Which only proves that you didn’t get the point of the movie one bit.
Always a possibility. Would you care to enlighten me?
I wish Gandhi gone.
We’re Left With…
All Quiet on the Western Front
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
Ben-Hur
Lawrence of Arabia
A Man for All Seasons
Patton
The French Connection
The Godfather
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
The Silence of the Lambs
Schindler’s List
No embarrassingly bad movies on that list. Which means, from here on in, we’ll be eliminating good or even VERY good movies.
The worst of the remaining movies is definitely The Deer Hunter. A lot of great moments, but they don’t add up to a great movie. And there’s a REASON Michael Cimino fell off the face of the Earth.
So, ***The Deer Hunter ***is off, even thoug Christopher Walken grew up in my neighborhood, and his father made the best cakes anywhere.
Y’know, at this point in the thread, the remaining movies are a pretty damn fine bunch of pictures!
ETA: I posted this just before you reprinted the list, with your comments.
I’ll kick An American in Paris because it’s a cheeseball dance movie.
Wow, this is tough. Of the movies on that list that I’ve seen are really great. I’m going to go ahead and knock off Silence of the Lambs. Great movie. Great performances. But I can’t say it’s in the top ten of what’s left so it may as well go now.
The fact that Col. Nicholson (Alec Guinness) behaves like a gentleman is the object of direct criticism by the film itself. His stiff-upper-lip demeanor may ingrain discipline, but it also shows how he’s so focused on appearances and protocols that he loses all perspective in the fact that he’s actually assisting the enemy.
It’s like saying you don’t approve of Trainspotting because you don’t like films that glamorize drug abuse.
As for what to kick to the curb: Aside from its central performance, Patton is a film with little to really distinguish itself. Adios!
You and I disagree strongly on The Lost Weekend, then. I’ll settle the disagreement by booting it.
With due respect ArchiveGuy, you are posting so many eliminations that this is in danger of becoming an “ArchiveGuy’s favorite movies” thread.
This is going to sound ridiculous considering the source material, but Hamlet is stagy and a little precious. Bye.
Apologies–I only post (once) after a new, reduced list is compiled.
Almost tempted to throw Ben Hur to the curb (some of these I’ve never seen), but I’ll second DIO’s vote…
It had a crappy script. 
I’ll kick A Man for All Seasons for the same reasons.
I know people are going to call me names, but I gotta get Schindler’s List off there. I thought it was a somewhat simplistic treatment of its subject, and I hate it when filmmakers decide they need to add on emotional manipulation (which is how the ending struck me) when a story is powerful enough to cause an emotional reaction without the purposeful tearjerking.
I’d say the same about All About Eve. It’s gone.
And then there were 15:
All Quiet on the Western Front
Mutiny on the Bounty
Gone with the Wind
Rebecca
Casablanca
The Best Years of Our Lives
All the King’s Men
From Here to Eternity
On the Waterfront
Ben-Hur
Lawrence of Arabia
Patton
The French Connection
The Godfather
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Wasn’t **Patton **already taken off the list? Yep, post 108.
I haven’t seen enough of what’s left to kick any to the curb, so I’ll just spectate from here on out.
Originally Posted by ArchiveGuy View Post
…Aside from its central performance, Patton is a film with little to really distinguish itself. Adios!
Looks like Patton is gone.
I have 1 more film I would dearly like to kick to the curb, but probably everyone else considers it a classic, so I’l wait a little longer. 
Do we need to check if no one has seen some of the remaining films? I’ve never even heard of The Best Years of our Lives & All the Kings Men.
Snap Ninja!