All-TIME 100 Movies [Time Magazine's 100 Greatest Movies] - Page 2

Except by showing such bad taste in what they included and excluded that I've seen, it leaves me completely uninterested in checking out any of the obscure titles that they recommend.

One could certainly have come up with much better foreign films and non-feel-good-ending films. I don't think this list is elitist at all. Thinking these are the 100 greatest films ever made isn't elitist, it's just weird.

GOOD!
No Rocky or Rambo.

Of course--I somehow overlooked them.

Noooooooo!

This list is pretty pathetic IMO because it's a couple of smirking critics who picked the entries instead of leaving it up to Time magazine readers to vote their 100 greatest movies, at least then we might have had a smattering of Sylvester Stallone classics rubbing shoulders with greats like Chronicles of Riddick and Troy...Adriaaaaaaan!.

The Fly?, Finding Nemo? ET? Those flicks make the 100 best list but these films don't - I Was Born But..., My Darling Clementine, L'Atalante (!), Grand Illusion (!), Rules of the Game (!!!!!!!!!!), The Third Man (!!), The Maltese Falcon, The Sweet Hereafter, The Apartment, Battelship Potemkin (!!), Apu Trilogy (!!!!), and incredibly...NO ARCHERS!!!! Puleaze.

They don't seem to care much for British film apparently - excepting Hitchcock: one Lean, no Leigh, no Boorman, no Reed, no Archers, no Frears, no ...well, you get the picture.

This list is more like the "Anti-Sight & Sound" list than anything else. It wass a kick, I admit, to see a sleeper like Kandahar on and a favorite like Talk To Her make it. But Dodsworth the best film of the 30's????

Never.

Well that can only be a good thing in my book. But this is what happens when one or two people pick their favorites as greatest films ever, unfortunately Time readers will probably really believe Drunken Master II is one of the 100 greatest films of all time, some well executed fight sequences yes, but it's extremely overrated and frankly a bit rubbish. Better than Seven Samurai, Bruce Lee's Chinese Connection, Hero? I think not.



Gaah! [Spits] I've a good mind to subscribe to Time and then cancel it in protest. Oh well at least they've got Lean's Lawrence of Arabia in there somewhere, but where's Bridge on the River Kwai, tsk tsk. Hitchcock's Psycho and Notorious are in there but no Rear Window or Vertigo? [bites fist]

But on the plus side they've included a number of films you don't often see in greatest films of all time lists, some of them favorites of mine.

Ah Steve--I've always known that our brothers across the Atlantic had a low opinion of our intelligence. And I'm not sure of the IQ of the average Time reader, so it is possible that they may collectivatly be mislead--but somehow I rather doubt they will.

Everytime I see a thread like this and people gripe about the countless films that are not on such and such list, I think maybe we need to create a list titled "The 500 Films That All MUST Be on a Top 100 List, In Order for That List Not to Suck"

(also just read that Sidney Lumet would put Dodsworth as one of his two favorite films; guess he has bad taste)