Logan D. Hurricanes Posted March 1, 2023 Report Share Posted March 1, 2023 I saw this posted online and thought it might be a fun way to get some conversations going. My list to follow. MOVIE I HATE: MOVIE I THINK IS OVERRATED: MOVIE I THINK IS UNDERAPPRECIATED: MOVIE I LOVE: MOVIE I CAN WATCH OVER AND OVER: MOVIE THAT MADE ME FALL IN LOVE WITH MOVIES: MOVIE I WISH I MADE: MOVIE THAT CHANGED MY LIFE: MOVIE THAT SURPRISED ME: GUILTY PLEASURE: MOVIE I SHOULD HAVE SEEN BY NOW BUT HAVEN'T: MOVIE TRILOGY MASTERPIECE: MOVIE MASTERPIECE: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted March 1, 2023 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2023 My list: MOVIE I HATE: Van Helsing MOVIE I THINK IS OVERRATED: It Follows MOVIE I THINK IS UNDERAPPRECIATED: Leaving Las Vegas MOVIE I LOVE: The Princess Bride MOVIE I CAN WATCH OVER AND OVER: Ocean's Eleven MOVIE THAT MADE ME FALL IN LOVE WITH MOVIES: Raiders of the Lost Ark MOVIE I WISH I MADE: Seeking a Friend for the End of the World MOVIE THAT CHANGED MY LIFE: Unforgiven MOVIE THAT SURPRISED ME: Cabin in the Woods GUILTY PLEASURE: Robot Jox MOVIE I SHOULD HAVE SEEN BY NOW BUT HAVEN'T: Close Encounters of the Third Kind MOVIE TRILOGY MASTERPIECE: Indiana Jones (Toughest decision here) MOVIE MASTERPIECE: Magnolia Hermit 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted March 1, 2023 Report Share Posted March 1, 2023 MOVIE I HATE: The Family Stone MOVIE I THINK IS OVERRATED: Tropic Thunder MOVIE I THINK IS UNDERAPPRECIATED: The Man in the Iron Mask (1998) MOVIE I LOVE: The Court Jester (Love a lot of them though) MOVIE I CAN WATCH OVER AND OVER: A Knight's Tale (Also in the 'I love' category) MOVIE THAT MADE ME FALL IN LOVE WITH MOVIES: Sleeping Beauty (1959) MOVIE I WISH I MADE: In Like Flint MOVIE THAT CHANGED MY LIFE: The Last Unicorn (This one was hard) MOVIE THAT SURPRISED ME: Ant-Man (Really didn't expect it to be one of my top marvel movies) GUILTY PLEASURE: Dodgeball ("He is not alone in this, Cotton") MOVIE I SHOULD HAVE SEEN BY NOW BUT HAVEN'T: Blade Runner (Either version) MOVIE TRILOGY MASTERPIECE: The Lord of the Rings trilogy MOVIE MASTERPIECE: 12 Angry Men (Master class in acting and character study IMO) Logan D. Hurricanes 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted March 1, 2023 Report Share Posted March 1, 2023 I had problems with some of the choices such as Wish I Made and Changed my life. And I had to have seen the films MOVIE I HATE: Hook MOVIE I THINK IS OVERRATED: Man of Steel MOVIE I THINK IS UNDERAPPRECIATED: Playing by Heart MOVIE I LOVE: The Duelists MOVIE I CAN WATCH OVER AND OVER: Once Upon a Time in the West MOVIE THAT MADE ME FALL IN LOVE WITH MOVIES: Battle of Britain (first film I saw in the cinema) MOVIE I WISH I MADE: The Blues Brothers (you get to meet all the music greats) MOVIE THAT CHANGED MY LIFE: Plan 9 from Outer Space (learning to appreciate bad films) MOVIE THAT SURPRISED ME: The Bourne Identity (wish I saw it in the cinema) GUILTY PLEASURE: Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die MOVIE I SHOULD HAVE SEEN BY NOW BUT HAVEN'T: E.T. MOVIE TRILOGY MASTERPIECE: Star Wars (original trilogy) MOVIE MASTERPIECE: Citizen Kane Logan D. Hurricanes and Hermit 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted March 1, 2023 Report Share Posted March 1, 2023 New day and I already am sure that I could easily change 3 or so of my choices But I'll leave as is. Looking forward to others sharing theirs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted March 1, 2023 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2023 2 hours ago, death tribble said: MOVIE THAT CHANGED MY LIFE: Plan 9 from Outer Space (learning to appreciate bad films) Almost put that as a guilty pleasure. The Rifftrax