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Crocodile Dundee? Huh?!!! Toy Story is one of the greatest trilogy of all time with the most consistency in quality of any of the franchises on all of the lists I've seen thus far.
Crocodile Dundee is... one "meh" film, one terrible film, and one atrociously unneccessary sequel in 2001
I almost agree with riczhang when I see things like "Police Academy", "Lethal Weapon", "Austin Powers", "A Nightmare on Elm Street", "The Karate Kid", "Shrek", "Terminator" (after the three and fourth ones), "Rambo", "Rocky" and "Crocodile Dundee" ranked above Toy Story. I'm surprised Toy Story 1-3 even made the top 100 list with the kinds of franchises you all consider great
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I actually figured out what the list would be under last year's scoring system. A couple ranks might be wrong, but this is more or less what it would have been.
1.The Empire Strikes Back - A+2. The Dark Knight - A+3. Star Wars - A+4. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - A5. Pulp Fiction6. Raiders of the Lost Ark - A-7. Schindler's List - A+8. Back to the Future - A+9. Jaws - B10. Fight Club11. The Godfather Part II12. Goodfellas13. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - A+14. Casablanca - A15. The Matrix - A-16. Terminator 2: Judgment Day - A-17. The Godfather18. WALL-E - A19. 2001: A Space Odyssey20. The Lion King - A+21. Rear Window - A+22. Forrest Gump - A+23. Inception - B+24. The Social Network - A-25. The Shawshank Redemption - A-26. Die Hard - A-27. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - B+28. 12 Angry Men - B29. Jurassic Park - A30. Titanic31. Toy Story - A+32. There Will Be Blood33. Aliens - B+34. Toy Story 3 - A+35. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial - A+36. Memento37. Dr. Strangelove - B+38. Pan's Labyrinth39. The Avengers - A+40. Lawrence of Arabia41. Taxi Driver42. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - A43. Return of the Jedi - A+44. A Clockwork Orange45. Spirited Away46. The Good the Bad and the Ugly - B+47. Alien - B48. The Shining - A49. Apocalypse Now50. The Incredibles - A+51. Spider-Man 2 - A+52. Chinatown - A-53. Psycho - A+54. The Wizard of Oz - A+55. City of God56. Fargo57. The Truman Show - A58. Batman Begins - A-59. Beauty and the Beast - B+60. Ratatouille - B-61. The Silence of the Lambs - A62. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind63. Saving Private Ryan - A-64. American Beauty65. L.A. Confidential66. Se7en67. Toy Story 2 - A+68. Finding Nemo - A+69. Gladiator - B70. Inglourious Basterds - C+71. Citizen Kane72. Aladdin - A+73. Kill Bill Vol. 174. It's a Wonderful Life - A+75. No Country for Old Men76. Monty Python and the Holy Grail - B+77. Network - A+78. Children of Men79. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl - C80. Star Trek - A-81. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade82. The Usual Suspects - B83. Planet of the Apes (1968) - A84. Halloween (1978)85. The Dark Knight Rises - A+86. Monsters, Inc. - A+87. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 - A+88. Requiem for a Dream89. Trainspotting - F90. Heat91. The Terminator - A-92. Magnolia93. Up - A94. Sunset Boulevard95. The Big Lebowski96. Full Metal Jacket97. Do the Right Thing98. Ghostbusters - A-99. North by Northwest - A100. Once Upon A Time in the WestAnd after thinking about it, I wish I'd put these ones on my list:
Rosemary's Baby
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Tootsie
Boyz in the Hood
The Shawshank Redemption
The Matrix
Terminator 2
Dead Poets Society
Some Like it Hot
Elf
And obviously things like Tommy Boy and Mrs. Doubtfire would be gutted
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Half? Only for people who haven't seen anything that's made less than a splash at the BO.
I can think of 50-100 great films that made a splash at the box office and 1 million little seen "arthouse" films that are terrible... you just make yourself sound like the Anton Ego of film
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Real stories are stories that you feel for. Harvey Weinstein said it best, "Some movies you feel." And that is true. Transformers is an absolutely unfeeling movie and to be honest it bores the hell out of me. Amour makes you feel and that's why it is so damn great. And to amalgamate Picasso and Haneke, "Film is 24 lies per second. Film is the lie that makes us realise the truth." That is what truly great art of any form is about. It is something that makes us feel. Something that makes us cheer and cry and shout and react; it is something that draws a visceral reaction in us that makes us understand more about humanity. That is what film is about; not the mindless entertainment that it is today.
Amour is a depressing movie about old people
Transformers is a movie about a guy getting his first car and realizing that Autobots are fighting Decepticons for the All-Spark with explosions and one liners aplenty
Which sounds like something the majority of non-pretensious movie-goers will want to watch?!!! A no-brainer lol
Just because a film is little-seen doesn't mean it's great and just because something's a blockbuster doesn't mean it's not profound
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1. Indy2. Back to the future3. Hannibal Lector4. Die Hard5. Alien
6. Rocky7. Marvel8. Nightmare on Elm Street9. Clerks/Jay and Silent Bob Universe10. Crocodile Dundee
11. Men in Black12. Rambo13. Batman14. X-men15. James Bond
16. Jurassic Park17. Final Destination18. Bourne19. Shrek
20. American Pie
21. Terminator22. Toy Story23. Superman24. Madagascar25. Mummy
In no universe does the Crocodile Dundee franchise rank above Toy Story... just... no
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I've seen all 100 movies
Well done sir
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Yeah the list definitely needed a couple more comedies besides Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Muppet Movie (I was sad it didn't rank anywhere in the top 100
) Anchorman
Airplane!
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
Those should have been in but I'm happy with the list other than that, Sims!
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1. The Empire Strikes Back (Kershner, 1980)
2. Pulp Fiction (Tarantino, 1994)
3. The Dark Knight (Nolan, 2008)
4. Star Wars (Lucas, 1977)
5. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Jackson, 2001)
6. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Spielberg, 1981)
7. Goodfellas (Scorsese, 1990)
8. The Godfather Part II (Coppola, 1974)
9. The Matrix (Wachowski and Wachowski, 1999)
10. Schindler’s List (Spielberg, 1993)
11. Jaws (Spielberg, 1975)
12. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Cameron, 1991)
13. Back to the Future (Zemeckis, 1985)
14. Casablanca (Curtiz, 1940)
15. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Jackson, 2003)
16. The Godfather (Coppola, 1973)
17. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
18. Fight Club (Fincher, 1999)
19. WALL-E (Stanton, 2008)
20. Rear Window (Hitchcock, 1954)
21. The Lion King (Allers and Minkoff, 1994)
22. The Shawshank Redemption (Darabont, 1994)
23. Forrest Gump (Zemeckis, 1994)
24. Inception (Nolan, 2010)
25. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (Spielberg, 1982)
26. Titanic (Cameron, 1997)
27. Jurassic Park (Spielberg, 1993)
28. 12 Angry Men (Lumet, 1957)
29. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Jackson, 2002)
30. The Social Network (Fincher, 2010)
31. Lawrence of Arabia (Lean, 1962)
32. Toy Story (Lasseter, 1995)
33. Toy Story 3 (Unkrich, 2010)
34. There Will Be Blood (Anderson, 2007)
35. Die Hard (McTiernan, 1988)
36. Aliens (Cameron, 1986)
37. The Avengers (Whedon, 2012)
38. Spirited Away (Miyazaki, 2001)
39. Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976)
40. The Good the Bad and the Ugly (Leone, 1966)
41. A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick, 1971)
42. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Kubrick, 1964)
43. Return of the Jedi (Marquand, 1983)
44. Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)
45. Alien (Scott, 1979)
46. The Shining (Kubrick, 1980)
47. The Incredibles (Bird, 2004)
48. Chinatown (Polanski, 1974)
49. One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Forman, 1975)
