Last night I finally watched Platoon. Sorry Joe, I was wrong, that was probably one of the best movies I've ever seen.
Which got me thinking... while, in my opinion, it may in fact be one of the best made films in history I have no intention of owning it, or adding it to any favourite movies list. It's not exactly the kind of movie I would watch again and again for enjoyment.
While I will stand fast for the excellence of many of my top 10 Favourites (City Lights, Dr Strangelove, Casablanca), I admit that they are not always the highest quality movies in history (Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail is my #1 after all). I do like to actually ENJOY the movies I'm watching, and I actually get kind of pissed when I'm told that I should love a movie that was absolutely painful to watch for no good reason.
But every once in a while, and frequently with many of the folks reading this, I watch a movie that is kind of painful, in that it is disturbing, but is also incredibly moving and impressive. I have decided to pay tribute to these films in my:
Top 10 Movies I Thought Were Brilliant, but I Never Want to Have to See Again
10. Titus
9. Full Metal Jacket
8. One Flew Over the Cookoo's Nest
7. Resevoir Dogs (Oh yes, I went there)
6. The English Patient
5. Saving Private Ryan
4. Natural Born Killers
3. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (With the exception of the scene where all the guys try to ambush him and the music goes 'wah nah nah nah nah- duh duh duh duh- wah nah nah nah nah- duh duh duh duh'. I could watch that forever)
2. Schindler's List
1. Platoon
I actually had an entire post written with explanations about why I thought the movies were excellent, and what had disturbed me so terribly about them, but it was starting to sound like a psychotherapy session. Also, I assume that since I am dealing with a few people's favourites that I'll have to argue this in some sort of angry flame war anyways, so it's really just a time saving activity.
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Haha. Apology accepted. :-)
That reminds me, I still haven't seen Titus. And you know even I have my limits - most Cronenberg movies I can watch just once or twice.
Speaking of tough movies, I watched 'Freddy Got Fingered' yesterday. That's a good movie to watch when you're sick of watching movies. I was pleasantly surprised by 'Freddy' - it's definitely something the whole family could enjoy.
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