Dell's Good, Bad & Ugly Movie Reviews

[Palooza]

Dell, have you heard of the site Flickchart.com ? It ranks movies based on head to head battles you choose the winner of. It's consumed a lot of my time and it definitely produces some cool lists.

edit: Just for shits and giggles, after 2360 match ups with 382 movies, my top 50 looks like this:

1. Donnie Darko
2. the Matrix
3. Boogie Nights
4. Snatch.
5. Knocked Up
6. Dead Poets Society
7. Iron Man
8. Chinatown
9. LotR: TT
10. the Wrestler
11. Saving Private Ryan
12. Pulp Fiction
13. From Dusk Till Dawn
14. Leon: the Professional
15. LotR: RotK
16. Goodfellas
17. Children of Men
18. Collateral
19. Full Metal Jacket
20. the Boondock Saints
21. Black Hawk Down
22. Godfather: Part 2
23. 21 Grams
24. Kill Bill - Volume 2
25. Silence of the Lambs
26. Back to the Future
27. Fargo
28. Stand By Me
29. American Beauty
30. the Shawshank Redemption
31. Closer
32. Lord of War
33. Casino Royale
34. Blow
35. True Romance
36. Memento
37. Run Lola Rum
38. Dawn of the Dead (2004)
39. Batman
40. 25th Hour
41. Home Alone
42. Unforgiven
43. Catch Me If You Can
44. Clerks
45. Tropic Thunder
46. Kill Bill - Volume 1
47. X-Men
48. Rocky
49. Mission Impossible III
50. Zodiac

..............

109. Fight Club

 

[SethMode]

Awesome Palooza...although I'm afraid to do it, for the reasons you're frowning over. If Fight Club landed at 109 (or Memento at 36 for that matter) for me, I don't know how I would continue on...

 

[Buzzman]

Knocked Up at 5 says it all.

 

[Palooza]

Awesome Palooza...although I'm afraid to do it, for the reasons you're frowning over. If Fight Club landed at 109 (or Memento at 36 for that matter) for me, I don't know how I would continue on...

I can't stop doing it because I somehow think that if I keep doing it, someday my list will be 100% accurate.

The thing that sucks is the quality of the match ups. I just had a match up of the Others vs. Stranger than Fiction followed by Superbad vs. Sin City.

Fight Club has come up maybe 3 times for me, and its obviously the only movie I'd pick over any movie that came up, except it had some piss poor match ups. Same thing with Donnie Darko at #1. I liked it better than Boogie Nights, so it went to #1, but it hasn't seen a respectable opponent since.

 

[Palooza]

Knocked Up at 5 says it all.

It's not like the list is about the best movies ever, its about which I like better. The list is actually more accurate than it is inaccurate. I'd say of my top 150, maybe 10 or so movies don't really belong, even though they should be in a different order.

 

[Epidemik]

Hey Dell, you should do a list, top ten movies that make you feel smarter after watching them (excluding documentaries)

 

[Buzzman]

Knocked UP shouldnt be close to anyones favorite movies otherwise you havent seen a lot of movies. The movie was good but it was def not a rewatchable movie in terms of its laughs.

 

[SethMode]

Knocked UP shouldnt be close to anyones favorite movies otherwise you havent seen a lot of movies. The movie was good but it was def not a rewatchable movie in terms of its laughs.

What aren't you understanding? You can only answer based on what they give you. If they give you Knocked up 40 times and every time it's against something like Death Race, Knocked Up is inevitably going to climb in your rankings.

Hence why Palooza's favorite movie ever is all the way down at 109.

I just got ball-busted by having to choose between the Big Lebowski and the Dark Knight. Yikes. Anyway, sorry to get OT Dell.

