best films/worst you've seen?

[CrashedCarDriver]

best
the shawshank redemption
trainspotting
stand by me
terminator 2- best special fx film ever
crouching tiger hidden dragon
almost famous
this is spinal tap
snatch
lock stock and two smoking barrels
shrek- best animated film ive ever seen
nikita- 'the assassin' with bridget fonda is a blatant english speaking rip of this film
the matrix

worst

BATMAN AND ROBIN- WORST FILM EVER! I CANT BELIEVE I PAID MONEY TO WATCH THIS TRITE
tomb raider
robin hood prince of thieves
copland
a simple plan
scary movie- had discussions with my work colleagues over this film, they were disgusted by it that they walked out
lethal weapon 4

Underrated films

anything by jackie chan, the man never fails to entertain, you have to give him credit with the fact he does alot of his own stunts, he's the only actor in the film you'd recognise, and his shoddy english
u2- rattle and hum, pretty good rock and roll film, despite the fact its a little shameless by the band themselves
back to the future films

most overrated films
traffic- SO LONG, just hurry up and FINISH THE FILM already
mission impossible 2 - how on earth can saving the world from a deadly virus lead to an out and out kungfu fighting film?
titanic- advice on life #32497235877- dont take a large coke to see the movie, youre kidneys will just BURST!
any movie by kevin costner
star wars episode I- what did yousa say? thisa film issa notsa overrated-a
ANYTHING BY JERRY BRUCKHEIMER!
disney cartoons after the lion king, with talking animals and overcuteness
cast away

[melon]

Best - Le Fabuleux Destin d'Am�lie Poulain (Am�lie from Montmartre) (completely mindblowing; a film that only comes once every ten years or so), Three Colours Trilogy (brilliant, beautiful, and intelligent)

Worst - too difficult. Probably Armageddon (bad script, bad casting, borderline propaganda film).

Underrated - A.I. (I loved it completely), Memento (a purely brilliant, yet underpromoted film)

Overrated - Star Wars series (bad scripts, erratic casting), Titanic (too much hype, too formulaic)

Melon

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"He had lived through an age when men and women with energy and ruthlessness but without much ability or persistence excelled. And even though most of them had gone under, their ignorance had confused Roy, making him wonder whether the things he had striven to learn, and thought of as 'culture,' were irrelevant. Everything was supposed to be the same: commercials, Beethoven's late quartets, pop records, shopfronts, Freud, multi-coloured hair. Greatness, comparison, value, depth: gone, gone, gone. Anything could give some pleasure; he saw that. But not everything provided the sustenance of a deeper understanding." - Hanif Kureishi, Love in a Blue Time

[80sU2isBest]

Best:
It's A Wonderful Life
Les Miserables (1998, with Liam Neeson)
Edward Scissorhands
The Party
The Out Of Towners (The original version, with Jack Lemmon, not the new one with Steve Martin)

Worst:
Permanent Record
Working Girl
Say Anything

[Sledgehammer]

Best:
Everything that Paul Thomas Anderson, Coen Brothers, Woody Allen and Robert Altman have done,
+ American Beauty and Happiness (by the hilarious Todd Solondtz).

Worst:
Too much to list.

Why the worst are always more than the best?

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Got to walk out of here, I can't take anymore
Gonna stand on that bridge, keep my eyes down below
Whatever may come and whatever may go
that river's flowing

"Don't Give Up", Peter Gabriel

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[Not George Lucas]

Best:

The Phantom Menace
Star Wars
Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
Million Dollar Hotel
Clerks
Mallrats
Chasing Amy
Dogma
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Fight Club
Pulp Fiction

and a bunch of other ones.