50. El laberinto del fauno [Pan's Labyrinth] (del Toro, 2006)
51. Memento (Nolan, 2000)
52. The Truman Show (Weir, 1998)
53. Fargo (Coen and Coen, 1996)
54. Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960)
55. Spider-Man 2 (Raimi, 2004)
56. It’s A Wonderful Life (Capra, 1946)
57. American Beauty (Mendes, 1999)
58. Cidade de deus [City of God] (Meirelles, 2002)
59. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Gilliam and Jones, 1975)
60. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry, 2004)
61. Batman Begins (Nolan, 2005)
62. Ratatouille (Bird, 2007)
63. The Wizard of Oz (Fleming, 1939)
64. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
65. LA Confidential (Hanson, 1997)
66. Gladiator (Scott, 2000)
67. Saving Private Ryan (Spielberg, 1998)
68. Beauty and the Beast (Trousdale and Wise, 1991)
69. Silence of the Lambs (Demme, 1991)
70. Inglourious Basterds (Tarantino, 2009)
71. Toy Story 2 (Brannon, Lasseter, and Unkrich, 1999)
72. Network (Lumet, 1976)
73. Finding Nemo (Stanton and Unkrich, 2003)
74. Se7en (Fincher, 1995)
75. Kill Bill Vol. 1 (Tarantino, 2003)
76. No Country for Old Men (Coen and Coen, 2007)
77. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Verbinski, 2003)
78. Aladdin (Clements and Musker, 1992)
79. Halloween (Carpenter, 1978)
80. The Dark Knight Rises (Nolan, 2012)
81. Star Trek (Abrams, 2009)
82. Trainspotting (Boyle, 1996)
83. Children of Men (Cuaron, 2005)
84. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (Yates, 2011)
85. The Usual Suspects (Singer, 1995)
86. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Spielberg, 1989)
87. North by Northwest (Hitchcock, 1959)
88. Do the Right Thing (Lee, 1989)
89. Heat (Mann, 1995)
90. Sunset Boulevard (Wilder, 1950)
91. The Terminator (Cameron, 1984)
92. Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone, 1968)
93. The Big Lebowski (Coen & Coen, 1998)
94. Blade Runner (Scott, 1982)
95. Full Metal Jacket (Kubrick, 1987)
96. Requiem for a Dream (Aronofsky, 2000)
97. Planet of the Apes (Schaffner, 1968)
98. Life of Pi (Lee, 2013)
99. All Quiet on the Western Front (Milestone, 1930)
100. Almost Famous (Crowe, 2000)
I've seen 63/100, although I've seen almost all of the top 50 lol
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Not to rush anything, but when is the big reveal of the list?
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The Smurfs 2 did okay... probably somewhere between $23 million to $27 million opening weekend, with $95 million to $105 million by the end of its run. Not terrible but certainly not great in the least
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Here's mine -
1. August - Osage Country
2. Monuments Men
3. American Hustle
4. Saving Mr. Banks
5. The Wolf of Wall Street
6. Gravity
7. Twelve Years a Slave
8. Nebraska
9. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
10. Lee Daniels' The Butler
Outside shots -
11. Rush
12. Captain Phillips
13. Fruitvale Station
14. The Counselor
15. Before Midnight
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*A Beautiful Mind deserved it's win, and deserved another Oscar for Crowe, too. It was good but next to FOTR in BP and Shrek for Adapted Screenplay, I'd disagree but Crowe definitely deserved Best Actor
*Yes, the numerous Leo snubs, including the most recent one: Not even nominated for Django Unchained. He should have been nominated for Django
*Perks being snubbed for Adapted Screenplay. YES! I thought it should have been nominated for BP - best coming of age film in a while
*Numerous Cloud Atlas snubs including: Editing, Special Effects, Score (these were supposed to be locked), and then maybe: Picture, Director, Actor, etc... Can't say since I haven't seen it but it seemed like a shoo-in for technical nods
*How To Train Your Dragon not winning Best Score. I would agree but Inception came out the same year
*Inception not winning Best Score and Best Original Screenplay. Agreed on both!
*Nolan getting snubbed two times for Best Director. He should have won for Inception since anyone could have directed King's Speech IMO and gotten a nod for TDK at the very least - I'd personally give him both lol
*The Dark Knight not getting Best Picture - This should have won BP and WALL-E should have gotten a BP nod - send Benjamin Button and The Reader out the door since they both were vanilla efforts
There are many, many snubs around the Academy. They don't deserve being the most prestigious movie award since they apparently don't know too much about movies.
