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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just for fun...
My list in no particular order....
Superman (the Christopher Reeves version)
Rudy
Hoosiers
I happen to agree with them about Forrest Gump
Braveheart
The Patriot
Titanic
Anything with Ben Affleck NOT named Dogma
Anything wtih Matt Damon NOT named Dogma or starting with Bourne...
Anything with Leanardo DiCaprio
The Crying Game
The Russia House
Brokeback Mountain
Also, PULP FICTION.
Correct about American Beauty.
LOL
I can watch Forrest Gump, but for whatever reason I just can't understand why some people call it the greatest movie they've ever seen.
It's good, but I mean it's not on Super Troopers level or on South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncuts' level....
:-P
Unfortunately, they did not include "It's a Wonderful Life" in the list.
For sure!!!
Yawn. Most of their basis for attacking Gone with the Wind is the fact that, with approximately seventy years of hindsight, parts of the film are now considered "racist."
It admittedly is. But shouldn't art be viewed in an historical context? By that argument Twain, Stowe, etc, were also racist.
I completely understand. I even figured that out all by myself. :)
Loved Field of Dreams.
Most over rated in the last 5 years, "Lost in Translation"
Never saw Lost in Translation....
FARGO
5 Star war movies, 3 Lord of the Rings movies.
The English Patient
Susperia
The Shining
Neighbors
Sudden Impact
Doctor Zhivago
Brazil
Mad Max
1941
The Cable Guy
How so? It's the great American play of the last 40 years. Don't tell me it's 'nothing but swearing'?
I'm going to be sorry I asked but what's wrong with The Godfather?
I like both of those movies.
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