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Feeling Film-Ignorant

Dec 11, 2003 2:43 PM
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My good buddy and college roommate Nick is a professional film critic.

However, out of his "semi-arbitrary" top 20 list, I've seen but one ("Rushmore", and I was too drunk to remember it well) and a good number of them, I've never heard of. Only three were released after 1980 and most are foreign. Those are probably the reasons why.

He doesn't have a "worst list" yet, but here are my tentative lists ...

Best
  1. Boogie Nights (1997)
  2. Il Conformista (1970)
  3. The Dancing Outlaw (1991)
  4. Fight Club (1999)
  5. Clerks (1994)
  6. The Big Lebowski (1998)
  7. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
  8. Raging Bull (1980)
  9. American Movie (1999)
  10. Chasing Amy (1997)
Worst
  1. Manos: Hands of Fate (1966)
  2. Twister (1996)
  3. Showgirls (1995)
  4. Planet of the Apes (2001)
  5. A Walk in the Clouds (1995)
Most Overrated
  1. The Matrix (1999)
  2. Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)
  3. Office Space (1999)
  4. Easy Rider (1969)
  5. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

Comments: Feeling Film-Ignorant

man, you are dead on about A Walk In The Clouds. And I am probably, gee, Keanu's chief apologist.

I hope I'm thinking about the right movie, where Keanu's a chocolate salesman who somehow hooks up with some Spanish chica whose father owns some big ass vinyard, they want to marry, hilarity ensues? That one? Yeah, that one was terrible.

Posted by: ben on December 12, 2003 3:20 AM | permalink

I love Office Space I think its great and funny. I think american beauty is near the top of my list of best movies.

Posted by: Tiff on December 12, 2003 7:42 AM | permalink

Ben:

Yes, that's the movie. Ugh.

Tiff:

I didn't think Office Space was terrible; just terribly overrated. American Beauty was pretty good.

Posted by: Joe Grossberg on December 12, 2003 8:15 AM | permalink

Nick is wrong. The Matrix was great. Some of HIS movies are overrated.

Posted by: Daniel Grossberg on December 16, 2003 1:34 PM | permalink

Umm ... that's my list, not Nick's.

And I didn't say the Matrix sucked, just that it was overrated.

Posted by: Joe Grossberg on December 16, 2003 2:43 PM | permalink

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