Ah yes, Alexander. That film was such a dissapointment for me, I had high expectations. It was really hard to even watch it to the end.Cheesy Goodness said:
The 5 best and 5 worst films you have ever seen.
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While I enjoyed looking through some of the list here I noticed a lack of foreign and older films. So for my list, due to the fact that I dont really spend time watching film do not enjoy I am gonna list some of my favorite foreign/ classic films
Passions of Joan of Arc - This Dreyer masterpice is my favorite film Ever made and has, argueably, the best acting ever captured on film, Maria Falconetti as Joan D'Arc. It is the Cizine Kane of films
Breatless/ Le Pettit Soldat - I see this 2 Godard films as 2 faces of the same coin, both masterpices in their own right. Breathless is usally viewed as quintessential French new wave film.
Tazmati - a little well know film from 2005; which is unfortunate I think its a brilliant film. It is a homage to the traditions of the French new wave, with minimal dialogue and naturalistic acting.
Seven Samurai/ Rashoman - Kurosawa was an incredible auteur, one of the best the film world has ever seen, and this films epitomazie his greatness.
Touch of Evil/ On the Waterfront - this spot is for the film noir, couldnt really pick the best but you will definetly wont go wrong with either. On the Waterfront might get the edge with Brando's brilliant naturalistic performantce.
Andrei Rublev - had to have a Torkavsky film on the list, and I do belive this one is one of his best, without spoiling anything, its use of convergining storylines is brilliant. Ofcourse a lot of his other films could have easly been add to this list.
Lost Highway - I'll admit, I dont think I fully understand this movie; probably nobody really does except Lynch himself. But its great its gorgeous camera work and comepletly insane story make for an expirance like no other.
Le Samurai - A blend of old film noir mixed with the methodical nature of the new wave make for a very intristing combination, one that I think asks quite a bit of patience, but it definetly rewards by the end.
The Bicycle Theif - this was my first expoure to the italian neo-realism and fell in love with italian cinema at that moment, its nothing quite like it.
Dr. Strangelove - Petter Seller is brilliant, the Cold War satire is brilliant, George C. Scott is brilliant, I dont know what else to say, The whole film is brilliant. "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room. "
P.S. I do reallize I have used brilliant,incredible and other crappy superaltive adj way too many times for which I apologize.
Passions of Joan of Arc - This Dreyer masterpice is my favorite film Ever made and has, argueably, the best acting ever captured on film, Maria Falconetti as Joan D'Arc. It is the Cizine Kane of films
Breatless/ Le Pettit Soldat - I see this 2 Godard films as 2 faces of the same coin, both masterpices in their own right. Breathless is usally viewed as quintessential French new wave film.
Tazmati - a little well know film from 2005; which is unfortunate I think its a brilliant film. It is a homage to the traditions of the French new wave, with minimal dialogue and naturalistic acting.
Seven Samurai/ Rashoman - Kurosawa was an incredible auteur, one of the best the film world has ever seen, and this films epitomazie his greatness.
Touch of Evil/ On the Waterfront - this spot is for the film noir, couldnt really pick the best but you will definetly wont go wrong with either. On the Waterfront might get the edge with Brando's brilliant naturalistic performantce.
Andrei Rublev - had to have a Torkavsky film on the list, and I do belive this one is one of his best, without spoiling anything, its use of convergining storylines is brilliant. Ofcourse a lot of his other films could have easly been add to this list.
Lost Highway - I'll admit, I dont think I fully understand this movie; probably nobody really does except Lynch himself. But its great its gorgeous camera work and comepletly insane story make for an expirance like no other.
Le Samurai - A blend of old film noir mixed with the methodical nature of the new wave make for a very intristing combination, one that I think asks quite a bit of patience, but it definetly rewards by the end.
The Bicycle Theif - this was my first expoure to the italian neo-realism and fell in love with italian cinema at that moment, its nothing quite like it.
Dr. Strangelove - Petter Seller is brilliant, the Cold War satire is brilliant, George C. Scott is brilliant, I dont know what else to say, The whole film is brilliant. "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room. "
P.S. I do reallize I have used brilliant,incredible and other crappy superaltive adj way too many times for which I apologize.
