to see TOY STORY on there. Really does deserve to be on that list. But like with any other list, there were some additions I loved, and some omissions that ticked me off.

The omissions I was miffed with was AMADEUS (one of my all time favorite movies), FANTASIA (I think this is classic Disney's best movie and a truly groundbreaking movie), THE THIRD MAN (one of the best noir thrillers ever made, plus the intro to Harry Lime is arguably the best character intro ever in movie history), REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (which I only discovered recently, and is one of if not the best teen movies ever made), CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (Joss lost his faith in God because of this movie, but I think it's meld great science fiction with religious allegory perfectly) and THE JAZZ SINGER (simply for being the first sound movie ever). And the one film in the last ten years that I think should have been on there is AMERICAN BEAUTY. There is no more perfect movie in the last ten years.

But in terms of what made the list, the one big leap that I most happy with was RAGING BULL moving up to #4. I saw it a few years ago, and it truly is one of the most powerful films ever, if only just see Robert De Niro near the end of the movie when he's in the jail cell, and he begins to punch the concrete wall, screaming "Why, why, why, Why!!!!!" It's the most desperate cry of human desperation put on film. That alone deserves it's #4 spot. THE GENERAL is now something that I have to find and watch (I was always more of a Chaplin guy than a Keaton guy) and the same for INTOLERANCE. Glad that DUCK SOUP went higher, and that if any of the RINGS movies got on the list, it was the first one. Of all the RINGS movies, FELLOWSHIP was my favorite. The feeling I got after watching that movie for the first time is the closest I'll ever get to seeing STAR WARS for the first time in 77. NASHVILLE and SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS are two new ones that deserve to be on the list, and PRIVATE RYAN and SHAWSHANK are two 90's films that earned it. SIXTH SENSE and TITANIC are ones from the 90's that didn't. They're populist movies that maybe were huge hits at the time they came out, but have already not aged well. Ten years time, I think they'll be left off the list.

Also, I always thought FARGO was a highly overrated movie (It might be the Coen's most famous movie, but it's not their best, IMHO), so I'm glad that it fell off.

And of course, 65 years later, KANE is still holding on as the best American movie of all time. And after seeing the movie a bunch of times, and knowing the behind the scenes stories and the innovations it pioneered at the time, it's a distinction well deserved.

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Thursday, June 21, 2007 7:42 PM

ORPHEUS

I'm really glad that BLADE RUNNER got some love this time around (PS, Blade Runner in theaters this fall!).

When I looked at the nominees list, I was surprised to see a couple movies that maybe shouldn't have been considered. While I think SPIDER-MAN 2 and HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN are great, they don't belong on a list like this. Now, movies like DIE HARD, BRAZIL, NIGHT OF THE HUNTER, I think deserve to be on the list.

But that's just my opinion.

Also, Intolerance is pretty great, if you can get past the almost 3 hour length. THE GENERAL is fantastic though. Buster Keaton at his best.

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Thursday, June 21, 2007 7:49 PM

REGINAROADIE

Not sure about DIE HARD (I think I need to see it again to fully appreciate it), and BRAZIL is debatable (while I love it, it's more of a cult film than a flawless classic), but NIGHT OF THE HUNTER definitely deserves to be on the list. Bob Mitchum at the top of the basement stairs going "Chillll-dren." is one of the scariest movie moments ever.

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"And it starts with a sentence that might last a lifetime, or it all might just go down in flames. If I let you know me, then why would you want me? Each day I don't is a shame. Each day I don't is a great shame."

Loudon Wainwright III - "Strange Weirdos" off the "Knocked Up" soundtrack

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Thursday, June 21, 2007 7:51 PM

ORPHEUS

Eh, Brazil and Die Hard are just a couple of my personal favorites. But you can't deny how great Mitchum is in Night of the Hunter. "Where's the money hid?"

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Friday, June 22, 2007 3:31 AM

BROWNBUG

1. "Citizen Kane" 1941
1.5 Serenity
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

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