More Than Meets The AFI

18. Jun, 2008 5 Comments

Wees suckers for those AFI top whatever specials that air every year on CBS. Although it appears as if they’re running outta ideas already (as well as talking heads… Amy Madigan? guess she had the most spare time outta anyone), as last night’s affair was the top 10 films for 10 different genres: Animation, Romantic Comedies, Westerns, Sports, Mystery, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Gangster, Courtroom Drama and Epics. While they did a purty decent job with their picks, some of the choices didn’t seem to fit the category they were filed under, like Field of Dreams getting listed under ‘Fantasy’ instead of ‘Sports’, and who ever considered Pulp Fiction to be a ‘Gangster’ film? And whatta bout the absence of Horror films? And why no love for Documentaries, ever (here’s our flavs)? To hells with that shiz, so we decided to come up with a bunch o random lists of our own…

Horror
(not including anything by Stephen King or Hitchcock)

1. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
2. Alien
3. The Exorcist
4. The Wicker Man
5. Jacob’s Ladder
6. The Silence of the Lambs
7. Halloween
8. Rosemary’s Baby
9. The Omen
10. Poltergeist

boo-nus: Time To Leatherface The Music

Stephen King

1. The Shawshank Redemption
2. Stand By Me
3. The Shining
4. Carrie
5. Misery
6. The Mist
7. The Running Man
8. The Dead Zone
9. The Lawnmower Man
10. Children of the Corn

boo-nus: visit Mansfield, Ohio for the Shawshank Redemption trail tour, which includes a stop at the Ohio State Reformatory

Alfred Hitchcock

1. Psycho
2. Strangers On A Train
3. North By Northwest
4. Rear Window
5. Notorious
6. Rebecca
7. Vertigo
8. Rope
9. The Birds
10. Dial M For Murder

boo-nus: Saul Bass‘ storyboards for the Psycho shower scene

TV Shows Turned Into A Movie
(doesn’t include characters plucked from a show, like Borat or the Blues Brothers)

1. The Untouchables
2. The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
3. The Fugitive
4. The Brady Bunch Movie
5. The Addams Family
6. Jackass: The Movie
7. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
8. Star Trek IV
9. Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
10. Dragnet

boo-nus: 30 Upcoming Movie Sequels You Didn’t Know About, including an Untouchables prequel

Drugs

1. Trainspotting
2. Requiem for a Dream
3. Pulp Fiction
4. Midnight Express
5. Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas
6. Boogie Nights
7. Scarface
8. The Big Lebowski
9. Carlito’s Way
10. New Jack City (and no, we aint kidding)

boo-nus: when in Scotland, take the Trainspotting literary tour

Music

1. Pink Floyd The Wall
2. Tommy
3. The Commitments
4. The Devil and Daniel Johnston
5. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
6. The Filth and the Fury
7. A Hard Days Night
8. Buena Vista Social Club
9. DiG!
10. The Blues Brothers
and this list goes to
11. This Is Spinal Tap

boo-nus: I Need A Dirty Woman, I Need A Dirty Girl

Dystopia

1. A Clockwork Orange
2. Planet of the Apes
3. THX 1138
4. Children of Men
5. Twelve Monkeys
6. Sleeper
7. Starship Troopers
8. A.I.
9. Gattaca
10. 1984

boo-nus: Real Horrorshow

Awful Movies We
Kinda Sorta Vouch For

1. Zardoz
2. Can’t Stop The Music
3. Escape From The Planet of the Apes
4. The Terminal
5. The Apple
6. Ghost Dad
7. Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle
8. 2 Fast 2 Furious
9. She’s All That
10. Bratz/From Justin To Kelly (tie)