Surfmeister Posted May 24, 2005 Posted May 24, 2005 I checked the list. Here are my favorites from the list. >> Of all of the 100 these are my favorites. Of this list I like “It’s a Gift” the very best. WC Fields at his best. Blade Runner (1982) Brazil (1985) Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to StopWorrying and Love the Bomb (1964) Goodfellas (1990) It's A Gift (1934) Some Like It Hot (1959)
Pine Barrens Mafia Posted May 24, 2005 Posted May 24, 2005 I can't believe what is not on the list.Jaws The Day The Earth Stood Still The Usual Suspects L.A. Confidential Fantasia Pinnochio Nosferatu No excuses. 343103[/snapback] They may have missed LA Confidential, but at least they got Chinatown. Love those "LA-centric" movies, including one of my all-time favorites "Falling Down"
Pine Barrens Mafia Posted May 24, 2005 Posted May 24, 2005 Can i take this oppurunity to say: If you haven't seen City of God (which made this list). See it. Now. 343267[/snapback] Talk about a dismal movie.
OBXBILLSFAN Posted May 24, 2005 Posted May 24, 2005 They may have missed LA Confidential, but at least they got Chinatown. Love those "LA-centric" movies, including one of my all-time favorites "Falling Down" 343556[/snapback] I think Falling Down is my favorite movie. Some days, I know exactly how he feels.
R. Rich Posted May 24, 2005 Posted May 24, 2005 Where are Falling Down; Planes, Trains and Automobiles; Nobody's Fool (Paul Newman); Cool Hand Luke; The Hustler; The Outlaw Josie Wales; One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; A Clockwork Orange; Fatal Attraction; and ANY of the Dirty Harry Movies? 343170[/snapback] The Hustler is still my favorite movie. Too bad it didn't get any mention. A very well-acted film as all of the main characters received Oscar nominations for great performances (Piper Laurie, Paul Newman, and the late actors George C. Scott and Jackie Gleason). Also, what's w/ dissing Kurosawa? No Ran, Kagemusha, or Rashomon???
R. Rich Posted May 24, 2005 Posted May 24, 2005 Where the hell is FLETCH???? 342966[/snapback] Wasting away on the shelf @ your local Blockbuster. Go rescue it. i've seen 51 of 'em, but i have some serious disagreements. for one, how could anyone say that miller's crossing - a good but fairly derivative film - is better than the coen's magnum opus, the big lebowski? 343016[/snapback] The Big Lebowski will definitely make the list of the "Duuuuuuuuude, here's 10 awesome movies!"
Pine Barrens Mafia Posted May 24, 2005 Posted May 24, 2005 I think Falling Down is my favorite movie. Some days, I know exactly how he feels. 343575[/snapback] I actually wrote a paper on it....comparing and contrasting D-Fens with Travis Bickle from Taxi Driver. Quite possibly my best scholarly work ever. LOL
Bill from NYC Posted May 24, 2005 Posted May 24, 2005 No "West Side Story?" Also, am I the only one who liked the movie "Blow" with Johnny Depp? The scene when he met Pablo Escobar for the first time was as good as it gets.
R. Rich Posted May 24, 2005 Posted May 24, 2005 I actually wrote a paper on it....comparing and contrasting D-Fens with Travis Bickle from Taxi Driver. Quite possibly my best scholarly work ever. LOL 343598[/snapback] Interesting.
Pine Barrens Mafia Posted May 24, 2005 Posted May 24, 2005 Interesting. 343612[/snapback] It was good. Theory: The "Revenge Fantasy" movie is increasingly popular in post-industrial Amercia, especially among disaffected younger white males. D-Fens was easy to understand. Not so much Travis Bickle.
