Badfilms (Level 34)

I'm glad someone picked up my slack this year. I was so busy I forgot to do this again this year. I'm also glad I realized someone did this before I went posting my version 10 minutes ago.

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District 9 is the most recent example I can think of. Neill Blomkamp certainly has a lot to live up to.  
  
Akvavit's are all ones I would have mentioned.  A few more include Joel and Ethan Coen's Blood Simple, George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead, and This is Spinal Tap for Rob Reiner.

@TearsInRain said:

I would say War Of The Worlds is pretty cop-out bad.

That is by far the biggest flaw of the remake when compared to the original. In the 50's version, even though the resolution is the same, it happens at a very intense moment with the confrontation in a church...so there's tension created where there otherwise would be none.

The ending of The Ninth Gate is one that always makes me punch myself in the face.

@Daniel: I've enjoyed all the quests and will continue to do so, though it has been a while since any community driven quests have vexed and entertained us.  I realize a lot of the possible options for these types of quests have been exhausted but it would be cool to see some more in the future.

I certainly still do.  I think there's a pretty regular crowd of people I see in the quest forums that still do, as well.

I would personally agree that they should be listed under TV.  Can I get a confirm that there's no way to migrate?  Should I just start putting in delete requests and remaking them in TV?

I know we have threads to delete duplicates or fix botched names, but I was wondering if there is a decent channel to address a different clerical issue.  I'm noticing that particularly in the area of mini-series, we have no clear standard about where they belong.

@TearsInRain said:

@Badfilms: There is no shame in it! It's a sad scene!

Oh good, I don't have to feel like a pariah now.  I'll do you a solid and admit that I found Click really sad, too.  It is an odd movie to say that about, but you're right.

This might sound a little fucked but the first time I remember crying at a movie was when watching The Neverending Story as a child.  Artex in the swamp of sorrows... 'nuff said.

@popo said:

" Sunset Boulevard, Double Indemnity, LA confidential "

This is definately the primer list.  All good choices.

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Filmjunk is a blog gone big, but it still counts...and I jive with their opinions most of the time so they're one I check out regularly.

Instead of just doing a generic top ten, I'll give you some that come to mind based on your list.  I'm going to assume you've never seen any movie aside from the ones you've listed just for the sake of not missing any good ones.  If you've seen some, cool, if not, check em out.

I've always thought it was criminal that Jason Lee's "Hell is an abstract" speech in Dogma was cut.  As windy as Smith can be, it seemed like an odd time to worry about pacing...especially as good as it is.

There's two films that follow a very unique trajectory within a subset of this category and often aren't considered.  Equilibrium and Ultraviolet were both made by Kurt Wimmer.  Wimmer's ego is pretty grand in scale, so when given the job on Ultra Violet his thought process must have gone something like this:  "I made a pretty bitchen movie for 10 million in Equalibrium and no one fucking saw it.  Since I have three times the budget now, I'm going to make the same movie, but shit it all up with bad CG sets and Milla Jovovich."

@Hawkeye said:

" @Badfilms:  It's roles you enjoyed from actors in films they did after working with Kubrick. Unless you're saying after Paths of Glory. Then never mind. "

That's correct.  I'm saying specifically that Kirk Douglas was good (in a lot, but notably Spartacus) after being in Paths of Glory. 

Kirk Douglas in Spartacus?

Could not care less.  

I was a big fan of Perfume and May.  Newer films off the top of my head that leave me with the same sense of bizarre satisfaction are:  
 
Look - Shot to look like the story is captured entirely through surveillance cameras.  Leaves you uneasy but with a sense of importance.
 
World's Greatest Dad (though admittedly not for everyone) - Slow build, but twisted, dark, and awesome. 
 
Peacock - Cillian Murphy is almost always good, but his performance in this haunting.  It's what Killer Inside Me should have been.
 
Taxidermia - A modern Hungarian film with as much grotesque and surreal beauty as Alejandro Jodorowsky or any of the classic surrealists.  Hungry even offered it as their 2010 academy award nomination to the foreign film category despite scenes of graphic sex and extremely disturbing imagery.  
 
Six-String Samurai - Ridiculous and insane premise that is all kinds of mind numbing fun...and a sweet soundtrack.
 
And, of course, some of the classics: Santa Sangre, Naked Lunch, Meet the Feebles, and Delicatessen...I should stop or I'll list all day.