The Bus

Starship Troopers
Weekend at Bernie's
Captain Ron

starseed1981

The Matrix Reloaded & The Matrix Revolutions. Time will tell on those two....

Groucho

There are many words to describe Joe Vs. The Volcano, but "Brilliant" isn't one of them. And yes, Turner and Hooch does have more redeeming qualities.

Shannon Nutt

The Blair Witch Project

Unbreakable

Somewhere In Time

The Straight Story

Fahrenheit 9/11

UAIOE

I watched "Fight Club" and i'll agree that the violence in the movie isn't near "Just too violent".

However, I didn't really like Fight Club. I found it to be mediocre...but that might be because people hyped it and hyped it and it didnt come off as "grand" and the hype behind it.

PopcornTreeCt

Good thread idea. Here are some movies that come to mind:

Jaws - Spielberg's greatest film. Schindler's List ain't got nothing on this film.

Unbreakable - Shyamalan's greatest film. However, he's no Spielberg.

Punch Drunk Love - Easily one of the best films of the decade.

And then there's my love for pretty much anything Akira Kurosawa and Cary Grant which I don't bother defending because no one has seen any movies earlier than the 70's.

As for the opposite end. Here are some geeks' favorite movies that I fight against:

Donnie Darko - Yes, I get it! In fact, I get it so much I've found plot holes big enough to fit trucks through.

Fight Club - Admittedly, I loved this film when it came out but now it seems very shallow. The movie is only skin deep.

Anything Joss Whedon has spoiled.

Rypro 525

I have to kind of defend leaving las vegas, everyone i know that has seen it has told me "whats the point, it was boring, and nothing happened"

IanH

Some of these movies are now considered "modern classics" or "cult favorites". Some are established "hits" but most people either love them or hate them.


Bladerunner

Taxi Driver (I remember trying to get my Junior High friends to watch Bladerunner and Taxi Driver but someone had brought The Wild Life starring a very thin Chris Penn. I tried to convince them but they all looked at me like some weirdo. I preferred Scorsese to "Ta-Ta's". My movie geekdom started way too early. )

Talk To Her

Enchanted April (where's the DVD?!)

Barry Lyndon (best Period film. Ever)

Eye Wide Shut (and all of Kubrick's films in general)

Tampopo

Reservoir Dogs

Fight Club

Hope and Glory

Moulin Rouge

Romeo and Juliet (Baz Luhrmann's version)

Nights of Cabiria (Fellini's best)

Manon of the Spring (the first movie to opened my eyes to foreign film)

Cinema Paradiso (of course)

Malena (underrated. Lots of Monica Bellucci too. What's not to love?)

Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast

Black Narcissus

Night of the Hunter

Mulholland Drive (Yes! Lynch's best.)

Seven Year Itch (Monroe and Wilder's best movie IMO)

The Sound of Music

Wyatt Earp (Kevin Costner)

Hannibal and Red Dragon (I much prefer the remake over Manhunter)

Eat Drink Man Woman (Ang Lee's best movie)

Ride With the Devil (Tobey Maguire's proves he can be a mature lead and Jewel's acting wasn't bad.)

Mondo Kane

Your fists must be sore!

Para Para

I try and I try for...
Thirteen
And anything and everything Friday the 13th

People just don't enjoy them as much as I do, people I know.

IanH

Thanks for your concern.

mattressman

I hate the whole "that's because you dont get it" thing. Sometimes some movies just don't click with some folks. I just hate when I say that I loved a movie and then someone else says that it was a POS, or "that whole thing with the frogs was so stupid," or "Jim Carrey didn't even make any crazy faces [in Eternal Sunshine]." Those last two were pretty much direct quotes from co-workers, haha. Of course, for those people you can't even begin to argue your point, and I usually don't. But often with friends, we debate about movies, 'cause that's what we do. I'll have to explain why I thought Unbreakable was better than Signs and a friend will say why they thought otherwise. It's nothing condescending or forceful, it's just something that comes about when talking about something you love. And I can't help but say something when someone says Kill Bill Vol. 2 was garbage. haha.

conscience

Lost In Translation - it is not boring you unintelligent idiots. you just don't get it.

No seriously, I think everyone should view this film whether that love it or hate it at the end. Everyone gets lost and needs to be found.

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Forrest Gump - yeah, Pulp Fiction was great. Stop with the Academy Awards bullshit. It's just people voting on something - a la a high school election. You can like both - I hate those Tarantino fanboys trashing the film without having seen Gump. It's epic - just a different type of epic compared to Pulp Fiction.

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Groucho

I didn't like Forrest Gump, but my dislike for it has nothing to do with Pulp Fiction.

conscience

Well, of course there's more than one argument.

I just limited it to what I hear almost everytime I mention Forrest Gump - and the whole PF and FG Academy deal is debated forever and always on this very board when an Oscar thread comes up...

Groucho

I know what you mean, conscience. I feel the same why whenever somebody blasts Annie Hall because it beat Star Wars for the Oscar.