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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Anyone who would say that The Shawshank Redemption is one of the worst movies they ever saw has no taste in movies.
I put it there because it appears nowhere at all on imdb's list of the 250 best films of all time. By comparison, Pulp Fiction is rated #5, and Fight Club is rated #14.
Sunset Boulevard, The Professional, American Beauty and Spirited Away all make the top 50. Are these better movies than Titanic? No way.
“Dances with Wolves - absolutely horrible from a historical standpoint.”
You are so right. Another of the “Noble Savages” lunatic theory of American Indians. Give me a break, the savages wantonly killed, subjugated, and even ate the enemy tribes. They were lucky to have been given a thin veneer of civilization by the European conquerors....
“Also liked “Jackie Brown”.
I think I would watch the movie over again just to hear DeNiro say, “pretty much...”
I used to feel the same way and then I watched and enjoyed Inside Man without knowing that Shelton "Spike" Lee directed it (the movie was on TV and I caught it about five minutes into the beginning so I missed the credits).
Is that with Joel McCrea? I must put that on my Watch list.
Exactly right about Titanic, or as I call it, Saved by the Bell goes on a cruise.
I'm surprised by the number of “movie fans” that have never seen it. Apparently, it gets overshadowed by Pulp Fiction (which was a very good film) which preceded JB, although IMO, JB is the superior film, hands down with a bow on it.
I would put Jackie Brown in my favorite 12-to-15-ish movies of all time. It's one of those movies that when I come across it, I'll pretty much stop whatever else I'm doing and watch it.
1. Citizen Kane: Whoopie. Movie about a rich geezer missing his inner child is the best-rated movie of all time?
2. Annie Hall: About 200 consecutive jokes, most worth a chuckle; no pacing, no story, no realistic characters, and, most offensively, no real hard laughs. About as funny as reading 20 straight “Top Ten” lists... but it takes 2 hours.
3. The English Patient: Never met a person who actually liked it.
And, one I disagree with so many of my personal friends over, let alone critics: The Shawshank Redemption. As unrealistic as any childish fantasy, and what’s the “redemption”: that he learned how to play the same game as all the cynics and guilty people? If it had been called, “the Shawshank Corruption,” it would be more accurate, and would have grossed about $30 bucks.
Haven’t seen Million-Dollar Baby or Crash, but I hear they certainly belong.
I agree about True Grit being fantastic. I am not a fan of Westerns. Yet, I like this enough that I would love to see the original.
About as much fun as watching traffic go by... minus the fresh air.
Hey, “the Aviator” was one of the best arguments ever for limiting the power of the federal government
Apollo 13 was a colossal smash hit, was nominated for best picture, and won a handful of other Academy Awards. Titanic was the most winning, and best-selling movie ever. Forest Gump won the Academy Award, and raked in $300 million. Exactly how underrated could they be? What do you want, Tom Hanks to be declared God-Emperor and James Cameron to have right of first copulation with all virgin brides?
I went to see Titanic under the misapprehension that the director was an Italian man I'd never heard of , named DiCaprio. I thought "the blond kid" who played Jack was the worst actor I had ever seen to that point. His whole 'golly-gee-whiz' style of emoting was pretty much a satire of the All-American boy type of 1940 and 1950s movies. I found him grating. LDC's acting is better now than it was then, but he's workmanlike at best IMO.
He is no longer the worst actor I've ever seen, though. That honor now goes to a woman named Sallee Young aka Sallee Elise, who starred in a film called Demented . It's available for instant viewing at Netflix, and anyone who has Netflix NEEDS to see this film, just to be stupified at how unbelievably bad this woman was. Let's put it this way : Her husband was portrayed by Harry Reems the porn star, and he did a *much* better job of acting than her or anyone else in this film. Demented is the most unintentionally hilarious film of all time, despite its subject matter (it's essentially an even lower budget rip off of I Spit On Your Grave).
2001:A Space Odyssey
I love all things SciFi, but that movie blows.
Yeah but for sound editiing,visual effect etc..
While those awards are cool they are not the same as best picture or best director...
Good Cinema thread Bump!!!!!!
“How Green Was My Valley” takes a great deal of sophistication to appreciate.
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