AFI's 10 GREATEST FILMS IN 10 DIFFERENT GENRES

[Lenardo]

Big?

BIG?

jesus i can think of tons of movies for fantasy that tops big.

oh i don't know planet of the apes. which imo should be in fantasy or scifi...

[Astrocreep]

Originally Posted by Hatorade

Screw tombstone!?...neg internets!

My western list:

1: Tombstone
2: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
3: The Magnificent Seven
4: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
5: The Proposition
6: Hang em High.

more when I can think of them.

Shane
Two Mules for Sister Sara
Little Big Man
The Unforgiven
Fistful of Dollars?

[Simas]

What the fuck is with the Tombstone love? Its ok but pretty much only because of Val Kilmer, its trite and routine. Best western ever? Far, far from it, hell even django is better.

[Szlia]

If we are to add italian westerns to the mix, what about The Great Silence?

[Burkex]

Originally Posted by Szlia

If we are to add italian westerns to the mix, what about The Great Silence?

I'll have to check that out. I never saw it before. Thanks.

[Brutul Tarew Marr]

Originally Posted by Burkex

7. Once Upon a time in the West

You really liked that movie that much? I have seen it on "all time best western" lists before but I thought it was almost unbearable to sit through. I'm not dissing Sergio Leone, but even The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly was long as hell and paced slowly, and Once Upon A Time in the West was a lot worse. Sometimes I think people just list all the spaghetti westerns by default on these lists when IMO TGTB&TU was the only one that would crack my top 10.

I am with you on the Magnificent 7 though, that is #1 on my list.

[Lost Ranger]

The best western is Blazing Saddles.

[fresh]

tombstone is one of my favorite films and i dont even like westerns. maybe it just doesnt hit the spot for you guys that are into them.

my buddy was at a fundraiser at val kilmers house last weekend and he was selling autographed paintings of doc. wtb!

[Szlia]

So I bit the bullet and registered to the AFI site to get to see the criteria for the list. Here we go:

FEATURE-LENGTH FICTION FILMS
Narrative format, typically over 60 minutes in length.
AMERICAN FILM
English-language film with significant creative and/or production elements from the United States. Additionally, only films released before January 1, 2008 will be considered.
CRITICAL RECOGNITION
Formal commendation in print, television and digital media.
MAJOR AWARD WINNER
Recognition from competitive events including awards from peer groups, critics, guilds and major film festivals.
POPULARITY OVER TIME
Including success at the box office, television and cable airing, and DVD/VHS
sales and rentals.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE
A film’s mark on the history of the moving images through visionary narrative
devices, technical innovation, or other ground breaking achievements.
CULTURAL IMPACT
A film’s mark on American society in matters of style and substance.

So I guess that it was felt that Kubrick being an american was enough to make A Clockwork Orange eligible.

[Astrocreep]

Originally Posted by Brutul Tarew Marr

You really liked that movie that much? I have seen it on "all time best western" lists before but I thought it was almost unbearable to sit through. I'm not dissing Sergio Leone, but even The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly was long as hell and paced slowly, and Once Upon A Time in the West was a lot worse. Sometimes I think people just list all the spaghetti westerns by default on these lists when IMO TGTB&TU was the only one that would crack my top 10.

I am with you on the Magnificent 7 though, that is #1 on my list.

G,B&the U is one of the very few 3 hour movies ive seen that i dont realize its actually 3 hours long. the worst being Return of the King. shit that movie took forever to end.

[Simas]

Originally Posted by Szlia

So I bit the bullet and registered to the AFI site to get to see the criteria for the list. Here we go:

So I guess that it was felt that Kubrick being an american was enough to make A Clockwork Orange eligible.

Wat?

Clockwork Orange meets almost every criteria.

[Chanur]

Blueberri is a great western also imo.

[PosterOfStuff]

Originally Posted by Burkex

You can give me -1 internets all day long, I could care less but here is the list imo:

1. The Good the Bad and The Ugly
2. Unforgiven
3. A fistful of Dollars
4. For A few Dollars More
5. High Noon
6. The Magnificant 7
7. Once Upon a time in the West
8. High Planes Drifter
9. True Grit
10. Shane

11. Maybe Tombstone

If the list above is what you are proposing instead of the AFI one, its very good, but alot of those are not American. Hence why they are not part of the top 10. (As soon as I saw the AFI list didn't have The good, the bad and the ugly in it, I just went WAT!)

[Greyform]

Originally Posted by Hatorade

Screw tombstone!?...neg internets!

My western list:

1: Tombstone
2: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
3: The Magnificent Seven
4: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
5: The Proposition
6: Hang em High.

more when I can think of them.

You need to sqeeze in "The life and times of Judge Roy Bean" in there somewhere.

[Astrocreep]

yeah that rocks, Paul Newman nailed that one.