2000: Movies I've Seen
Submitted by AJDaGreat on Fri, 03/07/2003 - 07:23
Tags:
A
- Amores Perros
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- Memento
- Requiem for a Dream
A-
- Dark Days
- Panic
- Wonder Boys
- Yi Yi
- You Can Count on Me
B+
- George Washington
- High Fidelity
- Snatch
B
- Almost Famous
- American Psycho
- In the Mood for Love
- Things You Can Tell Just By Looking at Her
- Traffic
- Werckmeister Harmonies
B-
- Best in Show
- Chicken Run
- The Emperor's New Groove
- Frequency
- Gladiator
- State and Main
C+
- Bicentennial Man
- Dancer in the Dark
- The Dish
- Eureka
- Keeping the Faith
- Legend of Drunken Master
- Timecode
- The Whole Nine Yards
C
- Bread and Roses
- My Dog Skip (to be honest, I barely remember this movie, so I've given it the middle ground just to be safe)
- Road to El Dorado
C-
- Company Man
- Laughter on the 23rd Floor
- Scary Movie
- Shanghai Noon
D+
- Bring It On (although might be higher just as a guilty pleasure)
- Charlie's Angels (see above)
- Miss Congeniality
- Space Cowboys
D
- Boys and Girls
- The Crew
- The Family Man
- Me, Myself, and Irene
- Psycho Beach Party
- Remember the Titans
- The Replacements (If you will dare [to be a scab], I will dare)
D-
- Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle
- Big Momma's House
- Dr. Seuss's How The Grinch Stole Christmas
- Drowning Mona
- Little Nicky
- Meet the Parents
- Mission: Impossible II
- Screwed
- Small Time Crooks
- What Women Want
- What Planet are You From?
F
- Gone in 60 Seconds
- Hanging Up
- The Kid (the Disney movie with Bruce Willis, not the Charlie Chaplin movie)
- The Next Best Thing
- The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
Should See
- Billy Elliot
Author Comments:
Way back in the day, this was the first "Movies I've Seen" list I ever made. You know, when there were only five tiers, simply called "Tier One" through "Tier Five." Ah, those were simpler times.
On making this list, I remembered some movies that I wish I had forgotten. Why did I see these movies?
C+ or higher = all movies I liked to some degree and would probably recommend
C = average
C- or lower = all movies I disliked to some degree and would probably not recommend
Cloned From:
Frequency? Dennis Quaid Frequency? Top Tier?
Tallyho
:?)
Yeah, I did really like that movie, honestly. And while maybe it deserves a second tier placing, I decided to put an unknown (well, more unknown than most of these movies) gem in the top tier for emphasis.
Meet The Parents..Abominably Terrible??? what movie were you watching??!! lol but seriously what was so bad about meet the parents?
What I'd like to ask is what movie the critics were watching. The critical acclaim for this film really, really baffled me. Here's an idea: let's cast Ben Stiller as a guy who gets into embarrassing situations. Let's make these situations sorta funny at first, then let's take it to a point that crosses the line and just becomes cruel, tasteless, and sadistic. I mean, really. Did you laugh when Ben Stiller hits the volleyball on the sister's face and blood starts spilling into the pool? Did you laugh when Ben Stiller sets the altar on fire, and the sister cries for the 47th time in the film? Did you laugh when the cat destroys every item they were going to use in the wedding, and everyone cries again? I didn't. And it made absolutely no sense for De Niro to forgive Stiller after all this. With all that Ben Stiller had done, I don't think it's an issue of De Niro always hating his daughters' boyfriends; I think De Niro was perfectly reasonable to hate him. You can argue that it wasn't that bad, that the performances and chemistry were good, that some of the dialogue was funny, etc., and I wouldn't disagree with those statements, but I think a movie has seriously miscalculated when it's trying to make me laugh and it just makes me feel embarrassed for the characters. And it's kinda sad when a movie's best joke is that its main character's last name is almost a curse word.
well, hhmmm, i'm probably not the best man to counter argue this, mainly due to the fact that i was laughing as i read the situations :) but yes, you have a point here. to make De Niro's character out to be the unreasonable one is a bit over the top and kind of demeans the audience. i do think though that it was done with a good intention. it's not like Ben Stiller arrived and just started breaking things :-) it came out of his nervousness and attempt to impress, pier pressure. it's not like a crazy comedy where it all happened for no reason, though i guess there are elements of that. so i agree that some of it was OTT but i think it was done well and not just for no reason. but hey, i'm probably wrong :)--/-<
But it is like Ben Stiller arrived and just started breaking things. How long was it before he broke the urn with the ashes in it? And then he didn't stop breaking things until the end of the film! It got pretty tiresome in my eyes, and as I said before, also very cringe-inducing. I realize there's a reason for this, but Stiller's good-naturedness just made me all the more embarrassed for him. I dunno, I certainly don't think you're wrong to laugh at the situations, but maybe I'm just more sensitive than the average moviegoer.