100 Greatest American Films

[Valmy]

I always wonder if people actually watch all those movies from the 1920s or whatever.

Talkies really ruined pictures.

[Barrister]

I always wonder if people actually watch all those movies from the 1920s or whatever.

[Duque de Bragança]

I always wonder if people actually watch all those movies from the 1920s or whatever.

Talkies really ruined pictures.

Used to be silent versions of talkies as well for a while. Speaking of which, they forgot All Quiet on the Western Front! Absolutely appalling.

[The Brain]

The list is insane.

[grumbler]

The list is insane.

Indeed.  Not a single Coen Brothers movie, but the incredibly pretentious Koyaanisqatsi and the downright boring Close Encounters.. make it?  I mean, lots of choices are rightly debatable in terms of their order in the list, but some of the choices are inexplicable.

Of course, this is the BBC, so who knows what objectives they had when creating the list.

[Razgovory]

I didn't know there were two Steve McQueens.  Also, five Billy Wilder films?

[viper37]

I've seen 29 out of those.  Eternal Sunshine... that was a boring and stupid movie, über predictable beyond belief.

[Eddie Teach]

I've seen 29 out of those.  Eternal Sunshine... that was a boring and stupid movie, über predictable beyond belief.

Boring and stupid are subjective so I'll let them slide, but predictable? That movie had surprises at every turn. Just having the hero end up with the girl at the end doesn't make a movie predictable.

[grumbler]

I've seen 29 out of those.  Eternal Sunshine... that was a boring and stupid movie, über predictable beyond belief.

Boring and stupid are subjective so I'll let them slide, but predictable? That movie had surprises at every turn. Just having the hero end up with the girl at the end doesn't make a movie predictable.

I think I saw the movie you saw.  It was very surreal at times and certainly not predictable.  The one viper saw may have been some Canadian version recut to a ten-minute loop and then replayed nine times.

[Tonitrus]

The list is insane.

These lists almost always suck and generate arguments. 

I think that is their real purpose anyway.

[Admiral Yi]

Syt posted a site that had "One Hundred Films You Have to Watch Before You Die" that I thought was pretty good.

[Razgovory]

The list is insane.

These lists almost always suck and generate arguments. 

I think that is their real purpose anyway.

It's better then a lot of lists, but Yi is right, it is pretentious.  I guess it since it's BBC it favors British sensibilities so there is a lot of Hitchcock and Kubrik, but no John Huston films (well Chinatown but he doesn't direct that one).  I'm guessing that because it's Americans films Lawrence of Arabia is cut out.  I honestly thought there was some American involvement.  That one with the funny Indian name, I have no idea why anyone consider it great anything.

[viper37]

I've seen 29 out of those.  Eternal Sunshine... that was a boring and stupid movie, über predictable beyond belief.

Boring and stupid are subjective so I'll let them slide, but predictable? That movie had surprises at every turn. Just having the hero end up with the girl at the end doesn't make a movie predictable.

it's been done 100s of times in sci-fi already.  there's no real surprise there.  There's a lot of emotive manipulation, and I can see why it's entertaining to some people.

[celedhring]

I have watched 89 films from that list 

Eternal Sunshine is amazing. Great use of scifi and surrealism to tell an emotional story in an unconventional way.

[katmai]

Not shabby, my count is only 63.