Anyone seen a good movie lately?

Started by henchmanUK, December 09, 2004, 11:44:05 AM

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ice grillin you

holy crap
for a white girl she got giggle

cant believe that little weenie timberlake is hittin that
i can take a phrase thats rarely heard...flip it....now its a daily word

igy gettin it done like warrick

im the board pharmacist....always one step above yous

Rome

Quote"Citizen Kane" leads "Godfather" in movie poll

By Arthur Spiegelman Thu Jun 21, 2:09 AM ET

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Citizen Kane," Orson Welles' powerful portrait of an unscrupulous media baron, beat back an assault from "The Godfather," on Wednesday to retain its title as the greatest American film.

Film critics, historians and experts voted "Kane" as the top U.S. film for the second time in a decade in a poll conducted by the American Film Institute. The results were revealed in a three-hour CBS special "100 Years, 100 Movies, 10th Anniversary Edition."

"The Godfather," which ranked third in the original poll of 100 great films a decade ago. moved up a notch to second place while "Casablanca" slipped to number three.

Also in the top 10 were a surprising "Raging Bull" at number four, up 20 places from a decade ago. "Singin' in the Rain" was in fifth place, "Gone With The Wind" was sixth followed by "Lawrence of Arabia," "Schindler's List," "Vertigo" and "The Wizard of Oz."

"Vertigo," the Hitchcock film starring James Stewart, rose to 9th place after placing 61st in the original poll.

"American film has always reflected and, in many respects, defined who we are," said AFI president and chief executive Jean Picker Firstenberg.

She credited the spreading popularity of the DVD with spurring interest in silent films and in often neglected masterpieces like John Ford's "The Searchers," which went from 96 on the original list to 12 this year.

For the first time, D.W. Griffith's silent masterpiece "Intolerance" was voted onto the list as was Buster Keaton's "The General" while Charlie Chaplin's poignant "City Lights" rose from 76 to 11 on the list.

But Griffith's racist 1915 film "Birth of a Nation" fell off the list entirely because of its now unpopular ideology, despite its history of technical innovations.

Of the 43 newly eligible films released from 1996 to 2006, only "Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" (50), "Saving Private Ryan" (71), "Titanic" (83) and "The Sixth Sense" (89) made the cut.

Other new additions to the list include "Cabaret" (63), "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (67), "The Shawshank Redemption" (72), "All The President's Men" (77), "Spartacus" (81) and "A Night at the Opera" (85).

Among those films that did not make the list were: "Fantasia," "Doctor Zhivago," "Birth of a Nation," "The Jazz Singer," My Fair Lady," "From Here to Eternity" and "An American in Paris."

AFI film historian Pat Hansen said it seemed that musicals took the biggest hit. "Musicals seemed out of favor and were replaced by more popular films like 'Titanic' and 'Saving Private Ryan'," she said.

:-D

SunMo

i was watching that show on CBS last night, it was infuriating just watching a clip from "Singing In the Rain"  what a gay movie
I'm the Anti-Christ. You got me in a vendetta kind of mood.

ice grillin you

all you need to know about that list is that there were like four silent movies in it...including two in the top 25 i think

what a terrible list....citizen kane is unwatchable as are most pre 1965 movies of which there were way to many on the list

the list is about everything except watchability....who was ahead of their time...who did something first...legendary names...im sorry but humphrey bogart cant act...how about putting movies on the list that you can watch all the way thru without a single suicidal thought

how did the searchers...which i actually like...jump from like 90 to 10 or whatever it was last night...has a 50 year old movie really gotten that much better in the last 10 years??

and where are the brothers on the wall sal?
i can take a phrase thats rarely heard...flip it....now its a daily word

igy gettin it done like warrick

im the board pharmacist....always one step above yous

Rome

There's a bunch of movies just in that article that I know for sure you like... (Godfather, All The President's Men, Raging Bull).

It's not all bad.  Sure, there's some pretentious picks but a lot of the movies in there are excellent.

I agree that any list of great movies should include "Friday."

