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[elmono311]

I'd rather watch my movies unedited, thank you very much

[elmono311]

Here's the new list:
1. CITIZEN KANE (1941)
2. THE GODFATHER (1972)
3. CASABLANCA (1942)
4. RAGING BULL (1980)
5. SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (1952)
6. GONE WITH THE WIND (1939)
7. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962)
8. SCHINDLER'S LIST (1993)
9. VERTIGO (1958)
10. THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939)
11. CITY LIGHTS (1931)
12. THE SEARCHERS (1956)
13. STAR WARS (1977)
14. PSYCHO (1960)
15. 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968)
16. SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950)
17. THE GRADUATE (1967)
18. THE GENERAL (1927)
19. ON THE WATERFRONT (1954)
20. IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946)
21. CHINATOWN (1974)
22. SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959)
23. THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940)
24. E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (1982)
25. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1962)
26. MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (1939)
27. HIGH NOON (1952)
28. ALL ABOUT EVE (1950)
29. DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944)
30. APOCALYPSE NOW (1979)
31. THE MALTESE FALCON (1941)
32. THE GODFATHER PART II (1974)
33. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (1975)
34. SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS (1937)
35. ANNIE HALL (1977)
36. THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI (1957)
37. THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (1946)
38. THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (1948)
39. DR. STRANGELOVE (1964)
40. THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965)
41. KING KONG (1933)
42. BONNIE AND CLYDE (1967)
43. MIDNIGHT COWBOY (1969)
44. THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940)
45. SHANE (1953)
46. IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934)
47. A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (1951)
48. REAR WINDOW (1954)
49. INTOLERANCE (1916)
50. THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (2001)
51. WEST SIDE STORY (1961)
52. TAXI DRIVER (1976)
53. THE DEER HUNTER (1978)
54. M*A*S*H (1970)
55. NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959)
56. JAWS (1975)
57. ROCKY (1976)
58. THE GOLD RUSH (1925)
59. NASHVILLE (1975)
60. DUCK SOUP (1933)
61. SULLIVAN’S TRAVELS (1941)
62. AMERICAN GRAFFITI (1973)
63. CABARET (1972)
64. NETWORK (1976)
65. THE AFRICAN QUEEN (1951)
66. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981)
67. WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (1966)
68. UNFORGIVEN (1992)
69. TOOTSIE (1982)
70. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971)
71. SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (1998)
72. THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION (1993)
73. BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (1969)
74. THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991)
75. IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (1967)
76. FORREST GUMP (1994)
77. ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN (1976)
78. MODERN TIMES (1936)
79. THE WILD BUNCH (1969)
80. THE APARTMENT (1960)
81. SPARTACUS (1960)
82. SUNRISE (1927)
83. TITANIC (1997)
84. EASY RIDER (1969)
85. A NIGHT AT THE OPERA (1935)
86. PLATOON (1986)
87. 12 ANGRY MEN (1957)
88. BRINGING UP BABY (1938)
89. THE SIXTH SENSE (1999)
90. SWING TIME (1936)
91. SOPHIE’S CHOICE (1982)
92. GOODFELLAS (1990)
93. THE FRENCH CONNECTION (1971)
94. PULP FICTION (1994)
95. THE LAST PICTURE SHOW (1971)
96. DO THE RIGHT THING (1989)
97. BLADE RUNNER (1982)
98. YANKEE DOODLE DANDY (1942)
99. TOY STORY (1995)
100. BEN-HUR (1959)

New to the list:
The General
Intolerance
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Nashville
Sullivan's Travels
Cabaret
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Saving Private Ryan
The Shawshank Redemption
In the Heat of the Night
All the President's Men
Spartacus
Sunrise
Titanic
A Night at the Opera
12 Angry Men
The Sixth Sense
Swing Time
Sophie's Choice
The Last Picture Show
Do the Right Thing
Blade Runner
Toy Story

23 new movies added (7 of them I've seen), which means 23 booted out, with some unfortunate victims

