Other Crap

The 1,000 Best Movies Ever Made. A complete crock. Instant credibility check: The Lord of the Rings films are NOT on the list. The Shawshank Redemption is NOT. There's Something About Mary is NOT. South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut is NOT. The recent movies to make the list include modest, soon-to-be-forgotten-if-they-aren't-already films like The Hours, In the Bedroom, and You Can Count on Me. Desperately Seeking Susan is on the list. Most telling is the fact that Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (an absolutely awful movie by any possible standard of measurement) IS on the list. How did he miss Manos: The Hands of Fate? Let's summarize: Lord of the Rings: NO; Sweet Sweetback: YES. In other words, it is a list that makes no effort to assess whether the movies are actually among the "best", but takes historical significance, political correctness, and literary snobbery into account. Bottom line, it is a list of 1000 films often considered good by people who think books are way better than movies.