BOONDOCK SAINTS ISIT

Indeed it is

I saw it last night!
And the night before =(

good but very overrated.

I'll second that.

the cat on the wall and the 6-shot revolver are classics though :)

Goodfellas
Heat

...call me DeNiro-fanboy ;)

goodfellas was crap

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390336/

tell me youve seen overnight.


massive eye opener on the whole hollywood thing. intresting as fook. watch it now EVERYONE!

i think its a fair movie, nothing special at all though. My personal "can watch it over and over" favorit is The Hustler
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054997/

Poolhall Junkies is pretty cool too :]

"I just paid $5000 for your shot, now it's mine"

ownt?

HUSTLER. T-shirt is the most ownt.

it's a very clichè movie, but I like it ;]

http://angeleyes.istheshit.net
http://tuco.istheshit.net

You see, in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig.

where is blondie?

HEY BLONDIE! U KNOW WHAT U ARE? UR A STINKIN SON OF A AE OAEOAEOAOEAOEAEOOOOOOOO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Leon
;(

Leon is a fantastic film that didnt get the acclaim when released, but is just starting to get the recognition it deserves, all be it, years after release. The shawshank Redemption was much the same, no one thought it that good on release, but its considered a classic movie now...

Of 2005 though? tough one, but I really enjoyed The Island and Batman, maybe im becomming a mainstream film lover, god help me O.o

oldboy owns all of them

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364569/

http://www.zindathefilm.com/

oh no a remake : /

bollywood AHHAHAHAAHHA u have to be fucking kidding. he looks like a gay indian version of the dude from painkiller (not vo0)

ye loved that one; but A clockwork orange aswell <3

Trainspotting my fav

shitmovie tbh

Shawshank Redemption
The Usual Suspects

amen.

ding

wtf is ding?

DING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DINGDINGDINGDING CORRECT ANSWER!

oooh.
\o/

Your latin seriously sucks.

was cool when i watched it with some friends at age 13 :D

doubt it would have the same "cool" impact on me now ;)

cute!

<3

*bisous*

Get Quaked 3.

memento

horrifyingly overrated imo

one of the best movies I've ever seen (I don't claim to have seen alot of movies, but still..), the story is build up in a way it's just fantastic to watch and think what happened for real or what is just imagination/different point of view. beats so many movies with maybe a good editing/sfx but a serious lack of inspiration and creativity

its not so good a watch the second time tho...

and its overrated..just some guy who jumped on the train of films-that-have-main-characters-with-serious-psychological-issues
but-the-audience-only-gets-to-know-the-whole-story.in-the-last-5-minutes...

.. as opposed ot the usual guy-has-300-ps-car-and-saves-the-hot-latino-chick-while-shooting-mad-amounts-of-gangsters movie where you know the outcome after like 30secs.. of the trailer. also you can't expect to watch a movie that tells the story backwarts a second time and enjoy it like the first time :) . I still think it's an awesome movie.

i actually found the machinists approach to the whole 'wierdo-protagonist'-storyyline better

The Machinist a.k.a. Memento/Donnie Darko for dummies.

no it isn't!
its just another approach, in the machinist, the audience knows from almost the beginning whats wrong with the main character. the viewers get to see how he gets behind it all and how the protagonist developes from an omniscient view.. in movies like fightclub, donnie darko, memento..
the view is always more 1st person-like..
its not a movie for dummies

it's so wayyyyyyyyyyy better than 99% of other crappy movies anyways.

Donnie Darko

...is a good film, but far from anywhere near 'best'

k

survive style 5+

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0430651/

Fear and loathing in las vegas lololololooooooooool

*snort*

oh yes thats a good movie, laughed my ass of

Whould you like a beer?
No, thanks.
How bout some ether?

rocco invades (roflmao lolololz!!!!) poland

american history x is one of the few DVD's I own

edit - fbdo

apocalypse now (original)

redux ftw

I'M A COP YOU IDIOT

The only movie I ever paid for is Day Of The Dead though.

Got to love boondock saints, but i prefre Lost in Translation above any other movie. I hope you guys've seen it?

Nothing special to me. 8/10

8/10 is nothing special? Shit I understand why movies are so overrated on imdb. If something is nothing special why give it more than say 5?

Errr, we are talking in a BEST MOVIES OF ALL TIME thread. Lets say there are 10000 movies, then there are 1000 movies i should give 8/10 and 2000 i rate better 8/10..

