Time Picks Top 100 Films

gollum123 writes "Time magazine on Monday published its list of 100 all-time favorite movies ranging from Charlie Chaplin's "City Lights" (1931) to Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List" (1993) and 2003 computer-animated hit "Finding Nemo." But critics Richard Schickel and Richard Corliss snubbed several classics such as 1939's "Gone with the Wind". Almost half of the films were made outside the United States. Here is the full list."

Re:To kick off obligatory missing films...

[brxndxn]

For anyone that hasn't see it, this is the film where the dude says, "I love the smell of napalm in the morning. It smells like victory!"

YA.. bet you didn't know that.. so go rent the video now.

Re:I heard about this already...

[Cutriss]

Methinks Joe used "objective" when he meant to use "subjective".

Hits and Misses

[lheal]

In general, they're way too film-arty. That's no surprise, but still.

Hits:
Blade Runner
Dr. Strangelove
The Fly (1986)
LOTR
Unforgiven
Schindler's List
Star Wars

Misses (not present):
Men in Black
The Quiet Man (John Wayne)
The Ring
The Passion of the Christ
The Matrix (yeah, but I liked it)

Not a complete list

[HungWeiLo]

The Time's list is by far incomplete. The Criterion Collection [criterionco.com] is a good place to start for excellent films of high caliber (plus most have excellent transfers...making gems like Kurosawa's Rashomon look like it was made just yesterday).

Should be called "Top 100 List - According to 2"

[nighty5]

What a waste of time. No pun intended.

I think Time summed up the waste of time based on the fact that 2 guys thought that a few classics "didnt do it for them" - this isnt a "top 100" then.

For a more reliable list of top movies based on the average medium of voters, goto IMDB Top 250 [imdb.com]

Re:To kick off obligatory missing films...

[Anonymous Coward]

For anyone that hasn't see it, this is the film where the dude says, "I love the smell of napalm in the morning. It smells like victory!"

Where ... the *dude* says?

"You smell that? ... That gasoline smell? That's the smell of victory! I *love* the smell of napalm in the morning!"

You've probably heard the misquoted version from somewhere else and want to look cool. Just like all those people who say, "We don't need no stinking badges," when the correct quote is "Badges? What stinkin' badges? We don't need no badges!"

Sure, the misquoted, shortened form is somewhat the same, but then a raisin is somewhat the same as a grape.

Re:To kick off obligatory missing films...

[register_ax]

The correct quote, with a little added to it is:

"You smell that? Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for twelve hours. When it was all over I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like ... victory. Ya know, someday this war's gonna end..."

Re:Ugh.

[Anonymous Coward]

Er... Terry and Alfred were Brits. Sorry mate.

Re:Wow, magazine doing movie ratings?

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, according to the original post, almost half the films were NON-American. It does stand to reason that America would have the largest share, though. We spend FAR more money on making movies than any other country...

It wouldn't surprise me if we spent more money than every other country combined (though, really, I have no idea, I'm just saying I certainly wouldn't be surprised if that were the case).

Re:Ugh.

[lendude]

I'm sure Peter Weir will be surprised to find he's been co-opted as an American - he's an Australian. Peter Weir @ www.imdb.com [imdb.com]

Re:To kick off obligatory missing films...

[Anonymous Coward]

Other than being available at your local video rental outlet, I believe that you can find most of this list in TFA.

Re:Too many modern movies

[Mjec]

Yes, sure, there may be too many Speilberg movies. And there were earlier holocaust movies. But none were nearly as powerful as Schindler's List. That movie is one that definitely deserves placement on the list. It's just too good to be left out.

Re:Ugh.

[Golias]

You are correct about Hitchcock, my bad, but Terry Gilliam is from my home state of Minnesota.

Re:Should be called "Top 100 List - According to 2

[Anonymous Coward]

I think we all know the best power ranger was Kimberly (Amy Jo Johnson).

For purely asthetic reasons, mind you.