Is everyone retarded on that site, or just plain ignorant? Now maybe I have an elitist attitude towards my knowledge of film, but I "sometimes" know when to keep my mouth shut. Let's clarify a few things, and hopefully someone on this site will back me up.
1. The Shawshank Redemption is NOT the greatest film of all time, nor is it top 5, or top 10, or in my opinion top 100.
2. Fight Club is NOT the most extraordinary film of all time. I loved this movie and saw it probably half a dozen times, but there certainly are better films than this.
3. There is more to foreign films than Kurosawa and to a lesser extent Fellini. I'm honestly surprised that Seven Samurai made their top ten, but come on? First off Seven Samurai isn't the best thing that international film has to offer. Now I could be in the minority but I don't even think it is Kurosawa's best (I'd vote for Ran, but that's a moot point). Does anyone there even know who Andrei Tarkovsky is? In all those best/worst lists not a single person mentioned Jean-Luc Godard. So again I say people need to watch a few movies before they decide to voice their opinions about them.
4. Lord of the Rings is NOT the pinnacle of cinematic excellence. These films might have been great individually, and as a series they are certainly one of the highlights of the current decade, but do all three of these films need to be in the top 10?
5. Nicole Kidman is NOT the best actress the world has to offer. From what I can read there, most people don't seem to know who Meryl Streep is, and I doubt few of them have seen more than a film from Bette Davis, Katherine Hepburn, Joan Fontaine, or Ingrid Bergman (just a short list of some of my favorites).
6. Film didn't begin in 1972. People don't seem to go back much further than the Godfather, except to mention Stanley Kubrick (who is my favorite director so I'm not bitching about this). Of all the favorite film lists, did anyone select a silent film? Few silent films are in the top 250, and well, I just don't think anyone on that site is actually venturing into films that you have to read, and oh that black and white film it hurts your eyes.
Yeah I know I should shut up, but here people seem to be intelligent and well informed about their picks. I mean some of you here make me feel like an ignoramus, but that is part of the fun. On the one hand I wish that this site would get the kind of traffic that imdb gets, but then we'd just be clustered with a bunch of opinions from people who should just keep their mouth's shut. So post a nice "FIGHT THE POWER" if you are with me, and if you think I'm an arrogant condescending asshole, then by all means say that.
And one more rant, why do they bleep out profanity, fuck that shit.
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