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Old 07-23-2003, 02:56 PM   #1 (permalink)
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What do you consider to be real four star movies?

What movies come to mind when you think " four star film? " I'm curious to see how ideas compare between what are considered four star films by viewers, as opposed to critics.

My short list:

2001
Full Metal Jacket
Young Frankenstein
Gangs of New York
Dr Strangelove

Also, what, to you, makes a four star movie?
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Old 07-23-2003, 03:19 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Fight Club
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Lord of the Rings (FOTR)
Apocalypse Now
The Godfather
Babe (yes, the talking pig movie)
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Old 07-23-2003, 03:52 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Lawrence of Arabia
Seven Samurai
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

and just for kicks...Drunken Master 2

For me, a 4 star flick has to make me (I realize it sounds corney) care about the characters. Most movies nowadays I don't feel anything remotely close to that.

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Old 07-23-2003, 05:17 PM   #4 (permalink)
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A Clockwork Orange
Apocalypse Now
Blade Runner
The Godfather 1,2
One Flew Over The Cukoo's Nest
Angel Heart
Dog Day Afternoon
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Old 07-23-2003, 06:40 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Almost everything mentioned and,

The Royal Tenenbaums
Amelie
Sexy Beast

For a few newer ones.

Brazil
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
12 Monkeys

I'm a Terry Gilliam fan.

Casablanca
Key Largo
Rope
Citizen Kane
The Manchurian Candidate

For some classics.

Princess Mononoke
The Animatrix
Spirited Away
and of course Akira

For some anime.

There are many more, but those roll off the top of my head as movies that are four star simply because I can watch them a hundred times and still find something new every time.
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Old 07-23-2003, 06:48 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Fight Club
Lord of the Rings
Shawshank Redemption
The Godfather 1,2
Casablanca
Silence of the Lambs
One flew over the Cukoo's Nest
Oh Brother Where Art Thou?
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Old 07-23-2003, 09:35 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Godfather 1,2
The Usual Suspects
Fight Club
American History X

thats all i got for now....maybe more later
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Old 07-23-2003, 10:09 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Princess Mononoke
The Shawshank Redemption
Catch Me If You Can
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Old 07-23-2003, 10:20 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Vanilla Sky
Dune (I don't care what you think)
Seven Samurai
Drunken Master 2
Starship Troopers
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Old 07-24-2003, 07:23 PM   #10 (permalink)
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The silence of the lambs
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. . . more to come when I think of them
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Old 07-24-2003, 08:03 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Deer Hunter
The Shining


On another note:
Groundhog Day (3 1/2 stars)
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Old 07-24-2003, 10:09 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Good Will Hunting
Pulp Fiction
The Usual Suspects
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
A Clockwork Orange
Forrest Gump
Goodfellas
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Old 07-25-2003, 12:23 AM   #13 (permalink)
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Gladiator
The Rock
Shawshank Redemption
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Old 07-25-2003, 07:17 AM   #14 (permalink)
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My Top 12

The Apartment
Some Like It Hot
The Italian Job (The 1969 version)
My Fair Lady
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Lord of the Rings: FOTR
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Godfather
The Godfather II
The Jungle Book
The Shawshank Redemption
The Silence of the Lambs

Not many newish movies in my list I'm afraid.
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Old 07-25-2003, 11:45 AM   #15 (permalink)
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My top ten, in no particular order:

Caddyshack
Godfather 1 +2
Magnolia
Shawshank Redemption
Vanilla Sky
Lord of the Rings : FOTR
American History X
Pulp Fiction
Blow
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Old 07-25-2003, 03:00 PM   #16 (permalink)
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The good, bad and the ugly. Classic movie
Michael Collins. He was a great man
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Old 08-12-2003, 01:32 PM   #17 (permalink)
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I say there is typically only one true 4 star movie per year. For this year it's Pirates of the Caribbean. Last years pick would be Catch Me If You Can.

