Top 10 Mistakes AFI Made in Their 10 Top 10 Lists

1. No “Musical” category. I know there’s only 10 categories, but I don’t know how you explain this one.
2. No “Horror” category. If you’re not including these in “Sci-Fi,” then you must have a separate category. It’s as much it’s own genre as “Gangster” or “Romantic Comedy.”
3. Why not get rid of “Gangster” and “Courtroom Drama,” and just have “Crime Drama?” Then you can include “In the Heat of the Night” which has to be here somewhere. Change “Romantic Comedy” to just “Comedy,” then you can include Caddyshack if you thought it was so good. See No. 5, below.
4. “The Natural” missing from the Sports category. It’s probably the best sports movie ever.
5. “Caddyshack,” “National Velvet” and “Jerry Maguire” are not sports movies, and the fact that the AFI doesn’t get that is unsettling. Sports movies are about digging deep and finding inner strength, beating obstacles and achieving victory in the face of defeat. The presence of sports in the plot line is not enough. If it was, you could include “A Day at the Races.”
6. “Annie Hall.” I don’t care what anyone says, Woody Allen movies suck, always have sucked, and always will suck. They are never funny, entertaining nor romantic; and I will never watch one again.
7. “The Wild Bunch.” Again, film critics can tell me all day about the subtle qualities of this movie, but I don’t see it. The movie is stupid, ridiculous and not well-acted, from start to finish.
8. Give me a break. “Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope” is not the name of that movie. I know, I went to the theater to see it when it came out. The name of that movie is “Star Wars.” All the others were sequels, or prequels, or whatever.
9. “Reds” is not an epic film. What was the fascination with Warren Beatty, anyway?
10. “Harold and Maude.” Honestly, this may be the worst movie on any of these lists. It’s just awful and certainly not funny. It’s disturbing, hard to follow and just plain bad.