Jedieb
Jun 12th, 2002, 11:11:14 AM
I'm sure you're all THRILLED to see that this year's AFI list focuses on Hollywood's 100 Greatest Romances. I'm sure Jon will especially cherish this list. I'm happy to see my all time faovirite at the top of the list. One of my all time favorite actors, Cary Grant, has the most pics so it's all good for me. Here's the top 10 and a link in case anyone's interested.
I've put the movies I've seen in bold. I liked most of them but some were worthy of my spite. shudder..
1. ``Casablanca,'' 1942 My all time favorite movie. For years it was ESB or Casablanca, but Bogart's won out in the end. I can't explain it really, Except to say that some movies feel like home and this is one of them for me. Love found, love lost, honor, courage, patriotism, sacrifice, redemption, humor, it's all there. To think they wrote the script as the movie was being filmed is just simply amazing.
2. ``Gone With the Wind,'' 1939Seen it, liked it, but glad it didn't come in #1.
3. ``West Side Story,'' 1961 Guy runs around a Puerto Rican neigborhood screaming "MARIA!" and only ONE girl sticks her head out the window? WTF!?
4. ``Roman Holiday,'' 1953
5. ``An Affair to Remember,'' 1957 No one should ever see the Warren Beaty & Benning attrocity when this is only a rental away. One of Grant's best. It's sappy, but Grant makes it watchable. You want to score some easy points with a girl? Rent this.
6. ``The Way We Were, 1973This is too damn sappy even for me. Redford is lucky he gets away at the end. Pity James Brolin, pity the poor bastard.
7. ``Doctor Zhivago,'' 1965
8. ``It's a Wonderful Life,'' 1946 This doens't really seem like a love story to me, but it's one of my favorites and a definite classic.
9. ``Love Story,'' 1970Didn't like it one bit. In fact, I'm glad McGraw dies.
10. ``City Lights,'' 1931
Not all of these are movies I particularly enjoyed. Love Story and The Way We Were were just WAAAAY to chicky for even me. But Casablanca, An Affair to Remember, It's a Wonderful Life, and even GWTW are are all very good. Here's the rest of the list:
11. ``Annie Hall,'' 1977 Some of the child molester's best work, but WAAAYYY too high on this or any other list. Plus it beat ANH for best pic which is sure to inspire much venom on this board.
12. ``My Fair Lady,'' 1964 Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn. I actually know the words to most of the songs. Oh, the shame....
13. ``Out of Africa,'' 1985 Saw it once and that was more than enough. I don't see the big deal really, it wasn't THAT good IMO.
14. ``The African Queen,'' 1951 Bogart and Hepburn at their best. One of Bogey's last movies and one of his best.
15. ``Wuthering Heights,'' 1939 I believe this is the version with Sir Lawrence. I prefer the book, but this version is the best you'll see.
16. ``Singin' in the Rain,'' 1952 Gene Kelley, one funky white boy!
17. ``Moonstruck,'' 1987 didn't really like it that much. I've actually forgotten most of it. Thank goodness.
18. ``Vertigo,'' 1958
19. ``Ghost,'' 1990
20. ``From Here to Eternity,'' 1953 Sinatra gets an Oscar and Burt Lancaster makes out on the beach.
21. ``Pretty Woman,'' 1990 I really don't like this movie. It's sexist and utterly unrealistic. I wish they'd stuck to the original concept with Pacino and Pfeifer and drug abuse and an unhappy ending were all part of the mix. Only in the movies are prostitutes that pretty and non-diseased ridden.
22. ``On Golden Pond,'' 1981 The loooons, the loooons... The acting was great, and wathcing Fonda's last performance makes it bitter sweet, but it wasn't THAT good.
23. ``Now, Voyager, 1942
24. ``King Kong,'' 1933 How the hell is THIS a love story?
25. ``When Harry Met Sally...,'' 1989 The orgasm scene and Crystal's one-liners make it more than bearable for guys taking their GF's to a date flick.
