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Lew,

You're right of course, but I still love Roman Holiday (though admittedly not as much as Charade, for instance). But I do think this film is Peck's best (yes, even better than Mockingbird).

I guess mostly I think the comparison as it regards this film is a little unfair. Many films, most of them not as good as Roman Holiday, could have benefitted from having Cary Grant in them. Just like numerous films that could have been improved if they'd been directed by Hitchcock or Wilder.

One has to wonder what sort of film we'd have now if Wilder had ever managed to snag his elusive prey, Grant.

Grant would have been superb in the film, but I do like Peck's performance, though I wouldn't put it over To Kill a Mockingbird.

Knute Rockne All American (Bacon, 1940)

100 Quotes - Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.

What a great line. Reagan was quite good in this, did a bang up job delivering this heart-tugger. Really liked the first half of the movie as Rockne struggles with his decision to make coaching a career (and when Reagan appears in the film). Thought Pat O'Brien was pretty good in the lead.

Didn't much care for the second half of the film, it dragged badly IMO once Rockne becomes a success.

As an old rugby player, got a kick out of the shape of the old footballs - quite round, and some of the highlight reel plays they showed - lots of lateral passes.

Indeed, but since it is so easy (almost impossible not) to make the comparison, it just sprigs to my mind.

In any case my point was not to demean Peck, but rather to point out what a superb actor Grant was.

Again, Lew, agree completely, and, just to clarify, I wasn't so much defending Peck (who isn't one of my favorites by a long shot), as I was Roman Holiday, which I really like a lot.

In other words, Roman Holiday might have been even greater with Grant, but it's great enough without him. Other films which might have been great with Grant, are just mediocre, or even bad without him.

This isn't Dallas, it's Nashville! They can't do this to us here in Nashville! Let's show them what we're made of.


Nashville may well be the quintessential 70s movie—if not quite, it is no doubt the film that defines director Robert Altman. Filled with his famous overlapping dialogue,, delivered by a score of characters, none who could be considered ‘lead’, but at two of whom (Lily Tomlin and Ronee Blakley) were nominated for Oscars in the ‘Supporting’ category, this is a movie made for adults.

This time I was struck by the strength of Henry Gibson’s performance—next time I’ll no doubt focus on yet another aspect.

Going My Way -
Songs list - swingin on a star

Good little film with bing crosby. A bit long. Beautifully written and directed. Enjoyed the whole thing, not a big favorite but entertaining and well worth the time.

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South Pacific -
70mm restored print (not roadshow)
Songs list - Some Enchanted Evening

terrible movie, with terrible songs (including the above) with cinematography that makes me want to punch Joshua Logan and his cinematographer in the nose repeatedly for taking something so beautiful and making it look appalling and ugly.

bastards.

Also, great staging, medium close up of Gaynor and just have her stand still and sing and stare at the camera, pathetic!

The gay subtext was hilarious though, I wish this guy I know, John, had been there, and been drunk because he would have enjoyed the hell out of this movie for that reason.

Oh and making a movie partially about overcoming racism but killing one character so he can't marry out of his race and letting the most racist character of all marry a white guy is more than a cop out it's damn stupid hypocrisy, it makes the movie more loathsome to watch.

That drag sequence was really funny though, and the movie made me laugh throughout, but I thought the whole thing was overblown, overdone, and really badly badly made and put together.

I can't imagine watching another twenty minutes of this (roadshow) *shudder*

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Is this a private party or can anyone play?

I ask because I'm about to start on something rather ambitious. Not only am I going to try to watch the AFI lists starting with the 100 Greatest American Movies of all Time, but I'm also going to use the list to introduce my fiance to classic movies. True, we've seen SOME of them, but I know for a fact she's never seen movies like Godfather, Singin' in the Rain, Citizen Kane, et al.

So anyway, if it's alright, I'll join the group and post thoughts from both me and the significant other.

And for the record, AFI has another list coming up I think in June: the 100 Greatest Cheers, the 100 Most Inspiring Movies of All Time.

If To Kill a Mockingbird isn't #1, I for one will be very surprised.

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Welcome Matt—and good luck introducing your fiancé to some great movies. With any luck she will be too far down the path to turn back.

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Well, she's hardly ignorent. She's got Wizard of Oz, Star Wars, West Side Story and The Sound of Music already under her belt. Call this expanding horizons.

I'll be keeping you all posted on the success of the project.

