Theodore,

Here's my list, carefully prepared and preened:

  1 Godfather II
  2 Thin Red Line (Malick version)
  3 Blues Brothers
  4 2001: A Space Odyssey
  5 The Deer Hunter
  6 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
  7 Real Genius
  8 Apocalypse Now
  9 A Fish Called Wanda
10 Rushmore

Worst Movies:

  1 Dirty Dancing
  2 Back To School
  3 Pauly Shore - any of his, esp. biodome
  4 Steven Seagal - ditto, esp. the one where he's an oilworker
  5 Gladiator - soooooooooo overrated (Joaquin was good).

Thanks for playing!

Thank you for playing Michael Machen!

Everyone who likes The Godfather Part II better than The Godfather, feels the need to do something ridiculous like saying that Real Genius and A Fish Called Wanda are better than The Godfather. Ridiculous.

Meanwhile the rest of this list is a good, mainly quirky comedies of the last 20 or so years. Apocalypse Now -- have you seen the new director's cut? I haven't seen The Deer Hunter. Butch Cassidy is very good and very funny, with a great Burt Bacharach soundtrack. Rushmore is great. Did you like The Royal Tenenbaums? I haven't seen The Deer Hunter. The Thin Red Line and 2001 are great, but not my favorites or anything. The Blues Brothers is a quotable classic favorite. I'm not sure that A Fish Called Wanda holds up. I remember thinking Real Genius was pretty funny at the time, haven't seen it in a while.

Worst 5 films ever is fine, except while I agree that The Gladiator wasn't very good and was way overrated, I don't think it would make my five worst list. It's like "okay." Seagal is one of the worst actors of all time and his films suck. I thought Back to School was pretty funny? But I haven't seen it since 1987.

Ted

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