I was reading a press release about the new list and came across an interesting tidbit. Guess which decade is most represented...
The 1970's.
That surprises me. There are 20 films from the '70's on the list. That is up from 18 from 1997's list. (For those interested the most represented decade last time around were the 1950's, also had 20 films).
I still believe that the list was finagled with in some capacity but I do believe that the voting that dig occur shows that baby-boomers made up the largest constituency of AFI voters. I know that is an assumption but one that makes sense considering the results. In the seventies Baby Boomers took over Hollywood both artistically and commercially so it is no surprise that a generation that takes itself so seriously anyway would have an inherit bias towards films that represent them and their ideas...which does make sense. (I feel very passionately about movies of my era...that's just human nature.) Furthermore there are several films from the late sixties (The Graduate, Midnight Cowboy, Easy Rider) that also favors the mind-set of Baby Boomers. One could make the argument that the list is dominated by the particular opinions of one (large and vocal) generation.
To be honest...it is hard to argue with the selections on the list from 1970's. To me The French Connection could be tossed but other than that it looks like the 1970's might be Hollywood's new golden age.
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So where do you think Ratatouille will be on this list 10 years from now? And no, I'm not joking. I told Kerns last night I think it might have cracked my Top 5 Favorite Movies of All Time list... That might be slightly premature, but it was really fucking good. If you and Stuckey don't give it an A+ this week I'm calling in to the Dime Line to say you're incompetent boobs.
Um, Dirty, with all due respect, you're nuts. Ratatouillie is not even the best Brad Bird movie (that would be The Iron Giant) much less worthy of a spot in the top five of all time. It was a good movie, particularly for an animated feature, but it's not top five material.
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