version especially is pure joy. 7 minutes ago, Hermit said: New day and I already am sure that I could easily change 3 or so of my choices But I'll leave as is. Looking forward to others sharing theirs Yup, already wondering if I should have put Toy Story for my trilogy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted March 1, 2023 Report Share Posted March 1, 2023 44 minutes ago, Logan D. Hurricanes said: Yup, already wondering if I should have put Toy Story for my trilogy. Toy Story as a trilogy is a good choice.. For me, the 'MOVIE THAT CHANGED MY LIFE:' category is one I had to think about. I mean, it's kind of vague. Jaws changed my life... I avoided the deep side of the swimming pool for over a year More seriously, there have been years in my life where I was caught in very deep depression and a movie helped pull me out (The Greatest Showman was much needed in that regard) So that's a change. ...and then now and then there is a wisdom in a movie I must ponder. I went with the Last Unicorn... because it's one I keep coming back to for new insights, old enjoyments. When I was young, I so understood Schmendrick's desire to be magical, to be really powerful and important. When I hit my late thirties or so, I looked back at what I had and hadn't done in my life, and I got WHY Molly Grue was so angry at the Unicorn at her timing, at her failure to live up to promises the world told us. And yet Molly still helped. Schmendrick was still an old friend, and I realized his desire for greatness didn't just arise from surrendering to magic, but helping others with their story. Older now still, I look at Haggard and Mama Fortuna as warnings... Haggard shows how one can be so desperate to relieve his own misery he inflicts on others selfishly. Mama Fortuna fascinates me.... "So that's MY immortality, eh?" For all her mockery of Schmendrick, she wants, like him, to be great. Better to be slain than forgotten and unimportant. Another warning I suppose. Lyr is faith, and idealism, and a fool and a hero and a good man... and the story shows how essential those few like him are. Some of this I knew even at a younger age academically, but I didn't understand it, didn't really grasp it, till later. The Last Unicorn, Movie and Book, has characters, small and large... that keep teaching me about the human condition, each their own lesson, each their own facet. As I am human, it often teaches me about myself too. Which is why I picked it... every now and then, I watch it again and let it change my life just a little, or at least let me think about it. Logan D. Hurricanes 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted March 1, 2023 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2023 3 minutes ago, Hermit said: For me, the 'MOVIE THAT CHANGED MY LIFE:' category is one I had to think about. I mean, it's kind of vague. Jaws changed my life... I avoided the deep side of the swimming pool for over a year More seriously, there have been years in my life where I was caught in very deep depression and a movie helped pull me out (The Greatest Showman was much needed in that regard) So that's a change. ...and then now and then there is a wisdom in a movie I must ponder. This was a very hard one, and I'm not convinced that there's something I'm missing. The reason I chose Unforgiven is that this was the first movie I remember seeing where I couldn't stop thinking about it for a week. It really got in there. That was after just one viewing. Life changing? Debatable. But it sure got to me like few movies had before, or since. Field of Dreams is a good alternative there. That really hit some hard emotional chords despite not being a big baseball fan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted March 1, 2023 Report Share