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AFI's 100 Most Inspiring Films of All Time
American Film Institute ^
| 2006
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Posted on 08/12/2018 8:14:54 AM PDT by Leaning Right
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Here's a little something non-political for a Sunday. The list is over 10 years old now, but it's still interesting. (In today's uber-PC climate, I shudder to think what movies critics would now call "inspiring".)
Here's the AFI top ten:
1. IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE 1946
2. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD 1962
3. SCHINDLER'S LIST 1993
4. ROCKY 1976
5. MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON 1939
6. E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL 1982
7. THE GRAPES OF WRATH 1940
8. BREAKING AWAY 1979
9. MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET 1947
10. SAVING PRIVATE RYAN 1998
To: All
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posted on
08/12/2018 8:16:47 AM PDT
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Leaning Right
(I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
To: Leaning Right
Where's My Lai Four?
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posted on
08/12/2018 8:17:52 AM PDT
by
golux
To: Leaning Right
I’m impressed that they had Breaking Away that high. I love that movie.
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posted on
08/12/2018 8:20:58 AM PDT
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bramps
(It's the Islam, stupid!)
No Hunger Games?
Whats more inspiring than a bunch of teenagers running around the woods trying to kill each other?
To: bramps
Not impressed that Remember The Titans is not on the list.
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08/12/2018 8:24:02 AM PDT
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bramps
(It's the Islam, stupid!)
To: Leaning Right
"Here's a little something non-political...> Bless you.
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08/12/2018 8:24:15 AM PDT
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Artemis Webb
(Maxine Waters for House Minority Leader!!)
To: Leaning Right
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08/12/2018 8:24:17 AM PDT
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dynachrome
(When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
To: Leaning Right
Re: 6. E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL 1982 ~
Why did illegal aliens dislike ET?
He learned English, and all he ever wanted was to go home...
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08/12/2018 8:25:04 AM PDT
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heterosupremacist
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.)
To: Leaning Right
what did ET inspire us todo?
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08/12/2018 8:25:45 AM PDT
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morphing libertarian
(Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
To: Leaning Right
I’m glad Rocky is on the list. It’s easy to make fun of the endless sequels, but Rocky is still a GREAT movie.
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08/12/2018 8:26:28 AM PDT
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Artemis Webb
(Maxine Waters for House Minority Leader!!)
To: morphing libertarian
To: morphing libertarian
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08/12/2018 8:29:00 AM PDT
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Artemis Webb
(Maxine Waters for House Minority Leader!!)
To: Fester Chugabrew
I don’t have home phone. Inspired by a dozen other movies to unplug.
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08/12/2018 8:29:46 AM PDT
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morphing libertarian
(Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
To: Artemis Webb
I was inspired y Tom Jones to eat chicken with busty women.
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08/12/2018 8:30:25 AM PDT
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morphing libertarian
(Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
To: morphing libertarian
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08/12/2018 8:35:32 AM PDT
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Artemis Webb
(Maxine Waters for House Minority Leader!!)
To: Leaning Right
“The Best Years of Our Lives.” 1948.
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08/12/2018 8:36:37 AM PDT
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Eric in the Ozarks
(Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
To: All
Well why isn’t Yentl on the list?
To: Fedora
Capra receives the DSM from Gen George Marshall.
Frank Capra walked away from the movie business because "he refused to adjust to the cynicism of the new order." In his autobiography written in 1971, Capra expressed his feelings about the shifting film industry: "The winds of change blew through the dream factories of make-believe, tore at its crinoline tatters.... The hedonists, the homosexuals, the hemophiliac bleeding hearts, the God-haters, the quick-buck artists who substituted shock for talent, all cried: "Shake 'em! Rattle 'em! God is dead. Long live pleasure! Nudity? Yea! Wife-swapping? Yea! Liberate the world from prudery. Emancipate our films from morality!".... Kill for thrill shock! Shock! To hell with the good in man, Dredge up his evil shock! Shock!"
Capra added that in his opinion, "practically all the Hollywood film-making of today is stooping to cheap salacious pornography in a crazy bastardization of a great art to compete for the 'patronage' of deviates and masturbators."
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08/12/2018 8:40:47 AM PDT
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Liz
( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
To: Leaning Right
There's an underrated movie that should be on that list: Groundhog Day. In the director's cut, there's an interview with director Harold Ramis where he says it was listed in a survey of religious, government and business leaders as the movie most likely for viewers to identify with 100 years in the future.
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08/12/2018 8:43:54 AM PDT
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Alberta's Child
("The Russians escaped while we weren't watching them ... like Russians will.")
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