100 Must-See Movies - Yahoo.com's list

[Sylvene]

http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/100-movies-to-see-before-you-die-modern-classics.html

The Modern Classics.  What do you think?  I think I've got some movies to line up when I do a stay-cation and spend the week watching movies.  LoL.

[beanyfan]

I've seen 8 and a half from that list -jeez I'd better postpone my life and sit in front of the box for the next few years!

[Blue Jay]

Well, there are quite a few on there I wouldn't consider classic and there are a few I don't even want to see.

 

[Sylvene]

Agreed.  There are some I'd call "Cult" Classics.  LoL.

[shalgerson]

   I've actually seen 60 from this list!!!!!!!    I REALLY need to get a life  :insane:

[Sable899]

Got me beat, Shal, I've only seen 49.

[Blue Jay]

There are a few there I wouldn't consider 'must-see'.

[Sable899]

There's a few too many that I've seen that I wished I hadn't.  Hours of my life just wasted.

[shalgerson]

 , BJ, there are some there I never want to see -- I'm not big into gangster or horror films.  , Sable, there are some among them I wish I hadn't seen!!!!

[lighty]

I've seen 9 - and the first ten minutes of "Three Kings", which bored the crap out of me.

Who came up with that list??

The original list is better . . . I've seen 36 of those (some are on the newer list, though).  Most date pre-1970.

[shalgerson]

Where's the original list??

[lighty]

Where's the original list??

Look in the intro to the list and there's a link to 'movies to see before you die' or something like that.  It has the older films and some of the newer ones' as well.

They're still missing a lot that I consider better films - but I'm hardly representative of the viewing population when it comes to popular culture!

[moonflower]

I've seen 68 of those movies.  We get all the cable movie channels, so there are a lot of opportunites to watch them.

[shalgerson]

Thanks, Lighty!  I zipped right past that to get to the list.    This only enforces my conclusion that I need to get a life   I've seen ALL of these!!!! :bang: Guess I can die now!!!!!!!!

[moonflower]

Here is another list of movies that would be considered must sees, I guess.  This is the American Film Institute list of the top 100 films.  It contains a lot of older movies, and ones considered classics.  This list is from 2007, I don't know if they've updated it since then.

The AFI 100

  1. Citizen Kane - 1941
  2. Casablanca - 1942
  3. The Godfather - 1972
  4. Gone With the Wind - 1939
  5. Lawrence of Arabia - 1962
  6. The Wizard of Oz - 1939
  7. The Graduate - 1967
  8. On the Waterfront - 1954
  9. Schindler's List - 1993
10. Singin' in the Rain - 1952
11. It's a Wonderful Life - 1946
12. Sunset Boulevard - 1950
13. The Bridge on the River Kwai - 1957
14. Some Like it Hot - 1959
15. Star Wars - 1977
16. All About Eve - 1950
17. The African Queen - 1951
18. Psycho - 1960
19. Chinatown - 1974
20. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - 1975
21. The Grapes of Wrath - 1940
22. 2001: A Space Odyssey - 1968
23. The Maltese Falcon - 1941
24. Raging Bull - 1980
25. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - 1982
26. Dr. Strangelove - 1964
27. Bonnie and Clyde - 1967
28. Apocalypse Now - 1979
29. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington - 1939
30. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - 1948
31. Annie Hall - 1977
32. The Godfather Part II - 1974
33. High Noon - 1952
34. To Kill a Mockingbird - 1962
35. It Happened One Night - 1934
36. Midnight Cowboy - 1969
37. The Best Years of Our Lives - 1946
38. Double Indemnity - 1944
39. Doctor Zhivago - 1965
40. North by Northwest - 1959
41. West Side Story - 1961
42. Rear Window - 1954
43. King Kong - 1933
44. The Birth of a Nation - 1915
45. A Streetcar Named Desire - 1951
46. A Clockwork Orange - 1971
47. Taxi Driver - 1976
48. Jaws - 1975
49. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - 1937
50. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - 1969   51. The Philadelphia Story - 1940
52. From Here to Eternity - 1953
53. Amadeus - 1984
54. All Quiet on the Western Front - 1930
55. The Sound of Music - 1965
56. M*A*S*H - 1970
57. The Third Man - 1949
58. Fantasia - 1940
59. Rebel Without a Cause - 1955
60. Raiders of the Lost Ark - 1981
61. Vertigo - 1958
62. Tootsie - 1982
63. Stagecoach - 1939
64. Close Encounters of the Third Kind - 1977
65. The Silence of the Lambs - 1991
66. Network - 1976
67. The Manchurian Candidate - 1962
68. An American in Paris - 1951
69. Shane - 1953
70. The French Connection - 1971
71. Forrest Gump - 1994
72. Ben-Hur - 1959
73. Wuthering Heights - 1939
74. The Gold Rush - 1925
75. Dances with Wolves - 1990
76. City Lights - 1931
77. American Graffiti - 1973
78. Rocky - 1976
79. The Deer Hunter - 1978
80. The Wild Bunch - 1969
81. Modern Times - 1936
82. Giant - 1956
83. Platoon - 1986
84. Fargo - 1996
85. Duck Soup - 1933
86. Mutiny on the Bounty - 1935
87. Frankenstein - 1931
88. Easy Rider - 1969
89. Patton - 1970
90. The Jazz Singer - 1927
91. My Fair Lady - 1964
92. A Place in the Sun - 1951
93. The Apartment - 1960
94. Goodfellas - 1990
95. Pulp Fiction - 1994
96. The Searchers - 1956
97. Bringing up Baby - 1938
98. Unforgiven - 1992
99. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner - 1967
100. Yankee Doodle Dandy - 1942 

[lighty]

Ah yes - the AFA list.   

I like using that one in my class - first I show the students' a particularly repugnant clip or two from "Birth of a Nation" (I once showed them the entire film, over two class sessions but they accused me of cruel and unusual punishment, so I haven't repeated that experiment).

Then I put up the list of the top 100 films (note that B of a N is at #44) . . . then I watch their heads explode while they try to figure out WHY the AFA chose it (not because of the subject matter, certainly, but it takes them a minute or two to figure that out).

I have seen most of the films on the AFA list; don't agree that they are all classics.

[shalgerson]

  GEEEEEEZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!!!   :bang:  I've seen ALL of these, too (though, granted, there is some duplication among the lists).  I OFFICIALLY have NO LIFE!!  This just proves it :bang: :bang:

[Sylvene]

American Film Institute?  Oh... I'd say that would be a much better list.

[Sable899]

Have you noticed that there is nothing on the list that was released in this century?  Surely Saving Private Ryan or Benjamin Button are more important films than Bringing up Baby or Yankee Doodle Dandy?  King Kong??? Give me a break.

[lighty]

Have you noticed that there is nothing on the list that was released in this century?  Surely Saving Private Ryan or Benjamin Button are more important films than Bringing up Baby or Yankee Doodle Dandy?  King Kong??? Give me a break.

That list is not supposed to be inclusive.  It was part of their 100 years of film celebration.  From their website . . .

"AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies is an 18-month celebration that began last November when AFI invited more than 1,500 leaders from across the American film community - screenwriters, directors, actors, producers, cinematographers, editors, executives, film historians and critics, among them - to choose from a list of 400 nominated films compiled by AFI and select the 100 greatest American movies. The nominated films were all made in the first 100 years of American cinema (1896-1996). Movies produced after 1996 were not included. "