"Fight Club" nominated as one of the AFI's Top Movies
I am currently watching the "American Film Institute (AFI) 100 Years - 100 Movies" on CBS tonight (June 20). It is the AFI ranking of the top 100 films of all time - including new films from 1996 to 2006 - as determined by movie industry leaders.
While watching this TV special - I went to this website:
[url]http://www.afi.com/tvevents/100years/movies10.aspx[/url]
.. and downloaded the nomination list of the top 400 films. From this list the top 100 films will be selected (you can not download the top 100 film list yet - not until the show is over later tonight).
Anyway - "Fight Club" was one of the new films from 1996 - 2006 to be included in the nomination list. Congratulations Chuck P. and David Fincher! And - of course - B. Pitt, E. Norton, and H. B. Carter.
It would be freakin' awesome if "Fight Club" made the AFI top 100 list!
I missed the first hour of the show, so perhaps I missed "Fight Club" if it was ranked from 100 to 75. Will know more in 1.5 hours (whent he show ends).
See the attached screen shot of the nomination (the #122 of 400 was the number in alphabetical order).
[QUOTE=nathaniel parker;988950]I'm watching it now. Haven't seen it yet, but I also missed the beginning. I think it started at 92 when I started watching.[/QUOTE]
I just stopped watching. FC wasn't in the top 90.
The only newer one I've seen was Lord of the Rings. I really don't know what other movie I'd put on that list from the last 10 years.
[i]maybe[/i] the Matrix.
[I]fight club[/I] is s good film.
but I already knew it wouldnt make the top 100.
just isnt the kind of film they would put uo there.
I am waiting until 11 PM PST to download the complete top AFI Top 100 Film list of all time. From a news article on the web right now, it seems "Fight Club" did not make the top 100. This does bother me a bit, as I think it is better than some of the films in the new Top 100 list (more on this later). I am pleased that "Fight Club" did make the nomination list. Anyway - the following web article states that:
[url]http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_6190008[/url]
"out of the 43 newly eligible films released from 1996 to 2006, only four made the new top-100 list: "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring," "Saving Private Ryan," "Titanic" and "The Sixth Sense."
"Twenty-three films on the 1998 list dropped out of the top-100 this time: "Dr. Zhivago," "The Birth of a Nation," "From Here to Eternity," "Amadeus," "All Quiet on the Western Front," "The Third Man," "Fantasia," "Rebel Without a Cause," "Stagecoach," "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," "The Manchurian Candidate," "An American in Paris," "Wuthering Heights," "Dances With Wolves," "Giant," "Fargo," "Mutiny on the Bounty," "Frankenstein," "Patton," "The Jazz Singer," "My Fair Lady," "A Place in the Sun" and "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner."
Nineteen other movies that failed to make the cut in 1998 landed on the list this time: "The General," "Intolerance," "Nashville," "Sullivan's Travels," "Cabaret," "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," "The Shawshank Redemption," "In the Heat of the Night," "All the President's Men," "Spartacus," "Sunrise," "A Night at the Opera," "12 Angry Men," "Swing Time," "Sophie's Choice," "The Last Picture Show," "Do the Right Thing," "Blade Runner" and "Toy Story."
Come on now - how the hell did "Cabaret" and the cartoon "Toy Story" make the Top 100 for the first time instead of "Fight Club"?#@&$*(#@&$
Well - there is hope that someday the old Hollywood farts who voted for "Cabaret" will die off ("on a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero") and be replaced by more enlightened Space Monkeys that will vote for "Fight Club".
:bryce:
No.
Oh, that wasn't directed at you. Neither is this. :hitit:
it doesn't mean jackshit but I'm still surprised that it didn't make the list.
Oh well, there was still that other one somewhere that had it at # 4 of all times.
Donnie Darko should be up there, those lists are hardly ever comprised of actual great movies, just blockbusters
actually, I just looked at the list and there are some genius films there (Pulp Fiction, A Clockwork Orange, Taxi Driver) but it still needs to be severely edited.
There were some other AFI Top 100 catagories besides greatest film. One catagory was "greatest movie quotes" and I just noticed a "Fight Club" quote was included in the top 400 nomination list - but it did not make the top 100. Which quote?
Naturally - it was:
"The first rule of of Fight Club is - you do not talk about Fight Club".
See attachment. Again - nice recognition for the film.
