Best and Worst Movies

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Anyone have a suggestion for their 5 favourite films??

Mine, in no order of preference

Good Will Hunting
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Shawshank Redemption
Enemy of the State
Coming to America (Eddie Murphy at his best)

And the worst…

Tomb Raider
Pirates of the Caribbean
Anything with Whoopi Goldberg

So many to choose from!

Thoughts??
 

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Best:
Scarface
Godfather Trilogy
Lock stock and two smoking barrels
Snatch
Enemy at the gates
Saving Private Ryan
Shawshank Redemption
Friday Series

Worst:
Pearl Harbour
Titanic
All the Harry Potters
Streetcar named Desire (boring movie, good book/play)
 

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Best

The Shawshank Redemption - great acting and very powerful.
Fight Club - bloody great film. Some great lines from Brad Pitt, especially the speech where he's talking about what men of this era are like "We are the middle children of history...."
Stand By Me - always been a favourite of mine.
The Matrix - the first one was awesome, faultless, I liked the 2nd one up until about half way, 3rd one was rubbish.
My Cousin Vinny - probably my favourite comedy. Marisa Tomei was great.
Field of Dreams - I like this one because of the message it presents, that of the time when professional sports were just games and not industries.


Worst

The Matrix Revolutions - had its moments and the special effects were awesome, but very disappointing I thought, too much macho, a dull, nonchalant ending and the changing of characters such as Morpheus very disappointing to see.

Dude, where's my car? - terrible.

The Waterboy - had a few funny moments but for the most part absolute crap.
 

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I'll try to give some alternatives to the "Usual Suspects" that appear in "Best/Worst movie lists"

BEST

The Cruel Sea - 1953
The Day the Earth Stood Still - 1951
The Stranger - 1946
In the Heat of the Night - 1967
Dracula - 1931
The Wages of Fear - 1952
Five Came Back - 1939

WORST

Once Before I Die - 1965
Major League 2 - 1994
Earthquake - 1974
Beach Red - 1967
The Bible - 1966

There is hopefully some movies you haven't seen, or heard of before, in my lists, give them a viewing, you may be pleasantly surprised.
 
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BEST
The Shawshank Redemption
Lord of the Rings (all 3)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (comedic brilliance)
Pirates of the Carribean

WORST
I can't think of the worst movies atm...the best seem to stick in my memory for longer (thankfully).
 

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Asgardian, a man after my own heart - a Power fan and a movie buff.

God this is hard. I will try to narrow an enormous list of faves down to 5.

The Good
North By Northwest
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The Shawshank Redemption
The Big Lebowski
Seven Samurai


The Bad
Its a matter of taste, but there have been a lot of shockers.
Anything with Mike Meyers.
Anything with Adam Sandler.
Predator 2 (saw it recently - shares the same name as Predator, thats about all)



The Ugly
Most chick flicks

Desert Island Movie
Aliens. Never get tired of watching it (and I really dont know why)

I also want to stick up for Pirates of the Carribean. Could have been a monumental pile of sh*t, but the performances of Johnny Depp and Geoffrey Rush were regal enough to turn it into a real winner. Depps Captain Jack Sparrow was sublime.
 

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Originally posted by Asgardian


WORST


Beach Red - 1967

Heh...personally, although it would never make a 'best-of' list for me, I rate that film very highly indeed.

An attempt to express the horrors of war through a philosophical, occasionally surrealistic means that does not always work and is sometimes clumsy and heavy handed (budgetary problems are evident), however I do think it is a hell of a good try by director/star Cornel Wilde. In fact, I see it as a precursor to the far better known Thin Red Line and Beach Red's opening sequence bears uncanny similarities to Saving Private Ryan's war-is-hell visuals.

I'm quite a fan of Beach Red and reckon that Wilde was was an interesting director with his themes of male primal behavior probably best exemplified by the excellent Naked Prey. Such a pity that he could never get the financial backing and critical recognition his career deserved.
 

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Best:

A Clockwork Orange
Gattaca
Psycho
Godfather Trilogy
Enemy at the Gates

Worst:

Last Action Hero (magic ticket my arse)
Dune (David Lynch should be dragged into the street and shot)
Jeepers Creepers
Lawnmower man II (the first was not great but at least it was watchable)
Titanic
 

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My personal favourites; :)
Only You
Roman Holiday
Aladdin
That Thing You Do
Sleepless In Seattle
honourable mentions; Something Like You, The Truth About Cats And Dogs, Ghost, Meet Joe Black, Heart And Souls, 12 Angry Men, Big, City Of Angels. Basically any Marissa Tomei, Robert Downey Jr, Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks movies.

