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ROTS in the IMDb top 250! — Page 2

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"2001: A Space Odyssey" would have made it on my top ten, but since it's greatness cannot be measured in puerile mortal numbers I'll have to settle for tacking it on the end. imdb's list should start right after A Space Odyssey and A Space Odyssey's authority at the top must never be questioned by any movie of lesser status.


Oh boy.

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Originally posted by: TheSessler
Scarface is a mixed bag for me.

Sure, it is a decent enough film, and I've seen it a few times, but I still don't like the fact that it has been totally bastardized into a "gangsta" symbol by today's culture.

I mean, did any of these people WATCH Scarface? Did they not understand the POINT that it was trying to make? Its almost like someone watching Super Size Me and then going to McDonalds everyday because of it.
Totally agree.

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Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
Originally posted by: TheSessler
Scarface is a mixed bag for me.

Sure, it is a decent enough film, and I've seen it a few times, but I still don't like the fact that it has been totally bastardized into a "gangsta" symbol by today's culture.

I mean, did any of these people WATCH Scarface? Did they not understand the POINT that it was trying to make? Its almost like someone watching Super Size Me and then going to McDonalds everyday because of it.
Totally agree.


Dude somebody finally understands!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Hey that doesn't stop it from being a spot-on illustration of the American dream corrupted by 80s lavish egoism. (I came up with that all by myself! ) Don't let the silly hip hop Scarface cult "mix the bag" for you! Although you're right, even the DVD menu on the Anniversary Edition felt intruded by a Hip Hop/Gangsta tone.

Anybody else have a reoder for the top 250? I was hoping to start something!

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dude most of the voters of IMDB were sci-fi geeks, on the month of June 2005 they went in and voted ROTS, 10 out of 10. look at films like "A Hard day's night" or "The Basketball Diaries", they didn't get in because they weren't popular.
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Originally posted by: TheSessler
I mean, did any of these people WATCH Scarface? Did they not understand the POINT that it was trying to make? Its almost like someone watching Super Size Me and then going to McDonalds everyday because of it.


You mean you didn't?!
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I actually don’t even think there are 250 good movies out there. Maybe I haven’t seen enough movies but I only have like 20 movies that I like and sometimes I even find my favorites to be a mixed bag. I’m just a picky person I guess. A lot of the movies in the top 250 are there more because of the period of time they were made and by who. Like the Stanely Kubrick films. Those are all overrated but since Kubrick’s has this aurora around him that he’s so great people tend to inflate their opinions on his movie thinking they’re so smart to like films that are weird.
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Originally posted by: BadAssKeith
I actually don’t even think there are 250 good movies out there. Maybe I haven’t seen enough movies but I only have like 20 movies that I like and sometimes I even find my favorites to be a mixed bag. I’m just a picky person I guess. A lot of the movies in the top 250 are there more because of the period of time they were made and by who. Like the Stanely Kubrick films. Those are all overrated but since Kubrick’s has this aurora around him that he’s so great people tend to inflate their opinions on his movie thinking they’re so smart to like films that are weird.


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Ha I'm jk, that's okay you don't like 'em......but seriously you are wrong.

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Originally posted by: BadAssKeith
I actually don’t even think there are 250 good movies out there. Maybe I haven’t seen enough movies.......

......You haven't seen enough movies.

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IMHO ROTS has just the same problems as the other two prequels: crappy acting, stupid script, and ridiculous characters. It also adds a fresh problem, overkill on original trilogy cameos, and even has some problem finishing cleanly.
There ARE a few good scenes - like the scene with Anakin and Padme thinking about each other and starting across the city - but the first two also had a few good/fun scenes.
I think the deliberate, clumsy linkups to ANH make people nostalgic and thus they overlook the crap.

By the way - I was told that at last the Prequel Trilogy of STAR WARS would actually have some space battles in it... but there was only that brief and cheesy-animated-robot-riddled flying sequence with the two Jedi. Some proper space battles would have been nice!
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Originally posted by: ronlaw
IMHO ROTS has just the same problems as the other two prequels: crappy acting, stupid script, and ridiculous characters. It also adds a fresh problem, overkill on original trilogy cameos, and even has some problem finishing cleanly.
There ARE a few good scenes - like the scene with Anakin and Padme thinking about each other and starting across the city - but the first two also had a few good/fun scenes.
I think the deliberate, clumsy linkups to ANH make people nostalgic and thus they overlook the crap.

By the way - I was told that at last the Prequel Trilogy of STAR WARS would actually have some space battles in it... but there was only that brief and cheesy-animated-robot-riddled flying sequence with the two Jedi. Some proper space battles would have been nice!


Ya, the least you'd think GL could do in a Star Wars movie is give us some decent outer space battles, but he couldn't even do that! I was absolutely appalled by the space battle at the beggining of ROTS. In the OT Obi Wan kept mentioning how great of a pilot Anakin was and we never saw it. All we were showed was some lame slapstick. Unless you count Anakin’s ridiculous Pod race in TPM, which Obi Wan never saw and that was just pathetic. I love the irony how Lucas left out a lot of the best character development and action in the PT. Did he expect us to all watch the clone wars cartoons? I bet he thought he was genius to leave that to our imagination. Sorry Lucas, you're no Stanley Kubrick.