Propose the next AFI list

On dogs, there was Taro and Jiro in Antarctica, made in the early 80's by a Japanese film company...


Sitting back to think of lists..

Um...
boxing movies,
movies with card games,
thrillers in the snow...

AFI's 100 YEARS...100 Movies On Drugs

1. Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
2. Fast Times At Ridgemont High
3. Dazed And Confused
4. Easy Rider
5. Trainspotting
6. Scarface
7. Blow
8. Big Lebowski
9. Pulp Fiction
10. Go

11. Superfly
12. Friday
13. Man With the Golden Arm
14. Bird

Pirates

1. Treasure Island
2. Long John Silver
3. Pirates of the Carribean
4. Pirates (sequel)
5. Blackbeard
6. Captain Blood
7. Swashbuckler
8. Long John Silver's Return to Treasure Island
9. Captain Kidd
10. The Pirate Movie

They spent the movie dying

1. Love Story
2. The Last Posse
3. DOA
4. Brian's Song
5. Midnight Cowboy
6. The Shootist (I assume he died, didn't see this one)
7. The Rose
8. Titanic
9. The Perfect Storm
10. Che

Gets girl, loses girl, gets girl -

from an article by Steve Badger, "The Games The Thing"
link - http://www.playwinningpoker.com/poker/movies/

1. California Split
2. The Sting
3. The Cincinnati Kid
4. Kaleidoscope
5. Born Yesterday
6. A big Hand for the Little Lady
7. The Three Godfathers
8. Dr. Mobuse - The Gambler
9. Run
10. The Gunfighters
11. Rounders
and a number of honorable mentions, see link.

11. Man With the Golden Arm

OH! I get it.

Catfights

1. Destry Rides Again
2. Catwoman
3. Death Becomes Her
4. Move Over Darling
5. One Million Years B.C.
6. Kill Bill
7. Coffy
(and several other Pam Grier films. Any excuse to rip off her blouse)
8. The Turning Point
9. Carmen Jones
10. The Parent Trap

Beat you to it LW...with this and a few others.
see right below sublime's original post.

Don't know how I missed that -- working on my first cup of coffee. It's 7:32 AM here (and getting hot, hot, hot).

More serious, I'll try a bit tougher category to wake me up!

100 Politics At the Movies

1. The Best Man
2. Advise and Consent
3. Mr. Deeds Goes to Washington
4. All the President's Men
5. Primary Colors
6. The Candidate
7. Dave
8. The Manchurian Candidate
9. Bob Roberts
10. Nixon

AFI's 100 YEARS...100 Car Movies

1. Blues Brothers
2. Road Warrior
3. Herbie The Love Bug
4. Gone In 60 Seconds
5. Bullitt
6. Cannonball Run
7. Back To The Future
8. Christine
9. Its A Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad World
10. The Transporter

How about AFI's 100 YEARS...100 Movies on Losing Your Virginity

1. Titanic
2. Blue Lagoon
3. Say Anything
4. Love & Basketball
5. The Turning Point (again!)
6. Biloxi Blues
7. Inside Daisy Clover
8. Shakespere in Love
9. Forrest Gump
10. Coal Miner's Daughter

11. The 40 Year Old Virgin


(Not sure she was a virgin in "Titanic.")

LW, remember her hand "gently" slammed against the back window of the car in storage? To me, that indicated the pain associated with the loss of her virginity. She and Cal fooled around but I don't think they ever 'went all the way'.

I guess that's an educated supposition but I also don't think she would so blithely disrobe or use the finger if she was stodgy about sex. Cal was enough of a cad and brute to have taken advantage, testing out the equipment before the engagement. I also suppose it is more romantic that her first sex was with Jack. I guess we will really never know without asking Cameron.

An internet question and answer:

Was Rose a virgin?

Forgive my indelicate question, but I have seen this movie 8 times and I just realized the significance of this line by Cal..."Yes! You are. And my wife...in practice, if not yet by law. So you will honor me. You will honor me the way a woman is required to honor her husband...." But earlier in the film, when he gives her the diamond, he says "There's nothing I'd deny you. If you'd not deny me". Well, which is it?! Not to mention, when she and Jack are in the car, and he asks her if she's nervous, she answers NO! Well, that could be for lots of reasons! Not that it really matters. Jack was the true love of Rose's life, even though she eventually married and had children. But this ambiguity is driving me crazy! Darn you Cameron! Now I have to see it again! (boo hoo). I want some 2nd opinions on this!

-- Jen ([email protected]), April 08, 1998
Answers
I'm quite positive that Rose was a virgin. Although it is easy to come up with different interpretations there are a few things that stick in my mind that make me think she was. 1. Cal said "I had hoped you would come to me last night." (This was the breakfast scene when he freaked out on her.) I think he was hoping that that would be their first time together. The "in practice, if not yet by law", in my opinion, simply means that she will obey him and honor him as if they were already legally married. Also, if you read the original script in the scene where Rose and Cal are setting up their stateroom right after they board the ship Cal says something along the lines of "And when I crawl between the sheets, I'll still be the first.The first and only. Forever. (Rose realizes how bleak a prospect this is for her)" Cameron left that out of the final cut. One more thing--the reason she's not nervous with Jack is because she believes in it and knows it's right. I also think her hand is pretty symbolic in that scene. She's going through a total metamorphosis. Does anyone else have an opinion on this??

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The consensus appears to make your assessment correct, eoe.

How could you leave out the original "Planet of the Apes"? Surely it belongs as number 2 behind the original "Kong." But hey, there's an ape for that!