AFI looking for 100 most inspiring films

ap via cnn ^ | November 18, 2005

[InvisibleChurch]

now THAT deserves an LOL... I used to take my Dinner with Andre action figures and put them up against my Garrison Keillor Lake Wobegone Rangers and have them calmly discuss the best time of year to have their PBS telethon.

[newzjunkey]

We don't all share your enthusiasm for IAWL

[bruoz]

ZULU!

[newzjunkey]

HA! I just looked at the ballot... OF COURSE they'd have "All The President's Men" on there. It's the Democrat playbook for when they're out of the White House.

[Horatio Gates]

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

[duckworth]

Three Amigos
Blues Brothers
Animal House
PeeWee's Big Adventure
Eraserhead
Master & Commander, The Far Side of the World
Fanny & Alexander
Reefer Madness
La Dolce Vita
Metropolis
Dumbo (I'm serious, the "wine" segment is frickin' psyhedelic)
And 89 other ones

[WillamShakespeare]

"Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings!"

"That`s right! That`s right!"

"Everytime a fog horn blows another liberal gets his pitchfork"

"That`s right! That`s right!"

[ditto h]

Plan 9 from outer space.

[Issaquahking]

Braveheart? Best film? Yes indeed!!! was amazed to see it on the list. Mel is not your loser leftist hollyweird elitist.


Reminds me of him looking for help on getting "Passion of the Christ" to the screen. The empty threat was that if he did this movie, he wouldn't work in hollywood again. They almost had it right...with proceeds from the film, he only works in hollyweird if HE wants to!

[feedback doctor]

Personal inspiration: (just a few)

Rudy
The Rookie (the recent one with Dennis Quaid)
Chariots of Fire
The Defections of Simas Kudirka
The Passion of the Christ
Cinderella Man
Marty (1950s w/ Ernest Borgnine)

[Bommer]

Because Bluto demonstrates that going through life 'Fat, Drunk and Stupid' is a qualification for becoming a a U.S. Senator.

Got that right!

[It's me]

"Dear Frankie" was a great movie.

It is Scottish, though, does that still count?

[MediaMole]

Gotta say "Brown Bunny"

It gives inspiration to every geek, since it proves that no matter how incompetant, ugly, filthy, drug-addled or abusive you may be, if you say, "I'm a movie director," starlets will do "anything" to get in your movie.

[WillamShakespeare]

Here is one of my most inspiring movies...

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/badrobbery.html

[TUAN_JIM]

now THAT deserves an LOL... I used to take my Dinner with Andre action figures and put them up against my Garrison Keillor Lake Wobegone Rangers and have them calmly discuss the best time of year to have their PBS telethon.

Thanks. My 'Remains of the Day' lunch-box was my other prize possession.

[Phsstpok]

My prediction for what will win, from their list:

• The Grapes of Wrath (directed by John Ford, 1940)

My top 10 choices, in order, from the official list you posted a link to are:

1. The Passion Of The Christ (directed by Mel Gibson, 2004)
2. High Noon (directed by Fred Zinnemann, 1952)
3. Shane (directed by George Stevens, 1953)
4. To Kill A Mockingbird (directed by Robert Mulligan, 1962)
5. Without Limits (directed by Robert Towne, 1998)
6. THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (directed by Peter Jackson, 2001)
7. The Alamo (directed by John Wayne, 1960)
8. Apollo 13 (directed by Ron Howard, 1995)
9. Braveheart (directed by Mel Gibson, 1995)
10. Boys Town (directed by Norman Taurog, 1938)

My list of movies that should have been included on their list

• Unforgiven (directed by Clint Eastwood, 1992)
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (directed by John Ford, 1962)
• The Shootist (directed by Don Siegel, 1976)
• The Last of the Mohicans (directed by Michael Man, 1992)
• Léon (directed by Luc Besson, 1994)
• Henry V (directed by Kenneth Branagh, 1989) *not 100% that this is an "American Film"
• I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (directed by Mervyn LeRoy, 1932)
• The Iron Giant (directed by Brad Bird, 1999)