Worst:
Surf Nazis Must Die
Robo Vampire
Killer Klowns from Outer Space

Overrated:
American Beauty
American Pie

[mbi16]

Probably a bit late for this but here goes nothing
Best Flicks
-American Beauty
-Election
-Green Mile
-Traffic (yeah a bit long but still)
-The Insider
-Gladiator
-A.I.
-Clerks
-Vertigo (actually I like any of the Hitchcocks)
-Clockwork Orange (Kubrick another legend)
-Fight Club

Worst (c'mon too many)
-The Avengers
-Batman and Robing (definately)

Underrated
-Thomas Crown Affair 1999 remake

Overrated
-American Pie
-Forrest Gump
-Cast Away
-The Sixth Sense

Now that I think about 1999 was a great year for movies, this year sucked major ass. Unless they realese everything in the next months, you might as well skip the Oscars.


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Tha Prickly Comedian

[anitram]

Titanic is decidedly the worst movie I've ever seen.

[speedracer]

My favorites: ET and It's a Wonderful Life.

[foray]

I saw Titanic before the hype so I loved it.
Cinema Paradiso
La Vita E Bella
Not One Less
Lolita
the most famous ones by Kubrick, inc Eyes Wide Shut
MATRIX
Jet Li's Wong Fei Hoong films
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

I'm shooting down:
Kiss of the Dragon!
any action film


foray

[IvanClaytonJnr]

Best :
Le Magnifique ( Magnificent One ) ,Nikita ( Luc Besson ) ,
Batman , Batman Returns , Star Wars ( I , IV , VI , V ) , Robocop 1&2 , Fight Club , Wings Of Desire , Doberman , The Professional ( With Jean - paul belmondo ) , Professional ( with Jean Reno and Gary Oldman ) , Terminator 1,2 , Predator , The Blues Brothers , Pink Floyd : The Wall , Forrest Gump , Trainspotting , Siberyada , Burned By The Sun , The Abyss , 7even , Pulp Fiction . Million Dollar Hotel . Stalker , The Thing . The Doors. Space Balls . Basic Instinct , Blade Runner . Le Marginal ( The Outsider ) , La Chevre , Le Jouet ( The Toy ) , Les Comperes , Man On The Moon , U2 Sydney ZOOTV 93 , U2 POP-MART 97 - Mexico
Les Fugitifs , Le Grand Blond avec une chaussure noire ( The Tall Blond Man with one Black Shoe ) , Le Return du Grand blond ( The Return Of The Tall Blond Man with One Black shoe ) , Barracuda ,



Worst : Me,Myself and Irene , Batman Forever , Batman & Robin , Robocop 3 , Titanic , Astin P... II , City of Angels , Alien 4 : Resurrection . Street Fighter , Mortal Combat : Anihilation , SuperMan , Commando , Pure Luck , Gladiator , Nikita ( US version ) , Beautiful . Rocky II , III , etc.







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[LarryMullen's POPAngel]

Best:
American Beauty
Fight Club
Gone with the Wind
Mallrats
Clockwork Orange
Girl Interrupted
Edward Scissorhands
Annie Hall
The Shining
...lots more I can't think of now.

The Worst:
Titanic
Gone in 60 Seconds (yes, I paid money to see this)
Anything starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze Jr., Jason Biggs or Tara Reid




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Proud Owner of Larry's Stick!!!


~*April*~

*~The Official POP_Whore of Interference~*

(AIM-POPLemonGirl)

[Saracene]

Some of the best:

Titanic
Schindler's List
Godfather & Godfather Part II
Casablanca
The Producers
Aliens
Speed
Terminator II
Pulp Fiction
American Beauty
Shrek & Toy Story movies

Some of the worst:

Godzilla
Mission: Impossible II
ANYTHING with Freddie Prinze Jr. in it
Waterworld
Striptease
Batman & Robin

Underrated:

Memento
Elizabeth (Cate Blanchett was bloody robbed at the Oscars that year)
Devil's Advocate

Overrated:

The Silence of the Lambs
Agree with Disney movies after Lion King (except the Toy Story ones)
Fargo
Ben-Hur
Star Wars movies (entertaining, yes, but still ridiculously overrated IMO)

[Ana]

Best:
Lion King---> (yeah so?? )
Brave Heart
A.I.
Pulp Fiction
Platoon
American Beauty
Scary movie
E.T.
Jurassic Park
The Mermaid
Mulan [ he he ]
Saving Private Ryan
The Million Dollar Hotel


Worse:
The Ladies Man (This has been the only one I've had to take out of the VCR)
Tomb Raider
Me, Myself and Irene
The "Scream" Saga
The "I know what you did last summer" saga


There's a lot more, but I just erased them from my memory...