There are too many great movies to fit into a top five. I probably can form a top 20 if I really think hard.
However, I can easily name name the bottom five of my barrel.
1. Journey to the Center of the Earth (1989) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097630/] An adaptation of the classic tale so atrocious, it made Jules Verne roll in his grave and dig himself out to find the filmmakers and kick them in the balls.. It was the type of B movie, so cheap you could see strings on the bats. The script writing seemed to have been passed from five writers suffering from ADD and ten minutes into the movie everyone working on it just gave up.
2. Thor il conquistatore [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0200211/] (1983) - A movie originally filmed in Italian, that I saw dubbed in Spanish neither of which I speak. The budget was so cheap, you can't even classify it a B movie, it was more of a Q. it had special effects so bad you have to wonder if the IMDB date was a mistake, as aside from the presence of sound and color the effects are primitive enough to fit in with the lumière period of filmmaking as artists started realizing the motion pictures as a storytelling medium. It was full of unlikable characters, and any sense was instead padded with trashy violence and sex.
3. A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyPrJb1_IdI] - Luckily I was hammered when I viewed this unlike the other pictures. Nothing I can write can possibly describe the experience. Just check out the trailer in the link I provided.
4. Surf Nazis Must Die (1987) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094077/] - I knew I was getting into some shit when I heard the title and accepted my friend's offer to watch it with her on Xbox Live. Now, mind you I don't mind watching bad movies. I can easily enjoy a movie that is terrible. What I cannot do is watch a boring movie. With all the other entries on this list, I managed to laugh my ass off. With this, I fell asleep. I thought I was entering some really low brow fun in watching real German trenchcoat/brown shirt wearing nazis on surfboards in a silly comedy. Instead I got neo-nazis who are so poor they couldn't even afford a proper swastika (They drew them with magic markers. Sometimes they drew them incorrectly) and a story that tried to be serious without realizing how stupid it was.
5. Operation Wolverine: Seconds to Spare - Like Journey to the Center of the Earth, I saw this while living in a boarding school. While I was there, we received Netflix movies, but nobody ever updated or checked the queue, so the system randomly selected the discarded scraps thrown out of bargain bins. No, it has nothing to do with the comic character, although I must say that X-Men Origins: Wolverines was one of the worst movies I paid money for in years. I can't find it on IMDB. I guess it's so bad, that the internet doesn't want people finding it. Not only was it terrible, but grossly inappropriate - a PG movie that should've been rated R. The awfulness and inappropriateness of this movie was the catalyst for change to finally put someone on being active on the queue.
However, I can easily name name the bottom five of my barrel.
1. Journey to the Center of the Earth (1989) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097630/] An adaptation of the classic tale so atrocious, it made Jules Verne roll in his grave and dig himself out to find the filmmakers and kick them in the balls.. It was the type of B movie, so cheap you could see strings on the bats. The script writing seemed to have been passed from five writers suffering from ADD and ten minutes into the movie everyone working on it just gave up.
2. Thor il conquistatore [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0200211/] (1983) - A movie originally filmed in Italian, that I saw dubbed in Spanish neither of which I speak. The budget was so cheap, you can't even classify it a B movie, it was more of a Q. it had special effects so bad you have to wonder if the IMDB date was a mistake, as aside from the presence of sound and color the effects are primitive enough to fit in with the lumière period of filmmaking as artists started realizing the motion pictures as a storytelling medium. It was full of unlikable characters, and any sense was instead padded with trashy violence and sex.
3. A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyPrJb1_IdI] - Luckily I was hammered when I viewed this unlike the other pictures. Nothing I can write can possibly describe the experience. Just check out the trailer in the link I provided.
4. Surf Nazis Must Die (1987) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094077/] - I knew I was getting into some shit when I heard the title and accepted my friend's offer to watch it with her on Xbox Live. Now, mind you I don't mind watching bad movies. I can easily enjoy a movie that is terrible. What I cannot do is watch a boring movie. With all the other entries on this list, I managed to laugh my ass off. With this, I fell asleep. I thought I was entering some really low brow fun in watching real German trenchcoat/brown shirt wearing nazis on surfboards in a silly comedy. Instead I got neo-nazis who are so poor they couldn't even afford a proper swastika (They drew them with magic markers. Sometimes they drew them incorrectly) and a story that tried to be serious without realizing how stupid it was.
