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The list was curated by The American Film Institute.
If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing well
(Proverb)
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I finally got around to looking at their list.
"Tootsie"?!! Seriously?!! Proof that the AFI folks aren't infallible. That was one of the dumbest films ever, ranking right up there with "Space Balls" and "Earth Girls Are Easy". Really, if they're going to include "Tootsie", they should include "What About Bob?" and "Groundhog Day", both of which are much better works than "Tootsie". It's sad to see that some of those flicks had to be included just to get to 100.
Reading the intro to the piece, it's also sad to see this political drivel:
"... these lists reflect that intolerable truth. AFI acknowledges its responsibility in curating these lists that has reinforced this marginality and looks forward to releasing new lists that will embrace our modern day and drive culture forward. "
Eye-yie-yie. More political crap. I thought we were over all this racial crap.
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I heard a radio program disecct this list. It was based on positive review percentages, so a pedestrian movie that all the critics agreed that it was just fine for what the picture intended to do, like toootise, got a hundred percent rating.while another movie, in this case "citizen cane" was downgraded because one modern on line post said they didn't get it, so the movie got downgraded for negative reviews. 100% positive verses less than 100%, as with most adult themed movies that are designed to be more challenging.
Most art is controversial, and are hard to fit into a list of perceived greatness. A fluff enjoyable movie is recognized as what it is , and if it is an actable commodity, a good reviewer would recognize it as such, and not bring up the obvious stupidity of a farce comedy, since when people want popcorn, they are not buying a challenging gourmet meal exploring concepts.
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Dr Strangelove
Wizard of Oz
One Flew over the cockoo's nest
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Rounds out the other four.
And I'm a big Hitchcock fan but I think 'Psycho' although a great film wouldn't make the list whereas North by Northwest would.
Gaslight, ALL of Hitch's films, both Fellini's, the first three Sean Connery 007's, Strangelove & Cuckoo's Nest, To Kill A Mockingbird, A Soldier In The Rain, Straw Dogs, The Wild Bunch, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, The Green Mile, West Side Story
It's A Mad Mad World, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, Jason and the Argonauts, Clockwork Orange, Enter The Dragon, Shawshank Redemption, all of the Marx Bros., Sleeper, Everything You Wanted To Know About Sex, Take The $$ And Run, The Trap, Invasion Of The Body Snatchers [both] The Time Machine, Grapes Of Wrath, The Warriors, Run Silent Run Deep
Of Mice & Men, The Pink Panther, How The West Was Won, ALL of Sergio Leone's work, Carpenter's The Thing, Jaws, Dracula, Heavy Metal, Apocalypse Now, Chinatown, all of the Python films, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, The Great Escape, Cool Hand Luke, Saving Private Ryan
Liquid Sky, It Follows, From Beyond, Reanimator, Fantasia, Catch-22 & Mash, Old Yellow, Titanic & Gangs Of NY [even w/ goddam DiCaprio!]
woah! ... no particular order and stream of consciousness
I could get to 100, I might have actually ... and I stand by my picks so far
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A lot of my favourites in there.
I would only add David Lynch - Mulholland Drive/Blue Velvet toss up. And maybe George Romero Night of the Living Dead/Dawn of tossup.
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John K
definitely Mulholland Drive ... I thought of it just as I was going to rearrange things into genre, but after I stopped myself before typing out a menu of every movie that made an impression on me!
with regards,
Not that I'm complaining: they're both creepy. But films that are thoroughly racist like The Birth of a Nation and Gone with the Wind made the cut. Interesting double standard.
Personally I'd take Manhattan over Annie Hall by more than a little
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That list ignores a lot.
It's pretty short on comedy. Can anybody say Tootsie is the best comedy they've seen?
It's even shorter on horror. Psycho was they best they could do? That film doesn't hold up well at all. What about The Exorcist, The Shining, or Alien?
Where are the big budget summer action films?
Comics/superheroes?
No animated films newer than 1942?
And no CGI? Just ignore the biggest technical advance in the industry since the 1970s?
