100 Movies to Miss Before You Die

[infinite monkey]

1) Battleship.

Really, a movie based on that GAME? I'm making a movie about Hungry Hungry Hippos.

Here's the trailer: you see a black screen, and hear munching sounds. The sounds grow louder. All of a sudden, the face of a hippo appears, almost grinning as he masticates. The voiceover says:

"In a world where food is scarce and chaos rules, hungry hippos fight with man in a life and death race for dominance."

Movie poster tagline: The Food Chain Just Got Serious.

Still working on it, though. I also have some ideas for Twister (not the tornado kind, that movie sucked enough in its own right) and Scrabble (In a world where words matter and letters are scarce...)

[glatt]

I enjoyed this line from a review of Battleship.

"With eyes closed, the movie uncannily resembles a giant baby playing with pots and pans. "

[infinite monkey]

[DanaC]

2. Titanic

Never watched it. Have no intention of ever watching. *shugs* I know the ending :p

[Happy Monkey]

I liked a bit of an interview about Battleship. They were trying to figure out the plot, as there really isn't a credible threat to the modern US Navy. Therefore, aliens!

Not to mention the fact that we don't have battleships anymore; I guess the titular vessel is the alien ship.

[BigV]

Meet the Fockers.

I'll never get those two hours back and *yes* I am still bitter about it.

[infinite monkey]

1) Battleship
2) Titanic
3) Meet the Fockers
4) Eat Pray Love

[DanaC]

5. Crash...yeah I know it's supposed to be something special, but it just sounds dul as fuck to me

6. Boxing Helena - the plot just sounds like movieland trying to wrastle with insecure gender roles and play out a fantasy of a helpless woman, who starts out feisty and then falls for her captor. I read the plot and it disgusted me.


[eta] worse even than i thought: according to wiki, the woman at first (helpless, after an accident now with no legs, and then no arms) emasculates her captor (and mutilator) with taunts and a sharp tongue, then softens and falls for him.

[infinite monkey]

I have to be objective and put them all on the list, but I gotta say...Crash is awesome, imho.

1) Battleship
2) Titanic
3) Meet the Fockers
4) Eat Pray Love
5) Crash *
6) Boxing Helena




*thread initiator objection noted

[infinite monkey]

1) Battleship
2) Titanic
3) Meet the Fockers
4) Eat Pray Love
5) Crash *
6) Boxing Helena
7-14) Harry Potter and The Whatever's Anything
15-17) Lord of the Rings ad nauseam

[infinite monkey]

Originally Posted by infinite monkey

I have to be objective and put them all on the list, but I gotta say...Crash is awesome, imho.

Oh, plus I love the acting. Thandie Newton, Don Cheadle, Sandra Bullock does a good job in this one, Michael Pena...I could go on and on, but especially Terrence Howard who has a little somethin' somethin' je ne sais quoi that makes my belly do flips.

[DanaC]

ok. That slightly changes my view. Maybe I (pre)judged too quickly on Crash. You're the first person who's really raved it to me. And having seen some of your previous movielikes that makes it at least worth a shot.


Please remove Crash :p

[classicman]

I love the LotR - so I cannot agree there, but
Showgirls
Kill Bill (I think there were a couple)
Eyes Wide Shut (I wish mine were, at least I could have napped)
Twilight Series

[Sundae]

Interview With a Vampire

[infinite monkey]

If you really want me to remove Crash I will but it's OK if it's on the list...I was going to come back and try to get you to watch it. It was one of those I got cheap and hadn't seen and was like "Best Picture...whut?" and I watched it and loved it. I watched it again the very next day. And again a couple weeks later. It's about racism but it really looks at it from so many points of view it really made me think. Let me know if you watch it if you like it or not. I'd offer to lend it but I lent it to the 'rents and they haven't watched it. I think I scared them off with my insistence on them seeing 127 Hours.

edit: I just saw there was another Crash made in 1996, with James Spader and Holly Hunter. This is NOT the one I've seen, but it's probably why I was never interested in the 2004 Crash...completely different kind of movie for sure.

classic: I know, but you know how I feel about movies about little kids running around in otherworlds...just not my cup o' tea.

1) Battleship
2) Titanic
3) Meet the Fockers
4) Eat Pray Love
5) Crash *
6) Boxing Helena
7-14) Harry Potter and The Whatever's Anything
15-17) Lord of the Rings ad nauseam
18) Showgirls
19) Kill Bill
20) Eyes Wide Shut
21) Twilight
22) Interview With a Wampire