2000: Movies Sorted By Tier
Submitted by stooky on Tue, 05/18/2004 - 04:20
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- Great
- Before Night Falls
- Chicken Run
- Chocolat
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- Croupier
- Raising The Mammoth (TV)
- Traffic
- Wonder Boys
- You Can Count on Me
- Very Good
- Almost Famous
- Best in Show
- Blood: The Last Vampire (short film)
- The Contender
- Ghost Dog: Way Of The Samurai
- Gladiator
- Hamlet
- The House of Mirth
- Legend of Drunken Master
- Memento
- O Brother, Where Art Thou?
- Requiem for a Dream
- Shadow Of The Vampire
- State and Main
- The Vertical Ray Of The Sun
- **Tran Anh Hung, director of Cyclo & The Scent Of Green Papaya, creates another ravishing film replete with astonishing colors and endless beautiful frames. This could be the first time I've ever thought a roast chicken was gorgeous. The story concerns three sisters, living close to each other in Hanoi, who convene to remember the anniversary of their mother's death. Lien (Tran Nu Yen Khe, an astonishingly beautiful woman), the youngest, lives with her brother while fantasizing about pregnancy and trying to pin down her daft boyfriend. Suong, The eldest, is the owner of a small restaurant and is married to a photographer, Quoc, who has given her a son. The middle sister Khan, married to Kien a writer in the midst of finishing his first novel. During the anniversary celebration memories surface of a mysterious man whom was close to their mother. This sets into motion a film that slowly unravels the strange details of their lives. Hung's first two films are masterpieces and should be watched as soon as possible for their obvious pleasures. Vertical Ray is something else entirely, a movie that unwraps in slow, luscious layers of deceptive insignificance. A sense of calm assurance pervades everything. The exquisite camerawork constantly focussed on the sumptuous tableaux that create a story out of the enigmatic style. The effect is marvel of understatement and emotional elegance...if you can take the leisurely pace.
- Good
- American Psycho
- Billy Elliot
- Boiler Room
- Castaway
- The Cell
- East-West
- Erin Brockovich
- Eyes Wide Shut
- Fantasia 2000
- Final Destination
- Girlfight
- High Fidelity
- In The Mood For Love
- **Wong Kar-Wai creates visually sumptuous films without equal. He seems to understand some unknown formula for creating elegance out of his actors and their environments. This film is probably his best visual effort. Every scene is smothered in incredible reds, yellows and oranges. Yet the film is also a tentative examination of two people driven together by a common bond of adultury. The camera seems intent on focussing just slightly away from the action, I would guess this was meant to convey the secret. But it systematically creates a barrier between the viewer and film. A technically flawless film that's too aloof. "In The Mood..." suffers from the rare fault of being too well made.
- Jesus' Son
- Panic
- Pitch Black
- Snatch
- The Tao Of Steve
- Thirteen Days
- Unbreakable
- Under The Sand
- **Francois Ozon creates another challenging puzzle about a woman who loses her husband, or does she? The film layers each scene with subtext, seperate meanings and mystery. Charlotte Rampling is exquisite in her role of a woman slowly slipping over the edge. Ozon seems a master of this particular brand of thriller, each slowly developed scene betraying the viewer with red herrings that he can't rely on. The film shifts underneath you, nothing remains static. It's a testament to the skill of the film that by the end you're not sure about anything, or about what things mean, yet you don't feel cheated. You know each character and can almost solve the mystery through those means.
- Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
- **Silly, well drawn animated action-horror film. The kind of bouncing men and thin characterizations that pervade the genre are here in spades. Well staged/drawn action scenes keep the movie going. It falls apart when the characters stop to talk, which the do in the most maudlin ways possible. A fun movie that's thinner than a wafer.
