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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Brian De Palma’s version of Scarface is exploitative trash writ large. It has a huge following today amongst Gangsta Rap thugs.
Brian De Palma’s version of Scarface is exploitative trash writ large. It has a huge following today amongst Gangsta Rap thugs.
Loved Jim Backus in that film. Sal Mineo looked like he should have been the lead in a Kenneth Anger production of Rechy’s “City of Night.”
Most overrated has to be “Gone With The Wind.” An utter bore from beginning to end. “Citizen Kane” is a tad better but still sleep inducing.
The first matrix was good it was II and III that really really sucked. That was because they believed their own PR.
Thanks for the info! I personally have never heard of any of those films though.
Yep the dude Andy Lau a great actor and thankfully he has not moved to Hollywood to be in movies.
We just watched him in “A World Without Thieves
Starts off slow but enjoyable.
I thought it was a remake, too.
The two movies? "Blazing Saddles" and "Slapshot."
I know everyone has their own taste, and I appreciate that two people may disagree. However, I have Pulp Fiction on my damn phone. I will sit an watch two minutes of it while I am waiting at the store for my wife. I think the writing and fast, gangster pace, of the movie is just fun. Not great, but just fun.
Taratino is an acquired taste—and not everyone will go for it. I find him amusing.
The Dirty Dozen, Guns Of Navarone, Bridge Over The River Kwai, Sink The Bizmarck, The Great Escape and virtually anything with John Wayne :)
So true. It would make their heads explode!
“Multi-Pass !”
Yes! “The Grapes of Wrath” was one of the greatest to me (We lived a lot of that in our real life)!
Of course most every John Wayne’s was a classic! (If I had to chose a favorite it would be “The Searchers” and/or “True Grit”)
Gary Cooper in “Sergeant York” and “Vera Cruz”
Jimmy Stewart in “Its a Wonderful Life” and many, many others.
In the later movies; “Decoration Day” with James Gardner etc.
And “Driving Mrs. Daisy” plus “Return to Boundifull”
Oh, dear....
My advice is to at least watch "My Man Godfrey". It is exquisite.
I am not a fan of Mel Brooks but “Young Frankenstein” was one of my favorite films. In fact it is on my Netflix Queue now.
I really liked Unstoppable, now out on DVD, about the runaway train.
GREAT selections!!!
Avatar is nothing more than Fern-Gully meets Dances with Wolves. I almost got kicked out of the theater for laughing out loud at parts that were not supposed to be funny.
Just goes to show you what good marketing can do.
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