The American Film Institute (AFI) has been hosting television countdowns for some years now, counting down the "best 100 films of all time", the "best 100 action films", the "best 100 romantic films", etc. Recently they aired the
Top Ten Top Ten Lists. Okay, it was actually "10 classic films in 10 classic genres". But since the "genres" included "Courtroom drama" and "Epic" it seems like they were really reaching.
Rachel and I caught part of this show, coming in part way through Science Fiction. Here's their list.
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Star Wars: A New Hope
- E.T. The Extraterrestrial
- A Clockwork Orange
- The Day the Earth Stood Still
- Blade Runner
- Alien
- Terminator 2: Judgement Day
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers
- Back to the Future
A pretty good list. Rachel has seen Star Wars, Blade Runner and Back to the Future. She's actually seen part of Alien but fell asleep and saw E.T. but was too young to remember. So, having seen clips of all of the above, guess which one she wants to see?
A Clockwork Orange.
The one movie I don't really want her to see until she's at least 35 years old. She was so intrigued she borrowed the book from the library. Awesome.
Nothing like a bit of the old ultra-violence for the 14 year old girl.
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Yeah. One of Zoe's favorite movies is Fight Club. Sigh.
Back to the Future is science fiction? I guess so.
Take her the Karova Milk bar.
Rachel also wants to see Fight Club.
Glad she's reading the book first. The book is freaking brilliant. If she stays with this, I'd say she's old enough for the movie. Just caution her and be there for the parts that might upset her.
She liked the book A LOT. So I may let her watch the movie with me. It's pretty graphic, though.
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