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Eddiebaby Surely you don't think I'm talking about that Harrison Ford nonsense . This is the one about a man trying to find his lost welding equipment . Truly riveting , until he finds his welder 🙂
Bridget Jones....
Ghost...
39 Steps...
Fifty Shades of Pink
Everybody likes Ghostbusters
Never seen it.
In Bruges! ( [i]She's[/i] in it 😀 My GF)
Never seen it.
In which case, you are weird.
More like Wired...
Has anyone mentioned Point Break yet?
Or does it belong in rubbish films that are actually good? 🙂
Everybody likes Ghostbusters
Not me.
Truly riveting , until he finds his welder 🙂
🙂
Ski School
Twin Town
Big Wednesday
All classics in their genres. I cannot conceive that anyone could possibly disagree with me 😉
I’d be (somewhat) surprised at anyone not liking:
I'd be somewhat surprised at anyone having even heard of all of those.
I may have missed it, but I can't quite believe this has run to four pages and no-one's mentioned Back to the Future.
The Breakfast Club. Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Weird Science. Actually, pretty much any John Hughes movie.
The Princess Bride, already nominated but +1 here. The Terminator, Aliens, Total Recall, Die Hard.
Pretty much any Pixar. The Wrong Trousers.
I'd suggest Star Wars but I expect there'll be someone out there hating on it just to appear rangy and interesting.
Temple of Doom / Lost Ark.
Die Hard / DH2.
Skipped from page 1 to here, so just going to post my list. Various criteria applied, but they all do what they do extremely well (the best of their kind) IMO.
Blade Runner (pick your favourite cut).
Tremors
Metropolis
There Will Be Blood
A Sunday In Hell
Unforgiven
Brazil
Last Of The Mohicans
and my leftfield suggestion - Moulin Rouge
hot fuzz
Glad someone mentioned Back To The Future. Never met anyone who didn'y enjoy it.
Other choices would be
(original) The Italian Job
The Odd Couple
Chinatown
Tomb Raider
Harry Potter and xxxxxxxxx
Back to the future is brilliant. Every time I watch it I still think Marty won’t make it back at the end. Ferris Bueller is a terrible, terrible person. Never understood how people like it. He’s a complete ****, basically ruined Cameron’s life and failed the ‘don’t be a dick’ test.
Raiders of the Lost Arc seems like a great shout to me . If you want to be entertained for a couple of hours I don’t really see how you could not enjoy it . No doubt I’m about to find out 🙂
As mentioned in The Big Bang Theory, the film moves from set piece to set piece with Indy appearing in all of them but nothing he does has any effect at all. You could take Harrison Ford out of the film completely and still have the same result. 😉
The Scorpion King
Dallas Buyers Club
Sahara
Glad someone mentioned Back To The Future. Never met anyone who didn’y enjoy it.
We've never met then? It's a dull nostalgia fest with heaped up tedious false suspense as a replacement for plot
Spirited Away
Good call on The Thing. I also enjoyed the recentish prequel.
As mentioned in The Big Bang Theory,
Yeah at times it feels like that is how discussion in here goes, a bunch of people living detached from reality viewing films as if they were documentaries and unable to sit back and enjoy 😉
You could take Harrison Ford out of the film completely and still have the same result.
So Bomber would stand in front of the prop and kill himself?
Yeah at times it feels like that is how discussion in here goes, a bunch of people living detached from reality viewing films as if they were documentaries and unable to sit back and enjoy
I’ve always enjoyed it honest!! 😂 I thought that ^ was funny though. I remember a housemate back in the 80s saying he hated it because all Indy did was go from one fight to another. That’s the point..
I’d suggest Star Wars but I expect there’ll be someone out there hating on it just to appear rangy and interesting.
Or just not liking it cos it's not their sort of film. Rangy!
Why are people mentioning films already disliked in the Bad not good/good not bad thread? Do your research!
Has anyone mentioned Point Break yet?
Or does it belong in rubbish films that are actually good?
I liked the 2000 reboot, Fast and Furious. 😉
are Jaws and Toy Story still unchallenged then?