5. Operation Wolverine: Seconds to Spare - Like Journey to the Center of the Earth, I saw this while living in a boarding school. While I was there, we received Netflix movies, but nobody ever updated or checked the queue, so the system randomly selected the discarded scraps thrown out of bargain bins. No, it has nothing to do with the comic character, although I must say that X-Men Origins: Wolverines was one of the worst movies I paid money for in years. I can't find it on IMDB. I guess it's so bad, that the internet doesn't want people finding it. Not only was it terrible, but grossly inappropriate - a PG movie that should've been rated R. The awfulness and inappropriateness of this movie was the catalyst for change to finally put someone on being active on the queue.
Best:
Shawshank Redemption
The Dark Knight
Star Wars (pick your movie)
Iron Man
Sweeney Todd
Honorable Mention: 300
Worst:
Ultraviolet
Spiderman III (Why, Lee, why?!)
Anything with Twilight
Resident Evil trilogy (why did you do that to my favorite game series?)
Duece Bigolo: European Gigalo
Honorable mention for shittiness: Hanging Up
Shawshank Redemption
The Dark Knight
Star Wars (pick your movie)
Iron Man
Sweeney Todd
Honorable Mention: 300
Worst:
Ultraviolet
Spiderman III (Why, Lee, why?!)
Anything with Twilight
Resident Evil trilogy (why did you do that to my favorite game series?)
Duece Bigolo: European Gigalo
Honorable mention for shittiness: Hanging Up
Best:
The Shawshank Redemption. If it's not on your top 5, you haven't seen it yet.
The Dark Knight
The Prestige
V foe Vendetta
Gladiator
Honourable mentions to Saving Private Ryan, The Last Samurai, Cloverfield, L4yer Cake, and a number of others I've forgotten (and a long list of comedies)
Worst:
all of the pokemon movies The first 3 pokemon movies (can't comment on the others having not seen them...)
The Tom Cruise version of War of the Worlds
Transformers 2 - I enjoyed it, but I'm well aware it was, technically, an awful, awful film...
A large number of films shown on buses, aeroplanes etc... which all blend into one awful mental blob of horrendous film-making rounds off the list nicely... A lot of these are cringeworthy predictable rom-coms. I'm not saying that all rom-coms are awful, just most of the popular ones.
EDIT: Reading other people's lists, I want to extend my best films to at least a top 20. And I want to unsee most of my worst films...
The Shawshank Redemption. If it's not on your top 5, you haven't seen it yet.
The Dark Knight
The Prestige
V foe Vendetta
Gladiator
Honourable mentions to Saving Private Ryan, The Last Samurai, Cloverfield, L4yer Cake, and a number of others I've forgotten (and a long list of comedies)
Worst:
The Tom Cruise version of War of the Worlds
Transformers 2 - I enjoyed it, but I'm well aware it was, technically, an awful, awful film...
A large number of films shown on buses, aeroplanes etc... which all blend into one awful mental blob of horrendous film-making rounds off the list nicely... A lot of these are cringeworthy predictable rom-coms. I'm not saying that all rom-coms are awful, just most of the popular ones.
EDIT: Reading other people's lists, I want to extend my best films to at least a top 20. And I want to unsee most of my worst films...