Least favourites;
Jackass
Planet Of The Apes
Star Treck (or any like that)
and thats all I can think of right now. :)
 
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Pirates was tripe, I have to say. I love those adventure style movies (think Goonies, Indiana Jones), but really found this one to be tired.

How's this for another 5 brilliant movies..

Mad Max 2
Gallipoli
Ferris Bueller's Day off
Trainspotting
Escape from Alcatraz

And some shockers...

Face Off (complete crap)
Con Air (dribble)
Battlefield Earth (John Travolta...nothing more to add).
 

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Originally posted by northern_summer
Pirates was tripe, I have to say. I love those adventure style movies (think Goonies, Indiana Jones), but really found this one to be tired.

How's this for another 5 brilliant movies..

Mad Max 2
Gallipoli
Ferris Bueller's Day off
Trainspotting
Escape from Alcatraz

And some shockers...

Face Off (complete crap)
Con Air (dribble)
Battlefield Earth (John Travolta...nothing more to add).
Con Air is a good movie.
 

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Re: Beach Red by Cornel Wilde

Originally posted by sandeano
Heh...personally, although it would never make a 'best-of' list for me, I rate that film very highly indeed.

An attempt to express the horrors of war through a philosophical, occasionally surrealistic means that does not always work and is sometimes clumsy and heavy handed (budgetary problems are evident), however I do think it is a hell of a good try by director/star Cornel Wilde. In fact, I see it as a precursor to the far better known Thin Red Line and Beach Red's opening sequence bears uncanny similarities to Saving Private Ryan's war-is-hell visuals.

I'm quite a fan of Beach Red and reckon that Wilde was was an interesting director with his themes of male primal behavior probably best exemplified by the excellent Naked Prey. Such a pity that he could never get the financial backing and critical recognition his career deserved.
I can't really dispute/argue with your comments on Beach Red Sandeano, coz it's a movie made by one man, for one man. Wilde had a vision, Beach Red was his "Hamlet", he made it to address his own issues, to spread his own thoughts, to be his opus par excellence.

As such, definitives sprouted by one, or all, are moot.

IMO, Wilde made the film to create discussion, maybe controversy, definately a reflection of one's own self beliefs, for all of this I cannot fault him.

HOWEVER, on the level of entertainment, I can rip the film to shreds, on this superficial level, the movie is a self-indulgent VV@nkerama of the highest order. Many films are made wanting the audience to question, most of them also have the ambition of entertaining, Wilde's ambition was to infuriate.

To me, Wilde coverts critical acclaim over commercial success, laudable, but unlikely to generate more money for further self-expression in a very public manor.
 

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Re: Re: Beach Red by Cornel Wilde

Originally posted by Asgardian
I can't really dispute/argue with your comments on Beach Red Sandeano, coz it's a movie made by one man, for one man. Wilde had a vision, Beach Red was his "Hamlet", he made it to address his own issues, to spread his own thoughts, to be his opus par excellence.

As such, definitives sprouted by one, or all, are moot.

IMO, Wilde made the film to create discussion, maybe controversy, definately a reflection of one's own self beliefs, for all of this I cannot fault him.

HOWEVER, on the level of entertainment, I can rip the film to shreds, on this superficial level, the movie is a self-indulgent VV@nkerama of the highest order. Many films are made wanting the audience to question, most of them also have the ambition of entertaining, Wilde's ambition was to infuriate.

To me, Wilde coverts critical acclaim over commercial success, laudable, but unlikely to generate more money for further self-expression in a very public manor.
Yeah, fair call on Beach Red, Asgardian. I can certainly see where you are coming from. Overall the film probably does not work and any its entertainment value is pretty thin (although I find it fascinatingly watchable, nonetheless), however I think it was an interesting experimental piece and something of a remedy to the number of monolithic war films sludging there way out of Hollywood in the early 60s. Big budget, all star yawns that tried to capitalise on the success of The Longest Day and few of which had the spirit or the style of fine war films of the 60s. I'm probably a fan of Beach Red more for what it attempts, rather than for what it succeeds at, if that makes any sense.

Anyway, whether you liked it or not, I'm just glad to chat with someone that has actually SEEN it!
 
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