Remote blogging

Am posting from wilds of the suburbs of The City of Brotherly Love. Just saw Elf and highly recommend this bit of holiday-related fun (with Nazgul chasing Santa!). Not posting more on that, as I am crappy with the reviews. Go watch ET's blog. Or something.

Anywa, speaking of film, Maggie posted the AFI top 100 films (I think it's American films only). Figured I'd mark off which ones I've seen. Maybe make comments. Yeah, with comments. I can't resist. Movies I've seen are marked with an "x".

1. "Citizen Kane," 1941
   x
   this is a highly overrated film. see Touch of Evil instead


2. "Casablanca," 1942
   x
   everyone should see this movie. personally, i think this and number one should be switched. so does my mom and one of her professors at The New School


3. "The Godfather," 1972
   will see


4. "Gone With the Wind," 1939
   x
   lord, but i hate this movie...and the book it's based on. purely exConfederate propaganda: a piece o' poop


5. "Lawrence of Arabia," 1962
   i've only seen bits and pieces, not the whole thing


6. "The Wizard of Oz," 1939
   x
   i have trouble imagining a single American over the age of ten who hasn't seen it, but i suppose such people must exist


7. "The Graduate," 1967
   x


8. "On the Waterfront," 1954
   Kazan trying to explain away his bastardly behavior before the House UnAmerican Activities Committee. evil shit


9. "Schindler's List," 1993
   x
   good, but an all-time top film? i beg to differ


10. "Singin' in the Rain," 1952
    x
    i so very love this movie


11. "It's a Wonderful Life," 1946
    x
    my elder sister and her husband watch this movie every Christmas, without the kids. which is really sweet and old-fashioned romantic


12. "Sunset Boulevard," 1950
    x
    another movie i enjoyed very, very much


13. "The Bridge on the River Kwai," 1957
    will see


14. "Some Like it Hot," 1959
    only seen bits and pieces


15. "Star Wars," 1977
    x
    uh, like, duuuuh


16. "All About Eve," 1950
    x
    oh, lord, how i love this movie; queen of bitch films


17. "The African Queen," 1951
    x
    eh, it was okay


18. "Psycho," 1960
    x
    fun! fun fun fun!


19. "Chinatown," 1974
    you know what happens to Jack Nicholson's nose in this film, right?


20. "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest," 1975
    x
    saw this when i was just a kid; blew me away, but i think it may have messed with my developing mind


21. "The Grapes of Wrath," 1940


22. "2001: A Space Odyssey," 1968
    x
    i liked it when i saw it when i was ten or something, but the psychedelic grooviness wears damned thin after you've hit puberty


23. "The Maltese Falcon," 1941
    x
    i was very young, so i don't remember much


24. "Raging Bull," 1980


25. "E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial," 1982
    x
    SheepBoy got me the DVD last year for Christmas. it's just as good as it was when i saw it when i was little. i still cried, a little


26. "Dr. Strangelove," 1964
    x
    oh, lord, but this is a damned funny movie


27. "Bonnie and Clyde," 1967
    whee! fun wtih guns. probably won't see unless catch on cable. prefer History Channel summary of real life events


28. "Apocalypse Now," 1979
    x
    i was too young. way, way too young


29. "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," 1939
    x
    i looooooooooooooove this movie. i'm such a sucker for Capra-type patriotism


30. "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre," 1948
    will see


31. "Annie Hall," 1977
    will see, even though it's a Woody Allen film. after all, he made Purple Rose of Cairo and What's New Pussycat?, so he didn't suck all the time


32. "The Godfather Part II," 1974
    will see


33. "High Noon," 1952
    will see, even though it's a western (i hate westerns)


34. "To Kill a Mockingbird," 1962
    x
    i wish Atticus was my dad. or my husband. or our president. something.


35. "It Happened One Night," 1934
    x
    saw it for the first time a couple of weeks ago. very charming indeed


36. "Midnight Cowboy," 1969
    the guy's name is Ratso Rizzo. i guess i'll just have to see it, huh, in spite of the year


37. "The Best Years of Our Lives," 1946
    x


38. "Double Indemnity," 1944
    i have to see this, and Laura


39. "Doctor Zhivago," 1965
    my brother and mother both insist i have to see it


40. "North by Northwest," 1959
    x
    but with commercials, so maybe that's a half-x


41. "West Side Story," 1961
    x
    i love this musical, but this isn't the best version of it


42. "Rear Window," 1954
    x
    oh, i really loved this one. yay Hitchcock!


43. "King Kong," 1933
    i think i might have actually seen it, but it's hard to say, so that means i'll have to watch it "again"


44. "The Birth of a Nation," 1915
    you know, i've heard a lot about how this is one of the greatest films of all time, but it's entirely KKK propaganda. fuck the critics. i'm not going to watch anything which glorifies the KKK


45. "A Streetcar Named Desire," 1951
    i really want to see Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando in this adaptation of the play


46. "A Clockwork Orange," 1971
    will see


47. "Taxi Driver," 1976
    um, maybe. (ngh...probably not)


48. "Jaws," 1975
    x
    whee! fun!


