The Movie Forums Top 100 of All-Time Refresh: Countdown

Silence
and maybe

Casino


Or maybe There's Something About Mary

I cannot be held responsible for stabs in the shower scene dark.

I watched Akira for a HoF here, but it was only okay for me. I guess it's just not my type of movie.


I like all of the Toy Story movies, and the first one is my favorite of the four movies, but it didn't make my list. But I'm not surprised to see it made the countdown, and I think it deserves to be here.

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Private Benjamin
My Own Private Idaho

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Some other titles I had in mind already been mentioned. Maybe I'll go with Rear Window and the other one with Stalker (1979).
Now I wish if the latter really made it to be a little higher by position, but there this sense of impossibility even when I type this.

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I'm not a fan of Dazed and Confused, but Hubby likes it. (However I doubt that it would have made his top 25 list if he had submitted one.)


To Kill a Mockingbird was #6 on my 1960s list, and it was one of the movies that immediately went on my potential list for this countdown. It stayed on my potential list all the way up until the day I submitted my list, but it was one of the last few cuts that I made from my list. I think the only reason that it didn't make my final list is because doesn't have as much rewatchability as the movies that made my final list. But I'm glad to see that it made the countdown, even though I think it should have been higher.

After the clue I'll go with...

Sex And The City

and

Privates On Parade

...and if I'm right with either I'll be leaving the forum to find somewhere with better taste

The Lives of Others
Saving Private Ryan

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My Own Private Idaho
Ninotchka

Lives of others and Schindlers List.

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That's... surprisingly low for SPR.
Kinda thinking I shouldn't have cut it from my own list

I've never seen The Apartment, so it was obviously never a candidate to make my list. Saving Private Ryan, I have of course seen multiple times, but was never really in contention for my list.


Seen 14/18, with 1 film from my list appearing so far.

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Phew. Much happier with the outcome of 'the clue' and my guesses today - I'm guessing Yoda didn't allow the late flurry of amended ballots


The Apartment is a reasonably solid Wilder offering, never been keen on Jack Lemmon tbh but love Shirley MacLaine and it's an amusing enough romp at times.

Big drop for Saving Private Ryan and can't say I mind one bit as I'm not a fan. Not seen it for years but I do remember the battle sequence at the beginning being quite the thrill. Sadly though if memory serves me well that's about all I did like of it.

Seen: 14/18 (Own: 4/18)


Faildictions (Eternal vsn 1.0):
82. Scream (1996)
81. Seppuku (1962)

Saving Private Ryan was #18 on the MoFo '90s List while The Apartment was #8 on the MoFo '60s List.

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Only problem I have with SPR is the scene after they storm the beach and the soldiers are drinking coffee and eating corned beef sammiches.
The look on Tom Hanks' face always makes me want to pause the movie and go make some coffee and butties.

Amusingly enough, Cameron Crowe wrote Fast Times after he'd gone undercover at high school for a year so it's got at least some grounding in non-fiction (at least as much as Dazed does). It's also hard to categorise Fast Times as being the sillier/fictional one when it's got a teenage abortion subplot while nothing in Dazed approaches that same level of seriousness. That's my rationale for thinking the two aren't exactly comparable despite ostensibly both being coming-of-age films.

Or maybe I think both are good but that Dazed is better.

EDIT: Anyway, I guess these are a solid couple of picks that I didn't vote for myself. I'd give the edge to The Apartment if only because William Goldman didn't write such a convincingly scathing breakdown of it (to my knowledge, anyway).

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I’ve never watched either of these despite the fact that I used to own Saving Private Ryan on VHS. I really don’t like war movies so I have no idea why I had it.

My Ballot:
5. Her (#94)
9. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (#92)
25. Clay Pigeons (One-Pointers)

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I think Saving Private Ryan is one of the best war movies ever made but I have still only watched it once in the theater. I have this thing where I love my first time watch of a war movie but they aren't movies I enjoy revisiting. The war sequences in Private Ryan are astounding and it deserves a place on the list.

The Apartment is the first from my list to show. I had it at #16. I watched it for the first time after coming to Mofo, and have seen it two or three times since. It was my first nomination for HOF, which it won. I love a comedy that has strong characters and a love for our brokenness on its mind. This has all of that in spades. I was never a Lemmon fan, but he is perfect in this role. This was my introduction to young McClain, and she is unbelievably adorable and sympathetic. The premise seems clumsy on paper but it works perfectly. The ending is probably a top ten for me. I just love everything about it, and am really pleased it made it on our list

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The most natural comparison for Dazed & Confused is American Graffiti, not Fast Times. Both take place over one day, one the first day of "summer" as school ends the other the last day of "summer" before one of them leaves for college. Both structurally are vignettes with many characters and intersecting minor story lines. Both are the second films of the filmmakers and both are loving recreations of their own experiences.

Dazed & Confused ain't **** compared to American Graffiti. Looking at general coming-of-age end of high school cusp of the next step movies I will take not only Graffiti and Fast Times at Ridgemont High over Linklater's sophomore effort but also Breaking Away, Say Anything..., and even Booksmart.

But hey, the kids love it.


Saving Private Ryan wouldn't be in my personal Top 200 and while I like The Apartment a whole lot it isn't even my favorite Billy Wilder comedy (One, Two, Three is). But it is not surprising to see either on this kind of collective list.