Tuesday, June 17, 2008

AFI's 10 Top 10 Predix

Following AFI's super-hyped redux of their Top 100 American Film countdown last year, the tradition continues tonight when they do their annual tribute to...well, good movies. This year's theme is 10 Top 10: ten top ten lists of the best (insert genre here)s of all time. I can't watch it tonight because I'm going to be with some friends, but I plan on taping it and watching it tomorrow. Anyways, here are my predix for the list, in alphabetical order only...

ANIMATED
Beauty and the Beast
Dumbo
Fantasia
Finding Nemo
The Incredibles
The Lion King
Pinocchio
Shrek
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
Toy Story

FANTASY
Ghost
Groundhog Day
Harvey
Heaven Can Wait (probably not, but I love this movie)
It's a Wonderful Life
King Kong
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Mary Poppins
The Princess Bride
The Wizard of Oz

GANGSTER
Bonnie & Clyde
Bugsy
The Departed
The Godfather (I'm putting Part II in "Epic", because I doubt that one film will occupy two spots on the list, and the first is not listed in the "Epic" selection, while the second is)
Goodfellas
Heat
On the Waterfront
Pulp Fiction
Scarface
Some Like it Hot

SCIENCE FICTION
Alien
Blade Runner
A Clockwork Orange
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial
The Matrix
Planet of the Apes
Star Wars
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
2001: A Space Odyssey

WESTERN
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Giant
High Noon
The Last Picture Show
The Searchers
Shane
Stagecoach
True Grit
Unforgiven
The Wild Bunch

SPORTS
The Bad News Bears
Caddyshack
Chariots of Fire
Field of Dreams (here or in Fantasy?)
Hoosiers
The Hustler
Jerry Maguire
The Natural
Raging Bull
Rocky

MYSTERY
Chinatown
The Fugitive
Gaslight
The Maltese Falcon
Murder on the Orient Express
North by Northwest
Rear Window
Rebecca
The Third Man
Vertigo

ROMANTIC COMEDY
Annie Hall
The Apartment
As Good as it Gets (probably not gonna happen, but I really really want it to)
Bringing Up Baby
City Lights
His Girl Friday
It Happened One Night
Moonstruck
The Philadelphia Story
When Harry Met Sally... (see As Good as it Gets)

COURTROOM DRAMA
12 Angry Men
Anatomy of a Murder
The Caine Mutiny
A Few Good Men
In Cold Blood
Inherit the Wind
Kramer vs. Kramer
Philadelphia
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Verdict

EPIC
Apocalypse Now
Ben-Hur (1959 version)
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Forrest Gump
The Godfather Part II
Gone With the Wind
Lawrence of Arabia
Saving Private Ryan
Schindler's List
Titanic

We'll test these out tonight!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Ha ha. I'm glad Dumbo didn't make it to the final list. It's like the most racist cartoon ever.