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To: Ilaine who wrote (69092)	12/28/1999 8:52:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Oh geez... Goodfellas, The Usual Suspects, Aliens and the Matrix? This must have been a Peoples Choice award thing, right? Alien was a great film but Aliens doesn't belong there at all... and the matrix??? come on!

To: Ilaine who wrote (69092)	12/28/1999 8:55:00 PM
From: Edwarda	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Good move, CB! I haven't seen all of the films, so I can't comment. However, I do endorse: It's a Wonderful Life The Shawshank Redemption The English Patient Forrest Gump Seven Samurai Rear Window A Clockwork Orange They made people think. How about "Same Time Next Year"? What did you think of it?

To: Ilaine who wrote (69092)	12/28/1999 9:16:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 108807

A little top heavy with SF, I'd say. 4 of the top 5, 5 0f the top 7???? Maybe it's some kind of millennialism offshoot. I had somewhat fond memories of the original Star Wars, but I tried to watch it with my kids a year ago, they thought it was boring, and so did I. All this director's cut business with added footage is way overrated. Citizen Kane #22, no Dr. Strangelove? Well, at least they put Citizen Kane (just) ahead of Titanic, we got Titanic in heavy rotation with the kids, and the hour of running around in flooding corridors is a little, uh, redundant. The trouble with this area is you'll get another flood of Neoconism when he comes back. Which brings to mind my favorite line from Dr. Strangelove, "You can't fight in here, this is the war room!". Cheers, Dan.

To: Ilaine who wrote (69092)	12/28/1999 9:56:00 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to 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.

To: Ilaine who wrote (69092)	12/28/1999 10:24:00 PM
From: Ish	Respond to of 108807

<<I never saw "Shawshank Redemption," do you think it deserves to be number 6? I definitely don't think "Pulp Fiction" deserves number 10.>> "Shawshank Redemption" was pretty good. Had a message and all that. Kept you interested. "Pulp Fiction" would have been better if they would have kept the story straight. Not bad but for a Travolta movie "Get Shorty" was much better. Still for #1 I'd have to go with "Big Jake" or "Vertigo"

To: Ilaine who wrote (69092)	12/28/1999 10:34:00 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Where's "On the Waterfront"? Or some of those classic noir films from the late 40's and 50's? And no "Conan the Barbarian"?! Half those movies don't belong. The Brits are such silly people. PS - To avoid the charge of bias, I should say we are silly people too.