[Maritime Q-Scout]

There is no question that modern movies have a stigma against them. In all fairness to AFI these lists generally have a bias towards new stuff and forget the old.

A few movies I might have in my top 10 are Shawshank Redemption, Mystic River, The Green Mile, and Silence of the Lambs.

That said I've yet to see another movie like Casablanca. Was the Godfather good? Yes. Was it great? Yes. Was is slow as molasses? Yes. Maybe I'm painting an unfair portrait of the Godfather as I sat down and watched the trilogy in 3 days, but my God people it was slow. Complain all you want about Citizen Kane being #1 and slow, but let's call a spade a spade here.

Maybe tonight I'll rewatch the Godfather and I might change this view (as it has been a while, I haven't had the desire to rewatch due to slowness).