What Happened to Great Movies?

The best comedy I have seen in a long time...was "Bedazzled"

 

AND,

of course - "A Few Good Men " - - YOU CANT HANDLE THE TRUTH

"Top Gun" -- I HAVE A NEED, A NEED FOR SPEED.

 

I agree Wrye, some powerful movies didn't need dialog, like Hell in the Pacific with Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune. I never outgrew the creature feature and gory exploding head movies, while they aren't great art, if you have to get up and take a leak you don't have to hurry back because you are afraid of missing anything, so you only saw 17 exploding heads instead of 18 most likely you will never miss what you didn't see. Which reminds me of Saw, the first one, I think was interesting because it actually had some plot, the sequels and prequels were ordinary hollywood trash.

 

We were shown "Sands of Iwo Jima" in boot camp as part of the brainwashing. Still brainwashed.

 

The Encounter Excellent!

The Passion of the Christ (Good movie for Easter week by the way)
[video=youtube;MNPoxmwLC1c]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNPoxmwLC1c[/video]

The Book of Eli (excellent!)

The Mission Impossible series

The Indian Jones series of movies

The 1st couple movies of Star Wars

The James Bond series of movies

The Born series

For kids, but decent for adults too:

Cars (the 1st one)

Toy Story I and II

I'll think of more later

 

can anyone of my generation forget...Easy Rider...and Animal House..there are so many tastes for classic movies..we all can enjoy good ones and bad ones are like a sleeping pill

 

True! Animal House is a great "classic" as is American Graffiti.

 

How about Seven Brides for Seven Brothers"

(all filipina's of course )

 

After I started downloading movies, I learned out of 100 movies there are may 2 that are really good.
I use imdb and amazon to look at the ratings but even that is not that helpful. Imdb has a list of 250 of the greatest with another list broken down somewhat by type of movie. It's really a matter of individual taste in what is good or bad. Ebert's site over rates most movies. But I am happy that after years of seeing movie rates go up to around $10 a pop that It no longer am getting ripped of on mostly bad movies.

 

True. I've found the only way to get get an "accurate and honest review" is to find a reviewer that has the same tastes in movies as me which is not an easy task.