Add YOUR Best & Worst Films!!

[underwurlde]

Yo everybody !

Simply put, what are YOUR favourite & worst films that you'd like to recommend??

I'll start the ball rolling (& with any luck it'll keep rolling):

All time Favs:
SciFi: Forbidden Planet
Horror: The Thing (1982) (My wife also says 'Creep' for a Girlies night in)
Comedy: The Life of Brian. The Holy Grail.
War Fllm: Saving Private Ryan

Other Favs:
Cypher (If you haven't seen it GET IT)
Twin Town (If you're Welsh, see it. If you're not, see it!)
Independance Day
Starship Troopers
Paycheck
Blade Runner
Terminator I & II
Gladiator
The Shawshank Redemption
Master & Commander
Meet the Fockers
Lord of the Rings
The Bourne Idendity / Supremacy
Fantasia / Jungle Book
Constantine.
Austin Powers (all of 'em)
Chronicles of Riddick
Alien & Aliens
Star Trek - First Contact
The Matrix (Others just confuddled me Sad )
The Car
Absolute Power
In the Line of Fire
Jurassic Park I, II & III
Forest Gump
Titanic
Day After Tomorrow
Usual Suspects
Sleepy Hollow
Ocean's 11 & 12
I, Robot
Saw & Saw II (<-superb follow up)

Utter dross:
The Blair Witch Project (some love it, some hate it)
Hell Boy
Brotherhood of the Wolf
SWAT
War of the Worlds (2004)
Twisted
Starship Troopers II

Thanks in advance,

Andy.

[fritzi93]

I'll have a go with a few historical/period pieces. History is often stranger than fiction, and more interesting, at least to me. It puzzles me that screenwriters can take a perfectly good, true story and completely f**k it up. Anyway, here goes:

GOOD

The Dam Busters (1954?) Much actual footage, the story follows actual events quite closely. Only thing is they made Guy Gibson likeable, he was anything but.

The War Lord (1964) Historical fiction, but true to the period, very competent in the details. Charlton Heston, Richard Boone. Guy Stockwell is wickedly funny at times. The fight scenes are well done too.

BAD

Alexander. Bad in every way. Horrible. Bears little relation to the Alexander described by the historians Arrian, Tarn, Wilcken, et. al. The violence is pornographic, surreal.

King Arthur. Saxons with crossbows? Sarmatians (a non Indo-European people) hollering "Rus!" when the Varangian Rus didn't come into existence until 500 years later? Woads? That's the blue pigment the Picts painted themselves with, not the name of a tribe. The screenwriter should be shot. Simply awful. If it didn't take itself so seriously it might be funny. Hey, that's an idea, hard code your own (Monty-Pythonish) alternate subtitles and make it a comedy!

[underwurlde]

Absolutely mate! LOL.

However, one minor point, at least those Pythonists got it historically accurate???? - Goes to show all it takes it brains & NOT budget.

BTW, did you know that the average age of a Dam Buster crew member was 22!

Andy

[Faustus]

Good needs Andromeda Strain listed for sure.

But.... how can you dislike Brotherhood of the Wolf?

[b1tchm4gn3t]

One of my Favs:
I liked My Big Fat Greek Wedding

Worst: Mystery men

[MysticE]

Worst-> Napolean Dynamite

[mastersmurfie]

Best (according to me...):

Armageddon

Worst:

Death to Smoochy (only movie I ever walked out of the theater...)

Worst-> Napolean Dynamite

This is number 2 on my list of worst...

[guns1inger]

Best (for various reasons)

