The MoFo Top 100 of the 60s: Countdown

Obviously you don't get the MoFo in-joke.

I don't get it, so what is it please?

I was joking (although it would have been a good tactic against Dr. Strange love)

I was definitely joking.

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The Breakdown...



2nd (24 points), 9th (17 points), 10th (16 points), 3x 11th (45 points), 12th (14 points), 2x 15th (22 points), 3x 22nd (12 points), 23rd (3 points), 2x 25th (2 points)



3rd (23 points), 9th (17 points), 11th (15 points), 2x 13th (26 points), 15th (11 points), 16th (10 points), 2x 17th (18 points), 2x 18th (16 points), 20th (6 points), 2x 21st (10 points), 22nd (4 points), 25th (1 point)



Both films were the only to receive their respective amount of points so not tie breaking was needed.

Well I guess Dr. No isn't making it, which is a shame since it's the only one I was hoping for. I like Goldfinger well enough,great cineogaoraphy and production design, definitely better than From Russia With Love. Haven't seen Bonnie and Clyde yet

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I have seen every Bond film once except for Dr. No (2 times) and From Russia with Love (3 times). Goldfinger IMO is the weakest of the "good" Bond films (non-Daniel Craig ones) but is still enjoyable. Bonnie and Clyde was my 22. Should have placed it higher though.

I, in my crazy mind, thought I had "Bonnie and Clyde" on my list. Looking it over, I don't. I seriously don't remember taking it off of my list. I wonder what I replaced it with. I really have no clue.

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101. How the Grinch Stole Christmas (4)
97. Seconds
93. Fail Safe
88. Jungle Book
87. From Russia With Love (11)
86. Blow Up
85. Italian Job (19)
84. Cape Fear
77. The Lion in Winter (3)
72. True Grit (23)
66. In the Heat of the Night (21)
57. Charade
53. A Hard Day's Night (25)
52. The Man who Shot Liberty Valance
51. A Fistful of Dollars
49. Mary Poppins (15)
47. Spartacus (9)
46. Goldfinger
45. Bonnie and Clyde (22)

9/25 of my films

18/56 Overall

Seen both, but not a big fan of either.

i actually wrote goldfinger in my prediction list but took it out at the last second but i don't know enough about the bond movies. have seen neither.

I was hoping for Dr No too.

Arthur Penn's then shockingly violent Bonnie & Clyde (two years before Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch) was number seventeen on my list. For all of the uproar over its bloody mayhem, I suspect it was the largely sympathetic portrayal of anti-heroes by the incredibly gorgeous Beatty and Dunaway that people were responding to as viscerally as the carnage back in 1967, that watershed sea change of a year in Hollywood. The top five performances were all Oscar nominated (Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons, Michael J. Pollard), and rightly so. But just as important to the movie's success are the likes of Denver Pyle, Dub Taylor, and in one scene-stealing ride in the getaway car Gene Wilder. The soundtrack featuring Earl Scruggs continuously plucking away on his banjo for "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" juxtaposed with the dark humor and Kensington gore, all mingling with the Vietnam era sense of futility and desperation masked in the 1930s period were more of the many genius touches throughout. As stylized as it is, it still plays great, coming up on fifty years later.

5. Army of Shadows (#58)
17. Bonnie & Clyde (#45)
19. The Battle of Algiers (#69)
21. A Hard Day's Night (#53)

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"Film is a disease. When it infects your bloodstream it takes over as the number one hormone. It bosses the enzymes, directs the pineal gland, plays Iago to your psyche. As with heroin, the antidote to Film is more Film." - Frank Capra

Goldfinger is the best Bond of all time. It was number 2 on my list and is also a top 50 movie for me.

I had considered both Goldfinger and Bonnie and Clyde but didn't have room for them on my list. Still pleased to see them on the countdown.

Golfinger is probably my favourite Bond film. I considered including it at the bottom of my list, but in the end chose not too. .

Bonnie and Clyde is good, but I don't think it's great like some people. It's certainly has an important place in American film history, but I think there's much better films from the era. .

I didn't stump for the book before the voting closed because I figure people had enough movie watching to do, forget reading. But if you're interested in the era and the change from the old Studio System to the so-called New Hollywood that replaced it, check out Mark Harris' tome Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood. By looking at the five Best Picture nominees from 1967 (Bonnie & Clyde, The Graduate, In the Heat of the Night, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? and Doctor Doolittle), Harris makes an examination for how the old ways of doing things by the establishment and the new ways were coming to a head. It's a good read.