The ones booted out:
Doctor Zhivago (formerly #39)
The Birth of a Nation (formerly #44)
From Here to Eternity (formerly #52)
Amadeus (formerly #53)
All Quiet on the Western Front (formerly #54, and I'm very sad this one is gone)
The Third Man (formerly #57)
Fantasia (formerly #58)
Rebel Without a Cause (formerly #59)
Stagecoach (formerly #63)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (formerly #64, and this is why I merged the lists because I JUST RENTED IT!!!)
The Manchurian Candidate (formerly #67, I bet the remake sealed its fate)
An American in Paris (formerly #68)
Wuthering Heights (formerly #73)
Dances With Wolves (formerly #75)
Giant (formerly #82)
Fargo (formerly #84)
Mutiny on the Bounty (formerly #86)
Frankenstein (formerly #87)
Patton (formerly #89)
The Jazz Singer (formerly #90)
My Fair Lady (formerly #91)
A Place in the Sun (formerly #92)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (formerly #99, sad it's gone and another reason why I'm merging the lists since I just watched it)

The show was rather anti-climatic since Citizen Kane was yet again #1 and it's #1 on every friggin list there's ever been created. Oh, and I got two out of my three guesses right. Well, technically three out of four. I guessed a Lord of the Rings would make it as well as Saving Private Ryan, The Matrix, and a Pixar movie - either Toy Story or Finding Nemo. I was wrong with the Matrix.

EDIT: I also noticed they seemed to have a hard on for Westerns and Silent movies this time around

EDIT 2: I did update the original post with the merged lists

[ocultado]

You scare me sometimes.

[disnut8]

Well, get ready for more scarin'.

I concur with elmono's list of new ones and list of ones that are gone.  I guess I wasn't the only one sitting there for three hours with the old list and adding the new order and the new films.

I thought I'd be bored about halfway through the show but I enjoyed it.  Just wish Morgan Freeman hadn't given away the top ten by saying that only one remained in the same place as before.  When you get to #3 and everything has changed and #3 is Casablanca with only The Godfather (#3 last time and #2 this time) and Citizen Kane (#1 both times) left, well, it's kind of a no brainer.

Picking Up Places Award goes to - The Searchers (#96 last time, #12 this time).

Best Emotion by an Actor When Talking About His Movie - Dustin Hoffman when discussing Tootsie.  He said he didn't realize all the sexism around him.  That he only saw the beautiful women because that was expected of him.  Then he was told in the film that they needed to make him "prettier".  The man just about broke down saying that film was not a comedy to him.

Stupidest Comment Made - Halle Berry (she looked great but sounded dumb) - she was talking about how movies influenced her and said (I had to write it down since Rich and I both did a double take because we couldn't believe she said it) - "I lived in a small town in Cleveland".  Huh?  We're hoping she meant to say she lived in a small town OUTSIDE of Cleveland.

Rich did pretty good - only eight films he said he never heard of.  He never heard of The Wild Bunch?  12 Angry Men?  The Last Picture Show?  And the whopper - he never heard of Do The Right Thing!

Trooper Of The Year Award - Rich made it through all three hours with no complaints AND he even taped Traveller to watch later.

[elmono311]

I do wonder why movies such as Alien, Terminator 2, and Jurassic Park aren't on this thing. And even The Matrix. Maybe ten years from now they will.

[Supermercado]

Here are the ones I've never heard of

9. VERTIGO (1958)
11. CITY LIGHTS (1931)
12. THE SEARCHERS (1956)
16. SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950)
17. THE GRADUATE (1967)
18. THE GENERAL (1927)
19. ON THE WATERFRONT (1954)
21. CHINATOWN (1974)
26. MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (1939)
27. HIGH NOON (1952)
28. ALL ABOUT EVE (1950)
29. DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944)
37. THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (1946)
44. THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940)
45. SHANE (1953)
46. IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934)
48. REAR WINDOW (1954)
49. INTOLERANCE (1916)
58. THE GOLD RUSH (1925)
59. NASHVILLE (1975)
60. DUCK SOUP (1933)
61. SULLIVAN’S TRAVELS (1941)
64. NETWORK (1976)
65. THE AFRICAN QUEEN (1951)
67. WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (1966) (didn't know there was a movie of it)
68. UNFORGIVEN (1992)
69. TOOTSIE (1982)
78. MODERN TIMES (1936)
80. THE APARTMENT (1960)
82. SUNRISE (1927)
84. EASY RIDER (1969)
85. A NIGHT AT THE OPERA (1935)
87. 12 ANGRY MEN (1957)
88. BRINGING UP BABY (1938)
90. SWING TIME (1936)
91. SOPHIE’S CHOICE (1982)
95. THE LAST PICTURE SHOW (1971)
96. DO THE RIGHT THING (1989)
98. YANKEE DOODLE DANDY (1942)

