I will be edumacated in talkies!

[unicornluvr]

I've just signed up for Netflix (you know you want to be my friend- I just rated Captain Ron 4-stars!- I'm going to have a 3% compatibility rating with Christine and Jpatt) and because everyone needs goals aside from their academic and career goals, I've decided to work my way down the AFI's 100 Years. . .100 Movies of the 100 best American movies

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[paperquilt]

I think I've seen about 30? I'm bothered by some of AFI's picks. For exmaple, I had to watch Bringing Up Baby for a film class. Katharine Hepburn cares for a "tame" leopard named Baby. Then there's a mix-up and somehow they get a hold of a wild leopard (not Baby) and have to get the real Baby back. It is very, uh, eye-roll inducing. BUT look at this:

In 1990, Bringing Up Baby was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant", the second year that the registry started preserving films. Entertainment Weekly voted the film number twenty-four on its list of the greatest films. In 2000, readers of Total Film magazine voted it the forty-seventh greatest comedy film of all time. It is also consistently on the Internet Movie Database's list of top 250 films.

Premiere ranked Cary Grant's performance as Dr. David Huxley #68 on their list of The 100 Greatest Performances of All Time.[9] They also ranked the character of Susan Vance #21 on their list of The 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.[10]

Whatever I still couldn't sit through it.

[unicornluvr]

I can sit through anything with Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant and BABY LEOPARDS!