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  1. Re:Nonstop action? Whattabore. by mythosaz · · Score: 1 · on "Star Trek 3" To Be Helmed By "Fast & Furious" Franchise Director Justin Lin

    I'm in my 40's with a good deal of my friends in their 30's and some in their 20's.

    I spend a great deal of time championing old, must-watch movies. I especially enjoy the AFI lists published in 2007:
    http://www.afi.com/100years/mo...

    The heroes and villains list makes for a much better sell than the fairly dry top-10 list of AFI films. There's no denying how good Citizen Kane and The Godfather are, but somewhere after Casablanca and Raging Bull, while you've spent 11 hours watching some of the finest cinema ever made, you could use a little lighter fare.

    1 CITIZEN KANE 1941
    2 THE GODFATHER 1972
    3 CASABLANCA 1942
    4 RAGING BULL 1980
    5 SINGIN' IN THE RAIN 1952
    6 GONE WITH THE WIND 1939
    7 LAWRENCE OF ARABIA 1962
    8 SCHINDLER'S LIST 1993
    9 VERTIGO 1958
    10 THE WIZARD OF OZ 1939

    The villains list... :)

    http://www.afi.com/100Years/ha...


    Dr. Hannibal Lecter (in THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS)
    Norman Bates (in PSYCHO)
    Darth Vader (in THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK)
    The Wicked Witch of the West (in THE WIZARD OF OZ)
    Nurse Ratched (in ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST)
    Mr. Potter (in IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE)
    Alex Forrest (in FATAL ATTRACTION)
    Phyllis Dietrichson (in DOUBLE INDEMNITY)
    Regan MacNeil (in THE EXORCIST)
    The Queen (in SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS)
    Now we're talking!

  2. Re:Nonstop action? Whattabore. by mythosaz · · Score: 1 · on "Star Trek 3" To Be Helmed By "Fast & Furious" Franchise Director Justin Lin

    I'm in my 40's with a good deal of my friends in their 30's and some in their 20's.

    I spend a great deal of time championing old, must-watch movies. I especially enjoy the AFI lists published in 2007:
    http://www.afi.com/100years/mo...

    The heroes and villains list makes for a much better sell than the fairly dry top-10 list of AFI films. There's no denying how good Citizen Kane and The Godfather are, but somewhere after Casablanca and Raging Bull, while you've spent 11 hours watching some of the finest cinema ever made, you could use a little lighter fare.

    1 CITIZEN KANE 1941
    2 THE GODFATHER 1972
    3 CASABLANCA 1942
    4 RAGING BULL 1980
    5 SINGIN' IN THE RAIN 1952
    6 GONE WITH THE WIND 1939
    7 LAWRENCE OF ARABIA 1962
    8 SCHINDLER'S LIST 1993
    9 VERTIGO 1958
    10 THE WIZARD OF OZ 1939

    The villains list... :)

    http://www.afi.com/100Years/ha...


    Dr. Hannibal Lecter (in THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS)
    Norman Bates (in PSYCHO)
    Darth Vader (in THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK)
    The Wicked Witch of the West (in THE WIZARD OF OZ)
    Nurse Ratched (in ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST)
    Mr. Potter (in IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE)
    Alex Forrest (in FATAL ATTRACTION)
    Phyllis Dietrichson (in DOUBLE INDEMNITY)
    Regan MacNeil (in THE EXORCIST)
    The Queen (in SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS)
    Now we're talking!

  3. Re:Handy for some, less so for others by poormanjoe · · Score: 1 · on Netflix Coming To Sony PS3

    But if you're not a fan of old movies and TV shows, it's probably of very little interest to you.

    I, as most Netflix subcribers are a fan of entertainment. When a movie was created does not dictate weather the movie is entertaining or not. Take Citizen Kane that was shot in 1941 and is still hailed as the greatest movie ever by the American Film Institute, and probably by most people who have watched it. Netflix does making finding new releases hard to find by not posting them on the main page, but at the age of 26 I don't think of them as "old movies," but simply great movies I missed. Let's not forget the lack of commercials, that really helps make up for many of the 3 star movies/shows that are streaming.

  4. Re:Handy for some, less so for others by poormanjoe · · Score: 1 · on Netflix Coming To Sony PS3

    But if you're not a fan of old movies and TV shows, it's probably of very little interest to you.

    I, as most Netflix subcribers are a fan of entertainment. When a movie was created does not dictate weather the movie is entertaining or not. Take Citizen Kane that was shot in 1941 and is still hailed as the greatest movie ever by the American Film Institute, and probably by most people who have watched it. Netflix does making finding new releases hard to find by not posting them on the main page, but at the age of 26 I don't think of them as "old movies," but simply great movies I missed. Let's not forget the lack of commercials, that really helps make up for many of the 3 star movies/shows that are streaming.

  5. Re:9 Episodes... by jalefkowit · · Score: 1 · on Lucas To Redo Star Wars In 3-D

    Lucas is not a visionary, not a brilliant writer or storyteller. He made some interesting but amateurish films in the 70's...

