AFI's 100 Most Thrilling Movies

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Thought I’d post it and see what others think. You can find the entire list and their reasons for their selections at http://www.afionline.org.com/100thrills

I’ve posted the top ten.

  1. PSYCHO (1960)
  2. JAWS (1975)
  3. THE EXORCIST (1973)
  4. NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959)
  5. THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991)
  6. ALIEN (1979)
  7. THE BIRDS (1963)
  8. THE FRENCH CONNECTION (1971)
  9. ROSEMARY’S BABY (1968)
  10. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981)

I’m surprised they did not have Misery on there. I mean, c’mon. When James Caan’s legs are smashed? And too bad Duel was a TV movie, or it would have been up there.

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Unless I missed something, I don’t recall The Amityville Horror being anywhere in the top 100. A bit of a surprise, but hey, I didn’t much care for that movie anyway. The rest of the choices were not surprising (not to me, anyway). Good choices, though, I thought.

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Rosemary’s Baby is in the Top 10? I’ll have to rent that again, because I remember thinking it was slow-paced and boring. I thought The Omen was better.

BTW, neptune, that link doesn’t work for me.

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I’m not really sure what “Casablanca” is doing on this list. The scene in Rick’s Cafe where everyone is singing may be inspiring, but not what I’d call thrilling.

I’m thinking that a more appropriate name for this list might have been “AFI’s Top 100 Movies In Which People Get Shot in the Head”.

Also, I should know better than to watch anything about “The Exorcist” before I go to bed.

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Why the hell would they have Jean Claude Van Damme commenting on ANYTHING having to do with films?

Try this link http://www.afionline.org/100movies/

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Should have previewed but it’s so slow…

Use this link instead:
http://www.afionline.org/100thrills/

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Um, Thelma & Louise is more thrilling that Terminator 2? Am I missing some definition of the word “thrilling”? And I would call “A Clockwork Orange” many things, but I wouldn’t call it (so tempted to say ‘late for dinner’, but won’t) a thriller.

Star Wars before Fatal Attraction?
Casablanca before Poltergeist?

I’d have to say that this is a very interesting list, and putting 100 in order would be a hard job. I think AFI needs to quit with the lists, as their first one (best movies of the century) was incredible (sorry Eve), and it just went downhill from there.

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http://www.afionline.org/100thrills/

Sorry 'bout that.

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My biggest question here is…“Titanic”???

It came in at numer 25, whereas “The Sixth Sense” came in at #60. (There were plenty others that were more thrilling, but that’s the example I’m using).

“Titanic” (at best) was a decent love story and a tragic tale, but I fail to see anything “heartpounding” about it.