Movies we're supposed to say are good

tylercheribini

dresden8 wrote: »

There's quiet thoughtful Pacino and loud as fnck and annoying Pacino.

Quiet and thoughtful Pacino is a fncking superstar.

Loud as fnck and annoying Pacino is just annoying.

Id still put Dog Day amongst his best though,the manic portrayal of the character totally served the story. Scarface too since he is coked off his head most of the time. Getting the Oscar for shouting continuously in Scent of A Woman was a turning point in his career and a well he has returned to often ever since.

dresden8

tylercheribini wrote: »

Id still put Dog Day amongst his best though,the manic portrayal of the character totally served the story. Getting the Oscar for shouting continuously in Scent of A Woman was a turning point in his career and a well he has returned to often ever since.

Godfather movies (even the third one) and Dog Day Afternoon he was brilliant. Shouty Pacino, meh. Liked the scene in Heat when he took his telly back. That was good shouty.

Samsgirl

The Notebook. Stuck on a flight and it was on the main screen on the plane. Yawn fest

diusmr8a504cvk

Donald Prickly Rapper wrote: »

Brick

Fed up with briiiiick!

diusmr8a504cvk

The Wolf of Wall Street - Just way too sensationalised, the story itself would've been fine.
The Hangover - Only saw the first one, it has its moments but people made it out to be the greatest thing ever at the time.

KevinCavan

Peatys wrote: »

Really? Flicked past it a few times and couldn't see how they'd make a decent film out of it, but I'll give it a go, cheers.

I don’t get the Cruise hatred really, he’s perfectly fine in Jack Reacher/ Mission Impossible in my book.

Greyfox

tylercheribini wrote: »

They arent even in the same league as each other, watch or read any of Spielbergs thoughts on Kubrick to confirm this.

The truth is Spielberg is a far superior director who learned a lot from Kubrick

kunst nugget

Greyfox wrote: »

The truth is Spielberg is a far superior director who learned a lot from Kubrick

Booooollocks.

Sal Butamol

Ulysses Gaze wrote: »

Withnail and I
The Big Lebowski

Rosa Putrid Tiller wrote: »

Sure was - love that film.

The Big Lebowski really did not do it for me - but I may revisit.

Ash.J.Williams

Knex. wrote: »

I'm not really one for the marvel films anyway, but Black Panther was actually a black hole into which any semblance of craic vanished.

Made the mistake of seeing it in the cinema and I think you could have gathered 20 mins solid footage of me sighing in anguish alone.

black panther was horrendous

deco nate

Remember the first *found video *****e movie's?can't remember it's name. You know, snot face. Fake
Bs online site and everyone bought it. What a waste of tape.
I said in work it was ****e and was ridiculed for it.
How many of those ****e movies are there now?

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

The Breakfast Club is muck.

Ferris Bueller too.

Duckworth_Luas

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

The Breakfast Club is muck.

You are mistaken.
Look at how cool it is?????????

thebull85

5rtytry56 wrote: »

Christopher Walken at his finest too.

The Wedding scene.

Git walken dancing around the pool table made that movie for me.. Legend.

Deusexmachina

Sardine wrote: »

Can't think of even one film with her in it I've liked

I would suggest the following are 3 of the best movies ever:

The Deer Hunter, Sophie’s Choice, Kramer v Kramer

Canis Lupus

Greyfox wrote: »

When it comes to writing film dialogue there's nobody on the planet better than Tarrantino. I've watched Pulp fiction about 100 times and will watch it another 50 times before I die, it really is that good. Samuel L Jackson has been in plenty of bad films and gets away with all these due to how amazing he is in this 1 film. Django unchained is excellent and Kill Bill vol 1 is a masterpiece, the 1 person v 80people fight at the end is the greatest martial arts scene of all time.

I only watch a QT movie if I want to listen to verbal diarrhea. The man firmly believes in the use of 10 words when one would do.

Optimalprimerib

Every best film contender in the Oscars. Every year.

mickrock

Easy Rider.

Boring nonsense (apart from Jack Nicholson's brief appearance).

Greyfox

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

black panther was horrendous

Black panther was magnificent, great story great action, what's not to like

Grandeeod

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

Not only is Star Wars nonsense, it completely ripped off Flash Gordon.

That was kind of deliberate. George Lucas tried to buy the rights to Flash Gordon in the 1970s. When he failed to do so he created Star Wars.

DChancer

Titanic
Bonfire of the vanities
Far and Away

Worst 3 movies ever.

Franz Von Peppercorn

KevinCavan wrote: »

I don’t get the Cruise hatred really, he’s perfectly fine in Jack Reacher/ Mission Impossible in my book.

He’s a reliable indicator of a good enough blockbuster movie, even though he’s not the greatest actor, he’s good enough.

It’s hes in something it’s often good though. I popped into edge of tomorrow (live die repeat) thinking it was likely to be good because cruise gets good scripts, and it was. Otherwise I knew nothing about it.