Posted March 1, 2023 MOVIE I HATE: The Notebook (2004) MOVIE I THINK IS OVERRATED: Fast & Furious 6+ MOVIE I THINK IS UNDERAPPRECIATED: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) MOVIE I LOVE: Conan the Barbarian (1984) MOVIE I CAN WATCH OVER AND OVER: Aliens (1986) MOVIE THAT MADE ME FALL IN LOVE WITH MOVIES: Star Wars (1977) MOVIE I WISH I MADE: John Carter (2012) MOVIE THAT CHANGED MY LIFE: The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) MOVIE THAT SURPRISED ME: The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) GUILTY PLEASURE: Dude Where's My Car (2000) MOVIE I SHOULD HAVE SEEN BY NOW BUT HAVEN'T: The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) MOVIE TRILOGY MASTERPIECE: Lord of the Rings (2001-2003) MOVIE MASTERPIECE: Saving Private Ryan (1998) Hermit and Logan D. Hurricanes 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 1, 2023 Report Share Posted March 1, 2023 I don't think I've seen that many movies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted March 1, 2023 Report Share Posted March 1, 2023 1 minute ago, Cancer said: I don't think I've seen that many movies. Maybe some of the ones you have seen do double duty? FREX: "The answer to all of the spots on the list is: The Big Lebowski'" " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoloOfEarth Posted March 1, 2023 Report Share Posted March 1, 2023 MOVIE I HATE: Being There MOVIE I THINK IS OVERRATED: Lord of the Rings MOVIE I THINK IS UNDERAPPRECIATED: Sneakers MOVIE I LOVE: My Favorite Year MOVIE I CAN WATCH OVER AND OVER: Sneakers MOVIE THAT MADE ME FALL IN LOVE WITH MOVIES: Monty Python and the Holy Grail MOVIE I WISH I MADE: Fletch (I actually really liked the variations they did from the book, but I would have cast *anybody* but Chevy Chase in the lead) MOVIE THAT CHANGED MY LIFE: Jaws. (We saw this just before the family went down to Florida - no idea what Mom and Dad were thinking. It kept 11 year-old me out of the ocean.) MOVIE THAT SURPRISED ME: Ant-Man GUILTY PLEASURE: The Tuxedo MOVIE I SHOULD HAVE SEEN BY NOW BUT HAVEN'T: E.T. MOVIE TRILOGY MASTERPIECE: Back to the Future MOVIE MASTERPIECE: The Princess Bride (It's got everything - fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, miracles...) Hermit, Psybolt and Logan D. Hurricanes 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmjalund Posted March 1, 2023 Report Share Posted March 1, 2023 3 hours ago, Old Man said: Fast & Furious 6+ is that on 3d6? BoloOfEarth 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted March 1, 2023 Report Share Posted March 1, 2023 This could change daily: MOVIE I HATE: The Last Jedi MOVIE I THINK IS OVERRATED: Goodfellas MOVIE I THINK IS UNDERAPPRECIATED: The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) MOVIE I LOVE: The Winter Soldier MOVIE I CAN WATCH OVER AND OVER: 5-way-tie - Tombstone; Monty Python and the Holy Grail; The Thing; Roadhouse; We Were Soldiers MOVIE THAT MADE ME FALL IN LOVE WITH MOVIES: Robin Hood (1938) MOVIE I WISH I MADE: The Last Jedi MOVIE THAT CHANGED MY LIFE: Superman the Movie MOVIE THAT SURPRISED ME: The Matrix (didn't see this till it came out on video) GUILTY PLEASURE: Ferris Bueller's Day Off Honorable mention: *sigh* Dirty Dancing MOVIE I SHOULD HAVE SEEN BY NOW BUT HAVEN'T: Lawrence of Arabia MOVIE TRILOGY MASTERPIECE: The Lord of the Rings MOVIE MASTERPIECE: The Outlaw Josey Wales Hermit, Trencher and Old Man 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattingly Posted March 2, 2023 Report Share Posted March 2, 2023 MOVIE I HATE: Titanic MOVIE I THINK IS OVERRATED: The Phantom MOVIE I THINK IS UNDERAPPRECIATED: They Live MOVIE I LOVE: Big Trouble in Little China MOVIE I CAN WATCH OVER AND OVER: Fifth Element MOVIE THAT MADE ME FALL IN LOVE