My top 10 Favorite Films of all time:
1. Brokeback Mountain
2. Network
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey
4. The Searchers
5. City Lilghts
6. The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
7. Hud
8. Touch of Evil
9. Amelie
10. Brief Encounter
Brokeback Mountain – (With Blu ray debut at the same time)
The Constant Gardener – (With Blu ray debut at the same time)
City of God – (With Blu ray debut at the same time)
21 Grams – (With Blu ray debut at the same time)
I think that the negative posts should not be allowed. Why do we need to spend the energy bashing films, directors, actors? Most of the these threads bash talented people and decent films. This forum should be about the love of film not the hate of it. Leave all the negativity to the IMDB boards. Just my 2 cents.
John Williams – Jaws (I know it is too obvious, but the score is brilliant and was almost a character in the film. I could not imagine the film without it, it would probably fall apart)
Leonard Roseman – East of Eden, Rebel without a Cause
I think Friday Night Lights is amazing. It encompasses what playing a sport (football) is all about while not turning melodramatic. FNL is about being a team, the consequences of winning and losing, the skill and process of being an athlete and the final reality of it all. I’ve watched it once a year since it was released.
Fatal Attraction pissed me off when it came out and still does to this day. Don’t know if I would want to watch it if I was having a bad day. Usually when I have a sucky day I want to watch something uplifting to get me outta my funk.
The Dark Knight – It lacked any kind of fantasy / comic book element and was basically a gangster film with flamboyant costumes and big bangs. Heath Ledger was okay but did not really bring anything to the role that anyone else could have brought. Very disapointing after the excellent Batman Begins.
I also do not understand the love for Juno, there was nothing special about it.
Paul Haggis’ Crash is truly an awful film. One of many that the Acadummy has honored while ignoring many truly great films. The Academy Awards have absolutely no credibility when it comes to honoring film.
I do not know if ashamed is the word, but I have never seen TITANIC. When it was released in 1997 I had no desire to see it and after it became so beloved I made a point to never see it. I’ve never seen anything of Quentin Tarantino.
1. Brokeback Mountain
2. Network
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey
4. The Searchers
5. City Lilghts
6. The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
7. Hud
8. Touch of Evil
9. Amelie
10. Brief Encounter
11. Sullivan’s Travels
12. The Godfather
13. The Godfather Part II
14. The Birds
15. Sunset Boulevard
16. Bad Education
17. Purple Noon
18. What’s Up Doc?
19. A Passage To India
20. Citizen Kane
21. I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
22. The Pianist
23. Norma Rae
24. East of Eden
25. Cinema Paradiso
I dislike the choices he makes. He seems to act in front of any script that is handed to him. The films he has done over the past 10 years have really been awful for the most part.
I dislike the choices he makes. He seems to act in front of any script that is handed to him. The films he has done over the past 10 years have really been awful for the most part.
I have to say that I think Speilberg’s films do not hold up. Quite frankly I think Catch Me if You Can is his best work. He was not so heavy handed in his direction of it.
Schindler’s List is fine but quite weak when you compare it to Roman Polanski’s masterpiece The Pianist.
Jaws is fun, but I really think the actors, John Williams score and mostly Verna Fields editing made it succeed.
Close Encounters – great first and last 20 minutes, but the body of the film is just plain dull.
Saving Pvt Ryan, Munich, are decent enough but not really extraordinary.
Hook, Always, Color Purple, War of the Worlds, the Indiana Jones films (except the original), The Terminal, 1941 are all so-so to absolutely dreadful.
Longtime Companion and Parting Glances; 2 late 80’s / early 90’s Indies by now deceased filmmakers Bill Sherwood and Norman Renee. I really think that during that time period the Indie Gay films really took off. It was the begining of Gay voices being heard; the stories were about real gay characters and not stereotypes. AIDS were a topic, but also relationships were developed, the characters were everyday people with careers, families and the desire to live a mainstream life. The early 2000’s brought TV’s Queer as Folk and L Word which took a giant leap and became even more mainstream.
Brokeback Mountain became the Gay Gone With The Wind and found a big audience; and also found descimination from Hollywood when the Academy snubbed it for Best Picture and gave the award to the dreadful Crash. All of the sudden Hollywood showed its conservative side and told the world they were not the bleeding heart liberals they were accused of being. Overall Gay Cinema has progressed and with Milk just released and doing decent box office, it looks like it will evolve.
It is about the same as the 90’s and 80’s. Box office numbers keep getting stronger and films are getting bigger and less ambitous.
