Thursday, June 21, 2007

Best Movies Ever

LAST NIGHT, the American Film Institute released the survey results of the top 100 movies from the last 100 years. Here's the top ten:
10 Wizard of Oz 1939
9 Vertigo 1958
8 Schindler’s List 1993
7 Lawrence of Arabia 1962
6 Gone with the Wind 1939
5 Singing in the Rain 1952
4 Raging Bull 1980
3 Casablanca 1942
2 The Godfather 1972
1 Citizen Kane 1941

The only movie above I haven't seen is Raging Bull. I barely remember Vertigo and Lawrence of Arabia. The other seven are classics that I've seen more than once. Citizen Kane is the only one I studied in college. It was probably ranked the best movie ever made in 1975 too.

The Queen's top ten lists of movie classics include comedies and dramas, and love stories and Wows.
Comedies
1 Ferris Bueller's Day Off
2 Animal House
3 Stripes
4 Blazing Saddles
5 A Christmas Story
6 Ghostbusters
7 Groundhog Day
8 Some Like It Hot
9 Fargo
10 Bull Durham

Dramas
1 The Godfather
2 The Godfather Part II
3 The Player
4 Diner
5 To Kill a Mockingbird
6 Short Cuts
7 Grand Canyon
8 Nashville
9 Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
10 The Great Santini

Love Stories
1 Terms of Endearment
2 Officer and a Gentleman
3 Big Chill
4 Steel Magnolias
5 Sleepless in Seattle
6 Hope Floats
7 Serendipity
8 White Christmas
9 The Big Easy
10 Phenomenon

WOWS
1 2001 Space Odyssey
2 Apocalypse Now
3 Pulp Fiction
4 The Women
5 The Grifters
6 Michael
7 Annie Hall
8 Wizard of Oz
9 It's A Wonderful Life
10 Citizen Kane

2 comments:

Suzan said...

You ARE a nut. A Queen nut, to be sure. Let me know the next time you watch "Terms of Endearment". I'll synchronize from 1500 miles away and we can cry shamelessly/belt out Ethel Merman-y tunes together.

sacook51 said...

Pulp fiction goes on my list of most disgusting movies! Really grossed me out...

2001 was amazing to me in 7th grade, tried to watch it a few years ago...didn't have the same reaction.

Comedies... the ones that stand out as making me laugh my *** off in the last few years... Big Fat Greek Wedding and Wild Hogs.

Most treasured movie "The Fourth Grade - For Girls Only" movie!
Or maybe I just enjoyed all the attention from the boys on the way home from school trying to find out what it was all about!