WITH MOVIES: The Gods Must be Crazy MOVIE I WISH I MADE: The Princess Bride MOVIE THAT CHANGED MY LIFE: The Wizard of Speed and Time MOVIE THAT SURPRISED ME: Groundhog Day GUILTY PLEASURE: I laugh at the concept of guilt! MOVIE I SHOULD HAVE SEEN BY NOW BUT HAVEN'T: Any of the Godfathers MOVIE TRILOGY MASTERPIECE: Bill & Ted MOVIE MASTERPIECE: The Addams Family Hermit and Logan D. Hurricanes 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted March 2, 2023 Report Share Posted March 2, 2023 MOVIE I HATE: Thor Love and Thunder MOVIE I THINK IS OVERRATED: Thor Ragnarok MOVIE I THINK IS UNDERAPPRECIATED: Thor The Dark World MOVIE I LOVE: Thor The Dark World MOVIE I CAN WATCH OVER AND OVER: Thor The Dark World MOVIE THAT MADE ME FALL IN LOVE WITH MOVIES: Thor The Dark World MOVIE I WISH I MADE: Thor The Dark World MOVIE THAT CHANGED MY LIFE: Thor The Dark World MOVIE THAT SURPRISED ME: Thor The Dark World GUILTY PLEASURE: Adventures in Babysitting MOVIE I SHOULD HAVE SEEN BY NOW BUT HAVEN'T: Highlander II MOVIE TRILOGY MASTERPIECE: Thor, Thor The Dark World & Thor Ragnarok. MOVIE MASTERPIECE: Thor The Dark World Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wcw43921 Posted March 2, 2023 Report Share Posted March 2, 2023 MOVIE I HATE: Two-fer--Star Trek III: Search For Spock & Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home MOVIE I THINK IS OVERRATED: Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice MOVIE I THINK IS UNDERAPPRECIATED: Tomorrowland MOVIE I LOVE: Superman (1978) MOVIE I CAN WATCH OVER AND OVER: Ready Player One MOVIE THAT MADE ME FALL IN LOVE WITH MOVIES: Mary Poppins MOVIE I WISH I MADE: Hypnotic Sensations MOVIE THAT CHANGED MY LIFE: Star Wars MOVIE THAT SURPRISED ME: The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle GUILTY PLEASURE: Message From Space MOVIE I SHOULD HAVE SEEN BY NOW BUT HAVEN'T: True Grit (2010) MOVIE TRILOGY MASTERPIECE: Star Wars Original Trilogy MOVIE MASTERPIECE: Casablanca Pariah and Logan D. Hurricanes 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted March 2, 2023 Report Share Posted March 2, 2023 4 hours ago, wcw43921 said: MOVIE I HATE: Two-fer--Star Trek III: Search For Spock & Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home But not Star Trek V: the Final Frontier ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 2, 2023 Report Share Posted March 2, 2023 OK, I give in. MOVIE I HATE: just about all rom-coms MOVIE I THINK IS OVERRATED: just about all musicals MOVIE I THINK IS UNDERAPPRECIATED: Blazing Saddles MOVIE I LOVE: Patton MOVIE I CAN WATCH OVER AND OVER: Tora! Tora! Tora! MOVIE THAT MADE ME FALL IN LOVE WITH MOVIES: The Jungle Book MOVIE I WISH I MADE: Particle Fever MOVIE THAT CHANGED MY LIFE: Monty Python and the Holy Grail MOVIE THAT SURPRISED ME: Star Wars (the original movie) GUILTY PLEASURE: Killer Clowns from Outer Space MOVIE I SHOULD HAVE SEEN BY NOW BUT HAVEN'T: Victory at Sea MOVIE TRILOGY MASTERPIECE: the Dollars Trilogy: A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly MOVIE MASTERPIECE: the original Fantasia Hermit and Logan D. Hurricanes 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted March 2, 2023 Report Share Posted March 2, 2023 Is Victory at Sea the 1954 documentary series ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 2, 2023 Report Share Posted March 2, 2023 It was turned into a single-episode approximately 90-minute movie after the TV series was concluded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DShomshak Posted March 3, 2023 Report Share Posted March 3, 2023 I'm not a big movie watcher or fan, so I have to give some of these a pass. But other people's lists remind me of several movies I've enjoyed, so thank you all. MOVIE I HATE: All the Marbles. Seen with friends