AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: America's Greatest Movies

The chance to see so many clips from so many GREAT films is a great treat for any movie lover. It brought back memories of the ones I'd seen and introduced me to so many that I can't wait to see. Way to go AFI!

Boring "special" showing clips from AFI's picks of the top 100 films of the century (1898-1998). The narration is (to be nice) insipid, the categories films are put in are truly mystifying ("All About Eve" in the monster category?????) and there are some really stupid choices ("Dr. Zhicago????" Come on!) My biggest complaint is that they show all the movies full frame. With some of the old movies that's fine, but when we get to big-budget wide-screen epics like "Ben-Hur" and "2001" it makes no sense! They should be shown letter-boxed. The chariot scene they show from "Ben-Hur" is virtually incomprehensible. Boring, stupid, bad choices, lousy full frame...a real disappointment. Don't bother.

And that can be good and bad. This is one of those 'best of!' tv shows that ends up skipping over a LOT of great films, and interviewing people- David Copperfield!?- who really aren't even in the film business. But, it does offer glimpses of Woody Allen and Clint Eastwood and some of those greats, so I guess it's got some credibility. I just got a little bored by it after a while.

No Buster Keaton? No Preston Sturges? Puh-leeze! Keaton has dated far better than Chaplin, yet Chaplin got several selections and Keaton got none. Leaving out Preston Sturges was nothing short of criminal

Made a bet with my brother.. He said Gone With the Wind, I said the Godfather. We were both wrong, but I was closest. I believe they were #4 and #3. He never paid me the $5.

To see actors and actresses describe their movies and their thoughts while making these movies or watching other's great movies was the best. How Dustin Hoffman came to tears while discussing his preparation for the role of Tootsie, i mean, WOW.

10 out of 10