Sometimes it seems like reboots are really just using the title or a previous movie to rope in an audience and make it an easier sell to a studio.
Then the director and such try to tell their own story within the confines of the reboot. 

Yeah The Fall is a great film. Hard to find though. There is still originality around though.

Anyone seen The Nines with Ryan Reynolds? Can't say I've ever seen a movie with a plot like this
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0810988/
Deserves better than 6.5.

I was thinking the other day, sure there's a lack of originality in Hollywood, but average movies are still watchable. Go back to the 60's, 70's and 80's and average films were a lot worse than they are now. There are way more decent'ish movies to watch now than in decades previous. That's my opinion anyway. 

The 70's in particular is a goldmine of quality. 

moved to IMDB's list feature.

The movie one still has about 300 more to add when I get the time. I intend to update both as I watch more stuff, but who knows how that will go.

http://www.imdb.com/list/eaf_lvQ5NWE/

http://www.imdb.com/list/tRA4ZACG66o/ 

I guess it depends what you're looking for in a movie. You seem to like a good script and are quite a big fan of all the older stuff. A look at your list and there's only 11 films you recommend in your top 100 from the last 12 years in the 2000s. I've seen 53 films from your list, btw.

My personal favourite 4 movies are ALL post 2000 (I won't mention them because you'll laugh lol, none are even in your top 100). I tend to like atmosphere and a good score.

By the way speaking of atmosphere, anyone seen Eden Log? Excellent, dark (like The Descent dark), horror/sci-fi. 

yeah its all personal preference obviously, so post your 4 already :)

Also, that isnt really meant to be a top list, it sort of is in its current state of 297 titles, but there's another 300 or so I need to add and there is no way I could sensibly rank those. 

Saw it and even posted about it here. Basically it seemed like an okay indie film with an interesting simplistic/dirty style, but it was somewhat spoiled for me, because I had to watch a poorly dubbed version which seemed to highlight the movie's shortcomings and made it feel cheaper than it probabably would have otherwise. Will need to rewatch it some time. 

4823, 4 and 5 just bet better. Thanks for the tolerance and the wit. I remember arguing earlier that community contributions give one a proportionate right to be an unpleasant person. Well I hope my maps excuse me.

And thanks for the recommendations nitin.
Overall things are pretty good. Even if we were stuck in the perpetual 80's (my god) my pessimism is just bitching. The main thing is that culture could be complete garbage but optimism or pessimism about the world, would still be an entirely different thing (ie Steven Pinker's The Better Angels Of Our Nature). 

well the posts I mean are as obvious as my shitty math abilities

in terms of film taste, I'm pretty sure I tend to like films that are critically acclaimed (except my favourite movie of all time, Ravenous, which has an RT rating of 40% but which I could not love more), I'm just narrow genre-wise. If it's classic scifi, horror or drama, hopefully I've seen it and evaluated it. 

Scarface (198x)
Totally confused, overall I did not like this too much. The beginning was nice but Tony started to get on my nerves (both accent and character) and it went all clichee textbook "bad things happen to bad people who do drugs". Best thing was some of the music and reliving GTA Vice City (which probably triggered my positive response to the music). Interesting just how much they copied right from this movie. Those IP pirates, tssk tssk!
6/10 maybe, I don't plan to rewatch it though. Maybe it is a cultural thing, maybe it is that I am watching it not in the 80s, but bleh. Heat seems like a movie you could compare it to and that one I've seen like 4 times so far.

PS: The image of http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071562/ totally looks like Legolas in thumbnails. 

i think i agree. 

I've seen it a month or two ago and while I didn't dislike it, I really don't get its status as a "classic". 

I think you've gotta be a coloured american to like it. I liked it, but didn't consider it a classic like what is made out. 

really good, but its not at all comparable to Heat. Its deliberately more operatic in everything. 

Heard reports this is decent despite a meh trailer. Anyone?? 

in case anyone cares. Have a few more to add still.

New titles start from number 298 onwards.

http://www.imdb.com/list/tRA4ZACG66o 

Your TV list badly needs more UK stuff, eg Spaced, Coupling, Father Ted, IT Crowd, Black Books. Might be too much comedy for you though. Firefly? :)

And I really have to try Twin Peaks.

Weird that you list Community. I found that painful to watch and quit after 4-5 episodes. Felt like a really badly written, clichee ridden, cheap series to me. 

Ive tried those, didnt really like them much. I do like stuff like Fawlty Towers, Extras and Blackadder but not enough to put them on that list.

Still havent got around to Firefly, have only had it lying around for about 2 years :) 

I just watched through IT Crowd this year, it was great! A really funny comedy. Just about every character was good - my fav was Reynholm and Maurice, but Jen, Roy even Richmond the goth were all great.

Probably not quite popular enough for America to remake though. Oh wait wait, I just looked it up.... turns out US DID remake it, but it flopped and wasn't picked up after the pilot. Idiots. How can you remake a comedy when it's the actors and characters that make it so good. It's completely different if you cast different people. 

Nitin have you seen Pixote (1981)? One for the "children growing up in the streets" genre based in Brazil, of course. Not as good as City of God, but different. 7.8 on imdb.

I didn't mind it. The actors were mostly kids from the streets as well. The lead was shot dead by police several years later. 

no havent heard of that one, most the brazilian cinema I have seen is post 2000, except Black Orpheus. 

Brilliant film, slower paced and more emotive and thoughtful than the trailer, a good balance of story, concept and action. 

was disappointed with Rian Johnson's last one, but hopefully this delivers on the promise shown in Brick. 

imperfect in the right ways. good sci-fi. 

really liked it although it was one of the most confusing time travel movies I've seen.

Looking forward to The Master. Phillip Seymour-Hoffman, I imagine, will play the perfect con man. Reviews are disappointing on Lawless but I've liked the other movies by that director so I'll be checking that out too.