Films which have a great reputation, but actually suck...

[Sharon]

Oh and anything with Woody Allan... he's really not funny or good in any way.

[Fossil]

Star Wars I’ve never watch one from beginning to end same with Bond films
Bond is great but I cant sit and watch it all need to flick

[glasgowken]

The Italian Job.

Which one did you see, the original, or the remake (haven't seen that).



I should add that anyone who makes, or goes to see, a remake, will be shot at dawn

[DickyHart]

clockwork orange -overated pish

[Sharon]

Star Wars I’ve never watch one from beginning to end same with Bond films
Bond is great but I cant sit and watch it all need to flick

I get that too... I like bond, but there is no way i could just sit though afilm. I think i just like the idea of it really.

[DVF]

God I forgot there was a remake, it was the usual Hollywood crap.

[Sharon]

The Italian Job.

Which one did you see, the original, or the remake (haven't seen that).



I should add that anyone who makes, or goes to see, a remake, will be shot at dawn

does that include star wars please!?

[glasgowken]

Hmmm..well.....I do like "Star Wars", & "The Empire Strikes Back", but anyone who watches the other films (George Lucas's cash cow), can cheerfully be shot, or cut up with blunt light sabres that need recharging


Just for you Sharon



Sorry



On the subject of science fiction...


Love = "Star Trek, The Motion Picture", hated by most critics, and even a lot of trekkies, but I think it's a masterpiece


Hate = "2001, A Space Odyssey". Boring, self obsessed, garbage. A brilliant piece of tecnical filmaking, but the cast, & storyline, is horrible. What a waste.

[Toby Dammit]

THE HILL, wotta film! Even better was Sidney Lument's later production with Sean Connery and Ian Bannen, THE OFFENCE (1972). Connery plays a mental copper who beats Bannen (a suspected paedophile) to death in a police cell at the start of the picture. The rest of the movie is an investiagion into what really happened.

A real trauma to sit through, the American Lumet gets dreary British suburban life exactly right, with constant drizzle, grey concrete buildings falling apart even before they are finished being constructed, constant pneumatic drills and noisy 'planes overhead. Up against heavy weight players like Trevor Howard and Vivien Merchant (the film is structured in three extreme interviews), Connery was never better in anything. Shame he didn't do this sort of thing more often.

[glasgowken]

I've watched "The Offence", a couple of times. It's brilliantly acted, although a very difficult film to get into. That's not a criticism by the way.

Another superb Sidney Lumet film (although it was actually released as a 4 hour tv special) is "Prince of the City", about the lives of four corrupt New York cops, and the decision of one to tell all.
Absolutely brilliant, (and way better than his most famous NY cop film."Serpico"). It's criminal (ho ho) that it's almost forgotten.



One for the hate list...."Forrest Gump", WTF??????? I like Tom Hanks (usually), but it's a mystery why that crap is so loved
Maybe it's an American thing.

[cheesemonster]

Sidney Lumet also directed Network, which is pretty under-rated imo

agree with the italian job, blair witch, braveheart, clockwork orange

also add lock, stock and two smoking barrels

[Pripyat]

Worst: Independence Day

Best : Schindler's List

[Toby Dammit]

Jeezus, INDEPENDENCE DAY was so bad I'd managed to forget all about it. I accidently saw the last few minutes of that same team's GODZILLA, which lookeed even worse.

Another overlooked classic is this 'un.












Federico Fellini's astounding TOBY DAMMIT section from HISTOIRES EXTRAORDINAIRES

[marginalwalker]

Coffee and Cigarettes. I went to the UK premiere of this back in 2004 and I and my associate at the time were mortified at how bad it was. Everyone said it was a cool film. Its got to be the worst film Ive ever saw.

[Molendinar]

off topic, but a really obscure film I saw years ago that was great and totally bizarre;

Dellamorte Dellamore

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109592/