Citizen Kane - not the greatest film ever made, but probably the most important
2001 - over the top Kubrick at his best
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly/ Once Upon A Time in the West - Leone's horse opera classics
Psycho/Rear Window - my favourite Hitchcock films
The Wild Bunch - Western revisionism, Peckinpah style
Dr Strangelove - funniest film ever
Lawrence of Arabia - this is how epics are made - Wolfgang Peterson take note
Alien - biggest BOO! in space
Excalibur - Boorman's Arthur is up there with MP's Holy Grail
Treasure of the Sierre Madre/Maltese Falcon - Bogart
Pixar films (not sure about Cars though)
Catch-22 - narrative is not linear

as well as

Robocop
Terminator/T2
Aliens
The Godfather I & II
Freaks
Apocalypse Now
Scanners
Sunday Too Far Away

and many more

Worst

First Knight - Richard Gere as Lancelot and where the hell was Excalibur ? nuff said.
Shakespeare in Love - this won the Oscar ?
Home Alone - it doesn't matter which one, they were all shite
Exorcist II - huh ?
Brotherhood of the Wolf - grossly over-rated french drivel. Subtitles don't make it art.
Final Fantasy - computer generated wooden puppets
Bootmen - hopefully you never got it
Forrest Gump - you can be retarded, but if you play by our rules you can be a success


There are also great moments is average films

The T-Rex in Jurassic Park - Stan Winston and ILM make true movie magic
The gore in a Lucio Fulci film - his narratives may suck, but when he got to the good bits, he didn't flinch
The tracking shot in the dream sequence of Dead Ringers
The beach landing in Saving Private Ryan. The rest was cliched tosh, but the landing sequence was devastating

and special mention to the great popcorn munchers - no brainer films to waste some time on

Armaggeddon - awful acting, silly story, and a grossly overwraught ending, but it was better than Godzilla
Indpendence Day - only Bill Pullman could deliver that speech without laughing
The Matrix - not as special as it was made out to be, and the sequals showed just how little depth it really had, but the first one has some great action
Predator
The Thing (John Carpenter's version)

[Doramius]

I cried watching "Hollywood Ending". That was an awful piece of Schlop.I'm not a fan of Woody Allen, but add Barbara Streistand, and you've got the makings of areally bad 'B' movie Horror flick. If they'd have thrown in Dolph Lundgren, they could have made it a 'B' Sci-fi flick.


I got way too many Favs to list off hand.

[MeDiCo_BrUjO]

The worst ever: ALEXANDER.

I want those 3 hours of my life back.

[stanislawski]

The Worst - Bridget Jones Diary

The Best - Faster Pussycat Kill Kill

[MrMoody]

Worst: It's Pat (the horror! the horror!)

Best: Aliens
The Fifth Element
The Lord of the Rings
The Matrix
Monty Python and the Holy Grail

[hech54]

Best overall:
Citizen X
Alien
Airplane
Breaker Morant
Das Boot (The Boat)
Saving Private Ryan
Band Of Brothers(does that count?)

WORST:
Anything with Martin Short

[jimmalenko]

WOW !


Haven't we done this thread before ?


I'll go 4 categories, and go through most of my DVDs.


Best:
Terminator II
The Shawshank Redemption
Kill Bill I and II
Caddyshack
Dumb And Dumber
Happy Gilmore
Men At Work
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Police Academy I & II
The Castle
The Butterfly Effect
Some Kind Of Monster

Good:
Finding Forrester
Independence Day
Austin Powers I, II & III
Jurassic Park I
Ocean's 11
Seabiscuit
American Pie I & II
Austin Powers I, II & III
Uncle Buck
Commando
Rocky IV
Bruce Almighty
Dumb And Dumberer
Jackass The Movie
Men In Black I
Bad Boys II
Under Siege I & II
8 Mile
Half Past Dead
Gattaca
Dodgeball
Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
Old School
XXX
Planes, Trains & Automobiles
Police Academy III, IV & V
Natural Born Killers
Spiderman I & II

Mediocre:
Caddyshack 2
American Pie III & IV
Wayne's World I & II
Men In Black II
Wild Things
Zoolander
National Security
Police Academy VI

Don't Bother:
Phone Booth
Police Academy VII

[Faustus]

I thought Phone Booth was ok, but I'm shocked everytime someone says they could stand to sit through XXX.

[Doramius]

I thought Phone Booth was ok, but I'm shocked everytime someone says they could stand to sit through XXX.

Not much of a choice when you're sitting in an aiplane.

[smearbrick1]

Anyone who lists Caddyshack II as mediocre deserves to be taken out back and shot... twice!!

That movie sucks hardcore ass! How in the hell do you cast Jackie Mason to replace Rodney Dangerfield?

