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Terrahawk
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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 Posted - 04/08/2010 : 3:23:19 PM
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The only thing I can say about the list is that these guys have been smoking some wacky weed. Starship Troopers, a film I despise with a passion, made the list but not The Matrix. Other travesties are on/off the list.
[url]http://www.armchaircommentary.com/2010/04/top-100-films-of-the-90s.html[/url]
I summon Bigger Fish! |
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Cannon Fodder
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
Australia
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Posted - 04/09/2010 : 02:02:16 AM
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| 'The Thin Red Line' and 'Eyes Wide Shut' are both in the top 10. Wow, the compiler sure likes his boring pretentious movies. No mention of 'Fight Club' or 'The Shawshank Redemption'? pfft |
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Neville
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Spain
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Posted - 04/09/2010 : 04:43:44 AM
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I do find both Eyes with shut and The thin red line quite excruciating in places, but they are better than 99% of the stuff at the local Cinemax (TM). At least they have more ambition than providing some eye candy to go with the popcorn.
As for the rest, I could do with more Miyazaki than just Porco Rosso, and to see John Carpenter's Vampires and some of the latest Cronemberg make the list would have been awesome. |
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BradH812
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 04/09/2010 : 06:01:11 AM
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Schindler's List is below Naked Lunch, Barton Fink, and Lost Highway, among others, and Saving Private Ryan and Titanic aren't even on the list (as much of an asshole as James Cameron is, he does know how to tell a good story, or at least he did back then). Yeah, these guys are on something illegal, to be sure.
The Thin Red Line runs the gamut from being jaw-droppingly great and jaw-droppingly bad. And they put it at number 1. Yeesh. (I wouldn't put Eyes Wide Shut so high on the list, but I thought it was an excellent film.)
Glad to see that Gattaca and The Straight Story (yay!) are on the list, but no Braveheart or Heat?? Or Toy Story or The Usual Suspects?! FOUL!! |
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ELOrocks17
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
USA
131 Posts |
Posted - 04/09/2010 : 11:23:44 AM
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"Happy Gilmore" better be on that list...'Cause if its not.....
"Oh my...that is quite toxic!"-Weyoun (DS9) |
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Terrahawk
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
644 Posts |
Posted - 04/09/2010 : 1:37:57 PM
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At least they have more ambition than providing some eye candy to go with the popcorn.
Yeah, but ambitious doesn't equal good. The Thin Red Line at times seemed like it had something and then went somewhere else and left you bored and frustrated.
Gattaca is a good film but I've never watched the whole thing after the first time. I don't know if it belongs on a top 100 list when you can't work up the urge to watch it more than once.
How did Pixar get snubbed? I think they fall under the rubric of ambitious. Toy Story is a great story with near flawless execution. That one film killed the Disney animated film template.
The main film logic they seemed to apply was "Is it depressing or barrier breaking?"
I summon Bigger Fish! |
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Neville
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Spain
1590 Posts |
Posted - 04/09/2010 : 2:02:22 PM
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Originally posted by Terrahawk
At least they have more ambition than providing some eye candy to go with the popcorn.
Yeah, but ambitious doesn't equal good.
True. But it equals "different", and sometimes that is enough. |
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The Bog Man
Minister of the Sacraments of Jabootu
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Posted - 04/09/2010 : 2:44:56 PM
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Not to play Ugly American (though I'm well qualified for both :-) but when a full quarter of the titles are some stupifying French film that no one 3 kilos past the Seine has ever heard of, you pretty much have to dismiss the compilers as posers. I'm all for taking of macro world view of movies, but if one is telling you that The Matrix has had less of an impact on filmaking than La Poule Rouge D'Anxiété, then one is a ninny.
www.hauntedbog.com
That is not dead which can eternal lie, I'm just not a morning person. |
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zombiewhacker
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 04/09/2010 : 3:36:43 PM
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The Ice Storm? Sense and Sensibility? Edward Scissorhands?!!! JACKIE BROWN?!!!?? BABE??!???!!!?!! T-R-A-I-N-S-P-O-T-T-I-N-G???!?!?!?!?!? CARITO'S WAYYYYYYYYYYYYY???!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
(Cut to Norman the Android's head exploding here.)
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niccolom
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
Canada
118 Posts |
Posted - 04/10/2010 : 7:22:12 PM
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Here is the link to the ICS website where they explain their reasoning for the choosing the films:
http://icsfilm.org/Top90s/ICSTop90s.htm
My views on the list? Hell, I've never even heard of half of them? Trois couleurs: Rouge? The Double Life of Véronique? Now I've never seen any of Kieslowski's films, but to have four of his films on the list - come on! And if you're going have Starship Troopers on the list, you might as well as include Showgirls at least Showgirls had the best lap dance scene I've ever seen in a movie or real life for that matter!