Bad, awful, nearly unwatchable. Nicholson and Duvall play their parts like mouth-breathing morons. The languid pace is snooze-inducing. It's the textbook example of Bad Kubrik.
Comic book movies are all alike. They were enjoyable at first, but they nearly all end with some kind of beam either aimed from earth at space or aimed from space and earth, and unless it's stopped it's the End of All Life As We Know It.
GCI can be excellent, but it sure as hell didn't add anything to the Star Wars franchise, and motion control was a huge step up in special effects also. The original, unmutilated version of Star Wars used motion-control and it's on the AFI's list. At any rate, special effects don't make a bad movie good.
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Plus the Ligeti's Lontano is just brilliant.
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First - Kubrick's Shining really has nothing to do with the book. I would not even attempt a comparison. Yes, it has the same title but what the Shining is about - or can be argued to be about is a woman named Wendy who is a schizophrenic who read the Stephen King novel called The Shining.
Her husband calls her up to tell her he has a job at a hotel where the caretaker killed his family. Wendy, having read the King Novel now begins to have an overactive imagination. She applies her love of horror (as Jack notes) with her hallucinations.
So while the movie is called "The Shining" it needs to be taken from the perspective of Wendy.
I recommend watching this video called the "Wendy Theory" The narration is done by a robotic voice which is irritating but if you can make it through - I think you will have an entirely different view of the film. Indeed, I shared your issues with it but if taken from this perspective - Duvall is pretty damn excellent!
It explains Jack's performance as well because I always felt he went bonkers way too fast - but perhaps in fact it was in her head - and so was room 237 and so was the "The Shining" power.
The story is about the effect of isolation and repetition on the sanity of a person dealing with depression. The slow pace helps the audience feel some of what the characters are feeling, and gives time for the novelty of living in an old resort hotel to wear off. If the film were condensed, it would just be another haunted house flick. Duvall's acting was horrible though.
I like Kubrick and I generally appreciate movies that take their time. Ever watch The Andromeda Strain? About 3/4 of the running time is dedicated to building the characters and setting. Most people are dead bored after the first hour, but I love it. Blade Runner is another one of those love it or hate it films because of its slow pacing, and I love it. If it were made like a modern sci-fi movie, it wouldn't feel dystopian.
I personally don't appreciate comics and superheroes much at all, but they are one of Hollywood's oldest and biggest genres so they should be represented.
I beg to differ. The book is also about isolation, plus substance abuse, but the pacing is breakneck. Steven King's last great novel. The movie was a disappointment when I saw it in the theater, gets worse with repeated viewings.
Duvall was awful, but so was Nicholson. Some of the scenes where he's being seduced by the hotel's evil spirits are laughably bad. Slack-jawed yokel.
I like Kubrick, too, but starting with 2001 he just lost something. The first half of Full Metal Jacket , when the Marines are still in boot camp, is fantastic. The second half is pathetic. Shot in England at Pinewood Studios, looks like somebody's idea of a fake Vietnam complete with artificial palm trees.
His earlier movies, like Paths of Glory, Dr. Strangelove, The Killing, Spartacus, A Clockwork Orange , all great movies.
The problem is not that there is evil in the world, the problem is that there is good. Because otherwise, who would care?
Interesting that there is nothing from this millennium.
I guess rewrites / remakes / comic book movies don't make the critics passing grade. The public certainly prefers the special effects driven comic book adaptations judging by box office receipts.
That would be "Lilies Of The Field", at least as socially ground breaking as any and two of the best performances, by Poitier and Skala I can recall.
I've seen "2001" twice, the premier on Acid, second years later on nothing and was mystified it got made both times.
"Birth Of A Nation" was shown as groundbreaking (well, duh, it was one of the first) by cinema snobs on every '60s college campus. At mine, it was double-billed with "Reefer Madness" as two of a kind.
Two great memory jogs from among the 77 I've seen from the list were:
"The Apartment". Been too long since I've seen this masterpiece.
"It Happened One Night"; pushed mores of the time with a thoroughly enjoyable comedy touch.
And that makes me wonder how "Carnal Knowledge" is missing.
"Eventually you make enough mistakes that you learn something and it looks like talent."