26. ``The Lady Eve,'' 1941
27. ``The Sound of Music,'' 1965
28. ``The Shop Around the Corner,'' 1940
29. ``An Officer and a Gentleman,'' 1982
30. ``Swing Time,'' 1936
31. ``The King and I,'' 1956
32. ``Dark Victory,'' 1939Bogart, Bogart, Bogart.
33. ``Camille,'' 1937
34. ``Beauty and the Beast,'' 1991
35. ``Gigi,'' 1958Yeah, I've seen Gigi, what of it!?
36. ``Random Harvest,'' 1942
37. ``Titanic,'' 1997Leo dies, what's not to like?
38. ``It Happened One Night,'' 1934 Gable teaches everyone how to dunk.
39. ``An American in Paris,'' 1951
40. ``Ninotchka,'' 1939
41. ``Funny Girl,'' 1968
42. ``Anna Karenina,'' 1935
43. ``A Star Is Born,'' 1954
44. ``The Philadelphia Story,'' 1940 Grant, Hepburn, and Jimmy Stewart thrown into the mix make this a great old Hollywood movie. I've seen it over a dozen times and I never get tired of it.
45. ``Sleepless in Seattle,'' 1993 Tom Hank's teary eyed tribute to The Dirty Dozen is alone worth the price of admission.
46. ``To Catch a Thief,'' 1955
47. ``Splendor in the Grass,'' 1961
48. ``Last Tango in Paris,'' 1972
49. ``The Postman Always Rings Twice, 1946
50. ``Shakespeare in Love,'' 1998
51. ``Bringing Up Baby,'' 1938 Grant and Hepburn at their manic best. One of my all time favorites.
52. ``The Graduate,'' 1967
53. ``A Place in the Sun,'' 1951
54. ``Sabrina,'' 1954 The Bogart version is better than Ford's. Bogart and Ford can cancel each other out, Julia O. is NO MATCH for Audrey Hepburn, they're not even close.
55. ``Reds,'' 1981
56. ``The English Patient,'' 1996
57. ``Two for the Road,'' 1967
58. ``Guess Who's Coming to Dinner,'' 1967Tracy, Hepburn, and Pottier. Great acting, and a great message.
59. ``Picnic,'' 1955
60. ``To Have and Have Not,'' 1944 Bacall teaches you how to whistle. Good god that woman was HOT!!!
61. ``Breakfast at Tiffany's,'' 1961
62. ``The Apartment,'' 1960
63. ``Sunrise,'' 1927
64. ``Marty,'' 1955
65. ``Bonnie and Clyde,'' 1967Romance, crime, and blood, ahhhh...
66. ``Manhattan,'' 1979
67. ``A Streetcar Named Desire,'' 1951 This is a romance? It's Brando as a mad rapist!
68. ``What's Up, Doc?,'' 1972
69. ``Harold and Maude,'' 1971
70. ``Sense and Sensibility,'' 1995
71. ``Way Down East,'' 1920
72. ``Roxanne,'' 1987
73. ``The Ghost and Mrs. Muir,'' 1947
74. ``Woman of the Year,'' 1942
75. ``The American President,'' 1995
76. ``The Quiet Man,'' 1952
77. ``The Awful Truth,'' 1937
78. ``Coming Home,'' 1978
79. ``Jezebel,'' 1939
80. ``The Sheik,'' 1921
81. ``The Goodbye Girl,'' 1977
82. ``Witness,'' 1985
83. ``Morocco,'' 1930
84. ``Double Indemnity,'' 1944
85. ``Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing,'' 1955
86. ``Notorious,'' 1946
87. ``The Unbearable Lightness of Being,'' 1988
88. ``The Princess Bride,'' 1987
89. ``Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,'' 1966
90. ``The Bridges of Madison County,'' 1995 Eastwood should have casted Redford and then just directed.
91. ``Working Girl,'' 1988
92. ``Porgy and Bess,'' 1959
93. ``Dirty Dancing,'' 1987
94. ``Body Heat,'' 1981 This is NOT a love story! It's film noir!
95. ``Lady and the Tramp,'' 1955
96. ``Barefoot in the Park,'' 1967 One of the few times I DIDN'T find Jane Fonda annoying.
