List 5 GOOD Movies and 5 BAD Movies

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The currently active thread Define “bad movie”. that CanvasShoes started, has generated some great response. To add some meat to the bones of that thread, list 5 each of “really good” and “really bad” movies, based on your own criteria for those ends of the spectrum.

If possible, add new names to the list already generated by earlier replies.

GOOD Movies:

Cool Hand Luke
The Godfather
Blade Runner
Schindler’s List
No Country For Old Men

BAD Movies:

Posse
Instant Justice
Harlem Nights
The Island of Dr. Moreau
Rhinestone

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Good movies:

Unforgiven
Saving Private Ryan
Groundhog Day
Aliens
Lord of the Rings

Bad Movies:

Hear No Evil
Mixed Nuts
Nothing But Trouble
Full Fathom Five
The Seeker

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Good:
Superman I
Superman II
Superman III
Superman Returns
Beavis & Butt-head Do America

Bad:
Superman IV
Look Who’s Talking Too
Wag the Dog
Beverly Hillbillies
Bedazzled (newer version)

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good
Citizen Kane
Elephant Man
Last Emoeror
Deerhunter
Apocalyse Now
Bad
Judge Dredd
Twins
Bride of Chucky
G.I. Jane
Mommie Dearest

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Good

Goonies,
Planes Trains and Automobiles,
Shawshank Redemption,
The Green Mile,
Saving Private Ryan,

Bad

Batman and Robin,
Batman Forever,

That’s all I can think of, since I tend to neither watch, nor remember the name of bad films,

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Zeldar Somehow, clicking your link logs me out of the SDMB.
edit: because it’s a link to an ip address instead of a resolved name :dubious:

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It worked for me:
http://208.100.26.199/sdmb/showthread.php?t=464782

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Probably because you’re browsing from it already. whereas I’m browsing from Straight Dope Message Board - Your direct line to thousands of the smartest, hippest people on the planet, plus a few total dipsticks..

Anyway it doesn’t matter. I don’t want to derail your thread.

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Good

Amadeus
Sling Blade
Shakespeare in Love
Unforgiven
The Postman(yeah yeah yeah…so what. I like it)

Bad

White Chicks
Little Man
I am Legend
Rambo
Rope

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I thought of the final 3…

Alien versus Predator
Epic Movie
Superbad (I don’t know what all the fuss was about. It’s unmemorable)

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Good Movies:

No Country for Old Men
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
High Fidelity
Sense and Sensibility
Fargo

Bad Movies:

Dreamcatcher
Cold Creek Manor
Elektra
The Road to Wellville
Bulletproof Monk

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Good

A Man for All Seasons
The Seven Samurai
Spartacus
Forbidden Planet
1776
Bad

The Giant Claw
Tales from the Past (aka Gallery of Horrors, aka Dr. Terror’s Gallery of Horrors – not to be confused with Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors)
The Eliminators
Jake Speed
Young Doctors in Love

Bad, but with Redeeming Value

Plan Nine from Outer Space
Robot Monster
Starship Troopers
Angry Red Planet

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Good Movies:

  1. Pulp Fiction/ Clerks (tie)
  2. Battle Royale (but the Book/Manga was WAAAY better)
  3. Hot Fuzz/Sean of the Dead (tie)
  4. Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
  5. Stranger than Fiction
  6. Butch Cassady And the Sundance Kid

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Bad Movies** (this is much harder for me, as i rarely think films are “Bad”)

  1. BloodRayne
  2. The Village
  3. Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan :smack:
  4. Son of the Mask
  5. Kazaam!
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Good

It’s a Wonderful Life
The Best Years of Our Lives
Stripes
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn
Ghostbusters

Bad
Star Trek V, The Final Frontier
Taps
Curse of the Pink Panther
Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
Son of the Mask

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Good
Duck Soup
Citizen Kane
City Lights
The General (Buster Keaton)
Crash (Oscar winner)

Bad
Alien
Battlefield Earth
Mitchell
Killers from Space
The Wild World of Batwoman.

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Good Movies
Round Midnight
The Conversation
Silver Streak
9 to 5
The Breakfast Club

Bad Movies
For Love of the Game
27 Dresses
Gladiator
Hidalgo
Batman and Robin

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Good:
Terminator 2
Star Wars
Back to the Future
Boondock Saints
The Blues Brothers

Bad:
Dirty Dancing
White Chicks
Alien 3
Night at the Museum
Chasing Amy

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Trying not to duplicate…
Good
Big Night
A Fish Called Wanda
The Magnificent Seven
Blazing Saddles
Road to Perdition

Bad
Starcrash
Krull
Mousehunt
Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers: The Movie
The Prophecy 3: The Ascent

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The Breakfast Club

Stranger Than Fiction (Emma was awesome)

1776

Fargo

Schindler’s List

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Good:
The Incredibles
Enter the Dragon
Brick
Serenity
Cannibal! the Musical

Bad:
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
The Stupids
The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
Varsity Blues
Saved by the Bell: Hawaiian Style