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Hmm. No movies with Clint Eastwood or John Wayne. Not that they were/are superb actors, but I kinda think that some of the films had an impact on the industry. I would personally like to see 'Unforgiven' on the list, but whatever.

Also, no Willy Wonka, again not an extremely good movie, but it surely turned quite a few heads.



Ill make sure to catch that next time I'm out at the moving picture show.

Edited, Jun 24th 2007 2:52pm by TWA

Actually, "Unforgiven" is on the list (no. 68). It should have been much higher though, make that top 20 or 10 even imo. Magnificent movie, great performances!


Edited, Jun 25th 2007 12:15am by Zieveraar

Right where they belong, in the "mediocre hits of the past decade" category.


While I did enjoy that movie (especially the Hudson River scenery during the train ride; that's up in my home country) I spent most of the last fifteen minutes or so yelling at the TV "DROP THE BITCH!! JUST DROP HER! DROP HER!"

Ok, so I'm not much of a romantic.

That's actually Cary Grant (yum) in North by Northwest. Gregory is awfully pretty in another Hitchcock film, Spellbound.

You wouldn't. It stays very faithful to the novel but the upshot to that is that it doesn't try to do anything new with the material.

So true, definitely top 100, I just realized Field of Dreams is not on the list either.

LOL 68 of these, and my favorites didn't make the list. Hmm....

While there *is* a reason to say these types of lists are pointless, there are also some very good reasons to make these types of lists (even if they are inevitably going to be flawed).

The main good reason, is that such a list can introduce new people to some really good things. Such lists can be a real public service, spreading the joy of good stuff around.

Of course, with such a HUGE amount of movies/books/songs/whatever around, there are always going to be enourmous injustices, as there are so many things that ought to have made the top 100.

And yes, so much of this is subjective. And people, professionals, specialists and academics also have different criteria by which they judge what is good, and what is not.

I like it that people make an effort at such things, though.

Oh, I've seen a minimum of 44 of them, and suspect a couple more.

I don't really agree with Titanic and Forrest Gump (although I do like Titanic, just not THAT much). I could write a heap about why Toy Story, Pulp Fiction and The Sixth Sense deserve to be considered great, but I don't want to turn this into a wall of text.

Short story: they are all *very* strong on structure, script, acting, moral integrety, direction, and style.

A short example: Whilst Pulp Fiction is very violent, every person who makes a decision to leave behind the criminal world gets out successfully and has a happy ending, whilst everyone who remains in the criminal world either dies or has something *extremely* unpleasant happen to them. That's a very positive moral lesson, and yet I don't think anyone would feel like they had been preached to whilst watching this movie.

Edited, Jun 27th 2007 8:54am by Aripyanfar

Pink doesn't die, if you listen very closely in the end he surrenders!

lol, yes, Resevoir Dogs did remind me extremely strongly of Ancient Greek, and Shakesperean tradgedies. The completeness of the field of death, with a very few (minor, unknown) people staggering around the battlefield/family castle at the end.



Edited, Jun 29th 2007 2:40pm by Aripyanfar

Could have been worse though, could have been Aliens 4. At least AVP was entertaining.

/agreed on Aliens. Afterall, that was the last one with Weirzbowski in it, right?


I think most of the seemingly unexplainable inclusions have to do with the idea of them being a "new idea". Some great classics fall off the list because while they are great classics, they weren't really anything new (just very very well done). That's about the only explaination for something like Toy Story being on the list.

I am completely baffled by Titanic though. That film was "big", but it certainly wasn't new, or original, or even particularly well done. Honestly, if we're going to put big overbudget films on the list, Waterworld is better then Titanic (in the aquatic theme). Heck. You could even argue that it was a much more original idea then Titanic as well.

Oh well. It's just a list...