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Re: 3rd Annual Filmspotters Top 100 - Comments
« Reply #450 on: September 18, 2010, 05:45:33 PM »
4 animated films already, very happy. Particularly with Spirited Away's rise.

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Re: 3rd Annual Filmspotters Top 100 - Comments
« Reply #451 on: September 18, 2010, 06:48:03 PM »
Great to see:

39. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (42)
36. Apocalypse Now (54)
33. It's a Wonderful Life (28)
31. North by Northwest (27)
26. Inglourious Basterds (N/E)
21. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (7)


Sad to see:

38. No Country for Old Men (35)
34. Psycho (29)
30. Alien (34)

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Re: 3rd Annual Filmspotters Top 100:Voting closes Sept 3rd 2010 at 23:59E
« Reply #452 on: September 18, 2010, 09:23:20 PM »
My Top Ten: 6
Rest of My List: 11
Liked Off List: 33
Disliked Off List: 18
Haven't Seen (listed): 12

98. Paris, Texas (51)
95. The Philadelphia Story (N/E)
94. Miller's Crossing (79)
92. Fitzcarraldo (N/E)
81. The Red Shoes (N/E)
71. Le Samourai (56)
68. In a Lonely Place (N/E)
64. The Double Life of Veronique (N/E)
63. Red (69)
55. High and Low (N/E)
32. The 400 Blows (24)
24. Days of Heaven (84)

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Re: 3rd Annual Filmspotters Top 100 - Comments
« Reply #453 on: September 18, 2010, 10:06:57 PM »
Tsk, tsk.

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Re: 3rd Annual Filmspotters Top 100 - Comments
« Reply #454 on: September 18, 2010, 10:11:13 PM »
Tsk, tsk.

I figure if I wait long enough you'll draw me in MDC and find a way to fit it in the category.

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Re: 3rd Annual Filmspotters Top 100 - Comments
« Reply #455 on: September 18, 2010, 11:00:06 PM »
Happy about Pan's, Alien, North by Northwest, and Inglourious Basterds.

Not happy about being accused of not having seen enough old films. I have way more old films on my list this year than I did last year and Inglourious Basterds still sits at 22. Should we submit a verified licence that ensures we have seen enough films before we give our lists?
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Re: 3rd Annual Filmspotters Top 100 - Comments
« Reply #456 on: September 18, 2010, 11:24:06 PM »
I've seen a lot of old films too, they just aren't any good. :P

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Re: 3rd Annual Filmspotters Top 100 - Comments
« Reply #457 on: September 19, 2010, 01:31:29 AM »
I am kinda disappointed by Inglorious Basterds being on top of the list, I mean I consider it a slightly below average Tarantino flick.
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Re: 3rd Annual Filmspotters Top 100 - Comments
« Reply #458 on: September 19, 2010, 03:24:33 AM »
Here's kind of where I'm standing so far:

My Top 100 - 27
Really Liked - 17
Meh - 7
CINECAST!ing Hated - 8
Haven't Seen - 20

Here are the haven't seens (note: for each of these, it's sitting down for one continuous watch.  Several of these I've seen pieces of over the years.)
Paris, TX
F*cking Amal
Fitzcarraldo
Aguirre, The Wrath of God
Ikiru
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Lives of Others
Le Samourai
Jaws
The Double Life of Veronique
Red
City of God
High and Low
Yi Yi
Die Hard
Chungking Express   Terminator 2: Judgment Day   The 400 Blows   Alien   Sunrise   Days of Heaven                           

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Re: 3rd Annual Filmspotters Top 100 - Comments
« Reply #459 on: September 19, 2010, 03:43:09 AM »
Happy about Pan's, Alien, North by Northwest, and Inglourious Basterds.

Not happy about being accused of not having seen enough old films. I have way more old films on my list this year than I did last year and Inglourious Basterds still sits at 22. Should we submit a verified licence that ensures we have seen enough films before we give our lists?

I've seen a lot of old films too, they just aren't any good. :P


This is one of the most divisive issues on the forum I think; it makes people react quite sharply if you are accused of not being educated enough in some type of film or another. I don't think it has anything to do with that.
What I think may be going on, as far as old vs newer films may have its roots in people's ages. If you took the 25 top 100 lists made by the oldest 25 people and compared it to those by the other younger contributors I would expect two very different top 100s to appear. That may sound like stating the obvious. [I am also not asking anyone to do anything as insane as that!]
I am not trying to be a spokesman for a generation here, I just think that if you grew up watching some of those 30s to 50s films as I did on the BBC and then you returned to them now with a FSpotters head on you will have a different perspective than if you come to them for the first time now. Also as has been said best by Ferris about Close Encounters, those films you see in your formative years will lead to you having a completely different perspective on them, so everyone has a set of films like that. My kids find both Alien and Blade Runner to be too slow, this saddened me but made me realise how different their POV is.
So I don't think it is down to not watching enough films (new or old) but HOW you have watched those films.
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