The AFI 100 - Countdown to No Longer Liking Slasher Movies

[jetpack_monkey]

Based on Roger Ebert's assertion that I will no longer want to watch "dead teenager" movies after having seen all 100 of AFI's Greatest American Movies EVAR, I present the list of all 100, with those that I have seen in bold, those that I own in italics, and those whose very presence makes no freaking sense to me appended with several question marks. Once the list is all bold, we'll see whether or not I don't want to watch slasher movies ever again.

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 Boulevard" (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) -- roomie owns this one
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) - I owned this up until recently, when I discovered that the "widescreen" was just the pan'n'scan with the top and bottom lopped off. I gave it to the roomie, who is less picky about such things.
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. "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. "MASH" (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) - roomie owns a copy
100. "Ben-Hur" (1959)

I've seen 65 films on the list. So, 35 to go before we find out if Ebert's assertion is true.

Comments

[steinba.livejournal.com]

You've never seen 2001? Seriously? You need to remedy that. Just keep your fast-forward button handy, you'll need it for approximately 2/5 of the movie. Then read 3001 - it explains the plot of 2001 in a way that 2001 never does.

Titanic is on there for production values I guess, and The Sound Of Music has stood the test of time. I can't explain Forrest Gump or Pulp Fiction, or (and here I'm going to lose my geek cred) Fellowship. Let me explain before you stone me - how does a movie shot and CGI'd entirely in New Zealand, scored by a Canadian, and based on a British work, possibly qualify as one of the top 100 American movies?

[midnightfae.livejournal.com]

Because it was an American production. It doesn't have to do with who or what is in the movie, but often with where the money for the film came from. Harry Potter films, for example, are also American productions.

[jetpack-monkey.livejournal.com]

I've read the original novel and 2010. And I've seen the 2010 movie. Do they count? Actually, I've probably seen all of 2001. I've just never seen it straight through.

I think the fact that you're taking Fellowship to task purely on its qualifications as an American film confirms your geek cred.

[steinba.livejournal.com]

They don't count as Kubrick's 2001, no.

Also, MASH: The Movie gets a whole bunch of question marks from me - I haven't seen it, but it can't be THAT good, can it?

I question Snow White being the Disney representative, as opposed to, say, Fantasia.

And I've only seen nineteen of these. Inexcusably excluding both Godfather movies. I would have gotten the DVDs to remedy that, but they cost so much that Amazon made me an offer I could easily refuse.

[jetpack-monkey.livejournal.com]

<hotfuzz>What, you've not seen The Godfather</hotfuzz>

Damn, if the movie wasn't three hours long, I'd bring it to Con for group viewing.

[kenobi.livejournal.com]

I didn't see the godfather until I got sick in Greece =P