Posted on 11/01/2023 3:56:41 PM PDT by DallasBiff
The movies are now more than 100 years old. That still makes them a young medium, at least in art-form years (how old is the novel? the theater? the painting?). But they’re just old enough to make compiling Variety’s first-ever list of the 100 Greatest Movies of All Time a more daunting task than it once might have been. Think about it: You get an average of one film per year. A great deal of ardent discussion and debate went into the creation of this list. Our choices were winnowed from hundreds of titles submitted by more than 30 Variety critics, writers and editors. As we learned, coming up with which movies to include was the easy part. The hard part was deciding which movies to leave out.
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Lost me on #85……”Natural Born Killers”. Juliette Lewis and Woody Harrelson
The Most disgusting movie of all time. THE only movie I ever walked out on in my life. Absolutely pointless.
Come and See.
I’ve seen 27 of these movies and some of them I’ve never heard of....
Where is “Dances With Wolves”...”Braveheart”????
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It’s a good movie.
Back in the 80’s, my brother once told us that his favorite movie was Hollywood Nights. My wife and I watched about fifteen minutes of teenager hijinks and we turned it off. I would rank it up there with Porky’s.
Some idiotic choices on that list. My Best Friends Wedding? Really?
And then...?
You mean plagiarized.
The two best TV mini-series were “Band of Brothers” and “Lonesome Dove”
The Winds of War/War And Remembrance.
I’m surprised how many of these I’ve never seen or have never even heard of.
Jesus of Nazareth
Yep...Right up there also....
The Producer of The Winds Of War/War And Remembrance, demanded that ABC allow him complete freedom and promises not to cut anything.
As a result, it had some of the most gut-wrenching depictions of The Holocaust ever done.
I’ve seen a good chunk of them. I know these things are meant to create lots of arguing and for that purpose this list is as good as any but Variety itself isn’t a good source of movie criticism to begin with. I’d say maybe half one could make an argument for to be on a 100 best list. Another chunk are ok to good movies that just have no business being there and then there are bizarro picks which show this list isn’t serious at all. To use the line from Chinatown....forget it Jake it’s Variety.
Funniest movie ever!
The orignal “The Producers”
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