When was the last time you saw a REALLY GOOD movie?

[imported_vr6]

last week. Napolean Dynamite.

 

[EpsiIon]

Originally posted by: myusername

Originally posted by: EpsiIon
EDIT: I'm realizing that this is turning into a good movies thread, which misses the point. I want to know about movies that are in your top five. Are there any that were released within the last few years?

So is it more important that they be in the top 5 ever or in the last (e.g.) 5 years?

Hmmm... good question. I would say the question is: "Are there any movies that were released in the past 3-5 years that you would put on your 'Top 10 Ever' list?" That's more of what I was getting at.

 

[Bv3]

Sideways was great but not in the top 10 ever for me. Lost in Translation is the only thing from the last 5 years that might make it on my list.

 

[Quasmo]

Unbreakable

 

[EpsiIon]

I am disapointed at the lack of responses after my third edit. I hoped that I wasn't wrong about today's movies. I hoped that I was just becoming jaded and that good movies really were still being made. Perhaps movies really have gotten horrible...

 

[mundane]

Probably a year ago, when I finally got around to watching Training Day. Since then, I've seen decent movies, but nothing that made a great impression on me (Ok, well maybe ROTK).

BTW - Gattaca is on sale @ BB for 7.50

 

[slpaulson]

For serious movies: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
For comendy: Shaun of the Dead.

I also enjoyed Saved, but it isn't as good as the others.

 

[everman]

I've watched about 20 foreign films this month from across the past century. Quite a few good ones, others are "very" strange (Faust (1994) was "really" wierd, but I reccomend it because it's just so odd and kinda funny).
Memento was mentioned....Irreversible has similarities but that movie is "not" for the faint of heart, it is gruesome and may make you sick or walk out.

 

[Reckoner]

If you guys don't mind subtitles, then definitely check out City of God also. It's a great movie about the drug trade/crime in Rio De Janeiro.

 

[myusername]

Originally posted by: EpsiIon
I am disapointed at the lack of responses after my third edit. I hoped that I wasn't wrong about today's movies. I hoped that I was just becoming jaded and that good movies really were still being made. Perhaps movies really have gotten horrible...

Well if you figure top 10 out of the last 75 years, the average still won't get you a hit in the last 5 .. Igby is definitely one of the top ten of the last 5 years, if you are looking for a great film to watch, but I don't know how it would weigh out against the last 7 decades.

A lot of it has to do with staying power - History is defined by the people who create it in the present, but this can be warped by the growing existence of media in our everyday lives.

Many people remember being absolutely awestruck at Star Wars IV, and someone somewhere is putting it on their top 10 of all time list - not because it stands on its own as better than all the others, but because that is how they remember it. Part of this, aside from a successful archetypical storyline, was the special effects.

Do you remember when terminator 2 came out? People were absolutely BLOWN AWAY .. up to a year later you could ask someone the best sci-fi movie of all time, and T2 would be the answer. Of course then Michael Jackson did his whole superbowl thing and that was enough of "morphing".

Same thing with the Matrix. When you walked out of the theater that first time you saw it, did you not think to yourself - while still feeling ice run up and down your spine - "That was the most goddamned amazing thing I have ever seen!"

6th Sense anyone?

American Beauty was beloved by all, and then what happened since then? Was it 9/11? Now you ask anyone and it was over-the-top bohemian schmaltz. I disagree strongly with that, but what have I got to go on other than instinct? (for surely that was a visceral film). If everyone you know, and all the magazines you read and all the webboards you frequent and all the tv you watch tell you that it was overrated, who are you to disagree?

IMO, the problem is not with the films but with society.

 

[dbk]

Recently, Million Dollar Baby

 

[Juno]

Harold and Kumar Goes to White Castle.

 

[AreaCode707]

I haven't seen it, but Life Is Beautiful was getting classed as one of those top films, when it came out. But then, you know I pick from the last 100 or so years anyhow. I recommend Blackboard Jungle as a REALLY good dramatic film. Ghandi is also fabulous.

 

[Quasmo]

I watched Virtuosity in class tonight it was ok but we saw it cause my Professor Edited it. He also edited POWER RANGERS: TURBO!!!!

 

[AAman]

Training Day can never seriously be even used in the same sentence as the
word 'great' <SHUDDER>

I haven't seen a few of the movies mentioned, but most were okay, mediocre, and utter crap.
Gattaca is great though. Did Rushmore come out in the last 5 years? If so, that's on my top 5 list.
But, there just haven't been any 'great' movies in quite awhile, excluding the amazing production of LOTR.
All my favorites/top movies are from a few to many years ago.

I did see 2 'good' movies in the last week- Kinsey, and Hotel Ruanda. Two good movies is a record for the last several years.

 

[drum]

I enjoyed Garden State.
as far as movies that are frequently on TV, shawshank is great, as well as good will hunting. plus they filmed all prison scenes in my hometown for shawshank

 

[spunkz]

Fellowship of the Ring