knicksrip

I miss the days when filmmakers tried and cared about making film, not $$$.

Nostalgia for an age that never existed.

Quoted for truth, save student films, some indie stuff, and early blaxploitation pieces.

Twelve Monkeys

Hell yes. :lol:

Everybody's All-American

I think the way Whedon will write the character, she needs to be young and a bit awkward, a bit geeky, and capable of being very savage.

I know this will be an unpopular choice, but I think Lindsey Lohan fits the bill. She looks remarkably good for the role with black hair (and I'm not a big fan of her looks in general), and despite the fact that she has been in utter sh*t recently, the girl can act.

Other choices: Rachel McAdams, Rachel Leigh Cook, and Allison Lohman.

True, the show was in the gutter for awhile but now it's really kicked back up. I don't think anyone has really noticed since the Simpsons now tend to be overshadowed in some circles by Family Guy, South Park, and the Venture Bros. They're all good shows, but gotta' have respect for the progenitor. 8)

While I think these films shouldn't even be considered PART of the same series that housed Alien and Aliens, I think Alien 3 is worth watching if you can stand the nigh-unbearable sense of dread. David Fincher's directing and visual style nearly saves the film.

Alien Resurrection? Let's say Jean Pierre Jeunet was not the man for the job. Watch it... but it turn it off halfway through, right before it gets ridiculously stupid.

Little Man? Sorry, I only watch quality movies.

Like Soul Plane.

Alien 6? Did I miss 5 or something? And for the love of Christ, don't say AvP.

So, uhm, yeah... effects. I'm still trying to figure out why the very first spacefight from The Fifth Element looks better than the rest of the movie or just about 99% of anything else out there.

I break CGI into two categories nowadays... fantastical and realistic. I guess fantastical CGI shouldn't look realistic, so if you want to compare a film like, say, Revenge of the Sith to movies that came before it, yeah, I guess CGI has advanced.

At the same time, there are realistic "fog" effects like those in Silent Hill, and I can't say those look too convincing. Or even the way Spiderman moves in Spiderman 1 and 2 is supposed to be more real than fantastical (despite the comic book tone)... and I have to say it's pretty unimpressive.

I guess the main difference is that for the former, if you can tell it's all FX, that's all right. For the latter, however, it's still pretty unimpressive if you've noticed anything too shiny, etc.

I could never be that much on drugs.

Where the heck are Mario or Half-Life in that contest?

Powerless Puff Girl

no, just kidding... :roll:

"Superless"

"Merely Invincible"

"Incredibly Normal"

"Half Girl, Half Unamazing"

"(non)Hero"

"Your Average Heroine"

"Faster than a Speeding Drama Queen"

"Wonderbread Woman"

"The Amazing Story of Your Average Everygirl"

Sorry I'm late to the party, but I'm also new to the site.

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Hello, all! :)

Pardon the list...

2005 - Brokeback Mountain (I liked Crash, but BM... hardy har har... was in a different stratosphere)
2004 - Million Dollar Baby (all the films nominated were pretty mediocre, IMO... Hotel Rwanda should have gotten it)
2003 - Return of the King
2002 - The Pianist (but I was perfectly happy with Chicago winning and The Two Towers getting nominated)
2001 - In the Bedroom
2000 - Traffic
1999 - The Insider
1998 - Saving Private Ryan
1997 - LA Confidential
1996 - The English Patient (although Shine and Jerry Maguire are both great movies, too)
1995 - Apollo 13
1994 - Shawshank Redemption
1993 - Schindler's List
1992 - The Crying Game (fat chance this movie ever had of winning)
1991 - The Prince of Tides or Beauty and the Beast
1990 - Dances with Wolves
1989 - Driving Miss Daisy
1988 - Working Girl
1987 - The Last Emperor (although this was also a rather lousy year)
1986 - The Mission
1985 - Kiss of the Spider Woman (see The Crying Game)
1984 - Amadeus
1983 - Tender Mercies
1982 - Gandhi
1981 - Raiders of the Lost Ark
1980 - The Elephant Man
1979 - Kramer vs. Kramer
1978 - The Deer Hunter
1977 - Annie Hall
1976 - Rocky
1975 - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1974 - Chinatown
1973 - The Exorcist
1972 - Cabaret (sorry, Godfather fans)
1971 - Fiddler on the Roof (tough call, though... Clockwork Orange and French Connection are both remarkable films and deserving in their own right)
1970 - Five Easy Pieces
1969 - Anne of the Thousand Days
1968 - Oliver! (although The Lion in Winter is tremendous movie)
1967 - In the Heat of the Night
1966 - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1965 - Doctor Zhivago
1964 - Dr. Strangelove
1963 - Tom Jones
1962 - Lawrence of Arabia
1961 - West Side Story (tough call over Judgment at Nuremburg, though)
1960 - The Apartment
1959 - The Diary of Anne Frank
1958 - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1957 - 12 Angry Men
1956 - The King and I (all the other nominees--and the eventual winner, Around the World--are so bad, and The King and I was so good, this one was really a shame)
1955 - Marty (this year was as good as 1956 was bad)
1954 - On the Waterfront
1953 - From Here to Eternity
1952 - High Noon (with the Quiet Man also nominated, what the hell were they thinking giving it to The Greatest Show on Earth?!)
1951 - A Streetcar Named Desire
1950 - All About Eve
1949 - The Heiress
1948 - The Treasure of Sierra Madre (and it lost to the stodgiest Hamlet ever... damn)
1947 - Gentleman's Agreement
1946 - The Best Years of Our Lives
1945 - Spellbound
1944 - Double Indemnity
1943 - For Whom the Bell Tolls
1942 - jesus, none of them...
1941 - Citizen Kane, in a heartbeat
1940 - The Grapes of Wrath
1939 - Gone with the Wind
1938 - The Adventures of Robin Hood
1937 - The Good Earth

Ehh, that's probably far enough. To be honest, I haven't seen enough of the films prior to this date to even be fair.

My apologies if a similar topic has already been started.

My picks:

- Pearl Harbor (the teaser)
- Ultraviolet
- Judge Dredd
- League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
- Fantastic Four (trailer with APC music)
- The Phantom Menace

It's not my favorite film of all time (that goes to Return of the King), but I think Citizen Kane is probably the best-made film, yes.

I'm going to half to echo Half-Baked.

But my favorite shameful admission is probably The Joy Luck Club. Beautiful movie. Chick flick.

One of my favorites. :oops:

Hillbillies in the Haunted House edges out The Beast of Yuca Flats, Manos: The Hands of Fate, Battlefield Earth, the Planet of the Apes remake, and Night of the Lepus.

I think this looks abysmal, personally.

This is so not as good as any of the fake entries that were already posted, but I suck at Photoshop and I don't have it installed anyway. So this was done on Publisher in like 20 minutes.

http://img495.imageshack.us/img495/9141/movieposter4lx.jpg

LOL