Franz Von Peppercorn

Deusexmachina wrote: »

I would suggest the following are 3 of the best movies ever:

The Deer Hunter, Sophie’s Choice, Kramer v Kramer

She’s still not a very subtle actor. Daniel day Lewis is the same. Lots of seeing the sausage factory rather than enjoying the sausage.

Snickers Man

Resverathrole wrote: »

'The Green Mile' - in my opinion it was kind of like a dumber version of Shawshank Redemption

'The Post' - I'll admit I never saw it!

'12 Years a Slave'

'The God Father' - what the actual fcuk is all the fuss over

You're absolutely right about 12 Years a Slave. Utter rubbish.

And green mile is Meh, too. Like you I haven't seen the Post.

The Godfather is an utter classic though.

fryup

mickrock wrote: »

Easy Rider.

Boring nonsense (apart from Jack Nicholson's brief appearance).

i think you have to watch it stoned, cause they're were all stoned whilst making it

Steve F

Resverathrole wrote: »

'The Green Mile' - in my opinion it was kind of like a dumber version of Shawshank Redemption

Ahh here!! I used to like you

Duckworth_Luas

Grandeeod wrote: »

That was kind of deliberate. George Lucas tried to buy the rights to Flash Gordon in the 1970s. When he failed to do so he created Star Wars.

He created Star Wars? No, he ripped off Flash Gordon.

OneOfThem Stumbled

There are some films that are objectively bad.

There are some films that I like but I understand why others don't like them. I get it why someone wouldn't like Whitnail and I or The Big Lebowski. They're oddball offbeat comedies (sometimes dark comedies). You'd have to be in a particular mood, for one.

But if you're disliking The Godfather you're pretty much disliking the entire genre of gangster movies, which probably means you didn't have much reason to be looking at it in the first place!

There Will Be Blood I found great until I realised it was going nowhere. Bastard in a basket. Bastard in a basket. Bastard in a basket. I get it, he's a bad, hollow person. I am drinking your milkshake. Oh **** off.

I also found Shrek vastly over-rated. It's meant to be a parody? Shame it's not a good one. People seemed to agree with me with Shrek 2, 3, 4 , 508, but honestly I'd put them all at the same level of quality.

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

He ripped off Flash Gordon.

Star Wars (IV) is a good sci-fi fantasy flick that's a little flabby in the middle. Flash Gordon is a camp, glitzy sci-fi that is mainly remembered for the Queen theme song.

kunst nugget

OneOfThem Stumbled wrote: »

Star Wars (IV) is a good sci-fi fantasy flick that's a little flabby in the middle. Flash Gordon is a camp, glitzy sci-fi that is mainly remembered for the Queen theme song.

I presume he is talking about the original B/W Flash Gordon series. The Flash Gordon movie with the Queen soundtrack came out in 1980, 3 years after the first Star Wars movie.

OneOfThem Stumbled

Deusexmachina wrote: »

I would suggest the following is 1 of the best movies ever:

The Deer Hunter

The Deer Hunter is <my opinion> pretentious, nonsensical stuff that is way too long and never shown on television because nobody wants to admit how bad it truly is. </my opinion>

I am genuinely interested in how anybody likes it. I am wondering if there's rose tinted glasses going on.

kunst nugget wrote: »

I presume he is talking about the original B/W Flash Gordon series. The Flash Gordon movie with the Queen soundtrack came out in 1980, 3 years after the first Star Wars movie.

ooohh.

Steve F

Anyone who even thinks of saying "Goodfellas" or "Casino" is gonna get a visit from Tommy DeVito
Remember Billy Batts and Spider?

Wanderer78

fryup wrote:

i think you have to watch it stoned, cause they're were all stoned whilst making it

So it must be ****e then

con___manx1

Deadpool

5rtytry56

A mighty heart.

Isreali journalist goes on quest to meet gang who organised desctruction of world trade centres

with predicable consequences.

We're supposed to thing that what this Israeli journalist did was incredibly brave and sincere.

I think that he might have been more than a bit careless.

Franz Von Peppercorn

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

He created Star Wars? No, he ripped off Flash Gordon.

I’m not much of a fan of Star Wars but..

It’s nothing like Flash Gordon except there’s stuff happening in space.

Steve F

Sycamore Tree wrote: »

Yep excellent movie. The only colour used was the red coat on the little girl that eventually got killed. Genius.

And the flame of the candle...right at the beginning.Very,VERY subtle

Giraffe Box

Sycamore Tree wrote: »

Yep excellent movie. The only colour used was the red coat on the little girl that eventually got killed. Genius.

The only spoken word in Mel Brook's 'Silent Movie' was uttered by mime artist Marcel Marceau, now that's genius.
Better film than 'Schindler's List' in my opinion......well certainly funnier.... with far more jokes.

Gbear

Greyfox wrote: »

Black panther was magnificent, great story great action, what's not to like

The action was often poorly choreographed, the CGI was really poor and wobbly for a $200m film, the villain was underdeveloped and underused (not an unusual thing for a Marvel film, but they didn't do it any better).

