Best and Worst (and maybe Guilty Favorite) Thread

[mkaroly]

Terry Gilliam:

Best - THE FISHER KING
Guilty Favorite - THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN
Worst - FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS

[AndyDursin]

I think we should add overrated Michael -- this is a great idea!

Gilliam:

Best: TIME BANDITS
Worst: FEAR & LOATHING (or anything from THE BROTHERS GRIMM afterwards)
Guilty Pleasure: Nothing really qualifies
Overrated: BRAZIL

[mkaroly]

Thanks!

I would agree - BRAZIL overrated.

[andy b]

Stanley Kubrick

Best - A Clock Work Orange

Worst - Eyes Wide Shut

Guilty - 2001 A Space Odyssey / Paths of Glory

Over Rated - Full Metal Jacket

[andy b]

Clint Eastwood

Best - Million Dollar Baby

Worst - Pink Cadillac

Guilty -Every Which Way But Loose / Any Which Way You Can

Over Rated - Unforgiven

[mkaroly]

Stanley Kubrick

Best - A Clock Work Orange

Worst - Eyes Wide Shut

Guilty - 2001 A Space Odyssey / Paths of Glory

Over Rated - Full Metal Jacket

Best: Dr. Strangelove
Worst: Eyes Wide Shut (by a longshot!)
Don't really have a guilty favorite Kubrick film.
Overrated: Lolita

[Eric Paddon]

Alfred Hitchcock

Best-Psycho

Worst-Marnie

Overrated-Vertigo

Guilty Pleasure-The Birds

[AndyDursin]

I think we need to go one at a time or else it will just be a random thread and people will miss some of them, no?

Michael should let us know when he's ready for the next director as he started this thread

[mkaroly]

It is totally cool...to be honest it was meant to be a random thing where people could post whatever and others could respond whenever. I wasn't sure how else to do it without creating individual topics on each person.

[AndyDursin]

OK proceed as before then

Andyb -- what's guilty about enjoying 2001 or PATHS OF GLORY? I think most consider those to be classics.

[Paul MacLean]

Stanley Kubrick:
Best -- Barry Lyndon
Guilty Favorite -- Don't really have one
Worst -- Full Metal Jacket

Martin Scorsese:
Best -- Casino
Guilty Favorite -- Wolf of Wall Street
Worst -- tie: Age of Innocence & Cape Fear

George Lucas:
Best -- Star Wars
Guilty Favorite -- The Phantom Menace
Worst -- Attack of the Clones

Bond Movies:
Best -- On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Guilty Favorite -- The Man With the Golden Gun
Worst -- To Time to Die

[andy b]

OK proceed as before then

Andyb -- what's guilty about enjoying 2001 or PATHS OF GLORY? I think most consider those to be classics.

Andy

I think it is because so many people I have come across think Paths is "dated & depressing" but I think it is terrific. 2001, because many these days just seem to think it is strange & I worked on this for MGM UK & loved it since day one (for those who may be interested it was a hard sell), so I think I was trying to politically correct. But should of remembered on this board it is a friendly place & it is okay to like or dislike things. Also, I find I wander back to this for many repeat viewings, because i enjoy them so much.

regards
Andy b

[AndyDursin]

Understood, but no reason to plead guilty here on those I agree with you on both.

Some random lists to follow up:

Stanley Kubrick
Best -- 2001
Worst -- Eyes Wide Shut
Overrated -- Lolita

Martin Scorsese:
Best -- Goodfellas
Worst -- Silence
Overrated: The Departed

George Lucas:
Best -- Star Wars
Guilty Favorite -- The Phantom Menace
Worst -- Attack of the Clones

Bond Movies:
Best -- Goldfinger
Guilty Pleasure -- Moonraker
Worst -- Spectre/No To Time to Die
Overrated -- From Russia With Love

[mkaroly]

Alfred Hitchcock

Best-Psycho

Worst-Marnie

Overrated-Vertigo

Guilty Pleasure-The Birds

While I have seen nearly all of Hitchcock's films, I have to limit myself to stuff to the period of 1940 to 1976.

Best: Rear Window
Worst: I don't know...lol...I don't even remember what TOPAZ, UNDER CAPRICORN, or FRENZY were about. I can't answer this one...I would have to go back and watch those films again.
Overrated: Spellbound
Guilty Favorite: Vertigo

[mkaroly]

George Lucas:
Best -- Star Wars
Guilty Favorite -- The Phantom Menace
Worst -- Attack of the Clones

Bond Movies:
Best -- On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Guilty Favorite -- The Man With the Golden Gun
Worst -- To Time to Die

George Lucas:
Best: Empire Strikes Back
Worst: Episodes 7, 8, and 9 as a collective whole
Guilty Favorite: Revenge of the Sith

Bond Movies:
Best: OHMSS
Worst: The Man with the Golden Gun or A View to A Kill (though based on what I read about No Time to Die, if I saw it that one would probably win)
Guilty Pleasure: Moonraker (totally with you on that one Andy!)
Overrated: The Spy Who Loved Me