Bryan Kristopowitz
5)
Pretty Woman (1990)
4)
My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)
3)
The Bourne Identity (2002)
2)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
1)
Batman Begins (2005)
Honorable Mentions
Reservoir Dogs (1992): I like this movie. It's my third favorite Tarantino
flick (The
Kill Bill two are my favorites) and it has quite a bit going for it. But I don't think it's that great. It's certainly not the masterpiece most people seem to think it is. It's a play. It's written like a play, sounds like a play, and works like a play. Plays are not movies. You could probably shave off a good twenty five minutes and have a better movie. But that's just me.
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Sin City (2005): Yes, it's just like the comic book, but it's boring.
5 - Richard Gere is probably one of the worst actors in Hollywood. I can't stand him. The only movie I've ever liked him in is
An Officer and a Gentleman, and that's really only because Louis "I no longer have a career" Gosset, Jr. gets to beat the crap out of him. In this flick he picks up the bubbly hooker Julia Roberts and pays her to hang out with him for a week. Even if he is rich, why hang out with him? The movie has an excruciating pace, too. The story could be done again, sure, but the next time lets get some people with charisma. Or likeability.
4 - The movie has its moments. Toula's family is funny, and the courtship between Nia Vardalo's Toula and John Corbett's Ian Miller is entertaining for a little while. But you can only take so much bizarre ethnic family hooha before you start to wonder why this movie is so popular. It's a TV movie at best. There's nothing wrong with TV movies, but it should have been better. It should have been something else. And that whole Windex thing? Someone actually tried to do that to me on time. Exactly.
3 - When this movie came out some of my non-action movie fan friends went and saw it and crapped their pants. They went to see it because of Matt Damon and they were amazed at the story and the character and they claimed they never experienced anything like that before. To me, it's a Chuck Bronson movie with a pretty boy star and a bigger production budget. It's a good action movie with some cool stunts, but it's nothing to get too excited about. And I don't want to hear any of this "smart and sexy" crapola or the "intelligent film" stuff either. It's an action movie with an unstoppable hero. It came out at a time when we mostly had hip and edgy
Scream like action movies and
Bad Boys knock offs. It's well done, but, again, it isn't a masterpiece. And Doug Liman should be put in director exile for the TV show
Heist.
2 - The flick that brought John Travolta back from the
Look Who's Talking franchise and the whatever else he was involved in at the time, and it brought even greater fame and fortune to Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary because it was the "it" movie. It had everything in it. Allegedly. I've read the script, seen the flick five times. It was okay the first time, and it's been okay ever since. I think the movie is actually pretty boring. It's got some great performances (Sameul L. Jackson is great, and Travolta is pretty decent. And Ving Rhames is Ving Rhames) but the movie, for me, just doesn't work. This movie almost made the top of my list. It probably should have since it's been around longer than the one in first, but I couldn't help it.
1 - I don't like this movie. It's just not very good. Yes, it delves into Bruce Wayne's backstory, it attempts to explain the pathos behind Wayne's decision to become the Caped Crusader and why he decided on the whole "bat" thing. It's got a pretty cool car, some good performances (Liam Neeson is, as usual, outstanding, but even that can't help this movie) and an interesting "look." But the movie never really does much of anything exciting. This movie is just Batman and Robin with a more serious tone. The multi villain storyline is one of the things that got Joel Schumacher and that whole bunch in trouble. It does the same thing to Nolan and star Christian Bale. Why is Scarecrow even in this movie? And the whole flashback thing at the beginning is annoying, too. Is the movie "too serious?" I don't think whether or not it's serious has anything to do with anything. The movie isn't exciting. That's the problem. It plods along, trying to say something when it can't because it's too bust trying to tell the audience it's trying to say something. I could go on, but I won't. This movie is just awful.