 

[dell71]

Dell, have you heard of the site Flickchart.com ? It ranks movies based on head to head battles you choose the winner of. It's consumed a lot of my time and it definitely produces some cool lists.

edit: Just for shits and giggles, after 2360 match ups with 382 movies, my top 50 looks like this:

1. Donnie Darko
2. the Matrix
3. Boogie Nights
4. Snatch.
5. Knocked Up
6. Dead Poets Society
7. Iron Man
8. Chinatown
9. LotR: TT
10. the Wrestler
11. Saving Private Ryan
12. Pulp Fiction
13. From Dusk Till Dawn
14. Leon: the Professional
15. LotR: RotK
16. Goodfellas
17. Children of Men
18. Collateral
19. Full Metal Jacket
20. the Boondock Saints
21. Black Hawk Down
22. Godfather: Part 2
23. 21 Grams
24. Kill Bill - Volume 2
25. Silence of the Lambs
26. Back to the Future
27. Fargo
28. Stand By Me
29. American Beauty
30. the Shawshank Redemption
31. Closer
32. Lord of War
33. Casino Royale
34. Blow
35. True Romance
36. Memento
37. Run Lola Rum
38. Dawn of the Dead (2004)
39. Batman
40. 25th Hour
41. Home Alone
42. Unforgiven
43. Catch Me If You Can
44. Clerks
45. Tropic Thunder
46. Kill Bill - Volume 1
47. X-Men
48. Rocky
49. Mission Impossible III
50. Zodiac

..............

109. Fight Club

Interesting concept. I'll give it a shot and post it back here & compare to what my real top movies are.

Hey Dell, you should do a list, top ten movies that make you feel smarter after watching them (excluding documentaries)

Wow. That would be tough.

 

[Buzzman]

What aren't you understanding? You can only answer based on what they give you. If they give you Knocked up 40 times and every time it's against something like Death Race, Knocked Up is inevitably going to climb in your rankings.

Hence why Palooza's favorite movie ever is all the way down at 109.

I just got ball-busted by having to choose between the Big Lebowski and the Dark Knight. Yikes. Anyway, sorry to get OT Dell.

ooooooooooo. Ima try it to see where my top 5 lands.

 

[A Tasty Burgerr]

How am I supposed to choose between The Mask and X-Men?!?!?!? It's like choosing which childhood friend to betray.

 

[A Tasty Burgerr]

I can't stop doing it because I somehow think that if I keep doing it, someday my list will be 100% accurate.

The thing that sucks is the quality of the match ups. I just had a match up of the Others vs. Stranger than Fiction followed by Superbad vs. Sin City.

Fight Club has come up maybe 3 times for me, and its obviously the only movie I'd pick over any movie that came up, except it had some piss poor match ups. Same thing with Donnie Darko at #1. I liked it better than Boogie Nights, so it went to #1, but it hasn't seen a respectable opponent since.

Although it's kind of cheating, if you go to your full list you can rank any movie by having it compare it to movies ranked higher than it automatically.

 

[Palooza]

Although it's kind of cheating, if you go to your full list you can rank any movie by having it compare it to movies ranked higher than it automatically.

good find. I may or may not use it, haven't decided yet.

Contemplating making my own thread about the unnecessary amount of shit I watch and post my list every here and there since I do this so god damn much.

edit: Sorry for taking over your thread, for a bit, Dell.

 

[Vinsane]

Dell, I went out and rented Star Trek. And I have to say after watching it a second, and third time. I was overwhelmed, I think of the "awesomeness" of seeing it in Theater. Watching it at home wasn't the same "magic" I felt seeing it in theater. So after a revaluation of the movie, I'd lean more towards your rating, or perhaps even a little lower.

 

[Maynard]

i watched there will be blood. I was very disapointed with this movie. I watched it over 2 nights and during the first half i thought it was an interesting movie. One of those slow moving plots where things are just happening randomly to maybe setup what this "evil oil man" was really about.

then i watched the 2nd half and realized that this movie had no real point. It was just a story about an oil man. He wasnt an "evil oil man" but more of a hardnose businessman who was kind of a dick towards certain people. The title of the movie and all of the intesnse horror film music would suggest that something grusome or shocking would happen during the course of this movie.....and while i was fooled thinking it was coming, it just never did. By the time somthing even close to offering a dramtic or shocking moment did come, i was totally annoyed with the muscial score and even more annoyed that i was suckered into watchng this movie, that i didnt care and was glad it was over

this movie ranks up there with the talented mr ripley in all time let downs for me

 

[dell71]

i watched there will be blood. I was very disapointed with this movie. I watched it over 2 nights and during the first half i thought it was an interesting movie. One of those slow moving plots where things are just happening randomly to maybe setup what this "evil oil man" was really about.

