Re: 173 of of the 500 Greatest Movies of All Time
Posted: April 10th, 2010, 10:37 pm
thats awesome, TDK is 15, good job Nolan
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I think this list, like the other ones, has some good points but many arguable.chee wrote:I think The Prestige is a little debatable. It was a hit or miss with people.George wrote:This and The Prestige should have been much higher on the list. And Batman Begins lower.
Memento should've gotten 81, Batman Begins should've got 173.
you rock.George wrote: Only 4% of the votes for The Dark Knight were by people under the age of 18.
And regardless, why can't people like The Dark Knight more than 12 Angry Men? I've seen 12 Angry Men. It's great, but I think The Dark Knight is better.
except the fact that Shawshank Redempion is first... a good movie, but not a masterpiece, and definitely not better than Godfather pt. 1, 12 Angry Men, The Good The Bad The Ugly, The Dark Knight...George wrote: IMDB's Top 250 is a great list. It has a wide variety of excellent domestic and foreign films.
why!?rbevanx wrote:I honestly think The Dark Knight is overrated
Memento is brilliant and genious... but TDK is superb and revolutionary. They're both masterpieces, but TDK is good under EVERY aspect or detail.rbevanx wrote: I still dont understand why Memento is 34 or something and The Dark Knight is number six. I
t's just daft if you ask me.
you should see it as soon as possibleEternalist wrote:A Clockwork Orange is one of only three Stanley Kubrick movies I haven't seen yet.
Eternalist wrote:It appears we have a lot in common. I've taken a lot of heat for saying that I don't like certain films widely considered to be classics. I find that a lot of classics just don't end up living up to their reputation. I didn't like Roman Holiday, The Night of the Hunter, West Side Story, The Apartment, The Bicycle Thief, L.A. Confidential or In Cold Blood and I would rate them lower accordingly despite their "influence" in cinema and the fact that almost everyone else likes them.George wrote:See I vote on IMDB sort of with my current standards for movies. I think we can all honestly admit that a lot of the older "classics" feel dated now. I'm not really concerned with how influential a movie is. If I watch it today and it just doesn't hold up well, I don't really care how much of a classic it is considered and I won't give it a very high score.
I also don't like hearing people say things like "well its a classic, you're supposed to like it"
I am kind of in the middle in regard to the "classics". I have beefed up my collection in the past few years and have watched many of the Hollywood classics in order to see what all the fuss was about. For me, I love watching these films as it is incredibly interesting to see where Hollywood started, how it has evolved, and where many of today's older stars got their starts. Many of these classics are some of my favorites of all-time and hold up extremely well, such as:Darkception wrote:Eternalist wrote:
It appears we have a lot in common. I've taken a lot of heat for saying that I don't like certain films widely considered to be classics. I find that a lot of classics just don't end up living up to their reputation. I didn't like Roman Holiday, The Night of the Hunter, West Side Story, The Apartment, The Bicycle Thief, L.A. Confidential or In Cold Blood and I would rate them lower accordingly despite their "influence" in cinema and the fact that almost everyone else likes them.
+1. I've watched a load of supposed 'greats' that I just found dull and overrated. Citizen Kane, The Godfather, Blade Runner..... didn't live up to their hype for me. The classics are being made right now, by a certain Mr. Nolan; I just hope we won't look back in fifty years and think the same about his films.
On the IMDB rating being the way to judge a film is a classic.I didn't like it when we are trying to watch Harvey and the Joker in the hospital, and we kept getting cut to a scene that felt completely flat and the music score changes to add to it.
I didn't care if Bruce crashed the car or the cop was gonna shoot the guy who knew Batman's identity. I cared about what was going on between Harvey and the Joker.
It was the same thing at the end with the boat, we didn't need to see what was going on in the boat and it would have added to that moment where they didn’t blow each other up and the Joker is proceed wrong by Batman's optimism of people.
Because we knew the convicts had already thrown their remote away and the bald man wasn't gonna press the button.
I still think Nolan should have cut out the parts where we see what’s going on in the boat and not interrupting the scene with the Joker and Harvey in the hospital.