Sweet Fancy Moses has a hilarious look at what Amazon.Com reviewers thought of each of the American Film Institute’s Top 20 films (the AFI actually listed the top 100 films, but SFM only highlights the top 20.
The AFI list itself is interesting, but I think The Godfather is a far better film than either Citizen Kane or Casblanca. In fact if you treat The Godfather and The Godfather II as a single narrative, I think there’s no question you’re watching the best mainstream American cinema ever (as mush as I like the film, I’m not sure I’d put it in the top 10 films if you include foreign films).
Of course I’m a bit biased because over the past few years I’ve become pretty obssessed with the films to the point where I’ve memorized most of the dialogue and watch them any chance I can get. I.e., whenever my wife is out of town because, as she puts it, “I’m sick of watching that stupid movie all the time.”
Little does she know that I pre-ordered the deluxe DVD version set to be released in October.