I also thought Deathly Hallows 2 should have gotten a few non-technical nods - Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actor for Alan Rickman. Ralph Fiennes could have gotten a nod too but Voldemort isn't a terrible stretch for him. I'd also say Amy Adams should have won Best Actress for Enchanted - she made me believe she was a real life Disney princess which is a master feat. I also think Robin Williams should have gotten a nod for Aladdin and Ellen DeGeneres should have gotten a nod for Finding Nemo - both were masterful acting performances using only their voice.
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So the Smurfs are the topic of this week's Coffee Talk with Paul Baldwin - where we talk about dogs, daughters, coffee, baseball, Boston - so let's discuss, let's talk
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Hmm... Big Hero 6 the week before, and another big kids movie two weeks later... yeah SpongeBob 2 probably won't breakout or make big bucks lol
My prediction -
$27 million opening weekend
$86 million total
Slightly better legs than the original but still nothing huge - considering it's SpongeBob, the budget will probably be low so it'll be a success just not a blockbuster
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Wilford Brimley
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Any Leo snub.
For Aviator I agree... he shoulda won for that.
But you have to admit - Toy Story should have gotten a BP nod over Babe, and was the one with the best song and original screenplay.
Inception and Toy Story 3 would have been fine winners too - I'd take any of those three over King's Speech
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Here's my 10:
10. The Social Network (BP) - King's Speech won
9. Back to the Future (Original Screenplay) - Witness won
8. a nod for Ferris Bueller's Day Off (Original Screenplay) - Crocodile Dundee somehow got it? lol
7. The Graduate (BP) - In the Heat of the Night won
6. Shrek (Adapted Screenplay) - A Beautiful Mind won
5. Toy Story (BP, Original Screenplay, Supporting Actor nod for Tim Allen, and Original Song) - Braveheart won, and Babe somehow got nominated lol
4. Boyz in the Hood or Beauty and the Beast (BP) - Silence of the Lambs won
3. Ian McKellan and Andy Serkis (Supporting Actor in 2001 & 2002) - both lost
2. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (BP, Director, Best Supporting Actress nod for Drew Barrymore, and Original Screenplay) - Gandhi won
1. Rainbow Connection (Original Song) - a mediocre, forgotten song from "Norma Rae" won
What other Oscar outrages do you recall?
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I really need to improve my film count lol :DAnd I'm fairly certain Great Muppet Caper will get the very last slot
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Very true... I just think it takes more talent to get a point across without swearing. Toilet humor and slapstick are way over-used in kids movies today - 3 Stooges, Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and for a recent one WALL-E got the perfect amount of slapstick while Despicable Me has just enough toilet humor. But poverty won't go away because man's flawed so no reason to get worked up about it IMOi don't know how it's a sad reflection of the world today that reality has swearing. i personally think poverty and persecution are more worthy of our disapproval, and stupid little words should take up none of our time. oh, and is it lazy to make swearing the butt of jokes? sure, but then so is (in most cases) toilet humour and slapstick. i don't see a problem here beyond that it's a shame to sit through shitty movies.
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Too often comedies rely on swearing as a crutch in the absence of genuine humor. I'm reminded of the opening of Horrible Bosses where they're labeling their bosses with all these elaborately crude insults assuming that they're funny just because they're vulgar.
Personally I'd rate Ratatouille a PG too. There's on-screen drunkenness, dead animals shown in closeup, and Remy has to endure a lot of dangerous situations through the film.
I suppose... it's definitely one of the less kid-appealing Pixar movies so a PG wouldn't hurt it.
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I love swearing in movies, makes it feel real. And I reckon you have too many PG-# levels. The biggest problem with PG-13 is that it goes from 13 and then jumps right up to 17. I'd just change PG-13 to PG-15.
That's just a sad reflection on the world today where things don't seem really unless there's 20-200 F-bombs sprinkled throughout the majority of films. It takes more creativity to make someone laugh with cuss words, and same goes for making a villain seem menacing.
