Posted on 08/31/2010 11:37:02 AM PDT by Immerito
10. 'The Back-up Plan'
9. 'The Bounty Hunter'
8. 'Clash of the Titans'
7. 'Cop Out'
6. (tie) 'The Great Directors' / 'Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel'
5. 'Grown Ups'
4. 'The Last Airbender'
3. 'The Last Song'
2. 'Sex and the City 2'
1. 'Furry Vengeance'
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“Try The Searchers. I don’t recall a teeny bopper messing up that one at all. A properly grim story and Wayne as his grimmest.”
See my post #30. Agree this was a pure western true to the novel. Great book BTW. When Wayne work with Ford the westerns were great. Later on, not so much.
Bill Murray was very good as well.
The Searchers is the definitive post-war Western and Wayne at his finest. Of course, the definitive pre-war Western is Stagecoach, also featuring Wayne at his finest.
Good point. You got me there.
I would agree with that...I was pleasantly surprised by Robert Downey Jr.'s Sherlock Holmes, although I think technically that was a 2009 film.
Yeah - a very small genre!
In the listing of posts, the top of the list showed up as “...’The Back-up Plan’ 9” If ever there was a move that doesn’t need a sequel....
Sort of, but you gotta remember that those movies were family entertainment back than and the filmmakers were trying to appeal to a broad audience. I don't think that including Ricky Nelson ruined Rio Bravo, though it would have been better without him.
any of John Cusack movies
I think the story might have been better had Stallone not tried to use (apparently) The Dirty Dozen as his model, but instead made it yet another reworking of Seven Samurai.
I knew “Grown-Ups” was gonna suck a big one when the TODAY Show dragged each and every one of the stars on multiple times. Universal trying to salvage what they could from a movie that they knew was a loser.
Yep. Neeson had the opportunity to be forever compared directly with Olivier, and one of the reasons I bought a ticket was that I thought he would pull it off admirably. To say I was disappointed in his performance would be a decided understatement. He (Neeson) is a strong enough actor that he's actually carried a number of films that would have been real stinkers without his presence, but I couldn't help but thinking he really was simply going through the motions with this part.
Which recalls another great Western, The Magnificent Seven.....
"That'll be the day."
Best Western?
No doubt Silverado! Great music, great story!
I will also nominate Rio Bravo, Fist full of Dollars as well.
You gotta give “Lonesome Dove” a shot at the title.
Wow, I’m sorry you guys didn’t like INCEPTION. I was riveted from start to finish, and I went back a week later and saw it again. Afterward, I felt like I was in a trance, both times. I didn’t find it hard to follow at all, just fascinating, beautiful, and hypnotic.
I’m surprised The Sorcerer’s Apprentice didn’t make the list. That was the one where the NYT critic said Nicholas Cage should be banned for life from acting.
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