Here is the full list. I have to enter them all in individually so here we go
(My Order - Movie (year) - 1997 rank - 2008 rank - My Point total)
123. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) - 99 - not ranked - 2 pts
122. Toy Story (1995) - not ranked - 99 - 2 pts
121. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) - 100 - 98 - 4 pts
120. Blade Runner (1982) - not ranked - 97 - 4 pts
119. Do The Right Thing (1989) - not ranked - 96 - 5 pts
118. The Last Picture Show (1971) - not ranked - 95 - 6 pts
117. A Place In The Sun (1951) - 92 - not ranked - 9 pts
116. My Fair Lady (1964) - 91 - not ranked - 10 pts
115. Sophie's Choice (1982) - not ranked - 91 - 10 pts
114. The Jazz Singer (1927) - 91 - not Ranked - 11 pts
113. Swing Time (1936) - not ranked - 90 - 11 pts
112. Patton (1970) - 89 - not ranked - 12 pts
111. The Sixth Sense (1999) - not ranked - 89 - 12 pts
110. Pulp Fiction (1994) - 95 - 94 - 13pts
109. Frankenstein (1931) - 87 - not ranked - 14pts
108. 12 Angry Men (1957) - not ranked - 87 - 14 pts
107. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) - 86 - not ranked - 15 pts
106. Goodfellas (1990) - 94 - 92 - 16 pts
105. A Night At The Opera (1935) - not ranked - 85 - 16 pts
104. Fargo (1996) - 84 - not ranked - 17 pts
103. Bringing up Baby (1938) - 97 - 88 - 17 pts
102. Titanic (1997) - not ranked - 83 - 18 pts
101. Giant (1956) - 82 - not ranked - 19 pts
100. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) - not ranked - 82 - 19 pts
99. Spartacus (1960) - not ranked - 81 - 20 pts
98. All The President's Men (1976) - not ranked - 77 - 24 pts
97. Dances With Wolves (1990) - 75 - not ranked - 26 pts
96. In The Heat of the Night (1967) - not ranked - 75 - 26 pts
95. Wuthering Heights (1939) - 73 - not ranked - 28 pts
94. The Apartment (1960) - 93 - 80 - 29 pts
93. The Shawshank Redemption (1994) - not ranked - 72 - 29 pts
92. Ben-Hur (1959) - 72 - 100 - 30 pts
91. Easy Rider (1969) - 88 - 84 - 30 pts
90. Saving private Ryan (1998) - not ranked - 71 - 30 pts
89. An American in Paris (1951) - 68 - not ranked - 33 pts
88. Platoon (1986) - 83 - 86 - 33 pts
87. Manchurian Candidate (1962) - 67 - not ranked - 34 pts
86. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966) - not ranked - 67 - 34 pts
85. Unforgiven (1992) - 98 - 68 - 36 pts
84. Close Encounters of a Third Kind (1977) - 64 - not ranked - 37 pts
83. Stagecoach (1939) - 63 - not ranked - 38 pts
82. Cabaret (1972) - not ranked - 63 - 38 pts
81. The French Connection (1971) - 70 - 93 - 39 pts
80. Sullivan's Travels (1941) - not ranked - 61 - 40 pts
79. Rebel Without a Cause (1955) - 59 - not ranked - 42 pts
78. Nashville (19750 - not ranked - 59 - 42 pts
77. Fantasia (1940) - 58 - not ranked - 43 pts
76. The Wild Bunch (1969) - 80 - 79 - 43 pts
75. Modern Times (1936) - 81 - 78 - 43 pts
74. The Third Man (1949) - 57 - not ranked - 44 pts
73. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) - 54 - not ranked - 47 pts
72. Amadeus (1984) - 53 - not ranked - 48 pts
71. From Here to Eternity (1953) - 52 - not ranked - 49 pts
70. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (2001) - not ranked - 50 - 51 pts
69. Intolerance (1916) - not ranked - 49 - 52 pts
68. Forrest Gump (1994) - 71 - 76 - 55 pts
67. The Birth of a Nation (1915) - 44 - not ranked - 57 pts
66. Duck Soup (1933) - 85 - 60 - 57 pts
65. Doctor Zhivago (1965) - 39 - not ranked - 62 pts
64. Silence of the Lambs (1991) - 65 - 74 - 63 pts
63. American Graffiti (1973) - 77 - 62 - 63 pts
62. Rocky (1976) - 78 - 57 - 67 pts
