Alrighty... here goes an hour of my life: EDITED: 1977 Star Wars
1978 The Deer Hunter
1979 Apocalypse Now
1980 Empire Strikes Back
1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982 First Blood (Rambo)
1983 Return of the Jedi
1984 Red Dawn
1985 Fletch
1986 Ferris Buelller's Day Off
1987: Raising Arizona
1988 Blood Sport
1989 Batman
1990: Millers Crossing
1991 Barton Fink
1992 Twin Peaks -Fire Walk With Me
1993 Fearless
1994 Immortal Beloved
1995 Billy Madison
1996 Kingpin
1997 Good Will Hunting
1998: The Big Lebowski
1999 American Beauty
2000 O Brother, Where Art Thou
2001 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2002 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2003 The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
2004 Mystic River
2005 Batman Begins
2006 Casino Royale
2007 No Country For Old Men
2008 The Wrestler
2009 The Hangover
2010 The Fighter
2011 Midnight in Paris
2012 The Hobbit bgood79 -You're up.
I love that movie, and own it. Found it for $3 on DVD like 10 years ago... can you believe a classic like that was in a bargain bin for $3? The nerve! I made my fiancee watch this the other night. I prefaced it with "This is what Charlie Sheen looked like when he was 12". She wasn't impressed with the movie nearly as much as I am. Great movie. Wolverines forever.1984 Red Dawn
Take a moment and check out this old post: http://hubski.com/pub?id=6843 Some great conversation about the movie Red Dawn. I think when we implemented badges, the first thing I went back and badged was kleinbl00's comment there. Great stuff.
Absolutely. I love the Coen brothers and celebrate their entire catalog.
Do you have any idea how long it took me to do this? I saw 2001 to 2003 as a way to jump the line by about 15 minutes.
Boring? How in the world could you think the movies were boring? Especially given the time they were released. Do you recall seeing the new Star Wars movies? Seeing the Lord of the rings was such a breath of fresh air. Did you read the books?
Also, I'm going to defend SW eps 2 and 3. Ep 1 was so bad that it soured the other two for a lot of people. But if you can look past Hayden Christensen's acting, they are cool stories, plot holes and all. The first time you hear the Dark Side music (they just tease it a little) you get chills. It was awesome.
You can bypass episode 1 entirely if you watch them via THE MACHETE ORDER. I've yet to check it out.
I don't think we could disagree more about movies. I loved LotR and thought every Star Wars prequel was uniformly awful and boring. It's not even Hayden Christensen's acting. He's perfectly fine, really. A bit wooden but he did all he could with the writing he was given. They spend the whole movie telling us what a great guy Anakin is and how he and Obi-Wan are best pals and how much Padme loves him, and meanwhile he is nothing but a selfish, violent, whiny prick to everyone the whole time with nothing redeeming about the character at all, in an ostensibly character-driven plot about him. And they cap it all off with boring CGI video game cutscenes of battles that mean nothing and utterly break all the characterization in favor of flips. It's amazing that Lucas somehow made lightsabers boring.
You're exactly right. He's actually quite a good actor (check out Life as a House for example). And even if you take hime out of the equation - let's see, if you could assemble a dream team of actors from the late 90s, in my book it would include Samuel L. Jackson, Liam Neeson, Natalie Portman, and Ewan McGregor would be at the top of the list. Leave it to George Lucas to take what could somehow be one of the great ensemble casts and make it into an embarassment for anyone involved. Sure - I'll admit to being entertained at times. But as a whole? Considering the budget, the visual effects, the sound engineering, the costume design, and the star power, and did I mention BLOODY FRIGGIN LIGHTSABERS-- you might think you'd have a film for the ages. but instead we got the phantom menace. So it isn't Hayden, or any other member of the cast to blame. With sub par writing and nonexistant direction - all of that other stuff is just cool stuff crammed together on a screen. It's sad really.It's not even Hayden Christensen's acting. He's perfectly fine, really. A bit wooden but he did all he could with the writing he was given.