Barry Norman's 100 Greatest Films

No Country for Old Men — a vastly overrated pile of shite.

It was rubbish in my opinion, and I've watched some proper rubbish in my time.

Hugely overrated, was bored stiff the second time I had to sit through it. Coen Bros. went off the boil slightly when they made it. I loved A Serious Man though and was chuffed to see Michael Stuhlbarg appear in Boardwalk Empire - I think he's a brilliant actor.

Gladiator, dark knight, when harry met sally, airplane, crouching tiger, harry potter - all very meh MOR imo. Plus, no Shining in the horror section is unforgivable.

Airplane?

You might need to forget the fact that you've seen every second of it 500 times on clip shows, but it is basically a work of genius.

But '100 greatest whatevers' lists are inevitably a bag of predictable balls unless they're deliberately random and personal anyway.

Its not that bad, not great, but responsible for some of the worst comedy ever made imo.

Tripe of the highest order. It gets the same reaction from me as when people mention Ferris Bueller's Day Off. What a load of shit!

Boris

[Statto]

Definitely The Ladykillers anyway

which I've just gone and proposed as his 101th film:

I realize that Barry Norman limited himself to one Ealing Comedy and, indeed, "Kind Hearts and Coronets" is a very fine film. Nevertheless, I think any list of "greatest films ever" should contain "The Ladykillers" (Alexander Mackendrick 1955). It's a flawless film in every respect: in direction, cinematography, screenplay, acting — and especially for the performance of Katie Johnson, who upstages a bevy of more famous actors (Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Cecil Parker, Jack Warner...).

So that's my nomination for the 101th film: "The Ladykillers" (the original film of course, not the pointless Coen brothers remake).

Boris

Hello Texas, how are things?

Boris

Hello Texas, how are things?

Yeah good ghuyyyy, moved out of London and got a new job in the last year so working with some friends I was at Uni with instead of working for a bunch of mercenary cunts, life is good


On the subject of this list, no room for The Canonball Run? What a dispicable cunt

The Exorcist is terribly overrated. 5% hilarious prosthetics, 5% moody music and 90% hype.
Don't get me wrong, it was a landmark in the genre in terms of publicity and it is a decent watch but a patch on The Shining which till this day is the best English language horror I have seen. By some way.

[Statto]

Barry Norman's 101st film

Pulp Fiction (1994)

well, okay, I can live with that


20 Films You Wanted on Barry's List

The African Queen (1951)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
The Apartment (1960)
Back to the Future (1985)
Cinema Paradiso (1988)
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Gandhi (1982)
Goldfinger (1964)
The Great Dictator (1940)
Henry V (1944)
The Ladykillers (1955)
The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001-2003)
Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)
On the Waterfront (1954)
The Sound of Music (1965)
The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
The Usual Suspects (1995)
Zulu (1964)

at least my film got an honourable mention