Heat
Leon
Dogma
Zoolander
Princess Bride
Monsters Inc
Toy Story
Crouching Tiger
Crying Freeman

Starman
About Last Night
Blues Brothers
ET
Stakeout
Close Encounters
Porkies
Home Alone
Mrs Doubtfire
Cool Runnings
Shawshank Redemption
Gladiator
Empire of the Sun

…and many more

Cougar – Member
It’s primarily an action movie. It’s very tonally different to the first film, which was a suspense horror / sci-fi outing. Aliens isn’t horror, it’s about a bunch of meatheads with big guns.

I know. Terrible isn’t it?
Such promise squandered. 😀

It’s the unrealistic & cliched behaviour of the characters, the childish and poorly plotted script, the overriding lack of ambition & laziness of the plot, the predictability of the narrative and the cynical, dumbed-down, lowest common denominator nature of the whole enterprise that make it the most disappointing sequel ever.
And an awful film.

All IMO of course, just like the music thread the other day – all completely subjective.
Which is what makes it fascinating.

Anyway, you MADE me break a new years resolution. 😀
I feel used now, & not in a good way.

Heckler: I thought so 😀

Alien – made in 1979, before even this…my guess is those flaming it were born later?

And an awful film.

Sir, I hold you in high regard, but as I believe the vernacular goes, you are talking bollocks.

Don’t get me started on Point Break, Top Gun and The Matix.

I REALLY dislike those 😀

Just watched it today for the first but I thought Moon was superb, I really don’t know how it could be improved upon.

She could of got her tits out 😉

I can’t get over how good it was! Wonder if source code is worth a watch

I can’t believe nobody has mentioned the Hangover.

Or Old School

Waynes World

Animal House

Dude where’s my car

Bad Teacher (Junkyard take note)

Ferris Bueller

Blues bros of course

Zoolander

Anger Management

Any film that makes you laugh is perfect.

Sorry, Shawshank is off the list due to the awful tacked on “holywood” cheezy meeting on the beach ending.

Source code is very cool.

Don’t get me started on Point Break, Top Gun and The Matix.

I REALLY dislike those

Ah, ok, I see the issue. You’re a loony.

TBF, context is needed here. All three are deeply flawed films. The first two are 80s cheese action films, there’s no substance but they’re great fun. The Matrix is bad but one of the most stylish films I’ve ever seen. Now, you can choose to focus on the negatives, or the positives. For me, I like films, and I’ll try and extract the best out of anything. Sometimes, rarely, that’s not possible.

Fargo
Desperado
Hero

Why is the Matrix “bad”?

Sorry, Shawshank is off the list due to the awful tacked on “holywood” cheezy meeting on the beach ending.

See my post above. It is not a Hollywood “tacked on” ending, it is in keeping with the original short story by Stephen King.

Plenty I like above, but no one has said:

Thelma and Louise

I thought it was a brilliant film 😐

There will be blood
No country for old Men
Dead mans shoes
Drive
Tinker Taylor soldier spy

Cheers, Source code on lovefilm list

Also, Gran Torino & O Brother where art thou?

no, no, no, Shawshank is about HOPE, that’s really the point of the whole story/film. So it should end, like the short story, as Red narrates that ending speech about hope, and as the Greyhound bus slowly drives off into the distance. Instead, the film then tacks on a silly beach scene, where Red is reunited with his friend. That is not only not needed, it ruins the point of the “hope” speech and theme ;-(

I’m really not a loony, or a film snob:
Dumb & Dumber nearly made it onto the ‘perfect’ list. 🙂

You can have a great action film with also has depth and subtlety.
Point Break & Top Gun are just all surface and bluster – the 80/90’s
encapsulated in celluloid – meaningless and vapid, cynical and tawdry.

Watching The Matrix is like being trapped in a corner at a party by a very pretty but terminally stoned, boring young lady who thinks she’s worked out the meaning of life and insists on telling you all about it:
OK for five minutes but after half an hour you wish it was all over.

Shawshank (The Film) and Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption are, from memory, as close an adaptation as you’ll find anywhere.

Still a bit saccharine all the same, not perfect.

I don’t see how that scene is “silly”. I think it provides an excellent juxtaposition to the grimness that has gone on before. It proves that having hope can bring it’s own rewards; that hope is not just a futile gesture used to get through difficult times.

Stop trying to bamboosle me with long complicated words like juxtaposition!! That scene is silly and unecessary unless you are american and/or have the IQ of a letuce sandwich………. 😉

think I’m first to say the first film that popped into my head – The Road. It’s so bleak, but so so good. But oh so bleak. My god it’s bleak.

Else,

Robocop
Batman Begins
Heat
Drive

End

City Of God.

Dr Zhivago.

Lawrence of Arabia.

The Machinist.

Have to say the only thing that stopped Memento from being perfect was the fact i had to watch the 1st 15 mins again to get it. (i was a little tipsy).

Anything with keanu reeves is is utter shite, as he is the worst actor never to be in coronation st

The Prestige is just about to start on BBC3 btw – good film 🙂

Got to be Goonies for me.
Also, agree on the City of God call.

And ‘Carve her name with pride’ starting on BBC4 now for B&W Virginia McKenna nostalgia

The life that I have, is all that I have…

Very good film Rusty

Goodfellas is on tonight as well.

Spoiled for choice

Agree with lots on here. My list would include:

Citizen Kane
Some like it hot
Delicatessen
Chinatown
Shawshank
Blade runner (directors cut)
In Bruges
Pulp Fiction
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
The Matrix (but none of the sequels)
Alien
Star Wars
North by Northwest
Psycho

I almost put Bambi but I’m still traumatised from watching it when a was little 😥

Apocalypse Now
Star Wars ep4 a new hope
Crash
Raiders of the lost Ark
Predator
Casino
Platoon

Wonder if source code is worth a watch

bit like a Dr Who plot but enjoyable non the less

oh sh1t i forgot…

The Shining

the end 🙂

I’d say Raiders of the Lost Ark is close too, although how Indy manages to swim from the ship to the German u-boat and then casually takes a ride to the u-boat base does irk me a bit.

Some interesting points & some very good films mentioned… I cannot think of any films that I would call perfect.

I’m surprised no-one has mentioned any Kubrick or Hitchcock films (although someone might’ve. I have just read through 5 pages of people arguing about Shawshank’s ending & Alien’s merits)

The nearest I can think of is something like the Wizard of Oz, was watching it the other night & when you consider it’s age & the technology available at the time it’s a great great achievement.

& Cougar, regarding Source Code, thought it was good but the ending pretty much ruined it for me. Totally with you on Aliens tho!

EDIT: The chap who’s mentioned the Shining above me wasn’t there when I was writing this!!

Bad Santa
Bronson
Man on the moon
The man who would be king
Watchmen
Snatch

Intouchables

What about the guns of navarone?

The Straight Story
Sexy Beast
Dead Man’s Shoes