@greenhorg Things that no legitimate film fan would care about: imdb ratings and icheck fav (they are not real list, and the majority users are idiots). Number of top list is highly biased towards included lists, which is questionable at best (certain genre, regions, directors are overly or underlay favored). Your "objective metrics" really aren't. However that really misses the main problem with your argument which is the idea that if the films have not reached cannon they are not of value. If this is true, virtually every country list is illegitimate. This argument along with being jingoistic also underlies the problem in which recognition of film is a highly regional thing in which countries not within the acceptable discussion of film face greater disruption to acclaim. If your goal is infamous and not quality than feel free to complain about the list, but if your goal is to find good films, often missing from the conversation than the list has great value. Stop being a nitwit, and more importantly stop attempting to claim "objective measures" of thing that only show your own ignorance of the issue.
1000 is good not because it leads to many questionable films, which as many have pointed out it does, but rather because it has an eye to the future. The ideas of lists as evolutionary creatures in which their changing nature are a reflection of our changing concepts is a hell of a lot more interesting than, oh no there's so many of them I won't get a platinum award. By placing at 1000 we are given greater access to watch the dynamic nature of the list that will hopefully be along for a long time. Be patient and in 60 years you'll be complaining about how 1000 is not enough.
@mathiasa, the film is still lost. There are around five minutes of footage, that's hardly a full film. Users who have checked the film should probably be around 100 or are lying (or exaggerating) about seeing the film.
Does one realize a Century is a unit of measure dictating 1000 years? Its starting point is culturally specific. People who complain about 2000 was in the 20th not 21st Century offer up that there was no year 0, however, there was no year 1 till people dictate a construction of time that followed a religious history based on fuzzy logic. One could also argue that year 1 begins upon the completion of year 1, similar to how we count age. All in all, people who argue the should it begin in 2000 or 2001 are fundamentally silly people who believe in a concrete reality of artificial, human creations. And Public Enemy is a nitwit.
Yet another grossly overrated American movie.This is the worst American movie I've ever seen. Bad acting of a melodramatic story. This movie is proof of the American "mafia" on the imdb boards who are taking over this list. This is another example of their terrible taste pushing a movie that is not top-250 quality into the top-250 because of the overuse of Americans. The dialogue is horrendous, and the musical numbers ridiculous. Makes heavy handed Soviet propaganda films look like they were directed by the subtle hand of Ingmar Bergman or Carl Th. Dreyer. The plot is underdeveloped. There's barely any significant dialogue. Some of the songs are okay, but that's to be expected from a Hollywood movie.
I enjoy the comparisons between Costa and Beckett, if for the fact that they amuse me greatly. Beckett wishes you to feel the awfulness, the alienation and does it in a rather short amount of time. Costa thinks its not a real movie unless such painfulness is drawn out for hours on end. Beckett is a artist with sensibility. Costa is just another of the current wave of "artists" who have confused length with depth. That being said, a very pretty film with little to say and lots of time to say it.
Anyone know why some versions of this list have the Ghost of Frankenstein along with the Son of Frankenstein, while some simply have the Son of Frankenstein?
Just bad storytelling. Amusing movie, cute moments, fun moments, exciting moments, held together for no reason other than the writers decided that the actions of the individuals would best lead to the next sequence.
I wouldn't mind, except Cuaron goes out of his way to say space is vast, empty, and silent and then follows it up with loud sounds, constant action, and (for space) relative crampness. The soundtrack was ungodly awful, clanging its way into every second. Yet, even without the soundtrack their is no calm in the movie as it goes from one gigantic event to the next. At one point I pulled out my phone to time how long a moment of silence would last without a new giant event, 1min 30 seconds!!!! Seriously! Space for the ADD mind. Just amazingly disappointing, and its acclaim is just further signs of an empty, shallow American film system. I expect better from you Cuaron! (It was very pretty for a video game)
@ Armoreska,
Maybe because film scholars, institutions, and people who care about film are thinking more in the broad history of film and not whether some dumbass can get a check so that he feels accomplished.
The problem is the dialogue which stands as though written for a Braff sitcom or a Bruce Campbell film, with cutaway and snark that feels so unbecoming of Oz. There is nothing genuine about Oz, nothing that feels authentic, nothing that asks us to believe, which is what Dorothy gave us in the first film. The problem is probably Sam Raimi, a man with a visual creative take, but a cynicism that only really work in horror films and those films that operate as commentary on the over used tropes of culture.
