1980
Submitted by Kza on Sun, 07/23/2006 - 12:13
Tags:
- The Shining (Stanley Kubrick) [80] [under review]
- Dressed to Kill (Brian DePalma) [80] [under review]
- Atlantic City (Louis Malle) [78] [under review]
- Terror Train (Roger Spottiswoode) [75] [under review]
- The Big Red One (Samuel Fuller) [65] [under review]
- Flash Gordon (Mike Hodges) [62]
- The House on the Edge of the Park (Ruggero Deodato) [61]
- Rude Boy (Jack Hazan & David Mingay) [57]
- Forbidden Zone (Richard Elfman) [52]
- Gloria (John Cassavetes) [40]
- Humanoids from the Deep (Barbara Peeters) [36]
- Seen But Unrated (approximate rating): Mon Oncle d'Amerique (Alain Resnais) [83], Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky) [96], 9 to 5 (Colin Higgins) [66], Inferno (Dario Argento) [69], The Elephant Man (David Lynch) [74], The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner) [84], Airplane! (Jim Abrahams & David Zucker & Jerry Abrahams) [88], Battle Beyond the Stars (Jimmy T. Murakami) [42], Gloria (John Cassavetes) [35], The Blues Brothers (John Landis) [62], Altered States (Ken Russell) [55], Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese) [73], Superman II (Richard Lester) [77], The Stunt Man (Richard Rush) [58], Popeye (Robert Altman) [70], The Ninth Configuration (William Peter Blatty) [50] [wtf, Blatty?]
Author Comments:
Title (Director) [rating]
[under review]: I told myself to get tougher with the ratings this year (2005); these ratings are from 2004 or earlier, and I plan to revisit these films and see if they hold up.
[approximate rating]: Just a guess based on how strongly I feel about these films right now; some of these I haven't seen in 10+ years.
Rating system, adapted from the one used by SteveR:
100-97 = All-time favorite
96-90 = Fantastic; best of the year
89-80 = Remarkable
79-70 = Very Good
69-60 = Good
59-50 = Okay
49-40 = Mediocre
39-30 = Bad
29-20 = Horrible
19-10 = Torture
9-1 = Would end a war if dropped on opposing country
0 = Uwe Boll
I had to amend my 0=Uwe rating after I actually saw 75% of his ouvre, because none of them were THAT bad. They were bad, but not The Worst Movies Ever Made.
Not even House of the Dead?
You know, looking back, I probably shoulda given "HoD" at least an 8, instead of that 10. And, since I don't follow Mike D'Angelo's Strict Rules of Movie Rating&trade I can retroactively do so.
Still can't give it a 0, though. Not sure ANY movie is worthy of that rating. At least none that I've seen.