Not as unpopular as you might think.
I've always said that Champloo is at least a level above Bebop. Bebop was cool, and definitely one of the best animes ever, but Champloo is on a whole other level.
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Not as unpopular as you might think.
I've always said that Champloo is at least a level above Bebop. Bebop was cool, and definitely one of the best animes ever, but Champloo is on a whole other level.
Erratic415
Superstar
Raging Bull wasn't as great to me as many film critics think. It's normally a movie I would love as it is about boxing and it's a Scorsese/De Niro flick, but the pace is a little sluggish. I prefer Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, Casino, and The King of Comedy as far as films with that duo go.
BITH and M2S get compared a lot, which is understandable given the time frame and being the two most praised "hood" movies of that time period.
I'm not sure if this is an "unpopular" opinion, but I just like pointing out that M2S is very, very similar to a Scorsese movie. You take Mean Streets and Goodfellas, mix them together, make it take place in SC LA during the early 90s, and you would have Menace.
Starting off with violent scenes (liquor store and Billy Batts in the trunk), a little narration, goes back in time to Caine/Henry's childhoods and how they were around violence (Caine witnessing his first murder when his dad kills the dude, Henry first seeing a guy get shot)....the scenes where Caine and Harold enter the house party is a long tracking shot which Scorsese is known for, and the narration is similar to the scene when Henry goes to the Tropacana and talks about all the numerous mobsters. The rest of Menace has a vignette, slice-of-life feel to it, kind of like Mean Streets.
The Hughes Brothers said Scorsese was their biggest influence as filmmakers. The scene in Dead Presidents when he confronts Juanita and asks her if she fukked Cutty reminded me of a similar scene in Raging Bull.
BITH and M2S get compared a lot, which is understandable given the time frame and being the two most praised "hood" movies of that time period.
I'm not sure if this is an "unpopular" opinion, but I just like pointing out that M2S is very, very similar to a Scorsese movie. You take Mean Streets and Goodfellas, mix them together, make it take place in SC LA during the early 90s, and you would have Menace.
Starting off with violent scenes (liquor store and Billy Batts in the trunk), a little narration, goes back in time to Caine/Henry's childhoods and how they were around violence (Caine witnessing his first murder when his dad kills the dude, Henry first seeing a guy get shot)....the scenes where Caine and Harold enter the house party is a long tracking shot which Scorsese is known for, and the narration is similar to the scene when Henry goes to the Tropacana and talks about all the numerous mobsters. The rest of Menace has a vignette, slice-of-life feel to it, kind of like Mean Streets.
The Hughes Brothers said Scorsese was their biggest influence as filmmakers. The scene in Dead Presidents when he confronts Juanita and asks her if she fukked Cutty reminded me of a similar scene in Raging Bull.
up in here
Superstar
I agree on Raging Bull, I just couldn't dig it. I didn't like Mean Streets much either. But Menace is a phenomenal flick. Very different to Boyz but still an incredible movie.
Love Raging Bull. Mean Streets I could take or leave tho
Erratic415
Superstar
I didn't like Mean Streets when I first saw it but I watched it again years later and liked it.
I still think Raging Bull is good, but I don't love it like the film critics do.
The opening scene and the ring entrance for the Cerdan fight are brilliant though. That's one of my favorite movie scenes.
I still think Raging Bull is good, but I don't love it like the film critics do.
The opening scene and the ring entrance for the Cerdan fight are brilliant though. That's one of my favorite movie scenes.
That shyt is incredible. It's one of the best tv to movie adaptations ever. I really do think that is a perfect movie
Poetical Poltergeist
Precise and cold hearted
I agree w. Everything. Good post.
And I love Mean Streets, one of my favorite movies, so cool and just showed where Scorcese was heading, basically a rough draft of Goodfellas. So many cool little scenes, DeNiro is great in it. Such a cool film, can't really take a Scorcese fan serious if they downplay Mean Streets.
- The lethal weapon movies are terrible
- Die hard 2 is terrible compared to one and three
- Rambo 08 > every Rambo but first blood
- Ferris Beullers day off is the best movie of the entire 80s.
- The warriors is maybe the most UNDERRATED movie of all time.
Poetical Poltergeist
Precise and cold hearted
Nah lethal weapon 1&2 are great.
Yes die hard 2 is terrible but has some redeeming qualties.
Rambo I agree.
Ferris Bueller, best 80s film? Hell nah.
Warriors is rated just about right. Classic dough.
Alpha Male
Spare me your daps
A few from this year:
- GOTG is a horrible franchise, the 'comedy' is aimed at prepubescents. Couldn't even get though GOTG2.
- Wonder Woman is not a 'great' movie, Patty Jenkins did not reinvent the wheel and this means nothing for female blockbusters going forward.
- Gal Gadot is one of the finest women alive but she is not a national treasure and clearly a spotty actress at best
- No idea why everyone loved Thor Ragnarok, reminded me of GOTG.
- GOTG is a horrible franchise, the 'comedy' is aimed at prepubescents. Couldn't even get though GOTG2.
- Wonder Woman is not a 'great' movie, Patty Jenkins did not reinvent the wheel and this means nothing for female blockbusters going forward.
- Gal Gadot is one of the finest women alive but she is not a national treasure and clearly a spotty actress at best
- No idea why everyone loved Thor Ragnarok, reminded me of GOTG.
I disagree with both of you on the warriors being underrated. It's definitely earned its love and its spot in the 40 years since it was released. And lethal weapon 2 is dope
dish lowry
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90% of good movies were made in the 80s.
people complain about modern remakes, but all this copycat shyt started in the 90s. dumb & dumber = cheech & chong, good will hunting= children of a lesser god (deaf girl that works as a janitor but is secretly a genius), etc
eddie murphy in the 80s was one of the best actors of all time.
i hate overly serious, artsy movies & oscar-nominated types....the best movies ever, to me, are stuff like Highlander, Alien, Rocky, E.T., The Warriors...
Saturday Night Fever is one of the best movies of all time, and actually has a deep story....all the characters are under pressure to conform...his brother doesn't wanna be a priest & is jealous of the night life, the snobby girl he hooks up with is just imitating her boss...
there was a quote from Walter Hill, who made the Warriors & 48 Hrs, that most good movies are basically westerns set in different genres...and i agree w/ that...
you rarely see charisma on the screen nowadays....theres no christopher walken types anymore....
people complain about modern remakes, but all this copycat shyt started in the 90s. dumb & dumber = cheech & chong, good will hunting= children of a lesser god (deaf girl that works as a janitor but is secretly a genius), etc
eddie murphy in the 80s was one of the best actors of all time.
i hate overly serious, artsy movies & oscar-nominated types....the best movies ever, to me, are stuff like Highlander, Alien, Rocky, E.T., The Warriors...
Saturday Night Fever is one of the best movies of all time, and actually has a deep story....all the characters are under pressure to conform...his brother doesn't wanna be a priest & is jealous of the night life, the snobby girl he hooks up with is just imitating her boss...
there was a quote from Walter Hill, who made the Warriors & 48 Hrs, that most good movies are basically westerns set in different genres...and i agree w/ that...
you rarely see charisma on the screen nowadays....theres no christopher walken types anymore....
BelowTheMasonDixon
Veteran
I wouldn't say great but there are a lot worse movies.