Author Topic: Should Brokeback Mountain be on AFI's Top 100 Movies of All Time?  (Read 9444 times)

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If you say the answer is Yes, then go to AFI's website, login or register, download the ballott and VOTE! WE are the ones who get to decide this time what the 100 greatest films of all time are!

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I was so happy to find this out I had to come share it. I don't know if anyone else mentioned it or posted about it, but here you go!
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Re: Should Brokeback Mountain be on AFI's Top 100 Movies of All Time?
« Reply #1 on: June 08, 2007, 05:45:02 pm »
Rebelwithsadness tells us that the update to this list will be out very shortly and BBM should be in it!!

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Re: Should Brokeback Mountain be on AFI's Top 100 Movies of All Time?
« Reply #2 on: June 08, 2007, 05:55:20 pm »
If you say the answer is Yes, then go to AFI's website, login or register, download the ballott and VOTE! WE are the ones who get to decide this time what the 100 greatest films of all time are!

Unless I'm misunderstanding, we get to vote but it looks to me like they have an "official jury of experts" who will make the real decision.

http://connect.afi.com/site/PageServer?pagename=100register_landing

Which is fine with me, actually. I trust experts much more than I trust the general public, especially when it comes to Brokeback Mountain. For example, BBM is NOT among the top 250 movies at IMDb, largely because vapid teenage boys with too much time on their hands get all their loserish friends to rate it 1 on a 1-10 scale. BBM has a lot of 10s, but also a huge amount of 1s, for that reason.

Some idiot boasted on the imdb BBM board lately about actually having done this, to lower the film's average imdb rating from 7.9 to 7.8. My response was, who puts any faith in a rating system that can be so easily manipulated by a stupid teenage prank?


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Re: Should Brokeback Mountain be on AFI's Top 100 Movies of All Time?
« Reply #3 on: June 08, 2007, 06:16:09 pm »
My response was, who puts any faith in a rating system that can be so easily manipulated by a stupid teenage prank?
Quite so. Along the same lines, I was once invited on IMDb (don't remember by whom; not sure if they made it over here) to rate the film a 10 repeated times precisely to counteract that puerile sabotage. I declined, because I felt that that, in its way, was just as unfortunate, in that it was abusing this blind spot of IMDb's system, and thus artificially skewering the resulting data.

IMDb, we have since learned, has lots of problems that are unlikely to be rectified by its overburdened or apathetic administrators.

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Re: Should Brokeback Mountain be on AFI's Top 100 Movies of All Time?
« Reply #4 on: June 08, 2007, 06:29:49 pm »
Well, it certainly deserves to be.
Never before has a movie touched me the way this one has.
It is in my psyche, it has become p[art of my everyday life.
The characters portryaed have become real to me.
No, not in a wierd Donnie Darko/Frank sort of way.
But they have rocked me to my core.
No film has ever come close to doing that ever.
I have to say, I love movies. Ecspecially old ones.
Up till now, To Kill a Mockingbird has been my favorite.
After seeing BBM, it's a distant second!
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Re: Should Brokeback Mountain be on AFI's Top 100 Movies of All Time?
« Reply #5 on: June 08, 2007, 06:55:16 pm »
Up till now, To Kill a Mockingbird has been my favorite.
After seeing BBM, it's a distant second!

My next favorite movie, whatever it is, occupies, like, No. 11 on my list. The top 10 are all reserved for BBM!

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Re: Should Brokeback Mountain be on AFI's Top 100 Movies of All Time?
« Reply #6 on: June 08, 2007, 07:44:25 pm »
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If you say the answer is Yes, then go to AFI's website, login or register, download the ballott and VOTE! WE are the ones who get to decide this time what the 100 greatest films of all time are!

www.afi.com

I was so happy to find this out I had to come share it. I don't know if anyone else mentioned it or posted about it, but here you go!

         i CANT FIND ANYWHERE TO VOTE FOR ANYTHING.. It says it has a panel to make those decisions.
  I keep thinking like you Katherine, I remember these are the same people that choose american idol and knocked Chris Daugherty off in fifth place last year...  And picked Ronald Reagan as the greatest american of all.  Lame kids, and silly idiots...let the so called experts do it....
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Re: Should Brokeback Mountain be on AFI's Top 100 Movies of All Time?
« Reply #7 on: June 15, 2007, 01:45:24 am »
Any list of the top hundred movies of all time that doesn't have BBM somewhere on it is just so much bull crap. I couldn't find a way to vote but will forever ignore this list in the future if BBM is not listed on it when posted.

