Slagging the AFI's endless "Top 100" lists

My dislike of Reason increases pretty much daily, but here Tim Kavanaugh makes some good points:

"Such political works figure prominently in the list, and conservatives at odds with Hollywood's leftish bias will find little to please them here. Could we explain the over-representation of films made in 1993 as some kind of gassy expulsion of relief at the first year of Bill Clinton's presidency? Would any conservative be bold enough to protest the inclusion of The Best Years of Our Lives at Number 11? I wouldn't, because I think The Best Years of Our Lives is just jake, but consider the film's dramatic high point, Fredric March's stunning 'collateral' speech (which you can view in Quicktime). Who could observe this drunken plea for a massive increase in federally guaranteed spending and not wish Ayn Rand had gone through with her plan to denounce the film to HUAC?"

The AFI lists have been a joke since they voted Katherine Hepburn the greatest actress of all time over Bette Davis. Hepburn played the same character in almost every film, whereas Davis portrayed a vast array of characters, all convincingly, often brilliantly.