The ten best movies of 2025
None.
I haven’t seen a single movie that came out in 2025. If you have any nominations for the “best” list, be my guest.
But I was thinking – what are my ten favorite movies of all time? That’s a difficult task, but a lot more fun. So here they are, in no particular order:
(1) Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet (1968). Saw it in a movie theater when it came out; wide-screen. Immediately loved it and still do today. An inspired idea to cast actual teenagers in the lead roles, but it wouldn’t have worked so well if these particular teenagers hadn’t been excellent actors and physically beautiful. I cried all the way through it and still do.
(2) Groundhog Day (1993). Funny, poignant, and ultimately philosophical. I’ve written about this film many times on the blog.
(3) The Lives of Others (2006). Brilliant reflection on life in East Germany under surveillance and the constant threat of surveillance.
(4) Wuthering Heights (1939). It’s schmaltzy, it doesn’t follow the book much and softens the Heathcliff character a great deal, but Olivier is young and riveting and the music gives me chills.
(5) The Wizard of Oz (1939). Magical, then and now. As a child, I felt the change to Oz and color film was the best thing ever, and Ray Bolger’s dancing wasn’t far behind. Did I appreciate Judy Garland’s phenomenal singing? Probably not. But I do now.
(6) The Great Escape (1963). Saw it in a movie theater when it first came out. I was old enough to understand and appreciate it (including the male pulchritude on display) but young enough to be shocked at the ending.
(7) Ballad of a Soldier (1959). A Russian movie, it came to this country during the Khrushchev “thaw.” A relative took me to see it – in black-and-white and with English subtitles – in a Manhattan movie “art” theater. It remains extraordinarily touching. Another one that makes me cry and cry.
(8) The Sixth Sense (1999). Yes, it’s probably gimmicky. But what a twist! Best twist ever.
(9) Some Like It Hot (1959). Another film I saw in a movie theater when first released, and I was almost undoubtedly too young for it. But it’s one of the funniest movies of all time, and I got the humor – for the most part.
(10) Marriage Italian Style (1964) (note: not Divorce Italian Style). Loren and Mastroianni. Do not – I repeat, do not – get the dubbed version; only the subtitled version. Loren is at her funniest and yet most moving. Mastroianni does what he does best: playing the charming heel. All wrapped up in a satisfying plot.
I can easily think of others to add, perhaps just as worthy. But that’s my first take, and I’ll leave it.
Note what’s left out: Citizen Kane and The Godfather, both of which leave me cold. Gone With the Wind, which has its pluses but just isn’t a favorite for me. 2001 definitely might have made it, but probably belongs somewhere in the top twenty instead. Same with Rebecca, Jane Eyre, and Splendor In the Grass. Nothing in the Star Wars genre would ever make the cut; I saw the original in an LA movie theater with the sound cranked up to painful heights, and otherwise it bored me tremendously. I have a distinct fondness for Scorsese’s After Hours, but again it probably should be in my top twenty rather than top ten.
The Black Stallion, directed by Carroll Ballard is probably my favorite. The scenes with Alex and The Black on the beach and in the sea are great cinematography melded with a fantastic soundtrack. No words are spoken, but the story of bonding and trust is beautifully told.
And just about anything by Kurosawa.
And just about nothing by Hitchcock.
And the only decent new movie I’ve seen in the past several years is Frankenstein directed and written by Guillermo del Toro.
Man for All Seasons
With Scofield
On Citizen Kane and The Godfather leaving you cold. Agree completely. I don’t know how anyone could watch Citizen Kane and Casablanca back-to-back and conclude Citizen Kane is the better movie.
The Godfather shows up on a lot of lists as the best movie of all time. It’s not even the best movie about gangsters. That would be Once Upon a Time in America.
I don’t know if I could easily come up with a top ten–some of those would be on my list, some I’ve never seen. Some I remember liking a lot when I was younger, but I’m not sure if I’d feel the same if I saw them now. Besides obvious choices like “Lawrence of Arabia” and “Godfather” (I and II), “Casablanca,” a few that I’m pretty sure would make the cut are (in no particular order)
Day of the Jackal (1973, not the remake) Edward Fox is amazing.
Rear Window (my favorite Hitchcock) Can’t top Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly.
