Latest AFI Top 100 movies of All time

I have said it before, and I will say it again.. some of those movies don't deserve to be on there.

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I have said it before, and I will say it again.. some of those movies don't deserve to be on there.

Amen, Bro.

I think just for the heck of it, I'll compile my own list of the top 100 movies of all time. Will take awhile because I want to give serious consideration to the hundreds of films I've seen during my lifetime but I can already say that my list will omit many of the films on the AFI list.

That would be interesting to see, I myself would do the same thing. But my list would be more along the lines of movies that I can enjoy numerous times over....

As a rabid movie fan since about the age of 10, I can truthfully say that during my 70 years, I’ve seen hundreds of films that I thought were wonderful. In my collection of about 800 DVDs, I have almost without exception every one of my all-time favorite movies. Some are of better quality than others, since I had to record the discs from taped copies in a few instances. I hope someday to have all my favorites in commercially-remastered copies.

It’s very hard to pare down my list of favorites to just 100 but the following titles are pretty accurate. But since I’ve seen so many movies that I thought were great, only about the first ten on the list are ranked in their proper order of personal esteem. The rest are listed alphabetically. (Unfortunately, I had to omit at least 80 other titles that I really like in order to stay within the 100 limit.)

Ben Hur
Friendly Persuasion
Rio Bravo
Adventures of Robin Hood, The
Scaramouche
Some Like It Hot
Shootist, The
Searchers, The
Sand Pebbles, The
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Absence of Malice
African Queen, The
Alien
American Graffiti
Bandolero
Battle of Britain, The
Big Country, The
Blackboard Jungle
Broken Arrow (1950)
Caine Mutiny, The
Casablanca
Casino Royale (2006)
Cincinnati Kid, The
Cinderella Liberty
Clear & Present Danger
Cool Hand Luke
Crocodile Dundee 1
Dances With Wolves
Day of the Jackal
Dial M For Murder (1954)
Dirty Dozen, The
Dirty Harry
Doctor Zhivago
E.T., The Extra Terrestrial
Fort Apache
French Connection, The 1
From Here to Eternity
From Russia With Love
Getaway, The
Giant
Godfather, The 1
Great Escape, The
Gunfight at OK Corral, The
Hamburger Hill
Happy Years, The
House of Wax
How The West Was Won
Hustler, The
Ivanhoe
Jaws 1
King Solomon's Mines (1950)
L.A. Confidental
Lawman
Life With Father
Live and Let Die
Longest Day,The
Magnificent Seven, The
Man From Laramie, The
Miracle On 34th Street
Mississippi Burning
Monte Walsh (1970)
Mr. Roberts
Nobody's Fool
North To Alaska
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Open Range
Pocketful Of Miracles
Psycho
Quiet Man, The
Rainmaker, The (1956)
Red River
Rocky 1
Sea Hawk, The
Shane
She Wore A Yellow Ribbon
Shenandoah
Shout At The Devil
Singin' In The Rain
Song of the South
Spartacus
Stagecoach
Star Wars 1
Star Wars - Empire Strikes Back, The
Star Wars - Return of the Jedi
Sting, The
Terminator 1
That's Entertainment 1
They Were Expendable
Tom Sawyer (1973)
Train, The
Treasure Island (1950)
Treasure of Sierra Madre, The
True Grit
Twelve O'Clock Hiqh
Ulzana's Raid
W.W. And The Dixie Dancekings
We're No Angels (1955)
Witness
Wizard of Oz, The
Zulu

Pretty fair list Stumpy.hard to argue with.

Stumpy that list is the first one that I can agree with and have no complaints over.

I also like Stumpy's list. Wish he'd list those other 80 films he had to omit to get his list down to 100 though. Bet I'd like that list too!

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I also like Stumpy's list. Wish he'd list those other 80 films he had to omit to get his list down to 100 though. Bet I'd like that list too!

I'll post the other titles tomorrow, Dex. I'll have to re-constitute my original list.

I wonder who they ask to get those top 100 picks. Stumpy I'm looking forward to seeing your next 80. As far as that goes I would be interested in 100 more after that but thats a lot of typing.

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I wonder who they ask to get those top 100 picks.

You can bet your boots that they don't ask ordinary, middle-class people, Murray.

Probably the weirdoes in Hollywood.

We have TV shows that do the same,
they come up with a list, and its is hard
to understand who votes for these things!

stumpy

the mircal on 34th street is it the orginial one or the one with richard attenburr(cant think how the rest of his name is spelt sorry) playing Santa, as that one is one of my favourites.

cheers smokey

The following titles are favorite movies I left off the first list, shown alphabetically.

