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If you go to Yahoo, you'll find the list, so I'm not posting a link.
As with all such lists, it's good, bad, and ugly, but this one is mostly
good. I have a few quibbles: Why no "Wild Bunch", "Aliens", and "The
Big Sleep"? Otherwise, a pretty good list. And "The Good, the Bad, and
the Ugly" you should see before you die? Not in my book. That film's OK,
I like it, but it aint going on my top 100 list. Every one of Peckinpah's
westerns is better than TGTBTU.
Mike
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I counted seven I haven't seen, and will be looking into them. What's odd is that with the exception of a couple, the one's I hadn't seen I'd never even heard of! They must be all newer films, or perhaps foreign under a different title than I'm familiar with.
Rod
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Best Regards,
Chris redmond.
...it gets us talking about great films. My list would be very different from yours, and so on.Many of the movies on the Yahoo list are "iconic" films, rather than "great" films - talked about movies, watershed movies, hugely popular movies, but not necessarily the greatest achievements in cinema.
OTOH, there actually are many artistically great movies on the list - 400 Blows, Nosferatu, Rashomon, The Third Man, Apu Trilogy, Citizen kane, Wild Strawberries, Raging Bull, Modern Times, The Lady Eve, Breathless, The Maltese Falcon, M, The Searchers, 2001, Bicycle Thief, Battle of Algiers etc. Even Raise The Red Lantern and In The Mood For Love made it. I was surprised (but pleased) to see Blue Velvet. You can argue about whether Grand Illusion or Rules Of The Game is Renoir's greater achievement (ROTG for me).
But no Keaton. No Archers. No Sunrise or Passion of Joan of Arc. Or Metropolis. Or Tokyo Story. Or Napoleon, or Pandora's Box. Is Blow Up Antonioni's best film? No Coen brothers??? No Fred and Ginger??!!!!
Why include these: Goldfinger??? Die Hard??? Enter The Dragon??? The Matrix? I wouldn't have put The Good, The Bad And The Ugly in either - I would've maybe used Once Upon A Time In America. And personally, I don't think Butsh and Sundance has aged all that well. So The Wild Bunch certainly could've been in.
WAY too many Spielberg movies.
But that's the thing about these lists. They're as notable for what they exclude as what they include.
Maybe some day I'll make my own list.
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adults equal it in that regard. Certainly the Star Wars films and the Indiana Jones ones are geared to juvenile tastes. The characters, plot, acting, editing: all first rate--- and what a marvelous song!
"Enter the Dragon:" obviously included because it established that martial arts films could have vast appeal. It set very high standards for action films and it galvanized Asia and made it's impact felt throughout the world.
"Matrix" and "Die Hard" aren't in the same league, not close.
make your own list, I always enjoy your comments.
Cheers
...Agree about Aliens, that film really demonstrates Hollywood's ability to create something amazing.
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...Aliens goes so far without losing its head (like Nash did in Alien) and shows how even Hollywood can get the balance between effects (budget) and talent (vision) right, and deliver a pulse pounding film as well.I love the series (will even watch Alien Resurrection), but own the first three.
It is kind of a crossover film for me, somewhere between art and excessive production.
(Oops; answer to Tinear.)
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Aliebns isn't a bad movie by any means, but its' a pretty typical action flick, only with outer space trappings. It has its moments but I don't ever need to see it again.
I think Alien, OTOH, is a superior horror film, with a lot more artistry. Slow burn.
more close up, gritty in your face fear. Aliens was too distant and all the people around diluted the scare factor, it was more fun, exciting but less bone chillin, classic, tension...
thanks
Phil
"Slow burn" - that nails it!
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