Posted on 12/13/2006 5:40:45 PM PST by EveningStar
It happens to everyone who loves movies: You're in a conversation at a bar, or at a wedding, or online, and someone begins rhapsodizing about one of their favorite movies and you can't help but say, "Uh, that movie sucks. It's totally overrated." How two perfectly well-balanced individuals can have such drastically different views of the same film is one of the great wonders of being a film fanatic. It happens to us at Premiere all the time, enough so that sometimes we find ourselves questioning who we work with (boy, did it get ugly here when Love, Actually came out, and some of us are still snickering over our boss's love for Bowfinger, not to mention his affection for The Last Samurai). Well, we decided to let our staff go at each other regarding some of the more beloved movies of all time, and, sure enough, sobbing can still be heard coming from the bathroom stalls. Relationships have been strained. Egos bruised. Consider this a film lovers' quarrel, an admittedly rabid one.
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I really like "Hudsucker Proxy", Jennifer Jason Leigh plays the stereotype character so well, and its a lot of fun.
You want a toe? I can get you a toe...
Yeah, I've seen it, but it's been a long time now. I mostly remember the scene where the detective gets his hand 'pinned' to the windowsill.
Braveheart
Shame on you. One of the best films ever put on the screen.
Mine too! :-)
That movie that they play over and over beginning on Christmas Eve and into Christmas Day. I forget what it is called.
And proud we are of all of you.
Good list! :-)
A Christmas Story
Fast Times at Ridgmont High
A Christmas Story
Caddyshack
Blues Brothers
These are 4 of the best movies ever made...
I did like 2001, it was an interesting film, I liked Nashville, it was a good stream of consciousness film, but now dated.
:-)
Yes, and Star Wars. Okay, I'm not a fan but I know lots of people who did like the Star Wars movies.
Some of Woody Allen's movies are really quite good; others are quite awful.
That's it--thanks!!
OTOH, the book is wonderful!
I like Woody, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Annie Hall and Manhattan are great dramas, and the old comedies Bananas, Love and Death and Sleeper are classics.
I saw it only once. I liked it. I liked Jean Shepherd.
I hated Forrest Gump too.
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