Watch AFI'S 100 Years... 100 Cheers Movies

I just watched this last week. It was very emotional but inspirational.

“You act like a yo yo, you get yo yo friends!”

Another long movie. I’ve found that I personally don’t think many movies really have to be quite as long as they actually are when they are three hours or more, but some are easier to get through than others. While I still think this one was a bit longer than it could have been, I thought it was a good movie. I read the book, and I almost like the movie better. It was more exciting than the book to see the actual people talking and moving about. I noticed that it was a nominee for Best Picture back in 1960, so I thought about who won instead, and that made me mad. Ben-Hur! That movie was horrible! The Diary of Anne Frank is definitely MUCH better than Ben-Hurl!

4 stars

Definitely deserving of a spot on this list.

And it’s been a few months since I watched it, but I noticed that I forgot to mark In the Heat of the Night off this list too.

• The Grapes of Wrath

Watched this one a few months ago for the AFI Top 100 list, but didn’t notice it was on this list too, until just now.

• Lawrence of Arabia

Two more off the list. So far I’ve been able to mark movies off this list by watching films from the other two lists I’m working on, AFI Top 100 and Academy Award winners.

I love that there are movies on this list that are on the AFI Top 100 and Academy Award list too. I’ve been able to watch some of the movies on this list just by working on those goals.

My thoughts

• It’s a Wonderful Life I watch this one every year
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• Schindler’s List
• Rocky
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
• E.T. The Extra Terrestrial
• The Grapes of Wrath
• Breaking Away
• Miracle on 34th Street
• Saving Private Ryan
• The Best Years of Our Lives
• Apollo 13
• Hoosiers
• The Bridge on the River Kwai
• The Miracle Worker
• Norma Rae
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
• The Diary of Anne Frank
• The Right Stuff
• Philadelphia
• In the Heat of the Night
• The Pride of the Yankees
• The Shawshank Redemption
• National Velvet
• Sullivan’s Travels
• The Wizard of Oz
• High Noon
• Field of Dreams
• Gandhi
• Lawrence of Arabia
• Glory
• Casablanca
• City Lights
• All the President’s Men
• Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
• On the Waterfront
• Forrest Gump
• Pinocchio
• Star Wars
• Mrs. Miniver
• The Sound of Music
• 12 Angry Men
• Gone With the Wind
• Spartacus
• On Golden Pond
• Lilies of the Field
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• The African Queen
• Meet John Doe
• Seabiscuit
• The Color Purple
• Dead Poet’s Society
• Shane
• Rudy
• The Defiant Ones
• Ben-Hur
• Sergeant York
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• Dances With Wolves
• The Killing Fields
• Sounder
• Braveheart
• Rain Man
• The Black Stallion
• A Raisin in the Sun
• Silkwood
• The Day the Earth Stood Still
• An Officer and a Gentleman
• The Spirit of St. Louis
• Coal Miner’s Daughter
• Cool Hand Luke
• Dark Victory
• Erin Brockovich
• Gunga Din
• The Verdict
• Birdman of Alcatraz
• Driving Miss Daisy
• Thelma and Louise
• The Ten Commandments
• Babe
• Boys Town
• Fiddler on the Rood
• Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
• Serpico
• What’s Love Got to do With It
• Stand and Deliver
• Working Girl
• Yankee Doodle Dandy
• Harold and Maude
• Hotel Rwanda
• The Paper Chase
• Fame
• A Beautiful Mind
• Captains Courageous
• Places in the Heart
• Searching for Bobby Fischer
• Madame Curie
• The Karate Kid
• Ray
• Chariots of Fire

There are a few that I have seen, but did not mark off the list. I decided not to mark it off if I’ve seen it, but I don’t remember any of it. So I’ll have to watch them again to refresh my memory.