AFI's 10 Top 10 - Part 3

Finishing up posting the lists...

Mystery

1 Vertigo
2 Chinatown
3 Rear Window
4 Laura
5 The Third Man
6 The Maltese Falcon
7 North by Northwest
8 Blue Velvet
9 Dial M for Murder
10 The Usual Suspects

Mostly okay. The Usual Suspects seems like it might belong more on the 'gangsters' list.

Romantic Comedies

1 City Lights
2 Annie Hall
3 It Happened One Night
4 Roman Holiday
5 The Philadelphia Story
6 When Harry Met Sally...
7 Adam's Rib
8 Moonstruck
9 Harold and Maude
10 Sleepless in Seattle

Harold and Maude?! I like Harold and Maude but I don't think I've ever considered it a romantic comedy.

Courtroom Drama

1 To Kill a Mockingbird
2 12 Angry Men
3 Kramer vs. Kramer
4 The Verdict
5 A Few Good Men
6 Witness for the Prosecution
7 Anatomy of a Murder
8 In Cold Blood
9 A Cry in the Dark
10 Judgment at Nuremberg

In Cold Blood should be on the 'gangsters' (i.e. crime movie) list. Kramer vs. Kramer doesn't really fit either. And where the heck is Inherit the Wind?!

Epics

1 Lawrence of Arabia
2 Ben-Hur
3 Schindler's List
4 Gone with the Wind
5 Spartacus
6 Titanic
7 All Quiet on the Western Front
8 Saving Private Ryan
9 Reds
10 The Ten Commandments

Another list that's no really a genre. And there's some weird stuff on this one too. Schindler's List? A good film, certainly, but an epic? I guess Titanic and Saving Private Ryan are close to what I'd call 'epic' but I don't think I would have included either one.

The really odd thing to me is that there's no 'Horror' list. They could have called it 'Suspense' if they wanted to separate themselves from today's horror movies but it really strikes me odd that there's a list of fantasy movies and no list of horror movies.

AFI's 10 Top 10 - Part 2

Continuing posting the latest AFI lists...

Sports

1. Raging Bull
2. Rocky
3. The Pride of the Yankees
4. Hoosiers
5. Bull Durham
6. The Hustler
7. Caddyshack
8. Breaking Away
9. National Velvet
10. Jerry Maguire

Jerry Maguire seems a little out of place on this list, as does The Hustler. And it just seems kind of weird that the top two movies are boxing movies.

Westerns

1 The Searchers
2 High Noon
3 Shane
4 Unforgiven
5 Red River
6 The Wild Bunch
7 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
8 McCabe and Mrs. Miller
9 Stagecoach
10 Cat Ballou

Each of these lists seem to have at least one odd choice on there. Cat Ballou and McCabe & Mrs Miller seem a little odd for this list but at least they're Westerns.

Gangsters

1 The Godfather
2 Goodfellas
3 The Godfather Part II
4 White Heat
5 Bonnie and Clyde
6 Scarface (1932)
7 Pulp Fiction
8 The Public Enemy
9 Little Caesar
10 Scarface (1983)

Seems like this one should really be called "Crime Movies" but they didn't ask me. My main problems with this list is that the way over-rated Scarface (1983 version) is on it. I just don't get the facination with the film.


To be continued...

AFI's 10 Top 10

The latest American Film Institute tv special was on tonight and it was the usual 'list o' movies.' This time it was the top ten movies in ten different movie genres. Kinda wacky. Here's the lists plus some random commentary from me.

Animation

1. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
2. Pinocchio
3. Bambi
4. The Lion King
5. Fantasia
6. Toy Story
7. Beauty and the Beast
8. Shrek
9. Cinderella
10. Finding Nemo

Nothing too shocking here, but nothing too exciting either (at least to me). It is kind of irritating that they still don't realize animation isn't a genre.

Fantasy

1. The Wizard of Oz
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
3. It's a Wonderful Life
4. King Kong
5. Miracle on 34th Street
6. Field of Dreams
7. Harvey
8. Groundhog Day
9. The Thief of Bagdad
10. Big

Kinda wacky list. It would've been nice if there was at least one Ray Harryhausen movie.

Science Fiction

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
3. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
4. A Clockwork Orange
5. The Day the Earth Stood Still
6. Blade Runner
7. Alien
8. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
9. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
10. Back to the Future

Two Kubrick movies? Two Ridley Scott movies? Back to the Future? That's our top ten? I really don't know about this particular list.

I'll post some of the other lists later but feel free to comment on what you've seen so far.