100 Greatest American Films

[Ideologue]

Btw I've seen 62, altho I'm counting Nashville, which I quit an hour in because it's unbearably dull and Grey Gardens, which I sort of three-quarters watched with my girlfriend.  Crazy broads were feeding a raccoon.  Not remotely great cinema.

Other notes: Marnie? I like that movie, but that's retarded; also not that sanguine about Notorious, which I even kinda love.  Blow Out is way better than The Conversation.  I'm happy to see Eyes Wide Shut get some love.  12 Years a Slave gets beaten by GWTW, lame.  And no Gravity breaks my heart.  And Lion King but no Clements and Musker is a fucking joke.

[Ideologue]

Any list without The General is nonsense. 

And yet it does have Sherlock Jr. 

Nobody drives a train off a bridge in that movie.  I'd also like to have seen Terminator 2.

[Maximus]

I think I've watched 9

[MadImmortalMan]

It's nice to see In A Lonely Place on the list. Gloria is adorable even with that quasi-speech impediment she had.

[Admiral Yi]

46, 47 if I count Citizen Kane which I gave up on.

[Ideologue]

46, 47 if I count Citizen Kane which I gave up on.

[Admiral Yi]

Citizen Kane is not a movie, it's a treatise on camera angles and lighting.

[katmai]

Citizen Kane is not a movie, it's a treatise on camera angles and lighting.

[Barrister]

Citizen Kane is not a movie, it's a treatise on camera angles and lighting.

[Admiral Yi]

 

[Monoriu]

I think I've watched 9

I thought I won 

[Eddie Teach]

Cel won. Watching the movies on this list beats watching cartoons about magic girls and churning butter or however Max spent his youth. 

[Drakken]

I stopped at Heaven's Gate. Right there I knew this list was going to suck.

[dps]

I've seen 33 of 'em.  But to get to 33, I have to count some that I half-watched on TV while doing something else, and 1 (McCabe and Mrs. Miller) that I know I saw but don't remember a dang thing about.  OTOH, it's possible that there are some others that I saw a long, long time ago and don't even remember seeing.

[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.

I haven't seen it in a while, But I remember being extremely put off by the lack of imagination regarding the world in which fast, cheap, and reliable memory surgery exists.  It's like the production design opposite of Gattaca, which posited a future world on the cheap but still felt real.  I do like it, need to rewatch to see if its cult has a point.

Any list without The General is nonsense.  Pretty sure I didn't see Phantom of the Opera either.

That's because Gattaca is a story about that world, and the characters imprisoned by its rules. Eternal Sunshine is a story about the two lovers and the machine is just a plot device to enable it. Trying to set up the world - and then not use it - would be a waste.