- The Virgin Suicides
- Guilty Pleasures
- Bring It On
- The Gift
- Girl On The Bridge
- Quills
- Red Planet
- Waking The Dead
- Way Of The Gun
- Average
- The Big Kahuna
- Boys and Girls
- Cecil B. Demented
- Center Stage
- Charlie's Angels
- The Closet
- Company Man
- Deterrence
- Dinosaur
- The Dish
- The Emperor's New Groove
- The Family Man
- Filth and the Fury
- Finding Forrester
- Frequency
- I'm The One That I Want
- Joe Gould’s Secret
- Keeping the Faith
- Miss Congeniality
- My Dog Skip
- Nurse Betty
- One Day In September
- Pollock
- Return To Me
- Road to El Dorado
- The Rules Of Engagement
- Scary Movie
- Shaft
- Soft Fruit
- Space Cowboys
- Supernova
- Tigerland
- Time Code
- U-571
- What Women Want
- The Whole Nine Yards
- The Wisdom Of Crocodiles
- X-Men
- Disappointing
- All The Pretty Horses
- Armitage III: Polymatrix
- **Sex-obsessed yet wholesome anime of the sci-fi/action variety. The plot is, as per usual, very complicated and not really worth describing. The film is hokey while being very violent, silly while being completely earnest, which makes the entirity a schizophrenic mass of canoodling dorkiness. It was quite bad and I couldn’t wait for the end.
- Black & White
- Bounce
- Cherry Falls
- The Closer You Get
- Coyote Ugly
- Dancer in the Dark
- Drowning Mona
- Dr. Seuss's How The Grinch Stole Christmas
- Gone in 60 Seconds
- Human Traffic
- The Kid
- The Ladies Man
- Little Nicky
- Meet the Parents
- Men Of Honour
- Mission: Impossible II
- Mission To Mars
- The Patriot
- The Perfect Storm
- Price Of Glory
- Reindeer Games
- Remember the Titans
- The Replacements
- Scream 3
- Songs From The Second Floor
- **"The single most boring film ever made" should be the disclamer on the DVD case. I didn't fall asleep once, not even twice, but five...count em, 1,2,3,4,5 times on this movie. And although that helps my fading cold the incredible sleeper hold this movie puts on you is amazing. A random series of 5 minute fragments, consisting of the same characters interacting. Basically the film is 25 small films in one and all concerning the apocalypse. I'll spoil the ending for you and it won't matter. A guy stands among a trash pile with speckled with different sized crucifixes (some 6 feet tall) and in the distance the dead people from his past are stalking up upon him. He cries, looks at the camera and says "Why don't they leave me alone." Doesn't really matter does it...that's because it makes very little sense as does the rest of the movie. This is Led Zeppelin of boring films, so boring it took me two days to get through it and its only 93 minutes long. So boring that I watched it in 6 15 minute incriments and felt sleep tugging at me every second. Wow, what an achievement, its an easy to take cinematic sleeping-pill.
- The Tigger Movie
- Titan A.E. (Has one great scene)
- Under Suspicion
- Vertical Limit
- What Lies Beneath?
- Cellar Dwellers
- The Art Of War
- Beowulf
- The Crimson Code
- Down To You
- Dr. T & The Women
- Dude, Where’s My Car?
- Dungeons And Dragons
- Eye Of The Beholder
- Get Carter
- Hanging Up
- Hollow Man
- Just Looking
- The Legend Of Baggar Vance
- Lost Souls
- Lucky Numbers
- Me, Myself, and Irene
- The Next Best Thing
- The Ninth Gate
- The Nutty Professor II: The Clumps
- One
- Ready To Rumble
- Reindeer Games
- Road Trip
- Screwed
- The Skulls
- Supernova
- The Watcher
- What Planet are You From? (I just remembered I have seen this film. For those people out there who haven't, I have one thing to say, lucky you!)
- The Big Stink
- Battlefield Earth
- Book Of Shadows: The Blair Witch 2
- Camp Blood
- Dracula 2000
- Highlander: Endgame
- Pay It Forward
- Proof Of Life
- Unfortunately Haven’t Seen
- The Color Of Paradise
- The Cup
- Dark Days
- The Dream Of Light
- It All Starts Today
- Love And Basketball
- Pop And Me
- Praise
- Songcatcher
- Sound And Fury
- Things You Can Tell Just By Looking at Her
- A Time For Drunken Horses
- The Wind Will Carry Us
- Winter Sleepers
- Yi Yi: A One And A Two
Cloned From:
Stooky, I like your tier designations. It has a little more heft to it than "Tier One", "Tier Two", etc.
I concur. I'll probably keep my system just out of tradition, but your's is far more interesting.
Now, I'm gonna pretend that I didn't see Dancer in the Dark in a negative tier.
