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Well, I guess so. I tend to like clever, well-shot, artistic films, though. I guess if you have different criteria you might give something like "Final Destination" as your answer.
I'm putting Easy Rider down as best film ever. It's also my favourite.
Thanks for posting this. Koepp is interesting. I don't know if he's ever blown me away, but he seems like a stolid, reliable journeyman. His brand of quiet competence would have been welcome in a lot of pictures I've seen the last few years.
So wait, you don't like Super Troopers, but you do like Running Man? I'm gonna need some graph paper for this one...
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Though I really don't know why you'd compare The Running Man and Super Troopers; it's not even apples to oranges. The former is a an 80s sci-fi action flick with lots of over the top and unintentionally funny violence, some hamfisted social commentary, and just enough self awareness to have fun with being what it is. The later is presumably a comedy in the "underdog sports team" paradigm with occasionally funny one-off jokes, but with an overall weak narrative and largely one-dimensional characters incapable of carrying the plot, so the entire thing feels like an aimless meandering sequence of disconnected scenes that inadvertently manages to form a very thin story if you tilt your head just right and squint a little.
Raiders tried to be a fun, mostly-light-hearted film reminiscent of pulp stories from the 30s and 40s. It... pretty much nailed it perfectly. The script and story and action scenes were striving for exciting in a campy sort of way, and they nailed that. Harrison Ford was at his most charismatic, turning in a performance as a smart guy who likes to get his hands dirty, who is cocky as hell, and who tends to wind up in difficult situations, yet who manages to squeak by with some cleverness and a good amount of luck.
I'm not sure what the material should've been "elevated" to. It's like criticizing the one of the best hamburgers ever made for not being a Porsche.
There are definitely better films, but there aren't a lot of films that better succeed at doing exactly what they set out to do. In that respect, it's on par with Jurassic Park, Die Hard, T2, and a few other nigh-perfect films. I'd probably throw All of Me in there, because the list needs a comedy and Steve Martin is a treasure and he's at peak form in that movie.
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but when people ask I always go to Zodiac, Trainspotting, Paris Texas, and Dazed and Confused. There are more but those are my official answers.
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At any given point I have maybe 100 movies that I hold in super high esteem and will generally rewatch given the chance or the inclination, and maybe about a dozen in pretty heavy rotation in the category of "movies I am looking forward to seeing again." Then I watch them 6 times in a year, get bored with them, and they sink down into the 100.
Thankfully, every year since I started paying attention to it gives me about 3 to 5 top 100 movies, which I think is a pretty good clip. Still, I did the math recently and realized that my deep and abiding respect for the heights of cinema is founded on, like, 200 movies (out of the 1500 or so I've seen). Somehow that seems odd to me.
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Best movie ever is either Spinal Tap or Goodfellas.
It would have to be something that not only could I sit down and watch whenever I wanted, but if I stumbled across it on TV I would almost certainly stop and watch it. A lot of films fit that description, but many of them I have seen so often that I no longer feel that desire.
Narrowing it down a little more, it would need to be one that I'm comfortable recommending to anyone, regardless of their tastes or preferences. Or possibly forcing them to watch if I find out that they have not seen it.
I'm going to cheat a little and crib a few that have already been mentioned and list three: Raiders of the Lost Ark, Back to the Future, and The Princess Bride.
I really do miss Chris Farley.
Though you know if he was alive he would be staring in Grown Ups instead of Kevin James
Favorite Films: Lawrence of Arabia, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Mary Poppins, The Hidden Fortress, The Searchers, Dances With Wolves (fuck the haters), The Wild Bunch, Rushmore, Dr. Strangelove, Lolita, A Clockwork Orange, Once Upon A Time in the West
God damn I wish Kubrick had made a western...
Into Darkness was disappointing because it was an extremely solid movie that took some stupid turns
it wasn't terrible by any stretch of the imagination
for me, you can't beat "The Philadelphia Story"
I mean, I get the joke of JJ Abrams = Lensflair but dear god was it distracting in this film. It was even present in interior shots...
It was one of the first films I bought with my own money, back on VHS. It was a great way to kill 4 hours on a rainy afternoon.
I don't even know what my top ten would look like offhand, but movies that I am compelled to watch whenever they're on include: The Matrix, all Indiana Jones movies that don't involve Crystal or Skulls, the Star Wars OT, All of Me, Fight Club, the first Austin Powers, Blazing Saddles, Die Hard, Harvey, and Ghostbusters. So that's fourteen movies? We'll call that my top 14.
Magnolia is one of my favoritest movies ever, and the only reason I don't watch it more is because it's 3 hours long.
Blazing Saddles without the racism is like Inglorious Basterds without the Nazis.
I'm pretty positive a big part of those scripts were 'Farley does his thing, Spade stays out of the way'.
I like David Spade, but since Farley died I always get the feeling I'm looking at one of those birds that mates for life, and when their partner dies they just kind of...turn listless and stop trying to do much of anything.
Also, Kevin James wouldn't be doing anything if Farley were still around. You can really see it anytime the cast is interviewed for Grownups. It's glaringly obvious that he's just a chunky guy trying to fill a Chris Farley sized hole and...not doing bad, but he's no Farley.
they spend a lot more time together in Tommy Boy
then for Black Sheep farley wanted to have more focus on the family story with his brother
(this is in the Chris Farley book his brother put together)
there was s possibility of him doing some mroe serious movies but he never got his shit together and obviously passed away before anything like that could happen in his career. I believe he had it in him.
Action/Adeventure: Raiders of the Lost Ark
Comedy: I couldn't decide between Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein
Musical: Singing in the Rain
Sci-fi/Fantasy: Starship Troopers (I don't even care. I love the movie)
Western: Open Range
Also, the special effects suffer from being revolutionary-but-kinda-bad in the way that early CGI can be.
I should love that movie, but I don't! Perhaps I hate fun.
In terms of movies that I have memorized and will watch if I see that they're on, I will almost always make time for Mean Girls, Empire Records, and Pulp Fiction. I probably have these three memorized at this point.
Comedy: Big Lebowski
Musical: Robin and the Seven Hoods
Sci-fi/Fantasy: 5th Element
Western: Silverado
But yeah, I've never really been able to say 'this is my favourite movie'. It's a thing in flux, I guess.
We do all have those movies, as some have said, that we could sit down and watch any time, even if they're not necessarily our favourites. I'm pretty sure Tremors isn't my all time favourite movie, but I could go watch it right now.