61. The Gold Rush (1925) - 74 - 58 - 70 pts
60. The Deer Hunter (1978) 79 - 53 - 70 pts
59. Tootsie (1982) - 62 - 69 - 71 pts
58. Network (1976) - 66 - 64 - 72 pts
57. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) - 60 - 66 - 76 pts
56. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) - 50 - 73 - 79 pts
55. The General (1927) - not ranked - 18 - 83 pts
54. A Clockwork Orange (1971) - 46 - 70 - 86 pts
53. Shane (1953) - 69 - 45 - 88 pts
52. M*A*S*H (1970) - 56 - 54 - 92 pts
51. The Searchers (1956) - 96 - 12 - 94 pts
50. Jaws (1975) - 48 - 56 - 98 pts
49. Taxi Driver (1976) - 47 - 52 - 103 pts
48. North by Northwest (1959) - 40 - 55 - 107 pts
47. The Philadelphia Story (1940) - 51 - 44 - 107 pts
46. The Sound of Music (1965) - 55 - 40 - 107 pts
45. West Side Story (1961) - 41 - 51 - 110 pts
44. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) 45 - 47 - 110 pts
43. Rear Window (1954) 42 - 48 - 112 pts
42. City Lights (1931) - 76 - 11 - 115 pts
41. King Kong (1933) - 43 - 41 - 118 pts
40. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) - 49 - 34 - 119 pts
39. The African Queen (1951) - 17 - 65 - 120 pts
38. It Happened One Night (1934) - 35 - 46 - 121 pts
37. Midnight Cowboy (1969) - 36 - 43 - 123 pts
36. The Best Years of Out Lives (1946) - 37 - 37 - 128
35. Vertigo (1958) - 61 - 9 - 132 pts
34. Bonnie Clyde (1967) -27 - 42 - 133 pts
33. The Treasure of Sierra Madre (1948) - 30 - 38 - 134 pts
32. Double Indemnity (1944) - 38 - 29 - 135 pts
31. Annie Hall (1977) - 31 - 35 - 136 pts
30. Dr Strange Love (1964) 26 - 39 - 137 pts
29. The Godfather Part 2 (1974) - 32 - 32 - 138 pts
28. High Noon (1952) - 33 - 27 - 142 pts
27. To Kill A Mockingbird (1962) - 34 - 25 - 143 pts
26. Apocalypse Now (1979) - 28 - 30 - 144 pts
25. Mr Smith Goes To Washington (1939) - 29 - 36 - 147 pts
24. The Maltese Falcon (1941) - 23 - 31 - 148 pts
23. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest (1975) - 20 - 33 - 149 pts
22. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) - 13 - 36 - 153 pts
21. E.T. The Extraterrestrial (1982) - 25 - 24 - 153 pts
20. All About Eve (1950) - 16 - 28 - 158 pts
19. The Grapes of Wrath (1940) - 21 - 23 - 158 pts
18. Chinatown (1974) - 19 - 21 - 162 pts
17. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 22 - 15 - 165 pts
16. Some Like It Hot (1959) - 14 - 22 - 166 pts
15. Psycho (1960) - 18 - 14 - 170 pts
14. It's A Wonderful Life (1946) - 11 - 20 - 171 pts
13. Sunset Boulevard (1950) - 12 - 16 - 174 pts
12. Star Wars: A New Hope (1977) - 15 - 13 - 174 pts
11. Raging Bull (1980) - 24 - 4 - 174 pts
10. On The Waterfront (1954) - 8 - 19 - 175 pts
9. The Graduate (1967) - 7 - 17 - 178 pts
8. Schindler's List (1993) - 9 - 8 - 185 pts
7. The Wizard of Oz (1939) - 6 - 10 - 186 pts
6. Singin in the Rain (1952) - 10 - 5 - 187 pts
5. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - 5 - 7 - 190 pts
4. Gone With the Wind (1939) - 4 - 6 - 192 pts
3. Casablanca (1942) 2 - 3 - 197 pts
2. The Godfather (1972) - 3 - 2 - 197 pts
1. Citizen Kane (1941) - 1 - 1 - 200 pts
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Monday, March 14, 2011
Introduction
So what is "The Buttered Popcorn Project"? It all begins with my love of Buttered Popcorn and Movies, which is my excuse to eat said kernels from heaven. My Fiancée, Lisa, also shares my love of buttered popcorn, to a lesser extent and movies also to a lesser extent. She doesn't understand the draw to re-watching a movie even though I have watched it a couple dozen times (Shawshank Redemption, for example). I convinced her to try a fun experience with me, watch all the AFI 100 Years 100 Movies.
