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An underrated favorite of mine: Hook. The only things I didn't like about that film were the running time, some of the Lost Boys' scenes (I really, really hate Dante Basco), and the fact that Spielberg only used three set pieces for Neverland (though I must say, the film looks absolutely stunning). The rest of it is just very good in my book.

To add to the already-great list:

Waking Life
The American Astronaut
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Top Secret!
UHF
Drop Dead Gorgeous
Bubble Boy
The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat
Light Years
Allegro Non Troppo
Falling Down
Jacob's Ladder
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (not for everyone...)
House of Games (but you can only watch it once)

It's been a while since I've seen it, but I will also confess that Xanadu made a huge impression on me at a young age. So did The Jungle Book (Disney's original), The Dark Crystal and [hesitates...] The Cat From Outer Space.

Could be worse.

Hawk the Slayer....


There's two separate categories there, perhaps murmuring for threads.

Truly awful films we hate.

and truly awful films we still like.

Titanic
A Night to Remember
Short Circuit
Short Circuit 2
Tower of Terror
War Games
Back to the Future
Back to the Future, Part II
Miracle

1.Scarface(original, not remake. The most underrated film of all time)
2.Citizen Kane
3.On the Waterfront(Marlon Brando is amazing. If the lead actress was less annoying it might be number 1)
4.Birth of a Nation(yes, it is racist. Very racist. But I could argue that it's the most influencial film of all time)
5.Goldfinger(fun movie)

Bottom 3:
1.Rocky III(I pity this movie)
2.Check and Double Check(Amos and Andy's movie. It's racist AND it sucks. What a combination)
3(Tie).First Blood and The Bridge on the River Kwai(far too many plotholes. National Guards do not have proficient rocket launchers, nor did most of the people in Japanese camps live long enough to build such a bridge. Stupid movies)

The Bridge on the River Kwai was an exaggerated film version of a novelisation of war time experiences (Of French officers!). As such it is indeed flawed. But please don't put the construction of the railway and its bridges into the category of fiction. The bridge, and several others, were built.

There were about 100,000 Asian worker deaths, and 16,00 European prisoner deaths, respectively approximately 50% and 25% of those forced to work on the line.

The POW escaping and being put to work on getting the bridge down a few weeks later also irritated me. He would be near death after going through that river. Horribly inaccurate film.

If you think that that's the worst film ever just because of inaccuracy, you need to brush up on your Uwe Boll. His films are horribly inaccurate (bearing practically no similarities to the games that they are ALWAYS based on except the name, and maybe the names of the characters), horribly written, horribly directed, horribly acted (even Ben Kingsly's embaressment of a role in "Bloodrayne" was supposed to be terrible), horribly edited, horribly done in general. They're so bad that they're not even funny-bad, apparently.

Haven't seen any of his films. I'm just getting into the film junkie stage. And no one else is commenting on the original Scarface. I can't be the only person who loved that movie.

Young Frankenstein is amazingly funny (the original Scary Movie), and if you want something more serious, I recommend To Kill A Mockingbird.

That scene with the now infamous

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! !! !

Has got to be the most embarssing moment in science fiction film EVER!! Appauling frankenstien referance Ive never dropped my face in shame so quickly when I first saw that in the cinema CHRIST George first it was the biblical referance and now this just to kill off your creation.

That Man has no shame what so ever!! the fat billionaire bar-steward Burn in hell for ruining everything

The uncultured youth of today



400 Blows (french film from the 50's)
The Bicycle Thief (Italian neo-realism from the late 40's)
Old Alfred Hitchcock films
Elephant Man (70's David Lynch and a few others)
Strike! (just to watch the montage sequences and go WTF)
Battleship Potemkin (has a famous scene you'l probably recognise with a pram falling down steps)
Metropolis (absolutely stunning for a film made in the mid 1920's)








Birth Of a Nation IS hollywood incarnate. Ive never seen a film that summed up an entire nation till I saw that. Considering hollywood eclipsed everything in popular cinema after the war its always been the force behind popular film culture.

A)I'm 14, and appreciate things like Birth of a Nation. Not all of us are uncultured, just everyone but me.
B)Birth of a Nation would be considered far superior to Citizen Kane if it were less racist and done in a different time period. The thing that always struck me as odd is the fact that no one(that I've seen) used the sepia/blue/red tones in film after that. It gives off certain colours really nicely.

My Top 20 Favourite Films

1. Donnie Darko (2001, Kelly)
2. Fantasia (1940, Algar, Armstrong, Beebe, Ferguson, Handley, Hee, Jackson, Luske, Roberts, Satterfield & Sharpsteen)
3. American Beauty (1999, Mendes)
4. Pulp Fiction (1994, Tarantino)
5. All Quiet On The Western Front (1930, Milestone)
6. Koyaanisqatsi (1982, Reggio)
7. Mulholland Drive (2001, Lynch)
8. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Kubrick)
9. Fargo (1996, Coen)
10. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999, Parker)
11. Dogville (2003, von Trier)
12. INLAND EMPIRE (2006, Lynch)
13. Clerks. (1994, Smith)
14. The Little Mermaid (1989, Clements & Musker)
15. Requiem For A Dream (2000, Aronofsky)
16. A Clockwork Orange (1971, Kubrick)
17. Eraserhead (1977, Lynch)
18. Dancer In The Dark (2000, von Trier)
19. There Will Be Blood (2007, Anderson)
20. Breaking The Waves (1996, von Trier)

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Favorite top three movies

1. High Fidelity
2. Hot Fuzz
3. Wall-E

Favorite documentary

Metal a Headbangers Journey

Favorite duo of movies soon to be four

Kill Bill Series

Favorite anime movies

Cowboy Bebop the movie
Vampire Hunter D
And Black Jack The Movie

Casablanca
Flight of the Phoenix (Jimmy Stewart version).
Then everything else

ruveyn