AFI Top 100

Christopher Smith — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 03:01:00 +0000

Mostly because everyone cares what movies I watch and therefore would like nothing more than to read about it on the ‘net, but partly because I just do whatever Corey does, I present this list:

(Seen It, Tried to watch it, haven’t):

“Citizen Kane,” 1941.
“The Godfather,” 1972.
“Casablanca,” 1942.
“Raging Bull,” 1980.
“Singin’ in the Rain,” 1952. (I was too young to see the point in watching a guy sing and dance while someone sprayed water on him with a hose)
“Gone With the Wind,” 1939.
“Lawrence of Arabia,” 1962.
“Schindler’s List,” 1993.
“Vertigo,” 1958.
“The Wizard of Oz,” 1939.
“City Lights,” 1931.
“The Searchers,” 1956.
“Star Wars,” 1977.
“Psycho,” 1960. (Fell asleep… I’m not kidding)
“2001: A Space Odyssey,” 1968.
“Sunset Blvd.”, 1950.
“The Graduate,” 1967.
“The General,” 1927.
“On the Waterfront,” 1954.
“It’s a Wonderful Life,” 1946.
“Chinatown,” 1974.
“Some Like It Hot,” 1959.
“The Grapes of Wrath,” 1940.
“E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial,” 1982.
“To Kill a Mockingbird,” 1962.
“Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” 1939.
“High Noon,” 1952.
“All About Eve,” 1950.
“Double Indemnity,” 1944.
“Apocalypse Now,” 1979.
“The Maltese Falcon,” 1941.
“The Godfather Part II,” 1974.
“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” 1975.
“Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” 1937.
“Annie Hall,” 1977.
“The Bridge on the River Kwai,” 1957.
“The Best Years of Our Lives,” 1946.
“The Treasure of the Sierra Madre,” 1948.
“Dr. Strangelove,” 1964. (Rented it 2x and had to return it before I had a chance to watch it)
“The Sound of Music,” 1965.
“King Kong,” 1933. (I’m sorry, it’s just a big ape… this seems like B-movie Sci-Fi whenever I try to watch it)
“Bonnie and Clyde,” 1967.
“Midnight Cowboy,” 1969.
“The Philadelphia Story,” 1940.
“Shane,” 1953.
“It Happened One Night,” 1934.
“A Streetcar Named Desire,” 1951.
“Rear Window,” 1954.
“Intolerance,” 1916.
“The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring,” 2001.
“West Side Story,” 1961.
“Taxi Driver,” 1976.
“The Deer Hunter,” 1978.
“M-A-S-H,” 1970.
“North by Northwest,” 1959.
“Jaws,” 1975.
“Rocky,” 1976.
“The Gold Rush,” 1925.
“Nashville,” 1975.
“Duck Soup,” 1933.
“Sullivan’s Travels,” 1941.
“American Graffiti,” 1973.
“Cabaret,” 1972.
“Network,” 1976.
“The African Queen,” 1951.
“Raiders of the Lost Ark,” 1981.
“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”, 1966.
“Unforgiven,” 1992. (I’ve seen the second half of this like 3x)
“Tootsie,” 1982.
“A Clockwork Orange,” 1971.
“Saving Private Ryan,” 1998.
“The Shawshank Redemption,” 1994. (Top 100… really?)
“Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” 1969.
“The Silence of the Lambs,” 1991.
“In the Heat of the Night,” 1967.
“Forrest Gump,” 1994. (More bizarre than Shawshank.. what happened in ‘94?)
“All the President’s Men,” 1976.
“Modern Times,” 1936.
“The Wild Bunch,” 1969.
“The Apartment, 1960.
“Spartacus,” 1960.
“Sunrise,” 1927.
“Titanic,” 1997. (Was dragged kicking and screaming by SO. Broke up a few months later.)
“Easy Rider,” 1969.
“A Night at the Opera,” 1935.
“Platoon,” 1986. (I liked Full Metal Jacket better)
“12 Angry Men,” 1957. (Saw a remake ;-)
“Bringing Up Baby,” 1938.
“The Sixth Sense,” 1999.
“Swing Time,” 1936.
“Sophie’s Choice,” 1982.
“Goodfellas,” 1990. (This is on TV all the time, but I can never commit to watching all of it for some reason)
“The French Connection,” 1971.
“Pulp Fiction,” 1994.
“The Last Picture Show,” 1971.
“Do the Right Thing,” 1989.
“Blade Runner,” 1982.
“Yankee Doodle Dandy,” 1942.
“Toy Story,” 1995.
“Ben-Hur,” 1959.

It’s funny how mine seem to come in clumps. I’m proud to say that I’ve seen all of the top 10 except the chic flicks like “Gone With the Wind”, “Singin’ in the Rain”, and…. “Raging Bull”? Yeah… no explanation for that one.

Overall score: 55%, but 70% of the top 10. I’m actually surprised, because I don’t watch movies that much. My overlap with Corey is just 23%, which is totally bizarre since we grew up around the same time so we automatically have overlap for things like Star Wars, E.T. and that curse of our generation: Titanic.

Anyway, that gives me some good ideas for movies to rent, particularly Raging Bull.

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