5 Modern Movie Classics

[Galleleo]

I still have to watch that movie some time, I am also kind of a fan of Andy Garcia, I think he is excellent.

And yes, he would fall under the white actor category.

[Zeebu]

anything mel gibson touches is solid gold


wait, scratch that. replace gold with poopy

[Jonesy]

By the way, I didn't see the Departed yet, but I watched Infernal Affairs. Did you watch both of them? If so, is the Departed any different from Infernal Affairs, or is it just a remake with different actors?

The ending of Internal Affairs is MUCH better than The Departed's which makes it the better movie. Technically, Scorsese does better in certain aspects of the film... but the overall story in Internal Affairs is eminently more satisfying.


My personal top five 1985 and up, with one 2004+:
1. Full Metal Jacket, 1987
2. Shindler's List, 1993
3. American History X, 1998
4. Untergang, Der (Downfall), 2004
5. Cidade de Deus (City of God), 2000

[Jerome Scuggs]

I'm calling the new Rocky movie to be the ultimate classic ever, BTW.

[Liquid Blue]

Lucky Number Slevin isn't a classic, but it's damn good. Saw it a few days ago.

[Galleleo]

It is lb.

[Scurvy]

i cant believe gen is putting office space over pulp fiction

but so long as we're doing cult films

Pulp Fiction
Monty Python meaning of life
Royal tenenbaums
Triplets of Bellville
Ace Ventura (one)
Big Lebowski
Spaceballs

[Epinephrine]

For this reason, I listed Pulp Fiction (that seems to be my most debated choice.) Before PF, there wasn't a good American movie that used the dialogue to move the story. Sure, plenty of movies before it had good dialogue, but how many relied on the dialogue to keep the viewer invested?

How about Reservoir dogs? Or Clerks (released 8 months before Pulp Fiction)?

On top of that, no movie had played with the idea of time like Pulp Fiction had. Later movies, like Momento and Sin City use variations on a orignal, and unique idea that Tarantino crafted. Never before PF had a movie been that out of order, yet made sense. The dialogue matches up with the story, despite the fact that it is wholly out of order. For that alone, QT should have been given an Oscar. It would have been all too simple to accidentially slip up on the order of events, yet the film is done in such a way that it clearly wasn't edited out of order, but instead created that way.

I guess the movie version of Slaughterhouse Five doesn't count right?



My list:
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Glitter
From Justin to Kelly
Crossroads
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
The Rundown (post-2002)

[Galleleo]

Isn't crossroads the one with Britney Spears?

[Scurvy]

Isn't crossroads the one with Britney Spears?

sigh

[Epinephrine]

LOL real list (making it longer cause I have too many action movies and I didn't want to take them out)


Jurassic Park - Sort of like how the internet existed before Netscape, genetics existed before Jurassic Park. But then again, this movie brought the promise of a future where biology could do anything to everyone. It's hard to imagine how many people seriously started believing in genetic engineering after seeing this movie. Can anyone who saw this movie water vibrate in a glass without thinking of this movie anymore?

Saving Private Ryan - Made all of us civilians realize how bad war truly is for the first time. Other movies before might have shown how bad war was for the characters, but this movie put us right inside it.

The Terminator 2 - First prominent movie with a CG character, and is basically THE movie everyone thinks of when you say 'action movie'. It's hard to imagine any action movie with a more gripping plot, more well placed explosions, awesome gunfights, and badass main characters than this one.

Clerks - In a way was the first really big really, really cheap movie. Set the tone for countless independent movies that came afterwards. Pulp Fiction may have been unique, but it was very fictional. Clerks was fully based in reality, in many of the things discussed, while silly were things that people could see themselves talking about with their friends.

Brazil - So many movies have based things on this movie it's not even funny anymore. Brazil didn't invent all the concepts portrayed in it, but it solidified them into something everyone could understand

Office Space - Need I say more?

Post 2002
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - I'm going to have to agree with everyone here... the entire LOTR series was a masterpiece, but this one topped them all, and considering it had so much to live up to, it did not disappoint. The cumulation of 15 years of CG experience, this movie showed that with imagination absolutely anything was possible (and didn't have to be crap like the Star Wars Prequels).

[genocidal]

Mine wasn't in any particular order. I probably like Toys the best.

[CrvenBan]

On top of that, no movie had played with the idea of time like Pulp Fiction had. Later movies, like Momento and Sin City use variations on a orignal, and unique idea that Tarantino crafted. Never before PF had a movie been that out of order, yet made sense. The dialogue matches up with the story, despite the fact that it is wholly out of order. For that alone, QT should have been given an Oscar.

Macedonian movie from 1994, Before the rain, has same idea of 3 stories, out of order, told in different times, except with movie tag-line being "The circe is not round" the stories actually don't match...
It's more artistic and less dialogue driven pop-culture reference piece, but it is a great cinematic piece.

[Squeezer]

Macedonian movie from 1994, Before the rain, has same idea of 3 stories, out of order, told in different times, except with movie tag-line being "The circe is not round" the stories actually don't match...
It's more artistic and less dialogue driven pop-culture reference piece, but it is a great cinematic piece.

I've seen it. It is rather awesome movie.

But still, the way QT writes....It's modern prose. His dialogue just gives me a boner for some reason.

[Scurvy]

shit, it hit me today, and i cant belive nobody mentioned it---Little Miss Sunshine was amazing, in my opinion. Hilarious--an instant cult classic.

and what about snakes on a plane :fear: