Baumer's/Tele's/Chas' 25 films that have brainwashed people into mindless adulation (Tele pg 26)

[Dementeleus]

Ok then, get it started...I'm going to put my comedy thread on hold.  I want to see your list Tele.

 

 

Keep going for now. I need to get them in order.

[chasmmi]

The next three films to come later have a combined 18 Oscar Nominations between them.

 

2 of them are in the top 20 All Time Adjusted Box Office list and the other is in the top 50 on the IMDB top 250 list.

[baumer]

Naaaa...no one's really reading it anyway.  You should just start...get 5 out and then rank the rest later.

[baumer]

I smelling a shark movie here.

 

[Empire]

I smelling a shark movie here.

 

Don't worry, it will be Deep Blue Sea.

[Dementeleus]

Naaaa...no one's really reading it anyway.  You should just start...get 5 out and then rank the rest later.

 

Okay.

[Dementeleus]

25. Superman I and II

 

 

"You'll believe a man can fly!"breathlessly promised the tagline. Eh, maybe back in the 70s, but even to a kid growing up in the 80s the VFX were already fairly dated. There's a nice laid-back feel to the first 40 minutes of SUPERMAN I (after the silly Krypton stuff), but the whole thing is pretty light-weight, and so corny as well. Christopher Reeve still does the best mix of Clark Kent and Supes, but the script doesn't give him much to do and the drama and tension is really inert. The whole "kiss everything away" moment in SUPERMAN II is just awful, and really, most of both movies basically play like the "dark Spiderman" bit from Raimi's reviled SM3 (except done seriously).

[Michael Gary Scott]

Ugh

[Dementeleus]

24. Inception

 

 

BWAAAAHMMMM

 

Look, I like this movie. Quite a lot, actually. But it's been placed on this absurdly high pedestal by crazed Nolan fanboys who will accept no God other than their own. It's a very clever concept and the action scenes are wonderfully done, and Nolan assembled a great cast... but, like he's tended to do with his recent blockbusters, he takes a brute force approach to storytelling. Exposition-filled speech after exposition-filled speech, characters who do nothing but wander around like the audience's Mary Sue, asking "Why?" ... the first hour is really inert.

 

Great action movie. Lots of fun. One of the greatest movies ever made? Not even close.

[Michael Gary Scott]

Bigger ugh

[Michael Gary Scott]

Inception us in my top 10 all time so obviously I disagree

[Avatree]

Inception definitely deserves a place. I'm going to do a list of overrated movies and I wasn't sure whether to include Inception or not, as I do really like the film - but I don't think it's anything as perfect or amazing as many people seem to believe.

[TalismanRing]

25. Superman I and II

 

 

 

"You'll believe a man can fly!"breathlessly promised the tagline. Eh, maybe back in the 70s, but even to a kid growing up in the 80s the VFX were already fairly dated. There's a nice laid-back feel to the first 40 minutes of SUPERMAN I (after the silly Krypton stuff), but the whole thing is pretty light-weight, and so corny as well. Christopher Reeve still does the best mix of Clark Kent and Supes, but the script doesn't give him much to do and the drama and tension is really inert. The whole "kiss everything away" moment in SUPERMAN II is just awful, and really, most of both movies basically play like the "dark Spiderman" bit from Raimi's reviled SM3 (except done seriously).

 

 

One post in and you're already blowing it! 

 

But you redeemed yourself a bit with Inception. 

Edited January 21, 2015 by TalismanRing

[DeeCee]

I'm really interested to see how high on the list are Lawrence of Arabia and Mad Max.

[Ethan Hunt]

Inception...:/

[Sam]

The thread title alone is already....

[MrPink]

I should go.

[Kvikk Lunsj]

Telemachos broke my heart with Inception. I can't wait for people to see my list. 

[Kvikk Lunsj]

25. Superman I and II

 

 

"You'll believe a man can fly!"breathlessly promised the tagline. Eh, maybe back in the 70s, but even to a kid growing up in the 80s the VFX were already fairly dated. There's a nice laid-back feel to the first 40 minutes of SUPERMAN I (after the silly Krypton stuff), but the whole thing is pretty light-weight, and so corny as well. Christopher Reeve still does the best mix of Clark Kent and Supes, but the script doesn't give him much to do and the drama and tension is really inert. The whole "kiss everything away" moment in SUPERMAN II is just awful, and really, most of both movies basically play like the "dark Spiderman" bit from Raimi's reviled SM3 (except done seriously).

I assume you mean the 1880s? 

Edited January 21, 2015 by Snoopy of Suburbia

[Dementeleus]

23. The Goonies

 

 

For some reason, this mid-80s Spielberg-esque effort is beloved and adored by every kid who grew up in the '80s. Everyone except me. It's okay, but nothing that special, and nothing really that other movies in that era did better. Even as a kid, willing to like pretty much everything, I didn't think it was all that.

Edited January 21, 2015 by Telemachos