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I love these movies and consider them all great:
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
The Insider
Shawshank Redemption
Children of Men
It’s a wonderful life
Citizen Kane
This is Spinal Tap
Pretty Good:
Hugo
Ali
Didn’t like:
The Good Dinosaur
The BFG
Hard Rain
Event Horizon
The Lone Ranger
Despite not being box office successes - Shawshank, Spinal Tap, it’s a wonderful life, Citizen Kane are obviously considered classics in their genres and beloved by many.
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) - is fanastic movie that has been largely forgotten and never received the acclaim that i think it deserves.
Seinfeld by a mile
Gone Baby Gone didn’t make my top three, but it is a great movie
Shawshank
Unforgiven
Glory
All in my top 20 favorite movies of all time
I haven’t seen it in 20 years but did see it multiple times and liked it better than Batman Returns. Second best out of the first 4 Batman movies and probably a 7/10 back in the day but a 6/10 now since I doubt it has aged well.
How has Hoosiers only been mentioned once? Iconic performance
Hoosiers
Unforgiven
Crimson Tide
The Mission, Rudy, Braveheart, A River Runs Through It, Glory
Carlito’s Way - Pacino and Sean Penn were really good. The story was entertaining, but not great. The movie as a whole looked very dated with surprisingly cheap sets (boat scene was so fake). 6.5/10
Donnie Brasco - also looked dated at times, but again great acting by both Depp and Pacino. Good story as well. 7.5/10
The Town - good acting, interesting story, great action and drama. Liked it a lot. 8/10
Dumb and Dumber - watched for probably the 20th time overall but haven’t seen it in 15 years. First viewing for my son. Still got me laughing after all these years. So quotable and thoroughly enjoyable. He thought it was hilarious too. 10/10
Haven’t seen Green Book or A Star is Born, but I would have given it to Roma.
A few Good Men
Live Die Repeat
Jack Reacher
Completely agree on the last scene of HOHW. The hidden conversation within the dialogue was so clever.
Yes, obviously I am a big Sheridan fan and plan on checking out Yellowstone soon.
Here is my list with a few extra comments:
1981: Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982: E.T.: the Extra-Terrestrial
1983: The Right Stuff
1984: Amadeus*
1985: Witness
1986: The Mission
1987: The Last Emperor
1988: Rain Man*
1989: Glory (just ahead of Field of Dreams). How was Glory not even nominated??
1990: Goodfellas
1991: Silence of the Lambs
1992: Unforgiven - what a great year for movies. One of the best years for movies. Tons of classics: A Few Good Men, Last of the Mohicans, Glen Garry Glenross, A River Runs Through It, Howard’s End and The Player. All great movies in my opinion.
1993: Schindler's List*
1994: Shawshank Redemption- maybe the strongest best picture nominees out of any year.
1995: Braveheart
1996: Jerry Maguire
1997: Good Will Hunting
1998: Saving Pvt. Ryan
1999: The Insider
2000: Traffic
2001: Black Hawk Down
2002: The Hours
2003: Lord of the Rings -ROTK
2004: The Passion of the Christ
2005: Munich
2006: Letters from IWorks Jim’s
2007: Gone Baby Gone
2008: The Dark Knight
2009: Avatar
2010: Inception (just ahead of Winters bone)
2011: Tree of Life
2012: Zero Dark Thirty (just ahead of Silver Linings Playbook)
2013: Gravity (just ahead of 12 years a slave)
2014: Interstellar (can’t believe this wasn’t nominated.
2015: Spotlight*
2016: La La Land (just ahead of Hell or High Water
2017: Wind River (anything other than The Shape of Water - terrible movie)
Not sure what your definition of successful is. But for me a successful movie is one that I really enjoy. There are some great movies that weren’t commercially successful due to poor marketing, bad timing, or they just don’t appeal to the masses for whatever reason.
Yet - if I think they are good - I think they are successful. Cause that is all I really care about.
You used the example of Hell or High Water I had heard good things about it and after seeing and loving Sicario and Wind River - I went into it with high expectations. It surpassed my expectations. I just watched it about a month ago and thought it was one of best movies I have seen in the last couple of years.
In fact, I watched it the night after watching The Shape of Water - and HOHW was a far superior movie in every way in my opinion. The SOW despite winning the best movie Oscar - was cliched, predictable, weird for the sake of being weird and boring above all else. I haven’t been that disappointed in a movie in years.
What made HOHW great was the writing, acting, characters and unpredictability. Honestly I enjoyed every minute of it. The director just told the simple story in a straightforward manner (it was a refreshing 1:42 min) and so it had no lulls for me.
I also absolutely loved the ending. Despite the simple story and characters it kept my mind engaged the entire time. That makes a successful movie in my book - despite only earning 26 million.
I ain’t got time to bleed. - Predator
Great call. I remember laughing at how terrible that line was when I was 12 years old. Classic awful line
Shawshank - darabont
Whiplash - Chazelle
Don’t really like either of them and so I have only seen them both once about 25 years ago.
Would go with Heathers though
Fantastic movie. Not sure if I would say masterpiece.
Goodfellas is definitely one of the most memorable.
I can’t think of a worse one of the top of my head. I just saw this a few weeks ago and haven’t been this disappointed in a movie in long time. Average movie at best - but closer to bad movie than good movie.