My AFI Top 100 list update for 2011: I doubt that I'll be adding to it before the year ends (Ben-Hur is a possible addition, though). Highlighted in yellow are, unfortunately, NOT the movies remaining on the list... they're the few that I've managed to watch not just in 2011, but in all years of my life to date. There are 23 1/2 highlighted (the half being on account of the fact that I can't seem to finish A Streetcar Named Desire... hopefully someday I will, but I strongly doubt it. I have a low tolerance for films that haven't sparked ANY interest in the first 35 minutes). This brings me about 21 closer than I was this time last year (I kid... a little), so I guess I did accomplish something.
Other notes about movies not pertaining to "the list".... I watched far too many war flicks this year and I'm still mildly depressed (I kid... again). Can't lie though; there are few genres that I truly enjoy, and historical films are probably #1 for me. I tried to balance my viewing by watching at least one comedy/chick flick/stupid movie/animated film for every 1-3 war films. This method worked fairly well, and I actually enjoyed a ton of stupid movies simply because they made me laugh (a feat never before accomplished to quite this extreme, for me).
And can I tell you how excited I am for 2012 films?!!! The top few that I can think of off of the top of my head:
1) The Lorax
2) The Hunger Games
3) Titanic in 3D....?
4) Beauty and the Beast in 3D....??
5) Men in Black 3...???
6) Snow White and the Huntsman
7) Spiderman (another?!)
8) THE DARK KNIGHT RISES
9) Ice Age (another?!)
10) The Bourne Legacy (another?!)
11) TWILIGHTTTTTT!!!!ASOEIFJF!!!!! (lol jk... my online persona may be nebulous at times, but rest assured-I am no tweenie)
12) THE HOBBIT!!!!!!!
In yellow are the ones that I am legitimately excited for, in the bright, painful to look at bluish color are the ones that I will watch (though probably not in theatres) just.... because, and the rest I find both amusing and also relatively disappointing, but might go see if I am especially bored. I hate the 3D thing, though. Just a note.
1.CITIZEN KANE (1941)
2.CASABLANCA (1942)
3.GODFATHER, THE (1972)
4.GONE WITH THE WIND (1939)
5.LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962)
6.WIZARD OF OZ, THE (1939)
7.GRADUATE, THE (1967)
8.ON THE WATERFRONT (1954)
9.SCHINDLER'S LIST (1993)
10.SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (1952)
11.IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946)
12.SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950)
13.BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI, THE (1957)
14.SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959)
15.STAR WARS (1977)
16.ALL ABOUT EVE (1950)
17.AFRICAN QUEEN, THE (1951)
18.PSYCHO (1960)
19.CHINATOWN (1974)
20.ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (1975)
21.GRAPES OF WRATH, THE (1940)
22.2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968)
23.MALTESE FALCON, THE (1941)
24.RAGING BULL (1980)
25.E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (1982)
26.DR. STRANGELOVE (1964)
27.BONNIE & CLYDE (1967)
28.APOCALYPSE NOW (1979)
29.MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (1939)
30.TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (1948)
31.ANNIE HALL (1977)
32.GODFATHER PART II, THE (1974)
33.HIGH NOON (1952)
34.TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1962)
35.IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934)
36.MIDNIGHT COWBOY (1969)
37.BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES, THE (1946)
38.DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944)
39.DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (1965)
40.NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959)
41.WEST SIDE STORY (1961)
42.REAR WINDOW (1954)
43.KING KONG (1933)
44.BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (1915)
45.STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, A (1951)
46.CLOCKWORK ORANGE, A (1971)
47.TAXI DRIVER (1976)
48.JAWS (1975)
49.SNOW WHITE & THE SEVEN DWARFS (1937)
50.BUTCH CASSIDY & THE SUNDANCE KID (1969)
51.PHILADELPHIA STORY, THE(1940)
52.FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (1953)
53.AMADEUS (1984)
54.ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (1930)
55.SOUND OF MUSIC, THE (1965)
56.M*A*S*H(1970)
57.THIRD MAN, THE (1949)
58.FANTASIA (1940)
59.REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (1955)
60.RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981)
61.VERTIGO (1958)
62.TOOTSIE (1982)
63.STAGECOACH (1939)
64.CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (1977)
65.SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, THE (1991)
66.NETWORK (1976)
67.MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, THE (1962)
68.AMERICAN IN PARIS, AN (1951)
69.SHANE (1953)
70.FRENCH CONNECTION, THE (1971)
71.FORREST GUMP (1994)
72.BEN-HUR (1959)
73.WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1939)
74.GOLD RUSH, THE (1925)
75.DANCES WITH WOLVES (1990)
76.CITY LIGHTS (1931)
77.AMERICAN GRAFFITI (1973)
78.ROCKY (1976)
79.DEER HUNTER, THE (1978)
80.WILD BUNCH, THE (1969)
81.MODERN TIMES (1936)
82.GIANT (1956)
83.PLATOON (1986)
84.FARGO (1996)
85.DUCK SOUP (1933)
86.MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY (1935)
87.FRANKENSTEIN (1931)
88.EASY RIDER (1969)
89.PATTON (1970)
90.JAZZ SINGER, THE (1927)
91.MY FAIR LADY (1964)
92.PLACE IN THE SUN, A(1951)
93.APARTMENT, THE (1960)
94.GOODFELLAS (1990)
95.PULP FICTION (1994)
96.SEARCHERS, THE (1956)
97.BRINGING UP BABY (1938)
98.UNFORGIVEN (1992)
99.GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER (1967)
100. YANKEE DOODLE DANDY (1942)
ADDED MOVIES:
The General
Intolerance
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Nashville
Sullivan's Travels
Cabaret
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Saving Private Ryan
The Shawshank Redemption
In the Heat of the Night
All the Presidents Men
Spartacus
A Night at the Opera
12 Angry Men
Swing Time
Sophie's Choice
The Last Picture Show
Do the Right Thing
Blade Runner
Toy Story
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