[elmono311]

How have you not heard of Vertigo, The Graduate, Rear Window, and Unforgiven? Heck, Unforgiven was released in 1992. A western with Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman and Gene Hackman. Veritgo and Rear Window are classic Hitchcock films. Rear Window being the one with the guy with the broken leg who ends up spying on his neighbor from his house. It's been parodied many times and recently updated with the movie Disturbia. The Graduate = the song "Here's to You, Mrs. Robinson" as well as the quote "Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me."

[elmono311]

Alright, here's all the movies I've already seen that I hadn't done little recaps for.

There's no place like home.
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
MGM
Cast: Judy Garland, Margaret Hamilton
Director: Victor Fleming
101 minutes
Academy Awards
Best Original Score
Best Original Song – “Over the Rainbow”
Best Art Direction (nomination)
Best Color Cinematography (nomination)
Best Special Effects (nomination)
Best Picture (nomination)

A classic movie that is still watched by this generation. I don’t think this movie will ever go away and will remain a movie for everybody in the years to come.

Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't.
Schindler’s List (1993)
Universal
Cast: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes
Director: Steven Spielberg
195 minutes
Academy Awards
Best Art/Set Direction
Best Cinematography
Best Director
Best Film Editing
Best Original Score
Best Picture
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Actor – Liam Neeson (nomination)
Best Supporting Actor – Ralph Fiennes (nomination)
Best Costume Design (nomination)
Best Makeup (nomination)
Best Sound (nomination)

Oh… my… god… I don’t know what to say about this movie. It’s just incredible. The end scene where Schindler wishes he could have saved more people just friggin hits you like a hammer. Awesome performances by everybody around. It’s a hard movie to watch, for two reasons. One being the subject matter presented in the most realistic ever portrayed (the Holocaust). The second being just the performances by everybody involved. This is just one spectacular movie that I can't say enough of.

The Force will be with you. Always.
Star Wars (1977)
20th Century Fox
Cast: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guiness
Director: George Lucas
121 minutes/125 minutes (Special Edition)
Academy Awards
Best Art/Set Direction
Best Costume Design
Best Visual Effects
Best Film Editing
Best Original Score
Best Sound
Best Supporting Actor – Alec Guiness (nomination)
Best Director (nomination)
Best Picture (nomination)
Best Original Screenplay (nomination)

Man, do I really need an explanation for this? Next…

E.T. phone home.
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Universal
Cast: Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Dee Wallace
Director: Steven Spielberg
115 minutes/120 minutes (Special Edition)
Academy Awards
Best Sound Effects Editing
Best Visual Effects
Best Original Score
Best Sound
Best Cinematography (nomination)
Best Director (nomination)
Best Film Editing (nomination)
Best Picture (nomination)
Best Original Screenplay (nomination)

Classic. Plain and simple. And watch the original version, not the neutered Director’s Cut where all the guns are replaced by walkie talkies.

I feel pretty, oh so pretty! I feel pretty, and witty, and gay!
West Side Story (1961)
United Artists
Cast: Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Rita Moreno
Director: Jerome Robbins & Robert Wise
152 minutes
Academy Awards
Best Supporting Actor – George Chakiris
Best Supporting Actress – Rita Moreno
Best Art/Set Direction
Best Color Cinematography
Best Color Costume Design
Best Director
Best Film Editing
Best Original Score
Best Picture
Best Sound
Best Adapted Screenplay (nomination)

This is one I have to see again. I saw it in high school during the Romeo & Juliet section in English. It’s actually kind of funny how they danced back then.

We’re going to need a bigger boat.
Jaws (1975)
Universal
Cast: Roy Schneider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss
Director: Steven Spielberg
124 minutes
Academy Awards
Best Editing
Best Original Score
Best Sound
Best Picture (nomination)

Hell yeah, this movie is sweet. Classic performances by the three lead actors. And the shark not working properly? A stroke of luck as it makes the movie even more thrilling. Great movie.