Since 2000 there have been some quite good films. I found Brokeback Mountain, The Pianist, There Will Be Blood, Children of Men, Letters from Iwo Jima, Eternal Sunshine, Amelie, Frozen River, Bad Education, Wonder Boys, 4 Months 3 Weeks 2 Days to be quite exceptional and original.
Here it is... Top 10 films of all time? over 3 years ago
My top 10 Favorite Films of all time:
1. Brokeback Mountain
2. Network
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey
4. The Searchers
5. City Lilghts
6. The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
7. Hud
8. Touch of Evil
9. Amelie
10. Brief Encounter
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WHAT FILMS NEED THE TREATMENT? over 3 years ago
Criterion needs to License the Universal Division Focus Features films for BLU RAY and DVD:
Brokeback Mountain
21 Grams
The Constant Gardener
Far From Heaven
The Pianist
The Door in the Floor
The Motorcycle Diaries
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WHICH MOVIES...PUT OUT IN LAST 5 YEARS...DO YOU THINK WILL ONE DAY JOIN THE CRITERION COLLECTION? over 3 years ago
Brokeback Mountain – (With Blu ray debut at the same time)
The Constant Gardener – (With Blu ray debut at the same time)
City of God – (With Blu ray debut at the same time)
21 Grams – (With Blu ray debut at the same time)
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Which Movies Have You Walked Out On? over 3 years ago
HOOK – I found the whole thing so tedious I had to leave the theatre.
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Howzabout Some Horror on Criterion? over 3 years ago
ROSEMARY’S BABY
DON’T LOOK NOW
Both are Paramount films, so the possibility of Criterion is not out of the question.
They have to be in Blu ray also.
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WHAT FILMS NEED THE TREATMENT? over 3 years ago
Croupier
Housekeeping
Lonely are the Brave
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List the most exemplary acting performance(s) over 3 years ago
William Holden – Network
Heath Ledger – Brokeback Mountain
lately….Kate Winslet – Revolutionary Road
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Guilty Pleasures over 3 years ago
MR. BASEBALL – I truly enjoy that film.
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Movies That Should Be In the Criterion Collection over 3 years ago
Amelie
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paranoia themed films over 3 years ago
the very underrated MIKE’S MURDER
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Are posts on overrated films and directors also overrated? over 3 years ago
I think that the negative posts should not be allowed. Why do we need to spend the energy bashing films, directors, actors? Most of the these threads bash talented people and decent films. This forum should be about the love of film not the hate of it. Leave all the negativity to the IMDB boards. Just my 2 cents.
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Is Travis a hero or a villain? over 3 years ago
Travis is a lost soul who ends up a hero. I do not consider him a villain at all.
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What Is "Movie Hell" For You? over 3 years ago
The ‘torture porn’ films (Hostel, Hills Have Eyes, Friday the 13th etc,)
Personally I think Almodovar is one of the great film makers of our time.
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The scariest or most disturbing film you have EVER seen. over 3 years ago
What is disturbing these days? We live in the world of excess and have pretty much been subjected to everything.
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Outstanding Original Score in any Film over 3 years ago
Morricone – Days of Heaven
Dave Grusin – Heaven Can Wait
John Williams – Jaws (I know it is too obvious, but the score is brilliant and was almost a character in the film. I could not imagine the film without it, it would probably fall apart)
Leonard Roseman – East of Eden, Rebel without a Cause
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Best Westerns over 3 years ago
THE SEARCHERS is my favorite Western by far.
HUD and LONELY ARE THE BRAVE as a contemporary Westerns.
THE BIG TRAIL – Just for the spectacular Wagon Train sequences. The lowering down the cliff scene was truly spectacular.
GUNFIGHT AT THE OK CORRAL, LAST TRAIN FROM GUN HILL and POSSE (1975), a trio with Kirk Douglas.
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Great Sports Films over 3 years ago
I think Friday Night Lights is amazing. It encompasses what playing a sport (football) is all about while not turning melodramatic. FNL is about being a team, the consequences of winning and losing, the skill and process of being an athlete and the final reality of it all. I’ve watched it once a year since it was released.
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April 2009 Criterions over 3 years ago
I wish Criterion would license William Friedkin’s Sorcerer from Universal for Blu ray and DVD. It would be great to have it along with Wages of Fear.
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No william friedkin? over 3 years ago
The Brink’s Job would be good. Cinemax HD showed it the other morning and it looked quite good.
