Afi

OY

Simple question...how many of AFIs top 100 movies of all time have you seen. Only count the ones that you remember, if you think you may have seen it then you didn't!
So my number is 39 which needless to say sucks!

http://www.ravecentral.com/afi.html
http://www.afi.com/tvevents/100years/movies.aspx

Also as a side note take a look at this guy:
http://jenningsbaby.8m.com/
Ken Jennings rocks!

ixoy

55...

OfflerCrocGod

Most of those are total rubbish "Gone with the Wind" - just mention that film and I feel sick and bored (at the same time!) Wiz of OZ......ye 6th greatest US movie ever, whatever :rolleyes:

Hugh Hefner

20

Although I am only just 15 so I'm on track. Also, it's not as though I don't know of all (I do) and and don't want to see them. I'm content.

Makaveli

37.
Most of them I'd have no intention of watching. Quite alot of musicals in there, I loathe musicals.

RuggieBear

36 and i'll echo Makaveli's senitments about musicals....

Belisarius

62(Hah) though Its not a great list. and most of what I havent seen:snow white,west side story et al doesnt interest me in the least

mike65

I remember seeing 41 and I have passed on the chance to see nearly every other film at least 10 times! Kinda boring predictable list tbh.

Mike.

Basq

Have seen 23 of them myself!

Some truly awful ones in there though that i'd have no intention of sitting down and watching!!

Blisterman

20, just because I saw easy rider 2 days ago. Not many comedies in there from the past 30 years.
Edit
http://www.ravecentral.com/afifunniest.html
100 funniest movies
Still no waynes world.

Caesar_Bojangle

I've seen 23 in their entirety. I've actually watched I'll guess another 15 only to stop watching midway through because I didn't like them.

herobear

is there a bfi or ifi equivalent ?? thats a pretty crap list, the majority of those films dont interest me in the slightest

mike65

Blisterman wrote:

Edit
http://www.ravecentral.com/afifunniest.html
100 funniest movies
Still no waynes world.

Thats a pretty good list though I'd have to take issue with "Its a Mad...etc", "9-5" and "City Slickers". Also its a very US biased list. No Ealing or Boulting Brothers etc.

Now this is a quality list (except no 99!).

Mike.

OfflerCrocGod

mike65 wrote:

Also its a very US biased list. No Ealing or Boulting Brothers etc.

It's probably to do with the 'A' in AFI.

monument

Around 35 of them.

mike65

OfflerCrocGod wrote:

It's probably to do with the 'A' in AFI.

Not quite, well maybe! Is A Fish Called Wanda American? Perhaps it is.

edit/ maybe its not as its also in the BFI list!

Mike.

chewy

seen about 40 of them

gandalf

Around 48 of them.

is_that_so

Em I counted 95 of them :rolleyes: and not quite sure about remaining 5

and 94 of IMDB list.

OfflerCrocGod

mike65 wrote:

Not quite, well maybe! Is A Fish Called Wanda American? Perhaps it is.

edit/ maybe its not as its also in the BFI list!

Well if you look at the review on imdb the person reviewing actually complains about this:

Too Trans-Atlantic I was going to take issue with the IMDB classing this as an American movie but perhaps I shouldn`t . It is financed by American money , distributed by MGM and has both eyes on an American market ,two of the main protagonists are played by Americans while the two main British characters are played by John Cleese and Michael Palin who are well known in the States because of MONTY PYTHON

Umm so I'd say it's classified as American by the USians and as Brit by the Brits. A pickle I'd say.

Raoul Duke

80 of them for me. I have a number of embarassing gaps in there that I need to fill. Never seen Lawrence of Arabia or Raging Bull or The Graduate

Watching Dr Zhivago tomorrow as well.

Have to agree with some of the comments about the worth of such a list. Any list that puts The African Queen above Chinatown and about 50 other films that are way better than it isn't worth a damn in my books.

Chad ghostal

63, and theres only a few more id actually like to see..
not a bad collection of movies for the most part.

OY

Umm so I'd say it's classified as American by the USians and as Brit by the Brits. A pickle I'd say.

Interesting thing about A Fish Called Wanda.... never noticed that at all for some reason!

At the end of the day it is personal taste though at the end of the day, because you do not like musicals does not mean that they suck! I like the bfi list better but wanted to see what people thought about the list. There is a lot of movies that i need to see.

ionapaul

Seen 56. No Aliens? No Outlaw Josie Wales? (which just ended on TG4, I could watch it a million times)

ionapaul

Raoul Duke wrote:

80 of them for me. I have a number of embarassing gaps in there that I need to fill. Never seen Lawrence of Arabia or Raging Bull or The Graduate

Watching Dr Zhivago tomorrow as well.

Have to agree with some of the comments about the worth of such a list. Any list that puts The African Queen above Chinatown and about 50 other films that are way better than it isn't worth a damn in my books.

The four you mention you haven't see are amazing films - see them at once! Though Dr. Zhivago is a much better book than film. At the same time, Julie Christie...aaaaaaaahhhhh, she is sooooooooo beautiful it hurts a little. There must be only 10 women a century to look like that.

Raoul Duke

ionapaul wrote:

The four you mention you haven't see are amazing films - see them at once! Though Dr. Zhivago is a much better book than film. At the same time, Julie Christie...aaaaaaaahhhhh, she is sooooooooo beautiful it hurts a little. There must be only 10 women a century to look like that.

Those films are always on tv as well, so I've no excuse for not watching them. I have a copy of Raging Bull that's been sitting there for ages. I've grown an aversion for a number of films that I've caught a few minutes of on tv. Those few minutes have usually bored me to tears and probably given me a false impression of the films. It doesn't help that they are very long movies as well. I'll take the plunge one of these days I suppose.