BEST in no particular order
-Dark Knight
-The Princess Bride
-Spirited Away
-Silence of the Lambs
-Lord of the Rings
WORST in no particular order
-Watchmen
-Matrix the sequels
-Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death & Rebirth
-Pirates of the Caribbean sequels
-Final Destination (I'll say for the entire series)
-Dark Knight
-The Princess Bride
-Spirited Away
-Silence of the Lambs
-Lord of the Rings
WORST in no particular order
-Watchmen
-Matrix the sequels
-Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death & Rebirth
-Pirates of the Caribbean sequels
-Final Destination (I'll say for the entire series)
Best
5. Shaun of the Dead
4. Battle of the Bulge
3. Platoon
2. Saving Private Ryan
1. Shawshank Redemption
Worst
5. The Zombie Diaries
4. Spongebob Squarepants: The movie
3. You dont wanna mess with the Zohan
2. Happy Feet
1. The Prince of Central Park
5. Shaun of the Dead
4. Battle of the Bulge
3. Platoon
2. Saving Private Ryan
1. Shawshank Redemption
Worst
5. The Zombie Diaries
4. Spongebob Squarepants: The movie
3. You dont wanna mess with the Zohan
2. Happy Feet
1. The Prince of Central Park
I saw The Bicycle Thief in college and thought it was fantastic. It too was my first exposure to Italian neo-realism. It is an excellent production that has aged well and allows the viewer to think about many subjects that go beyond ordinary cinematic depths.Ferro said:While I enjoyed looking through some of the list here I noticed a lack of foreign and older films. So for my list, due to the fact that I dont really spend time watching film do not enjoy I am gonna list some of my favorite foreign/ classic films
Passions of Joan of Arc - This Dreyer masterpice is my favorite film Ever made and has, argueably, the best acting ever captured on film, Maria Falconetti as Joan D'Arc. It is the Cizine Kane of films
Breatless/ Le Pettit Soldat - I see this 2 Godard films as 2 faces of the same coin, both masterpices in their own right. Breathless is usally viewed as quintessential French new wave film.
Tazmati - a little well know film from 2005; which is unfortunate I think its a brilliant film. It is a homage to the traditions of the French new wave, with minimal dialogue and naturalistic acting.
Seven Samurai/ Rashoman - Kurosawa was an incredible auteur, one of the best the film world has ever seen, and this films epitomazie his greatness.
Touch of Evil/ On the Waterfront - this spot is for the film noir, couldnt really pick the best but you will definetly wont go wrong with either. On the Waterfront might get the edge with Brando's brilliant naturalistic performantce.
Andrei Rublev - had to have a Torkavsky film on the list, and I do belive this one is one of his best, without spoiling anything, its use of convergining storylines is brilliant. Ofcourse a lot of his other films could have easly been add to this list.
Lost Highway - I'll admit, I dont think I fully understand this movie; probably nobody really does except Lynch himself. But its great its gorgeous camera work and comepletly insane story make for an expirance like no other.
Le Samurai - A blend of old film noir mixed with the methodical nature of the new wave make for a very intristing combination, one that I think asks quite a bit of patience, but it definetly rewards by the end.
The Bicycle Theif - this was my first expoure to the italian neo-realism and fell in love with italian cinema at that moment, its nothing quite like it.
Dr. Strangelove - Petter Seller is brilliant, the Cold War satire is brilliant, George C. Scott is brilliant, I dont know what else to say, The whole film is brilliant. "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room. "
P.S. I do reallize I have used brilliant,incredible and other crappy superaltive adj way too many times for which I apologize.
Best:
-Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
-Watchmen
-Constantine
-Hot Fuzz
-Yes Man
Worst:
-Behind enemy lines 2
-Ultraviolet
-cloverfield (worst one of all)
-24 days later
-Anchorman
-Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
-Watchmen
-Constantine
-Hot Fuzz
-Yes Man
Worst:
-Behind enemy lines 2
-Ultraviolet
-cloverfield (worst one of all)
-24 days later
-Anchorman
Best:
-Shaun of the Dead
-Lord of the Rings (yeah all in one, *****)
-The Matrix
-Departed
-This is Spinal Tap
Worst:
-Underworld: Evolution
-Step Up 2: The Streets
-Last Action Hero
-Street Fighter (but it's so bad it's good, I love that movie)
-Pan's Labyrinth... seriously, WTF man, foreign language is fine but that movie was like poetry, except really shit poetry by a 14 year old where the imagery is more obvious than a grand piano in a one-roomed house (1337 cookie available).
edit: ach fuck... I forgot...
