Great movies you've never seen

[The Morningstar]

Yea i get ya. With Lucas it's a shame, because for me he's made 2 good films in 50 years (THX and ANH). But he's obviously got this great imagination. I look at the Star Wars prequels and just see a complete waste of potential. It's like he couldn't find the magic of the originals so threw in more lightsaber fights with silly choreography and green screened the **** out of everything else. And i don't care how good an actor is, it can't help when you're on a set and there is... nothing there. It's just this big green room. How can an actor immerse themselves in a role when there is literally nothing to immerse themselves into? It's all just added in after the fact on a computer?

 

[CConn]

American Graffiti wasn't bad.

Conceptually, the Prequels could've been tons better than the Originals - they're actually much darker and more complex both thematically and emotionally. But, like you said, Lucas ****ed up the execution on nearly every level.

 

[The Morningstar]

Didn't Spielberg do American Graffiti? If not yea, I love that film. So i owe Lucas an apology!

And yea, like you say, there was much more "meat" to the prequels. But that doesn't mean **** if the execution is so crap.

 

[Batman]

Scarface
The Shining
Citizen Kane
Goodfellas
Casablanca
Blazing Saddles
John Carpenter's The Thing
Donnie Darko
Raising Arizona
Lost In Translation
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Carrie
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Last Crusade
2001: A Space Odyssey
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
Unforgiven
Dances with Wolves
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Breakfast Club
L.A. Confidential
Rocky, Rocky II, III, V, and Rocky Balboa
Any of the First Blood series
Godfather Part II and III
Beverly Hills Cop
Any Police Academy
Any Lethal Weapon
Any Die Hard
Any Mad Max
Any Naked Gun
Brazil
Dr. Strangelove
Gone With The Wind
It's A Wonderful Life
Bonnie & Clyde
The Omen
Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer

And about 1,000 others I can't think of. I'm pretty terrible when it comes to this stuff.

 

[CConn]

for mentioning the Life Aquatic, MB.