BBC Poll: Top 100 U.S. Films

[Mutaman]

The issue with Citizen Kane is that it's an enjoyable movie, but if you're not a film buff (your second definition), it hard to see why it's considered "The Greatest Film Ever." It's entertaining, but the story telling isn't great, it's just good.

Sorry, the story telling is incredible! Just listen to Mr Bernstein talk about the girl he saw on the Staten Island Ferry.

Might have to do with when you saw the movie. I saw it as a kid on the late show and I had never heard of it. Not sure I had ever heard of Welles. Just blown away. It blew my fragile little mind. Subsequently very pleased to find that people considered it a classic.

Maybe if you read/hear all the hype first and then see the movie, you don't appreciate it as much.

[*BaseClogger*]

American Beauty is a snoozer? I smirk through every Kevin Spacey scene. I think anybody who was raised in the suburbs can relate to it. The "beautiful bag blowing in the wind" is the one pretentious scene that takes me out of it, as Larry Schuler would say...

[marcshoe]

I fully admit to having never seen Citizen Kane all the way through. For whatever reason, it's just never happened. I have stumbled onto individual scenes in the middle of the movie, however, and been entranced, but stopped watching because I want to see the whole thing.

Contrast that to my having seen GWTW more times than I can count, even though I utterly despise the movie. Not only do I find it overly long and utterly maudlin, I think Clark Gable's tho only person in the movie who doesn't overact dreadfully. Sorry Viv.

[757690]

Sorry, the story telling is incredible! Just listen to Mr Bernstein talk about the girl he saw on the Staten Island Ferry.

Might have to do with when you saw the movie. I saw it as a kid on the late show and I had never heard of it. Not sure I had ever heard of Welles. Just blown away. It blew my fragile little mind. Subsequently very pleased to find that people considered it a classic.

Maybe if you read/hear all the hype first and then see the movie, you don't appreciate it as much.

Harry Knowles tells you the situation he was in when he saw every movie he reviews, including his mood at the time. It definitely matters.

I once had some free time one afternoon before a dinner meeting, so I went to the movies. The only theater nearby was a single screen art house theater. I saw the movie that was showing, knowing nothing about it. The poster looked like some sort of romance, so that's what I was expecting. It was "Blue Velvet." Talk about having your mind blown.

[redsfanmia]

American Beauty is a snoozer? I smirk through every Kevin Spacey scene. I think anybody who was raised in the suburbs can relate to it. The "beautiful bag blowing in the wind" is the one pretentious scene that takes me out of it, as Larry Schuler would say...

I think every married man has a little Lester Bernum in them.

[Rojo]

I think every married man has a little Lester Bernum in them.

Right. And it's dull. Sinclair Lewis did it way better in the 20's with Babbitt.

[Kingspoint]

Harry Knowles tells you the situation he was in when he saw every movie he reviews, including his mood at the time. It definitely matters.

I once had some free time one afternoon before a dinner meeting, so I went to the movies. The only theater nearby was a single screen art house theater. I saw the movie that was showing, knowing nothing about it. The poster looked like some sort of romance, so that's what I was expecting. It was "Blue Velvet." Talk about having your mind blown.

I love seeing movies randomly. Saw "The Grey Fox" that way and "Being There" that way (plus many, many others). Went to see on New Year's Eve the year they came out "There Will Be Blood", but walked into the wrong theater and saw "No Country for Old Men".

[Chip R]

Top 100 films according to actors.

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