Anyone seen a good movie lately?

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

His 10th spot is being kept open for the "Halloween" remake.

[Rome]

FF:

I think JFK is an exercise in self-indugence from a director who is so overrated it's ridiculous.

As far as my original top ten list, those are movies that for whatever reason respesent the best movies I've ever seen from an artistic standpoint.  I "enjoy" watching surf movies like "The Endless Summer" but I wouldn't call it one of the best 10 movies I've ever seen.

I think the movie I love more than any would have to be the original Thin Man.  William Powell & Myrna Loy were incredible together as a screen couple.  Sure, it's not a "great" movie but I could watch that movie over and over and never tire of it.  Casablanca is the same type thing.  Same for Patton.  I've probably seen them each at least 25 times.

As far as the other movies, they're just plain excellent.

[Wingspan]

The one movie that I can see that reverse proves that is the movie High Tension. The first 70/80 minutes of that were just flat out excellent. The ending was one of the worst, and most forced "twists" I have ever seen. It was one of the few times where the end of a movie flat out pissed me off to the point where I then hated the rest of it.

Another great point about a movie that was basically ruined by the hackjob ending.

Although....I still laugh at the scene where the guy in the truck who is giving himself a blowjob with a severed head.

[MDS]

magnolia was great but not even close to any kind of top 10 list...it has no replay value whatsoever

lol @ phreak doing a top 9

wrong.

[rjs246]

Feeling the need to mock other people's top ten movie lists is almost as awesome as feeling the need to defend your top ten movie list.

Having said that, JFK, Gone With the Wind and Citizen Kane all make me want to put a bullet in my head.

I liked JFK when I was 13 and thought it was awesome to believe every conspiracy theory that anyone floated. As an adult its farging unwatchable.

[Rome]

I would bet there there are at least three movies on your list that you have never even seen.

You'd be wrong.  But you've been wrong since you first started posting in this thread today so at least you have foolish consistency going for you.

[phattymatty]

i got citizen cane from netflix about two months ago.  figured since itsusually regarded as one of, if not the best movie of all time, i should see it.

sat on the table for about a month, and in this time i watched about 7 or 8 other movies, most of them being total garbage, and could just never felt like watching it.  meh.

[PhillyPhreak54]

  whoops...I forgot to add

Friday

[ice grillin you]

figured since itsusually regarded as one of, if not the best movie of all time, i should see it.

pretty much what i did...cept i rented it pre netflix days about ten years ago

oh and  i watched it...and ive regretted it ever since

[Rome]

Welles had cajones the size of basketballs to produce that movie.  William Randolph Hearst had the power to pick and choose Presidents and start wars, yet Welles still took him on and in the process created one of the best movies ever made.

He did this when he was 26 goddamn years old.  That's what's most impressive to me about that flick.

[ice grillin you]

romey
i think
that you think
that youre supposed to like citizen kane
or even that you wanna like citizen kane
but that you really dont like citizen kane

[rjs246]

Worst haiku ever.

[MDS]

I thought it was good. Obviously it doesn't translate the same since we're seeing it now and it was made back when diomedes was in diapers. But it was ahead of its time and had a great ending. Still, kind of boring and slow at times. But the fact that Wells took a Hearst to task while a total nobody is impressive.

Also, The Wire > movies.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

I liked JFK when I was 13 and thought it was awesome to believe every conspiracy theory that anyone floated. As an adult its farging unwatchable.

I sort of feel the same way about it, but what's impressive to me is that even if you disprove the "back and to the left" with science and don't agree with the theories, it still holds up damn well.

It's my favorite Oliver Stone movie by far, and I enjoyed NBK and "Any Given Sunday" also.

[SunMo]

My top 10...since everybody else did one, no particular order:

  1.  Godfather
  2.  Godfather II
  3.  The Matrix
  4.  Pulp Fiction
  5.  Reservoir Dogs
  6.  Goodfellas
  7.  Office Space
  8.  Caddyshack
  9.  Sin City
10.  Superman