Top ten movies

[JSN]

I thought it was okay but your reasoning makes sense. Your right about the genre because most are too dated to hold up. Too generic. Too corny. I got you i just didn't love it.

I don’t get how a setting can be dated. It’s not like they made western films during the old west and just never stopped. The American frontier with gunslingers, cowboys and Indians is something that is beloved worldwide much like Samurai lore and life in the Roman Republic/Empire.

 

[raty tat tat]

American Werewolf in London
The Incredibles
Enter the Dragon
Aliens
Star Wars: A New Hope
King Kong '33
Tombstone
Raiders of the Lost Ark
30 Days of Night
Animal House

 

[Rimbaud82]

There a lot of great Westerns (some I have just watched recently), and a lot of shit ones. The 'Western' is an extremely broad genre, it has it's own conventions and tropes, but just like any other genre there are good ones and bad ones. Some stick to the tropes, others subvert them to great effect. Dismissing an entire genre as dated is strange to me.

 

[Rimbaud82]

Christ I am amazed how many people list Braveheart, maybe you had to see it when it first came out and be part of the cultural phenomenon or something.

 

[LHWBelt]

I don’t get how a setting can be dated. It’s not like they made western films during the old west and just never stopped. The American frontier with gunslingers, cowboys and Indians is something that is beloved worldwide much like Samurai lore and life in the Roman Republic/Empire.

A setting cant really be dated just most of the ones known as good I've seen are dated for reasons i said. Too much corn and too many of the same generic plots. There are of course exceptions and of course westerns are still being made.

 

[LHWBelt]

Christ I am amazed how many people list Braveheart, maybe you had to see it when it first came out and be part of the cultural phenomenon or something.

That's my favorite movie you ninny. Incredible acting and good battles.

 

[Sir Galahad]

Top Five, which I go back and forth on which one is best -

Saving Private Ryan (1996)
Aliens (1986)
The Dark Knight (2008)
Spider-Man (2002)
Terminator 2 (1991)

Honorable Mentions, which would be between #6-#12 -

Star Wars Ep5 The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
V For Vendetta (2006)
Collateral (2004)
The Departed (2006)
LOTR - Twin Towers (2002)
LOTR - ROTK (Extended Edition) (2003)
Underworld (2003)

No love for Drive? @GearSolidMetal

 

[JSN]

A setting cant really be dated just most of the ones known as good I've seen are dated for reasons i said. Too much corn and too many of the same generic plots. There are of course exceptions and of course westerns are still being made.

Oh gotcha yeah most movie before the 60’s don’t hold up. NCFOM tho... it good.

 

[GearSolidMetal]

No love for Drive? @GearSolidMetal

Haven't seen it.

But, I'll make a note to in the near future.

 

[Rimbaud82]

That's my favorite movie you ninny. Incredible acting and good battles.

Pretty good acting from most (though a truly shite accent from Mel Gibson), but a horrifically inaccurate and one-dimensional plot (and everything else, Pict-style facepaint??) = not a great film to me. The battle scenes are fun, but can't save the film from complete stupidity. I liked it is a kid, but really can't get into it at all now.

 

[LHWBelt]

Pretty good acting from most (though a truly shite accent from Mel Gibson), but a horrifically inaccurate and one-dimensional plot (and everything else, Pict-style facepaint??) = not a great film to me. The battle scenes are fun, but can't save the film from complete stupidity. I liked it is a kid, but really can't get into it at all now.

Yeah i didnt take it as a history lesson so it didnt bother me, i know fuck all about scotland as it is. And honestly mayb they did facepaint maybe they didn't, its not like it'd be the first time people used war paint (see indians). Again i dont give a fuck if they did that didn't add or subtract anything for me. If you dont like the plot you dont like the plot though, i liked it alot. The only thing that kinda took away from it was mel banging the princess. I was fine with him avenging his woman and fine with the princess appreciating that and longing for it but it kinda took something away for me making them get together. Such a minor complaint for me though.


To this day I've never seen someone act better (without words) than when Gibson got betrayed by the bruce. You could feel his defeat and anguish.