"A Big Hand For the Little Lady
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
Aliens 2
All The Kings Men
Barbarian and the Geisha
Black Hawk Down
Black Marble, The
Black Stallion, The
Black Sunday
Bonnie and Clyde
Braveheart
Breaker Morant
Breaking Away
Bridge on the River Kwai
Bullitt
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Captains Courageous
Cinderella Man
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Con Air
Country
Cowboys, The
Crocodile Dundee 2
Culpepper Cattle Company, The
Daddy's Dyin' - Who's Got The Will
Darby O'Gill and the Little People
Devil's Disciple, The
Die Hard 1
Double Indemnity
Driving Miss Daisy
Drums Along The Mohawk
Enforcer, The
Fastest Gun Alive, The
Field of Dreams
Firm, The
Fly Away Home
Fugitive, The
Gator
Get Shorty
Gladiator
Glenn Miller Story, The
Godfather 2
Goldeneye
Gone With The Wind
Goodfellas
Great Santini, The
Great Train Robbery, The
Gunfighter, The
Guns of Navarone, The
Heartbreak Ridge
High Noon
Horse Soldiers, The
Hound of the Baskervilles, The (1959)
Hud
In The Line of Fire
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Jeremiah Johnson
Jim Thorpe, All American
Judgement at Nuremburg
Jungle Book, The (1967)
Jurassic Park
Karate Kid, The 1
Kings of the Sun
Lassie Come Home
Last of the Mohicans, The (1992)
Last Picture Show, The
Last Train From Gun Hill, The
Legends of the Fall
Lonesome Dove
Maltese Falcon, The
Mask of Zorro, The
Master and Commander - Far Side of the World
Mechanic, The
Meet Me in St. Louis
Midnight Run
Million Dollar Baby
Mr. Blanding Builds His Dream House
Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
My Darling Clementine
My Fair Lady
Naked Spur, The
National Velvet
Natural, The
Night of the Hunter, The
North by Northwest
Northwest Passage
Officer and a Gentleman, An
Oklahoma
Operation Pacific
Ox Bow Incident, The
Package, The
Pale Rider
Paleface, The
Patriot, The
Patton
Perfect Storm, The
Philadelphia Story, The
Places In the Heart
Play Misty for Me
Pledge, The
Pork Chop Hill
Poseidon Adventure, The
Predator
Pretty Woman
Quigley Down Under
Raising Arizona
Rambo 2
Rambo 3
Rebel Without a Cause
Red Dawn
Red Dragon
Ride the High Country
River of No Return
Road to Perdition
Rocky 2 through 4
Rocky Balboa
Rounders, The (1965)
Runaway Train
Sands of Iwo Jima
Saving Private Ryan
Sayonara
Schindler's List
Seabiscuit
Searching for Bobby Fischer
Sergeant York
Shop Around the Corner, The
Silence of the Lambs
Sitting Pretty
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Sometimes a Great Notion
Speed
Stalag 17
Stalking Moon, The
Starman
Steel Magnolias
Superman 1 and 2
Support Your Local Sheriff
Taps
Taxi Driver
Temptations, The
Ten Commandments, The
Terminator 2
Terms of Endearment
Thelma and Louise
There Was a Crooked Man
They Died With Their Boots On
They Drive By Night
Three Godfathers
Three Men and a Baby
Three Musketeers, The (1948)
Tin Cup
To Hell and Back
Tombstone
Towering Inferno, The
Trip to Bountiful, The
True Lies
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
Twister
Untouchables, The
Verdict, The
Victory
Vikings, The
Wargames
We Were Soldiers
White Heat
White Lightning
Wild Geese, The
Window, The
Yellow Sky"

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stumpy

the mircal on 34th street is it the orginial one or the one with richard attenburr(cant think how the rest of his name is spelt sorry) playing Santa, as that one is one of my favourites.

cheers smokey

My favorite is the original, Smokey. The one with Maureen O'Hara.

Like all lists and surveys what you get on the final list depends on who you ask, what you ask and how many you ask.

If they did a survey of Top 100 movies here you would get a high percentage of John Wayne movies on the list. If as most of these top ten lists do you ask a lot of "film critics" who know zilch. Guess what you get the obscure, arty, trendy films that always appear on every list.

Mike

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I the old days the A. F. I. was made up of Film Produsers, Directors and the People that Put Up The Money For The Films, and Not Open to the Public and they did the Voting !

In later times it was Opened To The Public and if You join You Can Vote Also. I have been a member for about 35 Years.

http://www.afi.com/

Chilibill

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You must have been outvoted, Bill, because there's a bunch of films on that AFI list that I find it very hard to believe that you would vote for.