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I think that To Kill a Mockingbird is a likely top ten contender, but I'd have said the same thing about "no, I am your father" last year for the quotes list.

I'll be extremely surprised if "It's a Wonderful Life" is not the number one film, and I wouldn't be surprised to see Casablanca highly rated simply because it's Casablanca.

Enjoy viewing these films, all of the top 100 are on DVD except the African Queen and the Jazz Singer and any decent public library should have those two on VHS.

Speaking of To Kill a Mockingbird I satisfied a four year old wish and finally got to see it on film. Now Universal didn't provide the Academy with a pristine, perfectly restored print the way that WB always does and Fox usually does, but the print was quite good, but it could have been much better. Mary Badham was there afterwards and told some wonderful stories. Henry Bumstead the production designer was supposed to be there but was not as at 91, he's still working and doing some pick up work for Flags of our Fathers.

Anyway, I love this film, and the opening credits were much more effective on a big screen, where the size of the image is really effective at conveying the quiet beauty of the macros of the childs toys. a dvd on a tv just doesn't do that sequence justice. As usual the film had me tearing up throughout, especially at "Hey, Boo" which is probably one of my favorite single moments in any movie, the final narration and "Miss Jean Louise. Stand up now. Your father's passing." Love this film, love the performances, love Atticus Finch--I think the AFI never got anything ever as right as when they named him the number one hero of all time, because he truly is.

A superb, stellar film from start to finish, one of the very best there is.

those retarded southern schools trying to take the book out of schools for language should lose accredidation.

Adam

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I'm just grateful, even if we're not sure he was aware, Gregory Peck lived long enough to see his perfomance as Atticus honored. Think he passed just a few weeks after the AFI made the announcment.

For my money, the AFI nailed both #1 Hero and #1 Song. The rest? Eh.

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Good Morning, Vietnam! -
Laughs list

Superb comedy with Robin williams, had me laughing hard from his first routine. The film negotiates a delicate line about the interactions of vietnamese and soldiers and why they're there and whatnot but that's really just the plot stuff to transition us between the Williams comedy bits.

Adam

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The Great Dictator

Charlie Chaplin gives a great dual performance in this 1940 film, both as a Jewish barber, and as Adenoid Hynkel, a dictator who, if you pay attention to the subtle clues contained in the film, you may notice was inspired in part by Adolf Hitler.

The film is completely merciless in its skewering of Hitler as an insanely immature dictator, and really is terribly funny with it. The scene where Hinkel tosses a balloon-like globe around around is hilarious in its pure silliness, yet scary in its implications.

Wonderful comedic set-pieces abound in the film - but the two that stick out particularly in my mind both feature the barber. In one, the barber shaves a man while choreographing his actions to Brahms' Hungarian Dance No 5 (one of my favourite pieces of music), while in the other, a group of men try desperately to get rid of the coins that they have found in their puddings.

Chaplin really was a compelling performer, and it is a delight to see him perform. There is just something about him that you can't help being fascinated by. A most enjoyable film.

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The Quiet Man -
Passions list

Being a huge John Ford fan, this is the last of his most reknowned movies for me to see, although Long Voyage Home could also belong on that list.

I loved the movie from start to finish, "Could ya tell me the way to Ennisfree?" Bold, fabulous, wild women and powerful men, it's the high fantasy of romantic (in the era sense, not the hanky sense) movie making without a semblance of reality to it. Sure you could call it sexist and have a hissy fit about how Maureen O Hara's character is portrayed and how Wayne gets the first kiss from her. But if you want to go down that slippery slope you end up with boring and idiotic pap (see Diane Ravitch's _The Language Police_).

and now I know where that scene in E.T. comes from.

Not to mention that Ford shoots this film much like How Green Was My Valley. The color effectively drenches you in atmosphere, as do the background cast. Loved the technical aspects of the film

And can we just have three cheers for the best and biggest and longest damn fistfight sequence in the history of movies. That was an epic brawl, seems to have inspired Tarentino.

Superb. Loved every moment of it. I'd have it in the top ten of the passions list.

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Soylent Green -
Quotes list
June 03, 2006

Superb sci-fi thriller, which unfortunately has been spoiled for me many many times over. Well made a lot of great fun and more than a little chilling throughout. I think my favorite bit is how casually furniture is treated, so unquestioned and I love the use of beethoven at the end credits.

