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Thread #103095   Message #2096288
Posted By: Stu
07-Jul-07 - 08:11 AM
Thread Name: BS: The 100 greatest movies of all time
Subject: RE: BS: The 100 greatest movies of all time
A complete pile of shite.

The list is more revealing for what's left off than what's on it.

If I'm not mistaken there is not one single foreign film on the entire list (non-English language). Many of the films are the sort of fetid Hollywood effluent that infests the cinemas and living rooms of the world - infecting the unquestioning protoplasmic blobs who consume this excreta with it's banality and mediocrity and endless glorification of violence. The whole list epitomises the cutural conceit of the American movie industry, and ably demonstrates is it's own myopic insularity and self-congratulatory nature.

No Kurosawa? Werner Herzog? Gondry? Bergman?

No Japanese, Chinese, German, Indian, French or Italian? Not even a single independent British film.

Although many of the films on the list are of course worthy of their place there, are we supposed to believe that Tootsie (!) is somehow better than The Seven Samurai, or that The Sixth Sense somehow outclasses Pan's Labyrinth as a piece of film-making.

Heck - even the best of American cinema isn't represented - no David Lynch?

Streuth.