To be given the fourth star, a film should be head and shoulders above it's competition. I think it should be weighed against the films of the day, so as to compare apples to apple (Like trying to compare The Matrix v. Gone With the Wind)...
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Old 08-12-2003, 01:38 PM   #18 (permalink)
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Scarface
Snatch
The Silence of the Lambs
Saving Private Ryan
Black Hawk Down
Dogma
Training Day
Das Boot
Forrest Gump
Full Metal Jacket
and I agree with lurkette, Babe
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Old 08-12-2003, 02:15 PM   #19 (permalink)
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Memento
Fight Club
Se7en
Forrest Gump
Goodfellas
Pulp Fiction
Lord of the Rings: FOTR
The Shawshank Redemption
Vanilla Sky

There are just so many
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Old 08-14-2003, 10:35 PM   #20 (permalink)
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Let's see if I can find some not usually mentioned right away:

Twelve Angry Men
The Big Sleep
Anatomy of a Murder
Blazing Saddles
The Best Years of Our Lives
Being John Malkovich
The Red Violin
Fail-Safe
Nightmare Before Christmas
Rear Window

And many others..
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Old 08-15-2003, 12:23 AM   #21 (permalink)
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short, short list:
American Beauty
Ocean's Eleven
The Princess Bride
The Dark Crystal
Chasing Amy
Tombstone
Top Gun

I could go on forever with this list.
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Old 08-15-2003, 12:39 AM   #22 (permalink)
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2001
A Clockwork Orange
Full Metal Jacket
Young Frankenstein
Fight Club
LoTR:FoTR - EE
Apocalypse Now Redux
The Godfather
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
The Usual Suspects
Pulp Fiction
The Boondock Saints
Dogma
Ocean's Eleven

Basically anything by Kubrick, Coppola, Tarantino, Mel Brooks, or Kevin Smith is tops in my book.
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Old 08-15-2003, 10:09 AM   #23 (permalink)
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ooh Anything by Smith? poor porr lad.

I'd proally vote for:
Kikujiro
Brother
Perfect Blue
Nightmare before Xmas
Waking Life
Dancer in the Dark
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Old 08-15-2003, 10:47 AM   #24 (permalink)
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agreeing with irish2, the apartment is one of the best movies i've ever seen.
pulp fiction
dr. strangelove
the big lebowski
mr. smith goes to washington
duck soup
bringing up baby
brazil
twelve monkeys
akira
the deer hunter
south park: bigger, longer and uncut

i'm probably forgetting a bunch
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Old 08-16-2003, 04:23 AM   #25 (permalink)
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The Sting
Kelly's Heroes
A Fish Called Wanda
The Usual Suspects
Gofather 1 and 2 (Not 3)

All classics.
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Old 08-16-2003, 05:36 AM   #26 (permalink)
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A Beautiful Mind
Big
Antwone Fisher

only movies I could think of off the top of my head, but not my fave movies.
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Old 08-16-2003, 06:51 AM   #27 (permalink)
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I'm not so sure that just comparing a movie to others of that year to determine whether it merits 4 stars is the best way. Apparently that's how they decide the Oscars and some of those movies blow. But that's another subject.

For me, a 4 star movie has to be one in which I don't check my watch to see how long it's been on. One in which I can see characters, not actors, and stories, not hastily constructed plots.

A 4 star movie has to get me either thinking, talking, or reacting in some way afterward. It has to be one I'm willing to tell friends, "You have GOT to see this film." It can be social commentary, comedy, or any other genre.

It also has to be timeless. That is, it doesn't lose it's flavor as the years pass. It remains relevant, even if its predictions falter, like in 2001.To that end, some of my 4 star movies:

Magnolia
This is Spinal Tap
12 Angry Men
Vertigo
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Dances with Wolves
Life is Beautiful
Cinema Paradiso
The Right Stuff
and just about every other movie mentioned here as well.
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Old 08-16-2003, 09:07 AM   #28 (permalink)
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ooh Anything by Smith? poor porr lad.
What is wrong with Kevin Smith?

