The Sixth Sense on AFI's top 100
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The Sixth Sense on AFI's top 100
Am I the only one who finds this to be the most baffling choice on their entire list? What the hell makes The Sixth Sense so great that it's one of the few horror/thriller on that list?
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It opened the gates for 100's of shitty PG-13 horror movies or thriller's with a cheap twist?
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I liked the Sixth Sense very much, should have gotten best picture that year, IMHO, (which it was nominated for) but it's not worthy of the AFI 100 list.
Fill that slot, or one higher up on the list with The Adventures of Robin Hood
Fill that slot, or one higher up on the list with The Adventures of Robin Hood
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I didn't care for the movie to begin with, but I don't know the list so I can't for sure it stands out as a bad pick. But yeah, not a good movie.
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No, I'm sure not ..... but then again, for each of the 100 films on the list, there will be baffled people. Being baffled is an inevitable result of movie-going.
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23 of the 1998 Films Were Reevaluated and Dropped Entirely Off the 2007 List
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
From Here to Eternity (1953)
Amadeus (1984)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
The Third Man (1949)
Fantasia (1940)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Stagecoach (1939)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
An American in Paris (1951)
Wuthering Heights (1939)
Dances With Wolves (1990)
Giant (1956)
Fargo (1996)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Frankenstein (1931)
Patton (1970)
The Jazz Singer (1927)
My Fair Lady (1964)
A Place in the Sun (1951)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
The 23 films removed from the original list were replaced by these
The General (1927)
Intolerance (1916)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Nashville (1975)
Sullivan's Travels (1941)
Cabaret (1972)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
All the President's Men (1976)
Spartacus (1960)
Sunrise (1927)
Titanic (1997)
A Night at the Opera (1935)
12 Angry Men (1957)
The Sixth Sense (1999)
Swing Time (1936)
Sophie's Choice (1982)
The Last Picture Show (1971)
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Blade Runner (1982)
Toy Story (1995)
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
From Here to Eternity (1953)
Amadeus (1984)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
The Third Man (1949)
Fantasia (1940)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Stagecoach (1939)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
An American in Paris (1951)
Wuthering Heights (1939)
Dances With Wolves (1990)
Giant (1956)
Fargo (1996)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Frankenstein (1931)
Patton (1970)
The Jazz Singer (1927)
My Fair Lady (1964)
A Place in the Sun (1951)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
The 23 films removed from the original list were replaced by these
The General (1927)
Intolerance (1916)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Nashville (1975)
Sullivan's Travels (1941)
Cabaret (1972)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
All the President's Men (1976)
Spartacus (1960)
Sunrise (1927)
Titanic (1997)
A Night at the Opera (1935)
12 Angry Men (1957)
The Sixth Sense (1999)
Swing Time (1936)
Sophie's Choice (1982)
The Last Picture Show (1971)
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Blade Runner (1982)
Toy Story (1995)
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Glad to see Nashville, Sullivan's Travels and Sunrise added. What could the rationale for removing The Third Man, one of the greatest English language films ever made, possibly be, other than that it was a British production, and the AFI seems to focus exclusively on American films?
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List or link please.
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I like The Sixth Sense as well, but other than the twist ending, it's really nothing out of this world. I can't believe they booted out a horror classic like Frankenstein and replaced it with The Sixth Sense. Blah.
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The Sixth Sense is also one of those movies where the backlash, like this thread, was inevitable. If the movie had not crossed over into that pop-culture phenomenon I think it would have ended up being a cult hit and never gotten the backlash it gets now.
As for being on the AFI list? Who knows? Who cares? Who says their list is more important than anyone else's anyway? It's all just opinion.
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After they went crazy and started making lists for everything, I stopped paying attention.
And I think a movie should be at least 10-20 years old before it's put up for consideration for being added to the top 100 list.
And I think a movie should be at least 10-20 years old before it's put up for consideration for being added to the top 100 list.
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It's statements like this that drive me nuts. Why should the movie's age factor into it's placement on a Top 100 list? Right after I saw The Dark Knight, I knew it would be on my Top 100 of all time.
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