If your not familiar with the list, in 1998 The American Film Institute compiled a list of the 100 greatest American Movies. To select the list the AFI took 400 American movies made between 1896 and 1996 and asked the opinions of 1,500 people in the film industry, and narrowed it down to the top 100. The list had "Citizen Kane", "Casablanca" and "The Godfather" as 1, 2, 3. It finished off with; "Unforgiven", "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" and "Yankee Doodle Dandy" as 98, 99, 100.
In 2007 they revisited the list, adding 23 new movies and removing the same amount. (in a future post, I will try to wrap my mind around the logic of how a movie that was originally on the list can be removed and only 4 movies after 1996 were added). They repeated the same criteria as before and included movies up to 2006.
So the first problem I come across is which list should I follow? If i go with either list then I am missing out on 23 movies, so I decided to combine the lists. Originally I was going to watch the movies starting at 100 and ending at 1. I was going to start with the original list and sub in the new movies at the number they were added. For example The first movie would be #100 on the old list "Yankee Doodle Dandy." The second would be #99 on the old list; "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner", The third would be #99 on the new list; "Toy Story", a new movie added in 2008. I decided that there might be a better way, so I came up with a formula. I assigned a number to each movie on both lists. The #1 on each list would get 100 points, the number Two movies would get 99 points, and so on down to the 100th movie which would get 1 point. If the movies appeared on both lists then they are added together. The top score would be 200 points (Spoiler Alert!! Citizen Kane got 200 points) the bottom 1 point. This way all 123 movies are in some sort of order that I can defend. One more quick thing on the rankings, if there is a tie (which there is in second place) the movie from the older list got preference.
Now I'm not really sure what the point of this blog is. What I plan to do, and keep in mind that I'm not a professional writer or movie critic, is blog about the overall experience and mine and Lisa's reactions to all the movies. I also plan to eventually come up with my list of 100 greatest movies. Every Sunday night and some Wednesday nights we will watch one of the movies. If all goes to plan I will write about it the next day. Periodically I also plan to start writing about movies that I feel might have been overlooked, and maybe start giving my opinions about new movies I happen to see.
The fist ten movies we are watching look like this:
(My Order - Movie (year) - 1997 rank - 2008 rank - My Point total)
123. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) - 99 - not ranked - 2 pts
122. Toy Story (1995) - not ranked - 99 - 2 pts
121. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) - 100 - 98 - 4 pts
120. Blade Runner (1982) - not ranked - 97 - 4 pts
119. Do The Right Thing (1989) - not ranked - 96 - 5 pts
118. The Last Picture Show (1971) - not ranked - 95 - 6 pts
117. A Place In The Sun (1951) - 92 - not ranked - 9 pts
116. My Fair Lady (1964) - 91 - not ranked - 10 pts
115. Sophie's Choice (1982) - not ranked - 91 - 10 pts
114. The Jazz Singer (1927) - 91 - not Ranked - 11 pts
I'll release the whole list with point totals if I can ever figure out if I can post a excel spread sheet.
