AFI's Movie List

[Eternal Padawan]

Always good for a bitchfest, they retooled their previous list. Here are the changes.

DROPPED!
These Movies are no longer classics.

39. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
44. The Birth of a Nation (1915)
52. From Here to Eternity (1953)
53. Amadeus (1984)
54. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
57. The Third Man (1949)
58. Fantasia (1940)
59. Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
63. Stagecoach (1939)
64. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
67. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
68. An American in Paris (1951)
73. Wuthering Heights (1939)
75. Dances With Wolves (1990)
82. Giant (1956)
84. Fargo (1996)
86. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
87. Frankenstein (1931)
89. Patton (1970)
90. The Jazz Singer (1927)
91. My Fair Lady (1964)
92. A Place in the Sun (1951)
99. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)

ADDED!!
Four films released between 1997-2006 were added:

50. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
71. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
83. Titanic (1997)
89. The Sixth Sense (1999)

Nineteen films made between 1916-1995 were also added:

18. The General (1927)
49. Intolerance (1916)
59. Nashville (1975)
61. Sullivan's Travels (1941)
63. Cabaret (1972)
67. Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
72. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
75. In The Heat Of The Night (1967)
77. All The President's Men (1976)
81. Spartacus (1960)
82. Sunrise (1927)
85. A Night At The Opera (1935)
87. 12 Angry Men (1957)
90. Swing Time (1936)
91. Sophie's Choice (1982)
95. The Last Picture Show (1971)
96. Do The Right Thing (1989)
97. Blade Runner (1982)
99. Toy Story (1995)

[Eternal Padawan]

Let me say first off that any movie made before a certain year, (we'll say 1939 since it had so many brilliant movies) was basically a learning period for hollywood and anymovie on the list made during this period is probably on their for sentimental reasons and not because it's a "Great" movie. I realize that's a personal opinion and if you can find a movie that deserves to be on the list over 100 other movies, then tell me.
"The General" is fucking funny and Keaton was indeed a genius, but that is NOT a top 100 film. Same Thing with "A Night At The Opera". The Marx Brothers were geniuses, but none of their movies are better than any other 100 films out there. It's like they felt they had to give props to at least one movie from each creative movie persona, regardless of the overall quality of any single film. And "Intolerance" and "Sunrise"? Are you fucking kidding me? "Birth Of A Nation" has no business being on anybody's list anywhere so thank goodness it got dropped.

Many of the other films on the list were reflective of the time period they were made in and not so much "Great" films as they were incendiary and thought provoking. Many of the barriers and issues they dealt with in their time period have been broken through and the film that remains might not be as "classically Great" as before.

Of the four films, LOTR, Private Ryan, Sixth Sense, and Titanic, I am not sure all of them deserve status on the list. Sixth Sense is a great movie, but certainly not Top 100 of all time. Titanic holds the $$ record and I'm sure deserves some spot on the list for its ambitiousness, but I think even 83 might be too generous. Private Ryan definitely deserves a spot, and I think FOTR, which is emblematic of the whole LOTR Saga, probably should be higher. Where is American Beauty? or The Matrix? Hell even L.A. Confidential. I mean seriously, Tootsie gets to stay on the list?

[vynsane]

i'm surprised to see most of the movies that were dropped. especially "rebel without a cause" and "guess who's coming to dinner" - both great films AND both films that resonated with the energy of the era in which they were created.

[Double_G]

Why the fuck did they put Citizen Kane at #1 again? I'd rather jam a twig up my peehole than watch that boring piece of shit again.

[Senor JabbaJohnL]

They also fiddled around with even the top five - Casablanca used to be better than the Godfather but apparently not anymore.

But hey, at least SW stepped up two places to #13, eh?

[anarky]

Casablanca's better than The Godfather. Fuck these idiots.

[kidhuman]

Did Rolling Stone make this list?

[Senor JabbaJohnL]

No, they were too busy masturbating to Sgt. Pepper's.