Bluemoon's Official Top 100 Films

Cellarite said:
It’s good, but I think a lot of people are trying too hard to go against popular consensus when choosing it over Pulp Fiction.
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Spot on fella Pulp Fiction is just a better film, Jackie Brown is pretty good but that’s about it really.
 
hilts said:
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Spot on fella Pulp Fiction is just a better film, Jackie Brown is pretty good but that’s about it really.
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There’s a reason that popular films are popular - because a lot of fucking people like them. It isn’t difficult.

“Let me put my tweed jacket and monocle on and think of an obscure, Paraguayan movie about a fisherman with a cleft lip so people think I’m intelligent.”

Nah, you’re ok mate, just put fucking True Romance on and stop pissing about. There’s Minstrels to be eaten here.
 
Cellarite said:
There’s a reason that popular films are popular - because a lot of fucking people like them. It isn’t difficult.

“Let me put my tweed jacket and monocle on and think of an obscure, Paraguayan movie about a fisherman with a cleft lip so people think I’m intelligent.”

Nah, you’re ok mate, just put fucking True Romance on and stop pissing about. There’s Minstrels to be eaten here.
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True romance made my top 20, that pisses on Jackie Brown as well.
 
hilts said:
I think he helped write the screenplay but it was directed by Tony Scott I think. My favourite that he was involved in.
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He wrote it, and was gonna direct, but got fed up and sold the script, he still considers it one of his best stories.

He wasn't originally happy as the only change Scott made was giving thmw a happy ending, but accepted he passed the directing gig over so accepted the slight change.

It is a tarantino film,
 
BlueHammer85 said:
6. Pulp Fiction 14/162

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Pulp Fiction is a 1994 American neo-noir black comedy crime film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, who conceived it with Roger Avary. Starring John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis, Tim Roth, Ving Rhames, and Uma Thurman, it tells several stories of criminal Los Angeles. The title refers to the pulp magazines and hardboiled crime novels popular during the mid-20th century, known for their graphic violence and punchy dialogue.

Tarantino wrote Pulp Fiction in 1992 and 1993, incorporating scenes that Avary originally wrote for True Romance (1993). Its plot occurs out of chronological order. The film is also self-referential from its opening moments, beginning with a title card that gives two dictionary definitions of "pulp". Considerable screen time is devoted to monologues and casual conversations with eclectic dialogue revealing each character's perspectives on several subjects, and the film features an ironic combination of humor and strong violence. TriStar Pictures reportedly turned down the script as "too demented". Then Miramax co-chairman Harvey Weinstein was enthralled, however, and the film became the first that Miramax fully financed.

Pulp Fiction won the Palme d'Or at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival, and was a major critical and commercial success. It was nominated for seven awards at the 67th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and won Best Original Screenplay; it earned Travolta, Jackson, and Thurman Academy Award nominations and boosted their careers. Its development, marketing, distribution, and profitability had a sweeping effect on independent cinema.

Pulp Fiction is widely regarded as Tarantino's masterpiece, with particular praise for its screenwriting. The self-reflexivity, unconventional structure, and extensive homage and pastiche have led critics to describe it as a touchstone of postmodern film. It is often considered a cultural watershed, influencing films and other media that adopted elements of its style. In 2008, Entertainment Weekly named it the best film since 1983 and it has appeared on many critics' lists of the greatest films ever made. In 2013, Pulp Fiction was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"


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Good film.
The only Tarantino one I have time for.
It was so successful in my view, that he simply repeated himself with the epic over the top monologues in every scene and eventually parodied himself in the films he did afterwards.
 
5. Jaws 17/194

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Jaws is a 1975 American thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on Peter Benchley's 1974 novel of the same name. In the film, a man-eating great white shark attacks beachgoers at a summer resort town, prompting police chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) to hunt it with the help of a marine biologist (Richard Dreyfuss) and a professional shark hunter (Robert Shaw). Murray Hamilton plays the mayor, and Lorraine Gary portrays Brody's wife. The screenplay is credited to Benchley, who wrote the first drafts, and actor-writer Carl Gottlieb, who rewrote the script during principal photography.

Shot mostly on location on Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts, Jaws was the first major motion picture to be shot on the ocean, and resultingly had a troubled production, going over budget and past schedule. As the art department's mechanical sharks often malfunctioned, Spielberg decided to mostly suggest the shark's presence, employing an ominous and minimalist theme created by composer John Williams to indicate its impending appearances. Spielberg and others have compared this suggestive approach to that of director Alfred Hitchcock. Universal Pictures gave the film what was then an exceptionally wide release for a major studio picture, on over 450 screens, accompanied by an extensive marketing campaign with a heavy emphasis on television spots and tie-in merchandise.

Jaws was the prototypical summer blockbuster, regarded as a watershed moment in motion picture history, and it won several awards for its music and editing. It was the highest-grossing film until the release of Star Wars in 1977. Both films were pivotal in establishing the modern Hollywood business model, which pursues high box-office returns from action and adventure films with simple high-concept premises, released during the summer in thousands of theaters and heavily advertised. Jaws was followed by three sequels, all with neither Spielberg nor Benchley, and many imitative thrillers. In 2001, it was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".



