Time releases list of 100 all-time great movies (Gone with the wind fails the test)

Time ^ | 11 june 2005 | Richard Corliss

[Poser]

I take it back. I just got to the "U"s. Unforgiven was a good movie.

[x]

Time is a joke, and nobody takes these kinds of lists seriously. It's a something for everybody marketing gimmick. Was "Finding Nemo" really that good? Was "E.T."? Or "Dodsworth" (1936)? Or "The Purple Rose of Cairo"? They must have wanted one Woody Allen film on the list. Some movies are "gems" that have their own value but that can't compete with the screen greats. "Closely Watched Trains" was a fine film about being a young Czech in the 1940s, but a good small picture looks a bit out of place among the blockbusters.

The only lists worth reading are the highly individualized ones, which don't make any pretense of really being the best, but show you how a critic's mind works and indicate that if you liked most of the movies they liked, you might be interested in seeing the others. If you sat through 3 hours of "Ulysses Gaze" or all 15 1/2 hours of "Berlin Alexanderplatz" would you really be able to take "Star Wars" or "E.T"? Or vice versa?

And for heaven's sake, if you put "Star Wars" on the list, you can't keep "Gone With the Wind" off. For who's to say that "Goodfellas" or "Pulp Fiction" will hold up as well 65 years on as GWTW does today? It was largely political concerns that kept it off, of course. Dittos for BONA ("Birth of a Nation").

But one curious note: the old Soviet warhorses: "Potemkin," "October," "Nevsky," "Ivan," "Gorky" aren't on the list, either, or even more recent Russian films by Tarkovsky and others. Is that politics also? Or Russophobia? Or were they just no good? They could make a case for booting out totalitarian or racist films, but it does mean that some really important films aren't mentioned.

[mark502inf]

Where's Ben Hur, The Quiet Man, Patton, Rocky, Dr. Zhivago, Bridge Over the River Kwai?

But they did get Dr Strangelove, ET, The Godfather I & 2, Blade Runner, Goodfellas, Double Indemnity, and Lawrence of Arabia.

[nutmeg]

Pulp Fiction was the only movie I walked out on.

You, too? I usually have a pretty open mind with it comes to film, but I hated that movie!

[Horatio Gates]

That was the first Tarantino movie I ever saw or tried to see I should say. He is one wierd SOB. I somehow made it through Reservoir Dogs on DVD but I don't think I'll be wasting my my money on him again.

[Horatio Gates]

Unforgiven was a good awesome movie. 8>) One of my favs...

[Dad yer funny]

yup , and no Saps At Sea[Laurel & Hardy] or Debbie Does Dallas ,... I'm crushed

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

I walked out on Monty Python's 'the Meaning of Life'.

Heck our favorite movies mean more to me than what those Mizzzzzzzzz Burleigh tpyes at Time think about what influenced the US.

My all-time favorites [not in particular order]:

1. Braveheart
2. The Passion
3. The Patriot
4. Saving Private Ryan
5. Pearl Harbor
6. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
7. Monty Python's The Holy Grail [so unlike Monty Python]
8. Both 'The Gods Must be Crazy' movies.
9. What About Bob?
10. Dragonheart
11. Tomorrow Never Dies [Bond]
12. Golden Eye [Bond]
13. Die Another Day [Bond]
14. Oh Brother Where Art Thou?
15. Air Force One
16. Red Dawn
17. All five Rocky movies
18. Excalibur
19. The first two Home Alone movies
20. National Lampoon's American and Christmas Vacation
21. Mr. Bean
22. Johnny English
23. High Noon [Jackie Chan]
24. The Drunken Master [Jackie Chan]
25. The Gladiator
26. Dumb and Dumber [and the sequel]
27. Major Paine
28. The Last Castle
29. Both Men in Black movies
30. Modern Problems
31. All the Lethal Weapon movies
32. Bowfinger
33. Jabberwocky
34. The Naked Gun movies [I like Safety Patrol too]
35. Conan the Barbarian [and the Destroyer]
37. Beastmaster
38. The Thirteenth Warrior
39. Willow
40. All the Indiana Jones movies, although I'm ticked at Lucas

41. [I'm sure I'm missing some.]

[Not even considering Star Wars at the moment. Formerly on the list. Still honoring my boycott of the last one.]

[higgmeister]

Cinema Paradiso is a monumentally epic motion picture.

[djf]

“Blade Runner” was voted on some list the best SciFi flick of all time.

The list is pretty shallow.
No “Defiant Ones”
No “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”
No “All About Eve” or “Midnight Cowboy”
and no matter what, I’d have to have “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolfe” on any list of 100 greatest just for the sheer power of Liz and Dick working together...

At least they spared us “West Side Story”. the gayest movie ever made..

Might include “Chicago”. Even though the genre is more of a 40-50s musical type flick, it’s really pretty good.