(July 3, 2013 at 7:30 pm)pocaracas Wrote:(July 3, 2013 at 7:19 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: Last Boy Scout? Seriously?Seriously... I must have watched it some 50 times... there was no youtube back then... nor internet... And only some 100 VHS tapes.
Yes, but you watching a movie 50 times or more doesn't make it worthy of inclusion on a list. I've seen Men in Tights over 50 times, and probably the same with Army of Darkness. I think Army of Darkness is a classic, amazing B-flick, but I wouldn't make it a Top 10 of movies you should see for the way they influenced people or cut the edge of cinematography.
I'd have included Lord of the Rings as a whole because WETA basically rewrote entire programs in order to animate the movie, and Peter Jackson and his writing crew completely raised the bar for book-to-screen adaptations (no matter how you feel about The Hobbit). He went on a massive undertaking - writing, shooting, CGI'ing, sets, props, costuming - and managed ALSO to cast nigh-on perfect people for each role. That's the sort of thing I'd expect out of a movie put into the top 10. Something that was crafted - not just some action flick that people really enjoy.
(July 3, 2013 at 7:30 pm)pocaracas Wrote:(July 3, 2013 at 7:19 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: And Temple of Doom sucked ass.
What?! A guy taking the hearts of other guys out while they remained alive sucked ass?! It was a great idea!
Plus: alligators and a minimum of nazis.
No, the movie was fucking bullshit. The female lead was annoying as fuck, the movie played on pretty much every Eastern stereotype you could get, Harrison Ford was far from charming, and I don't give a fuck if there are nazis in a movie if it's well done as a whole.
Honestly, and I know I'm about to get punched virtually for this: Crystal Skull was a better film. While we're being petty about it, it might have only been better because I have the strange Jew-fro hots for Shia LaBeouf, but there you go. When a movie of young Ford is so bad that I don't even have the hots for Ford in it...it's very, very bad.