List is not complete without GOLDFINGER.

I don't mind a slide show so long as it doesn't reload the whole damn page. This one is fine.

You know, for a 50 film list, there isn't much there that I disagree with.

Good list but I'd like to add "Three Days of the Condor" to it. It was a much tighter story than the original "Six Days of the Condor" and the developing relationship between Dunaway's character and Redford's character is A LOT more believable.

Still, I can't hate on James Grady too much. It was his first novel, and he did a better job of developing the "mystique" of the CIA in the book.

From the list, I've seen Forrest Gump, Princess Bride, Jaws, Psycho, and Gone with the Wind.

/I should see more movies that aren't comic book or sci-fi based.

Just so Jaws in on there. And Fight Club. The Forrest Gump book is actually worse than the film? Wow.

No love for Shawshank, eh?

I have to disagree on Last of the Mohicans, but then I'm a big fan of historically based novels that are rich in description of both the people and their surroundings. Also, the book and the film of Breakfast at Tiffany's are two very different creatures. I had watched and enjoyed the film for a long time before reading the novella, but after that I finally got all the things Capote was saying that were either glossed over or only hinted at in the film.

Came for Fight Club, leaving satisfied.

If anyone complains that Starship Troopers isn't on there, I will hunt you down like Obama going after Osama bin Laden.

What? No Planet of the Apes? Seriously?

And I'm glad Blade Runner was on there. The POS book it's based on should be banned from the entire planet. Phillip K. Dick should've been kicked in his last name for writing that crap.

And apparently the author of that list never read A Clockwork Orange. He needs a bit of the old dirty twenty-to-one.

I'd say The Shining but I also don't want to get into a whole thing about it.

Very good list, but could have used an editor & fact-checker. #36: Jason Robards as the narrator of The Princess Bride? Makes me want to poke out my eye. #33: Hawkeye is not a Mohican himself; he's an ass-kicking paleface. #23 Cuckoo's Nest -- nobody calls him Randle except Nurse Ratched, he's McMurphy (not MacMurphy). I didn't count them up, but seemed like Fincher and Kubrick got the most mentions.

Wow, I've seen 50% of those, and read at least 20%. That never happens on lists like this.

I tried to read Trainspotting. I got hooked on heroin just trying to get through it.

The move "A Clockwork Orange" is in no way better than the book.

But, overall, that's a pretty decent list.

HeadKase: No love for Shawshank, eh?

The book was far better than the movie (though the movie was indeed excellent).

HeadKase: No love for Shawshank, eh?

Shawshank isn't a book unto itself.

battlefield earth better be on there

kevinatilusa: Sybarite: I have to disagree on Last of the Mohicans, but then I'm a big fan of historically based novels that are rich in description of both the people and their surroundings.

"There are nineteen rules governing literary art in domain of romantic fiction -- some say twenty-two. In "Deerslayer," Cooper violated eighteen of them."

Yes, yes, it's a different novel.

Love that essay.

Cagey B: vygramul: If anyone complains that Starship Troopers isn't on there, I will hunt you down like Obama going after Osama bin Laden.

Of course it's not listed on there. Why point out what everyone already knows?

I wouldn't say it was better or worse, just so completely different from the book that there was barely any reason to call it ST at all.

...same with Blade Runner.

Dead for Tax Reasons: battlefield earth better be on there

I'd call this a tie as I couldn't stomach either version.

Mugato: Cagey B: vygramul: If anyone complains that Starship Troopers isn't on there, I will hunt you down like Obama going after Osama bin Laden.

Of course it's not listed on there. Why point out what everyone already knows?

I wouldn't say it was better or worse, just so completely different from the book that there was barely any reason to call it ST at all.


Well, the book is a disturbing piece of fascist propaganda. The film is a hysterical send-up of fascist propaganda, which I found a delicious poke-in-the-eye to Heinlein's reactionary political leanings.