Thursday, April 29, 2010

I'm adding a new goal

Yes, I'm adding a new goal. I was looking through IMDb's list of the top 250 films ever. It was horrible. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was not on it at all. Lord of the Rings was on it twice, in the top 20. I was so outraged; the search for a real list began. I found three. One was the AFI's top 100 in 100 years list. There are two of those, the original and the 10th anniversary list. I also found another list compiled by movie critics. I decided to include this movie list as well because it included many of the same movies from AFI's lists, as well as adding a few more. I know that choosing the top 100 movies of all time is a daunting task that is completely open to criticism. Toy Story made it onto AFI's anniversary list. While I admit that it is a classic, and that it was a piece of movie magic in regards to computer animation, as well as having a great story, I am not sure it belongs on the top 100 movies of all time list. Back to the Future isn't on the list.
Regardless of what is or isn't on the list, I am certain that the movies that are on the list are good and worth seeing. My goal is to watch all of the movies on these three lists. of course there are not 300 movies for me to watch, many appear on two or all three lists. It also helps that I have seen some of these movies already. Here is the list:

2001: A Space Odyssey
42nd Street (1933)
12 Angry Men (seen it)

The African Queen
All About Eve
All the President's Men
All Quiet on the Western Front
Amadeus
American Graffiti
An American in Paris
Annie Hall
The Apartment
Apocalypse Now

Ben-Hur
The Best Years of Our Lives
The Birth of a Nation
Blade Runner
Bonnie and Clyde
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Bringing Up Baby
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Cabaret
Casablanca
Chinatown
Citizen Kane
City Lights
A Clockwork Orange (seen it)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Crowd (1928)

Dances with Wolves (seen it)
The Deer Hunter
Dr. Strangelove (seen it)
Doctor Zhivago
Do the Right Thing
Double Indemnity
Duck Soup

Easy Rider
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (seen it)

Fantasia (seen it)
Fargo
Forrest Gump (seen it)
Frankenstein
The French Connection
From Here to Eternity

The General
Giant
The Godfather (seen it)
The Godfather Part II (seen it)
The Gold Rush
Gone with the Wind
Goodfellas
The Graduate
The Grapes of Wrath
Greed (1924)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

High Noon
His Girl Friday (1940)

It Happened One Night
It's a Wonderful Life
In the Heat of the Night
Intolerance

Jaws
The Jazz Singer

King Kong

The Lady Eve (1941)
The Last Picture Show
Lawrence of Arabia
Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948)
The Lord of the Rings: the Fellowship of the Ring (seen it)

The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
The Maltese Falcon
The Manchurian Candidate
MASH
Meet Me In St. Louis (1944)
Midnight Cowboy
Modern Times
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Mutiny on the Bounty
My Darling Clementine
My Fair Lady (seen it)

Nashville
Network
A Night at the Opera
The Night of the Hunter
Ninotchka
North by Northwest
Notorious


One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
On the Waterfront
Out Of The Past

Paths of Glory
Patton
A Place in the Sun (seen it)
Platoon
The Philadelphia Story
Psycho (seen it)
Pulp Fiction (seen it)

The Quiet Man

Raging Bull
Raiders of the Lost Ark (seen it)
Rear Window
Rebecca
Rebel Without a Cause
Red River
Rocky
Roman Holiday

Saving Private Ryan (seen it)
Schindler's List
The Searchers
Shane
The Shawshank Redemption
The Silence of the Lambs (seen it)
Singin' in the Rain
The Sixth Sense (seen it)
The Sound of Music (seen it)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (seen it)
Some Like It Hot
Sophie’s Choice
Spartacus
Stagecoach
A Star Is Born
Star Wars (seen it)
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (seen it)
A Streetcar Named Desire
Sullivan’s Travels
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Sunset Boulevard
Swing Time

Taxi Driver
The Third Man
Titanic (seen it)
Top Hat (1935)
To Kill a Mockingbird
Tootsie
Touch Of Evil (1958)
Toy Story (seen it)
The Treasure of the Sierra MadreTrouble in Paradise (1932)

Unforgiven

Vertigo

West Side Story (seen it)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
The Wild Bunch
The Wizard of Oz (seen it)
Wuthering Heights

Yankee Doodle Dandy

I know that this is a list of 147 movies, but, I have seen 26 of them (if I counted correctly). Plus, I love old movies. I'm very excited about this one.

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