On vacation,
so I’m skipping around a little for this week’s Sunday Showdown – I just couldn’t
stomach Saving Private Ryan or Clockwork Orange. I’ll have to watch those when
I’m in a tougher frame of mine. So this week:
#69: Tootsie
vs. Modern Times
#68:
Unforgiven vs. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
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| Hoffman at his finest. |
I had never
seen Tootsie – and I have to say that I did enjoy it, kinda. I don’t have much
use for Dustin Hoffman in any area of my cinematic life – he annoys me on all
possible levels. Except, it seems, for
when he’s trying to be a purposely annoying woman – then he doesn’t annoy me.
Go figure.
Regardless,
I don’t think Tootsie deserves to be in any top 100 list – despite whatever
social commentary it might have been about life or gender communication or fashion in the
80s. So Charlie Chaplin’s brilliant Modern Times definitely wins it for me. And lest you have any doubts about its hilarity:
And #68: Unforgiven vs. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre was really no more tricky for
me. Unforgiven
was IMDb’s #99 – up against AFI’s Toy Story. It lost. It loses here again
too.
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| Treasure... |
This was my
first time watching Treasure of Sierra
Madre, and truly what a treasure it was. I enjoyed it and watching Humphrey
Bogart stretch his acting chops was bliss. Everyone should see this movie. A pure
classic. (Plus the
original line, “We don’t need no stinkin’ badges…” – what more could you want?
AFI’s Top 100
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IMDB’s Top 100 (as of 1/1/12)
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#58
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The
Gold Rush (1925)
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Memento (2000)
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#68
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Unforgiven (1992)
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The
Treasure of Sierra Madre (1948)
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#69
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Tootsie (1982)
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Modern
Times (1936)
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#72
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The
Shawshank Redemption (1994)
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Back to the Future (1985)
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#73
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Butch
Cassidy & the Sundance Kid (1969)
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The Prestige (2006)
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#74
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Silence
of the Lambs (1991)
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Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
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#75
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In the Heat of the Night (1967)
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Raging
Bull (1980)
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#76
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Forrest Gump (1994)
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Cinema
Paradiso (1988)
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#77
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All the President’s Men (1976)
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Singing
In the Rain (1952)
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#78
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Modern Times (1936)
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Some
Like it Hot (1959)
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#79
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The Wild Bunch (1969)
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The
Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
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#80
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The Apartment (1960)
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Rashomon
(1950)
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#81
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Spartacus (1960)
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All
About Eve (1950)
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#82
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Sunrise:
A Song of Two Humans (1927)
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Amadeus (1984)
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#83
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Titanic
(1997)
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Once Upon A Time in America (1984)
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#84
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Easy Rider (1969)
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The
Green Mile (1999)
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#85
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A Night at the Opera (1935)
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Full
Metal Jacket (1987)
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#86
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Platoon
(1986)
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
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#87
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12 Angry Men (1957)
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Inglorious
Basterds (2009)
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#88
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Bringing
Up Baby (1938)
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The Great Dictator (1940)
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#89
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Sixth
Sense (1999)
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Braveheart (1995)
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#90
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Swing Time (1936)
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The
Bicycle Thief (1948)
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#91
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Sophie’s
Choice (1982)
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The Apartment (1960)
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#92
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Up
(2009)
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Goodfellas (1990)
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#93
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The
French Connection (1971)
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Downfall (2004)
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#94
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Pulp
Fiction (1994)
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Gran Torino (2008)
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#95
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The Last Picture Show (1971)
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Metropolis
(1927)
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#96
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Do
The Right Thing (1989)
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The Sting (1973)
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#97
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Blade
Runner (1982)
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Gladiator (2000)
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#98
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Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
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The
Maltese Falcon (1941)
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#99
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Toy
Story (1995)
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Unforgiven (1992)
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#100
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Ben
Hur (1959)
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The Elephant Man (1980)
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If you’re
keeping score, AFI is ahead 16 to IMDb’s 15. Next week should be #71: Saving Private Ryan vs. Monty Python & the Holy Grail and
#70: Clockwork Orange vs. Life is Beautiful. But if I'm still feeling all wimpy it may be another skip-around.
Good picks. I always thought Treasure was Bogart's best. His winning the Oscar for Queen always annoyed me (given how incredibly awesome he was in Treasure).
ReplyDeleteTootsie v Modern Times... MT is definite genius. Tootsie is whimsical fun. As you mentioned, it may have spoken a lot to the time. But, MT did as well.