Tom Jones (best comedy ever, though a few others come close)
Passage to India
I’d have to choose a Merchant Ivory film, maybe “Howards End.”
A more obscure one is “Return of Martin Guerre.” Like “Passage to India” some wonderful ambiguity and a great climactic courtroom scene.
I’m a big fan of the French director Jean Renoir, his Grand Illusion and Rules of the Game are among my top 10.
As for 2025 movies I made the MASSIVE mistake of going to see One Battle After Another because I’m a DiCaprio fan. My review is as follows: Plan Nine From Outer Space with better acting.
At the turn of the century/millenium I made my own top 10 list, in this order (1-10):
On The Waterfront
Midnight Cowboy
Chinatown
Maltese Falcon
Hud
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Dr. Strangelove
Casablanca
Network
Mean Streets
Not sure it would be the same today. One movie I hadn’t seen at the time that I have since and loved is Red River with John Wayne and Montgomery Clift. And Network would probably be much higher on the list, it is chilling how prophetic that movie was.
This year’s best movie is no contest.
KPop Demon Hunters.
Yes I am dead serious.
Yes I am ready to provide extensive notes and citations in defense of it.
Yes I even saw it broadcast in theaters after watching it on the streaming service. If you haven’t yet, Neo, watch it with the grandkids. It’s like the movies Disney used to make.
Just watched The Great Escape, again. And enjoyed it, again.
Haven’t been to a theater for a very long time. Costs too much, music way too loud.
Last few days have watched:
The Great Race
Thin Man
Kelly’s Heroes
The Train
Will try and find Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machine. Hope I can watch it while having our Traditional New Years Eve Dinner. Lobster, King Crab, Bubbly.
Ten movies I can’t seem to get enough of – in truly random order.
Once Upon a Time in America
Jaws
Casablanca
Bridge on the River Kwai
Aliens
Almost Famous (Directors Cut – Important)
Zodiac
Amadeus
Apocalypse Now (Final Cut)
Cabaret
Cato Renasci on December 31, 2025 at 1:48 pm said:
I’m a big fan of the French director Jean Renoir, his Grand Illusion and Rules of the Game are among my top 10.
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Rules is my #1. It replaced Zulu, which I loved when I was 11 and it came out. (Still high on my list.) Grand Illusion is also high.
Gone With the Wind was rereleased in 1969, and was my first date. Neo wrote a while back about remembering what she wore for her first. I have no idea what I wore, but remember to this day what my date did. I’d guess that’s normal for the two sexes.
The best movies are those you revisit time after time, and enjoy them even more because you know where they’re going. You pick up on the slightest change in one’s expression, you read between the lines. Offhand I can’t think of a better film meeting that description than Casablanca.
I haven’t been to a movie theater in several years, and don’t care much for anything that’s been released over the past ten years or so. But one film released in 2015 moved me more than I thought any movie could any more – Brooklyn. It’s a love story, but on a bigger scale it’s a love letter to America, with all the promise it held for those who came here a century ago to build new lives and become a faithful part of it.
Interesting list and other’s lists as well. Here are my top picks:
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
Miracle on 34th Street (the original, NOT the PC remake) (1947)
Shenandoah (1965)
To Kill a Mocking Bird (1962)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Dr. Zhivago (1965)
Dances with Wolves (1990)
Casablanca (1942)
the trilogy of The Lord of the Rings (I’ll count this as one – 2001-2003)
The Last Emperor (1987)
Nate Winchester:
You’re reminding me that I did see one movie this year, after all. It was K-Pop Demon Hunters. My grandkids are huge fans but alas, I am not.
Nice topic choice.
I don’t think I’ll attempt a top ten list, but instead mention films I like a lot or had a big impact on me.
I just saw Hamnet at the theater. I’d recommend it. Shakespeare is not my thing, so the plot might be ludicrous to a Shakespeare scholar, but I enjoyed it. The sickness scenes in the middle were over-wrot IMHO, but the rest was excellent.
I’ve seen the 1939 Wuthering Heights and like it very much, but my first exposure to the story was the 1970 Timothy Dalton version. I’m sure that one is not the best in any way, but I was young then & quite taken by it. I tried watching it several years ago, got distracted & didn’t finish it. It seemed very spare in production and didn’t flow very well. Dalton is a great Heathcliff.
