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Right, tough to balance a “twist” movie with the initial reaction vs a rewatch. While I agree it’s probably never as good as the first time, that shouldn’t take away from a really well done mystery movie/book. As long as the twist doesn’t seem tacked on or incongruous with the rest of the movie, I’ll tend to defer to that first watch.
Same here. I was interested in an honest look at these movies and what clicked with me in the last couple months.
Cannon
I was most definitely not into that scene either, but that was just a small part of why the film just didn’t click for me.
I didn’t figure out Sixth Sense until the end either. I think I turn off my brain when I watch movies, which is the opposite of what I do when I listen to music.
Oh, I hated the music (except for watching Heather Graham dance) and hadn't ever been to LA. But the schmaltzy bad breakup stuff and the hanging out with friends aspects (albeit in a totally different scene) felt pretty spot on. I wasn't as pathetic as Mikey (hopefully) and none of my goth friends were quite as obnoxious as Trent, but a lot it rang true for me. Still, it doesn't really hold up other than for nostalgia purposes.
The soundtrack alone is enough to rate this much higher. Thomas Newman's excellent score including Annie Lennox's brilliant Don't Let It bring You Down really add to the film.
Wait for it. Wait for it...
As a person in his early 20’s living in Southern California when it came out it was a perfect mirror of the life me and my boys were living.
So much this. The par 3 golf, the speakeasy style local bar scene, the fights in the parking lots over stupid ####, the everyone driving their own ####ty car to the bar in case they hooked up, finishing the night at a diner, etc etc etc. It was literally like someone took a camera and followed us around. Just brings back great memories of my early 20’s.
W.T.F. Should have easily been in the top 50, if not top 25.
This is where I'm at right now. I haven't looked or thought about it too hard, but that's a lot of good movies listed already.
I have been thinking the same thing. Some of my favorite movies from the 90s are already off the board!
My answer for you would be that the 90s were just that good. I am curious to hear your answer after this is all over though.
Dude, I literally said in the post you quoted that it was still a great movie. I think on these countdowns the context that we are basically talking about movies that we think are the 10 best movies each year. I felt very strongly about my top 30-40 movies. Then I had a group of about 150-200 movies that I also thought were very good to great to the last 60-70 on my list. We are splitting hairs here. It is great storytelling, but when I watched it recently it was exactly that. It didn't hit me as emotionally as some above it, I liked the direction of some movies above it more, I didn't get anything new out of a rewatch, etc..
No and that's the point. I was refuting you valuing the re-watch so much and making that discount the initial watching. Pretty much everyone was blown away by the initial watching of tUS and since so much of that is predicated upon a twist, any re-watching is automatically going to downgrade it because you can never have that shock factor back.
That's assuming you know what I would have had it ranked before a rewatch. This wasn't a movie that I had in my top core of 30-40 and then I dropped it 50 spots. It was firmly in that middle tier of movies, and it made the cut out of those, so that says something if you follow in the main movie thread at all an see exactly how many movies from this era have disappointed on a rewatch these last two months.
Looks like a bit of "humor" in the next 10.
I grumble just to grumble when it all comes down to it.
The only movie I will be shuked if it's missing starts with "Pul" and ends with "iction". Otherwise, there's a ton of material that is very, very different and you can't expect everyone to have the same opinions on it.
Well I already know two you'll be really wrong on. Glad 80's is here to balance things out.
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That sounds like a lot of work and ####, but yeah - I had planned to do that after every 20-30 movies. Honestly, the reason I don't as I go more is that I think people just look at that and dip out quick instead of coming in and talking about the selections.
I am actually just looking for a quick reference to see how many of these movies I have actually seen. So the request is 100% selfish on my part...hahaha
If there was a quick list I could list them easily......now I have to go research the thread. hahahah Give me a minute.
Dammit, now I want to know.Well I already know two you'll be really wrong on. Glad 80's is here to balance things out.
I'm teasing! Sort of.
Haven't heard of:
I hadn't seen it until probably a year or two ago. It was ok. I didn't think it was as good as the hype made it seem.
I deserved that one. 