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    Quote Quoting Pop Trash (view post)
    I love Boogie Nights and T2 but I don't see how Boogie Nights' script is wildly better than T2 from a structure standpoint. Boogie Nights is a classic rise / fall / settle for the love of your adapted "family" after fucking up with drugs and a big ego. It's like "Behind the Music" but with porn stars instead of rock stars.
    I totally agree. Would not defend either on the strength of the script. Boogie Nights' relative advantage is in the scope (so many characters, so many relationships, and yet I feel like I know most of them) and direction (Cameron's fx-dependent direction isn't outside of what he had shown before and has shown since).
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    Pulp Fiction vs. Princess Mononoke
    Terminator 2: Judgment Day vs. Boogie Nights
    Goodfellas vs. Unforgiven
    Fargo vs. Ed Wood

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    It may be recency bias, but at the moment T2 is my favorite James Cameron movie. I also love Titanic, but it gives me anxiety.

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    Princess Mononoke
    Boogie Nights
    Goodfellas
    Fargo


    Terminator 2 isn't even the best Terminator movie, much less the best action movie.
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    Also, I've never understood the love for Unforgiven, which isn't very gripping as storytelling. It's a western for people who think they're above watching westerns and that deconstructing the genre and/or Clint's screen persona is a higher purpose than telling a good story.
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    Pulp Fiction vs. Princess Mononoke
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    Goodfellas vs. Unforgiven
    Fargo vs. Ed Wood

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    Quote Quoting baby doll (view post)
    Also, I've never understood the love for Unforgiven, which isn't very gripping as storytelling. It's a western for people who think they're above watching westerns and that deconstructing the genre and/or Clint's screen persona is a higher purpose than telling a good story.
    This is me as well. I still dig the flick, but I was never blown away about it the way most people act about it.

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    I would very much like to see a list of baby doll's favorite action movies.

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    Pulp Fiction vs. Princess Mononoke
    Terminator 2: Judgment Day vs. Boogie Nights
    Goodfellas vs. Unforgiven
    Fargo vs. Ed Wood
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    You Pulp Fiction people are just out of control. Can't even tell the difference between squares and rectangles.

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    You Pulp Fiction people are just out of control. Can't even tell the difference between squares and rectangles.
    To tell you the truth, I would happily vote against it given that I think its good but not "Top 8 of the Decade" good, but it keeps getting an easy ride through.
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    Pulp Fiction vs. Princess Mononoke
    Terminator 2: Judgment Day vs. Boogie Nights
    Goodfellas vs. Unforgiven (both are straight-up 10s for me, though)
    Fargo vs. Ed Wood

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    Quote Quoting transmogrifier (view post)
    To tell you the truth, I would happily vote against it given that I think its good but not "Top 8 of the Decade" good, but it keeps getting an easy ride through.
    Couple of its slots I agree, but Princess Mononoke??? C'mon now! Its time to take a stand against the kitsch lol

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    A top 4 of Fargo, GoodFellas, T2, and Pulp Fiction is probably the most boring possible result.
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    Quote Quoting Skitch (view post)
    Couple of its slots I agree, but Princess Mononoke??? C'mon now! Its time to take a stand against the kitsch lol
    I like Mononoke just fine, but PF wins that match up, unfortunately
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    The Whistlers
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    ) 55
    Pawn (2020) 62
    Matilda (1996) 37
    The Town that Dreaded Sundown
    (1976) 61
    Moby Dick (2011) 50

    Soul
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    Heroic Duo
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    Quote Quoting transmogrifier (view post)
    A top 4 of Fargo, GoodFellas, T2, and Pulp Fiction is probably the most boring possible result.
    Agreed and also PEAK Match-Cut

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    Quote Quoting Skitch (view post)
    Agreed and also PEAK Match-Cut
    It could be the Top 4 of r/movies on reddit, and we should be better than that.

    (I'm just joking really, because like what you like, but still.....)
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    The Whistlers
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    Pawn (2020) 62
    Matilda (1996) 37
    The Town that Dreaded Sundown
    (1976) 61
    Moby Dick (2011) 50

    Soul
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    Heroic Duo
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    A Moment of Romance (1990) 61
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    Quote Quoting transmogrifier (view post)
    It could be the Top 4 of r/movies on reddit, and we should be better than that.

    (I'm just joking really, because like what you like, but still.....)
    Same page, sir, same page

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    Pulp Fiction vs. Princess Mononoke (ouch)
    Terminator 2: Judgment Day vs. Boogie Nights (OUCH)
    Goodfellas vs. Unforgiven (YAWN)
    Fargo vs. Ed Wood (yawn)

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    Quote Quoting Skitch (view post)
    Couple of its slots I agree, but Princess Mononoke??? C'mon now! Its time to take a stand against the kitsch lol
    I know... I really do feel like a monster.

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    Quote Quoting transmogrifier (view post)
    A top 4 of Fargo, GoodFellas, T2, and Pulp Fiction is probably the most boring possible result.
    Was thinking this exactly.

    We are much quirkier than this list would lead an outsider to think.
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    IMDB's Sweet Sixteen:
    1. The Shawshank Redemption
    2. Schindler's List
    3. Pulp Fiction
    4. Fight Club

    5. Forrest Gump
    6. The Matrix
    7. Goodfellas
    8. Seven

    9. Life Is Beautiful
    10. The Silence of the Lambs
    11. Saving Private Ryan
    12. The Green Mile

    13. Leon: The Professional
    14. The Lion King
    15. The Usual Suspects
    16. Terminator 2

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    IMDB's Sweet Sixteen:
    1. The Shawshank Redemption
    2. Schindler's List
    3. Pulp Fiction
    4. Fight Club

    5. Forrest Gump
    6. The Matrix
    7. Goodfellas
    8. Seven

    9. Life Is Beautiful
    10. The Silence of the Lambs
    11. Saving Private Ryan
    12. The Green Mile

    13. Leon: The Professional
    14. The Lion King
    15. The Usual Suspects
    16. Terminator 2
    I don't see why we all can't get on board with Life is Beautiful.
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    These Princess Mononoke results... make it stop...

    Midnight Run (1988) - 9
    The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) - 8.5
    The Adventures of Robinhood (1938) - 8
    Sisters (1973) - 6.5
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    Quote Quoting Idioteque Stalker (view post)
    I would very much like to see a list of baby doll's favorite action movies.
    Define action movie.
    Just because...
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