-Shaun of the Dead
-Lord of the Rings (yeah all in one, *****)
-The Matrix
-Departed
-This is Spinal Tap
Worst:
-Underworld: Evolution
-Step Up 2: The Streets
-Last Action Hero
-Street Fighter (but it's so bad it's good, I love that movie)
-Pan's Labyrinth... seriously, WTF man, foreign language is fine but that movie was like poetry, except really shit poetry by a 14 year old where the imagery is more obvious than a grand piano in a one-roomed house (1337 cookie available).
edit: ach fuck... I forgot...
So maybe this beats Pan's Labyrinth.Cheesebob said:
Best
- District 9
- Sherlock Holmes
- Kill Bill
- Saving Private Ryan
- Black Hawk Down
Worst
- Starship troopers 3
- Starship troopers 2
- All of eddie murphy films were he play more than 1 character at once
- Drag me to hell (worst film I have ever paid money to see)
- All uwe boll's films (house of the dead etc)
- District 9
- Sherlock Holmes
- Kill Bill
- Saving Private Ryan
- Black Hawk Down
Worst
- Starship troopers 3
- Starship troopers 2
- All of eddie murphy films were he play more than 1 character at once
- Drag me to hell (worst film I have ever paid money to see)
- All uwe boll's films (house of the dead etc)
Top five best:
What's eating Gilbert Grape
Grave of fireflies
In Bruges
Star Wars original trilogy
The Shawshank Redemption
Notable mentions: 500 days of summer, Star Trek, The Green Mile, Lord of the Rings, Zulu, the spaghetti western trilogy the list would go on...
Top five worst:
The Knowing
Role Models
Twilight
The Road (just so goddamn depressing)
Nine
What's eating Gilbert Grape
Grave of fireflies
In Bruges
Star Wars original trilogy
The Shawshank Redemption
Notable mentions: 500 days of summer, Star Trek, The Green Mile, Lord of the Rings, Zulu, the spaghetti western trilogy the list would go on...
Top five worst:
The Knowing
Role Models
Twilight
The Road (just so goddamn depressing)
Nine
5 best
Pulp Fiction
Unbreakable
The Shawshank Redemption
The Godfather(1 and 2)
Saving Private Ryan
5 Worst
The Cookout
Norbit
SF: Legend of Chun-li
Kings Randsom
Epic Movie(....don't ask)
Pulp Fiction
Unbreakable
The Shawshank Redemption
The Godfather(1 and 2)
Saving Private Ryan
5 Worst
The Cookout
Norbit
SF: Legend of Chun-li
Kings Randsom
Epic Movie(....don't ask)
The best:
5. The Odd Couple
4. 12 Angry Men
3. Vertigo
2. Amadeus
1. To Kill a Mockingbird
The worst:
5. Napolean Dynamite
4. New Moon
3. Troll 2
2. Disaster Movie
1. Super Mario Bros.
5. The Odd Couple
4. 12 Angry Men
3. Vertigo
2. Amadeus
1. To Kill a Mockingbird
The worst:
5. Napolean Dynamite
4. New Moon
3. Troll 2
2. Disaster Movie
1. Super Mario Bros.
Best (there's six of 'em, cos leaving either of them out doesn't feel right):
Pulp Fiction
Watchmen
Resevoir Dogs
12 Monkeys
Inglorious Basterds
Schindler's List
Honorable mentions: Memento, Top Secret, Nothing to Lose, The Dark Knight, District 9, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Worst:
Eagle Eye
Yes Man
Transformers
The Blind Side
Garfield 2
And as an extra, here's my favorite 'so bad it's good' movie: My Bloody Valentine. The story and characters are in many ways boring, stupid and just fucking annoying, but the slashing scenes are great, and that's really all I want to see from a slasher flick. It's pretty funny too.
Pulp Fiction
Watchmen
Resevoir Dogs
12 Monkeys
Inglorious Basterds
Schindler's List
Honorable mentions: Memento, Top Secret, Nothing to Lose, The Dark Knight, District 9, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Worst:
Eagle Eye
Yes Man
Transformers
The Blind Side
Garfield 2
And as an extra, here's my favorite 'so bad it's good' movie: My Bloody Valentine. The story and characters are in many ways boring, stupid and just fucking annoying, but the slashing scenes are great, and that's really all I want to see from a slasher flick. It's pretty funny too.