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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? |
Fight Club
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Lord of the Rings (FOTR) Apocalypse Now The Godfather Babe (yes, the talking pig movie) |
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. |
A Clockwork Orange
Apocalypse Now Blade Runner The Godfather 1,2 One Flew Over The Cukoo's Nest Angel Heart Dog Day Afternoon |
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. |
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? |
Godfather 1,2
The Usual Suspects Fight Club American History X thats all i got for now....maybe more later |
Princess Mononoke
The Shawshank Redemption Catch Me If You Can |
Vanilla Sky
Dune (I don't care what you think) Seven Samurai Drunken Master 2 Starship Troopers |
The silence of the lambs
almost famous dead poets society . . . more to come when I think of them |
Deer Hunter
The Shining On another note: Groundhog Day (3 1/2 stars) |
Good Will Hunting
Pulp Fiction The Usual Suspects One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest A Clockwork Orange Forrest Gump Goodfellas |
Gladiator
The Rock Shawshank Redemption |
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.:confused: |
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 |
The good, bad and the ugly. Classic movie
Michael Collins. He was a great man |
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)... |
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 |
Memento
Fight Club Se7en Forrest Gump Goodfellas Pulp Fiction Lord of the Rings: FOTR The Shawshank Redemption Vanilla Sky There are just so many |
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.. |
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. |
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. |
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 |
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 |
The Sting
Kelly's Heroes A Fish Called Wanda The Usual Suspects Gofather 1 and 2 (Not 3) All classics. |
A Beautiful Mind
Big Antwone Fisher only movies I could think of off the top of my head, but not my fave movies. |
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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Sure, they aren't going to be timeless classics, but I think they are pretty damned funny! :p |
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.. |
Clockwork Orange
Snatch Pulp Fiction |
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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" ... "Magnolia" "Punch Drunk Love" :/ |
Casino
One Hour Photo Secretary Gosford Park |
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. |
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 |
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´m going to stop myself here - but the list does go on... |
kubrick films ALL(minus eyes wide shut) top my list
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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. |
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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