[AnotherUnixGeek]

8. Chinatown: A good movie, but is it really the best script of all time?

No, but it is an outstanding script. Also a fine performance by Nicholson back when he still cared about his acting, John Huston providing a nearly perfect portrayal of a truly evil man, and a haunting soundtrack. One of the best films of the '70s, and that's saying a lot.

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.

Glib and fairly mindless summation of a great movie.

5. Pulp Fiction: See my comments about Tarantino here. Pulp Fiction is typical Tarantino – moments of brilliance submerged in a sea of triviality.

Tarantino's best film, and still a lot of fun to watch. Breakout role for Samuel L. Jackson, killer dialogues, interesting presentation of several inter-linked storylines. The only bad note was Tarantino's idiotic cameo.

2. Raging Bull: Time for my rip of Scorcese. He picks out the most horrible characters imaginable, then asks us to follow them for hours on end. There is nothing to like about Jake LaMotta. Nothing.

Yeah, that's kind of the point. Many of the most compelling characters in movies were bad people - they can't all be Saturday morning cartoon figures. This was the best movie of the '80s and featured some of the finest acting of any decade by DeNiro in his prime.

Pretty silly list. I'm afraid to find out what this guy Ben Shapiro's best-movie list looks like.

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The only bad note was Tarantino's idiotic cameo.

"But you know what's on my mind right now? It AIN'T the coffee in my kitchen, it's the dead n---er in my garage."

But notice that Tarantino gets away with using the N-word, because it's revealed later that his wife was black.