Vanity Fair Magazine (in their September 2005 issue) offered their picks for the "50 Greatest Films" (plus one) of all-time (unranked and alphabetical) in a special tear-out section of the magazine.
Note: The Godfather & The Godfather Part II were counted as one entry.
See – we’re not all old fogies! We’re with it! Probably, the makers of this list found Old School hilarious and it seemed dishonest for them not to include it, because funny is funny, right? But I don’t necessarily think humor should be the primary judge of which films are the “best.” Too often “best” gets confused with “favorite” and a lot of cultural commentators don’t like to draw the line.
Frankly, I didn’t find Old School all that funny anyway. It was amusing, but I laughed harder at, say, Superbad (which would not be on my list of “50 Greatest Films” by the way, nor on a list of “50 Favorite Films” for that matter).
I just added this list as it was written but I certainly don’t agree with all of their choices.
It’s almost sad to see Old School sitting there in between such classics as Now, Voyager and Paths of Glory. I have no idea what they were thinking.
A few other questionable titles were also included but I won’t go on about that here. Everyone is entitled to their opinions. And there are still some very worthy films on this list as well.
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