97. ``Grease,'' 1978 I know ALL the words and usually sing along just to annoy my wife. "summer lovin', havin' a blast...." You can't stop me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
98. ``The Hunchback of Notre Dame,'' 1939
99. ``Pillow Talk,'' 1959
100. ``Jerry Maguire,'' 1996
I've put the movies I've seen in bold. I liked most of them but some were worthy of my spite. shudder..
1. ``Casablanca,'' 1942 My all time favorite movie. For years it was ESB or Casablanca, but Bogart's won out in the end. I can't explain it really, Except to say that some movies feel like home and this is one of them for me. Love found, love lost, honor, courage, patriotism, sacrifice, redemption, humor, it's all there. To think they wrote the script as the movie was being filmed is just simply amazing.
2. ``Gone With the Wind,'' 1939Seen it, liked it, but glad it didn't come in #1.
3. ``West Side Story,'' 1961 Guy runs around a Puerto Rican neigborhood screaming "MARIA!" and only ONE girl sticks her head out the window? WTF!?
4. ``Roman Holiday,'' 1953
5. ``An Affair to Remember,'' 1957 No one should ever see the Warren Beaty & Benning attrocity when this is only a rental away. One of Grant's best. It's sappy, but Grant makes it watchable. You want to score some easy points with a girl? Rent this.
6. ``The Way We Were, 1973This is too damn sappy even for me. Redford is lucky he gets away at the end. Pity James Brolin, pity the poor bastard.
7. ``Doctor Zhivago,'' 1965
8. ``It's a Wonderful Life,'' 1946 This doens't really seem like a love story to me, but it's one of my favorites and a definite classic.
9. ``Love Story,'' 1970Didn't like it one bit. In fact, I'm glad McGraw dies.
10. ``City Lights,'' 1931
Not all of these are movies I particularly enjoyed. Love Story and The Way We Were were just WAAAAY to chicky for even me. But Casablanca, An Affair to Remember, It's a Wonderful Life, and even GWTW are are all very good. Here's the rest of the list:
11. ``Annie Hall,'' 1977 Some of the child molester's best work, but WAAAYYY too high on this or any other list. Plus it beat ANH for best pic which is sure to inspire much venom on this board.
12. ``My Fair Lady,'' 1964 Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn. I actually know the words to most of the songs. Oh, the shame....
13. ``Out of Africa,'' 1985 Saw it once and that was more than enough. I don't see the big deal really, it wasn't THAT good IMO.
14. ``The African Queen,'' 1951 Bogart and Hepburn at their best. One of Bogey's last movies and one of his best.
15. ``Wuthering Heights,'' 1939 I believe this is the version with Sir Lawrence. I prefer the book, but this version is the best you'll see.
16. ``Singin' in the Rain,'' 1952 Gene Kelley, one funky white boy!
17. ``Moonstruck,'' 1987 didn't really like it that much. I've actually forgotten most of it. Thank goodness.
18. ``Vertigo,'' 1958
19. ``Ghost,'' 1990
20. ``From Here to Eternity,'' 1953 Sinatra gets an Oscar and Burt Lancaster makes out on the beach.
21. ``Pretty Woman,'' 1990 I really don't like this movie. It's sexist and utterly unrealistic. I wish they'd stuck to the original concept with Pacino and Pfeifer and drug abuse and an unhappy ending were all part of the mix. Only in the movies are prostitutes that pretty and non-diseased ridden.
22. ``On Golden Pond,'' 1981 The loooons, the loooons... The acting was great, and wathcing Fonda's last performance makes it bitter sweet, but it wasn't THAT good.
23. ``Now, Voyager, 1942
24. ``King Kong,'' 1933 How the hell is THIS a love story?
25. ``When Harry Met Sally...,'' 1989 The orgasm scene and Crystal's one-liners make it more than bearable for guys taking their GF's to a date flick.
26. ``The Lady Eve,'' 1941
27. ``The Sound of Music,'' 1965
28. ``The Shop Around the Corner,'' 1940
29. ``An Officer and a Gentleman,'' 1982
30. ``Swing Time,'' 1936
31. ``The King and I,'' 1956
32. ``Dark Victory,'' 1939Bogart, Bogart, Bogart.