Magic mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Disney
Voices of: Adriana Caselotti, Lucille La Verne, Moroni Olsen
Director: David Hand
83 minutes
Academy Awards
Honorary Award for recognition as a significant screen innovation which has charmed millions and pioneered a great new entertainment field – Walt Disney
Best Musical Score (nomination)

The first full length animated feature… with the silly singing voices of the era. Anybody who doesn’t know of this movie needs to be shot into space.

I can’t swim.
Are you crazy? The fall will probably kill you.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
20th Century Fox
Cast: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross
Director: George Roy Hill
110 minutes
Academy Awards
Best Cinematography
Best Original Score
Best Original Song – “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head”
Best Original Screenplay
Best Director (nomination)
Best Picture (nomination)
Best Sound (nomination)

I liked this movie, it’s very humorous and changed the western genre by injecting said humor. Of course, I have to see this one again since I saw it when I was much younger but I remember really liking it.

Doe, a deer, a female deer.
The Sound of Music (1965)
20th Century Fox
Cast: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Peggy Wood
Director: Robert Wise
174 minutes
Academy Awards
Best Director
Best Film Editing
Best Music
Best Picture
Best Sound
Best Actress – Julie Andrews (nomination)
Best Supporting Actress – Peggy Wood (nomination)
Best Color Art/Set Direction (nomination)
Best Color Cinematography (nomination)
Best Color Costume Design (nomination)

Oh, shoot me now. Yeah, I was forced to watch this a lot when I was a kid. Bad memories. Probably be a see again if I ever get the other movies on the list done.

God damn Army.
M*A*S*H (1970)
20th Century Fox
Cast: Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt
Director: Robert Altman
116 minutes
Academy Awards
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Supporting Actress – Sally Kellerman (nomination)
Best Director (nomination)
Best Film Editing (nomination)
Best Picture (nomination)

I really don’t remember much of this one and I probably watched it because of the TV series. But I know it was good and was very surprised to find the theme of the TV show was actually a song about suicide…

What you're going to see on the screen are the designs and pictures and stories that music inspired in the minds and imaginations of a group of artists.
Fantasia (1940)
Disney
Director: Joe Grant & Dick Huemer
125 minutes
Academy Awards
Honorary Award for their outstanding contribution to the advancement of the use of sound in motion pictures through the production of Fantasia – Walt Disney, William E. Garity, and J.N.A. Hawkins
Honorary Award for their unique achievement in the creation of a new form of visualized music in Walt Disney's production Fantasia, thereby widening the scope of the motion picture as entertainment and as an art form – Leopold Stokowski and associates

Shoot me on this one. Booooring. Of course, it does have the very classic Sorcerer’s Apprentice sequence.

Snakes. Why’d it have to be snakes?
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Paramount
Cast: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, John Rhys-Davies
Director: Steven Spielberg
115 minutes
Academy Awards
Best Art/Set Direction
Best Visual Effects
Best Film Editing
Best Sound
Best Cinematography (nomination)
Best Director (nomination)
Best Original Score (nomination)
Best Picture (nomination)

Woo hoo! YES! This is one of the best adventure movies ever made! It’s so much fun and dares you to suspend belief for one heck of an action-packed ride.

I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Orion Pictures
Cast: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn
Director: Jonathan Demme
118 minutes
Academy Awards
Best Actor – Anthony Hopkins
Best Actress – Jodie Foster
Best Director
Best Picture
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Film Editing (nomination)
Best Sound (nomination)

This movie is just plain creepy, both because of Hannibal Lecter and Buffalo Bill. It’s the pinnacle of the seriel killer films and nicely dark and twisted. * slurping sound through teeth*

Run, Forrest, run!
Forrest Gump (1994)
Paramount
Cast: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise
Director: Robert Zemeckis
142 minutes
Academy Awards
Best Actor – Tom Hanks
Best Director
Best Visual Effects
Best Film Editing
Best Picture
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Supporting Actor – Gary Sinise (nomination)
Best Art/Set Direction (nomination)
Best Cinematography (nomination)
Best Sound Effects Editing (nomination)
Best Makeup (nomination)
Best Original Score (nomination)
Best Sound (nomination)

I love this movie. I love movies that have a journey of a character over many many years. And this is one of the best. An instant classic when it was first released.

