Good job, American Beauty--proud to love only the fourth-worst.
― clemenza, Thursday, 21 February 2013 00:06 (eleven years ago) link
Getting stuck on a cold Saturday night with the top three is like spending the weekend with Dahmer.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 21 February 2013 00:16 (eleven years ago) link
[last lines]Old Paul Edgecomb: We each owe a death - there are no exceptions - but, oh God, sometimes the Green Mile seems so long.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Thursday, 21 February 2013 00:19 (eleven years ago) link
Someone actually thinks The Piano is the worst film on this whole list?
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 21 February 2013 00:19 (eleven years ago) link
I am grateful that to this day I have no idea what the Green Mile is about.
― Donkamole Marvin (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 21 February 2013 00:20 (eleven years ago) link
It's about the invention of the first hybrid car.
― Rickshaw Calloway (Old Lunch), Thursday, 21 February 2013 00:59 (eleven years ago) link
subtitle: iatee vs cars
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 21 February 2013 01:01 (eleven years ago) link
Pulp Fiction 2
Two people in this thread live very charmed lives.
― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Thursday, 21 February 2013 04:38 (eleven years ago) link
Seriously. Even if you don't care for it, you must've only seen, like, two other films on the list to think it's the worst.
― Rickshaw Calloway (Old Lunch), Thursday, 21 February 2013 04:48 (eleven years ago) link
Ditto Schindler's List, but I see what they were doing there.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Thursday, 21 February 2013 05:00 (eleven years ago) link
American Beauty got robbed. Should've gotten bronze, at the very least.
― Doc Vig (Eazy), Thursday, 21 February 2013 05:28 (eleven years ago) link
That said, I voted Four Weddings and a Funeral before seeing the obvious choice.
― Doc Vig (Eazy), Thursday, 21 February 2013 05:38 (eleven years ago) link
even though neither shawshank redemption nor the green mile won this poll, both did "well" enough for me to take pride in belonging to a community with so many other Darabont haters. good show ILX.
― You just made a fatal mistake, Mr. Candyass! (Eisbaer), Thursday, 21 February 2013 08:42 (eleven years ago) link
I downloaded Life is Beautiful to check that it was good, but to my horror it was dubbed in English. Now, that was not the version which was released originally, right? That would have been awful.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 21 February 2013 10:42 (eleven years ago) link
I saw it in the theater, it was definitely subtitled.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Thursday, 21 February 2013 12:04 (eleven years ago) link
(shrugs) Meh, I thought "The Green Mile" was an intersting enough time-killer, Magical Negroisms duly noted. But I probably need to see more films (or maybe fewer)
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 21 February 2013 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
did Spike Lee really coin the term "magic negro" (as claimed in the Green Mile's wiki entry?)
― Donkamole Marvin (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 21 February 2013 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
No, I actually think that was the original title of Kazaam before the producers came to their senses.
― Kilometers Davis (Old Lunch), Thursday, 21 February 2013 19:08 (eleven years ago) link
The producers didn't come to their senses soon enough.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Thursday, 21 February 2013 19:11 (eleven years ago) link
I'm surprised "The Cider House Rules" got 0 votes, it's what I would have voted for.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Thursday, 21 February 2013 19:14 (eleven years ago) link
dude Cider House RULES
― Donkamole Marvin (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 21 February 2013 19:21 (eleven years ago) link
i definitely heard the term before the green mile came out. i think s.lee made it more popular.
― abanana, Thursday, 21 February 2013 23:07 (eleven years ago) link
What's the necessary length of time for critical distance on these things? Kinda antsy for the 00s version for whatever reason, even though I've probably seen the fewest films for that of any decade since the 60s.
― 'they pelted us with rocks and garbage' (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 01:56 (seven years ago) link
Here's the Lord Sotosyn edition.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 3 February 2019 19:11 (five years ago) link
I won't defend anything on your shit list, but A Few Good Men and Scent of a Woman are two I don't mind, almost certainly owing to the fact that I was 14 when they came out and they looked and talked like real grown-up films that made me feel smart for enjoying them. Had they been released even five years later, I don't know that I would have even seen them, let alone liked them. As it stands, I still prefer either to Apollo 13 and Titanic.
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Sunday, 3 February 2019 19:27 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjJzOpe9xEg
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 3 February 2019 19:29 (five years ago) link
I had to get pretty deep into the list (L.A. Confidential, of which I only have very vague memories) before I found a movie I'd want to watch again.
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 3 February 2019 19:32 (five years ago) link
Four Weddings and a Funeral is listed twice (a guilty pleasure of mine to be honest) and Scent of a Woman isn’t that bad. Shakespeare in Love, however, is war crime worthy.
― Your dad's Carlos Boozer and you keep him alive (fionnland), Sunday, 3 February 2019 19:52 (five years ago) link
wtf Apollo 13 is greatsmdh @ you Ron Howard haters
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 3 February 2019 19:54 (five years ago) link
Shakespeare In Love is a fine, frothy romcom with Stoppard jokes in
― The Very Fugly Caterpillar (sic), Sunday, 3 February 2019 20:01 (five years ago) link
Sitting in a theatre as a bunch of adults crack up over the piss-in-space scene in Apollo 13 is one of the most mortified I've ever felt during a movie.
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Sunday, 3 February 2019 20:03 (five years ago) link
*cracked
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Sunday, 3 February 2019 20:04 (five years ago) link
― Your dad's Carlos Boozer and you keep him alive (fionnland), Sunday, February 3, 2010
lol -- like I wrote on Facebook, that typo might be Freudian: I don't know what to think about that film.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 3 February 2019 20:16 (five years ago) link
It's definitely one of the two non-heinous theatrical films by Richard Curtis.
― The Very Fugly Caterpillar (sic), Sunday, 3 February 2019 20:26 (five years ago) link
https://ih0.redbubble.net/image.417306250.0964/flat,550x550,075,f.jpg
― Your dad's Carlos Boozer and you keep him alive (fionnland), Sunday, 3 February 2019 22:14 (five years ago) link
Do you force yourself to watch all of them? I haven't done that to myself with The Green Mile yet (but I plan to watch the imdb top 250 this year), and a few minutes of Awakenings on TV were enough for me.
― adam the (abanana), Monday, 4 February 2019 20:18 (five years ago) link
If we're judging on the basis of # of times watched and how frequently I feel the urge to revisit, The Fugitive is pretty much the hands-down winner of this lot for me. It's joined the Robocop/Dazed & Confused pantheon of 'movies I am never not in the mood to watch'.
― Why have more than 1,000 of my bucks disappearded? (Old Lunch), Monday, 4 February 2019 20:26 (five years ago) link
Oh wait, this is a thread for the worst, how do I salvage my mistake...
The Fugitive ya right more like The F-U-gitive
― Why have more than 1,000 of my bucks disappearded? (Old Lunch), Monday, 4 February 2019 20:28 (five years ago) link
Robocop: Dazed & Confused.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 4 February 2019 20:29 (five years ago) link
https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--ATsl-UD6--/18dxh3czpp6tpjpg.jpg
I have only had 4 beers, I am not deterred from climbing MoonTower
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 4 February 2019 20:32 (five years ago) link
xpost I don't know why I did a backslash instead of a comma. But I'm pretty sure that hypothetical movie mashup is in fact The Entertainment as featured in the novel Infinite Jest (i.e. I would watch it until I was dead from entertainment).
― Why have more than 1,000 of my bucks disappearded? (Old Lunch), Monday, 4 February 2019 20:33 (five years ago) link
The Piano is pretentious twaddle. The Insider is fake grittiness.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 4 February 2019 20:34 (five years ago) link