I was thinking Lion King. I checked IMDB and it looks like it has better ratings than Toy Story and Shrek.
Cruella was such fun I bought it. Cracking sound track too!
I didn’t think your going to find one, but the best chance you will have is to find a move that older white men consistently like because that seems to be the dominant demographic here. You can almost immediately rule out any foreign films, or movies with a large non white male cast.
I’ll nominate My Cousin Vinny. I haven’t heard of anyone who doesn’t like it. Maybe Trading Places too?
As for Saturday Night Fever, I’m not saying it’s a good movie or not a good movie, but I hated it.
Trading Places is one of my favorite films but it includes one use of the n-word (by one of the villains) and Dan Aykroyd in blackface.
I liked Rocky, not so much the sequels.
The Lost Boys
Jaws
To Wong Fu thanks for everything! Julie Newmar
Thelma and Louise- who didn’t like T&L?
Is there a poll yet?
I lack the facility to create a poll in which any subsequent poster is able to offer a new nominee - which has not been nominated before, and any single no vote removes/strikes through a nominee.
Haven’t seen means I abstain. Abstaining is not voting against. Now if everybody bar one abstains on a certain movie, the proposal was evidently erroneous. I’d say we handle that problem then, I don’t think it is a likely outcome.
This said, I abstain for all Disney movies. That is not voting against. That is not wanting to see them and not wanting to talk about them.
I guess you and I have a very different take on the concept “refinement”. Since M-TV films are cut fast (well, since Natural Born Killers, I’d say, which really looked like M-TV on steroids), scenes are short, CGI is so much better than Jurassic Park now (no vote against Jurassic Park that, just a point of reference for CGI), the technique for manipulating audiences so they can’t stop watching is almost scientific today, and very interesting to observe, but that is not refinement.
ETA: And yes, this is a vote against Natural Born Killers, should anyone propose that abomination.
Ooh, good one. I saw it for the first time last year (I think), and made my whole family watch it as soon as I could. So fun! But I don’t know if everyone will love it, because people are people.
My wife. The running joke in our house is that she has never been able to stay awake through the entire movie. It is, of course, my favorite movie of all times (and not because of my wife’s sleeping).
For my nomination in the thread, how about Harvey? Jimmy Stewart and a 6-foot tall invisible rabbit. How can you not love it?
(and, now, I’m going to go back and read the entire thread)
Also a favorite of lawyers who note that most of the courtroom parts of it are actually accurate.
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Yes, very good choice!
I love that movie! But, again, people’s sense of humour is the Great Divider. I think the OP question is fundamentally flawed as there’s probably no movie ever made that absolutely everyone likes, especially the comedies.
Yes, I second this. This movie is perfect from beginning to end.
A big favorite of ours. We probably watch once a year and still laugh every time. Jimmy Stewart thought he was too young for the role (and maybe he is), but he was still very good in the part. A similar movie Arsenic and Old Lace is pretty good, too, EXCEPT for Cary Grant’s over-the-top chewing of the scenery. And he’s usually good in this type of comedy. As he is in My Girl Friday. I’ll add my vote to that one.
We were poor when I was growing up, so I didn’t see movies in the theaters except maybe once a year. Instead, I watched all the old 1930s and 1940s movies on TV. I developed a taste for them that more modern movies with all their technical slickness don’t satisfy.
Wait, we are looking for a movie that everyone on the straight dope message board thinks it’s at least good? Not one that, i dunno, 95% of Americans would agree is good?
No, just one that those of us participating in this thread agree is decent. I don’t think we can do it!
I haven’t seen the movie (although maybe I should based on the comments in this thread), but that makes no sense. Treason is very specifically defined in the U.S. Constitution as levying war against the U.S. or giving “aid and comfort” to its enemies. Supporting a cause in which the U.S. is neutral doesn’t cut it.
From what I can find in a Google search, the movie is vague about why Rick can’t return to the U.S., with lots of speculation by various parties, but nothing definitive—and certainly not treason.
I’ll second that one. Or third it, or whatever. Good stuff, and I don’t recall ever seeing or hearing anything negative about it.
Two that are generally well-regarded, and in my view endlessly entertaining:
- Rear Window
- The Maltese Falcon
Another great Hitchcock (in my view), North by Northwest, has been mentioned and disqualified. But neither RW nor TMF has been mentioned yet.