I have ignored the Academy Awards ever since one of the the best movies ever was skipped for safe mediocrity by homophobes.

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Re: Should Brokeback Mountain be on AFI's Top 100 Movies of All Time?
« Reply #8 on: June 20, 2007, 08:47:50 pm »
I'm watching and keeping track right now.


Here is the countdown so far.




#100.  Ben Hur
#99.   Toy Story
#98.   Yankee Doodle Dandy
#97.   Blade Runner
#96.   Do The Right Thing
#95.   The Last Picture Show
#94.   Pulp Fiction
#93.   The French Connection
#92.   Goodfellas
#91.   Sophie's Choice
#90.   Swing Time
#89.   The Sixth Sense
#88.   Bringing Up Baby
#87.   12 Angry Men
#86.   Platoon
#85.   A Night At The Opera
#84.   Easy Rider
#83.   Titanic
#82.   Sunrise
#81.   Spartacus
#80.   The Apartment
#79.   The Wild Bunch
#78.   Modern Times
#77.   All The President's Men
#76.   Forrest Gump
#75.   In The Heat Of The Night
#74.   The Silence Of The Lambs
#73.   Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid


Updated

#72.   The Shawshank Redemption
#71.   Saving Private Ryan
#70.   A Clockwork Orange
#69.   Tootsie
#68.   Unforgiven
#67.   Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
#66.   Raiders Of The Lost Ark
#65.   The African Queen
#64.   Network
#63.   Cabaret


Updated



#62.   American Grafitti
#61.   Sullivan's Travels
#60.   Duck Soup
#59.   Nashville
#58.   The Gold Rush
#57.   Rocky
#56.   Jaws
#55.   North By Northwest
#54.   M*A*S*H
#53.   The Deer Hunter
#52.   Taxi Driver
#51.   West Side Story


Well, it's over for Brokeback.  In the last commercial break, they said they would be showing the newest and oldest movies on the list back to back....

Update....



#50.   Lord Of The Rings-FellowShip Of The Ring
#49.   Intolerance
#48.   Rear Window
#47.   A Streetcar Named Desire
#46.   It Happened One Night
#45.   Shane
#44.   The Philedelphia Story
#43.   Midnight Cowboy
#42.   Bonnie & Clyde

LOTR came out in 2001, if it's the newest movie, Brokeback (2005) won't be on the list.


Update



#41.   King Kong 1933
#40.   The Sound Of Music
#39.   Dr. StrangeLove
#38.   The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
#37.   The Best Years Of Our Lives
#36.   The Bridge On The River Kwai
#35.   Annie Hall

Updated


#34.   Snow White & the 7 Dwarfs
#33.   One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
#32.   The Godfather Part 2
#31.   The Maltese Falcon
#30.   Apocolypse Now
#29.   Double Indemnity
#28.   All About Eve
#27.   High Noon


Update



#26.   Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
#25.   To Kill A Mockingbird
#24.   E.T. the Extra Terrestrial
#23.   The Grapes Of Wrath
#22.   Some Like It Hot
#21.   Chinatown
#20.   It's A Wonderful Life



Update



#19.   On The Waterfront
#18.   The General
#17.   The Graduate
#16.   Sunset Blvd.
#15.   2001:  A Space Odyssey
#14.   Psycho (1960)
#13.   Star Wars
#12.   The Searchers
#11.   City Lights


Update


#10.   The Wizard Of Oz   
#09.   Vertigo
#08.   Schindler's List
#07.   Lawrence of Arabia
#06.   Gone With The Wind
#05.   Singing In The Rain
#04.   Raging Bull
#03.   Casablanca


Final Update


#02.   The GodFather
#01.   Citizen Kane
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Re: Should Brokeback Mountain be on AFI's Top 100 Movies of All Time?
« Reply #9 on: June 20, 2007, 11:14:39 pm »
Heya Bud!

Thanks for posting the list!  I watched up until the Lord of the Rings and then I turned the TV off (having noted their announcement about the newest and oldest).  Of course I'm sad to see that Brokeback isn't on the list yet.  But, I'm sure it will be some day.  Maybe it's still just too new to be on the list yet.  But, I have no doubt that it will be very well placed on the list as the impact of the film continues to be felt and as they continue to revise the list.
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