Well thats about it, We already watched #123 this past Sunday and I will post a comment on it soon ( Kind of an interesting movie to start with). Enjoy and feel free to post any comments just try to stay away from insulting comments about my writing, I HATE WRITING!
If your not familiar with the list, in 1998 The American Film Institute compiled a list of the 100 greatest American Movies. To select the list the AFI took 400 American movies made between 1896 and 1996 and asked the opinions of 1,500 people in the film industry, and narrowed it down to the top 100. The list had "Citizen Kane", "Casablanca" and "The Godfather" as 1, 2, 3. It finished off with; "Unforgiven", "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" and "Yankee Doodle Dandy" as 98, 99, 100.
In 2007 they revisited the list, adding 23 new movies and removing the same amount. (in a future post, I will try to wrap my mind around the logic of how a movie that was originally on the list can be removed and only 4 movies after 1996 were added). They repeated the same criteria as before and included movies up to 2006.
So the first problem I come across is which list should I follow? If i go with either list then I am missing out on 23 movies, so I decided to combine the lists. Originally I was going to watch the movies starting at 100 and ending at 1. I was going to start with the original list and sub in the new movies at the number they were added. For example The first movie would be #100 on the old list "Yankee Doodle Dandy." The second would be #99 on the old list; "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner", The third would be #99 on the new list; "Toy Story", a new movie added in 2008. I decided that there might be a better way, so I came up with a formula. I assigned a number to each movie on both lists. The #1 on each list would get 100 points, the number Two movies would get 99 points, and so on down to the 100th movie which would get 1 point. If the movies appeared on both lists then they are added together. The top score would be 200 points (Spoiler Alert!! Citizen Kane got 200 points) the bottom 1 point. This way all 123 movies are in some sort of order that I can defend. One more quick thing on the rankings, if there is a tie (which there is in second place) the movie from the older list got preference.
Now I'm not really sure what the point of this blog is. What I plan to do, and keep in mind that I'm not a professional writer or movie critic, is blog about the overall experience and mine and Lisa's reactions to all the movies. I also plan to eventually come up with my list of 100 greatest movies. Every Sunday night and some Wednesday nights we will watch one of the movies. If all goes to plan I will write about it the next day. Periodically I also plan to start writing about movies that I feel might have been overlooked, and maybe start giving my opinions about new movies I happen to see.
The fist ten movies we are watching look like this:
(My Order - Movie (year) - 1997 rank - 2008 rank - My Point total)
123. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) - 99 - not ranked - 2 pts
122. Toy Story (1995) - not ranked - 99 - 2 pts
121. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) - 100 - 98 - 4 pts
120. Blade Runner (1982) - not ranked - 97 - 4 pts
119. Do The Right Thing (1989) - not ranked - 96 - 5 pts
118. The Last Picture Show (1971) - not ranked - 95 - 6 pts
117. A Place In The Sun (1951) - 92 - not ranked - 9 pts
116. My Fair Lady (1964) - 91 - not ranked - 10 pts
115. Sophie's Choice (1982) - not ranked - 91 - 10 pts
114. The Jazz Singer (1927) - 91 - not Ranked - 11 pts
I'll release the whole list with point totals if I can ever figure out if I can post a excel spread sheet.
Well thats about it, We already watched #123 this past Sunday and I will post a comment on it soon ( Kind of an interesting movie to start with). Enjoy and feel free to post any comments just try to stay away from insulting comments about my writing, I HATE WRITING!
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