• Out of Africa
  
• Titanic
• The Deer Hunter
• The Lost Weekend
• Gone With the Wind
• On the Waterfront
• Sin City
• Jaws

I asked my friend Jim Monteith for his selection, and he put up some of my favorite films (the last two on his list I've never seen, so I've no opinion):

• Fargo
• Unforgiven
• Annie Hall
• Eraserhead
• Pulp Fiction
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• The Color Purple
• Vertigo
• The Blue Angel
• The Wizard of Oz
• A Clockwork Orange
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• The Third Man
• Rebecca
• Forrest Gump
• The Sting
• Donnie Darko
• Magnolia
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Everything by Capra is over-rated, Monteith says, except Arsenic and Old Lace and It's a Wonderful Life.
• Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (Monteith says Most critics consider it a piece of absolute dreck; I don't rate it that high.)
• The Bandwagon

In a few cases, Monteith and I agree:

• The Searchers
• An American in Paris
• Raging Bull
• The Great Dictator
• Some Like It Hot

Back to just my opinions:

• Most Over-rated Hitchcock: Psycho
• Most Under-rated Hitchcock: Young and Innocent
• Most Over-rated Kubrick: The Shining
• Most Under-rated Kubrick: Barry Lyndon
• Most Over-rated Orson Welles: Touch of Evil
• Most Under-rated Orson Welles: F for Fake

• Most Over-rated SF:

  1. Star Wars
  
  
  
  
  2. Blade Runner
  
  
  
  3. Metropolis
  
  
  
• Most Under-rated SF:
  1. Altered States
  
  
  
  
  2. Gattaca
  
  
  
  3. Brother from Another Planet
  
  
  

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