Monday, April 2, 2012

AFI'S TOP 100 MOVIES, REVIEWED AND RESHUFFLED. PLUS: A LINK TO AN INTERVIEW.


  1. Apocalypse Now (1979) 5 stars
  2. Pulp Fiction (1994) 5 stars
  3. The Sixth Sense (1999) 5 stars
  4. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) 5 stars
  5. The Wizard of Oz (1939) 5 stars
  6. Midnight Cowboy (1969) 5 stars
  7. Unforgiven (1992) 5 stars
  8. The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 5 stars
  9. The Silence of the Lambs (1991) 5 stars
  10. Schindler's List (1993) 5 stars
  11. The Godfather (1972) 5 stars
  12. Goodfellas (1990) 5 stars
  13. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) 5 stars
  14. The Last Picture Show (1971) 5 stars
  15. A Clockwork Orange (1971) 5 stars
  16. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) 5 stars
  17. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977) 5 stars
  18. In the Heat of the Night (1967) 5 stars
  19. It's a Wonderful Life (1946) 5 stars
  20. Rocky (1976) 4 1/2 stars
  21. Citizen Kane (1941) 4 1/2 stars
  22. The Godfather: Part II (1974)  4 1/2 stars
  23. The Deer Hunter (1978)  4 1/2 stars
  24. Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)          4 1/2 stars 
  25. Chinatown (1974)  4 1/2 stars
  26. The Graduate (1967)  4 1/2 stars
  27. Taxi Driver (1976) 4 1/2 stars
  28. Network (1976)  4 1/2 stars
  29. Forrest Gump (1994)  4 1/2 stars
  30. Do the Right Thing (1989)  4 1/2 stars
  31. Raging Bull (1980) 4 stars 
  32. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)  4 stars
  33. Gone With the Wind (1939)  4 stars
  34. Saving Private Ryan (1998)  4 stars
  35. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)  4 stars
  36. Sophie's Choice (1982)  4 stars
  37. Rear Window (1954) 4 stars
  38. 12 Angry Men (1957)  4 stars
  39. Bringing Up Baby (1938)  4 stars
  40. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) 4 stars
  41. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) 4 stars
  42. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)  4 stars
  43. Casablanca (1942) 4 stars
  44. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)  4 stars
  45. Blade Runner (1982)  4 stars
  46. Sunset Boulevard (1950)  4 stars
  47. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)  4 stars
  48. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)  4 stars
  49. The Apartment (1960)  4 stars
  50. Toy Story (1995)  4 stars
  51. Jaws (1975) 3 1/2 stars
  52. Psycho (1960)  3 1/2 stars
  53. Cabaret (1972)  3 1/2 stars
  54. Sullivan's Travels (1941)  3 1/2 stars
  55. High Noon (1952)  3 1/2 stars
  56. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)  3 1/2 stars
  57. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)  3 1/2 stars
  58. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)  3 1/2 stars
  59. Spartacus (1960) 3 1/2 stars
  60. West Side Story (1961)  3 1/2 stars
  61. The Maltese Falcon (1941)  3 1/2 stars
  62. On the Waterfront (1954)  3 1/2 stars
  63. Nashville (1975)  3 1/2 stars
  64. North By Northwest (1959) 3 stars
  65. The General (1926)  3 stars
  66. American Graffiti (1973)  3 stars
  67. It Happened One Night (1934)  3 stars
  68. Platoon (1986)  3 stars
  69. Ben Hur (1959)  3 stars
  70. Some Like it Hot (1959)  3 stars
  71. Annie Hall (1977)  3 stars
  72. All the President's Men (1976)  3 stars
  73. The Philadelphia Story (1940)  3 stars
  74. Tootsie (1982)  3 stars
  75. King Kong (1933)  3 stars
  76. Singin' in the Rain (1952) 2 1/2 stars
  77. Titanic (1997)  2 1/2 stars
  78. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)  2 1/2 stars
  79. The Gold Rush (1925)  2 1/2 stars
  80. Easy Rider (1969)  2 1/2 stars
  81. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) 2 stars
  82. Modern Times (1936)  2 stars
  83. Double Indemnity (1944)  2 stars
  84. M*A*S*H (1970)  2 stars
  85. The African Queen (1951)  2 stars
  86. The French Connection (1971)  2 stars
  87. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)  2 stars
  88. Duck Soup (1933)  2 stars
  89. Intolerance (1916)  2 stars
  90. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)  2 stars
  91. The Wild Bunch (1969) 1 1/2 stars
  92. Vertigo (1958) 1 1/2 stars 
  93. All About Eve (1950) 1 1/2 stars
  94. Shane (1953) 1 1/2 stars
  95. City Lights (1931) 1 star
  96. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) 1 star
  97. The Searchers (1956) 1 star
  98. The Sound of Music (1945) 1 star 
  99. A Night at the Opera (1935) 1 star
  100. Swing Time (1936) zero stars
19 out of 100 were 5 stars. Exactly half were four or more and exactly three quarters were three or more. I swear I didn't plan it so neatly. All in all though, if you picked 100 movies at random, I almost certainly wouldn't rate half of them four or more stars, so there's obviously some merit to this list. Well done, AFI. You're better than random.

Here's a link to the interview I did on the Drunk Monkeys site. http://www.drunkmonkeys.onimpression.com/film/interview-ryan-roach-2/


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  1. DickLaurentApril 8, 2013 at 9:44 AM

    You've probably seen some of these so I'm listing more then two just in case. Hopefully, there's two in here that you haven't seen... "Lost Highway", "The Stunt Man", "Spirited Away", "City Of God", "Used Cars", "Brazil", "Frailty".

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  2. AnonymousDecember 29, 2013 at 7:21 PM

    Here's what Mandy of the Mandy/Ebert Project thought about all the movies you hated on this list:
    Swing Time: "I really liked the movie."
    The Searchers: "I unashamedly love today's movie... it's one of my favorite movies."
    Yankee Doodle Dandy: "It's not really a bad movie, so much as it's just not my kind of movie."
    City Lights: "The best sort of silent film."
    Shane: "It's clearly a good movie, but it's just so not a movie for me, you know what I mean? So yes, some of this was my mood, but I also just really don't enjoy this style too much - but I would never say that it's a bad movie."
    All About Eve: "I really liked this film a lot."
    Vertigo: "I think it's a great movie to rent and check out. It's well-filmed and fun to watch, and I think everyone likes these sort of mystery/thriller stories."
    The Wild Bunch: "I love The Wild Bunch."
    Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs: "I just thought this was a nice little film."
    Duck Soup: "I'm sure this is movie blasphemy, but I wasn't in love, or even really in like with this film."
    The Best Years of Our Lives: "It was a great movie. I can't even get over how amazing it was. It had such a great story, and wasn't dated at all."
    Double Indemnity: "I really like this movie, though, so I was happy to watch it again."
    Easy Rider: "I still love it. I'm sick of talking about it, reading about it, and writing about it...not watching it. :)"
    Singin' in the Rain: "I never thought I would say I enjoyed a musical like this, but I really did. It's so much fun!"

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