actually it's still better than that deadening manga-esque film 'renaissance' (which also features daniel craig providing the voice for the lead character...hmm..)
― deep space nine (deep space nine), Friday, 1 December 2006 18:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Allyzay is cool: with Blue n White, with Eli Manning, with NY Giants (Allyzay Ei, Friday, 1 December 2006 18:49 (seventeen years ago) link
Where's Saving Private Ryan and Platoon?
Disagree:ClerksFantasia The Wizard of Oz (calling this crap is daft btw)2001: A Space OddysseyMoonstruckMystic River
― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 1 December 2006 18:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 1 December 2006 18:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Friday, 1 December 2006 20:54 (seventeen years ago) link
flicks like Fight Club, or Garden State, or...dare i say it...Napolean Dynamite.
― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Friday, 1 December 2006 21:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― drunk Friendster massage (nklshs), Friday, 1 December 2006 21:19 (seventeen years ago) link
this is brain-dead! and then he calls himself a "critically-inclined person"
― bliss (blass), Saturday, 2 December 2006 04:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― milo (milo), Saturday, 2 December 2006 05:19 (seventeen years ago) link
try harder next time!
― nuneb (nuneb), Saturday, 2 December 2006 05:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 2 December 2006 20:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― milo (milo), Saturday, 2 December 2006 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― My Mind is Opener than Yours (Modal Fugue), Saturday, 2 December 2006 20:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― bliss (blass), Saturday, 2 December 2006 20:59 (seventeen years ago) link
-- milo (wooderso...) (webmail), December 1st, 2006 6:23 PM. (milo)"
fuck you
" #1 underrated movie of all time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVH5JxdM-i0
-- milo (wooderso...) (webmail), December 1st, 2006 6:25 PM. (milo)"
FUCK YOU ANY GIVEN SUNDAY IS THE MOST OVERRATED TURD EVER YOU COCKSUCKER
― aidsy (aidsy), Saturday, 2 December 2006 21:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― aidsy (aidsy), Saturday, 2 December 2006 21:09 (seventeen years ago) link
"wizard of oz" is the only great movie on this list.
― j.d. (j.d.), Sunday, 3 December 2006 00:01 (seventeen years ago) link
i like "jules and jim" but it's out of place in this list anyway, it's like the only remotely obscure (and not very obscure at that) thing here.
― j.d. (j.d.), Sunday, 3 December 2006 00:02 (seventeen years ago) link
haha you don't live in the south
― latebloomer (clonefeed), Sunday, 3 December 2006 16:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― nate patrin (natepatrin), Sunday, 3 December 2006 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link
if they had picked Shawshank Redemption the cancelled subscrips woulda sunk em
― dr M (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 3 December 2006 21:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― deep space nine (deep space nine), Sunday, 3 December 2006 21:30 (seventeen years ago) link
(They're 100% wrong about a few of those, too: 2001? Wizard of Oz?)
I mean, really, who gives a crap about Forrest Gump?
If anyone thinks there aren't a lot of people out there who rate Forrest Gump, American Beauty, et al...try taking a look at people's favorite movies on, say, Match.com sometime. It's like a Gump/American Beauty/Chocolat lovefest there. And Gump is a permanent part of American popular culture.
And no, I really don't believe the public at large rates many of these movies very highly at all
Not Moonstruck or Jules and Jim, no. But American Beauty, Good Will Hunting, Forrest Gump, A Beautiful Mind, they're like the Four Horsemen of Mediocrity, and they hold sway over a lot of people out there (once you get outside of NYC and DC, anyway).
― lurker #2421 (lurker #2421.1), Monday, 4 December 2006 00:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― lurker #2421 (lurker #2421.1), Monday, 4 December 2006 00:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― lurker #2421 (lurker #2421.1), Monday, 4 December 2006 00:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― deep space nine (deep space nine), Monday, 4 December 2006 00:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― latebloomer (clonefeed), Monday, 4 December 2006 00:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― max (maxreax), Monday, 4 December 2006 01:27 (seventeen years ago) link
Person 1: ".....[blah blah blah] Moonstruck...."Person 2: "Oh, Moonstruck! I love that movie, it's one of my alltime favorites!"
And I don't really remember too much about Moonstruck, so I'm always a little baffled by it, but I accept it's one of those movies that people really love that did nothing for me.
The other movie where this happens a lot: The Big Lebowski.
― Casuistry (casuistry), Monday, 4 December 2006 01:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 4 December 2006 06:58 (seventeen years ago) link
I finally saw Chicago last summer, and was positively surprised, it was actually better than its reviews suggested.
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 4 December 2006 07:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 4 December 2006 07:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Allyzay is cool: with Blue n White, with Eli Manning, with NY Giants (Allyzay Ei, Monday, 4 December 2006 16:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― Allyzay is cool: with Blue n White, with Eli Manning, with NY Giants (Allyzay Ei, Monday, 4 December 2006 16:17 (seventeen years ago) link
So what's your point -- that it's not true, or just that it's not interesting? If the latter, I can respect that, but if the former, then you're just wrong.
("Random lonely hearts", whatever -- what cross-section would work for you, then?)
and that somehow box office popularity is actually a qualifier for being "overrated"
From what I can tell, the list is a hodgepodge of critical and popular/box-office favorites, no? I mean, it's a mess, but it's certainly not calibrating solely on "box office popularity" (though I'm not sure that you were saying that).
And again, if you're arguing that there aren't a lot of people who rate Forrest Gump, A Beautiful Mind, etc. highly, then you're wrong. If you're arguing that those people are somehow irrelevant, then I might like to know who it is you would consider relevant.
― lurker #2421 (lurker #2421.1), Monday, 4 December 2006 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link
But if you ask "who gives a crap about Forrest Gump?", then you kinda forfeit the right to wring your hands about it if you get a truthful answer to that question.
― lurker #2421 (lurker #2421.1), Monday, 4 December 2006 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Monday, 4 December 2006 17:56 (seventeen years ago) link
Results 1 - 10 of about 250,000 for american beauty. Results 1 - 10 of about 199,000 for shawshank redemption.Results 1 - 10 of about 197,000 for beautiful mind.Results 1 - 10 of about 186,000 for pretty woman.Results 1 - 10 of about 163,000 for clerks.Results 1 - 10 of about 133,000 for forrest gump.Results 1 - 10 of about 10,500 for moonstruck.
― lurker #2421 (lurker #2421.1), Monday, 4 December 2006 18:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― deep space nine (deep space nine), Monday, 4 December 2006 18:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 4 December 2006 18:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Joshua Babcock (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 00:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Casuistry (casuistry), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link