AFI top 100 films -- how many have you seen?

I can't believe The Sting isn't on here.

 

That too.

Apparently I have a non-sexual man-crush on Paul Newman. OK, there's nothing apparent about it.

 

I've seen 85 of them. Some of the ones I haven't seen, I've seen parts of.

 

If we add the ones of which I've seen parts, my number would be significantly higher than 24. Many of the ones I've see partially didn't hold my interest for long.

 

Of the 100, A Place In the Sun is the worst. Very lame.

 

You need to see Giant. James Dean's last movie.

 

"I can eat 50 eggs."

 

My List

Yes, I haven't seen Silence of the Lambs or Clockwork Orange. Have no desire to see the former, haven't gotten around to the latter.

Still, not a bad list. And I should get bonus points for my father being an extra in the original Jazz Singer.

1. Citizen Kane (1941)
2. Casablanca (1942)
3. The Godfather (1972)
4. Gone with the Wind (1939)
6. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
9. Schindler's List (1993)
11. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
13. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
14. Some Like It Hot (1959)
15. Star Wars (1977)
17. The African Queen (1951)
18. Psycho (1960)
19. Chinatown (1974)
20. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
21. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
23. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
25. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
26. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
27. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
28. Apocalypse Now (1979)
29. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
32. The Godfather Part II (1974)
34. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
39. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
40. North by Northwest (1959)
43. King Kong (1933)
44. The Birth of a Nation (1915)
48. Jaws (1975)
49. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
50. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
53. Amadeus (1984)
54. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
55. The Sound of Music (1965)
56. M*A*S*H (1970)
58. Fantasia (1940)
60. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
62. Tootsie (1982)
64. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
66. Network (1976)
67. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
70. The French Connection (1971)
71. Forrest Gump (1994)
72. Ben-Hur (1959)
73. Wuthering Heights (1939)
74. The Gold Rush (1925)
75. Dances with Wolves (1990)
77. American Graffiti (1973)
78. Rocky (1976)
79. The Deer Hunter (1978)
83. Platoon (1986)
85. Duck Soup (1933)
87. Frankenstein (1931)
89. Patton (1970)
90. The Jazz Singer (1927)
92. A Place in the Sun (1951)
94. Goodfellas (1990)
98. Unforgiven (1992)

 

I just watched Silence of the Lambs again last week and it's not even disturbing anymore, let alone frightening. Obviously I know what happens, but I wasn't even left with that creeped out, don't want to be alone in the dark feeling.

 

Seen 81 of 'em in their entirity, and portions of many more.

Much of the "Why didn't they?" commentary here seems rooted in the fact that many pictures -- beloved in their time -- age badly.

I like The Sting, and it's aged well, but not certain it belongs. It's based on a couple of very old
gags that seasoned gamblers know very, very well. Was it fresh, for the broad public? Oh, yeah.

 

Gone With The Wind and Some Like It Hot had BETTER be on there.

I had a big hand in both of those screenplays.