Sure, they aren't going to be timeless classics, but I think they are pretty damned funny!
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Old 08-16-2003, 10:08 AM   #29 (permalink)
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Hmm...

Lost and Delirious
Akira
Ghost in the Shell
American History X
Rat Race
The Fifth Element

Hmm.. there's more but those are the top of the favourites..
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Old 08-16-2003, 06:18 PM   #30 (permalink)
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Clockwork Orange
Snatch
Pulp Fiction
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Old 08-16-2003, 11:52 PM   #31 (permalink)
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Vanilla Sky
Dune (I don't care what you think)
Seven Samurai
Drunken Master 2
Starship Troopers
Ah, the superior movie Starship Troopers! This movie alone introduced me into the world of Heinlein and for this I will be forever grateful!

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Old 08-17-2003, 12:11 AM   #32 (permalink)
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I think that a four star movie is a movie that continues to play in your mind as you pour out into the parking lot. And continues to play in your mind on the way home. And you can't help but to talk about it for days. A four star movie is a movie that lingers...sticks in your craw...asking questions...A Meal. You feel full after a four star movie.

"O Brother, where art thou"
"Fight Club"
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"Magnolia"
"Punch Drunk Love"
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Old 08-17-2003, 02:28 AM   #33 (permalink)
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Gosford Park
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Old 08-17-2003, 03:24 AM   #34 (permalink)
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Pulp Fiction
Magnolia
Midnight Cowboy
Paths of Glory
Leon: The Professional
Grave of the Fireflies
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Airplane!
North by Northwest
West Side Story
Mulholland Drive
Silence of the Lambs
Tampopo
The Last Emperor
Amores Perros
Hamlet (the Kenneth Branagh one)
Die Hard
L.A. Confidential
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn
Kieslowski's Three Colors Triology

For some reason, Edward Scissorhands is the only movie that has moved me to tears.
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Old 08-17-2003, 08:30 AM   #35 (permalink)
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papillon
pulp fiction
jason and the argonauts
gladiator
the last emperor
terminator 2: judgement day
scarface
raging bull
the red violin
crouching tiger hidden dragon
the usual suspects
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Old 08-18-2003, 06:14 AM   #36 (permalink)
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wow.
so many incredible films.

ok, so heres the start of my list...

Nashville
Gosford Park
Mulholland Drive
Silence of the Lambs
Akira
Dr. Strangelove
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
Lord of the Rings
The Shawshank Redemption
Forrest Gump
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Princess Mononoke
Spirited Away
Amelie
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
American Psycho
Lantana
To Kill a Mockingbird
Braveheart
Gladiator


iエm going to stop myself here - but the list does go on...
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Old 08-18-2003, 12:30 PM   #37 (permalink)
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kubrick films ALL(minus eyes wide shut) top my list
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Old 08-18-2003, 09:38 PM   #38 (permalink)
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kubrick films ALL(minus eyes wide shut) top my list
What is wrong with Eyes Wide Shut?
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Old 08-19-2003, 07:30 PM   #39 (permalink)
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top of my head:
0) The Big Sleep (1946)
1) The Birth of the Nation (1915) - ground breaking film and powerfull compelling story
2) The Road films with Hope, Crosby, and Lamour - quick easy humour, fantastic music/singing, Dorothy is oh so easy on the eyes, and Bob and Bing played so well off of each other.
3) Whales of August (1987) - The only time you can see Lillian Gush (93 at the time), Bette Davis (one year before her death), and Vincent Price (two years before he died) together onscreen.
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Old 08-20-2003, 06:38 AM   #40 (permalink)
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Most everything I'll say has already been said:

Seven Samurai
The Big Lebowski
The Highlander
Clerks
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Usual Suspects
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Budo
Dr. Strangelove
Tombstone
The Princess Bride
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