Charleton Heston was really good, some of his best acting, not as 'urgh' as Ben Hur and more subtle (though not as much range) than Ten Commandments.

Adam

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100 YEARS 100 CHEERS

1. IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE 1946
2. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD 1962
3. SCHINDLER'S LIST 1993
4. ROCKY 1976
5. MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON 1939
6. E.T. THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL 1982
7. GRAPES OF WRATH, THE 1940
8. BREAKING AWAY 1979
9. MIRACHLE ON 34TH STREET 1947
10. SAVING PRIVATE RYAN 1998
11. BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES, THE 1946
12. APOLLO 13 1995
13. HOOSIERS 1986
14. BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI, THE 1957
15. MIRACLE WORKER, THE 1962
16. NORMA RAE 1979
17. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST 1975
18. DIARY OF ANNE FRANK, THE 1959
19. RIGHT STUFF, THE 1983
20. PHILADELPHIA 1993
21. IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT 1967
22. PRIDE OF THE YANKEES, THE 1942
23. SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, THE 1994
24. NATIONAL VELVET 1944
25. SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS 1941
26. WIZARD OF OZ, THE 1939
27. HIGH NOON 1952
28. FIELD OF DREAMS 1989
29. GANDHI 1982
30. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA 1962
31. GLORY 1989
32. CASABLANCA 1942
33. CITY LIGHTS 1931
34. ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN 1976
35. GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER 1967
36. ON THE WATERFRONT 1954
37. FORREST GUMP 1994
38. PINOCCHIO 1940
39. STAR WARS 1977
40. MRS. MINIVER 1942
41. SOUND OF MUSIC, THE 1965
42. TWELVE ANGRY MEN 1957
43. GONE WITH THE WIND 1939
44. SPARTACUS 1960
45. ON GOLDEN POND 1981
46. LILIES OF THE FIELD 1963
47. 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY 1968
48. AFRICAN QUEEN, THE 1951
49. MEET JOHN DOE 1941
50. SEABISCUIT 2003
51. COLOR PURPLE, THE 1985
52. DEAD POET'S SOCIETY 1989
53. SHANE 1953
54. RUDY 1993
55. DEFIANT ONES, THE 1958
56. BEN-HUR 1959
57. SERGEANT YORK 1941
58. CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND 1977
59. DANCES WITH WOLVES 1990
60. KILLING FIELDS, THE 1984
61. SOUNDER 1972
62. BRAVEHEART 1995
63. RAIN MAN 1988
64. BLACK STALLION, THE 1979
65. RAISIN IN THE SUN, A 1961
66. SILKWOOD 1983
67. DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, THE 1951
68. OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN, AN 1982
69. SPIRIT OF SAINT LOUIS, THE 1957
70. COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER 1980
71. COOL HAND LUKE 1967
72. DARK VICTORY 1939
73. ERIN BROCKAVICH 2000
74. GUNGA DIN 1939
75. VERDICT, THE 1982
76. BIRDMAN OF ALCATRAZ 1962
77. DRIVING MISS DAISY 1989
78. THELMA AND LOUISE 1991
79. TEN COMMANDMENTS, THE 1956
80. BABE 1995
81. BOYS TOWN 1938
82. FIDDLER ON THE ROOF 1971
83. MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN 1936
84. SERPICO 1973
85. WHAT'S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT 1993
86. STAND AND DELIVER 1988
87. WORKING GIRL 1988
88. YANKEE DOODLE DANDY 1942
89. HAROLD AND MAUDE 1972
90. HOTEL RWANDA 2004
91. PAPER CHASE, THE 1973
92. FAME 1980
93. BEAUTIFUL MIND, A 2001
94. CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS 1937
95. PLACES IN THE HEART 1984
96. SEARCHING FOR BOBBY FISCHER 1993
97. MADAME CURIE 1943
98. KARATE KID, THE 1984
99. RAY 2004
100. CHARIOTS OF FIRE 1981

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The 100 Cheers list adds an impressive 40 new films to the AFI canon of listed films. 30 films are duplicated with the heroes list and about 27 are duplicated to the original 100 movies list Steven Spielberg directed five films on the list, Sidney Potier starred in five films on the list. Spielberg had an impressive 3 films in the top ten, with both of his other films appearing below the top fifty. Henry Fonda, Katherine Hepburn, and Jimmy Stewart Sally Field, and Ben Kingsley are in multiple films.