49. "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," 1937
    x
    it's not a feminist's wet dream, but it's beautiful and sweet, so :p on the feminists


50. "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," 1969
    another one i will see in spite of it being a western


51. "The Philadelphia Story," 1940
    x
    very much like


52. "From Here to Eternity," 1953
    famous love scene, yeah, but i'm not going to see it


53. "Amadeus," 1984
    x
    oh, this was one of my absolute favorites when i was a kid. haven't seen it since it was in the theaters


54. "All Quiet on the Western Front," 1930
    x
    gives me goosebumps just thinking about it. it's very, very good. seriously. see it.


55. "The Sound of Music," 1965
    x
    doe, a deer, a fe-male deer


56. "M*A*S*H," 1970


57. "The Third Man," 1949
    most definitely will be seeing this one


58. "Fantasia," 1940
    x
    uh, like, duuuh


59. "Rebel Without a Cause," 1955
    my mom remembers worshipping James Dean. i'd like to see this, but i'm not in a rush


60. "Raiders of the Lost Ark," 1981
    x
    seriously, though. duuuuuuh


61. "Vertigo," 1958
    will most definitely see


62. "Tootsie," 1982
    x
    just saw the beginning again a couple of weeks ago (to be interrupted by a call from a bored ET). i'd forgotten how much i liked it. woo! I Love The `80's Strikes Back!


63. "Stagecoach," 1939
    western. bleh. no.


64. "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," 1977
    x
    i'm a dork. i hum along to the music


65. "The Silence of the Lambs," 1991
    x
    fava beans go with so many things


66. "Network," 1976
    will see


67. "The Manchurian Candidate," 1962
    um, huh? checks IMDB uh, no


68. "An American in Paris," 1951
    x
    love it! eeeeee!


69. "Shane," 1953
    i think i need to see this one, in spite of it being a western


70. "The French Connection," 1971
    uh, probably not. it's a `70's movie and has car chases. bleh


71. "Forrest Gump," 1994
    x
    oh, good god, what an overrated piece of shit this was. i cannot believe it won the Oscar. it's appalling that it made this list. it sucks


72. "Ben-Hur," 1959
    well, i kind of have to see it now that i've seen Gladiator


73. "Wuthering Heights," 1939
    x
    better than the book, but i'd rather watch Laurence Olivier in Pride and Prejudice with Greer Garson


74. "The Gold Rush," 1925
    well, everyone's seen the scene where he eats his boot, but that's all i've seen


75. "Dances With Wolves," 1990
    x
    not all that great. i'd rather watch Field of Dreams if you're going to make me watch a gooey-type Kevin Costner movie


76. "City Lights," 1931
    i really need to see more silent films


77. "American Graffiti," 1973
    x
    i don't remember much, except for 1950's hair and cars


78. "Rocky," 1976
    i don't care how good my mom says it is, i'm not watching a flick about boxing with Silvester Stallone in it


79. "The Deer Hunter," 1978
    see that year? so, like, no, i won't


80. "The Wild Bunch," 1969
    westerns. bleh-phooie


81. "Modern Times," 1936
    must see


82. "Giant," 1956
    "a sprawling epic following the life of a Texas cattle rancher...". oh, dear lord no


83. "Platoon," 1986
    no. i've seen enough Vietnam War movies to last a lifetime. they are rarely watchable. i'll go watch All's Quiet On The Western Front instead


84. "Fargo," 1996
    i just realized i never finished watching the video. i am an idiot.
    so, like, no x. dammit


85. "Duck Soup," 1933
    must. see. this. film.


86. "Mutiny on the Bounty," 1935
    sorry, not interested


87. "Frankenstein," 1931
    x
    but of course! Bride of Frankenstein is even better


88. "Easy Rider," 1969
    x
    my parents made me watch it so i could understand the `60's a little better.
    the `60's sucked ass


89. "Patton," 1970
    nah


90. "The Jazz Singer," 1927
    it was the first talkie. that makes it great?


91. "My Fair Lady," 1964
    x
    this was my grandfather's favorite film. completely out of character for him, but it was.
    i like it, too, even though the ending's better in Pygmalion


92. "A Place in the Sun," 1951
    Mom tried to make me watch it. i got bored


93. "The Apartment," 1960
    i keep hearing how good this is, but it's not at the top of my list to see


94. "Goodfellas," 1990
    x
    ugh. that is an awful way to die


95. "Pulp Fiction," 1994
    will see. just getting up the gumption to deal with the hypodermic needles


96. "The Searchers," 1956
    western. yuck


97. "Bringing Up Baby," 1938
    x
    adorable. i love this movie. there should be more `30's comedies on here


98. "Unforgiven," 1992
    it's a western, so i've been reluctant to see it, but i might break in the future


99. "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," 1967
    it's late `60's, almost as bad as `70's, so i'm not hot on seeing it, in spite of how good i'm told it is


100. "Yankee Doodle Dandy," 1942
     x
     this is in the top 100 because why?

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Total: 48/100.

Almost half. Not bad. Some of these choices are, though. Ick.