33. ``Camille,'' 1937
34. ``Beauty and the Beast,'' 1991
35. ``Gigi,'' 1958Yeah, I've seen Gigi, what of it!?
36. ``Random Harvest,'' 1942
37. ``Titanic,'' 1997Leo dies, what's not to like?
38. ``It Happened One Night,'' 1934 Gable teaches everyone how to dunk.
39. ``An American in Paris,'' 1951
40. ``Ninotchka,'' 1939
41. ``Funny Girl,'' 1968
42. ``Anna Karenina,'' 1935
43. ``A Star Is Born,'' 1954
44. ``The Philadelphia Story,'' 1940 Grant, Hepburn, and Jimmy Stewart thrown into the mix make this a great old Hollywood movie. I've seen it over a dozen times and I never get tired of it.
45. ``Sleepless in Seattle,'' 1993 Tom Hank's teary eyed tribute to The Dirty Dozen is alone worth the price of admission.
46. ``To Catch a Thief,'' 1955
47. ``Splendor in the Grass,'' 1961
48. ``Last Tango in Paris,'' 1972
49. ``The Postman Always Rings Twice, 1946
50. ``Shakespeare in Love,'' 1998
51. ``Bringing Up Baby,'' 1938 Grant and Hepburn at their manic best. One of my all time favorites.
52. ``The Graduate,'' 1967
53. ``A Place in the Sun,'' 1951
54. ``Sabrina,'' 1954 The Bogart version is better than Ford's. Bogart and Ford can cancel each other out, Julia O. is NO MATCH for Audrey Hepburn, they're not even close.
55. ``Reds,'' 1981
56. ``The English Patient,'' 1996
57. ``Two for the Road,'' 1967
58. ``Guess Who's Coming to Dinner,'' 1967Tracy, Hepburn, and Pottier. Great acting, and a great message.
59. ``Picnic,'' 1955
60. ``To Have and Have Not,'' 1944 Bacall teaches you how to whistle. Good god that woman was HOT!!!
61. ``Breakfast at Tiffany's,'' 1961
62. ``The Apartment,'' 1960
63. ``Sunrise,'' 1927
64. ``Marty,'' 1955
65. ``Bonnie and Clyde,'' 1967Romance, crime, and blood, ahhhh...
66. ``Manhattan,'' 1979
67. ``A Streetcar Named Desire,'' 1951 This is a romance? It's Brando as a mad rapist!
68. ``What's Up, Doc?,'' 1972
69. ``Harold and Maude,'' 1971
70. ``Sense and Sensibility,'' 1995
71. ``Way Down East,'' 1920
72. ``Roxanne,'' 1987
73. ``The Ghost and Mrs. Muir,'' 1947
74. ``Woman of the Year,'' 1942
75. ``The American President,'' 1995
76. ``The Quiet Man,'' 1952
77. ``The Awful Truth,'' 1937
78. ``Coming Home,'' 1978
79. ``Jezebel,'' 1939
80. ``The Sheik,'' 1921
81. ``The Goodbye Girl,'' 1977
82. ``Witness,'' 1985
83. ``Morocco,'' 1930
84. ``Double Indemnity,'' 1944
85. ``Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing,'' 1955
86. ``Notorious,'' 1946
87. ``The Unbearable Lightness of Being,'' 1988
88. ``The Princess Bride,'' 1987
89. ``Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,'' 1966
90. ``The Bridges of Madison County,'' 1995 Eastwood should have casted Redford and then just directed.
91. ``Working Girl,'' 1988
92. ``Porgy and Bess,'' 1959
93. ``Dirty Dancing,'' 1987
94. ``Body Heat,'' 1981 This is NOT a love story! It's film noir!
95. ``Lady and the Tramp,'' 1955
96. ``Barefoot in the Park,'' 1967 One of the few times I DIDN'T find Jane Fonda annoying.
97. ``Grease,'' 1978 I know ALL the words and usually sing along just to annoy my wife. "summer lovin', havin' a blast...." You can't stop me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
98. ``The Hunchback of Notre Dame,'' 1939
99. ``Pillow Talk,'' 1959
100. ``Jerry Maguire,'' 1996