AFI's new Top 100: Shawshank, Spartacus in, Patton, Fargo out

Searching for Bobby Fischer?

 

Bull Durham and Rocky, yes.

Fisher, never saw.

Can't believe I missed Rocky.

 

I love when the mental remoras attach to the "geniuses" in these discussions. Oooohhh... you guys just don't get him like the congnoscenti and I do.

 

Yeah, you're probably right. Orson Welles is a hack.

And did I say anywhere that I got him or that I was fawning over the movie. I've fallen asleep through it three times. I just am trying to say why the AFI folks put it at the top.

 

1. Caddyshack
2. Rocky
3. Hoosiers
4. Bull Durham
5. Bad News Bears
6. Hoop Dreams
7. Field Of Dreams
8. Breaking Away
9. Pride Of The Yankees (despite the pathetically unathletic Gary Cooper)
10. North Dallas 40

EDIT: Yikes... forgot Rocky for a second.

 

Never saw 7,9,10, but it is tough to argue against the others.

 

One sports movie that should be there ... even though Anthony Perkins was as unathletic as Gary Cooper ... would be "Fear Strikes Out," the Jimmy Piersall story.

 

You can take Field of Dreams off the list and put in Sayles "Eight Men Out"

 

The Sixth Sense?
A third-rate thriller with a nice little kid?
No Patton?
No Spartacus?
Nashville, but not McCabe and Mrs. Miller?
Where do these people buy their mushrooms?
(How, by the way, is TLOTR an American movie? Filmed in NZ by a kiwi with an almost completely British cast?)
Eh?
And fuckabuncha you Kane haters. The scene with Welles and Joseph Cotten, talking about "love on your own terms" is enough to put it where it's ranked.

 

I have to agree with those who have called bullshit on "The Third Man" being dropped from the list. If anything, in my opinion, it should have been higher on the 1998 list. I watched that for the first time two years ago, and it's amazing how the performances, the writing and the sly humor hold up -- which you can't always say about movies from 60 years ago.

 

My sports top 10

1. Rocky
2. Field of Dreams
3. Hoosiers
4. Caddyshack
5. The Natural
6. Slap Shot
7. Raging Bull
8. Bull Durham (last half hour turned me off)
9. Major League
10. The Rookie

 

I love the fact that Stanley Kubrick's two masterpieces are on the list, but I think 2001 and A Clockwork Orange should both be higher also. 2001 changed the way sci-fi movies were made forever. Without 2001 we may not have had Star Wars or Close Encounters.