Heath Ledger in TDK didn't need to utter a single cuss word to freak me and millions of people out - in fact I'm pretty sure he doesn't actually use a swear word at all. Personally, I don't like R rated comedies because I think most of all them (Identity Thief is a prime suspect) are lazy and poorly made. National Lampoon's Vacation, Blazing Saddles and Planes, Trains & Automobiles are the 3 gold standards for what a great R rated laugh-fest is... and the modern ones are terrible IMO
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The goonies
back to the future
neverending story
Popeye
Teen wolf
the fugitive
spawn
daredevil
blade
green hornet
catwoman(anne hathaway)
the green lantern(with idris this time)
rambo 1
super mario bros
the twilight zone
the shining
street fighter
mortal kombat
dungeons and dragons
Goonies is a timeless coming of age adventure - still gets tons of time on cable
BTTF... no explaination needed - the best paced blockbuster in history IMO: no need for a remake at all!
The Fugitive... the one in the 90s was fine, won a few Oscars too. Plus, people today haven't heard of the show
The Shining,,, Stanley Kubrick and Jack Nicholson made the film great. Without them, it'll be another torture porn, dime a dozen horror remake.
Those 4 do not need a remake in the slightest!!!!! I agree with the rest of them though - all of them had terrible films.
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In my eyes, profanity is usually a cop-out in films... there's no need for it to be there.
Seth Rogen and his pals are the prime offenders - they use F-bombs like they're going out of style and make themselves look like trailer trash as a result.
I would say gangster films, political films, and war films are the only ones where rampant swearing would even be necessary because gangsters, politicians, and soldiers... GASP: swear like it's nobody's business lol
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles has the best usage of profanity I've never seen though and that's only because of John Hughes
I'd definitely say F-Bombs, CGI, Nudity, and Gore are the four laziest things one can add to a film that isn't working.
Going back to ratings here's my idea for a rating system:
Rated G (exactly the same - acceptable for general audiences):
Examples -
All of the animated Disney films except The Black Cauldron
All of the Pixar films except The Incredibles
Muppet movies
Despicable Me
Most live-action kids movies (Alvin, Smurfs, Yogi Bear, Timothy Green, etc)
Rated PG-9 (some rude humor, slight dark or thematic elements, or mild action may be involved)
Examples -
Shrek
Kung Fu Panda
first 2 Harry Potter films
Rated PG-12 (strong violence, mild language, and slightly crude humor may be involved)
Examples -
Percy Jackson
Journey 2
We Bought a Zoo
Rango
Adventures of Tintin
Rated PG-15 (intense violence, dark imagery, strong language, crude humor, and mild sexuality may be involved)
Examples -
The Avengers
The Dark Knight
Star Trek Into Darkness
Anchorman
The Matrix
The King's Speech
Rated M (graphic violence, extremely dark imagery, pervasive language, strong crude humor, and nudity may be involved, no one under 15 will be admitted - student ID with DOB required as proof, ushers will be manning the door to each screen and card you)
Examples -
The Conjuring
The Hangover
Step Brothers
Safe House
Zero Dark Thirty
Rated R (no one under 18 - ID required as proof, gratuitous violence, disturbing imagery, graphic language, rampant nudity/sexuality, excessive drug usage)
Examples -
Saw
Hostel
Pulp Fiction
Showgirls
Only God Forgives
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For a kids movie, it wasn't bad lol :pNext to Smurfs, Alvin, Yogi, and Beverly Hills Chihuahua, a normal live action family film is a breath of fresh air :)And I meant that nothing in it truly warranted a PG... there's no scary or PG level inappropriate behavior - and honestly fart jokes are pretty G rated IMO as long as they don't completely overload every second with a fart jokeWell, aside from the entire movie...
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That's a well thought out reason and I respect that
but most of the people on here don't have Toy Story ranked on their lists because they somehow think Crocodile Dundee and Police Academy are quality franchises lol. I can rank them because they're that great IMO. Plus, there isn't many animated franchises to begin with so I found a way to put it on here.
But I think I'm the only one who actually weighed each individual film in the franchise and its relative quality rather than just picking random franchises I passively enjoy