The era with the densest representation of films is 1935-45, while 80-90 or 85-95 is pretty dense as well.

3 of the forty new films are duplicated by the 100 stars lists selections HTF has assigned to each star, they are Captains Courageous, Lillies of the Field and Meet John Doe.

The new films:BABE
BEAUTIFUL MIND, A
BIRDMAN OF ALCATRAZ
BLACK STALLION, THE
BREAKING AWAY
CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS
CHARIOTS OF FIRE
COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER
COLOR PURPLE, THE
DEFIANT ONES, THE
DIARY OF ANNE FRANK, THE
DRIVING MISS DAISY
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
GLORY
GUNGA DIN
HOOSIERS
HOTEL RWANDA
KARATE KID, THE
KILLING FIELDS, THE
LILLIES OF THE FIELD
MADAME CURIE
MEET JOHN DOE
MIRACHLE ON 34TH STREET
MIRACLE WORKER, THE
MRS. MINIVER
NATIONAL VELVET
PAPER CHASE, THE
PLACES IN THE HEART
RAIN MAN
RAISIN IN THE SUN, A
RAY
RIGHT STUFF, THE
RUDY
SEABISCUIT
SEARCHING FOR BOBBY FISCHER
SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, THE
SOUNDER
SPIRIT OF SAINT LOUIS, THE
STAND AND DELIVER
VERDICT, THE
WHAT'S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT

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My ratings for the first half of the Cheers list. Stars are awarded on a modification of the J. Rosenbaum system, where 4=masterpiece; 3=must-see; 2=worth seeing; 1=has redeeming feature(s):

12 ANGRY MEN 1957
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY 1968
AFRICAN QUEEN, THE 1951
ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN 1976
BABE 1995
BEAUTIFUL MIND, A 2001
BEN-HUR 1959
BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES, THE 1946
BIRDMAN OF ALCATRAZ 1962
BOYS TOWN 1938
BRAVEHEART 1995
BREAKING AWAY 1979
BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI, THE 1957
CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS 1937
CASABLANCA 1942
CITY LIGHTS 1931
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND 1977
COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER 1980
COOL HAND LUKE 1967
DANCES WITH WOLVES 1990
DARK VICTORY 1939
DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, THE 1951
DEFIANT ONES, THE 1958
DRIVING MISS DAISY 1989
E.T. THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL 1982
ERIN BROCKAVICH 2000
FORREST GUMP 1994
GANDHI 1982
GLORY 1989
GONE WITH THE WIND 1939
GRAPES OF WRATH, THE 1940
GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER 1967
GUNGA DIN 1939
HIGH NOON 1952
HOOSIERS 1986
HOTEL RWANDA 2004
IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT 1967
KARATE KID, THE 1984
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA 1962
LILIES OF THE FIELD 1963
MEET JOHN DOE 1941
MIRACHLE ON 34TH STREET 1947
MIRACLE WORKER, THE 1962
MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN 1936
MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON 1939
MRS. MINIVER 1942
NORMA RAE 1979
ON THE WATERFRONT 1954
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST 1975
PHILADELPHIA 1993

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There are 30 films on there that I think are worthy. The other 70 range from good, but not great, to horrible. I know that Lew and I don't always see eye to eye on films, but I must say that I'm very surprised to see his lowest rating possible for Ben-Hur, Gunga Din and Boys Town.

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I might have been a bit grumpy when I rated Gunga Din, but I consider Ben-Hur to have all of the worst characteristics of big-budget Hollywood movies, where they forgot to pay attention to the writing (of course the source novel by Lew Wallace is no big help.

Too long, too predictable, too sentimental and worst of all, too boring (the chariot race and galley sequence excepted).

As for Boys Town it again is an overly sentimental piece of tripe, with Andy Rooney at his worst (he is much better in the Judy Garland movies). And as much as I like Spencer Tracey, he plays this one much to much for the balcony. A movie that could have been improved with some restrained writing (and directing and acting).

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Sounds like the beginnings of a "films Lew Crippen Hates (or at least severly undervalues) Tournament".

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I actually have a bigger concern after watching the special last night and that's the rate at which these movies may be decaying. The copy of the print they used for Meet John Doe, for example, looked AWFUL!

More to the point, much like with the 100 Laughs, a couple of the movies on the list do not have decent DVD releases, cheif among them The Best Years of Our Lives.

