My prediction for the final 5: The Godfather films, Lawrence of Arabia, Casablanca, and Gone With the Wind (possibly No Country For Old Men, because there’s so much Cohen Bros. love here, but I know some people didn’t like that one, either).
Mrs. Miniver.
Fuck the English Patient.
[Elaine Benes] I hated the English Patient![/Elaine Benes]
Buh-bye.
I’m taking down Midnight Cowboy…just yechhhhh…
ETA: Why? It hasn’t aged well at all, it was slow moving, the characters were unlikable and the story was awfully heavy-handed…
I thought Annie Hall had some clever moments, but mostly a one-note inside joke to L.A. & Hollywood types and, even though I’m far from a Star Wars geek, didn’t have near the lasting impression.
Suck it, Annie Hall!
Has anyone even seen “Wings”?
Take it off the list. It’s like giving the Ivy League an automatic bid to the NCAA basketball tournament–they deserve to be on the list for historical reasons, but you know they’re not going to be there for the Final Four!
I have. It’s pretty impressive for its time.
Ha! I thought that Wings might end up winning - just because no one hasd seen it!
Take Godfather 2 off. I didn’t like the first Godfather either but can see it was a groundbreaking movie. I was just bored by this one.
I second HelloNinja’s suggestion. How about 3 votes to reinstate (and you only get one opportunity to cast a “reinstating” vote)?
While I’m here – so long, Ordinary People. (Not a bad movie but not up there with the true greats).
Suck me Amadeus! Tom Hulce…so painful…
Here we are…
All Quiet on the Western Front
Grand Hotel
It Happened One Night
Mutiny on the Bounty
Gone with the Wind
Rebecca
Casablanca
The Lost Weekend
The Best Years of Our Lives
Hamlet
All the King’s Men
All about Eve
An American in Paris
From Here to Eternity
On the Waterfront
Around the World in 80 Days
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Gigi
Ben-Hur
West Side Story
Lawrence of Arabia
My Fair Lady
A Man for All Seasons
Patton
The French Connection
The Godfather
The Sting
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
The Deer Hunter
Gandhi
Terms of Endearment
Platoon
Rain Man
The Silence of the Lambs
Unforgiven
Schindler’s List
Million Dollar Baby
The Departed
No Country for Old Men
Is this going to be like “American Idol,” where some mediocre movie wins, just because it’s not anybody’s LEAST favorite candidate?
I went ahead and yanked In the Heat of the Night. It may have been groundbreaking in its time, but its time is long past. Worst of all, the central mystery is not very interesting. Steiger and Poitier ARE great, though.
Yes, it will, almost by definition for this kind of single-elimination, “just 'cause I don’t like it” thing.
Gigi. I tried to watch that once. It was a crashing bore. The winner shouldn’t be a musical anyway.
Gotta pull “Around the World in 80 Days.”
It was full of long boring “on location” sequences included in the movie just to show off the new Todd-AOtechnology (a higher def widescreen format).
It Happened One Night. Overrated, not-very-funny comedy.
I vote no votebacks, so that when I pull No Country for Old Men it can’t be reprieved.
TIA.
ETA: though I am not currently removing it
I’ll go ahead and bounce No Country for Old Men. Good, not great movie in a weak field, and the ending was so badly bad it spoiled the rest of the movie for me. And yes, I’ve heard all the explanations and justifications for it. To me its a classic case of overthinking things.
Changing vote - I thought Rain Man had gone. Tedious & impossible to sit the whole way through.
I’ll yank Million Dollar Baby. I never thought it deserved to win.