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I've got no hope in this world...
Just you...
and you are not mine...
Stateless

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[Marko]

Best:

LOTR I, II and III ( I hope)
Dr. Stranglove (the best kubrick ever)
Matrix
Gross point blank (almost anything with John Cusack)
JFK
Hapiness
Galipoli (with young Gibson)
Zelig (quasi-documentary by Woody Allen - mastepiece)
Take the money and run - again Allen
Shortcuts
Traffic
Magnolia
The right stuff
The millers crossing
Big Lebovsky
Abyss
Alien I&II
Anymal House
there are so many more that I can't remember right now...

Worst:
Surf nazis must die - terible terible terible
gone in 60 seconds
Star Wars I
Pearl Harbour - this is pure junk
anything with Jan Claude Van Dame
The end of days
Down to you - and any crap like that (loser etc.)
The species
The Sphere - I love SF, but it's rarely good, it's mostly just shite
Pret a porter
as well as above there are many more...

Underrated:
Fallen with Densel Washington (great movie, go see it)
In the name of the father
LOTR the cartoon
...

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everyone thinks that I'm georgeours
they wait for their turn to meet me

[Marko]

About John Cusack - he's great, but Con Air sucks

[U2FReAk]

Great movies:
Le grand bleu ( I think that's the correct title)
Festen (danish movie)
Welcome to Sarajevo
Dogma
The Thin Red Line
American History X
...just to name a few.

[pub crawler]

Among the better ones I've seen:
American Beauty
Godfather I&II
Alien, Aliens
The Deer Hunter
Goodfellas
Fargo
American Graffiti
Apocolypse Now!
Raiders of the Lost Ark
West Side Story
Amadeus
Vertigo
Jaws
North by Northwest
Rear Window
The Verdict
Star Wars
The Empire Strikes Back
Sunset Boulevard
L.A. Confidential
Raging Bull
E.T.
Midnight Cowboy
Swimming With Sharks (Kevin Spacey)


Among the worst I've seen:
Black Sheep
Almost Heroes


Perhaps the worst movie ever made:
The Virgin Suicides


Guilty Pleasures:
Forrest Gump
Die Hard
Someone to Watch Over Me
Waynes World


Sometimes funny but lame over all:
Zoolander
Dumb and Dumber
The Brady Bunch Movie


Huge Disappointment:
Planet of the Apes (the new one, of course)


Films that didn't translate well to the small screen:
Gladiator

[zooropamanda]

best(not in any order):
regarding henry..stealing beauty..shakespeare in love..when harry met sally..a room with a view..elizabeth(yes she was definitely robbed)..the untouchables..witness..field of dreams..philadelphia story(katherine hepburn one)..almost famous..stand by me..roman holiday..michael collins..dead poets society..high fidelity

Personal alltime faves: Indiana Jones trilogy

worst..there was this film about a killer lawn mower once. it went nuts on a golf course chomping up people in its teeth.

[pub crawler]

Oh my god I forgot Witness. That's definitely among the best I've seen.

Oh, and add Lake Placid to the worst.

[Lemonite]

Worst..
Dude Where's My Car...I can't believe this movie.. I am one of those guys who likes 'every movie', just cuz i love art, film, but this one i just could not take/understand...
Animal...

Best...
Memento.. Awesome movie... Sure to be one of those cult hits...
Down Periscope.. hah.. Just kidding