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MOVIES TO WATCH WHEN YOU'RE PISSED over 3 years ago
Fatal Attraction pissed me off when it came out and still does to this day. Don’t know if I would want to watch it if I was having a bad day. Usually when I have a sucky day I want to watch something uplifting to get me outta my funk.
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Movies you hated that everyone else loves over 3 years ago
The Dark Knight – It lacked any kind of fantasy / comic book element and was basically a gangster film with flamboyant costumes and big bangs. Heath Ledger was okay but did not really bring anything to the role that anyone else could have brought. Very disapointing after the excellent Batman Begins.
I also do not understand the love for Juno, there was nothing special about it.
Paul Haggis’ Crash is truly an awful film. One of many that the Acadummy has honored while ignoring many truly great films. The Academy Awards have absolutely no credibility when it comes to honoring film.
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CONFESSIONS--FILMS YOU ARE ASHAMED TO SAY YOU HAVE NOT SEEN (YET) over 3 years ago
I do not know if ashamed is the word, but I have never seen TITANIC. When it was released in 1997 I had no desire to see it and after it became so beloved I made a point to never see it. I’ve never seen anything of Quentin Tarantino.
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Age / Level of education? (An informal poll) over 3 years ago
45, some College.
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My Top 20 Movies of All Time over 3 years ago
my list (actually 25)
1. Brokeback Mountain
2. Network
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey
4. The Searchers
5. City Lilghts
6. The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
7. Hud
8. Touch of Evil
9. Amelie
10. Brief Encounter
11. Sullivan’s Travels
12. The Godfather
13. The Godfather Part II
14. The Birds
15. Sunset Boulevard
16. Bad Education
17. Purple Noon
18. What’s Up Doc?
19. A Passage To India
20. Citizen Kane
21. I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
22. The Pianist
23. Norma Rae
24. East of Eden
25. Cinema Paradiso
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Who else dislikes Nicolas Cage? over 3 years ago
I dislike the choices he makes. He seems to act in front of any script that is handed to him. The films he has done over the past 10 years have really been awful for the most part.
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Who else dislikes Nicolas Cage? over 3 years ago
I dislike the choices he makes. He seems to act in front of any script that is handed to him. The films he has done over the past 10 years have really been awful for the most part.
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Spielbergo el supremo? over 3 years ago
I have to say that I think Speilberg’s films do not hold up. Quite frankly I think Catch Me if You Can is his best work. He was not so heavy handed in his direction of it.
Schindler’s List is fine but quite weak when you compare it to Roman Polanski’s masterpiece The Pianist.
Jaws is fun, but I really think the actors, John Williams score and mostly Verna Fields editing made it succeed.
Close Encounters – great first and last 20 minutes, but the body of the film is just plain dull.
Saving Pvt Ryan, Munich, are decent enough but not really extraordinary.
Hook, Always, Color Purple, War of the Worlds, the Indiana Jones films (except the original), The Terminal, 1941 are all so-so to absolutely dreadful.
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Gay and Lesbian Cinema over 3 years ago
Longtime Companion and Parting Glances; 2 late 80’s / early 90’s Indies by now deceased filmmakers Bill Sherwood and Norman Renee. I really think that during that time period the Indie Gay films really took off. It was the begining of Gay voices being heard; the stories were about real gay characters and not stereotypes. AIDS were a topic, but also relationships were developed, the characters were everyday people with careers, families and the desire to live a mainstream life. The early 2000’s brought TV’s Queer as Folk and L Word which took a giant leap and became even more mainstream.
Brokeback Mountain became the Gay Gone With The Wind and found a big audience; and also found descimination from Hollywood when the Academy snubbed it for Best Picture and gave the award to the dreadful Crash. All of the sudden Hollywood showed its conservative side and told the world they were not the bleeding heart liberals they were accused of being. Overall Gay Cinema has progressed and with Milk just released and doing decent box office, it looks like it will evolve.
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2000's worst decade in cinema? over 3 years ago
It is about the same as the 90’s and 80’s. Box office numbers keep getting stronger and films are getting bigger and less ambitous.
Since 2000 there have been some quite good films. I found Brokeback Mountain, The Pianist, There Will Be Blood, Children of Men, Letters from Iwo Jima, Eternal Sunshine, Amelie, Frozen River, Bad Education, Wonder Boys, 4 Months 3 Weeks 2 Days to be quite exceptional and original.
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Favorite auteurs missing from the profile selection box. over 3 years ago
Brokeback Mountain and The Pianist need to be choices in the films section.
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