My "semi finalist" choices from the official ballot list (in alphabetical order)

• The Adventures Of Robin Hood (directed by Michael Curtiz, William Keighley, 1938)
• The African Queen (directed by John Huston, 1951)
• The Alamo (directed by John Wayne, 1960)
• Apollo 13 (directed by Ron Howard, 1995)
• Boys Town (directed by Norman Taurog, 1938)
• Braveheart (directed by Mel Gibson, 1995)
• Captains Courageous (directed by Victor Fleming, 1937)
• Casablanca (directed by Michael Curtiz, 1942)
• Chariots of Fire (directed by Hugh Hudson, 1981)
• A Christmas Carol (directed by Brian Desmond Hurst, 1951)
• El Cid (directed by Anthony Mann, 1961)
• Exodus (directed by Otto Preminger, 1960)
• Fiddler on the Rook (directed by Norman Jewison, 1971)
• Field of Dreams Phil (directed by Alden Robinson, 1989)
• Ghandi (directed by Richard Attenborough, 1982)
• The General (directed by Buster Keaton, 1927)
• Go Man Go (directed by James Wong Howe, 1954)
• Godspell (directed by David Greene, 1973)
• Going My Way (directed by Leo McCarey, 1944)
• Gone With The Wind (directed by Victor Fleming, 1939)
• The Good Earth (directed by Sidney Franklin, 1937)
• The Grapes of Wrath (directed by John Ford, 1940)
• The Great Escape (directed by John Sturges,1963)
• Gunga Din (directed by George Stevens, 1939)
• High Noon (directed by Fred Zinnemann, 1952)
• Hotel Rwanda (directed by Terry George, 2004)
• THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (directed by Peter Jackson, 2001)
• The Magnificent Seven (directed by John Sturges, 1960)
• A Man For All Seasons (directed by Fred Zinnemann, 1966)
• Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (directed by Frank Capra, 1939)
• The Natural (directed by Barry Levinson, 1984)
• The Passion Of The Christ (directed by Mel Gibson, 2004)
• Patton (directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, 1970)
• The Pride Of The Yankees (directed by Sam Wood, 1942)
• The Right Stuff (directed by Philip Kaufman, 1983)
• Rudy (directed by David Anspaugh, 1993)
• Run Silent, Run Deep (directed by Robert Wise, 1958)
• Saving Private Ryan (directed by Steven Spielberg, 1998)
• Sergeant York (directed by Howard Hawks, 1941)
• Shane (directed by George Stevens, 1953)
• The Shawsank Redemption (directed by Frank Darabont, 1994)
• Song Of Bernadette (directed by Henry King, 1943)
• Spartacus (directed by Stanley Kubrick, 1960)
• The Spirit Of St. Louis (directed by Billy Wilder, 1957)
• Stand And Delver (directed by Ramón Menéndez, 1988)
• Sullivan's Travels (directed by Preston Sturges, 1941)
• To Hell And Back (directed by Jesse Hibbs, 1955)
• To Kill A Mockingbird (directed by Robert Mulligan, 1962)
• 12 Angry Men (directed by Sidney Lumet, 1957)
• Without Limits (directed by Robert Towne, 1998)
• Yankee Doodle Dandy (directed by Michael Curtiz, 1942)
• Young Mr. Lincoln (directed by John Ford, 1939)

 

[MineralMan]

Uh, Porky's, of course.

[cloud8]

> My Life as a Dog

That was about boxing. Sort of. We watched it one night and just scratched our heads.

[AF_Blue]

Back To The Future

"If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88 miles per hour, you're going to see some serious sh!t."

"One point twenty-one jiggawatts !!!"

"Like I've always told you, if you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything."

... and I share the name of the main character, and I, like Dave, used to be a professional Whopper flopper.