re: Favorite & least favorite film in imdb top20?

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4- TDK

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10-fight club

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Wow, top 20 for these two

4 for fellowship. 2 for towers. 5 for return

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No you didn't.

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Well, the movie was like 8 hours long, so maybe he did?

Favorite: The Godfather

Least: The Matrix

Favorite-Fellowship
Least Favorite-Shawshank, the most overrated movie in history and on this board.

Favorite- Godfather I and II
Least favorite- The Dark Knight

Fav- godfather

worst- The Dark knight

Favorite - Pulp Fiction, godfather movies

Least Favorite - Lord of the Rings movies... also wasn't crazy for seven samurai

haven't seen - schindler's list, 12 angry men, one flew over the cuckoo's nest... and I haven't seen the star wars movies since I was like 10 so I don't think I can analyze those

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Yeah, I just don't get it. It's certainly well made and a high quality film but he out-pouring of love confuses the heck out of me. I mean it's good, but certainly not great.

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Glad we can agree on something today

Exactly, though. It's good. I like it a lot. The escape scene is great. The redemption is sweet. But I've seen 30-50 better movies.

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Is Shawshank the very best "good enough" film of all time?

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I think its the very best "everyone has similar, high opinions of this movie" movie, which has put it to the top. There's nothing really to dislike about it, but, as you said, nothing really amazing about it.

Favorite: Fight Club. I was a huge Chuck Palahniuk fan, and it was so thrilling to see an important "underground" novel get near perfect treatment on the big screen. It's right up there with Trainspotting on near perfect adaptations of works thought to be unadaptable. I've gotten over the fact a lot of people like it for the "wrong" reasons. Y'all realize the film is making FUN of Tyler Durden, right?

Least: I don't know, I don't really hate any of the top 20. The LOTR movies are overrated and indistinguishable, but they were at least epic events. I guess I'll go against the grain and say Cuckoo's Nest. I'm not entirely comfortable with how the film pretty much fully endorses Jack Nicholson's viewpoint... you know what? Perhaps mentally fragile kids shouldn't be exposed to sex, booze, and drugs. The film wants to entirely blame Nurse Ratchet for everything, and she is awful, but it's not all The system's fault. Some of it is on Jack, too. And the film never takes that viewpoint seriously, that maybe some societal norms have a value.