Posted on 05/15/2016 10:50:12 AM PDT by DFG
That the godfather movies are rated higher than Casablanca tells me that most people don’t understand what makes a movie great.
It can happen.
An absolute feast of irony and cynicism - I love it.....
That is an inference I never saw the many times I’ve watched the movie. I thought she was just a one night stand. That’s why Renault said he tosses women away.
No Eastwood movie so the list is bad from the start. Pulp Fiction should be moved up. Need High Noon on the list in top ten. Did not see any Hitchcock or Kubrick movie on the list somebody has not watched enough to do this.
I agree whole heartedly.
There are some very good John Wayne movies - all ignored.
And as others have already pointed out, many of the films on the list are dreck and dreary - not worth the time it takes to sit through them.
I wonder if the absence of John Wayne movies on the list has to do with his outspoken patriotism versus the excessive leftist bent of the film industry and the Hollywood elite.
Love Hurricane. The hurricane still works better than any CGI.
Yes, of the Wayne films, I thought at least “The Searchers,” “Stagecoach” or “Red River” would have made the grade. Even with my low expectations, the list was far more bleak than I would have imagined.
It’s not that a lot of the ranked films are necessarily without some kind of aesthetic merit. But it just strikes me as depressing to see so many heralded items that are deliberately catering to darker spirits, in a cultural sense. Compared to what was the norm back during the golden-age of Hollywood, this bunching looks like a black cloud of horror and psychological dysfunction.
All while so many great films by our past masters are nowhere to be found.
Some favorite scenes from Drums Along The Mohawk:
The creepy John Carradine offering a toast to the newlyweds, General Herkimer’s speech to the militia, Carradine again, blowing the whistle in the mist followed by the Indians appearing behind him seemingly out of nowhere, Lana and Gil “interviewing” with Edna May Oliver, Gil’s post-battle narration delivered with his thousand-yard stare on Mrs. McKlennar’s kitchen floor while pandemonium surrounds him, Blueback’s opinion of childbirth, Joe tied to the cart full of hay and laughing as the Indians prepare to burn him, Gil outrunning the Indians, the scene of the column of Continentals running down the hill towards the fort just as it is overwhelmed by the Indians and Tories, and the final passing from hand-to-hand of the new country’s flag up to the top of the church spire. As dramatic, inspiring and patriotic a movie as I’ve ever seen.
That would explain why Henry Fonda in 12 Angry Men made into the top 10. Then in another stark contrast, that is why we don't see Dirty Harry listed in the top 250 either, imo.
The list is generated by user ratings. People who are logged into Imdb can rate a movie and that’s how the movies get on the list. It’s really a indication of popularity not true quality.
Better than all the phony car chase scenes in today's movies put together.
Leni
Sorry, I did forget. I SHOULD have said, “NO computer generated affects”, sort of like GIANT camels transporting German 88s.
Where are Gone with the Wind? Citizen Kane?
09. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
It certainly does have special effects. Quite a few model shots. The people by the plane at the end are actually midgets to make the small model plane look large.
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