R. Rich Posted May 24, 2005 Posted May 24, 2005 It was good. Theory: The "Revenge Fantasy" movie is increasingly popular in post-industrial Amercia, especially among disaffected younger white males. D-Fens was easy to understand. Not so much Travis Bickle. 343613[/snapback] I can see the comparison: D-Fens just "wanted to go home" to his daughter while Travis just wanted to be w/ Cybil Shepherd's character, then just wanted to protect Jodie Foster's character from Harvey Keitel. They both kinda went all out in their pursuits, but they were single minded of purpose, so to speak.
Alaska Darin Posted May 24, 2005 Posted May 24, 2005 I actually wrote a paper on it....comparing and contrasting D-Fens with Travis Bickle from Taxi Driver. Quite possibly my best scholarly work ever. LOL 343598[/snapback] Proving yet again that college degrees are absolutely worth the paper they're printed on - and nothing more.
R. Rich Posted May 24, 2005 Posted May 24, 2005 Proving yet again that college degrees are absolutely worth the paper they're printed on - and nothing more. 343621[/snapback] Hey! I resent that! My degree is worth a lot to............... what am I saying? I never finished my degree. Carry on.
Pine Barrens Mafia Posted May 24, 2005 Posted May 24, 2005 Hey! I resent that! My degree is worth a lot to............... what am I saying? I never finished my degree. Carry on. 343624[/snapback] Neither did I, hehe... Yeah, I was comparing D-Fens' desire to express his revenge toward society at his nasty ex-wife as a paralell to Bickle's desire to punish Jodie Foster's pimp.
MDH Posted May 24, 2005 Posted May 24, 2005 Also, what's w/ dissing Kurosawa? No Ran, Kagemusha, or Rashomon??? 343593[/snapback] And no High and Low, which I consider his best...and prob my favorite film at this time.
ajzepp Posted May 24, 2005 Posted May 24, 2005 The fact that this list includes 'Talk to Her' makes it dubious at best. This was a very, very good film. One of my favorites from that year. But I'm sorry, top 100 EVER? Noooooooo.
MDH Posted May 24, 2005 Posted May 24, 2005 The fact that this list includes 'Talk to Her' makes it dubious at best. This was a very, very good film. One of my favorites from that year. But I'm sorry, top 100 EVER? Noooooooo. 343770[/snapback] Yeah, I agree with you...though one can kinda/sorta excuse their thinking here if what they were trying to do was put some films by "new auteurs" on the list (instead of lists packed with the same old Kurosawa, Godard, Renoir, Bergman, Hitchcock, etc films). I guess Pedro Almodovar qualifies as such, though I'm not a big fan of his body of work. The inclusion of The Fly goes along with this line of thinking as Cronenberg is one of the better thought of filmmakers working today. Of course the glarying ommission of any Abbas Kiarostami films might disprove this theory as there are quite a few academics that consider him the greatest filmmaker working today. Also, a closer look at this list reveals that there are no Hitchcock films on the list. I don't think I've ever seen a list of this sort that doesn't include at least one Hitch film...usually Vertigo.
\GoBillsInDallas/ Posted May 24, 2005 Posted May 24, 2005 I've seen 82 of the films on the list...granted, I have my masters degree in film theory and history. 342853[/snapback] Betcha haven't seen Smokey and the Bandit yet! What we're dealing with here is a complete lack of respect for the law.
MDH Posted May 24, 2005 Posted May 24, 2005 Betcha haven't seen Smokey and the Bandit yet! What we're dealing with here is a complete lack of respect for the law. 343786[/snapback] I saw it quite a few times as a kid actually. =P
Britbillsfan Posted May 24, 2005 Posted May 24, 2005 Of the 31 I've seen fully I would consider 21 to be solid choices (I might not agree with them fully, but I can see the argument for the inclusion), and 10 that should not be there. Some are really in the WTF? category. Singing Detective - Top 100 TV series definitely. But it was not a film. But 'The Fly' and 'A Hard Days Night'.....awful when LA Confidential, Seven Samurai, Ran, Usual Suspects are not there.
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