afi top 100 – Page 4 – Movie Valhalla

DUCK SOUP (1933)

The Marx Brothers got the most freedom of their careers and used it to skewer patriotism, fascism, and war as bum deals for suckers.

A story where three very grizzled dudes find gold in the wilderness and it drives them all nuts. A manly man’s parable about greed.

A western parable in which Gary Cooper is very convinced he is right and everyone else is wrong. He would have fit right in on Twitter.

An “ultra-violent” discussion of free will, human nature, and what it means to be good. At least, I think that’s what’s happening?

The original monster movie continues to thrill when it comes to its giant gorilla. The rest of the movie has not aged as well.

A wildly popular, theoretically inspirational prison drama slash… allegory? metaphor? daydream?

Alfred Hitchock’s sort of crazy little thriller basically invented the slasher genre and is still studied by film nuts sixty years later.

Kubrick’s Science Fiction masterpiece is more of a grand artistic statement than a movie. I love it so much.

Perhaps the ultimate Film Noir, about two murderers who are not nearly as smart as they think they are.

A violent, nihilistic revisionist Western that changed how violence was shown on-screen.