Merkin Muffley

Since they're re-doing the AFI 100 list this year (June 20th on CBS), I think the most interesting thing to watch out for is which films from the past decade will make it? Which one will make it the highest? What got left out?

These are the nominated films that didn't exist the last time they made the list:

American Beauty
As Good as it Gets
Austin Powers
The Aviator
A Beautiful Mind
Being John Malkovich
Boogie Nights
Brokeback Mountain
Chicago
Crash
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Fight Club
Finding Nemo
Gladiator
Good Night and Good Luck
Good Will Hunting
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Hotel Rwanda
The Hours
The Insider
L.A. Confidential
The Lord of the Rings: Shitty
The Lord of the Rings: Shittier
The Lord of the Rings: Shittiest
Lost in Translation
The Matrix
Memento
Million Dollar Baby
Moulin Rouge!
Mystic River
Pirates of the Carribean: Curse of the Black Pearl
Ray
Reqiuem for a Dream
Rushmore
Saving Private Ryan
Shakespeare in Love
Shrek
Sideways
The Sixth Sense
Spider-man 2
There's Something About Mary
Three Kings
Titanic
Traffic

I think Titanic will (and should) rank the highest of the new movies. Maybe somewhere in the 50's. I also think American Beauty, Saving Private Ryan, Boogie Nights, Brokeback Mountain, L.A. Confidential, and (unfortunately) one of the overrated elf movies have chances of making it in.

Giles

Here's the films that rank high on my list:

Being John Malkovich
Boogie Nights
Brokeback Mountain
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Fight Club
Good Night and Good Luck
The Insider
L.A. Confidential
The Matrix
Memento
Reqiuem for a Dream
Rushmore
Saving Private Ryan
Sideways
The Sixth Sense
Three Kings
Titanic
Traffic

where's Lynch's 'The Straight Story'?

Michael Corvin

Lots of those are very overrated though. They all served their purpose at the time of release but aren't timeless classics. The last "best picture" winner I agreed with was Braveheart in 95.

Of that list I'd say the following have a shot at making the new list:

Memento
the Matrix
one of the LOTR films

And I have to at Austin Powers and Shrek being in the company of the other films on the list.

conscience

Let's hope

American Beauty, Fight Club, The Insider, Lost in Translation and Traffic make it in

and

Austin Powers, The Aviator, Chicago, Crash and Ray are left by the VERY FAR wayside.

Maxflier

So The Last Samurai isn't nominated, but shit like Austin Powers is???

Drexl

I'll say L.A. Confidential, Titanic, and Saving Private Ryan should definitely make it. The Matrix might get in based on influence, and one of the elf movies (probably ROTK) might be there. Hopefully Memento will get in.

I'd like to see Pulp Fiction and Goodfellas move up in the rankings. They were in the 90's in the original list.

Giles

now hold on...you've got the titles all wrong they are:

The Lord of the Rings: Fellowshit of the Shit Encrusted Ring
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Shits: Electric Boogaloo
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the Shit Faced King

Yavin

MIA:

Batman Begins
The Departed
The Ring
Mulholland Drive
The Incredibles

Fincher Fan

Fight Club will be #1. Suck it, Citizen Kane!

PopcornTreeCt

City of God is the only one I'd add to this list. And of course, it's not on there.

Giles

I thought of that too, but it aint American made.

naitram

Good god, those are their new candidates? Finding Nemo, Pirates, Matrix, Sixth Sense, Harry Potter, etc etc...shouldn't be anywhere near the AFI 100 list.

I could see Gladiator, LA Confidential, Saving Ryan, or Titanic making it I guess, though they wouldn't be in my top 100 list. But I guess it's not the Naitram Top 100, now is it?

Kerborus

Isn't that a non-american movie?

Giles

yes...

PopcornTreeCt

There are non-American movies on the list though. I guess the primary language has to be English for it to be a qualifier.

