American Film Institute's 10 Top 10

After reading BK's blog about wanting to watch all 100 movies in the AFI's top 100, I decided that sounded like a good idea. So I looked up the Top 100 movies. I also looked up the 10 Top 10 movies. These are 10 categories and the top 10 movies in each category. This looked interesting so Mike and I decided to watch all 100 of these movies. If we haven't both already seen it, we're going to watch it together. Nick has sat in on one but I don't think he likes the oldies as much as I do. We're doing one category at a time.

The categories and movies are the following:
Animation
1)Snow White (X)
2)Pinocchio (X)
3)Bambi (X)
4)Lion King (X)
5)Fantasia
6)Toy Story (X)
7)Beauty and the Beast (X)
8)Shrek (X)
9)Cinderella (X)
10)Finding Nemo (X)

Fantasy
1)The Wizard of Oz (X)
2)Lord of the Rings:The Fellowship of the Ring (X)
3)It's a Wonderful Life (X)
4)King Kong - 1933 version
5)Miracle on 34th Street - 1947 version
6)Field of Dreams (X)
7)Harvey
8)Groundhog Day (X)
9)The Thief of Bagdad
10)Big (X)

Gangster
1)The Godfather
2)Goodfellas
3)The Godfather Part II
4)White Heat
5)Bonnie and Clyde
6)Scarface: The Shame of a Nation - 1932
7)Pulp Fiction
8)The Public Enemy
9)Little Caesar
10)Scarface - 1983

Science Fiction
1)2001: A Space Odyssey
2)Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
3)ET (X)
4)A Clockwork Orange
5)Day the Earth Stood Still
6)Blade Runner
7)Alien
8)Terminator 2: Judgment Day (X)
9)Invasion of the Body Snatchers - 1956
10)Back to the Future (X)

Western
1)The Searchers
2)High Noon
3)Shane
4)Unforgiven
5)Red River
6)The Wild Bunch
7)Butch Cassidy and the Sun Dance Kid
8)McCabe and Mrs. Miller
9)Stagecoach
10)Cat Ballou

Sports
1)Raging Bull
2)Rocky (X)
3)The Pride of the Yankees
4)Hoosiers
5)Bull Durham
6)The Hustler
7)Caddyshack
8)Breaking Away
9)National Velvet
10)Jerry Maguire (X)

Mystery
1)Vertigo
2)Chinatown
3)Rear Window
4)Laura
5)The Third Man
6)The Maltese Falcon - 1959
7)North by Northwest
8)Blue Velvet
9)Dial M for Murder (X)
10)The Usual Suspects

Romantic Comedy
1)City Lights
2)Annie Hall
3)It Happened One Night
4)Roman Holiday
5)The Philadelphia Story
6)When Harry Met Sally
7)Adam's Rib
8)Moonstruck
9)Harold and Maude
10)Sleepless in Seattle (X)

Courtroom Drama
1)To Kill a Mockingbird
2)12 Angry Men
3)Kramer vs. Kramer
4)The Verdict
5)A Few Good Men
6)Witness for the Prosecution
7)Anatomy of a Murder
8)In Cold Blood
9)A Cry in the Dark
10)Judgment at Nuremberg

Epic
1)Lawrence of Arabia
2)Ben-hur
3)Schindler's List
4)Gone with the Wind
5)Spartacus
6)Titanic
7)All Quiet on the Western Front
8)Saving Private Ryan
9)Reds
10)The Ten Commandments


So all the movies that are bolded are movies we still need to watch. There are a TON of them! The (X)'s are movies we've both already seen. If we need to watch it, it means one or both of us haven't seen it yet. So we'll both be re-watching a few movies but it's worth it.

Our first movie we watched on the list was "Dial M for Murder". It was SO GOOD! I loved it. Great movie. The next one we are doing is The Godfather.

I'll keep you updated!