| Posted by: Le_Big_Mac at June 18, 2008, 7:19 pm | | Topic: AFI's 10 Top Ten... Forum: JoBlo | | These lists make a few compensations for the Top 100, mostly in the sci-fi category. 2001 ahead of Star Wars. Blade Runner (which was barely on the Top 100), Terminator 2 and Alien being included. Red River in the top 10 westerns. And Gone with the Wind not being the #1 or #2 epic of all time. But there are still plenty of things they got wrong. The Searchers is good, but not the greatest American western. National Velvet is not one of the greatest sports movies of all time. McCabe & Mrs. Miller is not that great and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is far from it. I haven't seen Cat Ballou, but I doubt it's better or more influential than My Darling Clementine, The Ox-Bow Incident, The Gunfighter, The Magnificent Seven or Ride the High Country. The Wizard of Oz is not better than It's a Wonderful Life, King Kong and LOTR. The original Scarface isn't quite as good as the remake. Apocalypse Now and The Bridge on the River Kwai aren't included in epics, but Titanic is. But opinions aside, the genres and placements are ridiculous. "Courtroom Drama" and "Sports" are too specific and "epic" is too general. Caddyshack and Jerry Maguire aren't sports movies. City Lights is a comedy with romance, not a romantic comedy. There's courtroom drama in In Cold Blood for what, ten minutes? An epic suggests something spectacular, and Schindler's List is the exact opposite. And as someone always mentions, The Third Man is British! |
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