because the movie we wanted to see was sold out. Absolutely dreadful waste of money and at least 90 minutes of my life. MOVIE I THINK IS OVERRATED: Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Pretentious claptrap. MOVIE I THINK IS UNDERAPPRECIATED: The Last Action Hero. I think many critics just couldn't keep up. MOVIE I LOVE: Several, but I can't fix on "The One." MOVIE I CAN WATCH OVER AND OVER: The Raven. Roger Corman production, with Vincent Price, Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre as rival wizards. MOVIE THAT MADE ME FALL IN LOVE WITH MOVIES: I'm not in love with movies. MOVIE I WISH I MADE: Nothing here. MOVIE THAT CHANGED MY LIFE: Yellow Submarine. Saw it when I was very young; shaped my imagination from then on. MOVIE THAT SURPRISED ME: Raiders of the Lost Ark was much better than I expect4ed. GUILTY PLEASURE: Thermonuclear Dreams. Saw it only once, on TV, but one of the more enchantingly deranged low budget flicks I've seen. Runners up Eagle Shooting Heroes, a wuxia spoof, and Robot Monster. But how can I leave out Battle Beyond the Stars? MOVIE I SHOULD HAVE SEEN BY NOW BUT HAVEN'T: So many. My brother even has copies of most of them, so it's not as if I can't get them. MOVIE TRILOGY MASTERPIECE: Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, Young Frankenstein. Not made as a trilogy, but Mel Brooks' decades-later spoof showed great affection for the originals. And more understanding than many "serious" versions of the story. MOVIE MASTERPIECE: Fantasia, as something truly timeless. If civilization survives that long, I think people will still appreciate Fantasia a thousand years from now. Dean Shomshak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted June 2, 2023 Report Share Posted June 2, 2023 On 3/1/2023 at 4:34 PM, Starlord said: This could change daily: MOVIE I HATE: The Last Jedi MOVIE I THINK IS OVERRATED: Goodfellas MOVIE I THINK IS UNDERAPPRECIATED: The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) MOVIE I LOVE: The Winter Soldier MOVIE I CAN WATCH OVER AND OVER: 5-way-tie - Tombstone; Monty Python and the Holy Grail; The Thing; Roadhouse; We Were Soldiers MOVIE THAT MADE ME FALL IN LOVE WITH MOVIES: Robin Hood (1938) MOVIE I WISH I MADE: The Last Jedi MOVIE THAT CHANGED MY LIFE: Superman the Movie MOVIE THAT SURPRISED ME: The Matrix (didn't see this till it came out on video) GUILTY PLEASURE: Ferris Bueller's Day Off Honorable mention: *sigh* Dirty Dancing MOVIE I SHOULD HAVE SEEN BY NOW BUT HAVEN'T: Lawrence of Arabia MOVIE TRILOGY MASTERPIECE: The Lord of the Rings MOVIE MASTERPIECE: The Outlaw Josey Wales I can't believe I forgot Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World - I could have put it for 'underappreciated', 'I love', 'watch over and over' and for 'masterpiece'. Darn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted June 2, 2023 Report Share Posted June 2, 2023 Looks like I missed this the first time around. Must ponder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psybolt Posted June 2, 2023 Report Share Posted June 2, 2023 MOVIE I HATE: Transformers: Last Knight MOVIE I THINK IS OVERRATED: Dazed and Confused MOVIE I THINK IS UNDERAPPRECIATED: Cloud Atlas MOVIE I LOVE: Avengers: Endgame MOVIE I CAN WATCH OVER AND OVER: The Princess Bride MOVIE THAT MADE ME FALL IN LOVE WITH MOVIES: Raiders of the Lost Ark MOVIE I WISH I MADE: Not sure about this one. MOVIE THAT CHANGED MY LIFE: Spider-Man MOVIE THAT SURPRISED ME: Crawl GUILTY PLEASURE: The Monster Squad MOVIE I SHOULD HAVE SEEN BY NOW BUT HAVEN'T: Enter the Dragon MOVIE TRILOGY MASTERPIECE: Lord of the Rings MOVIE MASTERPIECE: Logan Hermit and Old Man 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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