 

[LEWIS540]

No country for old men is laughably overrated. Alot of your picks are good though and your arrested development critique is legit.

Using the word overrated is massively overrated.

Boo-hoo, you like something I don't.

 

[Rimbaud82]

Yeah i didnt take it as a history lesson so it didnt bother me, i know fuck all about scotland as it is. And honestly mayb they did facepaint maybe they didn't, its not like it'd be the first time people used war paint (see indians). Again i dont give a fuck if they did that didn't add or subtract anything for me. If you dont like the plot you dont like the plot though, i liked it alot. The only thing that kinda took away from it was mel banging the princess. I was fine with him avenging his woman and fine with the princess appreciating that and longing for it but it kinda took something away for me making them get together. Such a minor complaint for me though.


To this day I've never seen someone act better (without words) than when Gibson got betrayed by the bruce. You could feel his defeat and anguish.

I don't take it as a history lesson, but being that it is supposed to represent real people and real events (on some level, of course you allow for some degree of looseness in a film) the fact that it is woefully inaccuate does seriously detract from the film as a whole. It is supposed to be a depiction of a real period of history. And no, they didn't use facepaint. That is a minor complaint; that was the point though, it was one of many little things which are inaccurate which detract from the film for me (the costumes/kilts, the paint, there being no bridge at the Battle of Stirling Bridge, even the fucking date being wrong - when combined with the complete bullshit that is the portrayal of Wallace, and the plot of the film in general.

Each to their own of course.

 

[LHWBelt]

Using the word overrated is massively overrated.

Boo-hoo, you like something I don't.

This post is overrated.

 

[LEWIS540]

Yeah i didnt take it as a history lesson so it didnt bother me, i know fuck all about scotland as it is. And honestly mayb they did facepaint maybe they didn't, its not like it'd be the first time people used war paint (see indians). Again i dont give a fuck if they did that didn't add or subtract anything for me. If you dont like the plot you dont like the plot though, i liked it alot. The only thing that kinda took away from it was mel banging the princess. I was fine with him avenging his woman and fine with the princess appreciating that and longing for it but it kinda took something away for me making them get together. Such a minor complaint for me though.


To this day I've never seen someone act better (without words) than when Gibson got betrayed by the bruce. You could feel his defeat and anguish.

It's massively overrated.

 

[LHWBelt]

I don't take it as a history lesson, but being that it is supposed to represent real people and real events (on some level, of course you allow for some degree of looseness in a film) the fact that it is woefully inaccuate does seriously detract from the film as a whole. It is supposed to be a depiction of a real period of history. And no, they didn't use facepaint. That is a minor complaint; that was the point though, it was one of many little things which are inaccurate which detract from the film for me (the costumes/kilts, the paint, there being no bridge at the Battle of Stirling Bridge, even the fucking date being wrong - when combined with the complete bullshit that is the portrayal of Wallace, and the plot of the film in general.

Each to their own of course.

Maybe it helps that I'm American and wr didn't learn Scottish history in school?

 

[LHWBelt]

It's massively overrated.

Ur repping the brits on ur av so of course you thought it was overrated. Made you look like some twats.

 

[LEWIS540]

Ur repping the brits on ur av so of course you thought it was overrated. Made you look like some twats.

You understand Scotland is apart of Britain these days, right?

 

[Rimbaud82]

Maybe it helps that I'm American and wr didn't learn Scottish history in school?

I didn't learn this period specifically in school either, but I am sure proximity (and having studied history at uni, though not this period specifically) means I am more sensitive to/easily annoyed by it. But honestly, there is so much wrong with Braveheart. I am sure coming in completely ignorant (don't mean that as an insult) about the country/history means you can enjoy it more, almost as a work of fantasy like Game of Thrones or something.

 

[LHWBelt]

You understand Scotland is apart of Britain these days, right?

Nope im American we dont give a shit bout them soccer loving homos.


On the real though i know it's in the UK but i have a very slight understanding of how the world works. I only kinda get how America works.