I love The Wizard of Oz, Groundhog Day, and Some Like It Hot.
I don’t think most people appreciate the shooting time & effort that must have gone into Groundhog Day. So many of those very short clips representing different days. I suspect that is part of what ended the friendship between Murray and Ramis. An endless number of takes.
Billy Wilder is usually, but not always, wonderful. Double Indemnity, The Apartment, Stalag 17, & Sunset Blvd.
I love a good film noir, old or newer:
Double Indemnity, Chinatown, The Big Sleep, The Big Heat (Not that well known. Excellent Lee Marvin & Gloria Grahame performances.), In a Lonely Place, Thieves’ Highway (1949),
LA Confidential, Blood Simple, Miller’s Crossing, No Country for Old Men.
Did you know that the script to Chinatown is taught in at least one film school as an exemplar for the perfect script? Also, some rate the its music score as one of the best. Jerry Goldsmith. Though it is rather minimal and spare.
I do like Hitchcock: Rebecca, Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Spellbound, Psycho, The Birds, Marnie.
If you’ve never seen Greta Garbo, you should check out Camille (1939). I’d never seen a film adaptation of Camille either.
Lawrence of Arabia
Jaws, Almost Famous, yup.
For those with a serious taste for strange and dark, there is Lynch:
Blue Velvet, Wild At Heart, Mulholland Dr., Twin Peaks season 3.
I believe there actually IS logic and storyline to all of his films, though Lynch clearly doesn’t care if a mere mortal can figure it out or not, with some of them.
Love Kurosawa too. Rashomon, Dersu Usala.
I don’t recall any movie coming out in 2025 I wished to see.
“The Searchers ” 1956 John Wayne would probably be in my top 20 anyway.
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Casablanca
The African Queen
Groundhog Day
Chinatown
The Bridge on the River Kwai
O Brother, Where Art Thou
The Maltese Falcon
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Bullitt
2001: A Space Odyssey
Apocalypse Now
Ten satisfactory films.
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The Front Page (1931)
The African Queen (1952)
The Caine Mutiny (1954)
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960)
Sweet November (1968)
Finian’s Rainbow (1968)
On a Clear Day, You Can See Forever (1970)
Moonstruck (1987)
Metropolitan (1990)
Chateau de Ma Mere (1990)
Twenty years ago or more, my wife and a couple friends drove up to Santa Cruz for a midnight showing of The Wizard of Oz. I wasn’t expecting anything special, but a large group of lesbians turned out for it, and they went crazy over any scene with Margaret Hamilton in it. The grumpy neighbor or the wicked witch of the west. Good fun.
You crack me up Art Deco – satisfactory films.
Moonstruck is an underrated gem.
We saw F1 in the Theater.
I’d have to say it was the best movie this year.
It was a bit formulaic and predictable but it was a solid piece of entertainment and I didn’t feel like I’d just been subjected to a sermon at the end.
As to what constitutes the best movie of the year these days, the bar is pretty low.
North by Northwest.
(So many memorable scenes: the Cary Grant – Eva Marie Saint conversation in the dining car; Cary Grant disrupting the auction; the attempted murder of Grant by the crop dusting plane; the chase across Mt. Rushmore.)
Groundhog Day
The Sixth Sense
Pulp Fiction
The Grand Illusion
Casablanca
The Wizard of Oz
This is Spinal Tap
The Princess Bride
Romeo and Juliet (1968)
Jaws (For the Indianapolis speech, if nothing else.)
Runners up:
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Isle of Dogs
The Court Jester
Moonstruck
Ninotchka
LA Confidential
Wings of Desire
The Blizzard (1923 Sweden)
High Noon
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Too many to name to make a top 10. Though Casablanca always takes the top spot for me.
After that I’d have to break it down by decades from 30s to now.
Damn nice list Lee Also. Of course you cheated a bit by adding so many.
Thumbs up to The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Sam Rockwell gives a master class in acting in that movie, and I have to say Brad Pitt was damn good too.
I’ll put in a good word for McCabe and Mrs. Miller, and throw in Bertrand Blier’s Calmos for fun.
I gather Lee Also is about 20 years younger than the median on these boards.
Others occur to you later.
