AFI Updates Top 100 American Films List

AFI Updates Top 100 American Films List

While there are some long overdue changes (Vertigo moving up from 61 to 9) and a several judicious additions (Do The Right Thing and Bladerunner), there are quite a bit more baffling ones, for instance: Saving Private Ryan, Toy Story, Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Titanic and The Sixth Sense. Who votes for this shit? There’s no fucking way Lord of the Rings is better than Taxi Driver.

On the other hand, it’s not as though these “Top Whatever” lists ever had any actual grounding in reality (e.g., U.S. News & World Report’s Top 100 Universities). Interestingly, the updated Top 100 list is now removed from the AFI’s website unless you register for one of their stupid, useless accounts. Maybe instead of concentrating on how to get more advertising money on their website through user registrations, they should devote more than three hours a year to rethinking what films should go in the list to begin with. Or, better yet, abandon the whole project because it’s an unbelievable waste of everybody’s time and completely self-defeating.

(Via Daring Fireball.)