100 Greatest Movies Of All Time

I recently finished the list of the 100 Greatest Movies Of All Time put out by The American Film Institute. It took 2.5 years to finish it and, if my girlfriend wouldn't kill my in my sleep, I'd do it again.
Here, I will run down all 100 movies...

#100 Ben-Hur (1959)
Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins
When a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.
Favorite Quote: "Now listen to me, all of you. You are all condemned men. We keep you alive to serve this ship. So row well, and live."
Favorite Scene: The chariot race of course
Would Jessica Like This Movie? Doubtful, she'd likely just see lots of men in skirts.

#99 Toy Story (1995)
Tom Hanks, Tim Allen
A cowboy toy is profoundly threatened and jealous when a fancy spaceman toy supplants him as top toy in a boy's room.
Favorite Quote: "Nirvana is coming, the mystic portal awaits."
Favorite Scene: Any scene involving little green aliens.
Would Jessica Like This Movie? She loves this movie

#98 Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
James Cagney
A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan.
This movie was a complete surprise. I enjoyed every minute of it and added it to my private collection. Fantastic movie!
Favorite Quote: "It seems it always happens. Whenever we get too high-hat and too sophisticated for flag-waving, some thug nation decides we're a push-over all ready to be blackjacked. And it isn't long before we're looking up, mighty anxiously, to be sure the flag's still waving over us."
Would Jessica Like This Movie? She has a strong Anti Black and White stance.

#97 Blade Runner (1982)
Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer
Deckard, a blade runner, has to track down and terminate 4 replicants who hijacked a ship in space and have returned to earth seeking their maker.
One of my favorite movies of all time. The story, the visuals, the actors, the music. Perfect.
Favorite Quote: Home again, home again, jiggidy-jig
Favorite Scene: Hard to pick one but Deckard getting his ass kicked at the end is pretty cool.
Would Jessica Like This Movie? Not sure. She does like sci-fi but whenever I put this one on she goes shopping. That's ok though, I need the nachos.

#96 Do The Right Thing (1989)
Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee
On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
This one will take you back to the 80's fashow.
Favorite Quote: Today's temperature's gonna rise up over 100 degrees, so there's a Jheri curl alert! That's right, Jheri curl alert. If you have a Jheri curl, stay in the house or you'll end up with a permanent black helmet on your head fuh-eva!
Favorite Scene: Any scene with Samuel L. Jackson
Would Jessica Like This Movie? She'd just laugh at the 80's hair and clothes.

#95 The Last Picture Show (1971)
Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd
A group of 50's high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied West Texas town that is slowly dying, both economically and culturally. It sounds depressing yes? It is but it's also a fantastic movie. This was the first time I'd seen this movie and have since added it to my collection.
Favorite Quote: If she was here I'd probably be just as crazy now as I was then in about 5 minutes. Ain't that ridiculous?... Naw, it ain't really. 'Cause being crazy about a woman like her is always the right thing to do. Being an old decrepit bag of bones, that's what's ridiculous. Gettin' old.
Favorite Scene: Sybill Shepperd at the pool. Typical, I know
Trivia: All the film's music (except for the closing credits and the live band at the Christmas party) is played in the background on radios, jukeboxes or, at the swim party, on a portable record player.
Would Jessica Like This Movie? Jessica's quote during the movie; "Is the The Dude? Is that CLORIS LEACHMAN?!"

#94 Pulp Fiction (1994)
John Travolta, Uma Thurman and Samuel L. Jackson


This is one of my Desert Island Movies, fer reals.
The lives of two mob hit men, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.
Favorite Quotes: You, flock of seagulls, you know why we're here?
Check out the big brain on Brett!
But you know what's on my mind right now? It AIN'T the coffee in my kitchen...
I'm Winston Wolfe. I solve problems.
We're all gonna be like three little Fonzies.
Trivia: Quentin Tarantino was quoted as saying that Butch is responsible for keying Vincent's car.
Would Jessica Like This Movie? I'm going to make her watch it and then update this entry.


#93 The French Connection (1971)
Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Fernando Rey, Tony Lo Bianco.
Bing Movies: This gritty, fast-paced, and innovative police drama earned five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay (written by Ernest Tidyman), and Best Actor (Gene Hackman). Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle (Hackman) and his partner, Buddy Russo (Roy Scheider), are New York City police detectives on narcotics detail, trying to track down the source of heroin from Europe into the United States.
Me: Any Gene Hackman is worth watching. I hadn't seen this movie until the list and quickly added it to my personal collection. Awesome movie.

#92 Goodfellas (1990)
Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci



I watched this one a few weeks ago when I was up with a toothache. I've probably seen this movie over 50 times. I have to space it out though because, after watching it, I usually spend a couple days doing a really, really bad Joe Pesci impression.
Favorite Quote: What am I, a schmuck on wheels?
Favorite Scene: Gangster intros. Gonna get the papers, get the papers
Trivia: Director Martin Scorsese's mother, Catherine Scorsese, plays Tommy's mother. She and the cast ad-libbed the dinner scene. Scorsese's father, Charles Scorsese, plays the prisoner who puts too many onions in the tomato sauce.
Would Jessica Like This Movie? Ya, she watches it with me but covers her eyes when it gets violent.


#91 Sophie's Choice (1982)
Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol

This one is a real "feel good about the world" kinda movie. Put it on during your next party and watch the evening come alive. Hay-sus Marimba! Somebody fill up the bathtub and hand me the toaster please.
From IMDB: Sophie is the survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who has found a reason to live in Nathan, a sparkling if unsteady American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust. They befriend Stingo, the movie's narrator, a young American writer new to New York City. But the happiness of Sophie and Nathan is endangered by her ghosts and his obsessions.

#90 Swing Time (1936)
Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore, Helen Broderick.
 This was my first Fred and Ginger movie and now I know why they were so popular. Plus, I needed something like this after Sophie's Choice.
Here is one of many fantastic scenes...



#89 The Sixth Sense (1999)
Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette



My favorite M.Night movie. This was before all the expectations and criticism. This is also one of the few movies that succeeded in keeping me in the dark until the very moment the director wanted me to get it. Great movie.
Favorite Quote: Do you know why you're afraid when you're alone? I do. I do.
Favorite Scene: The moment Malcom Crowe "understands".
Trivia: The Latin phrase Cole speaks in the church when he first meets Malcolm: "De profundis clamo ad te domine" translates to "Out of the depths, I cry to you, Oh Lord." These are the first few words of Psalm 130 in the Book of Psalms.
Would Jessica Like This Movie? Ya, she watches it with me but covers her eyes when it gets violent. Just like Good Fellas.

#89 Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant
This movie JUST played last weekend at a theater in Modesto and I missed it.. Jess and I were on our "Babymoon". Ya, that's right. Very pregnant women get whatever they ask for and if they want a babymoon they get a babymoon. Now the baby in this movie is not the kind that one has to pay child support for after one's wife decides she's sick of one. No, this Baby is a Brazilian Leopard who gets loose and needs to be found before it grows up, goes to collage and costs it's father a second fortune after the child support was supposed to end but... sorry, wrong baby again.