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Casablanca (1941)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Nine Hours to Rama (1963)
Three Lives of Thomasina (1963)
Lady in a Cage (1964)
The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)
Cactus Flower (1969)
Pete & Tillie (1972)
Wide divergence in lists. But a large proportion include Casablanca.
Tommy Jay, come to think of it Billy Wilder is a big miss on my top ten list. These films are all superb
Double Indemnity
Lost Weekend
Sunset Boulevard
Stalag 17
Witness for the Prosecution
Some Like It Hot
The Apartment
Almost a top ten by itself!
M. Hulot’s Holiday (1952)
On the Waterfront (1954)
West Side Story (1961)
David & Lisa (1962)
Lee Also:
I forgot The Court Jester and High Noon. Two tremendous favorites of mine.
Wings of Desire, Double Indemnity, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (the first one), La Dolce Vita, Ikiru, Citizen Kane (I am tremendously moved by the story of a man who lost his happy childhood and tried to fill the emptiness with things and vanity projects), Shadow of a Doubt, Vertigo, Rear Window, My Man Godfrey, almost everything by Buster Keaton, Chinatown, Tell No One, Ride the High Country, Lone Star (John Sayles), Bull Durham. I think that is enough.
I only came up with eight (in no particular order):
What About Bob?
Bedazzled (original with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore)
The Lavender Hill Mob
Darkest Hour
Mary Poppins
Star Wars
The Wizard of Oz
Death Wish
Addendum: It’s a Wonderful Life
From the recent Christmas season:
the Grinch who stole Christmas narrated by Boris Karloff
Christmas story with Ralphie and the gang
For good action, over the top plot, and great music
The good, the bad, and the ugly with Clint Eastwood and Lee van Cleef and Eli Wallach
Gee, if I put up my top most-watched films I would be telling on myself.
The 39 Steps
The Maltese Falcon
The Big Sleep
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Goodfellas
Godfather 1 & II
The Ipcress File
The Big Lebowski
The Bourne Identity
Grosse Point Blank
Raiders of the Lost Ark
I love the standard classics like Casablanca and 2001 too, but I don’t watch them often.
Howards End
Groundhog Day
The Wizard of Oz
The Third Man
A lot of my favorites on many lists.
“Finian’s Rainbow” is a lovely bit of fluff with Fred Astaire, glad to see it has not been completely forgotten!
We usually go out during Christmas week with our visiting kids to see something they recommend; no one had anything on their list this year, not even KPop Demon Hunters!
@ Older & Wheezier > “The best movies are those you revisit time after time, and enjoy them even more because you know where they’re going.”
Very true of books as well, and also music, and dance (witness Neo’s frequent links).
The Pink Panther (movies, the minkey, Kato, the inflatable parrot, …)
Blazing Saddles
You know the genre, really serious fare.
I saw David last Tuesday, and enjoyed it very much.
Stand by Me (1986)
Art Deco — I wish I were that young!
A big “No” to “My Man Godfrey” — I find Carol Lombard annoying. In pretty much everything I’ve seen her in. But i LOVE William Powell. I thought about “The Thin Man,” but I already cheated by having a “Runners Up” list.
I love “The Ten Commandments” and watch out almost every year, but i don’t think it’s a good movie. Charlton Heston chews the scenery, so does Anne Baxter. Frankly, most of the cast does. It waxes a little goofy at times ?- during the Passover scene, I expect the kid to say, “Uncle Moishe, Uncle Moishe! Why is this night different from all other nights?”
I could come up with a list of Runner up Runners up… but i already cheated with the Runners Up list
Best of the year? Two only, neither will get Oscar attention.
“Naked Gun”, with Liam Neeson playing completely deadpan, and Pamala Anderson as the love interest (resulting in senior dating by these two leads!),. Dumb humor like this requires real smarts! Credit the writers for tapping into original’s roots so well.
“Americana”, out only a few days in August — then it disappeared.
A fine Tarantino reworking of “No Country for Old Men” Western film noir elements. It stars young pop star Billy Eilish and “It girl” Sydney Sweeney.
The plot turns on the theft of a Lakota Sioux “Ghost Shirt,” REAL Western history. Set in South Dakota and Wyoming, but actually filmed in Northern Arizona.