"I've seen "2001" twice, the premier on Acid, second years later on nothing and was mystified it got made both times."2001 is Also Sprach Zarathustra. Not merely the music but the theme of the poem, transcendence of humanity.
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top 10-20 films of all time. Why limit it to just American Films - just list your favorites.
Some lists like this are films that revolutionized filmmaking - Star Wars is listed for example although most people including myself felt that Empire Strikes Back was the better actual film. Star Wars was first - it set the technical standard so it makes sense that it is listed.
Maybe a list of films that people like to watch over and over again. I put a lot of merit on this. A film may be a technical marvel and even a critical marvel but if you never want to watch it again (pretty much every movie they rank in the top 8 for me) then they probably don't make my list. Citizen Kane, I can respect it but like it? Not really.
My favorite all-time movie. Have a Blu-Ray copy, could watch it any time. Frances McDormand won the Oscar, but the rest of the cast is just as good.
The plot, with things going wrong because weak, greedy humans are involved, well, I just love it.
After that, in no particular order: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Aliens, It: The Terror from Beyond Space, Key Largo, Poltergeist, The Caine Mutiny, Blazing Saddles, Animal House, The Wild Bunch, 13 Ghosts, The Haunting, Paths of Glory, The Seventh Victim, The Asphalt Jungle, White Heat, The Manchurian Candidate, The Searchers, The Tin Drum, Hope and Glory, Excalibur, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Starship Troopers, Godfathers I and II, The Thing from Another World, A Face in the Crowd, Sweet Smell of Success, In Cold Blood, Dirty Harry, Miller's Crossing, just about anything with Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, or Joan Crawford, film noir like Gun Crazy and Criss Cross . Double-crossing dames, tough guys in snap-brim hats...I root for Cagney in White Heat .
Some of the movies on my list have been remade. The remakes totally suck. Well, except for John Carpenter's The Thing . Pretty good, and more faithful to the short story the movies were based on ("Who Goes There?"), but it lacks the snappy, rapid-fire dialogue of Howard Hawks' original.
And I love movies, so I probably left a few out.
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But if Hitchcock did it there would have been some sort of big reveal in the second hour.
I think a part of this is how old you are and perhaps which films have a personal impact on you and which order you see them.I was born in 74 and as a kid living in Wales - Doctor Who was the big show and one of the episodic serials was called the "Seeds of Doom" which is basically "The Thing" - outer space plants land in Antarctica and the Doctor is sent to investigate and one of the plants opens and attaches to one of the researchers. Who then becomes a monster. A nutty botanist sends his men to bring it back to England (oh no to civilization) where the plant takes over bodies and can control all other plants.
I then saw the Carpenter version in my teens and at that time was one of the greatest special effects wonders and so all my mates loved it. Then going back to the original version it just doesn't hold up for me. It had too many characters and a guy in a monster suit.
I enjoyed Fargo - although you will hate this - I preferred the TV Series season 1 - which is the same story as the movie but longer and more in depth. I find most of these TV series to be generally better than films because there isn't enough time in a film to do real justice to the subject matter IMO.
Film in the 1960s through the 1990s tended to be MUCH better than TV but I feel there is a role reversal.
With Star Trek movies - I liked II and IV and I am a Star Trek fan but I think those are the only two that I can rewatch. I liked the sci-fi aspect of IV and it tickled me that Humans were not the beings that an alien would seek out as intelligent life. That was a nice shot to the human ego. Lucky the Whales didn't hold a grudge eh?
I also liked Blazing Saddles although I ranked it third for Mel Brooks behind Young Frankenstein and The Producers (1967 not the remake). I might also include Airplane! as possibly the stupidest funny movies I have seen. And probably the only Airplane/airport movie that is remembered from the era.
