afi's list - haha their opinion and not the norm. i won't go through the list but here are my quick comments-- didn't like high noon. so many other better westerns. silence of the lambs is one of my favorite movies. the tv show hannibal is freaking incredible. how silence was made and the calmness of lecter as a serial killer was very cool to see for 1991. he looks and acts normal till he's loose. he's a great villain and top 5 all-time. his escape was brilliant on many levels and the ending...could go anywhere. could hide anywhere. nope. he's in brazil waiting for dr. chilton - brilliant ending. great on so many levels. i spoke before about casablanca and the traveling papers! ugh. to me the maltese falcon is 100 times better than casablanca and half the top 50 movies. i liked citizen kane till the end. gone with the wind is brutal. tara is burning down, tara is burning down! WHO CARES! i too am a hitchcock fan and i don't think vertigo is his best. it's very good but he has so many films, it's hard to choose. however vertigo is hard to believe at his best on the list. to me raging bull is hard to watch and as a film hard to appreciate with other boxing movies out there like rocky and cinderella man. and in the top 10? no. still don't get all the love for the godfather part 2 either, but that's just me.
well, i see we agree on several. high noon is the really puzzling one to me. in the case of casablanca, citizen kane, and gone with the wind, i understand why some rate them so highly, even tho i don't. in the case of high noon, i just don't get it. don't give me that "allegory of mccarthyism" BS, it's a dull western. so many better westerns. as for vertigo, well, as my spanish teacher said - i'm not disagreeing with u, but you're wrong i didn't comment on many because i simply haven't seen them. include any boxing film there. and i kinda omitted my biggest objection to an entry on that list in the spirit of self-preservation. i've made it known i'm not a fan elsewhere O
I'm not sure how anyone can say "Casablanca" is overrated. Lulz, I'm not disagreeing with you...but you're wrong! LOL! And Cat - yeah, we've had this discussion. I just don't see how you can boil Casablanca's synopsis to "a movie about traveling papers." My comparison would be to classify The Godfather as "a young man takes over his father's business."
axe, i'm fine with casablanca being on the list. it's the position that bugs me - same with citizen kane and gone with the wind. my personal favorites fall in at 67, 39, and 17. i'm somewhat flattered they all made the list at all. another one that bugs me is platoon, at least it was near the bottom of this list. by my count, cat, i've seen 62. i agree with some and disagree with others. what are the chances in general, i'd say it's not a bad list. i've certainly seen worse. the best are the ones where 90% of the "best films EVAR" are made in the last 10 years. gotta love that shit.
axe-i never said it was a synopsis. after watching the movie and peter lorre getting killed, that's what it was about to me. the love story and airport scene and famous quotes take a back seat to the corruption and travel papers and people who would kill for them or be killed for having them. i wasn't impressed. all the hype and it was what it was - an okay movie. the maltese falcon imo is a lot better. platoon--funny story...the film was shot so out of sequence both tom berenger and willam dafoe thought it would be box office bomb. they both get oscar noms and it wins best picture and director. hope the editor got an oscar. to me bs the backstory platoon is a great war movie. a ton of action and since stone was a vietnam vet himself, very realistic. i would've crapped my pants at nighttime over there. people still say the role of chris is really oliver stone. hell even movies i like i don't agree should be on the list so pleasing me is impossible when it comes to movies.
saw 3 days to kill with kevin costner and amber heard. not what i expected and some crazy storylines. not bad. needed more info/history on the villains.
yeah axe - summer sundays are boring. nothing on. and with the mlb all-star game no sports on till thursday. ugh.
Don't know what channel it is, but my wife accidentally stumbled onto a good (uncut) movie channel. Saw "In the Name of the Father" and "Killing Them Softly" last night. Can't say enough good things about Daniel Day Lewis.
^^^ That's the one. I don't think I'd ever heard of it, but it was pretty decent. No Goodfellas, but solid entertainment.
damn, dude - another uncut movie channel, and u don't know what it is??? *WASSUP* if i hadn't cancelled my directv, i'd be pissed at u now *NO* *REF* ;D
what is an uncut movie channel? like TMC? killing me softly is on starz right now. it's the original movie unless you guys mean uncut version? like alternate endings and stuff.
i assumed he meant commercial free, unedited. i wonder if he was getting a free starz preview and didn't realize it.
Interesting, because it doesn't say "Starz" or anything in the little icon at the bottom of the screen.