;)


PS: I don't know how the list was altered so radically.  I can only guess that in ten years a lot of old critics died or didn't vote and a lot of newbies came in.  Most movie critics (like your hero, incidentally) are actually film historians, IGY.  More knowledge = different list.

SunMo

they showed an old clip of Jack Lemon and he started crying when he talked about the highest ranked silent movie
I'm the Anti-Christ. You got me in a vendetta kind of mood.

Rome

The list:


    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 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
    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

MDS

id rather suck on jack lemons shriveled old nut suck than watch singin in the rain
Zero hour, Michael. It's the end of the line. I'm the firstborn. I'm sick of playing second fiddle. I'm always third in line for everything. I'm tired of finishing fourth. Being the fifth wheel. There are six things I'm mad about, and I'm taking over.

SunMo

how is 12 Angry Men at #87, that's a top 30 movie easily
I'm the Anti-Christ. You got me in a vendetta kind of mood.

phattymatty

shawshank is way better than 72 also.

Feva

Quote from: phattymatty on June 21, 2007, 09:51:26 AM
shawshank is way better than 72 also.

Was just about to post the same thing.
"Now I'm completing up the other half of that triangle" - Emmitt Smith on joining Troy Aikman and Michael Irvin in the Hall of Fame

"If you have sex with a prostitute against her will, is that considered rape or shoplifting?" -- 2 Live Stews

ice grillin you

20 bucks lemon was crying cause he lost bowel control
i can take a phrase thats rarely heard...flip it....now its a daily word

igy gettin it done like warrick

im the board pharmacist....always one step above yous

rjs246

   
    2      THE GODFATHER                                          1972
    4      RAGING BULL                                            1980
    5      SINGIN' IN THE RAIN                                    1952
    6      GONE WITH THE WIND                                     1939
    9      VERTIGO                                                1958
    10     THE WIZARD OF OZ                                       1939
    13     STAR WARS                                              1977
    14     PSYCHO                                                 1960
    15     2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY                                  1968
    17     THE GRADUATE                                           1967
    20     IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE                                  1946
    21     CHINATOWN                                              1974
    24     E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL                             1982
    25     TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD                                  1962
    26     MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON                           1939
    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
    39     DR. STRANGELOVE                                        1964
    40     THE SOUND OF MUSIC                                     1965
    42     BONNIE AND CLYDE                                       1967
    44     THE PHILADELPHIA STORY                                 1940
    45     SHANE                                                  1953
    48     REAR WINDOW                                            1954
    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
    64     NETWORK                                                1976
    65     THE AFRICAN QUEEN                                      1951
    66     RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK                                1981
    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
    76     FORREST GUMP                                           1994
    77     ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN                                1976
    83     TITANIC                                                1997
    84     EASY RIDER                                             1969
    86     PLATOON                                                1986
    88     BRINGING UP BABY                                       1938
    89     THE SIXTH SENSE                                        1999
    92     GOODFELLAS                                             1990
    94     PULP FICTION                                           1994
    96     DO THE RIGHT THING                                     1989
    97     BLADE RUNNER                                           1982
    99     TOY STORY                                              1995
    100    BEN-HUR                                                1959


These are the one's I've seen. Which is completely unremarkable except that I'm surprised by how many I haven't seen, considering the fact that I have such a compulsive movie-watching problem.
Is rjs gonna have to choke a bitch?

Let them eat bootstraps.

MDS

who ranked mr. smith goes to washington over godfather 2? death is the only appropriate punishment. 
Zero hour, Michael. It's the end of the line. I'm the firstborn. I'm sick of playing second fiddle. I'm always third in line for everything. I'm tired of finishing fourth. Being the fifth wheel. There are six things I'm mad about, and I'm taking over.

PoopyfaceMcGee

Besides the bevy of old and boring movies, these newer ones on the top 100 make me angry:

Toy Story - Yes, it was mildly amusing.  Yes, it broke ground in computer animation.  But it is not one of the best 100 movies ever.
Titanic - Ugh.
Lord of the Rings - Unwatchable crap.