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Just a note that I have now seen all 100 films on the Yahoo top 100 list. Liked “The Matrix” more than I thought I would and enjoyed “The Fellowship of the Ring” and “The Two Towers” even though a lot of plot detail escaped me as it has been over 40 years since I read the books.
Well I got to “D” and quit when I realized I had missed 1/2 and therefore only seen 1/2. That Crouching Dragon movie was BORING—so I’m out of here. Gotta go see what’s on the Pre-1945 Channel.
Same here Old-timer, “D” was as fare as I got on that list. Dr. Zhivago was not on the list but silly Dr. Strangelove was??? WTF… !
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Checked out this list and was shocked to discover I’d seen 95 out of the 100 films missing mostly some Asian films of the last decade. i hope some good samaritan will post a link. The only notable lack in the 100 films is its failure to include Buster Keaton’s “The General”, Chaplin’s “The Gold Rush”, Hitchcock’s “North By Northwest”, Huston”s “Treasure of the Sierra Madre” and Sirk’s “Written on the Wind” i love lists like this
I consider myself a movie nut. I saw and loved 76 of them….old classics(for a reason) and newer…so I need to check out about 25% of the list!!!!
Just for the fun of it I jotted down a few of my favorites and then went back to the list————–I’m not a movie expert, but I know a good movie when I see one—-
Here is a list that I made in 1 minute—and see how many missed the cut–
The Train——to me the best WW2 movie—-not on list
Charade——-Cary Grant with Audrey Hepburn—–no
Notorious—–Cary with Ingrid, a Hitchcock winner—-no
Patton———are they crazy, Academy Award winner——no
A Bridge Too Far—–great WW2 film——–no
Midway——-they don’t like WW2———–no
Red River
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Quiet Man—-last three just jumped into my mind and I’ll bet they are not there either———no John Wayne it seems.
Gotta go back and look for the Miracle Worker that has to be there.
I guess I won’t look any further — Yahoo gets a no star rating for this list as far as i am concerned.
Felis the Cat—-I’m with you, or your with me I figure we saved a lot of money missing a lot of duds that someone else liked.
Felis the Cat—-I’m with you, or your with me I figure we saved a lot of money missing a lot of duds that someone else liked.
Exactly.
Well, I finally reached the end of the internet, so I started counting. I’ve seen 41 of them. About 1/3 of those I was less than impressed by, and only five have I watched more than once on purpose (Blazing Saddles, Casablanca, Snow White, Spinal Tap and the Wizard of Oz).
I’ve also never heard of 28 of them. Of the remaining 31, 25 are so uninteresting to me that I probably would turn the TV off and read a book instead should they happen to be running.
Saw a couple of the more obscure films on the list. “Princess Mononke” was an example of Japanese anime that was actually pretty good. A film about a struggle between humans, forest spirits, and demons, the animation was first rate. my son liked it a bit more than i did but it wasn’t a waste of time and it broadened my horizons. Sam had seen some of the directors work on the Cartoon Channel and i will watch some of his other DVD’s. “The World of Apu” was the last of a trilogy by Indian director Satyajit Ray, the first indian director to find commercial �and artistic success in the west. it is the story of the life of an impoverished Brahmin living his life in Calcutta. Ray is a great visual stylist and the film is beautiful. it is glacial in its pace and while i loved it, trudy did not. it interested me enough to see the first two films in the trilogy which I also liked.
Blue Velvet is one of the worst.——The people who put this list together should be investigated. A congressional investigation at the very least. Those bozos in Washington would love it—-
Nice list, I have seen 77 of them, I find it odd that ‘Plan 9 From Outer Space’ isn’t on there…that’s a must see for everybody..
To lazy to count…have seen a lot of those listed.
I used to write about movies a lot so a lot of the movies on the list i saw in college. Plus Portland has some video stores that specialize in old or foreign movies that has made it relatively easy to catch obscure movies. Curiously in the �Yahoo 100 best movies since 1990 I’ve seen only 40 of the 100.
I just saw the Chinese film “In the Mood For Love” and was blown away. Director Wong Kar-Lei directed an atmospheric film about a a man and woman drawn together when they discover their spouses are having an affair( the couples live next door to each other in a Hong Kong rooming house in 1962). The couple meet in a noodle house at first, are drawn together as they try to understand why the affair occurred but are determined not to have a sexual affair. The film is atmospheric, the score eclectic(everything from Chinese opera to Nat King Cole singing in Spanish) and I was captivated. I plan to check out more of this director’s work.
It might surprise people that I have not yet seen “THe Matrix” or “Die Hard”. i’ve put library holds on the Asian ones I have not seen and will report back. Much of my list was at purdue and and a very good film studies course at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. Professor Ken Nollley, i am forever grateful.
�� � �Ancient mariner, I was surprised by the absence of Hawks’ “Rio Bravo”. I think they had 3 Hitchcock movies on the list and were reluctant to include “North By Northwest” and “Notorious” for that reason. Thanks for the wonderful feedback to all.
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I’m pretty amazed at the diversity on that list. But they could make room by dropping a few of them. Blue Velvet? Ugg, entirely forgetable waste of film.
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