Handman

1. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
2. Amadeus (1984)
3. Chinatown (1974)
4. The Graduate (1967)
5. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
6. Star Wars (1977)
7. The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
8. The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
9. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
10. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)

Some of these were tough, since I’ve probably got over 100 favorites, but these are generally the top.

EDIT:

Handman said:

1. Amadeus

2. Star Wars

3. Empire Strikes Back

4. Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan

5. Toy Story

6. Grand Budapest Hotel

7. Amelie

8. Chinatown

9. Birdman

10. The Maltese Falcon

I evidently already posted in this thread. Some of these choices are odd, like Amelie and Birdman, not the ones I’d choose for a top 10 anymore, but the rest are still up there, just not in that order.

ray_afraid said:

pittrek said:

ray_afraid said:

SilverWook said:

So, all the original TOS FX shots weren’t lost forever? Can we get a redo on that remastering thing? 😉
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/192846/

Yes, please!! I hate the new CGI shots!

There are SOME of the Enterprise shots (in front of a blue screen), but definitely not ALL of them.

It’s not all bad, it’s just that I’m fairly new to Trek and I feel like someone who grew up with the special edition of the OT. Also, in every comparison shot I’ve seen, I prefer the original version. The 60’s aesthetics are a big factor in my attraction to the show and I find the new space shots totally jarring when cutting back or forth with the original locations.

Also, dig those stars!

The recomp looks nice, but maybe it would look better if the ship had more contrast too it? It looks a little flat.

Color means a great deal to me, so long as it’s closer to the right and nowhere near the left, I’m fine.

Your second set seems to be missing a bonus disc cover, judging by the spines.

Oh, and I saw La La Land on New Years Eve, the theater was packed and it was thrilling. I recommend it.

In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Wonder Boys (2000)
Barry (2016)
Mad Max (1979)

In the Heat of the Night was the best of these, Barry was the worst. First time watches for all four.

Harmy, your “Introducing the Despecialized Editions and its Sources” video has been taken down by Fox recently. It must have been recently, because I’ve seen it in my recommended videos until just about a week or so ago.

Losing my dad in a Wild West town and running into someone with a melted face. I have no idea if it really happened.

suspiciouscoffee said:

I was going to write something here. In fact, I did, I typed a lot. I deleted it all because it was pretentious, whiny, asinine, and pathetic (just like me).

Self-reflection leads to me quite a self-loathing rabbit hole.

Too late for me take back my pretentious, whiny, asinine, and pathetic comments 😛

Redacted.

Now, we can’t have two Politics 2 threads without the inevitable sequel. Let’s keep it civil.

TV’s Frink said:

DominicCobb said:

It’s a problem throughout the film - all surface level candy, nothing of substance.

Which is precisely the problem for the entire first sequence. It’s like watching a video game cutscene.

This was my problem with Rogue One, too.

I can watch Phantom Menace. The Holiday Special is more watchable than the other two.

Happy New Year, OT!

I don’t even think I can say I’m all that big a Star Wars fan, seeing as I can’t talk about Star Wars with people who say they’re Star Wars fans, and I either hate or am completely indifferent to most of the franchise. It’s tough, but I keep coming back here anyway because I just love the original films.

1. No.
2. Maybe, probably.
3. The mind probe alien.

Wexter said:

Handman said:

DominicCobb said:

Alderaan said:

This video is absolutely hilarious:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odj6NHsWe00

They all sound like idiots.

Full disclosure, I really enjoyed the RLM review. It was probably the first time I felt like I was in the room with them.

Can you sum it up for those of us that couldn’t make it past the part where they all make really obnoxious noises?

They didn’t like the characters, and the standalone Star Wars movie wasn’t really a standalone movie. It’s a movie for fans, not for anybody else.

DominicCobb said:

Alderaan said:

This video is absolutely hilarious:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odj6NHsWe00

They all sound like idiots.

Full disclosure, I really enjoyed the RLM review. It was probably the first time I felt like I was in the room with them.

KumoNin said:

DominicCobb said:

DominicCobb said:

SW - A+
ESB - A+
ROTJ - A
TFA - A
TPM - A-
AOTC - B+
ROTS - B

Changing this a bit. At the moment, I’m feeling Rogue One fits in between TPM and the rest of the PT, which might be mostly because I’m bored of those.

The scores are essentially (I feel) incomplete. Especially AOTC. ROTS sort of annoys me in a way because it feels quite un-Star Warsy in places (with all the epic choirs and tracks like “Padme’s Ruminations”), though I do think for the most part it’s rather consistent and a lot of great moments don’t even make it onto the OST. AOTC on the other hand tends to be boring, and though it has an amazing theme that works throughout the score (unlike ROTS), the whole climax is basically unscored which is a huge minus.

I agree with this so much.
Those scores are hard for me to compare, so my rating:
ESB
SW/ROTJ
TFA/TPM
RO/ROTS/AOTC

I think I’ll have to agree with you here, it’s very hard to compare these, but I just felt something empty or off about some of the others that my ranking is essentially identical to this one.

As did I. No pictures survive, but the mask is in the basement.

We can always look to how Star Trek Beyond gave tribute to Leonard Nimoy, perhaps the best way I’ve seen such a situation handled in a big blockbuster film.

I can’t wait to see La La Land, I hope to see it before the year’s end so I can add another 2016 movie to my “Movies I Watched in 2016” list, since new releases have been somewhat lacking there.

Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

I’ve known about this movie all my life, but hadn’t seen it until now. It’s pretty great, a wonderful adventure story with one of the greatest dueling scenes put to film.

Tobar said:

We have our very first anthology film and people are already complaining about fatigue.

I don’t think the fatigue would come from Star Wars entirely, it’s more an extension of all the other stuff the film industry is doing, specifically with Marvel, and the other Disney properties. Sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference. So it’s less the first anthology movie, and more the 23rd “cinematic universe” movie. This is not the fault of Rogue One at all, but of Disney’s handling of their franchises.

SilverWook said:

Handman said:

In any event, I’m saddened to hear this news. I’ve always been an admirer of her Singin’ in the Rain and in her other films. Her role in film preservation also struck a chord for me. She and her daughter are missed.

IIRC, wasn’t Debbie the one who tried to convince the new owners to save the old MGM backlot from being torn down?

I would not be surprised in the very least if she did.