I think these lists are tough because dramatic films often get more credit and I suppose it makes sense as humor seems not to be shared among people as well. Some people do not get sarcasm or wit. And many folks do not get satire (The Simpsons) or dark comedy (Pulp Fiction and Fargo)
Some people can't take swearing or violence. I remember watching Pulp Fiction in the theatre and Vincent's gun accidentally goes off and blows the head off of the guy in the back seat - the audience roared with laughter. I thought wow here is a horrible scene set-up so well that the director has the audience laughing at something horrendous. And I still get a chortle out of Pulp Fiction and Siskel and Ebert dedicated an entire show to the film - incidentally, I am pretty sure they both picked Fargo as the best film of the year. If only the Academy would not always choose the safe banal choice. I liked the Englsh Patient (I am one of the few) but Fargo or Secrets and Lies should have won.
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We all have different tastes I guess. I watched Pulp Fiction in the theater and could appreciate that it was very well done. But it's not one I'd revisit. I've tried watching a couple of Tarantino's other films on DVD, but I don't think I've made it to the end of any others. I don't like most mob movies, which may have something to do with it.
But the Coen brothers are movie geniuses IMHO.
Not to my tastes either. Seems to be straining to generate the same snappy pop-culture laden dialogue from Pulp Fiction . I couldn't watch The Hateful Eight . The dialogue was just bad.
Jackie Brown works because it's based on a great Elmore Leonard novel.
The Coen brothers have yet to make a bad movie.
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Jackie Brown was terrific - I agree - I saw it recently and liked it better than when it came out.
The Hateful Eight borrows from The Thing. Indeed, toward the end of the film it even uses music from The Thing (1982) in a scene with Kurt Russel. didn't much like it the first time - liked it the second time. I am willing to give his movies more than one run-through.
I liked Inglorious Bastards, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, both Kill Bill films, Django Unchained, and even Death Proof.
...just saw it all the way through a few weeks ago and man, what a movie.
Tarantino's Jackie Brown is seriously under-rated IMO.
Airplane! is one of my favorites, enough that I ordered Zero Hour from Netflix. Had to see it for myself.
Mel Brooks...hit or miss. I like Blazing Saddles the best probably because Richard Pryor wrote a large part of the screenplay. Young Frankenstein , Brooks produced that movie but Gene Wilder directed it. But I'm not so hot on The Producers and you can burn every copy of Spaceballs, History of the World Part II, and Robin Hood: Men in Tights for all I care. High Anxiety benefits from Cloris Leachman and Harvey Korman.
The movie Young Frankenstein is satirizing is Son of Frankenstein , by the way and it's a don't miss just for the sets alone. The main fireplace in Frankenstein's castle looks like Henry VIII's kitchen at Hampton Court.
IMO, Hollywood is spent. Movies are almost entirely the same stories told over and over again. Give the audience what it knows and is comfortable with. All you need to see is the trailer.
And they're all far too long. There's no reason for a 2 hour, 30 minute run time when the story that could be told in a little over an hour.
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Great place to raise a kid. Wonder what newspaper they read over breakfast--the Voelkischer Beobachter ?
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LOL.
Looks like a good list to me.
Like Tin however, I do wonder exactly what makes an American movie an American movie.
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was directed by David Lean (British) and largely starred British actors. Same with "Lawrence of Arabia." I won't get into the Hitchcock films, but it seems to me that if the director and others involved in the actual film-making aren't American and most of the actors are not, what exactly is "American" about the film?Many great "American" films, of course, were directed by recent immigrants, fleeing the Nazis. Similar immeasurable contributions were made to the "plastic" arts by other escapees. And to classical music, as well. Immigration. What a swell idea!
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If you would look for place of birth as reference to what is American, there wouldn't be much left. If you would look at national origin, barely anything.
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"One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane."
In America, it is always about the money - who put up the money to get the film made? So if the Producers (the money givers) are American then it's an American film. The actors and writers and directors are merely the "hired help" - because without the money there is no film.
99 films to go, most of which you'll insist are movies!
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
Not enough sci-fi for sure. IMO Once Upon A Time In the West should be on that list. And really Jaws but no Scream or Cabin In the Woods? Get real.
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98.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
It just doesn't get better than this.
"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." George Orwell-1984
controversial but excellent.
It is acknowledged to be instrumental in the rise of the KKK.
Not unlike, in effect, Leni Riefenstahl's, "Triumph of the Will."