And speaking of "overrated" when you have 30320530525 people voting..zzzz.. er.. zz

What kind of retarded arguments are those?

Lets say there are 10000 movies, then there are 1000 movies i should give 8/10 and 2000 i rate better 8/10..

The repartition of quality among movies is even? No.

And speaking of "overrated" when you have 30320530525 people voting[...]

( otherwise known as the majority fallacy)

I'm sure you think having all the 12 year-olds voting LoTR a 10 makes the final rating very accurate? Please.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120737/ratings

There you have it. You are wrong. And if you don't know about the more votes --> higher rating - i don't care.


"The repartition of quality among movies is even? No."

Sigh.. Invent some other scale, use 10000 as movie number and show that my point in relation to this thread is not valid. My argument was to show that an 8outof10 does not fit as special in this thread, please prove me otherwise. Anyways, if you wanna discuss optimum scale for movie rating and apply it here, it could be interesting to see how many 8-9-10 movies one has likely seen by a watched movie number ..

The LoTR thing was just an example. There's thousands of movies that are overrated _because_ many people vote for them. You seem to imply that the more people who vote for it, the more accurate the final rating is going to be, which is clearly wrong.

The problem I have with the way you rate movies is that you're assuming that for each movie worth 1/10 there exists an equal numbere of movie worth 10/10. I wish it were that way, but it certainly isn't, and I'm not going to lower my standards for the sake of applying a stupid rule to make that true.

As for your point being wrong in this thread, well if you're overrating every second movie, then how the hell are you going to be able to pick which are the best ones, let alone the "best movie to date"?

The first part of your post, we disagree. The second part, you didn't catch my point. The third part, you cannot possibly know if i overrate movies based on what i said if you had understood what i meant as you didn't in part2. gg

What part of "Lets say there are 10000 movies, then there are 1000 movies i should give 8/10 and 2000 i rate better 8/10" can I possibly not have understood? This way of rating just makes no sense, and you _for a fact_ do overrate (and underrate!) movies if you apply that rule. "gg".

oh, so it's a fact? i'm not saying mine is perfect, but that it's _in fact_ wrong? no. let me see your version of a rating system

But it _is_ wrong, trust me. Let's just start with your system and take an example because I obviously have to break it down for you:

Total number of movies: 10k
Assuming even repartition: 1k for each mark (1k have 1/10, 1k have 2/10, ...)
Fact: Repartiton is NOT even, it most likely follows a bell curve.

Now see what happens, the number of movies that should be rated 10/10 is inferior to the number that should be rated 9/10, which is inferior to that which should be rated 8/10, etc. Since your rule forces us to have a fixed number of movies having 10/10, and there aren't enough movies that are genuinely worth it, the most obvious thing is to fill in the gap with movies worth 9/10, thus _overrating_ them (it could even be that there is less than 500 movies worth 10/10, in which case the whole "9/10 class" would be overrated.) The opposite obviously happens on the other side of the spectrum, with movies being "sucked in" by lower marks, and thus underrated.

Would have been much simpler with a graph. Oh well hope you get it.

Sigh.. Invent some other scale, use 10000 as movie number and show that my point in relation to this thread is not valid. My argument was to show that an 8outof10 does not fit as special in this thread, please prove me otherwise. Anyways, if you wanna discuss optimum scale for movie rating and apply it here, it could be interesting to see how many 8-9-10 movies one has likely seen by a watched movie number ..


Why write a lengthy post if you provide no new information? It just makes me repeat myself. And yeah, i can be an ASS too; here is an "example because I obviously have to break it down for you":

The whole point of me not making up a "good" scale on the spot is because i don't know how. But even so, i can see that even if it grows exponentially you cannot break that the 8/10 has anything to do in a movies of all time thread, if you don't think that's the case, show me.

The whole overrated discussion is another thing.. I'm just convinced you cannot find more "perfect" rated movies than those on imdb, but that is an opinion, i'm not stating that as a fact. Just reember that overrate only means "To overestimate the merits of; rate too highly." .. In other words solely subjective.

Please don't give me the relativistic bullshit, especially not worded so badly and with a major contradiction. If everything is subjective, then maybe a movie I rate 8/10 is someone's 10/10 here, so it deserves to be cited doesn't it? In other words, spare me the dictionary definition if you don't grasp it yourself.

