Happy Catholic tagged me with the 100 Films Meme from the AFI’s top 100.
1) Your favorite five movies that are on the list.
1. Raiders of the Lost Ark
2. It’s a Wonderful Life
3. The African Queen
4. The Gold Rush
5. Duck Soup
Though there are several others that depending on my mood could easily be top 5.
2) Five movies on the list you didn’t like at all.
Well I pretty much have seen all of them and there aren’t any that I didn’t like at all. I liked One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest for the most part, though on rewatching it I hated the ending. I use to work for one of the women who played a nurse in the movie. She ran a children’s theatre company that my father use to work for and that I spent a lot of time at. I also once sang as part of the choir to the patience at Damish Hospital where part of the movie was filmed.
Mainly I would have quibbles about a movie being in the top 100 in the first place, for example Platooon and Easy Rider. Easy Rider was fine if you watched it in the seventies, but it just doesn’t wear well. Some movies you watch when you are younger and think were great at the time just should never be rewatched. Platoon is okay, just not top 100 material or even top 200.
3) Five movies on the list you haven’t seen but want to.
1. Amadeus
I have seen all the others on the list.
4) Five movies on the list you haven’t seen and have no interest in seeing.
Zero for this category.
5) Your favorite five movies that aren’t on the list.
1. The Passion of the Christ
2. A Night at the Opera
3. The Lord of the Rings
4. Braveheart
5. The Haunting of Hill House
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Braveheart? It has gratuitous nudity and its portrayal of Robert the Bruce, one of the great Christian knights, is pure calumny. I was given the dvd as a birthday gift. After watching it and seeing Robert the Bruce portrayed as betraying the Scots to the English and trying to kill Wallace, I threw it out. Mel Gibson should be ashamed of himself.
Gratuitous nudity in Braveheart? What the heck are you talking about?
And you’re right about the historical facts being fudged but you’re more offended by Robert the Bruce’s temporary betrayal of Scotland than Wallace’s affair with the queen of England??
I definitely think Bella should go on the list. I’ve seen it twice and I want to see it again — and then get the DVD when it’s issued.
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1) The scene of Wallace’s wedding night contained gratuitous nudity.
2) I found that offensive, too. Just didn’t recall it at the time.
Come to think of it, right after the scene that shows Wallace having an affair with the Princess of Wales, he tells a friend that he prays to God to be able to have a wife and family and live in peace. I thought the juxtaposition of those 2 scenes was blasphemous.
Amadeus is one of my top 3 movies. Definitely worth seeing. A Man For All Seasons is another. I’m not telling the third one on this site. I had much tougher skin when I saw it. 🙂
Then again, I liked Braveheart, but not for gratuitous anything. I’m surprised, though, since the sound of that film (all that hacking, grunting, and gurgling) alone was the most violent movie experience I’ve ever had, that anyone noticed nudity enough to remember it.
I just watched “Ushpizin” and highly recommend it! It was filmed in 2005 in Jerusalem, it is in Hebrew with English subtitles. A very beautiful story, with lots of Jewish humor. No objectionable material and a great message.
I did not see Kingdom of Heaven on your list and that deffinently deserves to be on there!
Has anyone seen The Ultimate Gift? If not go straight to your local Blockbuster and pick up a copy because it is a story no one should miss. My boss even had us take part of a workday to watch it because he thought it was soo good. And that is saying something!
LOTR is one of the best movies series! Only if you have read the books! I don’t really think the movies were well cast, nor that they follow the story in the best possible way, but the books are so great and some of the graphics so wonderful.
Frodo — BOO!
Sam — THE BEST EVER!
Merry — OK.
Pipin — PERFECT!
Gandolf — PERFECT!
Strider — OK as a RANGER, HORRIBLE KING
Galadriel — SCARY! SHE WOULD HAVE BEEN GOOD HAD THEY NOT MADE HER FRIGHTENING!
Arwen — TOO DRAMATIC.
Aowen — PERFECT!
Legolas — PERFECT! COOL!
Gimli — PERFECT!
Ferimir — HORRID! AND THEY MADE HIM MORE EVIL THAN HE WAS.
Wormtongue — THE ABSOLUTE BEST!
Treebeard — NOT HOW I IMAGINED HIM, BUT WOW!
ETC. ETC. ETC.
If you compare this with the newly released NARNIA it is 100 times better. While Jackson strayed from the story a little at least it was believable! NARNIA was butchery!
I would like to apologize for my misspellings in my last post. I was typing fast and forgot to Spell Check before I posted.
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