Weirdly enough, “Americana” premiered in the Spring of 2023 at SXSW festival in Austin to strong critical notice — but never received general theatrical release!
As for best ever films, I’m with physics Guy — decadal 10 best.
Sofia Coppela makes the 1990s and 2000s best list for me with “the Virgin Suicides” and “Lost in Translation”, respectively.
It’s doubly rare — two different decades, both by a rare female writer-director.
My list is skewed by being both Canadian and a resident of Montreal for a decade
The Seventh Seal
La Belle Noiseuse
Le Grand Bleu
Groundhog Day
Lost in Translation
Hara Kiri
Picnic at Hanging Rock
The Year of Living Dangerously
Fannie and Alexander
High Noon
I’m surprised that no one chose The Shawshank Redemption.
Others on my list :
How Green Was My Valley (Walter Pidgeon is always good)
Mrs. Miniver (ditto Greer Garson)
John Ford movies (Searchers, Stagecoach, Quiet Man, Fort Apache, She Wore A Yellow Ribbon, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, How Green ,,,, many others)
Down To The Sea In Ships
Sexy Beast
The Usual Suspects
Never Cry Wolf
The Big Lebowski (and others by the Coen Brothers – Miller’s Crossing, O Brother, No Country, Fargo True Grit, A Serious Man, Blood Simple, The Man Who Wasn’t There)
I asked Grok to list the titles by popularity.
Here are the titles that were mentioned 2 or more times:
Casablanca 10
The Wizard of Oz 8
Groundhog Day 7
Movies with three mentions:
Chinatown
Some Like It Hot
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Great Escape
Movies with two mentions:
Citizen Kane
Double Indemnity
Gone With the Wind
Grand Illusion
High Noon
Jaws
KPop Demon Hunters
Mrs. Miniver
On the Waterfront
Rear Window
Romeo and Juliet (1968)
The African Queen
The Godfather
The Maltese Falcon
The Searchers
The Sixth Sense
Wuthering Heights (1939)
This should make a must watch list for everybody, IMO.
The rest:
2001: A Space Odyssey
A Christmas Story (1983)
Aliens
Almost Famous
Amadeus
Americana (2023/2025)
Apocalypse Now
Bedazzled (1967)
Blazing Saddles
Blood Simple
Brooklyn
Bull Durham
Bullitt
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Cabaret
Cactus Flower (1969)
Camille (1939)
Chateau de Ma Mere (1990)
Dances with Wolves
Darkest Hour
David & Lisa (1962)
David (2024)
Day of the Jackal (1973)
Death Wish
Dersu Uzala
Down To The Sea In Ships
Dr. Zhivago
F1 in the Theater
Fannie and Alexander
Finian’s Rainbow (1968)
Fort Apache
Frankenstein (del Toro)
Goodfellas
Grosse Point Blank
Hamnet
Hara Kiri
How Green Was My Valley
Howards End
Ikiru
In a Lonely Place
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Isle of Dogs
It’s a Wonderful Life
Kelly’s Heroes
LA Confidential
La Belle Noiseuse
La Dolce Vita
Lady in a Cage (1964)
Le Grand Bleu
Lone Star (John Sayles)
Lost Weekend
Lost in Translation
Man for All Seasons
Marnie
Mary Poppins
Mean Streets
Metropolitan (1990)
Midnight Cowboy
Miller’s Crossing
Moonstruck (1987)
My Man Godfrey
Naked Gun (2025)
Network
Never Cry Wolf
Nine Hours to Rama (1963)
Ninotchka
No Country for Old Men
North by Northwest
O Brother, Where Art Thou
On a Clear Day, You Can See Forever (1970)
Once Upon a Time in America
One Battle After Another
Passage to India
Pete & Tillie (1972)
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Plan Nine From Outer Space
Psycho
Quiet Man
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Rashomon
Rebecca
Red River
Return of Martin Guerre
Ride the High Country
Rules of the Game
Sexy Beast
Shadow of a Doubt
She Wore A Yellow Ribbon
Shenandoah
Spellbound
Stagecoach
Stalag 17
Stand by Me (1986)
Star Wars
Sunset Blvd
Sweet November (1968)
Tell No One
The 39 Steps
The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)
The Apartment
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
The Big Heat
The Big Lebowski
The Big Sleep
The Birds
The Blizzard (1923)
The Bourne Identity
The Caine Mutiny (1954)
The Court Jester
The Front Page (1931)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Grapes of Wrath
The Great Race
The Grinch Who Stole Christmas (1966, Karloff)
The Ipcress File
The Last Emperor
The Lavender Hill Mob
The Lives of Others
The Lord of the Rings (trilogy)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Pink Panther (series)
The Princess Bride
The Seventh Seal
The Shawshank Redemption
The Ten Commandments (1956)
The Third Man
The Train
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Usual Suspects
The Virgin Suicides
The Year of Living Dangerously
Thieves’ Highway
Thin Man
This is Spinal Tap
Three Lives of Thomasina (1963)
To Kill a Mocking Bird
Tom Jones
Vertigo
West Side Story (1961)
What About Bob?
