Claude Balls Posted February 13, 2021 Report Share Posted February 13, 2021 (edited) So many more I could add. Couldn't stop at just 10, had to go 12. Papillon The Shawshank Redemption Bad Boys - Sean Penn 1983 film, not the Will Smith versions. Pulp Fiction The Perfect Storm Blazing Saddles Tommy Boy Sn a tch (Brad Pitt) Vacation Drugstore Cowboy The Outsiders Slapshot Edit: Can't believe the word "snatc h" got censored. Edited February 13, 2021 by Claude Balls 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RangerDave Posted February 13, 2021 Report Share Posted February 13, 2021 Am I the only one who thinks Citizen Kane was a stupid movie? Just dumb. "Oh, my life is so bad because I miss my childhood sled!" Ugh... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvin Posted February 14, 2021 Report Share Posted February 14, 2021 (edited) 11 minutes ago, RangerDave said: Am I the only one who thinks Citizen Kane was a stupid movie? Just dumb. "Oh, my life is so bad because I miss my childhood sled!" Ugh... I remember it being on channel 7's "Movies for a Sunday Afternoon." My sister and I blurted out after the childhood scene ended, "it's the sled." There is great direction, production, characterisation, and such in the movie -- but when the answer to the motivating plot point is immediately obvious to an 8 year old and his 7 year old sister, I figure that qualifies it as over-rated. Addendum: the point of the sled is symbolic -- it was the last time Kane was really himself. It symbolises his loss of identity and explains why he had no empathy and that all his achievements rang hollow in the end. Edited February 14, 2021 by Marvin, Sabres Fan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RangerDave Posted February 14, 2021 Report Share Posted February 14, 2021 7 minutes ago, Marvin, Sabres Fan said: I remember it being on channel 7's "Movies for a Sunday Afternoon." My sister and I blurted out after the childhood scene ended, "it's the sled." There is great direction, production, characterisation, and such in the movie -- but when the answer to the motivating plot point is immediately obvious to an 8 year old and his 7 year old sister, I figure that qualifies it as over-rated. Addendum: the point of the sled is symbolic -- it was the last time Kane was really himself. It symbolises his loss of identity and explains why he had no empathy and that all his achievements rang hollow in the end. I get that it was very symbolic and that it may have been very avant-gard for its time. I understand that people can really appreciate that type of movie. I guess I am just big into artsy-type movies. Give me good acting and good writing - that's all I need. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taro T Posted February 14, 2021 Report Share Posted February 14, 2021 Has anybody nominated Idiocracy yet, or are documentaries excluded from this exercise? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weave Posted February 14, 2021 Report Share Posted February 14, 2021 6 minutes ago, Taro T said: Has anybody nominated Idiocracy yet, or are documentaries excluded from this exercise? Too soon. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taro T Posted February 14, 2021 Report Share Posted February 14, 2021 Know 2 of these weren't nominated, didn't see any of them listed, apologies if any are repeats. Braveheart The Trouble with Harry Local Hero Airplane! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taro T Posted February 14, 2021 Report Share Posted February 14, 2021 And in the Superhero Comic Book movie genre a Marvel nominee and a DC one: Avengers: Infinity War The Dark Knight Rises And 1 final (?) nominee: The Bourne Identity Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nfreeman Posted February 14, 2021 Report Share Posted February 14, 2021 The Terminator Speed Animal House Caddyshack Monty Python and the Holy Grail Talladega Nights Ronin Pulp Fiction Inglorious Basterds The Matrix Full Metal Jacket LA Confidential The Man who Shot Liberty Valance Miller's Crossing True Grit Blade Runner On the Waterfront Royal Tenebaums Stand by Me 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taro T Posted February 14, 2021 Report Share Posted February 14, 2021 2 minutes ago, nfreeman said: The Terminator Speed Animal House Caddyshack Monty Python and the Holy Grail Talladega Nights Ronin Pulp Fiction Inglorious Basterds The Matrix Full Metal Jacket LA Confidential The Man who Shot Liberty Valance Miller's Crossing True Grit Blade Runner On the Waterfront Royal Tenebaums Stand by Me Htf did we miss Blade Runner until now? Great call. (Caddyshack & Animal House, AND Stripes are all personal favorites, but don't know that any rise close to "perfect." But glad you named a couple of them.) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvin Posted February 14, 2021 Report Share Posted February 14, 2021 29 minutes ago, Taro T said: Has anybody nominated Idiocracy yet, or are documentaries excluded from this exercise? I put in Hoop Dreams, Five Fingers, Network, and You Don't Mess with the Zohan. Documentaries are fair game. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt Posted February 14, 2021 Report Share Posted February 14, 2021 10 of My very Favorites yet to be mentioned: Tin Cup Bull Durham The Fighter The Machinist Cinderella Man The Color of Money Cool Hand Luke The Illusionist Lars and the Real Girl Legends of the Fall Silver Linings Playbook Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorny Posted February 14, 2021 Report Share Posted February 14, 2021 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (neither of those 2 are actually my favourite in the series) The Third Man (Welles’ best IMO) The Departed American Psycho The Maltese Falcon Spider-Man 2 No Country for Old Men Hot Fuzz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brawndo Posted February 14, 2021 Report Share Posted February 14, 2021 57 minutes ago, Taro T said: Has anybody nominated Idiocracy yet, or are documentaries excluded from this exercise? Never seen it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taro T Posted February 14, 2021 Report Share Posted February 14, 2021 Last batch of additional nominees for tonight: Tombstone The Sting A Clockwork Orange Doctor Strangelove 2001- A Space Odyssey All the President's Men Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zamboni Posted February 14, 2021 Report Share Posted February 14, 2021 Yea 2001 space odyssey is a masterpiece Blade Runner is so well done Close encounters of the third kind is great Oulaw Josey Wales The good, the bad, and the ugly is another masterpiece Full metal jacket The Outsiders The Revenant Hidden Figures To kill a mockingbird Goodfellas The Princess Bride Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BagBoy Posted February 14, 2021 Report Share Posted February 14, 2021 The Shining The Usual Suspects One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Psycho Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RangerDave Posted February 14, 2021 Report Share Posted February 14, 2021 26 minutes ago, Taro T said: Last batch of additional nominees for tonight: Tombstone The Sting A Clockwork Orange Doctor Strangelove 2001- A Space Odyssey All the President's Men Wow! Three of my all time favorites....and the only two movies of the AFI's Top 100 that I could not stomach to watch to the end! I just don't know what to say... 😱 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weave Posted February 14, 2021 Report Share Posted February 14, 2021 15 minutes ago, Zamboni said: Close encounters of the third kind is great Add another Teri Garr movie. Young Frankenstein 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taro T Posted February 14, 2021 Report Share Posted February 14, 2021 19 minutes ago, RangerDave said: Wow! Three of my all time favorites....and the only two movies of the AFI's Top 100 that I could not stomach to watch to the end! I just don't know what to say... 😱 3-2-1. Almost on pace for the playoffs. 😉 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broken Ankles Posted February 14, 2021 Report Share Posted February 14, 2021 (edited) Godfather I and II Pulp Fiction The French Connection Raiders of the Lost Ark The Natural Its a Wonderful Life Silence of the Lambs Wall Street Edited February 14, 2021 by Broken Ankles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miles Posted February 14, 2021 Report Share Posted February 14, 2021 T-34. Its a Russian language movie but there is english translation version. Its a ww2 fiction movie. I have seen it so many times. Odd Thomas. If you haven't seen it just watch it without reading about it Sixth sense Back to the future Ford vs Ferrari was great too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nfreeman Posted February 14, 2021 Report Share Posted February 14, 2021 11 hours ago, ubkev said: True Romance 5 hours ago, BagBoy said: Apocalypse Now Both of these, plus, as a number of posters have noted, Hoop Dreams. Also: Manhattan Annie Hall Major League Broken Arrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwampD Posted February 14, 2021 Report Share Posted February 14, 2021 Agree with most on here. Just have to mention again. This Is Spinal Tap (as a professional audio engineer and musician, you have no idea how often, still, this movie is referenced) Sixteen Candles Stripes When Harry Met Sally Escape From New York Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwampD Posted February 14, 2021 Report Share Posted February 14, 2021 Holloween Blade Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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