Good point about obscure titles in the list, because they would attract people with a more defined or specific taste, rather than just ticking the familiar boxes.
I do like lists as well from time to time, but i usually do polls instead, and my answers tend to be pretty monotonous because they suggest new polls based on my answers, so i usually end up voting for the same thing in different lists.
I think i will make a list this weekend or next week, im kinda curious myself as well, but i usually cant decide which way to go or when to stop, so, it might become a big collection of bits and pieces or a short specific list, i dont know yet.
I must say though, i usually dont like High School movies, because High School and college were merely phases in my life that i had to go through, but the schools themself hardly spark any excitement for me, id rather watch a movie about a group of friends instead. This goes for any genre btw, from the Faculty to Scream and American Pie etc,. compared to Stand By Me, Super 8, Cloverfield etc. (i should probably name better movies, but i couldnt think of any at the moment). Teenagers in movies are also not really what i wanna see either, id rather have kids or adults.
Because with kids, you can go all Fantasy and Fantastic, like Pan's Labyrinth and the Dark Crystal, while with adults you can get some proper explanations and decent acting, teenagers tend to use up screentime with a lot of screaming and irrational behavior, mostly the blame of the writers of course because they wrote it with teenagers in mind, but im just not a fan of that. But im interested in seeing Class of '99 nevertheless.
Youre probably right about Hellraiser vs Hellbound, its been a while since ive watched them, but i mainly said Hellraiser as it is the collective name for the whole franchise.
Semi-Comedies are usually not very good movies, they usually focus on the 'wrong' part, or their choices of monsters, style or jokes just dont match my interests, but i was surprised by Tucker & Dale vs Evil, it had a proper production value and i liked the morbid hysteria, but yeah, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes is bad, but i grew to like them as a kid, mostly too because i played the Game Boy game a lot before i even knew that it was based on the movies, but should you watch some, id recommend part 2 the most, mostly because it was also one of Clooney's first acting jobs(notice his eye-twitch) and its balanced much better than the first one, but the first one is a (cult)classic either way. Maybe it also helped that they didnt air the Killer Tomatoes cartoon in Holland, im not sure if it was bad, but at least i didnt have a chance to have my memory tainted or overdosed by it. But yeah, they are not really Sci-fi much anyway, aside from the laboratory stuff.
Im surprised that you havent finished Moon 44 yet haha, like wtf :P
I gave it a 6, because it is diverse and kept my attention going throughout, even though it is kind of a bad movie, they tried hard, but i guess the budget restraints just give it the cheap B-movie feel, but that doesnt always have to be a bad thing, or maybe i just watched a really crappy stream, but i doubt it.
Some mid-90s movies just looked much worse than 80s movies, probably because in the 80s they had mastered practical effects and the 90s was the start of the new CGI era.
I havent seen Moon Trap either though, but it popped up as a suggestion, and i did like Apollo 15 more than i expected i would, even though the 'enemy' still makes me laugh, but the movie had a good atmosphere, kinda why i enjoyed Europa Report more than i thought i would. I guess im not really turned off by "Found Footage" movies, as long as i can connect with the material in some way or another.
Moon Trap might not be a Found Footage movie though, i guess i just digressed for no reason :)
I didnt mind the comedy in Brazil, but after a couple of plot twists, im kinda left thinking:"Im not sure if i even care anymore if any of this is real or imagined", but i still enjoyed it. But if i wanted to watch some mind-F movies, i might rather go for Vanilla Sky, Truman Show, A Beautiful Mind, or even Total Recall. Although i get that im listing cliche movies, but other movies rarely feel as well balanced, not as rewatchable.
Ineption (that was a typo, but i like it), did only intrigue for about half of the movie, the action, the chases and shooting, at some point became a drag for me, i would rather have wanted them to dig more into the concept of the layers of consciousness-es. Sorta like Being John Malkovich (when they enter his head and float around in it, that was really similar to the floating around in Inception), but they focused too much on romance, unfortunately.
I guess that is why i liked the Matrix, because it deals with a similar theme, but it wasnt too focused on romance, it left enough room for action and explanations.
It was dark and surreal, i like that kinda stuff.
Anime can be good, but i mainly stick to the movies, i never really watch any cartoons anymore anyway.
Ghost in the Shell is one of the big ones, like Akira.
I actually expected that you would have seen it, because it is basically the go-to movie equal of Blade Runner, they go different ways though, but you kinda just have to have seen it at least once in your life.
For the same reason i watched Heavy Metal, but yeah, i wasnt a reader of the magazine either, and it just felt like a bad and slightly perverted acid trip without much structure. The music also wasnt really doing much for me, but i can still see why it is a cult hit.
But if i want to watch an animation movie, id probably put Ghost in the Shell on, or Akira, or any of the Miyazaki movies, or Iron Giant, Street Fighter the animation movie, 3X3 Eyes, Space Battleship Yamato, or even Gandahar or Fantastic Planet, either way, i wouldnt randomly watch Heavy Metal again :)
I agree on Interstellar though, but i was prepared to take the leap with them, but as soon as it turned out to be the bookshelf, then it just got worse from there and yeah, they lost me there. I dont mind impossibilities, 2001:ASO did the impossible, so.. there was really no reason for Interstellar to do it too, and then failing in my opinion by rationalizing it as a love connection being stronger than space and time. I will watch Old Yeller if i want to see that and cry.
It just didnt connect with me, but i was fine with the whole Black Hole bullstool, because i was curious where they would take it... well, they can keep it.
Damn this was supposed to be a much shorter post.
I skip reading the bottom line, because it is usually some lame signature.
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