What you see from the mid '90s on are a lot of mediocre studio films -- more so than the '80s in terms of craftsmanship and general appeal -- with a handful of "big movies" every year (be it TITANIC or FORREST GUMP or SPEED) carrying much of the load. It starts to fizzle more and more as it drags ...

Man the 90s had a lot of bad studio movies...as I'm remembering going through releases like this. :lol:


Yes, the 90s did have more than their share of bad studio films, especially in the last few years of the decade: 1997, 1998, and 1999. I might have been young in 1999 but whenever I hear ...

Man the 90s had a lot of bad studio movies...as I'm remembering going through releases like this. :lol:


Yes, the 90s did have more than their share of bad studio films, especially in the last few years of the decade: 1997, 1998, and 1999. I might have been young in 1999 but whenever I hear ...

Heh, I have an affection for Xanadu, largely due to the killer soundtrack and the charm of Olivia Newton-John and Gene Kelly (that big band song and dance scene is a little jewel). Yes, Michael Beck is out of his element, and some scenes are quite tacky. But I liked its generous spirit.

And, I just ...

I remember when this was released even though I never saw it.... Even then, it seemed puzzling at the low wattage cast with only two household names in the cast.....it did sink at the box office as opposed to what Warner was expecting. Perhaps the greatest irony is how it shows how quickly CGI dates ...

Yet another unnecessary sequel..... Gremlins 2 in 1990 was a bliss-out, far better than #1, but that was 35 years ago, a time when blockbusters, even sequels, felt more organic than now, where everything is so dull.

I do prefer the original with Bogart, but there is no denying that this version is visually stunning, with remarkable cinematography and production design, and Senn Penn gave a very good performance.

The Pascal build-up is confusing to me. In fairness, I have not watched the TV series that made him a "name" or whatever that means in these days of fractured programming. But all these sudden leading roles for someone that didn't register before is very, very odd.

I didn't realize until after I posted that the Times actually listed the Readers Top 500 films.

101. Synecdoche, New York
102. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
103. Punch-Drunk Love
104. Nope
105. American Psycho
106. Poor Things
107. The Lives of Others
108. Hot Fuzz
109. Challengers
110 ...

These were the reader's picks. A lot of overlap with the films on the official list.

1. Parasite
2. Mulholland Drive
3. No Country for Old Men
4. There Will Be Blood
5. Interstellar
6. The Dark Knight
7. Mad Max: Fury Road
8. Spirited Away
9. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
10. The Social ...

My votes were for...

In the Mood for Love (2000)
The New World (2005)
A Prairie Home Companion (2006)
Zodiac (2007)
Atonement (2007)
Never Let Me Go (2010)
About Time (2013)
45 Years (2015)
20th Century Women (2016)
Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022)

Strange how the announcement for an upcoming sequel to an 80s film so savagely skewers Disney's endless beatings of a dead horse with remakes and sequels (although WB and Paramount get ribbed a bit as well)

I had already forgotten she won! :lol:


Forty/fifty years from now, when Saldana passes, she'll be referred to as "Oscar winner..." in obits, and people will look back at what she won for, and be like -- :oops:


It's already embarrassing now! Emilia Perez was such a bad film, so completely ...

But I think it's fair to say we all have a line which taints a performer once it's been crossed -- certainly in regard to certain types of roles. It's hard for me to look at the childlike Pee-Wee Herman after Paul Reubens' "movie theater incident". It's hard to accept John Lennon waxing lyrical ...

I think everyone has at least one performer and/or director that gets on their nerves due to their personal conduct. I know I have a small handful , but will also concede that I admired some of their work (I think Mia Farrow is a very dubious woman at best and her claim that Woody Allen had his way ...