Posted on 03/13/2011 6:54:03 PM PDT by Perdogg
This year was actually a good year for movies, as I’ve written repeatedly. The King’s Speech was great; so was Toy Story 3; Inception may go down as one of the most creative films of all time. The Fighter was excellent as well.
Then there were the overrated films. Black Swan was atrociously awful, another Aronofsky masterpiece of self-aggrandizing bullcrap. The Kids Are All Right was a TV movie masquerading as a prestige film because it was about lesbians. True Grit was a remake.
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I may live to regret this but I’m throwing “Jingle All The Way” (commonly accused of being one of the worst movies ever) into the same category. Very underrated.
...but then again I can’t stand “A Christmas Story”. But I did love Kolchak in “The Night Stalker”.
“Lord of the Rings, It’s was like watching other people play gauntlet “
Lord of the Rings Trilogy is my all-time favorite movie. I own the extended version and watch it every year. Try reading the book and maybe you can understand the concept of overcoming evil, both external and internal.
Vanilla Sky was one of those movies that got better the second time. Collateral also with Tom Cruise. A great movie.
Jaws is my favorite movie based on this rationale: If I was stuck on an Island with only one movie to watch over and over. (Then I’d have the quandary of never going swimming though). Robert Shaw as ‘Quint’, my favorite movie character.
Annie Hall invented the modern Romantic comedy. Watch Zelig and Crimes and Misdeamnors.
What was wrong with that scene? The aliens had sent a primal mental mental image to various people. It’s a common science fiction element.
I saw it. It was OK.
Right—I forgot about Close Encounters and how awful a movie that was.
It had only one good part, though: When the “headlights” of the “car” behind the guy went straight up. That was good.
The rest was as boring and stupid as can be.
Over-rated: Napoleon Dynamite
Under-rated: Black Dynamite
Do you like Science Fiction?
I found it symbolic of what the author's experience of growing up in England not long after the industrial revolution and of his experience in WWI.
It's all there: from the countryside being destroyed by industrial development and pollution, to the gifted young men (the Elfs) who instead of living long enough to be immortalized by their works, died young in WWI, fighting for their friends; to Gandalf's near death experience, from which he comes back profoundly changed in some way, as people who have had such an experience do.
Really a profound tale, if you understand the author's inspiration.
One of the worst movies I ever saw. Nothing really new in it. Gladiators was OK. The Departed was a B movie. The rest I never saw.
The original Thing, Colin Clive and Boris Karloff in Frankenstein, Forbidden Planet—all great old Sci Fi’s.
I’m sure I could come up with some more recent great sci fi movies if think about it.
I don’t care for any of the movies Eastwood directed. But Unforgiven was the one I least liked the least.
Arsenic and Old Lace is one of my favorite old movies. But that might be influenced by nostalgia from having seen it as a kid.
1) Kevin Costner
ROFL
So true.
I liked Gandhi.
Agree about the rest, though.
I'll wait until I hear from someone who saw more than a quarter of it before I take a recommendation. LOL
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