JCC Amph The JCC's Top 100 Films of All Time Part II: Street Fighter Boogaloo (Now Complete)

Forgot to mention in my previous post: haven’t seen Gattaca.

 

What will be the first movie of such universal acclaim that it makes 5 lists?

 

Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma.

 

You should've actively campaigned for Salo. It could've been this list's Street Fighter.

 

We all know that if I was going to campaign there's only one weird Italian passion project full of disturbing and sexual content that I would choose.

 

60. Titanic (1997)
Directed by: Jsmes Cameron
32 Points, 2 Votes
Voter comments: the fantasy of human relationships ~Bacon164

Still haven't seen this one.





59. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
Directed by: (Peter Ramsey, Bob Persichetti, and Rodney Rothman)
33 Points, 2 Votes
Voter comments: None submitted

"Can I return it if it doesn't fit?"

"It always fits, eventually."

The best Spider-Man film ever made, and the best superhero film of the '10's. "What's Up Danger?"





58. Schindler's List (1993)
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
33 Points, 2 Votes
Voter comments: None submitted

It's well shot and well acted, but ultimately, this one simply didn't click for me.





57. Muppet Treasure Island (1996)
Directed by: Brian Henson
33 Points, 2 Votes
Voter comments: None submitted.

"Take a cruise," you said. "See the world," you said. Now here we are, stuck on the front of this stupid ship."

"Well, it could be worse. We could be stuck in the audience."

Pretty sure this was the first Muppet film I saw, so it will be special to me because of that.





56. Dark City (1998)
Directd by: Alex Proyas
33 Points, 2 Votes
Voter comments: Similar enough to The Matrix in plot and themes to give the impression that the Wachowskis ripped it off, but I like it because it's weirder. ~Darth Guy

Visually excellent, solid score, great atmosphere, fascinating mysteries and utterly original moments that wouldn't be replicated anywhere else for over a decade (until Inception came along). After seeing it in theaters, I watched this film on DVD with the French language track because I ran out of special features to watch and listen to. So, yeah, I think i like it. ~The2ndQuest

"Daylight. When was the last time you remember seeing it? And I'm not talking about some distant, half-forgotten childhood memory, I mean like yesterday. Last week. Can you come up with a single memory? You can't, can you? You know something, I don't think the sun even... exists... in this place. 'Cause I've been up for hours, and hours, and hours, and the night never ends here."

Kiefer Sutherland needs to play twitchy wierdos more often.

 

Schindler's List next to Muppet Treasure Island is the epitome of the diversity of cinema.

 

In a way, Schindler's List is the live action Muppet Treasure Island.

 

Muppet Treasure Island was top of my list. There may be better Muppet movies (The Muppet Movie), there may even be better Muppet literary adaptations (Muppet Christmas Carol) but Muppet Treasure Island has one thing that neither of those have, a squeaky-voiced teen.

Oh, and Tim Curry.

Muppets aside, Tim Curry was born to play a pirate, and here he is as Long John Silver, professional pirate. It's just a performance to behold.

Muppets + Tim Curry is a winning combination.

 

Obligatory:

 

Titanic.
It’s good but I wouldn’t have picked it. It led to Kate Winslet getting more roles, so that’s a positive.

Spider-Man
I haven’t seen this one.

Schindler’s List:
It’s excellent. The only thing I can think of that would’ve made it better is if it were in the correct language.

Muppet Treasure Island
Not necessarily the best Muppet film, IMO. But as has been noted, this one has something no other Muppet movie has, and that’s Tim Curry.

Dark City
Excellent film with a great atmosphere.

 

You really should see this. It’s just so stylish and the script is surprisingly good.

 

Three movies I haven’t seen in forever and two I’ve never seen. Thumbs up for Muppet Treasure Island, which I remember being tons of fun, and for Schindler’s List, which . . . isn’t. Neutral on Titanic, which I haven’t seen in a million years and need to revisit away from all the contemporary eye-rolling about it.