The point is that your rule objectively over/underrates movies. No subjectivity in the previous "proof".

Haha, i started the fight with reason and you turn it to a hate discussion.

"doesn't it?"

YEAH IT DOES, note the "to me" at the end of "nothing special".

It was NOT a rule. It was an example to show that a 8/10 could not fit in a best of all time movies list. I left you lots of things you could answer. You've not answered any of them. If you wish to end this discussion, then keep on flaming; if not, then please answer at least some of my left-out questions and challanges.

A hate discussion? You'll have to show me any kind of "hate" in my posts, but I surely could point out the condescending "gg" that appeared earlier? Or maybe I should just quote your original message as it existed before it was edited?

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Haha, i started the fight with reason and you turn it to a hate discussion, fucking moron.

Enough with the comedy now. I'm not here to face your "challanges". Where the hell do you think you are? Kindergarten?

Haha, i was angry.. At least i admit mistakes. You never answered to what i say, you just keep talking about the same thing over and over. It's no point.

To follow by lead i will answer all you questions. It seems like you are attacking me when you not answering me several times in a row, yet reply. And yeah sure, do that and post that. I'm at home.. Kindergarden? no, no..

And i don't know why you're here, but i wanna know what i posted in #118 .. I really don't care about anything else in relation to this.

you lack substance and brains.

And you are?

Or are you saying that in your top 30 list of movies there is a 8/10 ?

What would be so wrong about that? Isn't it somehow possible that there could not be 30 movies worth 10/10?

i didn't say it was wrong, i was asking. you're the one making a claim here.

OK, to make it simple.

Tell me exactly what number on your list of all time movies your first 8/10 movie is and what kind of "scale" you use. It does not need to be a perfect scale, just give a basic reason for its basic logic, and we will just leave everyone with that. I'm not gonna judge it or read any more into this, i just wanna know. You've the last word, only answer that please.

The difference is that you rate the movies in a relativistic sense while I rate them in an absolute sense. I can live in a world where there are no 10/10 movies (perfection doesn't exist and so on), you apparently cannot.

I know <3

I just wanna see by how much with some actual numbers :)

If u cba, i understand ..

I was listening to the soundtrack when reading this post ;)

- Sin City
- A Clockwork Orange
- Pulp Fiction
- Kill Bill I & II
- Alien
- Star Wars saga
- Matrix I
- 8 Mile
- Mean Streets
- Taxi Driver
- The Godfather I & II
- GoodFellas
- Reservoir Dogs
- Crime Spree
- Raging Bull
- Apocalypse now
- Shining
- Elephant
- Cape Fear
- Full metal jacket
- One flew over the cuckoo's nest
- Annie Hall
- Old Boy
- Brazil
- Fight club
- Twelve Monkeys
- Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
- Quest for the Holy Grail

Honorable mentions:

- Match point
- Groundhog day
- Layer Cake
- Almost famous
- Ocean's eleven
- Crash
(- Kiss kiss, bang bang)
(- Lost in translation)


Lost in translation is pretty good but definitely not an absolute must-see.

edit:

Actors :

- John Travolta
- Harvey Keitel
- Harrison Ford
- Bruce Willis
- Samuel Jackson
- Robert de Niro
- Marlon Brando
- Robert Duvall
- Jack Nicholson
- Woody Allen
- Kevin Bacon
- Steve Buscemi
- Brad Pitt
- Joe Pesci
- Bill Murray

Actresses :

- Uma Thurman
- Sigourney Weaver
- Faye Dunaway
- Natalie Portman
- Scarlett Johansson

Movie directors :

- Quentin Tarantino
- Steven Spielberg
- George Lucas
- Stanley Kubrick
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Woody Allen
- Martin Scorsese

You got to be kidding me, not a must-see?
It's almost a silent movie, but it's setting such a depressing and at the same time, such a positive mood. Fantastic movie, but it all depends on personal opinions i gues. Must say i've seen almost all the movies on your list and i cannot but agree with you.

Well there are really many stereotypes in the movie and the scenario isn't anything special... even though I love Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson :)

A stereotype isn't that bad a thing to include in a movie imo, it's the way the actors perform that makes it good or bad.

Well to illustrate my comment: the prostitute which comes into his room, the way he communicates with the photographers, the way Japanese ppl behave in general.. :)

I cannot be the judge of that since i havent visited japan yet. So point taken :P

god i love that chick, shes so cute

yeah, have you seen her in "Match point"? :D

yes, awesome!!!!!