Pulp Fiction
What about these classics. Who could possibly not like -
Bullitt
Thunderbolt & Lightfoot or
Bonnie & Clyde (1967 one of course) ?
or Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid for that matter...
It's a Wonderful Life.
If you don't like that then you're dead inside.
Some more suggestions
Point break (agreed)
The wedding singer
Taxi driver
Song of the sea
Clerks
Time bandits
See no evil Hear no evil
Starship Troopers
Taxi Driver is perfect from the sublime creeping score to the empty barrel. Nasty stuff though.
With movies:
- Is it good?
- Do you like it?
Are two different questions.
Subjective objects vs objective subject is a non-starter. It's of course right that there is no universal agreement otherwise art would be as dead.
– Is it good?
– Do you like it?
Are two diffent questions.
I, personally, can't believe people don't realise (or refuse to) that saying something is shit is simply a way of saying you don't like it. It's just another way of expressing the opinion. So it's not 2 different things.
Point Break is shit by the way.
I, personally, can’t believe people don’t realise (or refuse to) that saying something is shit is simply a way of saying you don’t like it.
Ah so deliberately confusing the 2 is a good thing? Perhaps those who do not like films could be a little more expressive. It's almost as if saying you don't like something is really hard to do, do you think people will think less of you for not liking something?
Why are people mentioning films already disliked in the Bad not good/good not bad thread? Do your research!
Research?
Phah, this is STW and it’s opinions we want not reasoned bloody arguments.
HTHs
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Ah wait, forgot my favourite (anti) war film -The Deer Hunter.
personally, can’t believe people don’t realise (or refuse to) that saying something is shit is simply a way of saying you don’t like it.
I can believe that (rhetoric noted). Though I wasn't generalising.
Additionally, I can also believe that some people don’t realise (or refuse to) that saying something is 'shit' is sometimes a way of saying it's shit
Ah so deliberately confusing the 2 is a good thing? Perhaps those who do not like films could be a little more expressive. It’s almost as if saying you don’t like something is really hard to do
It's not! It's easy! You just say it's shit. Not just films. Music, art, food, actual shit. Everyone does it.... there's just no point in being in denial. It's stupid*
*It's not actually stupid, but that's a common way of saying someone disagrees with you 😉
It’s not! It’s easy! You just say it’s shit. Not just films. Music, art, food, actual shit. Everyone does it…. there’s just no point in being in denial. It’s stupid
Thankfully I've managed to meet people who can actually describe things...
Heard an interview with a classical conductor who got asked about the music his kids liked, the interviewer was expecting the usual it's a bit crap answer but he said it was a preference thing, he could see how well it was constructed in many cases and how it was technically good just he didn't enjoy it.
Same goes for food and drink, had some amazing stuff that I didn't like, no way it was shit. But carry on being lazy there and don't get too upset where people misunderstand when you said shit but meant shit.
the wedding singer ??? TERRIBLE
But carry on being lazy there and don’t get too upset where people misunderstand when you said shit but meant shit.
I wasn't saying that's how I always describe shit. Just that it is extremely common and to not recognise that is pretty [i]stupid[/i]*
*see previous.
hang on, flicking through the list....have we not had:
Godfather parts 1 and 2 (even 3 was better than most films)?
Once upon a time in the West?
STW can't agree on 'what's shit or what 'shit' means' shocker!
Almost as if context is important yet language not so much 😎
And here are two French films that are not shit in any sense of the merde:
- Tell No-one
- Intouchables
A few Coen Bros movies mentioned in this thread, which reminds me of a lesser-well-known one of theirs which IMO is up there:
- A Simple Plan
A Simple Plan is good but directed Sam Raimi not Cohens. A bit too grim for me fwiw, though anyone can see it's excellent stuff (anyone who can separate their personal taste from ability to recognise a quality production, so most people then).
Pulp Fiction has to be a contender? Doesn't survive a second viewing for me, but seeing it when it came out, Hackney Rio, was a buzz. And pretty much anything by the Cohens. But then I thought 'no country for old men' was pretty much a comedy.
How about 'auvoir les enfants'?