Posted on 03/21/2011 8:46:19 PM PDT by winstonwolf33
10. Titanic: If you’re a teenage girl, I understand – Leo is soooo dreamy (retch). But if not, you have no excuse. Utterly ludicrous interpretation of a tragic event. Exploitative in the extreme. Yes, during the sinking of the Titanic, I’m sure that people went hunting each other with pistols. The dialogue is some of the worst ever penned. And she throws the diamond into the sea at the end? My God, old woman, there are millions starving and you throw a priceless jewel into the ocean? Selfish hag.
9. Some Like It Hot: Not a terrible movie, just not a great one. Still unsure why this is considered one of the great comedies of all time. I love Billy Wilder, but this isn’t his best comedy, or even among his top ten movies (see The Apartment, The Fortune Cookie, Stalag 17, the underrated Ace in the Hole, Witness for the Prosecution, Ball of Fire, Sabrina, Love in the Afternoon, Sunset Blvd. and Ninotchka all rank above it). And what the hell does the last line even mean?
8. Chinatown: A good movie, but is it really the best script of all time?
7. 2001: A Space Odyssey: 45 minutes of greatness, almost two hours of poop, including half an hour of monkeys hitting each other with sticks. Oh yeah, and there’s a monolith.
6. The Usual Suspects: When I finished this movie, I wanted to punch somebody. Here’s the deal with twist endings: you have to give the audience clues, and the twist must not invalidate the entire movie. The Usual Suspects broke both these rules. First, the clues were not available the entire movie – only when they show you the board, the mug, etc. do you realize he’s been making up the story. That’s called cheating.
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Ten minutes into Titanic, I’m yelling at the screen, “Just Sink Already!”
Wilder's "One, Two, Three" is one of the funniest movies ever made, and Cagney's performance was one of the most brilliant comedy performances ever.
I agree across the board.
I do have to put my hand up for 2001.
Back then, people READ BOOKS. If you read “2001” and then saw the movie, the 2 clicked in nicely and made it a good movie. If not, then 2001 made no more sense than “A Clockwork Orange.”
I also think 2001 gets props for special effects — making space a true, livable and believable backdrop. The idea that all the computer displays were hand-drawn graphics makes one pause.
Arthur C. Clarke is also an arrogant S.O.B. who made himself the spokesperson for Sci Fi when there were much bigger names still alive (Asimov, Heinlein, Ellison). Just sayin’
Agree on Titanic and 2001: A Space Odyssey. The latter just isn’t my kind of film. As for Titanic, it’s very formulaic, and I was surprised by how successful it was.
Titanic was a great movie, truly awesome.
Apparently the plot was too complicated for some folks...
ET, Lion King, Space Odysyeyeyo, Easy Rider, and all Star Wars movies after the first one, yes, they are not so great/or suck films that didn’t warrant the praise they got. I’m sure I can think of a few more...
totally agree...I like to pair it with His Girl Friday for machine gun dialog delivery
Chick gets naked, ship hits iceberg, ship sinks, what's so complicated about that?
>>Ten minutes into Titanic, I’m yelling at the screen, “Just Sink Already!”<<
It had a happy ending — “Jack” bit it. But to get 3 hours into it was a long slog. Also, one would think she loved her eventual husband and want to meet HIM on the Other Side instead of some almost one night stand.
What a selfish bitch Rose was...
I watched Titanic back in HS and just fast forwarded it to the time when the iceberg hit the ship. And when the chick was naked, that was it.
Fargo, yes, I hated that thing...
The whole movie, I’m like... “ok, where does it get interesting? No, I said interesting, not a big bloody gore fest..”
How about a list of truly great movies:
M.A.S.H.
North by Northwest
Idiocracy
Dr. Strangelove (just for the line “there is no fighting in the War Room”)
Contact
A movie mill of overrated titles, any Sundance festival.
American Beauty was a truly worthless POS movie, I agree. Fargo and Pulp Fiction, I will allow some leeway because it truly had it’s moments while Am beauty had absolutely none.
I liken Usual Suspects with John Cage’s 4’33”: the kind of way out there art which must be done once well to define the boundary, and thereafter is impossible, and annoyingly boring, to duplicate.
“Independent films are those black and white hippie movies. They’re always about gay cowboys eating pudding.” - Eric Cartman
It was a great recap of what happened, and the special effects made it work. Very good acting from all the characters, and I’m no big Di Caprio fan either, but he did a very good job. The nemesis guy, he was AWESOME, you could just see/feel his arrogant east coast money bs like it was real. The tragic fate of the people, you can feel it. I also liked how they tied modern times, and retraced the history through the gal in the movie. It really, truly was believable, and a good romance. The movie compelled people, and brought the Titanic back into the modern age for discussion and thought. After the movie, there are now some very incredible websites that have the entire passenger list accounted for, with biographies etc.
Gives you the whole thing with subtext.
Surely that's not the best the author can do, is it?
Benjamin Braddock is a whiny bitch of a human being
Figures. He resorts to rude words, too. Apparently that is the best he can do.
Pity.
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