I think the same - fantastic movie. I know some people who really dislike LiT and find it boring. It's definitely a movie that you have to reach out and feel. Maybe it's for a specific personality? A loner; an escapist? I'm not sure. I must've seen it 30 times now and still feel many emotions watching it. The acting is great and Bill Murray is just amazing. Awesome movie. In my top 3.

whats your pin number?

555-193193

some movies that really impressed me are:

lord of the rings 1,2,3 - just outstanding in every single way
memento - great way to tell a story, always the possibility to change everything all of a sudden
sin city - amazing atmosphere and editing, good story although disturbing violence
pulp fiction - well what can you say? just brilliant
fight club - great story, some interesting thoughts
the butterfly effect - cool story
mulholland drive - some scenes just so cracked me up it's mad
leon - oldschool, very nicely done

could and might continue that list later, just some great movies that came to my mind.

terminator best ever

t2 is still one of my fav's

i love the intensity of Michael Biehn's character in that movie. "It absolutely will not stop! Ever. Until you are dead."

t2 is better than t1. Ahhnold is much cooller as a good guy =)

Pulp Fiction owns all

biodome

#01 - Crash
#02 - Magnolia
#03 - Collateral
#04 - American Beauty
#05 - Forrest Gump
#06 - Pulp Fiction
#07 - 21 Grams
#08 - Sin City
#09 - Lost in Translation
#10 - The United States of Leland

You rock.

i second that

very good movies. love them all, except of the last one. dont know it?

kisses

<3<3 i became a bum again btw

8/10 released in the last like 5 years, coincidence or short memory span?

Cheers for all the movie suggestions, need to fill up my movie dir :)

Suggest some War-Movies aswell :)

My favorite war "movie" is Band of brothers, though it's not really a movie, it's a series, but still, it's my favorite, and apocalypse now is right up there aswell, with braveheart

Get:
Full Metal Jacket
The Deer Hunter
Enemy At The Gates
The Dirty Dozen (zomg lee marvin ftw)
Stalingrad
Great Escape
The Bridge On The River Kwai

Saving private ryan Also gets a mention... Great opening scene kinda lacking in some bits but solid all in all.. but they did make that great filter which was used for the makin of BoB... i prefer bob to it!

"Enemy at the Gates" and "Stalingrad" are the same movie no? :)

no

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0215750/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108211/

Got confused since Enemy at the Gates is called Stalingrad here in France ;)

oliver stone?

platoon, salvador etc.

The Thin Red Line
The Longest Day
Glory
Where Eagles Dare
M*A*S*H

Bleh no need to mention Apocalypse Now :o

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0386064/

\o/

best war movie!

eh? Das boot is by far the best war movie ever.

paths of glory
dr strangelove
killing fields
das boot

some of my favorite movies:
as good as it gets, jerry maguire, american beauty, the shawshank redemption, the insider, pulp fiction, terminator 2, fight club, road to perdition, closer, wall street

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[-]

Armour of God 2

quote from the movie: "SUPERMAAAAAAAN!!!!"

My favourite movie of all times.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099558/ :)

SCARFACE

[+] out of 100 comments you are the only person thats even mentioned this film, its a classic.

Love everything about that film. Pacino is pretty fuck awesome whether you like the accent or not.

I could list all my favourite films but honestly can't be arsed. Here's another though.

RAGING BULL

\o\\o//o/

not trying to start a flame war but I found that one so terribly boring I couldnt finish watching it :(

poub, did u find raging bull terribly boring? or scarface terribly boring?

raging bull, must admit scarface hasnt graced my retina yet...

.

Most over rated movie ever. Al Pacino being the most over rated actor ever.

urgh yeah ok

lol he's just like the swedish q4 players. fucking good.

omg i forgot tony, very good movie!

scent of a woman
pulp fiction
old boy

you lot sure have poor taste in movies

Dawn of the Dead is a nice trip, the most recent movie i saw

there are a lot that are great, what makes a movie "best" is its definition from everything else... pulp fiction, fight club, matrix, but...i don't have as picky a taste in movies as others (oh yeah, T2 was my very first most fave movie)

dawn of the dead was awesome, haha.

Dawn of the Dead was the most recent movie you saw? That's a pretty old movie.