then i watched the 2nd half and realized that this movie had no real point. It was just a story about an oil man. He wasnt an "evil oil man" but more of a hardnose businessman who was kind of a dick towards certain people. The title of the movie and all of the intesnse horror film music would suggest that something grusome or shocking would happen during the course of this movie.....and while i was fooled thinking it was coming, it just never did. By the time somthing even close to offering a dramtic or shocking moment did come, i was totally annoyed with the muscial score and even more annoyed that i was suckered into watchng this movie, that i didnt care and was glad it was over

this movie ranks up there with the talented mr ripley in all time let downs for me

Glad you watched it. For me, I immediately saw it as a metaphor for the war in Iraq with our "oil man" pretty clearly representing America, then there was the land that was not his which he fought tooth & nail over against the religious radical even sacrificing his son (i.e., soldiers). Viewed through that prism, it really did blow me away. However, I fully acknowledge that if viewed on a surface level it is merely interesting and maybe even a bit too slow.

 

[Maynard]

Glad you watched it. For me, I immediately saw it as a metaphor for the war in Iraq with our "oil man" pretty clearly representing America, then there was the land that was not his which he fought tooth & nail over against the religious radical even sacrificing his son (i.e., soldiers). Viewed through that prism, it really did blow me away. However, I fully acknowledge that if viewed on a surface level it is merely interesting and maybe even a bit too slow.

good point. I didnt think of it in that regards, but that is a great way to interpret the movie. The movie got alot of praise and i guess i had higher expectations. But with paul thomas anderson directing i knew it was not going to be a direct meaning. i enjoyed boogie nights and magnolia, so i just was hoping that this one would really grab me.

did you know anderson made a movie called the dirk diggler story?

http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=33186

 

[dell71]

good point. I didnt think of it in that regards, but that is a great way to interpret the movie. The movie got alot of praise and i guess i had higher expectations. But with paul thomas anderson directing i knew it was not going to be a direct meaning. i enjoyed boogie nights and magnolia, so i just was hoping that this one would really grab me.

did you know anderson made a movie called the dirk diggler story?

http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=33186

I never heard of that, I'll have to watch it this weekend. Thanx.

 

[Maynard]

so i watched zombieland and i love you man again today. i love you man is funny the 3rd time.

let me ask you guys, was paul rudds dad in the film gay? i noticed at the end when he says to his 2 sons that they are both his best friends.....And Hank Mardukas

then they show hank in the wedding crowd and it occured to me that the dad might be gay and thats why he got along so well with the son.....


here something from zombieland that bugs me.....so much so that i found a copy of the original script to verify the line in the movie. Its right after they come to the hostess truck in the beginning and you first hear all about Tallahassee love for twinkies. After Tallahassee walks up the hill Columbus says.......um, this might be a bad time but i have to take the browns to the superbowl.

now was he just making a random joke about how bad the browns are, or did i miss some other meaning behind this line....it had nothing to do with anything before during or after and was as random a line as random gets.....so wtf?

 

[dell71]

so i watched zombieland and i love you man again today. i love you man is funny the 3rd time.

let me ask you guys, was paul rudds dad in the film gay? i noticed at the end when he says to his 2 sons that they are both his best friends.....And Hank Mardukas

then they show hank in the wedding crowd and it occured to me that the dad might be gay and thats why he got along so well with the son.....

Its been a couple months since I watched it but iirc, whether or not his dad was gay was sort of a running joke.

here something from zombieland that bugs me.....so much so that i found a copy of the original script to verify the line in the movie. Its right after they come to the hostess truck in the beginning and you first hear all about Tallahassee love for twinkies. After Tallahassee walks up the hill Columbus says.......um, this might be a bad time but i have to take the browns to the superbowl.

now was he just making a random joke about how bad the browns are, or did i miss some other meaning behind this line....it had nothing to do with anything before during or after and was as random a line as random gets.....so wtf?

I'm actually shocked you've never heard that said before. Its a euphemism for taking a dump. He's taking the BROWNS (brown being the color of most excrement) to the Super Bowl (toilet bowl).