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Should Brokeback Mountain be on AFI's Top 100 Movies of All Time?
Sheriff Roland:
Not gonna discect the whole list but...
Schindler's List and Raging Bull in the top 10 - Gimme a break!
Also note that 2 of the top 10 are from the same year 1939: The Wizzard of Oz and Gone with the Wind.
Kd5000:
THE SIX SENSE made the list?? Couldn't believe it. Of course, it was popular. >:( FRANKENSTEIN was removed? I think it was a far more influential film then THE SIXTH SENSE. I mean Boris Karloff verses Bruce Willis. Get real.
SINGING IN THE RAIN #5. That's preposterous. >:(
Sheriff Roland:
--- Quote from: Kd5000 on June 21, 2007, 07:58:23 am ---THE SIX SENSE made the list?? Couldn't believe it. Of course, it was popular. >:( FRANKENSTEIN was removed? I think it was a far more influential film then THE SIXTH SENSE. I mean Boris Karloff verses Bruce Willis. Get real.
SINGING IN THE RAIN #5. That's preposterous. >:(
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I agree! hunderd percent! Shoulda been higher!!
I know you didn't mean THAT, but I did! It's an underated bit of powerful entertainment.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Sheriff Roland on June 21, 2007, 08:02:25 am ---I know you didn't mean THAT, but I did! It's an underated bit of powerful entertainment.
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Well, I'm sure we could argue quite a bit over some of the choices. For example, I believe "Schindler's List" should be on there, and fairly high up.
And I'm willing to accept a lot of the ones on the list as being in the top 100, even if I'm not that crazy about them. Most of them are classics. But surely most of us can agree that any list that does not include Brokeback Mountain should NOT include movies like:
Blade Runner
Swing Time (?!?)
The Sixth Sense
Titanic
Forrest Gump (I'll probably get some disagreement there, but I really disliked that movie)
I mean, obviously I think BBM should be No. 1. But I could accept seeing it anywhere in the top 10. I wouldn't even complain if it were in the top 50. A ranking between 50 and 100 would seem ridiculous to me, but OK.
But not to make the list at all?! And Swing Time DOES??! That's just absurd.
Brown Eyes:
I thoroughly agree that Titanic and Forrest Gump don't seem to deserve being on the list (at least personally, I didn't like either film at all).
I'm curious about the cut-off in terms of date. I mean, is the Lord of the Rings really the best most-recent movie? I mean it's a good movie, and it's fine with me that it's on the list. But, nothing later than that is on the list (obviously including the omission of BBM)? I find that odd.
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