tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4919095853118169743.post2534937297876195134..comments2023-10-11T00:21:49.082-07:00Comments on 100 Movies, 100 Theaters: Top 10 Phone CallsWill M. Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03137121025848592346noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4919095853118169743.post-67116152686811860822010-07-08T09:23:41.116-07:002010-07-08T09:23:41.116-07:00I nominate SORRY, WRONG NUMBER (1948) as a must-in...I nominate SORRY, WRONG NUMBER (1948) as a must-include All-Time fones-in-philm genre classic.<br /><br />Also, from our lifetimes, the unthinkable-at-the-time scene in WARGAMES (1983) in which the computer calls them back.Joshuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05575879673925408814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4919095853118169743.post-40508216620312116392010-04-20T05:14:42.880-07:002010-04-20T05:14:42.880-07:00Oh, man, I need to watch Next Stop Wonderland agai...Oh, man, I need to watch Next Stop Wonderland again. Love that film.Shakier Anthemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16169934547082128953noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4919095853118169743.post-18802847253339066342010-04-13T12:51:57.406-07:002010-04-13T12:51:57.406-07:00Last night I was reading a 1965 book about the Aca...Last night I was reading a 1965 book about the Academy Awards, which claimed that Louise Rainer's phone scene in <i>The Great Ziegfeld</i> (1936) was exceptional. I haven't seen that movie, and so was struck by how my Top 10 lists will be limited by what I've seen (and of that, what I can remember).<br /><br />I've seen roughly 2,000 movies (discounting about 500 that I probably can't recall in detail). This is a fairly small number contrasted to how many movies have been released in the U.S., which, going by the MPAA certificate number, is roughly 50,000. By those accounts, my lists are only informed by 4% of the movies that we remember collectively.<br /><br />Of the movies I do remember, I'm more likely to recall specific scenes from the movies I've seen multiple times. And I've only seen them multiple times because I think they are good. So, on the one hand, you might say these lists are biased toward good movies, but on the other hand, it means these lists are giving me the chance to talk about great movies! (Uh, except for <i>Telefon</i>.)Will M. Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03137121025848592346noreply@blogger.com