Just Like the Movies, We Play Out Our Last Scene

A fun meme stolen from the lovely Catherine.

AFI's top 100 movies.  Bold the ones you have seen.  Strike out the ones you couldn't finish.  * the ones you have seen more than once.

1. Citizen Kane (1941)
2. The Godfather (1972)
3. Casablanca (1942)
4. Raging Bull (1980)
5. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
6. Gone with the Wind (1939)
7. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
8. Schindler’s List (1993)* - I know it's manipulative, but when I see the red coat?  I die a little inside each time.
9. Vertigo (1958)
10. The Wizard of Oz (1939) *
11. City Lights (1931)
12. The Searchers (1956)
13. Star Wars (1977) *
14. Psycho (1960) *
15. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
16. 2001 : A Space Odyssey (1968)
17. The Graduate (1967)*
18. The General (1927)
19. On the Waterfront (1954)
20. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) *
21. Chinatown (1974) - Saw it in film class in college, and it changed the way I watch movies.  Absolutely incredible.  Strangely, I haven't seen it since.
22. Some Like It Hot (1959)
23. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
24. E.T. The Extraterrestrial (1982) *
25. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) *
26. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
27. High Noon (1952)
28. All About Eve (1950)
29. Double Indemnity (1944)
30. Apocalypse Now (1979)
31. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
32. The Godfather Part II (1974)
33. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
34. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)*
35. Annie Hall (1977)
36. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
37. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
38. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
39. Dr. Strangelove (1964)
40. The Sound of Music (1965) *
41. King Kong (1933)
42. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
43. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
44. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
45. Shane (1953)
46. It Happened One Night (1934)
47.A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
48. Rear Window (1954)
49. Intolerance (1916)
50. Lord of the Rings : The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)*
51. West Side Story (1961)* - Pretty much the best thing ever.
52. Taxi Driver (1976)
53. Deer Hunter, The (1978)
54. M*A*S*H (1970)
55. North by Northwest (1959)
56. Jaws (1975)*
57. Rocky (1976)
58. The Gold Rush (1925)
59. Nashville (1975)
60. Duck Soup (1933)
61. Sullivan’s Travels (1941)
62. American Graffiti (1973)
63. Cabaret (1972)
64. Network (1976)
65. The African Queen (1951)
66. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) *
67. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
68. Unforgiven (1992)
69. Tootsie (1982)*
70. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
71. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
72. The Shawshank Redemption (1994) *
73. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
74. The Silence of the Lambs (1991) *
75. In the Heat of the Night (1967)
76. Forrest Gump (1994)*
77. All the President’s Men (1976)
78. Modern Times (1936)
79. The Wild Bunch (1969)
80. The Apartment (1960)
81. Spartacus (1960)
82. Sunrise (1927)
83. Titanic (1997) *
84. Easy Rider (1969)
85. A Night at the Opera (1935)
86. Platoon (1986)
87. 12 Angry Men (1957)* - The first "serious" black and white movie I remember seeing as a kid.  Loved it then, love it now.
88. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
89. The Sixth Sense (1999)*
90. Swing Time (1936)
91. Sophie’s Choice (1982)
92. Goodfellas (1990)*
93. The French Connection (1971)
94. Pulp Fiction (1994)*
95. The Last Picture Show (1971)
96. Do the Right Thing (1989)
97. Blade Runner (1982)
98. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
99. Toy Story (1995)*
100. Ben-Hur (1959)

I've seen more of these than I thought.  I don't have any strike outs, which I think says more about my stubbornness than my actual enjoyment of all the films I have seen.  I'll watch all the way to the end even if I hate it.  Also, I'm pretty sure I've seen either The Gold Rush or Modern Times in my college film class because we watched some Chaplin, but I honestly cannot recall which one so I left them both blank.

I do have a bit of a problem with this list, though, because I think it reveres older titles a bit too much and leaves out some great movies of the past 20 years.  Hopefully in the next decade a few more will make it on there.  Still, there are many things on the list I want to see and about 15 of them were already on my Netflix queue.  What did I ever do before Netflix?

Comments

[Bianca Reagan]

51. West Side Story (1961)* - Pretty much the best thing ever.

I know, right. I love "America." So good

[Nea]

Do you not like older movies? There was a time in high school and when I lived alone in Reno, that I watched older movies all the time. I would even rent them, so I have seen many of these movies. You should see Clockwork Orange, it is a very strange movie that makes you feel a little icky after you watch it. I also recommend you see Midnight Cowboy. It has Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight. I was surprised by it when I saw it. And ofcourse you should see Blade Runner. It is one that I have watched in bits and pieces over the years. I think I have seen the whole movie, but it is interesting.

[Carrie]

I do like older movies. All About Eve is one of my favorite movies of all time. However, I never sought out watching them until Netflix came along. I currently have a LOT of older movies sitting in my 400-item long queue. So I'll probably never get to them, but the sentiment is there! Ha.

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Hmmm...weirdly, I've seen all those movies except "The Searchers" "The General" and "Sullivan's Travels." I think maybe I need to get a life, ha! "Chinatown" is just about my favorite movie ever. I love it.

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Hmmm...weirdly, I've seen all those movies except "The Searchers" "The General" and "Sullivan's Travels." I think maybe I need to get a life, ha! "Chinatown" is just about my favorite movie ever. I love it.

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Hmmm...weirdly, I've seen all those movies except "The Searchers" "The General" and "Sullivan's Travels." I think maybe I need to get a life, ha! "Chinatown" is just about my favorite movie ever. I love it.