<p>^^^Yeah, I was wondering if a lot of these films mentioned were ever “highly rated.”</p>
<p>Unfortunately, we seem to have segued into talking about foreign films we like. :)</p>
<p>Best Paul Giamatti movie, and highly rated: Win Win</p>
<p>Clockwork Orange was the only movie I ever left early…I remember it as awful.</p>
<p>Not a fan of foreign films!</p>
<p>Another movie that I thought was long and painful to watch, besides being over hyped, was Close Encounters of the Third Kind. In hindsight, I should have walked out on it.</p>
<p>There really were some truly awful movies in the '70s, weren’t there? You Light Up My Life and Somebody Killed Her Husband (a vehicle for Farrah Fawcett) come to mind. </p>
<p>Here’s AFI’s list of the best American movies: <a href=“http://www.afi.com/docs/100years/movies100.pdf”>http://www.afi.com/docs/100years/movies100.pdf</a></p>
<p>Several of these have been mentioned above; the only ones (of those I’ve seen) that I really didn’t like were MASH and Network. (I thought Dr. Zhivago was schlocky, but I may have been too young when I saw it.)</p>
<p>I just checked the list … The Wizard of Oz! That’s my ultimate “I hate it but everybody else loves it” movie. Scared the crap out of me the first time I saw it and I’ve never been able to shake that. </p>
<p>There’s a handful I haven’t seen, but mostly that’s a pretty good list of movies. I was disappointed by Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid which I saw for the first time last year. </p>
<p>How can “To Kill a Mockingbird” be so low on the list?!</p>
<p>Butch Cassidy is another you had to see at the time- we all loved young Redford. To Kill A Mockingbird is sacred in my family, book and film. </p>
<p>@scout59 - I feel the same about My Fair Lady, my favorite film of all time. </p>
<p>That list is looking a little dated. The most recent movie on it is Fargo. I think there have been some high-quality American movies in the past 19 years.</p>
<p>(It also scares me a little that there are only about 10 movies on the list that I have never seen. Including Taxi Driver and Raging Bull. And Birth Of A Nation.)</p>
<p>The list reminds me that I never saw a Milos Forman movie I liked, at least none made outside of Czechoslovakia. I didn’t like Cuckoo’s Nest, or Amadeus, or Hair, although it would be too harsh to say I hated either of the highly-rated first two.</p>
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You could see Goya’s Ghosts–it will make the others seem much better.</p>
<p>I saw Birth of a Nation in a theater years ago. It was interesting, and well made (for its time), but hardly anybody could like the subject matter these days.</p>
<p>Yeah, see? There’s Citizen Kane, #1 movie of all time. I don’t get it. </p>
<p>I couldn’t agree more about the young Robert Redford. :x </p>
<p>American Hustle – I thought it was too long.</p>
<p>Her – Boring (but thought-provoking at least)</p>
<p>Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Worse than watching paint dry. </p>
<p>Oh, goodness. Someone mentioned Marie Antoinette, and while I don’t think it was ever highly rated, it certainly has seen a resurgence of popularity among my crowd/generation. I understand (I guess) what the purpose of making it like that was, but what an awful movie–especially for a history lover like me. </p>
<p>The only other one on that list I did not like is Tootsie. So 98 out of 100, for me, were at least good enough.</p>
<p>Recently watched* August: Osage County. *</p>
<p>Made me feel quite a bit better about my own family. :O</p>
<p>From the AFI list, the only movies I seriously did not like were “It’s a Wonderful Life” (and I freely admit, that’s a character flaw of mine), “Forrest Gump,” and “Fantasia” (the last segment used to give me nightmares as a kid).</p>