Biggest TV disappointment ever

[AlanD]

Hmm ... imagine some icons in the above posting that dissapeared after a spellcheck!! ;o)

 

[Bellow]

Some films are good, some films are bad, most are unremarkable.
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Spot on Stratman - just as books, music, cars, etc, etc, vary in content and quality, so do movies....

I recognise some of those - more the sort of films I do enjoy. Bit left field, bit art house - more thought provoking than the usual Hollywood stuff which doesn't do it for me.

Saw Avatar the other day, for example - I will never get those hours back.......

...so it's just a case of finding what suits, sitting back and enjoying!

LS - you are closer than you think!

Also worth considering is that movies of the type under discussion here can be layered in a way that every subsequent viewing reveals more detail, which as well as enriching them, makes them re-watchable. I will never tire of Pan's Labyrinth.

 

[MOCAŠ]

I thought it was going to be about a 70" 3D television that turned out to be rubbish!

I thought it was going to be about a bad experience with a cross-dresser...

 

[AlanD]

Also worth considering is that movies of the type under discussion here can be layered in a way that every subsequent viewing reveals more detail, which as well as enriching them, makes them re-watchable. I will never tire of Pan's Labyrinth.

Good point - probably the reason I listed most of the ones that I did, they stand up to watching over and over and every time you find new little gems within!

 

[Bellow]

I thought it was going to be about a bad experience with a cross-dresser...

Trannie - TV and radio...

 

[gIzzE]

Good films are some of the best experiences in life, the way they move you, whether they make you laugh or cry is something rather special and they can do it in a way even books struggle with, however, most films are complete dross!

Anything by the Cohen Brothers, Fargo, No Country For Old Men, True Grit, Burn After Reading, O Brother, Where Art Thou? and the remake of The Ladykillers.
All great films.

Anything from Studio Ghibli, just makes you feel like a kid again.

Toy Story, not met anyone who doesn't love those films, apart from people who haven't seen them!


Guillermo del Toro, a genius, a filmaker who just gets it right, if he only made Pan's Labyrinth and no other film he would still be a god.

Then there is Richard Curtis, Notting Hill, Love Actually, The Boat That Rocked, four Weddings, British humour at its very best.

And loads of the foreign films like Run Lola Run, or my favourite film of all time City Of God, to deny yourself those is to deny yourself so much.

Just need to sort out the 95% that are crap, and I can understand if you can't be bothered.

 

[Deleted member 6183]

I love TV.

Nothing gets me off to sleep faster.

 

[Deleted member 37751]

or my favourite film of all time City Of God, to deny yourself those is to deny yourself so much.

Absolute quality ^^ In my Top 5 films of all time along with The Godfather 2, Cool Hand Luke, Dumb & Dumber and Fist Of Fury

 

[219]

Some films are good, some films are bad, most are unremarkable.

It all comes down to post production .

Skilful editing is what turns a good film into a great film ,

a mediocre film into a watchable film ,



and a bad film into a short film .

 

[AlanD]

OK .. I've started, so ...

Horror:
The Shining
The Silence of the Lambs
The Sixth Sense
The Wicker Man
Bad Taste
The Thing
The Exorcist
Let the Right One In
Ghostbusters
Scream
American Physco
The Ring
Audition
Se7en
Final Destination
Saw
The Others
Angel Heart
Halloween
Rec

 

[AlanD]

Sci-Fi:
Blade Runner
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
The Matrix
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
Alien
2001: A Space Odyssey
Twelve Monkeys
E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial
Inception
Total Recall
Contact
The Fifth Element
I, Robot

 

[AlanD]

Drama:
The Shawshank Redemption
Schindler's List
City of God
Stand By Me
The Green Mile
Slumdog Millionaire
Fargo
Forest Gump
American Beauty
La Haine
American History X
Amelie
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Cool Hand Luke
The Graduate
Network
Apollo 13
Walk the Line
Rain Man
Eyes Wide Shut
The Orphanage
Lars and the Real Girl

 

[AlanD]

Comedy:
Monty Python's Life of Brian
In Bruges
A Fish Called Wanda
Trainspotting
American Pie
Borat
Dumb and Dumber
Superbad
Stir Crazy
Shaun of the Dead
This is Spinal Tap
Ferris Bueller's Day Off

 

[AlanD]

Westerns:
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Once Upon a Time in the West
Unforgiven
For a Few Dollars More
The Magnificent Seven
High Noon
The Shootist

 

[AlanD]

Fantasy:
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Pan's Labyrinth
Batman Begins
Kick-Ass
Sleepy Hollow
The Golden Compass

 

[AlanD]

Thriller:
Pulp Fiction
Casino
Memento
Blue Velvet
V for Vendetta
The Godfather
Inception
Goodfellas
Fight Club
The Usual Suspects
Leon
Children of Men
Taxi Driver
Sin City
Oldboy
Die Hard
Heat
No Country for Old Men
Mission: Impossible
The Departed
The Italian Job
Gone in Sixty Seconds
The General
Gangs of New York

 

[AlanD]

War:
Apocalypse Now
Saving Private Ryan
Inglorious Basterds
Downfall
The Deer Hunter
Platoon
Good Morning, Vietnam
Salvador
Black Hawk Down
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Full Metal Jacket
The Killing Fields
Das Boot
Where Eagles Dare

 

[AlanD]

Epics:
Gladiator
Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark
King Kong
Titanic
Independance Day
The Day After Tomorrow
Armageddon
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Chariots of Fire

 

[AlanD]

'80s films you love to hate/hate to love!:
Top Gun
The Karate Kid
The Lost Boys
Crocodile Dundee
Rambo
Rocky
Lethal Weapon
Beverly Hills Cop
Back to the Future
The Breakfast Club
War Games
Fatal Attraction

 

[AlanD]

A handful of my favourite directors:
David Lynch
Peter Jackson
David Cronenberg
Francis Ford Coppola
Coen Brothers
Stanley Kubrick
Quentin Tarrantino
John Carpenter