Giles

here the current list for reference:

The Complete List:

1. CITIZEN KANE (1941)

2. CASABLANCA (1942)

3. THE GODFATHER (1972)

4. GONE WITH THE WIND (1939)

5. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962)

6. THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939)

7. THE GRADUATE (1967)

8. ON THE WATERFRONT (1954)

9. SCHINDLER'S LIST (1993)

10. SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (1952)

11. IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946)

12. SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950)

13. THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI (1957)

14. SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959)

15. STAR WARS (1977)

16. ALL ABOUT EVE (1950)

17. THE AFRICAN QUEEN (1951)

18. PSYCHO (1960)

19. CHINATOWN (1974)

20. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (1975)

21. THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940)

22. 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968)

23. THE MALTESE FALCON (1941)

24. RAGING BULL (1980)

25. E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (1982)

26. DR. STRANGELOVE (1964)

27. BONNIE AND CLYDE (1967)

28. APOCALYPSE NOW (1979)

29. MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (1939)

30. THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (1948)

31. ANNIE HALL (1977)

32. THE GODFATHER PART II (1974)

33. HIGH NOON (1952)

34. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1962)

35. IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934)

36. MIDNIGHT COWBOY (1969)

37. THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (1946)

38. DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944)

39. DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (1965)

40. NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959)

41. WEST SIDE STORY (1961)

42. REAR WINDOW (1954)

43. KING KONG (1933)

44. THE BIRTH OF A NATION (1915)

45. A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (1951)

46. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971)

47. TAXI DRIVER (1976)

48. JAWS (1975)

49. SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS (1937)

50. BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (1969)

51. THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940)

52. FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (1953)

53. AMADEUS (1984)

54. ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (1930)

55. THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965)

56. M*A*S*H (1970)

57. THE THIRD MAN (1949)

58. FANTASIA (1940)

59. REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (1955)

60. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981)

61. VERTIGO (1958)

62. TOOTSIE (1982)

63. STAGECOACH (1939)

64. CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (1977)

65. THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991)

66. NETWORK (1976)

67. THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (1962)

68. AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (1951)

69. SHANE (1953)

70. THE FRENCH CONNECTION (1971)

71. FORREST GUMP (1994)

72. BEN-HUR (1959)

73. WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1939)

74. THE GOLD RUSH (1925)

75. DANCES WITH WOLVES (1990)

76. CITY LIGHTS (1931)

77. AMERICAN GRAFFITI (1973)

78. ROCKY (1976)

79. THE DEER HUNTER (1978)

80. THE WILD BUNCH (1969)

81. MODERN TIMES (1936)

82. GIANT (1956)

83. PLATOON (1986)

84. FARGO (1996)

85. DUCK SOUP (1933)

86. MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY (1935)

87. FRANKENSTEIN (1931)

88. EASY RIDER (1969)

89. PATTON (1970)

90. THE JAZZ SINGER (1927)

91. MY FAIR LADY (1964)

92. A PLACE IN THE SUN (1951)

93. THE APARTMENT (1960)

94. GOODFELLAS (1990)

95. PULP FICTION (1994)

96. THE SEARCHERS (1956)

97. BRINGING UP BABY (1938)

98. UNFORGIVEN (1992)

99. GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER (1967)

100. YANKEE DOODLE DANDY (1942)

Merkin Muffley

I think it has to do with the percentage of production being American.

B5Erik

What, no Gigli or Glitter on the "nominees" list?

Brent L

I hope the following make the list:

American Beauty
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Fight Club
Lost in Translation
Memento
Traffic

Another good question would be which films will be removed to make room for these new additions...

Supermallet

This is a list of American films. The Ring, while one of the best horror films of the past 10 years, is Japanese, and therefore not eligible.

Unless you were talking about the American remake, but that should not be in the list of the 100 best anything.

Ginwen

If it was up to me, I'd pick these since they are some of my favorite movies:
Boogie Nights
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Fight Club
Rushmore

and possibly these although not as sure as the ones above:
L.A. Confidential
Moulin Rouge!
American Beauty
Being John Malkovich
The Matrix

but it's not, so they'll probably pick Titanic, SPR, and one of the LOTR movies.

PopcornTreeCt

I would boot off Easy Rider, MASH and Goodfellas. But everything else is pretty damn good.

Brent L

I could see Modern Times being removed from the list since there's two other Chaplin flicks on the list, and this one is pretty far down at the bottom at #81.

Arpeggi

The original list was a joke because of no.15.

deadlax

almost famous should have been nominated over 90% of those flicks.