ADRIAN!
Rocky (1976)
MGM
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers
Director: John G. Avildsen
119 minutes
Academy Awards
Best Director
Best Film Editing
Best Picture
Best Actor – Sylvester Stallone (nomination)
Best Supporting Actor – Burgess Meredith (nomination)
Best Supporting Actor – Burt Young (nomination)
Best Actress – Talia Shire (nomination)
Best Original Song – “Gonna Fly Now” (nomination)
Best Sound (nomination)
Best Original Screenplay (nomination)

The music alone in this movie just stirs up the emotions. It’s the typical story of an underdog going all the way but done with heart and emotion. Thankfully the series closed out with Rocky Balboa instead of Rocky V.

Death? What you all know about death?
Platoon (1986)
Orion Pictures
Cast: Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen
Director: Oliver Stone
120 minutes
Academy Awards
Best Director
Best Film Editing
Best Picture
Best Sound
Best Supporting Actor – Tom Berenger (nomination)
Best Supporting Actor – Willem Dafoe (nomination)
Best Cinematography (nomination)
Best Original Screenplay (nomination)

Oh, boy, this is one messed up movie… and a well made movie. It shows the horrors of the Vietnam War and how it royally messed up the soldiers fighting in it. One of the top Vietnam era films.

You should see the other guy.
Fargo (1996)
Gramercy
Cast: Frances McDormand, William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi
Director: Joel Coen
98 minutes
Academy Awards
Best Actress – Frances McDormand
Best Original Screenplay
Best Supporting Actor – William H. Macy (nomination)
Best Cinematography (nomination)
Best Director (nomination)
Best Film Editing (nomination)
Best Picture (nomination)

I honestly don’t remember much about this movie outside McDormand’s North Dakotan accent, the woodchipper scene, and the fact I liked it. Another rent later to refresh the memory.

I amuse you? I make you laugh, I'm here to fuckin' amuse you?
GoodFellas (1990)
Warner Bros.
Cast: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci
Director: Martin Scorsese
145 minutes
Academy Awards
Best Supporting Actor – Joe Pesci
Best Supporting Actress – Lorraine Bracco (nomination)
Best Director (nomination)
Best Film Editing (nomination)
Best Picture (nomination)
Best Adapted Screenplay (nomination)

This movie is sweet and Ray Liotta is the man. I’ve been meaning to get this on DVD for quite some time. Mobster movie… by Scorsese. ‘Nuff said.

English, mother fucker, do you speak it?
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Miramax
Cast: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis
Director: Quentin Tarantino
154 minutes
Academy Awards
Best Original Screenplay
Best Actor – John Travolta (nomination)
Best Supporting Actor – Samuel L. Jackson (nomination)
Best Supporting Actress – Uma Thurman (nomination)
Best Director (nomination)
Best Film Editing (nomination)
Best Picture (nomination)

This is one BMF movie. Awesome performance by everybody, quotable quotes everywhere, and Sammy L acting in all his badass glory. I loved the twisting storylines and the moving back and forth in time throughout the movie.

One ring to rule them all.
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
New Line Cinema
Cast: Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Ian McKellen
Director: Peter Jackson
178 minutes/208 minutes (Extended Edition)
Academy Awards
Best Cinematography
Best Visual Effects
Best Makeup
Best Original Score
Best Supporting Actor – Ian McKellen (nomination)
Best Art/Set Direction (nomination)
Best Costume Design (nomination)
Best Director (nomination)
Best Editing (nomination)
Best Original Song – “May It Be” (nomination)
Best Picture (nomination)
Best Sound (nomination)
Best Adapted Screenplay (nomination)

Of the three Lord of the Rings movies, I have stood my ground and have maintained this one as my favorite of the three. Apparently AFI agrees. The entire trilogy is still amazing but I think this one, the first, is the best because it’s simple and shows where the journey starts and doesn’t meander around too much like the other two movies do. Surprised Return of the King didn’t make the list just simply because it swept all 11 categories it was nominated for.

Earn this.
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
DreamWorks
Cast: Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Matt Damon
Director: Steven Spielberg
170 minutes
Academy Awards
Best Cinematography
Best Director
Best Sound Effects Editing
Best Film Editing
Best Sound
Best Actor – Tom Hanks (nomination)
Best Art/Set Direction (nomination)
Best Makeup (nomination)
Best Original Score (nomination)
Best Picture (nomination)
Best Original Screenplay (nomination)

People know how I feel about this movie and I even made a statement where I said I would just quit anything to do with this list if this movie wasn’t on it. I am happy now. THE greatest war movie ever made in my opinion and definitely a top 5 movie for me. This and Schindler’s List deserve to be aired unedited on TV.

Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Columbia
Cast: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton
Director: Frank Darabont
142 minutes
Academy Awards
Best Actor – Morgan Freeman (nomination)
Best Cinematography (nomination)
Best Film Editing (nomination)
Best Original Score (nomination)
Best Picture (nomination)
Best Sound (nomination)
Best Adapted Screenplay (nomination)

Great movie. Great performances. Great story. Great everything. I have yet to watch the spiffy edition DVD I bought awhile ago so maybe I will soon. Tim Robbins was robbed.

I’m the king of the world!
Titanic (1997)
Paramount
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane
Director: James Cameron
194 minutes
Academy Awards
Best Art/Set Direction
Best Cinematography
Best Costume Design
Best Director
Best Sound Effects Editing
Best Film Editing
Best Original Score
Best Original Song – “My Heart Will Go On”
Best Picture
Best Sound
Best Actress – Kate Winslet (nomination)
Best Supporting Actress – Gloria Stuart (nomination)
Best Makeup (nomination)

*die* The most overrated movie in existance. I’m surprised it even made the list.

I see dead people.
The Sixth Sense (1999)
Hollywood Pictures
Cast: Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
107 minutes
Academy Awards
Best Supporting Actor – Haley Joel Osment (nomination)
Best Supporting Actress – Toni Collette (nomination)
Best Director (nomination)
Best Editing (nomination)
Best Picture (nomination)
Best Original Screenplay (nomination)

I hated this movie when I saw it. I really didn’t see what was all special with it. So it had a twist ending? I really wasn’t twisted by it (and I saw this before the rest of Shyamalan’s movies came out)

Have you ever retired a human by mistake?
Blade Runner (1982)
Warner Bros.
Cast: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young
Director: Ridley Scott
117 minutes
Academy Awards
Best Art/Set Direction (nomination)
Best Visual Effects (nomination)

I really didn’t like or understand this movie. I saw the Director’s Cut so maybe viewing the theatrical cut will make more sense. Or maybe the Final Cut which comes out later this year in theaters. It was just a confusing movie.

To infinity and beyond!
Toy Story (1995)
Disney
Voices of: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles
Director: John Lasseter
81 minutes
Academy Awards
Best Achievement Award for the development and inspired application of techniques that have made possible the first feature-length computer-animated film – John Lasseter
Best Original Score (nomination)
Best Original Song – “You’ve Got a Friend” (nomination)
Best Original Screenplay (nomination)

Pixar had to be on the list and here it is. The first computer animated full length film still holds up really well despite 12 years of advancements in 3D animation (see: Finding Nemo). The story alone holds this movie up, an aspect many computer animated films don’t seem to get lately as they try to razzle and dazzle you with effects over story.

[Supermercado]

I must have missed The Graduate. I know next to nothing about it but I have heard of it.

[disnut8]

We don't go to movies that often but I did see Saving Private Ryan and Titanic on the big screen (both in Omaha).  Titanic made me seasick - honestly, it did.  When we I saw Saving Private Ryan, Rich thought I was getting sick at the opening scene.  I was probably pale.  Because that first twenty minutes or so it just amazing.  I've seen this film many times since then and I still haven't seen everything.  I know, Matt Damon is a cutie boy but he was really good in this.  I still laugh my ass off when he tells the story about catching his brother with an ugly girl.

Schindler's List is sitting downstairs waiting to be watched again.  But we need over three hours of uninterruptable time and the mood to watch it.

Things you remember about watching a movie for the first time.  I hated Star Wars.  Thought it was stupid and didn't see Episode V until after Episode VI was out.

My dad laughed like hell when Jaws took that first big bit of Robert Shaw.  We were in a packed movie theatre AT THE BEACH so the other patrons didn't really appreciate that at all.

Rocky - when Sylvester Stallone was doing all the promotion for the movie, he appeared on The Mike Douglas Show which was filmed in Philadelphia (70 miles from my hometown).  He explained that the prodcuers didn't want him to be Rocky.  They wanted a biggest star like DeNiro or Pacino.  Stallone didn't back down and got the film made his way.  Then it won the Best Picture Oscar.  Our house exploded with the upset.  A Rocky story, you might say.