    You can't be referring to American Graffiti , can you? Because that was actually a damn good movie. #77 on the AFI list of the 100 best American films ever, no less.

  6. Top DVD, not Top Movie by killermookie · · Score: 1 · on Top 50 DVDs

    So looking through these posts, it seems that this list is suppose to be the Top 50 best selling DVDs, which is a really stupid list to post.

    Anyways, you want the top rated movies? Here's a much better list:

    Top 100 Movies

  7. Lifetime Achievement Award Requirements by modifried · · Score: 5, Informative · on George Lucas to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award
    "The Life Achievement Award honors an individual whose career in motion pictures or television has greatly contributed to the enrichment of American culture.

    The criteria stated that "the recipient should be one whose talent has in a fundamental way advanced the film art; whose accomplishment has been acknowledged by scholars, critics, professional peers and the general public; and whose work has stood the test of time." In 1993, AFI trustees extended the criteria to encompass individuals with active careers and work of significance yet to be accomplished. "

    (From http://www.afi.com/tvevents/laa/laasite/)

  8. Re:Jesus Fucking Christ. by Adriax · · Score: 1 · on Videogame Character Threatens National Security?

    I'll have problems sleeping when these guys make the top of the threat matrix.

    Until then, I'm just gonna sleep normally, and wait for next year when the guy who started the chain-overreaction is out of office.

  9. Oldies but goodies.... by asparagus · · Score: 1 · on What's Your Favorite Underappreciated Movie?

    Peckinpah: Straw Dogs, Wild Bunch. (violence)
    Wilder: Sunset Blvd, Double Indemnity. (film noir)

    Everybody should check out the AFI Top 100 List.

  10. Re:This is a good start... by PMuse · · Score: 2 · on Million-Dollar Donation To Fight Abusive Copyrights
    Well said. In America, copyright is a bargain. We give authors monopoly rents for a period of time and in exchange, their work eventually enriches the public domain. To explain how the public domain is being robbed to the uninitiated, we have to list off works in their favorite genre of music, movies, or literature that are more than about 30 years old.

    For example, take the AFI's Top 100 Movies. Eighty-nine of the 100 are more than 30 years old! Including "Citizen Kane" (1941), "Casablanca" (1942), "The Godfather" (1972), "Gone With the Wind" (1939), "The Wizard of Oz" (1939), "The Bridge on the River Kwai" (1957), "Psycho" (1960), "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968), "The Maltese Falcon" (1941), "To Kill a Mockingbird" (1962), "King Kong" (1933), "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951), "A Clockwork Orange" (1971), "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" (1937), "The Sound of Music" (1965), "M*A*S*H" (1970), "Fantasia" (1940), "Rebel Without a Cause" (1955), "Ben-Hur" (1959).

    Under the original term of copyright, all these would already be 100% free to all of us. Not to mention Elvis, the Beatles, Tolkien, and a host of novels: Ulysses (1918) -- James Joyce, The Great Gatsby (1925) -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Lolita (1955) -- Vladimir Nabokov, Brave New World (1932) -- Aldous Huxley, Catch-22 (1961) -- Joseph Heller, The Grapes of Wrath (1939) -- John Steinbeck, 1984 (1949) -- George Orwell, Slaughterhouse Five (1969) -- Kurt Vonnegut, Invisible Man (1952) -- Ralph Ellison, Animal Farm (1946) -- George Orwell, Lord of the Flies (1954) -- William Golding, Deliverance (1970) -- James Dickey, The Sun Also Rises (1926) -- Ernest Hemingway, The Maltese Falcon (1930) -- Dashiell Hammett, The Catcher in the Rye (1951) -- J.D. Salinger, A Clockwork Orange (1962) -- Anthony Burgess, Of Human Bondage (1915) -- W. Somerset Maugham, A Farewell to Arms (1929) -- Ernest Hemingway, The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934) -- James M. Cain. While some of this stuff may already have fallen into the public domain, by rights, ALL of it should be ours already.

    The public domain is what let's us sing "America the Beautiful" and do anything we want with it, royalty-free. The plundering of the public domain by copyright extensions, is what will prevent us from freely sing "God Bless the USA" for more than 70 years (copyright Lee Greenwood 1984).

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    To which I replied, "Mark Twain's ancestors could profit off of Huckleberry Finn, but it's public domain.

    ;) Of course, Clemens' ancestors are probably a lot less worried about that than his descendants.

  11. Re:Three whole awards by hearingaid · · Score: 3, Informative · on LotR Cleans Up at AFI

    It's three out of twelve possible. The three awards won (which can be found here for those so inclined) were:

    • AFI Movie of the Year
    • AFI Production Designer of the Year
    • AFI Digital Effects Artist of the Year

    Winning a quarter of the available awards has to be considered "cleaning up" by any standard.

    I'm a little miffed that neither Ian McKellen nor Viggo Mortensen got nominated, though; apparently the Best Movie owes nothing to its actors or its director, but rather its production design and digital f/x (which were admittedly both very good).