Spoiler

1. In the Mood for Love
2. The Thin Man
3. The Dark Knight
4. The Apartment
5. Parasite
6. Bicycle Thieves
7. The Blues Brothers
8. No Country for Old Men
9. Schindler’s List
10. Lawrence of Arabia
11. Casino
12. Witness
13. Airplane!
14. The Great Escape
15. Cinema Paradiso
16. Gattaca
17. Network
18. Do the Right Thing
19. Lost in Translation
20. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
21. Kingdom of Heaven: Director's Cut
22. Muppet Treasure Island
23. Toy Story
24. Django Unchained
25. Malcolm X
26. Godzilla
27. Titanic
28. Full Metal Jacket
29. The Matrix
30. Duck Soup
31. Mary Poppins
32. Excalibur

1. Oldboy
2. Black Dynamite
3. Little Women
4. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
5. Superman: The Movie
6. Three Colors: Blue
   
7. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
8. Dark City
9. National Lampoon's Vacation
10. Howl's Moving Castle
11. Dune
12. The Serpent and the Rainbow
13. Transformers: The Movie

 

See, objectively I might have gone with Schindler's List. Subjectively I could not help myself and listed Raiders.

 

You haven’t seen The Crow?

 

Best of this batch is Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse which I really had no expectations of being any good honestly when I first heard about it. By the time I saw it, I had heard the buzz that it was actually excellent, so I went in with my expectations higher than they had been and found myself blown away in just about every way. The character work is fantastic; the animation is stunning; the story is compelling and the way the film executes the multiverse is ten times better than any of the actual MCU films have managed to pull it off. It's nothing short of a cinematic miracle and I love it with all my heart.

Schindler's List is . . . less exuberant. But it's a beautiful movie; the fact that Spielberg put both this movie and Jurassic Park out in 1993 is an artistic feat of epic proportions; they're both near-perfect films in their respective genres which couldn't be more different. The cinematography and visuals of Schindler's List are fantastic and it's got one of John Williams' most heartbreakingly beautiful scores. That central theme just. doesn't. get. old. It just about brings me to tears every time. All of the performances are excellent, but special attention must be given to Ralph Fiennes as one of the great piece-of-**** Nazis in all of cinema. It's a fearless performance and a really terrifying one. He enters the movie about ninety minutes in, being driven by a lacky, bitching about how cold it is and you legit think he might be about to murder someone because he's so pissed off about the weather. What a performance. Great movie in every way though. I definitely need a revisit on this one though. Been over ten years since I last saw it.

Titanic . . . man, this has been a tough movie to like over the years. And I do mean "like," not "love." When the movie first came out, you ran the risk of being beaten to death by a mob of people who had seen it ten times and saying you "liked" it wasn't good enough. Then there was the backlash and then the backlash to the backlash and the backlash to the backlash to the backlash and I don't even know how many times we actually went through that cycle, but I'm pretty sure we're all supposed to hate it now. Nope. I stand by what I've said from the beginning. It's a darn good movie and when it came out, it felt like it had been a really long time since we'd seen an above average epic. Now, you're tripping on three epics every time you go to the theater and, on average, they're pretty good. But for people who hadn't seen anything like Titanic before, well, I get why they kind of went crazy for it and to some degree it's never really recovered from being so wildly overhyped when it first came out. But, like I say, it's a really entertaining, really well done movie. Winslet is the best of the performers in the movie and, yes, the romantic bits do drag a bit at the beginning. Once the iceberg shows up, it gets a lot better. While it was never as great as people said, it was a real achievement in every way and it's never as bad as the haters would have you believe, not even at its absolute worst.

Muppet Treasure Island and Dark City are movies I haven't seen.

Seen: 30/45; Thumbs Up: 28; Thumbs Down: 2.

 

Spider-Verse does have the greatest post-credit scene of all time

 

titanic is the only one of these i haven't seen (35/45). i enjoyed all the others but don't consider any of them all-time favorites.

 

In other words, I definitely would have had more than one Spielberg movie on my list and I WOULD HAVE BEEN RIGHT