Amen to that! (except about "Dancer in the Dark" which I haven't seen)
I've always wondered what the tiers meant. Jim explained in one list but it's still kinda confusing (in my humble opinion). Anywho, thanks for the positive posts.
One year down, only a 100 left to go.
Anyone want reviews?
Tallyho
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P.S.: What's that on your head Bjork, oh it's your hair. Sorry. Teehee.
You're tempting the Gods of Icelandic music! Beware!
I'm sorry. I couldn't resist.
Tallyho
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Yeah, my tiers gotta go. I should just break down and do year-based lists like everybody else. With so many movies in the world, it's the only way to break 'em down sufficiently.
Great list! Man, you do watch a ton of movies. Looking forward to you posting the other 100 lists. So is this how you've chosen to tackle the "all the movies I've ever seen list"?
Just my opinion on the tiers. It's the opinion of a silly man at that.
Yes, this is how I will tackle the all the movies. As you can see I've probably seen too darn many movies and I didn't want any of them to get lost. So I figure if I do it by year I can catch the stray films I wouldn't remember otherwise.
Can you ever watch too many movies?
Tallyho
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Not One Less listed under "Fortunately Haven't Seen"?! You're just trying to provoke me, aren't you?
As long as I'm tackling that section of the list, I'm surprised to see Shanghai Noon listed there, when you've got Drunken Master listed so high. Granted, Chan's Hong Kong work and American work are practically different genres, and the kung fu is toned down several notches, but I found the comic pairing of Chan and Wilson to work very well.
But just so it's not all grousing, I have to say this list would look amazingly similar to my version, were I to clone it. I've seen most of the movies from "Good" on up, and I'd only quibble with a couple. I've actually seen a good chunk of the movies in the lower tiers too, and can't find much to disagree with there either. Great stuff!
Okay, okay, I love Yimou as much as the next film-lover. But I'm just not interested, the story sounds okay and all, but nope. If I ever see it on tv sometime I'll give it a watch, but until that day I'll just have to leave it right there.
As for Shanghai Noon I have seen about an hour of this film and let me tell you. Not a moment wasn't painful, it's probably the only film I'd turned off since I tried to watch X-tro.
I've definately started tightening up what I watch lately. I applaud your watching skills and feel a kindred pain on the lower entries. Which ones are the quibbler's?
Check out the earlier ones since I'm working backward to the 90's.
Tallyho
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The more I look at this list the more I like the way it's structured. One of these days, in the distant future, when I have a bazillion hours on my hands, I'm going to have to restructure to use this format.
The quibblers, starting with "ranked too high": Shadow of a Vampire and Red Planet. As for "ranked too low": Panic, X-men, Mission Impossible II (recognizing I'm the only person on the planet that liked it) and One Day in September.
Thanks.
I thought the first one would be Waking The Dead, a wishy washy lost wife film that I can't help liking.
Shadow Of A Vampire, The conceit of the film made me happy and I loved Dafoe parading creepily around sucking on screen-writers and extras, funny as heck. The inside jokes are hilarious, the scares are real and it's got a great ending.
Red Planet, well, I've been avoiding re-watching it to maintain the summer glow I have for this film.
Panic, loved it till about the hour mark.
X-Men, actually I found it pretty boring.
One Day In September, like dragging my butt across hot coals. Well made though.
You liked Mission Impossible II! Why man why?
Tallyho
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Waking the Dead is one of the eight from the top three tiers that I haven't seen.
I was totally psyched by the premise and the cast of Shadow of the Vampire, but then felt very let down. Mostly by the pacing, lack of tension, and inside jokes that flew over my head.
Definitely keep Red Planet on ice. It's one of only six that I've really worked up a good panning for.
Funny thing about One Day in September: I found it to be NOT particularly well-made, but the subject matter was compelling enough to cover come that with room to spare.
Finally, I can't remember why I liked MI2. My review, written four years ago when I could only put two sentences together instead of five or six, is not much help.
Don't rush to watch Waking, since although I realize it's bad, it's the kind of bad that makes me all giddy.
I can understand the six, And I am not going to watch Red Planet anytime soon.
The MI2 review is very vague. Did you see it in the theatre by any chance?
I've fallen behind on my reviews and since I probably won't be writing one anytime soon, I've seen The Last Samurai and Grave Of Fireflies As well as some of Samurai Jack.
I'll do another year later.