I have seen 88 of the 100, and didn't count films I have never watched through from start to finish (Forest Gump). I would remove Gump, ET, Tootsie, Star Wars, Birth, Platoon, Raiders.
As other said, opinion. I have seen all but few (Platoon, Duck Soup, Birth of Nation)
And although all are good movies, majority are great movies, there are some that I would not include in the list, like Unforgiven, Pulp Fiction (sorry never got Tarantino), Searchers, King Kong, Patton, Bonnie and Clyde, Double Indemnity, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Big Sleep...Have to admit that it's been long time since I watched lot of them, so I go by my memory.
I would rather have Great dictator, Metropolis, Hair, Blade Runner, They Shoot Horses Don't They, Nashville, yes even Alien,...
And as I said opinions, opinions, including mine.
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Doesn't even have Animal House!
Or "its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World"
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and same 85% of them from 30 years ago.
Same 75% from 1980 forward.
Didn't read the list, didn't do the math, probably seen 90% of what's listed, probably agree 95%.
For some reason, lists like that mean less and less every year.
I appreciate "The Grand Budapest Hotel " as much as "Citizen Kane".
Both are equally successful as to obtaining their goals.
More importantly, what's your POV film wise?
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
For visceral effect, it was unmatched.
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Interesting comment about Alien fr. It is the movie that made me drastically reduce my movie going. Why put shit like that in your head?
"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." George Orwell-1984
It's one of the best horror films ever.
It's even a great Sci fi outing!
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
Aliens from 1986, directed by James Cameron. Pre- Titanic , when Cameron was at his peak.
Pulse pounding, and funny in spots, too. Bill Paxton was great and several of his best lines ("Game over, man!") were ad-libbed.
The problem is not that there is evil in the world, the problem is that there is good. Because otherwise, who would care?
The first Alien film was basically a slasher film but in space and the monster was an Alien not Michael Myers but it was the standard pick them off one at a time flick.Aliens holds up better IMO.
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The Alien prequels he's responsible for should be burned.
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to a 'perfect' sci-fi as I can imagine. It holds up very well over these many moons. -K
Great list, but Ultimately? OPINION.
I'd add 'Fire Maidens From Outer Space'......or maybe 'Forbidden Planet'.....
Just saw The Third Man for the 1st time.....and it really IS a great film......
I think Ed Wood deserves and Honorable Meention for the body of his work....so to speak.....
Too much is never enough
Hopefully, somewhere in there is "Casablanca", "The Magnificent Seven", "The Graduate", and "Titanic".
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Seriously, no The Big Sleep? A pretty good list overall.P.S. I've never seen The Gold Rush.
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How can Blade Runner not be in there?
Same fucking "Best of" lists with 90% of the same content, slowly broken up and re-distributed
via genre as to saturate the market. Add a few new titles every year. Never really drop any title as
it's more profitable to expand and micro manage the list than edit it.
The same TOP 100 Rock LPs becomes Classic Rock LPs becomes Best Guitar Solos becomes
Best Anthem Songs becomes Best Vocals becomes Best Cover becomes Best Drum Intros, etc.
Best Sci-fi, Best Action movie, Best B&W film, Best Musical, Best Heartbreaker, etc.
Divide and conquer... the profits.
Really apparent how RS keeps cashing in on the SOS, less apparent how the AFI does.
Website traffic?
(Wonder if "Traffic" is on that list?)
Wait until Tinear chimes in with how American films suck.
He'll tell you why Bladerunner isn't on there!
See Gold Rush, Charlie holds up really well decades later!
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
for the past couple of decades, American films definitely have become infantilized with FX and corny plots.
Foreign films are just as dumb. The difference is that Americans only get the "sifted" foreign films so you THINK they are better when they are absolutely not.Let's say there are 600 American films that come out in a year - 20 are excellent. So you say American films suck only 20 out of 600?
Foreign is great because you get to see the 3 good Korean films that won a bunch of awards at film festivals - you did not see the 300 piles of utter horse shit. So you say 3/3 great Korean films - they are much better movie makers - umm no - you get the parsed and sifted films - the best of that country's films. Ditto India, Canada, Australia, Japan etc.
