100 Greatest Films? ahh no

Total Film magazine have produced a special edition 100 Greatest Movies of All Time issue

The top 10 is a disgrace frankly, below are some highlights and the top 50 films.

98 Casablanca (should have been higher)
97 Trainspotting (ditto)
96 Stand by Me (ditto)
95 The Usual Suspects (again what is wrong with these people?)
91 Dekalog (yeah you wouldn’t want to miss that one)

83 The Wizard of Oz
82 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

78 The Graduate
71 North by Northwest

69 Sideways (if it was about women, it would have been dismissed as a chick flick)

59 Blue Velvet
56 The Shawshank Redemption
54 Millers Crossing

50 It Happened One Night
49 Pulp Fiction (top 10 easily)
48 Singin’ in the The Rain
47 Blade Runner
46 Nashville
45 Mean Streets
44 Annie Hall
43 Heat
42 One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
41 The Last Picture Show
40 ET

39 Monty Python and the Holy Grail (bollocks)
38 Badlands
37 Touch of Evil
36 2001: A Space Odyssey
35 A Matter of Life and Death
34 The Searchers (never heard of 35 or 34)
33 Star Wars
32 Les Enfants Du Paradis
31 Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
30 Reservoir Dogs

29 La Regle Du Jeu (hon hon hon)
28 Raging Bull (should have been a good 10 places higher)
27 Some Like it Hot
26 The Third Man
25 Sunset Boulevard
24 Rear Window
23 The Godfather (top 10)
22 Sunrise
21 Crash (bollocks that that film is the 21st greatest film ever)
20 Apocalypse Now

19 Texas Chainsaw Massacre (oh please – its funny)
18 All About Eve
17 Once Upon a Time in the West
16 The Apartment
15 It’s a Wonderful Life (fair enough)
14 Taxi Driver
13 Manhattan
12 Chinatown
11 Persona (eh?)

10 His Girl Friday (yeah wonderful film….. ??? maybe?)
9 The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (fair enough grouping them - same director/shot all at once, and fair ranking)
8 The Empire Strikes Back (good call)
7 Tokyo Story (Gus and Karen’s fav film – theyre in Japan, so they must like it right?)
6 Citizen Kane (pretentious rubbish)
5 The Godfather Part 2 (good call)
4 Fight Club (it had meatloaf… top 4 I think not)
3 Jaws (fair call)
2 Vertigo (its great but 2nd best film? Hmmm)
1 Goodfellas (I don’t think so)

Just not a great list – no Spike? Full Metal Jacket? Dr Strangelove? Only one Coens film!?!? (54), Platoon? Too many good films for this to be taken seriously I’m afraid!