you get one choice. Don’t list your top three, or tell us the five you have been tossing about in your brain. Just give us a title, and a reason if you care to.
My choice.
Goodfellas
I know this will bring howls of protest, but it really isn’t that good of a movie. It’s longevity has been helped in large part by the quotability of the movie.
What do you mean I’m funny?
Now go home and get your fuckin’ shinebox.
Jimmy was the kind of guy that rooted for bad guys in the movies.
I’m an average nobody… get to live the rest of my life like a schnook.
A decent mobster movie, sure, but not an 8.8 out of 10 good, and not number 16 on the top 250 movies of all time good.
Every time I watch it, it appeals to me less and less. The final act, with Henry being chased by the helicopter and running around making meatballs and cutting cocaine, while trying to sell guns to Jimmy just falls flat compared to the rest of the movie. And Ray Liotta never worked for me as the main character, Henry Hill.
Last Tango in Paris. Mike Royko wrote a column about how he hated Brando’s character. My take on it was neither as well reasoned or well written. I just found it depressing, and worse, boring.
A mediocre picture. I’m generally fond of Nolan’s more cerebral approach to story but the flat-characters and exposition-laden dialog made for a dull experience – I don’t care if the city of Paris folded in half.
Let’s not forget the motive: “we’re going to go into a dream within a dream within a dream to plant an idea, so then this evil energy company will use its political muscle to allow me to see my kids. Too bad no one in the future has invented video conferencing technology. If only we had Skype. Too bad there’s no way the father-in-law I’m on good terms with could bring my children here to France for a vacation. Nope, gotta plunge myself into the Matrix – er, dream world.”
(This comes from someone whose favorite movie of all time is Caddyshack and who thinks that Bill Murray is one of the best comedic actors in the past 50 years)
Titanic and Forrest Gump never bothered me. I never expected them to be serious movies so I wasn’t disappointed. I went to see them expecting them to be good entertainment and they worked fine on that level. They’re good movies in the same way that Raiders of the Lost Ark is a good movie.