Shawshank Redemption is almost word for word from the Stephen King novella.  That guy can write!

[elmono311]

One of the movies booted from the original list...

Have you recently had a close encounter?
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Columbia
Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Melinda Dillon
Director: Steven Spielberg
132 minutes/137 minutes (Collector's Edition)
Academy Awards
Best Cinematography
Special Achievement Award for Sound Effects Editing - Frank E. Warner
Best Supporting Actress - Melina Dillon (nomination)
Best Art/Set Direction (nomination)
Best Director (nomination)
Best Visual Effects (nomination)
Best Film Editing (nomination)
Best Original Score (nomination)
Best Sound (nomination)

Heh, gee, I wonder what movie Close Encounters lost all those technical nominations to... what other sci-fi movie came out in 1977? Anyways, Spielberg is excellent at drawing up the mystery in his movies. He never unveils anything all at once but allows the flow of the movie to gradually show more and more of the UFOs. He has a certain knack of not allowing people to see more than they should. Just look how well it worked for Jaws, although that was unintentional since the shark kept malfunctioning. It was a well-made movie but not something that really interested me... but the pacing and suspense was very well done. Especially the part where Richard Dreyfuss' character goes crazy to build the model of Devil's Tower. I was wondering what the heck he was doing.

[elmono311]

Oh, no. It wasn't the airplanes. It was beauty killed the beast.
King Kong (1933)
RKO
Cast: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot
Directors: Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack
100 minutes/104 minutes (Restored Version)
Academy Awards
None

Oh, boy, hard to watch this movie after already seeing the 2005 remake which, in my opinion, is far superior. Of course, this was made in 1933 and the storyline is thin and portrays Kong as a mindless beast only interested in Ann Darrow because, well, she's blonde. Things moved by so fast in this movie. However, I did notice, for those times, the effects must have been top notch. They did a really good job matching the stop motion animation with the live action, such as when Kong was shaking the large, fallen tree. Fay Wray's part in this movie was to scream. I think she screamed more than she ever talked. Comparing this movie to the 2005 version in this respect shows how far women's roles in movies have changed. Part of me wishes I saw this one before seeing the 2005 remake. I hear the 1976 remake of this movie is horrible.

[disnut8]

I hear the 1976 remake of this movie is horrible.

Well, "back in the day", I saw the 1976 one before I saw the 1933 one.  Jessica Lange before she could act and was all girly with that sickening sweet voice.  Like she was in Tootsie.  Jeff Bridges badly needed a hair cut since his way overlong bangs kept flopping in his face.  And he was the hero!  And Jessica screamed all through the movie too.

Then I saw the 1933 original and it was much, much better.  So if you liked the 2005 and appreciated the 1933 ones, just make sure you are ready to either laugh throughout the 1976 one, throw up all during it, or just keep wondering how Jessica Lange and Jeff Bridges ever overcame this piece of garbage.

[elmono311]

You still need to watch the 2005 one. Of course, knowing you, you'll probably find it boring and stupid

[elmono311]

I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse.
The Godfather (1972)
Paramount
Cast: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
175 minutes
Academy Awards
Best Actor - Marlon Brando
Best Picture
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Supporting Actor - James Caan (nomination)
Best Supporting Actor - James Duvall (nomination)
Best Supporting Actor - Al Pacino (nomination)
Best Costume Design (nomination)
Best Director (nomination)
Best Film Editing (nomination)
Best Original Score (nomination)
Best Sound (nomination)

This was a good movie, fine acting all around, but I honestly don't understand why this movie is so highly rated. Honestly. It's nothing against the movie, but I saw a movie that took place over time (the kind that I do like) with various storylines and betrayals. I dunno, maybe something is wrong with me but I was expecting something to totally blow me away but this movie didn't. Go ahead and say what you will about it. But it was a good movie, just didn't blow me away.

[LostArtofRolando]

Haha this might be one of the few times I agree with Chris.  I wasn't blown away by this either.  Good movie, but there are many others I'd rather watch if I had the choice.

[disnut8]

I wasn't blown away by this either.

Pun intended?

