December 26, 2008

Welcome to really bad cinema...

I've been told so many times that I have awful taste in movies that I have accepted it as fact. I'm going to post some "Top 5" movie lists (stolen from Dan stolen from Drew). For the most part it should be unsurprising, but I am sure that a few will leave you scratching your head. Let the lists begin!


Top 5 Comedies:

1. Pee Wee's Big Adventure
2. Mrs. Doubtfire
3. Its A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
4. Trading Places
5. Harold and Kumar 2

Top 5 Dramas:

1. Little Women
2. Girl, Interrupted
3. Requiem for a Dream
4. My Girl
5. I Am Sam

Top 5 Horror:

1. The Nanny
2. The Bad Seed
3. Nightmare on Elm Street
4. Psycho
5. The Silence of the Lambs

Top 5 Disney:

1. Beauty and the Beast
2. Robin Hood
3. Three Caballeros
4. The Aristocats
5. The Little Mermaid

Top 5 Foreign:

1. The Red Balloon
2. A Very Long Engagement
3. Y Tu Mama Tambien
4. Amelie
5. Maria Full of Grace

Top 5 Romance:

1. Titanic
2. Emma
3. The Notebook
4. Love Actually
5. Knocked Up (only when not sober!)

Top 5 Documentaries:

1. The King of Kong
2. Mad Hot Ballroom
3. Jesus Camp
4. My Kid Could Paint That
5. Seven Up series

Top 5 Action:
1. Jurassic Park
2. 300
3. Spider-Man 2
4. The Dark Knight
5. Kill Bill Vol. 1

Top 5 Fantasy:

1. Beetlejuice
2. The Neverending Story
3. Labyrinth
4. Men in Black
5. Hook

Top 5 Sports Movies:

1. Rookie of the Year
2. The Sandlot
3. Remember the Titans
4. The Karate Kid
5. Spunk

Top 5 Steve Martin Movies:

1. Little Shop of Horrors
2. The Jerk
3. Planes, Trains and Automobiles
4. Father of the Bride
5. Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

Top 5 Directors:

1. Tim Burton
2. Alfred Hitchcock
3. Stanley Kubrick
4. David Wain
5. Duwayne Dunham

Top 5 Christmas Movies:

1. Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
2. Muppet Christmas Carol
3. A Christmas Story
4. Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer
5. The Santa Clause

Desert Island Picks:

1. Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
2. Beauty and the Beast
3. Jurassic Park
4. Titanic
5. Love Actually

7 comments:

Beefy Muchacho said...

Wow... All you need to know regarding my opinion on Titanic is that I nearly put it on my "Horror" list as a joke.

I think that almost all of your lists are totally cool, except the Dramas and the Sports movies. I mean.. "I am Sam"? YIKES.

I really, really want to see King of Kong. I am sure it would immediately crack my top 5 docs.

djphob said...

I've always really liked watching I Am Sam! I don't really watch Dramas or Romances, it was hard to even find movies in those genres that I'd seen.

Uhm, my sports list is AWESOME. Let us compare... Your #5 is Seabiscuit. YAAAAWN. Now Spunk is a good movie.

King of Kong is sooooo good. I have a KoK shirt! Haha.

P.S. Word verification is "plericki". I like it.

Beefy Muchacho said...

How DARE you besmirch Seabiscuit?? That is a great movie.

I don't think I even know what "Spunk" is.

djphob said...

I suggest you get to YouTube-ing then! Tina Yothers IS Tonya Harding. Spectacular.

Zach said...

"Trading Places"...I just watched that again. I seem to remember you being quite scandalized by the whole thing when I first showed it to you. I'm surprised to see it here.

That being said, I was completely with you on every choice until you included "300" as the number 2 action film. REALLY?!?!?!? It is visually spectacular but that dialogue could have been written by Paul's 5 year old nephew. Also, I think that it was underwritten as part of the Bush administrations failed PR campaign to stir up American sentiment against Iran (white people vs. monstrous Persians). No, no, no...I simply cannot get behind that choice. Terrible, just terrible.

djphob said...

Well, boobs were not allowed at our house! Haha.

Its been quite a while since I've seen 300; I only saw it once. I wasn't exactly paying much attention to the plot or the dialogue or the hidden messages if ya know what I mean. My brain was mostly going, "SEXSEXSEXSEXSEXSEXSEX". Looks like I need to take a second look!

Zach said...

Yes, I will give you that it was one of the most homoerotic mainstream action films (minus Vin Diesel) that I've ever seen. Very hot. But...it was in that super-straight "what are you looking at fag?" sort of way that I find simultaneously infuriating and incredibly hot. This led me to a lot of ambivalence about the film and, in my first and only drunken screening, I chose to focus on the poor quality of the writing over the excellent quality of the eye candy which was too sexy/vexing to process.

Perhaps we should all give 300 a second look...with the sound off.