But in the US - you get ALL the films and ALL the crap. Nothing is parsed. If you got just the films that the best film critics reviewed the highest and you never heard about all the schlock you the percentage would be the same.
The 8 nominated films this year - none were special effects loaded or had corny plots. All but one (Promising Young Woman)were of the art-house variety.
The reason you have all the Marvel Schlock is that to make money you need a global audience so you get "simple" films with "simple" dialog so you can sell them in China where the population is 1.5 billion. You can't have complicated themes and "western culture" ideology/culture that they won't understand.
Man gets bitten by spider has spider-powers beats up bad guys - have a few funny lines - a romance - and blow up stuff real big - make $hundreds of millions in profit - sell action figures, shirts and cups. And because Spidey's face is covered he could just as well be Chinese or Indian. So it sells.
Or Nomadland with a worldwide gross of less than $10million and that WITH an oscar for best picture helping it make even that paltry sum.
And the film I chose for best picture was Sound of Metal - it made a worldwide total of $180,000 - holy cow that is piss poor.
So which film will you want to invest your dollars in? The next Avengers movie or the next Chloe Zhao or Darius Marder flick?
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It ain't just the movies.
And I've seen 73 of them. My own top ten would include Fargo which is probably my favorite movie of all time.
I hate 2001: A Space Odyssey . It's incomprehensible. I've seen it several times and it doesn't get any better with repeated viewings.
Also, it's boring. But I know I'm in the minority, so it belongs on the list.
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The story is just a set of metaphors. My wife can't stand it because it's too abstract and open-ended. She also can't stand the long shots and slow pacing. I love it for the same reasons she hates it. And for a film that's full of special effects, it holds up remarkably well for its age.
I disagree. I saw 2001 when it first came out. Of course, I thought it was interesting and cool.
The second time viewing, not so much. Simple, slow, too much fluff. Stanley could have cut ten minutes out of the psychodylic (sp?) segment and that would be a good step in the right direction. Maybe tighten up the rest of the film, too.
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The very start of that scene works in the context of the movie. But then it drags on and on because Kubrick is essentially masturbating. That's the only part of the movie I'm tempted to fast forward though. I wouldn't tighten up anything else. I appreciate how it portrays the mundane aspects of working in space, including the boredom of a long space voyage and the associated mental health effects. And with an abstract story and a lot of metaphors to take in, I like that it gives me time to think about it.
'Goodfellas' was a waste of my time; wife and I walked out of it.
Just as you said, I considered it a waste of time.
Dean.
reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
A lot of my favorite movies will never make a 100 Best list.
Fer instance... 13 Ghosts (the original William Castle version), The Haunting, Poltergeist (again, the originals, not the useless remakes).
Or Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan . Or The Caine Mutiny .
Or Hope and Glory, Excalibur, and Deliverance , all from director John Boorman.
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Maybe Excalibur a bit... less so.
I'm (very slowly) reading a book on Goodfellas that's fairly interesting.
It's a fantastic movie, but one can get burned out on any film.
EXCEPT... Patton.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
Supposedly, Goodfellas is much more realistic than The Godfather , which was pretty much invented out of Mario Puzo's imagination.
Some of the dialogue in Goodfellas was taken directly from FBI surveillance tapes.
The problem is not that there is evil in the world, the problem is that there is good. Because otherwise, who would care?
There's such a huge disconnect between most books and the films made from them.
Deliverance is an exception (great on both counts) and so is The Godfather which was a VERY mediocre book at best, but made a GREAT film.
Book I'm (very slowly) reading is this and it's good, I'M... slow...
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
And Willie treats his girlfriend like shit. At the end of the book, it's not certain they'll get back together.
I loved The Godfather novel, but again I read it long before I saw the movie. My mom read it to us (except for Page 26). We weren't little kids, but she liked to read to us anyway. When we found out about the movie, there was much speculation in my family who would play Vito Corleone (our choice was Anthony Quinn).
The problem is not that there is evil in the world, the problem is that there is good. Because otherwise, who would care?
King Kong?
"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." George Orwell-1984
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