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Movie comment on Evil Dead
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Generic, if it wasn't called Evil Dead, everyone would have forgotten about it.Toplist comment on TIFF's Top Canadian Films
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@greenhorg Things that no legitimate film fan would care about: imdb ratings and icheck fav (they are not real list, and the majority users are idiots). Number of top list is highly biased towards included lists, which is questionable at best (certain genre, regions, directors are overly or underlay favored). Your "objective metrics" really aren't. However that really misses the main problem with your argument which is the idea that if the films have not reached cannon they are not of value. If this is true, virtually every country list is illegitimate. This argument along with being jingoistic also underlies the problem in which recognition of film is a highly regional thing in which countries not within the acceptable discussion of film face greater disruption to acclaim. If your goal is infamous and not quality than feel free to complain about the list, but if your goal is to find good films, often missing from the conversation than the list has great value. Stop being a nitwit, and more importantly stop attempting to claim "objective measures" of thing that only show your own ignorance of the issue.Toplist comment on TSPDT's 21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films
mrjeels
1000 is good not because it leads to many questionable films, which as many have pointed out it does, but rather because it has an eye to the future. The ideas of lists as evolutionary creatures in which their changing nature are a reflection of our changing concepts is a hell of a lot more interesting than, oh no there's so many of them I won't get a platinum award. By placing at 1000 we are given greater access to watch the dynamic nature of the list that will hopefully be along for a long time. Be patient and in 60 years you'll be complaining about how 1000 is not enough.Toplist comment on Golden Globe Winners
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You have "The Perfect Furlough" as winner and on IMDB it is only a nomineeMovie comment on The Shiralee
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This movie is impossible to findMovie comment on The Interview
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James Franco is so horrible.Movie comment on One for the Money
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@aussieflickfan I disagree, nothing funny happened in the film.Movie comment on The Way of All Flesh
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@mathiasa, the film is still lost. There are around five minutes of footage, that's hardly a full film. Users who have checked the film should probably be around 100 or are lying (or exaggerating) about seeing the film.Toplist comment on TSPDT's 21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films
mrjeels
Does one realize a Century is a unit of measure dictating 1000 years? Its starting point is culturally specific. People who complain about 2000 was in the 20th not 21st Century offer up that there was no year 0, however, there was no year 1 till people dictate a construction of time that followed a religious history based on fuzzy logic. One could also argue that year 1 begins upon the completion of year 1, similar to how we count age. All in all, people who argue the should it begin in 2000 or 2001 are fundamentally silly people who believe in a concrete reality of artificial, human creations. And Public Enemy is a nitwit.Movie comment on Gladiator
mrjeels
Yet another grossly overrated American movie.This is the worst American movie I've ever seen. Bad acting of a melodramatic story. This movie is proof of the American "mafia" on the imdb boards who are taking over this list. This is another example of their terrible taste pushing a movie that is not top-250 quality into the top-250 because of the overuse of Americans. The dialogue is horrendous, and the musical numbers ridiculous. Makes heavy handed Soviet propaganda films look like they were directed by the subtle hand of Ingmar Bergman or Carl Th. Dreyer. The plot is underdeveloped. There's barely any significant dialogue. Some of the songs are okay, but that's to be expected from a Hollywood movie.Movie comment on Duplicity
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Unsettling comments... those last twoMovie comment on Juventude Em Marcha
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I enjoy the comparisons between Costa and Beckett, if for the fact that they amuse me greatly. Beckett wishes you to feel the awfulness, the alienation and does it in a rather short amount of time. Costa thinks its not a real movie unless such painfulness is drawn out for hours on end. Beckett is a artist with sensibility. Costa is just another of the current wave of "artists" who have confused length with depth. That being said, a very pretty film with little to say and lots of time to say it.Movie comment on The Long Kiss Goodnight
mrjeels
Movie is interesting until it becomes too action oriented. Once the dialogue stops it becomes a below average/run of the mill action film.Movie comment on Mr. & Mrs. Smith
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Deeply, Deeply badToplist comment on Halliwell's Top 1000: The Ultimate Movie Countdown
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Anyone know why some versions of this list have the Ghost of Frankenstein along with the Son of Frankenstein, while some simply have the Son of Frankenstein?Movie comment on Guardians of the Galaxy
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Just bad storytelling. Amusing movie, cute moments, fun moments, exciting moments, held together for no reason other than the writers decided that the actions of the individuals would best lead to the next sequence.Movie comment on Gravity
mrjeels
I wouldn't mind, except Cuaron goes out of his way to say space is vast, empty, and silent and then follows it up with loud sounds, constant action, and (for space) relative crampness. The soundtrack was ungodly awful, clanging its way into every second. Yet, even without the soundtrack their is no calm in the movie as it goes from one gigantic event to the next. At one point I pulled out my phone to time how long a moment of silence would last without a new giant event, 1min 30 seconds!!!! Seriously! Space for the ADD mind. Just amazingly disappointing, and its acclaim is just further signs of an empty, shallow American film system. I expect better from you Cuaron! (It was very pretty for a video game)Movie comment on The Life of a Salmon
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@ Armoreska,Maybe because film scholars, institutions, and people who care about film are thinking more in the broad history of film and not whether some dumbass can get a check so that he feels accomplished.
Movie comment on As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
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Is rival anything Stan Brakhage did a compliment or an insult? I'm not clear.Movie comment on 11 x 14
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Anyone have any idea on how to get a copy of this?Toplist comment on FilmTotaal Forum's Top 100
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So with Angels and Demons on the list, this is officially laughable, correct?Movie comment on La souriante Madame Beudet
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So 54 min, 26 min, 38 min. Can anyone clear up exactly what the deal with the run time is?Movie comment on Oz the Great and Powerful
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The problem is the dialogue which stands as though written for a Braff sitcom or a Bruce Campbell film, with cutaway and snark that feels so unbecoming of Oz. There is nothing genuine about Oz, nothing that feels authentic, nothing that asks us to believe, which is what Dorothy gave us in the first film. The problem is probably Sam Raimi, a man with a visual creative take, but a cynicism that only really work in horror films and those films that operate as commentary on the over used tropes of culture.Movie comment on <--->
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http://video.yandex.ru/users/doskado/view/770/#... So does anyone actually enjoy Michael Snow's work or even get great intellectual depth from it?
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"I do like tater-tots" Most underrated Eastwood catch phrase and delivery.Showing items 1 – 25 of 28