I didn't really care for The Godfather series either.  Way too heavy and way too many characters.  It's just one of those films (all three of them) where you have to make sure you are not interrupted for three hours.  I watch movies to be entertained and not have to think that much.

[elmono311]

Well, I finally did it. I rented Citizen Kane. So I'll be finally updating this thing once more (I've been busy with school and kids and other things). Now I get to find out if it's really really overrated or if it does belong in the ranks of the best movies ever made.

[LostArtofRolando]

Citizen Kane, you really have to take in comparison to its time.  A lot of things in that movie were the first time they were used in terms of camera angles, panning, and effects with the camerawork.  The story's pretty intense at times too.

When we look at it now, a lot of that stuff we take for granted, but it was "revolutionary" when the film was made.

[elmono311]

Yeah, I know to keep the timeframe in mind. For example, watching the original King Kong, I kept in mind that those special effects would have been revolutionary back then.

[elmono311]

Rosebud.
Citizen Kane (1941)
RKO
Cast: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane
Director: Orson Welles
119 minutes
Academy Awards
Best Original Screenplay
Best Actor - Orson Welles (nomination)
Best Art Direction/Interior Decoration, Black & White (nomination)
Best Cinematography, Black & White (nomination)
Best Director (nomination)
Best Film Editing (nomination)
Best Original Score (nomination)
Best Picture (nomination)
Best Sound (nomination)

I honestly think this movie is overrated. While the cinematography was great, the acting was good, and the story was good, I was not pulled into the movie. Usually I like these kind of movies, where it shows the growth of a character over the years but, for some reason, it didn't do it for me. It probably is just because I was uninterested in who or what Rosebud since I already knew. I won't spoil it for those three people who have no idea. And, damn, Kane had a lot of junk at his place...

[elmono311]

I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let's face it.
On the Waterfront (1954)
Columbia Pictures
Cast: Marlon Brando, Lee J. Cobb, Eva Marie Saint
Director: Elia Kazan
108 minutes
Academy Awards
Best Actor - Marlon Brando
Best Supporting Actress - Eva Marie Saint
Best Art/Set Direction, Black & White
Best Cinematography, Black & White
Best Director
Best Film Editing
Best Picture
Best Writing, Story and Screenplay
Best Supporting Actor - Lee J. Cobb (nomination)
Best Supporting Actor - Karl Malden (nomination)
Best Supporting Actor - Rod Steiger (nomination)
Best Music, Drama or Comedy (nomination)

This was just a phenomenal movie. This is one of the reasons for me doing this project, so I can discover movies like this one. Marlon Brando was awesome, the story was great, the supporting characters, everything. Worth every award it got, although I'm sure the movie being nominated for three Best Supporting Actors prevented it from getting one of them.

[elmono311]

I'm singing in the rain/Just singing in the rain/What a glorious feelin'/I'm happy again
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
MGM
Cast: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds
Director: Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen
103 minutes
Academy Awards
Best Supporting Actress - Jean Hagen (nomination)
Best Score (nomination)

This movie actually was pretty danged entertaining. And I loved Donald O'Connor in it. He was pretty funny. I also loved the test screening of The Dueling Cavalier. Heck, there's not really anything bad to say about this movie. The dance numbers, of course, were really good as they typically were back then. And, oddly enough, it's the middle of winter in Ohio and I watched this movie while it was raining...

[elmono311]

They call me Mr. Tibbs!
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
United Artists
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates
Director: Norman Jewison
109 minutes
Academy Awards
Best Actor - Rod Steiger
Best Film Editing
Best Picture
Best Sound
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Director (nomination)
Best Sound Effects (nomination)

A nice little murder mystery in small town Mississippi with an out of town black cop showing off to all the white folks. It was a good movie, showing the racism of the 60s South (which actually may even be the same today anyways) but how the deeds of one man can change the opinions of everybody else. Poitier is the man when it comes to that kind of subject matter and he definately deserved his honorary lifetime Oscar back in 2001. Rod Steiger was also good as the chief of police of Sparta, Mississippi, who at first resisted Tibbs' attempts to help and ended up trusting him. All and all a good movie and kept me interested throughout the whodunnit mystery.

[disnut8]

Best Supporting Actress - Jean Hagen (nomination)

I'm shocked.  What was the competition that year?  Four infants?