Just some morning after thoughts.

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I've updated my main post with the Cheers list.

I'll also just throw in a short comment about Philadelphia, which I saw a couple of weeks ago - and which I see is in the Cheers list.

It's a good, solid, well-made etertaining film that I enjoyed. And Street of Philadelphia is a good song. But I thought its presence on the Heroes list was interesting. Why?

The film is on the Heroes list is for the Tom Hanks character, Andrew Beckett. He plays a gay lawyer who is fired on spurious grounds after catching AIDS, and who takes his former company to court to vindicate his reputation.

The thing is, I personally thought the bigger hero in the film was not Andrew Beckett, but the Denzel Washington character, Joe Miller. Theis character is a homophobic lawyer to initially turns down Beckett's case, but then changes his mind and becomes a strong advocate for Beckett.

Why did I find Miller to be the hero? Beckett's crusade was essentially about himself. He was fighting for his personal rights, his personal reputation. They had infringed his rights, and he was going to do all he could to defend himself. It's an admirable thing, don't get me wrong, and his persistence and force are certainly exceptional, carrying on where others would have given up, but essentially it's because it is personal for him.

But Miller? He's strongly homophobic. And while he does soften over the course of the film, it's evident he's still not at all comfortable with the issue - see the scene where he is hit on, for instance. He's not fighting because it's a personal issue for him. He's fighting because he realises it is the right thing to do. And that to me is more heroic, to fight for something just on the principle of the matter, even if you disagree with it.

Trying to think about this issue, I noted a famous quote about free speech that articulates my point.
* One person says "I'm fighting for my right to have free speech so you can hear what I think". That's good, that's admirable.
* But more admirable is the person who says "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I will fight for your right to say it".

Does that make sense?

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I agree the Washington character is more heroic, and he gives a better performance, just as Tom Cruise out does the Rain Man but noone notices becuase it's not 'showy' and therefore 'tough'.

On the other hand Beckett is on there as a representation of all the homosexuals who died of aids in the 80s and 90s. I think a lot of people in the entertainment industry, especially those in LA, SF and NYC knew dozens of people who died, saw entire groups of friends decimated, so for hollywood, Beckett is representative of all those that died and were overlooked, discriminated against and shunned for political, moral and religious reasons.

Me, I remember seeing injustice in many movies and television, I was definitely aware of the disease by the time I nine or ten. Wierdly, the bit seared into my mind is the terrifying admonition that you shouldn't put your mouth on the metal part of a water fountain because you might get AIDS if someone sick with AIDS had used it and put their mouth on the metal part (totally bizzare to think of that now, but it was also connecting that thought to the pictures of the separate blacks and whites water fountains and restrooms in my social studies book when we going over segregation one february (black history month) that made a 'click' in terms of how monstrously bad segregation was.

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That is true.

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And for some reason reading just his last name, 'Becket' makes me think of Thomas à Becket... I bet that's deliberate.

Hoosiers -
Cheers list

I'm at my brother's house for the weekend and he has hoosiers, rudy, stripes, the natural and a bunch of other films I've not seen, so I figured I'd watch Hoosiers today.

Darn good film, I think I can see why it's often ranked so highly by sports movie lists done by Sports illustrated and their like. But to me it was a very average sports movie. perhaps it's because Mighty Ducks and every Disney kids sports movies of the early nineties copied the script but changed the name and the sports, but I knew every single beat of the story, literally every beat is repeated by the Mighty Ducks, and since I have fond, nostalgic memories of that film and Coach Bombay, I'll probably need to see it again before I figure out which I like better, the original or the copy.

Adam

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It's been a while so here I am again...

100 YEARS, 100 MOVIES

Movies that STill Need to Be Seen(10 Remain to be Seen):
9. SCHINDLER'S LIST (1993)
17. THE AFRICAN QUEEN (1951)
21. THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940)
32. THE GODFATHER PART II (1974)
35. IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934)
38. DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944)
54. ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (1930)
55. THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965)
73. WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1939)
90. THE JAZZ SINGER (1927)