Wings of Desire
Witness for the Prosecution
Zodiac
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
A Boy Ten Feet Tall (1963)
Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
Sounder (1972)
How about a list of favorite musicals? Two categories, Movies that are primarily singing and dancing and Movies that were adapted from stage musicals.
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You weren’t in on that #6 were you?
My list would start with:
A River Runs Through It
and include:
Oh Brother Where Art Thou
Saving Private Ryan
A Christmas Story
We’re No Angels, with Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov, Aldo Ray
Arsenic and Old Lace
The Lady Killers, with Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, and others
Of Mice and Men
Home Alone
Beetlejuice
Burglar
Sennacherib:
What is this #6 you are referring to?
There are a lot of good movies recommended by the crew. Many I was unaware of.
I plan to watch “Ballad of a Soldier” this Saturday when donating platelets, it is on YouTube full length.
“Mannon of the Spring” and “My Father’s Glory and My Mother’s Castle” were quite good IIRC.
One of my favorites is:
Pride and Prejudice, 2005 version with Kiera Knightley
This movie actually prompted me to buy the book, which I really enjoyed.
John Tyler:
Mr. Collins was particularly good in that version.
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#6 by the immortal Slim Pickens ( when he’s not having a good time in Paris.
Someone brought up Fred Astaire and musicals. All the Astaire-Ginger Rogers movies are excellent but the best IMO is Swing Time. Not least because of the fantastic Jerome Kern score that includes one of the best songs ever written, “The Way You Look Tonight”.
Glad to see a shout-out for “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance”. Jimmy Stewart is one of my favorite actors but here he just had to play Jimmy Stewart, it was John Wayne who had the key tragic role of Tom Doniphon.
Going to this year’s movies, Weapons on Netflix was a surprisingly good horror movie, in the classic sense of not having a lot of gore but instead building horror and suspense with a creepy, creepy mystery. Good acting too.
“Airplane” from 1980. Have to watch it repeatedly just to catch all the jokes.
neo wrote: “Star Wars … painful heights, and otherwise it bored me tremendously.”
Amen, Sister.
Several times I’ve had grown men complain to me about the sequels not being very good. When I point out the 1st (or 4th, or whatever stupid number it is in the stupid “canon”), also isn’t very good because George Lucas isn’t a good screenwriter, adult, grown men get upset with my take.
I don’t get it. It’s an extremely predictable 1940’s serial made for children, akin to “Flash Gordon,” but with groundbreaking special effects. Noteworthy for what Industrial Light and Magic did, but barely enough story to hold 90 minutes together, let alone tens of hours of sequels. Saw the first (or 7th, or whatever) in the theater in 1977(?), haven’t seen any of the rest.
Where’s Animal House?
In no particular order:
1. Oppenheimer.
2. Open Range.
3. Sophie’s Choice.
4. Parent Trap. (Lindsay Lohan edition).
5. It’s a Wonderful Life.
6. Frankenstein, Part II.
7. The Big Chill.
8. Inside Man.
9. Unforgiven.
10. Ford v. Ferrari.
11. Out of Africa.
12. The Natural.
13. The Godfather.
14. Body Heat.
15. Animal House.
16. A Perfect Murder.
17. Basic Instinct.
18. Romancing the Stone.
Yes, A River Runs Through It (1992).
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There was a set of French films distributed in the United States around the same time, among them that were handsome. om mentions two. Two others were May Fools and Tatie Danielle, both from 1990.