2014 National Film Registry

The National Film Registry just announced their new titles and they're up on the page.

Now the 2014 ones are open! Criteria's still 10 years (up to 2004).

I've been working on my list and I just submitted mine. Here's my nominees:

1. The Steel Helmet (1951)

2. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)

3. Jason and the Argonauts (1963)

4. Seconds (1966)

5. Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968)

6. Targets (1968)

7. Heavy Traffic (1973)

8. Closed Mondays (1974)

9. Alambrista! (1977)

10. The Many Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh (1977)

11. Blue Collar (1978)

12. Superman (1978)

13. Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)

14. Tom Waits for No One (1979)

15. The Warriors (1979)

16. The Shining (1980)

17. An American Werewolf in London (1981)

18. The Evil Dead (1981)

19. My Dinner with Andre (1981)

20. Thief (1981)

21. Diner (1982)

22. The Secret of NIMH (1982)

23. Tender Mercies (1983)

24. Wild Style (1983)

25. Stop Making Sense (1984)

26. The Breakfast Club (1985)

27. Routine Pleasures (1986)

28. Broadcast News (1987)

29. The Princess Bride (1987)

30. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)

31. For All Mankind (1989)

32. Say Anything... (1989)

33. Metropolitan (1990)

34. Paris is Burning (1990)

35. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

36. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

37. Crumb (1994)

38. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

39. Welcome To The Dollhouse (1996)

40. The Big Lebowski (1998)

41. More (1998)

42. Smoke Signals (1998)

43. The Truman Show (1998)

44. Being John Malkovich (1999)

45. Fight Club (1999)

46. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)

47. George Washington (2000)

48. Rejected (2000)

49. American Splendor (2003)

50. Finding Nemo (2003)

edited 21st Dec '13 6:01:28 PM by blackadder98

A fine list, at least judging by the ones I recognize, but it's a wonder that several of these aren't there already.

Yeah, they JUST added Pulp Fiction. A Christmas Story was last year.

I'm also surprised some of these movies weren't already a part of the Registry. Nice to see Say Anything get it's dues

Here were my submissions:

1) Amadeus

2) American Beauty

3) Batman

4) Being John Malkovich

5) Dumbo

6) Ed Wood

7) Edward Scissorhands

8) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

9) Fight Club

10) Glory

12) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

11) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

12) Jurassic Park

13) Memento

14) Rushmore

15) Saving Private Ryan

16) Shrek

17) Superman

18) Terminator 2: Judgment Day

19) The 25th Hour

20) The Lion King

21) The Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the Ring

22) The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

23) The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

24) The Nightmare Before Christmas

25) The Shawshank Redemption

26) The Shining

27) The Truman Show

28) Tron

29) Who Framed Roger Rabbit

The ones in bold are what I feel should especially get included. Jurassic Park and Terminator 2 in particular since they set the standards for CGI in live action films.

edited 4th Jan '14 3:05:45 PM by Lionheart0

Bumping this to make a suggestion, what would happen if everybody in the forums nominated Terminator 2: Judgment Day, The Nightmare Before Christmas, and Who Framed Roger Rabbit? I wanna see this happen.

The 2014 NFR inductees that would make the most sense:

The Great Escape (1963) Rosemary's Baby (1968) A Clockwork Orange (1971) The Elephant Man (1980) The Thing (1982) Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983) Amadeus (1984) The Breakfast Club (1985) Platoon (1986) The Princess Bride (1987) Die Hard (1988) Dead Poets Society (1989) Edward Scissorhands (1990) Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) Reservoir Dogs (1992) True Romance (1993) The Shawshank Redemption (1994) The Usual Suspects (1995) Good Will Hunting (1997) Saving Private Ryan (1998) Fight Club (1999) Memento (2000) The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) Finding Nemo (2003) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

The only films I'd want to see inducted: Return of the Jedi (1983), Back to the Future Trilogy(1985-1990), Star Trek 2: Wrath of Khan(1982), Last Crusade(1989), Lord of the Rings Trilogy(2001-2003), Spider-Man(2002), Batman (1989), The Lion King(1994), Toy Story 2 (1999), Monsters Inc(2001), Shrek (2001) (though Comedy Ghetto might be why Shrek might not be inducted), Die Hard (1988) Shrek 2 (2004), Jurassic Park (1993), Batman Returns (1992), Superman (1978), Rocky (1976), Saving Private Ryan (1998), Tarzan (1999), The Iron Giant (1999), A Bug's Life (1998), Mulan (1998) Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) The Little Mermaid (1989)

edited 20th Apr '14 1:20:27 PM by powerpuffbats

Here's a tip. Use two backslashes to get short line breaks.

edited 29th Apr '14 8:36:27 AM by Jinxmenow