 
Great film. Surprised it's not higher (although it was in the lower reaches of my top 20).

That reverse dolly shot of Brody sitting on the beach when he realises there's trouble in the water is one of the best shots in cinema history.

Along with Star Wars, it changed the way films are marketed forever.

Shame it'll be mostly gangster flicks above this, hope Shawshank wins now!
 
RobMCFC said:
Great film. Surprised it's not higher (although it was in the lower reaches of my top 20).

That reverse dolly shot of Brody sitting on the beach when he realises there's trouble in the water is one of the best shots in cinema history.

Along with Star Wars, it changed the way films are marketed forever.

Shame it'll be mostly gangster flicks above this, hope Shawshank wins now!
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I had it at #4.

It was never going to win but it is a great movie.

Spielberg nicked the reverse dolly shot as you call it from Hitchcock but it was perfect for the moment in the film. I know that I wrote in my diary after seeing the movie at the ABC on Deansgate that it was the best film I'd ever seen at that point. a real event movie. My fondness for the film has barely waned.

I read both the book and the book about making the movie. Film is actually better than the book.

Spielberg used to sneak into theatres just to watch the bit where the head appears, which is one of the great movie scenes in a movie that is packed with classic ones; including, for me, the best ever: when they sit around in the cabin swapping stories.
 
I've got the DVD that has a 2 hour making of doc on there. Think I'll have to watch both the film and the doc again soon as I love watching documentaries about the making of films.
 
Jaws was the runaway winner on a poll I ran on another forum in 2013. FWIW, here is the top 10 from that poll:-

1 Jaws 21/263.00
2 Aliens 19/225.00
3 The Empire Strikes Back 14/198.33
4 The Thing 13/192.00
5 Raiders of the Lost Ark 15/179.67
6 Goodfellas 13/172.00
7 Star Wars 15/170.33
8 Alien 13/162.00
9 The Godfather 11/162.00
10 Blade Runner 13/146.00
 
RobMCFC said:
Jaws was the runaway winner on a poll I ran on another forum in 2013. FWIW, here is the top 10 from that poll:-

1 Jaws 21/263.00
2 Aliens 19/225.00
3 The Empire Strikes Back 14/198.33
4 The Thing 13/192.00
5 Raiders of the Lost Ark 15/179.67
6 Goodfellas 13/172.00
7 Star Wars 15/170.33
8 Alien 13/162.00
9 The Godfather 11/162.00
10 Blade Runner 13/146.00
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how can Shawshank not be in a Top 10
 
BlueHammer85 said:
5. Jaws 17/194

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Jaws is a 1975 American thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on Peter Benchley's 1974 novel of the same name. In the film, a man-eating great white shark attacks beachgoers at a summer resort town, prompting police chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) to hunt it with the help of a marine biologist (Richard Dreyfuss) and a professional shark hunter (Robert Shaw). Murray Hamilton plays the mayor, and Lorraine Gary portrays Brody's wife. The screenplay is credited to Benchley, who wrote the first drafts, and actor-writer Carl Gottlieb, who rewrote the script during principal photography.

Shot mostly on location on Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts, Jaws was the first major motion picture to be shot on the ocean, and resultingly had a troubled production, going over budget and past schedule. As the art department's mechanical sharks often malfunctioned, Spielberg decided to mostly suggest the shark's presence, employing an ominous and minimalist theme created by composer John Williams to indicate its impending appearances. Spielberg and others have compared this suggestive approach to that of director Alfred Hitchcock. Universal Pictures gave the film what was then an exceptionally wide release for a major studio picture, on over 450 screens, accompanied by an extensive marketing campaign with a heavy emphasis on television spots and tie-in merchandise.

Jaws was the prototypical summer blockbuster, regarded as a watershed moment in motion picture history, and it won several awards for its music and editing. It was the highest-grossing film until the release of Star Wars in 1977. Both films were pivotal in establishing the modern Hollywood business model, which pursues high box-office returns from action and adventure films with simple high-concept premises, released during the summer in thousands of theaters and heavily advertised. Jaws was followed by three sequels, all with neither Spielberg nor Benchley, and many imitative thrillers. In 2001, it was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".



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Still great, despite the rubber shark.
Came out right at the time I started open sea swimming races with the club I was with.
1976 & 77 in particular was a great summer.
This films put the heebie-jeebies up me for years. Particularly as a Baskin shark had been spotted off Lambay Island just a week before I was due to swim the Ireland's Eye to Howth Head race.
I was only 14 years old and the older guys were having great craic scaring the younger lads.
I had no idea at the time that Baskin Sharks were harmless, just that judging by the picture taken from the yacht the week before, they were huge.


Jaws scared a lot of people out of the water back in the 70's.
 
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