.

run lola run (maybe i am wearing it out now though)
eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
the first matrix
airplane
kill bill 1-2 (not for the gore, although looks good :P)
lord of the rings trilogy is worth mentioning
hero

the usual answers like fight club, pulp fiction and the usual suspects are also good imo
the list could go on..

Scarface anyone
LOTR one of best fantasie movie ever created
Saving Private Ryan
FightClub
Batman Begins
Predator
Aliens
T2
Fifth Element
Rush Hour 1&2 :P

JÖNSSONLIGAN

Let me explain something to you. Um... I am not Mr. Lebowski. You're Mr. Lebowski. I'm the Dude. So that's what you call me. You know, that or, uh, His Dudeness, or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing.

omg [+] for first mention of his doodness

2001: A Space Odyssey
Donnie Darko
A Clockwork Orange
Twelve Monkeys

not necessarily the best movies ever made, but cerainly my favorites of the movies I've seen up to this point.

woah, almost agree :)

I'll add Oldboy to that

twelve monkeys! <3

One flew over the cuckoos nest
Lost In Translation
Terminator 2
Aliens
Fight Club
Menace.ii.Society
American History X
Apocalypse Now
Rain Man
Matrix
The Shawshank Redemption

Rocky 4

The Godfather will rape you.

doom is a really really good movie, in case someone forgot.

hackers

I knew it.

The Godfather
Schindler's List
The Pianist
Saving Private Ryan
1st Matrix
Pulp Fiction
Star Wars
Goodfellas
Leon
Toy Story :D

My favourite movies:
The Big Lebowski (ok, this one was obvious)
City Of God
Shaun Of The Dead
Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
Snatch
Starship Troopers
Sin City
Reservoir Dogs
True Romance

"That's a great plan, Walter. That's fuckin' ingenious, if I understand it correctly. It's a Swiss fuckin' watch."

La Vita E Bela (Life is Beautiful in Italian). i prefer watching the movie in the original language with subtitles rather than a dub.

true romance owns everything.

are you talking about king kong?

ok so no one has seen movies beyond hollywood that is sad

south korean movies > hollywood

I guess when it comes down to it there's two choices; Get busy living or get busy dying.

oh btw The Midnight Express is one of the best films ever made imo. True story as well.

idd

Total Recall (9.5/10)
Brainstorm (9/10)
T2 (9/10)
The Holy Grail (10/10)

ugh shite movies m8, sry

Yep, not a sophisticated taste by any means. Tocal Recall is superbly done. Brainstorm is a very good movie, have you seen it?

The Holy Grail made me split my sides laughing but being English it really hit a nerve.

T2 is probably the worst choice there and even then, that was a great movie when it was released.

nope, I haven't seen Brainstorm. I also haven't seen T2 and Total Recall in a long time, but I can't see them being much better than decent.
and as for the holy grail... just not my thing, I guess. I stopped watching it less than ten minutes in.

I'm not surprised. Monty Python's stuff isn't for most people.

Brainstorm has an interesting concept. A programmer finds a way to record human dreams and then proceeds to record her own death. You see her assisant trying against all the odds to get the video she made and play it. When he finally does, the tape shows heaven as a massive grid with each point on the grid being an event. Anyway, saves you watching it now you know how it ends.

Total Recall is one of the better examples of movies before the whole computer animation thing kicked in.

Tbh the only funny thing about the Holy Grail was the knight of the bridge - "thou shalt not pass without a duel" or whatever it was he said. That scene alone tho... one of the funniest in film history, when he's still fighting with his arms and legs cut off hahaha. There were a few other funny moments I guess but most were just plain weird.

kickboxer. that's my favourite film just because of that dance

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It gets funnier the more you watch it.

ROFL!!


http://youtube.com/watch?v=1LHGHAAQCd4&se...an%20damme

best movie last year imho:

green street hooligans

and the girls will like it to (elijah wood)

Die Hard 1 and 3
All Lethal Weapons except 4
Aliens Movies
Terminator 1 and 2/Predator

Naked Gun Movies
Monty Python Movies
Mel Brooks Movies


Not life changing movies, but I love to sit down on a sunday night and watch one of those movies while eating some food on my couch or laying on my bed.

Snatch! \o/

Of someone goes to cinema should watch 'cursed'; some good text about beeing together.

The Shawshank Redemption.