Tallyho
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Saw MI2 at home, so don't even have the shock -and-awe excuse of 20-foot-high Tom Cruise doing kung fu in Dolby Surround. I guess I just was still buying into the Woo choreographed ballet of violence thing, although I recognize now he's been on a downhill slide for quite some time.
Can I wheedle a Grave of the Fireflies review out of you?
By the way, thanks for finally pushing me over the edge into a year-based format. Much less unwieldy (can one say "much more wieldy"?). I'm going to tackle years as I watch movies from those years, maybe throwing in an extra year from time to time. My lists will be pretty incomplete for a long time though, as I'm going to start with those movies I've reviewed, and I've only been writing 'em for a couple years now.
I actually saw it in the theatre, and yes Tom's head that big can be a tad shocking.
I have the fortune/misfortune of seeing Hard Boiled and The Killer when I was but a young 15 year old. The massively sexy mixture of violence and melodrama had a big effect on me. But later when I saw such movies as Broken Arrow and MI2 I felt let down. Face/Off was good however.
You may perchance wheedle such a review, it will be about a week from now though.
I like it, I like it a lot. For a cheat on 1996-2003 movies visit infoplease it's pretty good and provides links to the ones you think you haven't seen but you read the plot and realize, yes I have seen this horrible piece of...
Tallyho
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sniffle...I liked Blair Witch 2. I think I'm the only person on the face of the earth that did. Why did I like it? Hmm...thinking...I guess the only reason I liked it was 'cause you could play a game on the dvd after it was over, and the game was scarier than the movie. The game was neat-o.
That's very interesting...so you would reccomend the game and maybe the movie? Sad to say but I've never played said game. That movie cost 4.00 and I was so darn unsatisfied with the movie I returned it. If it's any consolation I enjoyed the trailer...good trailer.
Tallyho
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My only comment for this year is that I couldn't see what all the fuss was about re Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
I've heard this before but I'm not sure what about the film wasn't astonishing. It was incredible to see people beautifully flying about and dueling. At that point in time nothing could match it visually and it had a engaging love story as well.
T'ho
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While I suspect I liked the movie more than you, I think your In the Mood for Love comments are spot on. So does this mean you're not looking forward to the sequel (2046)?
I don't understand why I didn't like it, I usually enjoy such efforts. I must have not been in the mood for love. :?) If you prodded me though, I would have to say it was because I was sleepy and grumpy whilst watching. Anyway, I could be if Wai would make a bloody film or too. He's turning into the Hong Kong Stanley Kubrick.
Have you seen Happy Together?
T'ho
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Funny, my IMDb search yielded this before this. But no, I haven't seen it. I should, I assume?
If ever in the future I reccomend a film with spies and lost nuclear warheads, please feel free to cancel the stooky-listology connection. Ha!
Yes U should, an excellent, sweet film. Yet there is mucho gay content, so if small tinges of fear-of-ass-and-ass-likers abound maybe it should be steared away from. Not that I think that's a problem...but...I've got a story.
When I was 16 I reccomended to my brother and his erstwhile friend (semi-confused lackey...he wore lots of tight white pants and frilly shirts) to watch Rocky Horror Picture Show. Well they watched it until Frankenfurter burst from the elevator singing "Sweet Transvestite" (one of my favorite moments in cinema). There was an audible guteral moan, that the shredding cry of "What the fuck?". I'm thinking I left a scar. Anyway, they turned it off and ran away. He didn't trust my recs for about 3 years.
T'ho
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Ah, Rocky Horror, another movie I've never seen.
WUT! Get thee to Netflix! :?O <---stook stunned by unanticipated answer
Wagging fingers abounding
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Is there really even a snowball's chance in hell I'm going to like it if I watch it at home, alone, and stone cold sober at 9:00 PM?
YES! That would be the perfect time. As for the lack of liquor, I'm saying you could use a couple of glasses of good wine to appreciate the sub-levels of such a gnarly treat. But I'm sure you'll like it, invite your wife, several open-minded buds, beer, crawdads even, instant party.
Dammit Janet!
The Time Warp
Sweet Transvestite
Whatever Happened to Saturday Night
Hot Patootie (Bless My Soul)
Meat Loaf on a motorcycle.
Tim Curry in the nastiest pair of stileteos I've seen, there are stone cold models who couldn't strut on those.
An ode to King Kong.