Garbage, pure garbage. This movie doesn't even deserve the publicity it would get for being on a list of Worst Movies Of All Time.

[jimmalenko]

Anyone who lists Caddyshack II as mediocre deserves to be taken out back and shot... twice!!

That movie sucks hardcore ass! How in the hell do you cast Jackie Mason to replace Rodney Dangerfield?

Garbage, pure garbage. This movie doesn't even deserve the publicity it would get for being on a list of Worst Movies Of All Time.

Some of it was funny. Hence Mediocre. Agree totally that it desecrates the first one though.

[AlecWest]

Personal favorites I love (or hate):

Best - "The Sound Of Music"
Worst - "Eraserhead"

[Doramius]

WORST: House of the DEAD

Only thing close to a redeeming factor in the movie were boobs, and they weren't even that great. Better movies have come from a room full of Downsyndrome developed orangutang writers & directors.


And George Lucas is worried about how bad the Holiday Special was. I'd sit through a daily marathon at Christmas time every year for the rest of my life over watching 'House of the Dead' even one more time.

[offline]

Personal favorites I love (or hate):

Best - "The Sound Of Music"

I'd pay good money to have all the von traps shot. As for that screeching women - ughhhh!

[guns1inger]

One of the few movies where you barrack for the Nazi's and feel ripped off when they get away

[Doramius]

One of the few movies where you barrack for the Nazi's and feel ripped off when they get away

Sounds like you watched "The Diary of Anne Frank" :P

[videopoo]

Worst of All Time:

INDEPENDENCE DAY....MY GOD..WHAT A PIECE

[yoda313]

The Fifth Element

thats on your good list??? Yuck. Sorry not my kind of movie.

worst - independence day

Oh come on I liked it and have the dvd. Its campy fun and good special effects Plus you've got to love Brent Spiners cameo in it

[Faustus]

The Fifth Element

thats on your good list??? Yuck. Sorry not my kind of movie.

worst - independence day

Oh come on I liked it and have the dvd. Its campy fun and good special effects Plus you've got to love Brent Spiners cameo in it

Ok your twisted Yoda! The Fifth Element is an awesome movie. How can someone hate that film? Its one of Bruce willis's best works. Up there with Hudson Hawk. (only half joking btw)

And independence day, I could see liking it for what it is, an empty film where things asplode, but beyond that. No way.

[guns1inger]

both are good popcorn films, but hardly great art (I have both in my collection, btw).

[Doramius]

I like the alien space crafts in ID4. I think George Lucas may have gotten an idea from ID4 too. In Clone Wars Vol.1, the droid ship that appears in the beginning near Mace Windu drops that enormous smashing hammer or something of the like.


Another Crappy Movie: (though falls into a cult collectible satire) Shock Treatment - The Sequel to The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Yeah, it was crap. And it packed a lot of it.

[mattso]

WORST: War Of The Worlds (Shmaltsberg)... Just saw it finally & hated every second. It was the sheer epitome of everything I hate about Hollywood cinema today. The poorest script-writing I have ever experienced.

How come the son magically appeared at the end?

Why did Tom Cruise kill the insane guy in the basement, then grab his daughter & flee? Why didn't they just flee to begin with? The insane shouting guy would've been a good distraction.

What was the red stuff on the ground?

What were the aliens doing on Earth?

Were they eating people, or sucking their blood, or making people into fertiliser, or...?

How did they "know" that the tripods had been buried for "millions of years"?

Why did masses of people jump on a ferry when tripods were marching towards them? Wouldn't you just run & hide somewhere safe?

They pulled Tom Cruise out from the "mouth" thing. How come they didn't pull anyone else out before that?

How can those tripods swivel their legs around like that without falling over?

How come the "snake" thing in the basement looked EVERYWHERE but at them?

How come the aliens had doughy eyes?

Etc etc.

[yoda313]

Matso - thank you I'm glad somebody else was as disgusted by WW as I was.

Also how could the aliens leave the ship without spacesuits and then mysteriously die from the earth viruses????

Didn't the original movie have them get infected at the end of movie when they FIRST got out of the ships??? That made a lot more sense.