Naturally. And yet, "With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels." will lose out to some shitty useless catchphrase like, "Bond, James Bond." when that sentence is still quite possibly one of the best lines I've ever heard, for so many reasons. It's practically all of Chuck's essays in one sentence. Theme, sumberging the "I", on-the-body-sensation. I mean, who heard that on the big screen and didn't put their fingers in their mouth and try and speak? I don't much care for sounding like a fanboy. If I was ever to get another persons' quote as a tattoo, that would be it.
[QUOTE=corellion;989276]Naturally. And yet, "With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels." will lose out to some shitty useless catchphrase like, "Bond, James Bond." when that sentence is still quite possibly one of the best lines I've ever heard, for so many reasons. It's practically all of Chuck's essays in one sentence. Theme, sumberging the "I", on-the-body-sensation. I mean, who heard that on the big screen and didn't put their fingers in their mouth and try and speak? I don't much care for sounding like a fanboy. If I was ever to get another persons' quote as a tattoo, that would be it.[/QUOTE]
I didn't try it when I saw it in the movie but I get robbed about a year ago and when I tried to say "There's no fucking cocaine here" it did indeed come out only in vowels.
[QUOTE=Six On The Dot;989397]FUCK DONNIE DARKO
one day you are all going to realize how boring and not important that movie is and you will be so much happier[/QUOTE]
THANK YOU!!!
I feel the same way about that and Boondock Saints (another one people think is so original and clever.)
Boondock Saints was filmed very well, give it that. It's only the ending that was total crap.
[QUOTE=Jill's Tit;990530]Boondock Saints was filmed very well, give it that. It's only the ending that was total crap.[/QUOTE]
It's an excuse for good little religious school boys to get excited about violence and killing without feeling guilty.
After all, they're still on the "good side," right?
[QUOTE=Six On The Dot;989397]FUCK DONNIE DARKO
one day you are all going to realize how boring and not important that movie is and you will be so much happier[/QUOTE]
are you one of those people that are against a really great movie just because there is too much hype about it? I really hate all of those wankers that think Richard Kelly is some kind of prophet, but I still love the movie.
I'm really against that movie because it bored me to tears.
Yeah, uh, Donnie Darko I find overrated... I seeked it out as soon as it came on DVD back before it even had hype, though, and watched it. Because I like giant, furry fuckin' rabbits. But, yeah... it wasn't all that good. Jena Malone looked really good... but I mean, it wasn't particularly groundbreaking. Since the film doesn't really explain the book at all, you basically have to use the website to figure out that the guy actually knows what he was doing.
Anyway, I hear Southland Tales is one of the worst movies ever and has a horrible, horrible cast. Buffy and Timberlake and The Rock, oh my! Oh yeah and some douchebag who's only in crappy teen comedy movies, too.
What was I talking about? Oh right, Darko. It was alright, but it has nothing on my top 10, 20, 30 films or anything.
I liked Donnie Darko, but it wasn't the best movie ever.
All this rant about Donnie Darko only makes me want to watch it more.
The new AFI list absolutely sucks; no Fight Club?! I find it hard to believe that films like Toy Story and Titanic (possibly one of the most overrated and boring movies of all time) made it to the list instead of other modern masterpieces.
[QUOTE=Six On The Dot;994013]I fucking hated Donnie Darko because it made LITTLE to no sense, it got hyped to no end, it wasn't funny OR clever, and YOUR CELLAR DOOR? FUCK IT!
It took me a WEEK to watch that movie. The last 10 minutes are the most important, I GUESS, and i rented scratched copies TWICE, sat through it TWICE without seeing the ended. Can you imagine my dissappointment when I saw it? Everyone said "oooo this movie will chane your life!" and they were right because now it's full of HATRED for Jake Gyllenhal and an obsessive passion for plane wrecks landing on him.
Boondock Saints is alright. The scene when they shoot the cat is priceless.[/QUOTE]
I's probably hate it after that aswell, I hadn't heard all of the hype before I saw it and decided for myself that it was a genius film, but I hate people that live their life by it; has anyone seen that weirdo on the special features that made the 'Darkomentary', fucking weirdo!
As for 'cellar door', I have never really understood the significance of that and it shits me.
I'm watching it now. Haven't seen it yet, but I also missed the beginning. I think it started at 92 when I started watching.