AFI's 10 Top 10

I didn't watch the TV special, but here are the lists. They're better than most, as lists go, even if I don't agree with everything...

ANIMATION:

1. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
2. Pinocchio
3. Bambi
4. The Lion King
5. Fantasia
6. Toy Story
7. Beauty and the Beast
8. Shrek
9. Cinderella
10. Finding Nemo

ROMANTIC COMEDIES:

1. City Lights
2. Annie Hall
3. It Happened One Night
4. Roman Holiday
5. The Philadelphia Story
6. When Harry Met Sally...
7. Adam's Rib
8. Moonstruck
9. Harold and Maude
10. Sleepless in Seattle

WESTERN:

1. The Searchers
2. High Noon
3. Shane
4. Unforgiven
5. Red River
6. The Wild Bunch
7. Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
8. McCabe & Mrs. Miller
9. Stagecoach
10. Cat Ballou

SPORTS:

1. Raging Bull
2. Rocky
3. The Pride of the Yankees
4. Hoosiers
5. Bull Durham
6. The Hustler
7. Caddyshack
8. Breaking Away
9. National Velvet
10. Jerry Maguire

MYSTERY:

1. Vertigo
2. Chinatown
3. Rear Window
4. Laura
5. The Third Man
6. The Maltese Falcon
7. North By Northwest
8. Blue Velvet
9. Dial M For Murder
10. The Usual Suspects

FANTASY:

1. The Wizard of Oz
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
3. It's a Wonderful Life
4. King Kong
5. Miracle on 34th Street
6. Field of Dreams
7. Harvey
8. Groundhog Day
9. The Thief of Bagdad
10. Big

SCI-FI:

1. 2001: A Space Odessy
2. Star Wars (A New Hope)
3. E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial
4. A Clockwork Orange
5. The Day the Earth Stood Still
6. Blade Runner
7. Alien
8. The Terminator
9. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
10. Back to the Future

(Hello... Close Enounters???)

GANGSTER:

1. The Godfather
2. Goodfellas
3. The Godfather, Part II
4. White Heat
5. Bonnie and Clyde
6. Scarface: The Shame of a Nation
7. Pulp Fiction
8. The Public Enemy
9. Little Caesar
10. Scarface

COURTROOM DRAMA:

1. To Kill a Mockingbird
2. 12 Angry Men
3. Kramer vs. Kramer
4. The Verdict
5. A Few Good Men
6. Witness For the Prosecution
7. Anatomy of a Murder
8. In Cold Blood
9. A Cry in the Dark
10. Judgment at Nuremberg

EPIC:

1. Lawrence of Arabia
2. Ben-Hur (Heston)
3. Schindler's List
4. Gone With the Wind
5. Spartacus
6. Titanic
7. All Quiet on the Western Front
8. Saving Private Ryan
9. Reds
10. The Ten Commandments (Heston)

I guess there's no "Horror" genre, because this was a Prime Time TV special. Oh, well...

Still, something to chew on (and spit out, as the case may be).


AFI Link

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I disagreed with a few of their choices and placements...but was FURIOUS there was no horror genre!

I'd take "Lion King" out of the top ten and add Little Mermaid as #10 for starters.

"Judgement at Nuremberg" would be much higher.

"Groundhog Day"?

"Vertigo" would not be in my top ten.

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I watched it last night. Some of these movies I have never seen or heard of, so I can't comment on them. But, what really surprises me is how "Citizen Kane" is not on any list. Or does it just not fit into any category listed? I mean, some are obvious. I just thought they would have to include it somehow, since apparently on the original top 100 list, and the new one from last year, it was #1.

And the animated list, I think it is really interesting how the only non Disney related one is "Shrek." I still don't understand why that is on the list. Same with "Toy Story." Oh well, at least "Fantasia," my second favorite Disney movie, got included.

And I am happy that "Roman Holiday" was included on the Romantic Comedy list. That is another really good movie.

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Citizen Kane would likely be on a "Drama" list... but hey, there's no Drama category either!

Yet, they have Courtroom Drama... a boob-tube favorite.

This was about creating a TV special and getting ratings, way more than it was about generating reputable lists.

I still say they're better than most... but I'm not sure how much that's saying in the long run.

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I disliked Titanic when it was first released. It's very poorly written.
Some of my favorites are on the various lists, but I feel that listing To Kill a Mockingbird as a 'courtroom drama' cheapens that movie. It's a whole lot more than that.

I've only seen:

ANIMATION:
1. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
2. Pinocchio
3. Bambi
4. The Lion King
6. Toy Story
7. Beauty and the Beast
8. Shrek
9. Cinderella
10. Finding Nemo


FANTASY:
1. The Wizard of Oz
10. Big

SCI-FI:
3. E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial

COURTROOM DRAMA:
1. To Kill a Mockingbird

EPIC:
3. Schindler's List

Wow. All in all it was an interesting special. I like Entertainment Weekley's Top 100 Films of the Past 25 Years better.

And my crack at Musicals:

MUSICAL:

1. The Wizard of Oz
2. The Sound of Music
3. Singin' in the Rain
4. West Side Story
5. Oliver!
6. Chicago
7. The King and I
8. My Fair Lady
9. Cabaret
10. Dreamgirls

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I'd add CABARET to your musicals list best, but I agree pretty much otherwise.

I do find it odd there is no drama, musical, or horror category. I'd consider those very definitive genres, moreso than something like courtroom drama.

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I guess they left off all the categories they already did- that's why there's no musicals and no comedy or drama.

My brother pointed out an oddity: some of these films are on the AFI 100 Greatest Films list in opposite order than they're on here. As in, Butch Cassidy is #50 and Unforgiven is #98, yet on this list Unforgiven is rated higher. Doesn't make much sense.

The animation list is HORRIBLE. And I can't believe Star Wars is on the list when Empire Strikes Back isn't. Everyone and their mom knows that ESB is the best Star Wars film.

How many more of these lists is AFI going to put out? Geesh.

D'oh! I left Mary Poppins off my Musicals list too, JB2, and that's just wrong.

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Any list that does not include the musical film of "Lost Horizon" is a gargantuan piece of poo, I say!

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