Rocky's skimpy golden bathing trunks.
Susan Sarandon.
It's a seductively man-lovey, slutty, corny, Habitually silly mustardpiece so unbelievably terrible you can't help but love it. Dude.
T'ho
":?O <---sweating out of breath stook
Welllll... Maaaaybe.... I'm unconvinced. Anybody else?
Susan Sarandon was hot once? I was so surprised!
Certainly a 'silly' film, but I had a good time.
And, they probably intended this, but Brad's character is as bland as the entire cast of Starship Troopers.
Yes but Paul Verhovenator meant them to be bland too. Possible connection?
T'ho
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PS. C'mon J, you only live once, well as a person anyway if you believe the Buddhists. Enjoy it whilst you can.
Yes, and did he ever give a reason for that to anyone? I think that's a terrible choice in ANY conceivable filmic situation.
HE DID! I think it was movieline that published an interview with the always quixotic PV. He said (this is paraphrasing) he envisioned the future as a kinder gentler third reich. Where every decision has been formed by public conscience and genetic gimmickery has made everyone beautiful and extremely bland. Apparently his personal vision of hell. (His real life story should explain that one, it's wild too) He later went on to say he saw the bugs as the true heroes of the movie and the humans as calculating invaders. Weird guy...but I can see his point.
T'ho
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ACTUALLY, that's not bad, and quite possible. I wish he would've hinted at that during the actual film somewhere. That reasoning and Robocop keep Verhoven from my 'much-hated directors' list.
I like Soldier Of Orange as well, but I agree with your point.
T'ho
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I'm not a big Rocky Horror fan, but it is just a film that should be seen, love it, hate it, or indifferent to it.
I feel vindicated.
:?)
Emperor's New Groove is 'average'? Curses!
Also, thank you for alerting me to Songs from the Second Floor. Though, buying that would be cheaper than a lifetime of sleeping pills (I'm kind of an insomniac)...
Emporer's New Groove, funny but thin.
No problem, but doesn't it make you wonder...'how boring is this sucker'.
Yes but what a price for a lifetime's sleep...and would you start to like it just because of the aid it was performing?
T'ho
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Wow, how can you pan Songs from the Second Floor so hard and still have it two floors up from your bottom floor? Is it some kind of play on the title that kept it out of the cellar (or the big stinking sub-basement)?
Yes! It is on the "second floor", that's very astute of you J. I had to get some kind of fun out this movie and that was my little post wrap-up party if you will.
But to be honest, it was kind of...lovably boring in it's first 15 minutes.
Yet it's fullfilled a purpose...in years to come, people will ask "what's the most boring film you've ever seen?" and I won't even have to think about it.
T'ho
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Stook, I have to ask. Did Mick Martin and Marsha Porter lead you to the Second Floor?
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
No. Did they like it? Did the scary people actually recommend this movie. If so, I'm kinda happy...the sadist in me wants to inflict this film on other people.
Please write out the review and star rating, I don't wanna have to hunt up my 2003 copy. It's not in my 2002 Video Movie Guide edition.
T'ho
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I believe they gave the film a five out of five star rating.
I will have to check when I get home. I am not sure I will be able to type up the review; my computer time at home has been rather scarce lately. We shall see...
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Ha! 5 outta 5. There ya go, it's a masterpiece. ,?)
Thanks fer trying <----later
T'ho
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PS: Does that mean you're listoligying at work. :?O
Ah, a few free minutes before the debates...
"Songs From the Second Floor ***** In this bitterly funny surrealist movie, a modern city begins to crumble as its residents lose their grip on civilization. The film unfolds as a series of loosely related tableaux filmed by a static camera. As we eventually realize, the real events are happening in the background - like Ingmar Bergman remade by Monty Python. This is a unique film that rewards with repeated viewings."
Feel like being rewarded?
I'm sure you'll be hitting play again real soon. ;)
I must confess, your dislike, their love, and the idea of a Bergman film remade by Monty Python does perk my interest...
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
It takes all kinds to float this silly boat called humanity. Have a crack at'er LB and then share your thoughts.
Then again, they gave "Paperboy" a 5*...I feel vindicated already.
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Wow, are you sure? The only Paperboy I find has 2 1/2 stars.
They did give both of the Star Wars prequel five stars, so your point still stands...
