100 Greatest Movies (according to Time)

[RGA]

Wll there seems to be a:

It makes the list because it was a pivotal moment in film history or did something for the movie making process -- alla Casablanca or Star Wars (really it isn't that great a film with rather silly dialog - kudos to Harrison Ford for turning some real clunky dialog into something tongue in cheek -- something the new films lack).

I just don't see how anyone can really compare most films and this goes for the Academy Awards which is just a popularity contest.

I mean really how the hell do we compare a Raiders of the Lost Ark a pure popcorn entertainment to say "The War Zone?" One film is about a larger than life renaissance man battleing the Nazi's to get some mystical Ark out of Hitler's hands --- a pure impossible fiction. The other is about a family dealing with incest. WTF??? Both are about as well done as the story can hold. Then add in goof-ball films like Young Frankenstein -- which is still the most truthful to the spirit of the book of all the films done on it.

I also think the period the film was in should stay there -- ie a best of 1990s a best of 1930s -- Very few to almost no silent film holds up well by today;s technical standards -- Citizen kane is drooled over for its IMPACT on film making but really compared to Pulp Fiction or Schindler' List(which from a cinemetography perspective is about as good as film gets) it is anhialted in every visual way -- In Fact some scenes in Kane are completely distracting from the event rather than enhance them

I've avoided Fellini as 81/2 was the first I saw and it didn't impress me -- it just doesn't have "real" substance and every single review skirts the plot or the point of what comes across to me as self-indulgent tripe by the director.

Of course maybe this is why I should not be a critic because my list would have Dawn of the Dead and the original Terminator film on it and it would not have Citizen Kane, Casablanca, 81/2 among some others. My list is more front loaded from the 1960s to now. And my top ten has 3 Spielberg films and 2 Kubrick films, a Tarantino, Scorcese, Renoir, Kirosawa and MEL BROOKS. So that probably knocks my list of the art house group.

[dean_martin]

I also think the period the film was in should stay there -- ie a best of 1990s a best of 1930s -- Very few to almost no silent film holds up well by today;s technical standards

I agree with you as a general rule, but I immediately thought of the similarities I see in Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and many of Tim Burton's films - the angularity of set pieces is an example.

[RGA]

Well it's funny a lot of people dislike Spielberg and yet he's lifted from all the greats ditto for Tarantino. it's not unlike a new singer singing an old song -- if you do it better then I have no problem with it. I made an error only 2 Spielberg film are in my top ten Schindler's and one of (jaws, Raiders, ET) which seem to cycle through as my mood changes. That;s the other thing -- why be locked into what's best.

Frankly the TV film Death of a Salesman with Dustin Hoffman deals along the American Dream lines of Citizen Kane -- Death of a Salesman was visually very well done mixing stage play with film -- thematically it was more resonant to me as well.

The Terminator I justify as a romance film which is why it's in my top 100 incidentally.

[eisforelectronic]

"True Romance" is my favorite romantic movie

[Kam]

"True Romance" is my favorite romantic movie

Aliens is my favorite romantic comedy.

[pulsar19]

Including "Hard Days Night" and "Pulp Fiction" in a list
like this speaks for itself...HAHAHAHA!!!!!!
What a joke!!!!!