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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Best. Movie. Ever.
Except maybe for Fargo.
Yes, that was it. Can't remember much about it ... tennis? ... but at least I didn't hate the movie.
Oh, OK! That makes it all better. I'm only allowed 1 game a week - AND - she has to watch it with me!
He was a tennis pro. I just liked the last few minutes when he tthrew the ring away and it fell back into the street.
That was good. Otherwise, I really didn't like it.
Thats what is great about Netflix, so many movies and if you don't like them... No problem.
A lot of movies on my list I might like, I just think they're over rated. I liked John Goodman's perform ace but I didn't think it lived up to the hype.
I liked Donnie Darko until I got a recorded call from Jake Gilganhall (sp is seriously messed up) telling me to vote for Kerry.
And from my list, I really, really liked Blade Runner until Scott came out and said that Deckard was supposed to be an android. It's a movie, leave it to the people's imagination and interpretation.
I'll probably revisit both movies when I'm senile. The giant rabbit is cool.
Total Recall might be over rated too but damn, I love that movie!
Oh yeah --- that's right --- now I remember the ending. Yep, Netflix is wonderful --- if I don't like it -- no big deal. Send it back.
I really enjoyed "Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont," last night and never would have rented it, had I known that it was based on the novel written by Elizabeth Taylor!
I think Moonstruck's hype was all about Dukakis' run for the Presidency. His sister never was high profile and hasn't been since yet she got an Oscar.
Passion of the Christ
Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
I never watched it when it came out. Or when it was expaned. Or when it aired repeatedly on cable, etc etc.
Caught it at a museum screening recently.
Then or now I do not understand the fuss. It does become apparent that Spielberg has been ripping himself off ever since (the famous "water ripple" scene in Jurassic Park also can be found in Close Encounters, but it didn't make a ripple in pop cultural references then).
Bowfinger is greatness. Eddie Murphy's best role.
It ends with a mountaintop trance rave. And then capped off with some footage from Cocoon.
According to the list, I gotta call shenannigans:
Jules and Jim was a great flick, Jean Moreau was hot as hell, and it was a well done flick. Truffant was a genius.
The Red Shoes, its syrupy as hell, but, easily the best looking technicolor film ever made and Powell and Pressberger were great directors.
As for the rest, no big problems, I found Forrest Gump to be a simple minded load of fluff.
The one I detest that never made it to the list was Independence Day, chock full of hackneyed dialog, ridiculous plots with monster size holes, incredible gaps of logic, and hamfisted acting, with plenty of explosions to satisfy the hyperactive 12 year olds.
I assume you're being sarcastic since CE3K predates Cocoon by several years. :)
I hated that movie. They get an A for effort I guess - trying something innovative, but I thought it was booooooring.
Have you seen Blood Simple?? Great, early Coen brothers flick.
I don't think I ever saw Jules and Jim.
I agree with Independence Day. It was incredibly stupid.
I am a Lebowski achiever
These are the only films on the list that I've seen:
Fantasia (liked it a lot)
Chariots of Fire (liked it)
Nashville (snore)
The Wizard of Oz (liked it a lot)
Easy Rider (way overrated)
2001: A Space Odyssey (liked it but it was overrated)
Gone With the Wind (I saw it during its 1968 revival. I think I liked it but I can't remember for sure.)
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