The Most Skillfully Written/Directed Films

[henzINNIT]

Titanic is a cheese fest. Not suprised the script wasn't nominated, especially as it would have likely included the god awful original ending that Cameron didn't use.
Love story meets historical disaster story = genius lol. Visually the film was stunning but I can't be the only one who finds it comical that the boat is sinking and there's a man too busy chasing his cheating lover to notice.

 

[DACrowe]

Titanic is a good movie, but not the great masterpiece people made it out to be in 1997/98 when it became the highest grossing movie of all time. It beating LA Confidential is a joke.

But it is a good, if hamfisted, love story that is the only modern attempt to capture some of that greatness of classic Hollywood love stories such as Gone with the Wind and Casablanca. But it comes nowhere close to those.

Also, you're right that the scene where Billy Zane is shooting Leo and Kate as they run through the sinking of the Titanic was the most unintentionally hilarious/stupid thing that movie could do.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

Titanic is a good movie, but not the great masterpiece people made it out to be in 1997/98 when it became the highest grossing movie of all time. It beating LA Confidential is a joke.

But it is a good, if hamfisted, love story that is the only modern attempt to capture some of that greatness of classic Hollywood love stories such as Gone with the Wind and Casablanca. But it comes nowhere close to those.

Also, you're right that the scene where Billy Zane is shooting Leo and Kate as they run through the sinking of the Titanic was the most unintentionally hilarious/stupid thing that movie could do.

This x 10000

 

[Fanticon]

Being John Malkovich. Charlie Kaufman has a unique sense of humor and Spike Jonze helped make the idea an epic fantasy comedy in a small, carefully claustrophobic adventure. And also thanks to Jonze's quirky personality, the actors gave equally energetic performances to really make sense out of the ridiculous. Nominated for Best Screenplay and Directing at the Oscars and will still go down, at least for me, as one of the most original movies ever made.

 

[GunRanger]

It beating LA Confidential is a joke.
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Im sick of this, especially since it's not even that good. It does a poor job of trying to emulate old noirs, and most of the acting is stiff and clearly affected. You complain about Zane shooting at Winslet, but what about Russell Crowe hulking out, ripping nailed chairs from the floor or even surviving bullets to the face?

 

[moviedoors]

You might as well have just made a "Best movies ever" thread.

 

[The Morningstar]

Im sick of this, especially since it's not even that good. It does a poor job of trying to emulate old noirs, and most of the acting is stiff and clearly affected. You complain about Zane shooting at Winslet, but what about Russell Crowe hulking out, ripping nailed chairs from the floor or even surviving bullets to the face?

Don't be silly. LA Confidential is a masterpiece, the acting is top class from pretty much everyone. I can't understand how this is deniable.

And people survive being shot in the face all the time. It's not as though the bullet went through his brain, it went through his cheek and broke his jaw.

 

[moviedoors]

Im sick of this, especially since it's not even that good. It does a poor job of trying to emulate old noirs, and most of the acting is stiff and clearly affected. You complain about Zane shooting at Winslet, but what about Russell Crowe hulking out, ripping nailed chairs from the floor or even surviving bullets to the face?

I don't think for a second that LA Confidential was trying to emulate old film noirs. It dealt with stories that take place in those times and settings with those kinds of characters, but the writing and the approach was thoroughly modern. It was a movie set in the past, not a throw back to the past.

You'd probably survive a gunshot to the face too if the bullet just went through your cheek and annihilated some teeth. It'd suck, but you'd more likely than not live. It's not like he took a slug to the forehead. It went in one cheek and out the other. Why do you think his jaw was wired shut in his last scene?

 

[The Morningstar]

I love that last scene, where he says thanks to Exley without even speaking, Exley knows what he means though. Great character development for both characters. And amazing performances.

 

[Laderlappen]

Screw you haters. Titanic deserved to win.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

LA Confidential is way better tan Titanic, and I don't even hate Titanic. The story was better, the performances were better, and I love Kim Basinger in it.

 

[Secret Fawful]

Sergio Leone's Duck, You Sucker (I swear, stop frakking overlooking this Leone film)
Antichrist
The Fearless Vampire Killers
Young Frankenstein
Blazing Saddles
Ghost in the Shell
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
Cowboy Bebop: Knockin on Heaven's Door
The Dagger of Kamui
Dust Devil
Jaws
Temple of Doom
The Last Crusade
E.T.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Ghostbusters 2
Nosferatu
Spanish Dracula/English Dracula
Gojira
Hammer horror films
The Wolfman
Hitchcock's Notorious!
Mildred Pierce
Hot Fuzz
Dead Man
Shaun of the Dead
The Invention of Lying
The Shadow
Iron Man
The Searchers
The Big Gundown
The Great Dictator
The Blue Angel
Paprika
Millennium Actress
Tokyo Godfathers
Perfect Blue
Ponyo
Spirited Away
Angel's Egg
John Woo's The Killer
The Red Spectacles
Throne of Blood
The Seventh Seal
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Brazil
12 Monkeys
The Thing
In The Mouth of Madness
Prince of Darkness
The Fog
Life of Brian
The Third Man
Monsieur Hulot's Holiday
The Hidden Fortress
Yojimbo
Haxan
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
House (Japanese)
House (American)
Fright Night (original)
El Topo
The Holy Mountain
Kuroneko
Lost in Translation
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
You Can't Cheat An Honest Man
Jigoku

 

[The Morningstar]

Screw you haters. Titanic deserved to win.

I don't hate Titanic.

But...

LA Confidential is way better tan Titanic, and I don't even hate Titanic. The story was better, the performances were better, and I love Kim Basinger in it.

...this. LA Confidential is just a superior film in every single way.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

Sergio Leone's Duck, You Sucker (I swear, stop frakking overlooking this Leone film)

F**K YEAH! t:

...this. LA Confidential is just a superior film in every single way.

I was going to say this, but I was trying to be nice about it.

 

[The Morningstar]

No time for niceties! But seriously, didn't mean to come off like a dick. But yea, LA Confidential is a masterclass in film making for me. One of the best films ever made. It's got everything you could want from a crime thriller.

 

[The Morningstar]

Anyway, here is some Leone awesomness.



Probably in the minority, but A Few Dollars More is my favourite of the Dollars Trilogy.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

No time for niceties! But seriously, didn't mean to come off like a dick. But yea, LA Confidential is a masterclass in film making for me. One of the best films ever made. It's got everything you could want from a crime thriller.

It's definitely one of my favorite crime movies ever.

Anyway, here is some Leone awesomness.



Probably in the minority, but A Few Dollars More is my favourite of the Dollars Trilogy.

They're all great, though my favorite is Once Upon a Time in the West.

More Leone! t:

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[DarthDaveBanner]

Speaking of Leone, Once Upon a Time in America is a gem.

 

[kedrell]

As for Leone' movies they're all good but I'll have to side with the general consensus that TGTB&TU is his ultimate achievement and best movie. I think it's the best western ever made and definitely sits well in my top 5 all time movies.