"When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk."
Tuco Benedicto Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez, aka "Tuco," aka "the Rat," aka "Ugly," aka "il Cattivo" |
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Neville
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Spain
1590 Posts |
Posted - 04/11/2010 : 04:34:07 AM
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Originally posted by niccolom
And if you're going have Starship Troopers on the list, you might as well as include Showgirls at least Showgirls had the best lap dance scene I've ever seen in a movie or real life for that matter!
And the most hilarious sex scene ever captured by celluloid, let's not forget that.
As for the list, they've wanted to play 'connoisseurs' of serious cinema and failed. My guess is that they've copied part of the list from "Cahiers du cinema", because they also listed Carlito's Way as one of the best films of the 90s, and let's face it, no matter how much I like the film, it's not like it appears in "best of" lists frequently. |
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niccolom
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
Canada
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Posted - 04/11/2010 : 6:33:19 PM
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Originally posted by Neville
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Originally posted by niccolom
And if you're going have Starship Troopers on the list, you might as well as include Showgirls at least Showgirls had the best lap dance scene I've ever seen in a movie or real life for that matter!
And the most hilarious sex scene ever captured by celluloid, let's not forget that.
I don't know about the most hilarious, but certainly over the top. Mind I might have to rent the video again just to check it out.
"When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk."
Tuco Benedicto Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez, aka "Tuco," aka "the Rat," aka "Ugly," aka "il Cattivo" |
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BradH812
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 04/12/2010 : 5:08:40 PM
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Originally posted by niccolom
Here is the link to the ICS website where they explain their reasoning for the choosing the films:
http://icsfilm.org/Top90s/ICSTop90s.htm
My views on the list? Hell, I've never even heard of half of them? Trois couleurs: Rouge? The Double Life of Véronique? Now I've never seen any of Kieslowski's films, but to have four of his films on the list - come on! And if you're going have Starship Troopers on the list, you might as well as include Showgirls at least Showgirls had the best lap dance scene I've ever seen in a movie or real life for that matter!
"When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk."
Tuco Benedicto Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez, aka "Tuco," aka "the Rat," aka "Ugly," aka "il Cattivo"
I noticed that JFK was #99 on the list, and I skimmed over the reviewer's comments. If I'd read the whole thing, I'd probably need to throw up. The reviewer sounded a LOT like some of those guys defending Roman Polanski earlier this year, saying it doesn't matter whether Ollie Stone was telling the truth or not. The review ended with the conclusion, "America killed JFK."
What PC, post-modern, elitist bullsh!t.
I gave the rest of this list a glance, only to confirm just how pretentious some of these writers were. What a bunch of hacks. |
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BT
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
USA
168 Posts |
Posted - 04/13/2010 : 3:30:32 PM
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Originally posted by BradH812
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Originally posted by niccolom
Here is the link to the ICS website where they explain their reasoning for the choosing the films:
http://icsfilm.org/Top90s/ICSTop90s.htm
My views on the list? Hell, I've never even heard of half of them? Trois couleurs: Rouge? The Double Life of Véronique? Now I've never seen any of Kieslowski's films, but to have four of his films on the list - come on! And if you're going have Starship Troopers on the list, you might as well as include Showgirls at least Showgirls had the best lap dance scene I've ever seen in a movie or real life for that matter!
"When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk."
Tuco Benedicto Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez, aka "Tuco," aka "the Rat," aka "Ugly," aka "il Cattivo"
I noticed that JFK was #99 on the list, and I skimmed over the reviewer's comments. If I'd read the whole thing, I'd probably need to throw up. The reviewer sounded a LOT like some of those guys defending Roman Polanski earlier this year, saying it doesn't matter whether Ollie Stone was telling the truth or not. The review ended with the conclusion, "America killed JFK."
What PC, post-modern, elitist bullsh!t.
I gave the rest of this list a glance, only to confirm just how pretentious some of these writers were. What a bunch of hacks.
I'm not sure saying "It doesn't matter if it's factual as long as it's a great movie" is the same thing as saying "It's OK to rape underage girls, as long as you make a great movie".
I'm fairly certain Oswald acted alone, and I really don't care for almost any other Oliver Stone movie (I still like "Platoon"), but I thought "JFK" was terrific. |
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RVHorror
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
532 Posts |
Posted - 04/14/2010 : 4:17:51 PM
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Like everyone else, I can't get over Starship Troopers being listed. That makes me think the whole thing was cooked up over at Cracked.
And you know, I'm a big David Lynch fan, but I think Wild at Heart is his worst movie ever and shouldn't be near anyone's best list of anything. Except maybe best use of Crispen Glover. |
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zombiewhacker
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 04/15/2010 : 01:25:38 AM
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| Oh, come now, Back to the Future was the best use ever of Crispin Glover. Nothing can top that! |
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