On its own merits it's probably in the lower third of Marvel films. It was a big deal because of the subject matter and associated race issues - ie a big hollywood blockbuster that features a predominately black cast abd touches on issues like colonialism, but that was largely window dressing.

I get why such a step for mainstream, profit-centric and risk-averse film was well received, but it was a reaaaalllllyyy small step, and on a technical level, wasn't particularly good.

That said, it absolutely wasn't terrible or anything either, and had a lot of good qualities as well. Well cast, mostly well acted (although I don't really rate Boseman), the bits with Killmonger were good (there just weren't enough), music, worldbuilding and such were well executed.

Duckworth_Luas

Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

I’m not much of a fan of Star Wars but..

It’s nothing like Flash Gordon except there’s stuff happening in space.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFnmT82yGpk

Greyfox

Canis Lupus wrote: »

I only watch a QT movie if I want to listen to verbal diarrhea. The man firmly believes in the use of 10 words when one would do.

Yes but saying "I want you to a scougher the earth for that mother**cker, if Butch goes to indochina I was a n**ger in a bowl of rice ready to pop a cap in his ass" is miles better than saying make sure you find him and Kill him

Owl.

I don't really get angry with films in a Mark Kermode Sex And The City 2/Entourage kind of way but that changed when I saw Swiss Army Man. With every passing minute I was getting more and more angry and gave up and walked out at about the 50 min mark. I'm not sure if we're "supposed to say we like it" but I remember it getting a few decent reviews at the time. Mind bogglingly awful.

SEPT 23 1989

A lot of people on this thread must use a guide dog and a stick

Ubbquittious

Gone with the wind. What a ferocious pile of sh1te

5rtytry56

Forest Gump featuring Tom Hanks

Viewer is supposed to be happy that a simpleton can live the American dream to the fullest in 60s America and live happily ever after.. "Life is like a box of chocolates"





Nah.

Deusexmachina

OneOfThem Stumbled wrote: »

The Deer Hunter is <my opinion> pretentious, nonsensical stuff that is way too long and never shown on television because nobody wants to admit how bad it truly is. </my opinion>
I am genuinely interested in how anybody likes it. I am wondering if there's rose tinted glasses going on.

ooohh.

Okay, I will take up that challenge! It is one of the first films to explore the impacts of vietnam on the US soldiers(PTSD) and American society. It had a brilliant core group of young actors for whom this film made them stars - De Niro, Streep, Walken, Cazale.
The wedding scene may be over long but it is also a fantastic celebration of youth, family and relationships in a small town in Nowhere USA - whose innocence was about to be destroyed by the war.
The war and torture scenes are visceral and gut wrenching. The russian roulette scene is tragic and shows the American viewer 'this is what we do to our young men when we send them off to fight in foreign lands and then scorn them for fighting'.
A brilliant score, and rich cinematography. Nothing out of Hollywood in the last 10 years comes anywhere close.
A masterpiece.

PlaneSpeeking

5rtytry56 wrote: »

Forest Gump featuring Tom Hanks

Viewer is supposed to be happy that a simpleton can live the American dream to the fullest in 60s America and live happily ever after.. "Life is like a box of chocolates"





Nah.

The day he beat Liam Neeson to Best Actor for that ****e was the day film finally disappeared up it's own arse.

PlaneSpeeking

Deusexmachina wrote: »

Okay, I will take up that challenge! It is one of the first films to explore the impacts of vietnam on the US soldiers(PTSD) and American society. It had a brilliant core group of young actors for whom this film made them stars - De Niro, Streep, Walken, Cazale.
The wedding scene may be over long but it is also a fantastic celebration of youth, family and relationships in a small town in Nowhere USA - whose innocence was about to be destroyed by the war.
The war and torture scenes are visceral and gut wrenching. The russian roulette scene is tragic and shows the American viewer 'this is what we do to our young men when we send them off to fight in foreign lands and then scorn them for fighting'.
A brilliant score, and rich cinematography. Nothing out of Hollywood in the last 10 years comes anywhere close.
A masterpiece.

All true - I think I prefer Coming Home but that's literally just a coin flip.

Padkir

con___manx1 wrote: »

Deadpool

Deadpool and Withnail and I are the two worst films I've had the misfortune to sit through. I will always watch a film through to the end where I can, but they made it tough.

Especially Deadpool, but especially Withnail and I...

PlaneSpeeking

Padkir wrote: »

Deadpool and Withnail and I are the two worst films I've had the misfortune to sit through. I will always watch a film through to the end where I can, but they made it tough.

Especially Deadpool, but especially Withnail and I...

I don't get W&I - it's just not funny!

Shawshank I will give you but generally speaking the "top" films tend to be dry ****e.

Not seen The Shape of Water yet but I suspect I'll be in agreement with Bill Maher who calls it "the fish f**king movie"!!

tylercheribini

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

He created Star Wars? No, he ripped off Flash Gordon.

Dont forget the Buck Rogers serials too,samurai films and most importantly Joseph Campbells book Hero Of A Thousand Faces on how to write a mythology.