100 Greatest Movies (according to Time)

[Kam]

So.. yet another list has come out, this time, from Time magazine:

http://www.time.com/time/2005/100movies/

Some good ones, some typical ones, some bad ones, and still plenty i'll have to still check out.

Your King Kong is on there worfster (but no jean-claude )

peace
k2

[Worf101]

So.. yet another list has come out, this time, from Time magazine:

http://www.time.com/time/2005/100movies/

Some good ones, some typical ones, some bad ones, and still plenty i'll have to still check out.

Your King Kong is on there worfster (but no jean-claude )

peace
k2

After looking at this list for about 1/2 an hour I have to say the following:

On list but in God's name why?

1. "Awful Truth" - Lightweight comedy at best but vastly inferior to "The Philadelphia Story". .

2. "Barry Lyndon" - Not even Kubrick's Best

3. "Charade" - Cheesey Star vehicle that pairs as "wheezing" Cary Grant with a "too young for him Audrey Hepburn in this second rate thriller

4. "Finding Nemo" - Are you friggin kiddin' me???

5. "The Fly" (1986) - Interesting choice but not with only 100 spaces to fill.

6. "E. T". - See finding Nemo. I'd take CE3TK over this schmaltz any day.

7. "Manchurian Candidate" - See "The Fly" above.

8. "Miller's Crossing" - Doesn't belong on the same page.

9. "Drunken Master II" - How you can have Jackie Chan on this list and NOT Bruce Lee is amazing to me.

Left off list and can't believe it!!

1. "Gone with the Wind" - Much as I hate it, it belongs here.

2. "Goodbye Mr. Chips" - Superior drama from the '30's.

3. "Mrs. Miniver" - Shocking lack of WWII Movies on this list.

4. "Best Years of Our Lives" - See above.

5. "Platoon" - Wow, no reason for this one not to be here. No Viet Nam Films made it.

6. "Seven Samurai" - You put Jackie Chan on there but not this?

7. "Red River" - You put "The Searchers" on the list but this film's superior.

8. "Apocaplyse Now" - Has to be here, don't understand this.

9." 2001 a Space Oddessy" - Woot da F**k??!!!! Unbelievable.

10. "Radiers of the Lost Ark" - Dump "E.T" and add this one.

I could go on and on but it's pointless. I can only assume they made this list to piss a lot of people off but this makes little sense. I appreciate the "international" flavor of the list and the long overdue recognition of Indian Cinema but man, to do it justice we'd need 500 slots.

Da Worfster

[Worf101]

No "Jaws"??? No "American Grafiiti", "Last Picture Show" "Lone Star". "Duck Soup", "Day at the Races". Man what a list...

Da Worfster

[kexodusc]

Good lord, either that is one disgustingly weak Top 100, or I have the absolute worst taste in movies.

You mean to tell me they couldn't think of 100 movies better than Unforgiven?

Finding Nemo beat out Snow White, Toy Story, The Little Mermaid Liong King and the Beast, and Jurassic Park?

Guess we're not even trying with these lists anymore.

This just in...Ashlee Simpson makes top 100 albums of all time...

[Kam]

i always take these with a grain of salt, and given that it is coming from the collective minds of two time magazine critics (both Dick's)..... eh. it's worth its weight. It definitely puts movies on there that are incredibly puzzling without recognizing the originators... like jackie chan without any bruce?... pixar's latest without its first? The Fly without the thing? (either original or remake was better than this) Of all the kurasawa they put Yojimbo and Ikiru?

Definitely not how my 100 would go, but that's what makes 100 "best" films so arbitrary... how do you recognize what's best... either you agree with these guys or don't.. but i definitely know i wont be paying as much attention to Time movie reviews... was reading up on their reviews of what they have on there, and the ones i disagreed with, and eh... not very impressed. most top lists by magazines i rarely agree with 50% of. Entertainment Weekly has had their lists which i really disagreed with.

The AFI lists i liked the most, mainly because they really broke em down, 100 action, 100 horror, 100 comedies, 100 bad guys, 100 good guys, 100 best.

ebert had some lists as well, of the decades, with some good choices, but personally i still agree with scorcese's list of top 10 films of the 90's over any critic's choices. that was a great episode to watch ebert try and cya with scorcese next to him, picking movies ebert gave 2 stars to, hehehe.

[20to20K]

There are so many bizzare inclusions and ommisions on this list I don't know where
to begin. There was a much more comprehensive list published by the American
Film Institute to commemerate 100 years of film making in 1998. I found that list
to be much more reflective of my own taste...well, at least a lot closer than this
crock. The also had the balls to actually put them in order unlike these Time
sissies. Here's the link for it:

http://www.afi.com/tvevents/100years/movies.aspx

As for the time list...here are my main issues:

Top 10 Exclusions:

The Graduate
Clockwork Orange
Color Purple
Shawshank Redemption
La Dolce Vita
Mean Streets
Dr. Zhivago
Petrified Forest
Touch of Evil
39 Steps(or about a half dozen other Hichcock movies over Notorious or Psycho)

What the...?:

Finding Nemo,
The Fly
Charade

And finally...how dare they combine Godfather 1 and Godfather 2 into one selection?
Those were two uniquely different movies IMO. Just a cheap way to add another
movie to their pathetic list. Check out the AFI list and compare...

[shokhead]

Any list without GWTW is not worth reading.

[daigoro]

I don't profess to be the final authority on all film, but that is one of the worst lists I've seen. I tried taking away all the movies that would not be on my top 100 and was left with 17 flicks:

* Blade Runner (1982)
* Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
* The Godfather, Parts I and II (1972, 1974)
* The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966)
* Goodfellas (1990)
* Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
* The Lord of the Rings (2001-03)
* Miller's Crossing (1990)
* On the Waterfront (1954)
* Psycho (1960)
* Pulp Fiction (1994)
* Raging Bull (1980)
* Schindler's List (1993)
* Star Wars (1977)
* Taxi Driver (1976)
* Unforgiven (1992)
* Yojimbo (1961)

[RGA]

Pulp Fiction was on my list - it was number 2 of the ten best films of the 1990s -- it is one of the best films about redemption constructed and housed in homage filled and damn darkly funny film. Individual scenes are constructed so brilliantly that I'd want to see an entuire movie built from those individual scenes -- in fact the Kill Bill films may as well have spawned from the Fox Force Five sequence in Pulp Fiction -- the failed Pilot managed two feature films after all. As an excericise in story telling the film is about as good as film gets.

Pulp Fiction is way smarter than it appears to be on the surface -- And now 11 years later despite its wannabe copycats remains the best of this strange sub-genre.

[kingcrim05]

How can you knock Pulp Fiction?

One of my all-time favorites.....

[agtpunx40]

No need to repeat what other people were saying, but I'm kindof surprised that noone has mentioned the omission of Blue Velvet. I guess its a love it or hate it sort of movie, I would definatly put it in a top 100 list.

[dean_martin]

No need to repeat what other people were saying, but I'm kindof surprised that noone has mentioned the omission of Blue Velvet. I guess its a love it or hate it sort of movie, I would definatly put it in a top 100 list.

PABST...BLUE...RIBBON!!!