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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!

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To: Ilaine who wrote (69092)12/28/1999 9:56:00 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (4) of 108807
 
this list sucks, imo- The Matrix? I don't THINK so. And Shawshank was silly. I will go through and put a "NO" by the ones that are ludicrous in my opinion.

1 Star Wars: Episode IV, A New Hope (1977) Lucasfilm

2 Blade Runner (1982) Warner Home Video DVD(does NOT deserve to be #2)

3 Casablanca (1942) MGM

4 Alien (1979) 20th Century Fox

5 Star Wars: Episode I, The Phantom Menace (1999) Lucasfilm noRIDICULOUS

6 The Shawshank Redemption (1994) Carlton no

7 Star Wars: Episode V, The Empire Strikes Back (1980) Lucasfilm

8 Schindler's List (1993) Universal Pictures

9 Saving Private Ryan (1998) CIC/Dreamworks

10 Pulp Fiction (1994) Warner Home Video DVD

11 The Godfather (1972) CIC/Paramount

12 Gone With The Wind (1939) MGM

13 GoodFellas (1990)

14 The Usual Suspects (1995) Universal Pictures

15 Aliens (1986) 20th Century Fox

16 The Matrix (1999) Waner Home Video DVD no

17 It's A Wonderful Life (1946) Universal Studios

18 Life of Brian (1979) Python Monty Pictures

19 Taxi Driver (1976) Columbia Tristar Home Video

20 Braveheart (1995) 20th Century Fox Home noEntertainment - Century to
Remember

21 Jaws (1975) Universal Pictures

22 Citizen Kane (1941) Universal Pictures

23 Titanic (1997) 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment - Century to Remember no

24 Apocalypse Now (1979)

25 The Third Man (1949) Warner Home Video

26 Twelve Angry Men (1957)

27 2001 A Space Odyssey (1968) Warner Brothers

29 The Great Escape (1963) MGM

28 Star Wars Episode VI Return of the Jedi (1983) Lucasfilm

30 Lawrence of Arabia (1962) Columbia Tristar Home Video

31 Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Paramount

32 Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991) no

33 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Universal Pictures

34 Some Like It Hot (1959) BBC 2 Friday 24 December 1810

35 The Terminator (1984) Orion

36 Ben Hur (1959) MGM

37 Full Metal Jacket (1987) Warner Brothers

38 Seven (1995) Entertainment Home Video no

39 Trainspotting (1996) FilmFour

40 The Shining (1980) Warner Brothers

41 Psycho, (1960) Columbia Tristar Home Video

42 A Clockwork Orange (1971) Warner Brothers

43 Raging Bull (1980) MGM

44 The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

45 Godfather: Part II (1974) CIC/Paramount

46 Doctor Zhivago, (1965) BBC 2 Friday 31 December 1405

47 Cinema Paradiso (1988) Metro Tartan

48 Reservoir Dogs, (1992) Universal Pictures

49 The Sound of Music (1965) 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment - Century to
Remember

50 Rear Window, (1954) Universal Studios

51 Withnail and I, (1987) no

52 Brazil, (1985) MGM (I have reservations about this one, but maybe only because I found the movie repellent)

53 Jurassic Park, (1993) Universal Pictures

54 Blade (1998) Entertainment Home Video no nononononono

55 Die Hard (1988) 20th Century Fox Century Home Entertainment - Century to
Remember

56 Ghost, (1990) no

57 Shakespheare in Love (1998) Universal Pictures no

58 The Wizard of Oz (1939) MGM

59 A Matter of Life and Death, (1946) Carlton Silver Collection

60 Alien: Resurrection (1997) Twentieth Century Fox - Century to Remember no

61 The Exorcist, (1973) Warner Home Video

62 Thelma and Louise (1991)

63 Heat, (1995) Warner Home Video DVD

64 The Searchers, (1956) Carlton Cinema

65 Brief Encounter (1945) Carlton Silver Collection

66 The Blair Witch Project, (1999) Pathe

67 The Fifth Element (1997) Pathe Distribution

68 The Elephant Man (1980)

69 The Graduate (1967) BMG Video

70 Highlander (1986) no

71 The Italian Job (1965) CIC/Paramount

72 One Flew Over the Cuckcoo's Nest, (1975)

73 LA Confidential (1997)

74 Vertigo (1958) BBC 1 Tuesday 7 December 2335

75 Singin' in the Rain (1952) Saturday 25 December 1710

76 Deer Hunter (1978)

77 Clerks (1994) Artifical Eye

78 Seven Samurai (1954) British Film Institute

79 Quadrophenia (1979) Universal Pictures

80 Scream (1996) no

81 West Side Story (1961) MGM Home Entertainment

82 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, (1969)

83 Dances with Wolves (1990) no

84 Halloween (1978) MIA Video

85 My Fair Lady (1964) Warner Home Video DVD

86 Four Weddings and a Funeral, (1994) ? no

87 Back to the Future (1985) Universal Pictures

88 Chariots of Fire (1981)

89 The English Patient (1996)

90 Forrest Gump (1994) United International Pictures

91 The Maltese Falcon (1941)

92 Annie Hall (1977)

93 Evil Dead 2 (1987) BMG Video

94 The Magnificent Seven (1960)

95 12 Monkeys (1995) 4 Front (I have reservations about this one)

96 The Blues Brothers (1980) 4 Front

97 Shallow Grave (1994) Filmfour

98 The Jungle Book (1967) Walt Disney

99 The Sting (1973) Universial Pictures

100 All About Eve (1950) 20th Century Fox

WOW- where are REd, White and Blue? Where is Fellini? Where is Truffaut? Why is there all that Hollywood schlock on that list? AWFUL. AWFUL.
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