While we’re on the subject of movies, Ed posted a copy of the AFI’s list of the top 100 American films. To look at it, go here. It is, to say the least, a most peculiar list, but it does contain a reasonably high percentage of good movies. Ed has seen ninety-six of them. I’ve seen seventy (I told Ed sixty-nine, but I’d forgotten one).
I shall now octuple the ante by posting the films on the list that I haven’t seen. Kindly keep your smartass remarks to yourselves:
– Lawrence of Arabia
– Schindler’s List
– One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
– Raging Bull
– Apocalypse Now
– Midnight Cowboy
– The Best Years of Our Lives (I’ve seen the first 15 minutes and listened to all of Hugo Friedhofer’s score)
– Doctor Zhivago
– King Kong (I’ve seen a snippet or two)
– The Birth of a Nation (one of these days…)
– A Clockwork Orange
– All Quiet on the Western Front (hey, I read the book)
– The Sound of Music (not in this lifetime, baby)
– Rebel Without a Cause
– Raiders of the Lost Ark (I taped it but never watched it)
– Close Encounters of the Third Kind
– The Manchurian Candidate
– Wuthering Heights (and no, I haven’t even read the book!)
– Dances With Wolves (puh-leeze–life’s too short)
– American Graffiti
– Rocky
– The Deer Hunter
– Modern Times (I’ve seen most of it)
– Giant
– Platoon
– Frankenstein (I’ve seen part of it)
– The Jazz Singer (I’ve seen the part with sound)
– A Place in the Sun (I read the book, alas)
– Pulp Fiction (I know, I know, lay off already)
– Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (I’ve seen part of it)
Ooh, that was fun. Now, anybody for a round of Humiliation?