Still, when the guide errs, it tends to over-rate the popcorn, crowd-pleasing movies, so this still intrigues me a bit. I will see if I can scare up a copy.
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Arg, I'm getting it mixed up with Blockbuster Video Guide, same rating system, same size of book, same basic weird funk. They have a proclivity for horror films.
Ha, Star Wars II, A 5 star...Vindicated for sure now.
Get yer freak on (and later, bring a pillow when watching) dude.
T'ho
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I get SO jealous every time I look at your "sorted by tier" lists because you've seen SO many movies that it will literally take me a lifetime to see. Then I see the 40+ movies in your cellar dwellers and below categories and I don't feel quite so bad.
But, I have two questions for you:
1. Why have you seen so many terrible movies? Of course, there are a number of reasons why I end up seeing so many terrible movies that I know will be terrible in advance - I'd just like to hear your own thoughts.
2. At this point, what methods are you using to decide what to watch next or to add to your "to see" list (besides new movies that are released)?
I know I know I know. I don't regret those thousands of bad movies though, they were...character building. :?)
1) I used to live in a town with 1100 residents for about 22 years and renting movies was a way not to be partying, drinking and smoking copious amounts of pot (a ritual passtime in the area). We had 5 video stores over that period of time, all heinously understocked and carrying a large amount of dreck. The saving grace being the cheapness of a rental, about 65 cents at the earliest places and you could get bulk bargains. The closest place outside of Lac la Hache was another small town called 100 Mile House that had a great video store called A&B Sound...the problem being I could only rent from it 1 time a week and only enough movies for 1 day. Effectively many a bad movie passed the VCR.
What you must remember is that during the lat 80's & early 90's there wasn't any Metacritic, Rotten Tomotoes, no Netflix or Zip.ca. To make matters worse there were very few available guides on criticism. You basically rented what looked good, for example: Highlander, Lethal Weapon, etc. and I lambasted myself with some seriously stank movies.
By the late 90's I could rent pretty well what I wanted but there was no real way of getting foreign movies other than order them for 20 bucks a piece. I was so happy when the new millenium rolled around I could've danced the can-can in front of some randy country women. Another thing that helped a lot was getting satellite.
In the midst of all that I've seen a lot of dreck to simply pass the time. As it stands, at this point in time, you don't actually ever have to see a sucky movie. :?)
2) When I was 12 I started a ledger of every movie review of any film that possibly got reviewed well, later I confined it to critical books and lists. Anywho at this point in time my gigantic file looks something like this...
Bride Of Frankenstein, The (1935)
1001: A Video Odyssey/ 365 Four Star Videos/ 500 Great Films/ A-List 100/ Alt. Rock 101: Cool Movies/ BBC 100/ Book Of Video Lists/ Boston Herald 100/ Chicago Reader 100/ Combustible Celluloid/ Empire 50 Horror/ EW’s Guide To Great Movies/ EW’s Guide To Great Movies/ Facets Movie Lover’s Video Guide/ Film Four 100/ Filmsite 100/ Guiness Book of Film/ John Kobal’s 100/ Phobos Science-Fiction 50/ Premiere: MDF/ RS Maverick 100/ sfbg 100/ TV Guide 50/ Video Detective Top 1000/ Video Movies: A Core Collection/ Village Voice 100/ Wordsworth Book Of Movie Classics/ AMG 5/ BB 4.5/ Cinebooks 5/ Creature Features 5/ Ebert 5/ Elliot 5/ Halliwell 5/ Horror: Video Tapes And Discs 5/ The Horror Film 5/ LM 5/ Movies On TV 5/ Seen That Now What? 5/ Terror On Tape 5/ Time Out 5/ TLA 5/ Variety 4.5/ VH 5/ VH DVD 4/ VMG 5/ Video Movies to Go 4
generally I just take my time and search out the films on the list, any current movies can be judged by Metacritic or Rotten Tomatoes.
Yet I've attained a kinda suck movie radar, show me a preview and I can spot a bad flick from 20 paces. :?)
T'ho
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Ah, very interesting! I should count myself lucky to have grown into... cinephelia? in an age where film criticism is easy to come by.
I have to admit I'm slightly jealous of today's whipper-snapping little cinema-philes. :?)
I'll bet... just look at AJ!
Not that I don't qualify as a whipper-snapper...