Movies Seen (90 SEEN):
1. CITIZEN KANE (1941)- 5/5
2. CASABLANCA (1942)- 5/5
3. THE GODFATHER (1972)-4/5
4. GONE WITH THE WIND (1939)- 4/5
5. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962)- 4/5
6. THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939)- 3/5
7. THE GRADUATE (1967)- 4/5
8. ON THE WATERFRONT (1954)- 4/5
10. SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (1952)- 5/5
11. IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946)- 5/5
12. SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950)- 5/5
13. THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI (1957)- 5/5
14. SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959)- 3.5/5
15. STAR WARS (1977) 3.5/5
16. ALL ABOUT EVE (1950)- 5/5
18. PSYCHO (1960)- 4/5
19. CHINATOWN (1974)- 4/5
20. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (1975)- 5/5
22. 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968)- 4/5
23. THE MALTESE FALCON (1941)4/5
24. RAGING BULL (1980)- 5/5
25. E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (1982) 3.5/5
26. DR. STRANGELOVE (1964)- 5/5
27. BONNIE AND CLYDE (1967)- 4/5
28. APOCALYPSE NOW (1979)- 4/5
29. MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (1939)- 5/5
30. THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (1948- 4/5
31. ANNIE HALL (1977)- 4/5
33. HIGH NOON (1952)-4/5
34. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1962)- 4/5
36. MIDNIGHT COWBOY (1969)- 4/5
37. THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (1946)- 4/5
39. DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (1965)- 5/5
40. NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959)- 3/5
41. WEST SIDE STORY (1961)- Thumbs Down- Boring couldn't finish
42. REAR WINDOW (1954)- 4/5
43. KING KONG (1933)3.5/5
44. THE BIRTH OF A NATION (1915)- 4/5
45. A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (1951)- 3/5
46. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971)- 4/5
47. TAXI DRIVER (1976)- 3/5
48. JAWS (1975)- 4/5
49. SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS (1937)- 5/5
50. BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (1969)- 5/5
51. THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940)- 3/5
52. FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (1953)- 4/5
53. AMADEUS (1984)- 5/5
56. M*A*S*H (1970)- 4/5
57. THE THIRD MAN (1949) - 5/5
58. FANTASIA (1940)- 3/5
59. REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (1955)-3/5
60. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981)- 4/5
61. VERTIGO (1958)- 3/5
62. TOOTSIE (1982)- 5/5
63. STAGECOACH (1939)- 4.5/5
64. CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (1977)- 2/5
65. THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991)- 4/5
66. NETWORK (1976)- 4.5/5
67. THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (1962)- 4/5
68. AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (1951)- 3/5
69. SHANE (1953)- 3/5
70. THE FRENCH CONNECTION (1971)- 5/5
71. FORREST GUMP (1994)- 3.5/5
72. BEN-HUR (1959)- 4/5
74. THE GOLD RUSH (1925)- 4/5
75. DANCES WITH WOLVES (1990)- 5/5
76. CITY LIGHTS (1931)- 4/5
77. AMERICAN GRAFFITI (1973)- 4/5
78. ROCKY (1976)- 4/5
79. THE DEER HUNTER (1978)-4/5
80. THE WILD BUNCH (1969)- 5/5
81. MODERN TIMES (1936)- 4/5
82. GIANT (1956)- 3/5
83. PLATOON (1986)- 4/5
84. FARGO (1996)- 4/5
85. DUCK SOUP (1933)- 5/5
86. MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY (1935)- 4/5
87. FRANKENSTEIN (1931)- 4/5
88. EASY RIDER (1969)- 3/5
89. PATTON (1970)- 5/5
91. MY FAIR LADY (1964)- 5/5
92. A PLACE IN THE SUN (1951)- 3.5/5
93. THE APARTMENT (1960)- 5/5
94. GOODFELLAS (1990)-5/5
95. PULP FICTION (1994)- 3.5/5
96. THE SEARCHERS (1956)- 3.5/5
97. BRINGING UP BABY (1938) - 4/5
98. UNFORGIVEN (1992)4/5
99. GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER (1967)- 3.5/5
100. YANKEE DOODLE DANDY (1942) - 4.5/5

Re: AFI 100 Years Series Discussion & Challenges, vol. 2

Welcome back Eric, looking over your ratings, I'd suggest Network, The Apartment, Best Years of Our Lives and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as films to bump to the top of your too watch list, I think they'd match your tastes pretty well. comedy is tougher, and it's always hard to tell what sort people will prefer, but It Happened One Night, Bringing up Baby, Philadelphia Story are all superb, immensely funnY (in very different ways) films.