Top 50 Favourites - Optimus

2019 list in the works.

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rep for 34 and 32 i dont like Craig as Bond character at all so dont like his movies.

Haven't seen Casino Royale. Don't like the rest of this set.

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How can you not like Rocky. I guess its better then Hated Rocky.

Because I watched it.

I've only seen Scarface once and liked it quite a bit. It needs another watch though for me to know where I stand other than simply "liking it".

American Psycho is great. Very amusing dark comedy combined with an amazing performance by Bale makes this a very creepy and unsettling movie to be entertained by. Mostly funny and with a slight sense of something off-putting. All of which is positives for the movie though!

Love Rocky. I was surprised how indie it felt. It wasn't at all as super sentimental or cheesy or dumb as I thought it would. It was a genuine movie experience and a great little story.

Casino Royale is indeed one of (if not) the best Bond movie yet. Great pick.

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for the set covering #38-35. Donnie Brasco is a very good film, Con Air certainly is not a good film but is a lot of fun. Deadpool I enjoyed a lot more than I was expecting to. The trailers had done nothing for me but I found it funny and also thought the romance was surprisingly sweet. Plus Morena Baccarin spent pretty much the entire third act in her underwear. That was a big positive.

And then Se7en is brilliant though I'm never entirely sure how much I love it because it's just so unrelentingly bleak and harsh. Unfortunately I'm not sure I can rep your last set, which is a shame because I absolutely love Rocky and have done since I was a kid. However I've not seen Scarface and don't particuarly care for either American Psycho or Casino Royale

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two very solid sets of movies. Not a single one in the bunch I don't like.

2019 list in the works.

I like all of these movies, especially Face/Off, but none are really favorites.

I really need to dive properly into the Lethal Weapon series, since I only remember seeing some of bits and pieces of every movie. Casino is really good and all, but the narration is a little too much to say the least.

Face/Off is one of the best action movies ever. Everything you said is true. Batman Begins is a truly solid superhero flick. I like it less today, but it's still solid.

another solid list. I'd need another rewatch of casino; haven't seen it since it came out in the theaters.

+ rep for Lethal Weapon. Out of curiosity, which Lethal Weapon movie is the one with Joe Pesci teaching us not to order our food from the drive-thru? (I think it might be the second movie, but I'm not sure.)

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C'mon, Optimus, this is not optimal. I need my fix!

Another good set though my favourite by quite a distance is Lethal Weapon. That's a series of films I've loved since I was a kid.

About 99% sure you're correct and that it's Lethal Weapon 2 where he breaks out the "they f*ck you at the drive-thru!"

WHERE ARE YOUUU!?!?!?

Rep for Lethal Weapon, Casino and Batman Begins. Face/Off not so much.

2019 list in the works.

Finally!

The Lego Movie was something I looked forward to because I loved lego as a kid and the movie seemed to bring a lot of fun, inside jokes and a visual style that respected its source material. Unfortunately, I wasn't a fan. The visuals were still cool and some of the humor was really good, but overall I didn't like it much.

Don't kill me, but I haven't seen Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, yet... and neither have you, appearently, since you seem to rank the Johnny Depp version here I see.

Home Alone is a whole lot of fun, but the sequel is a little too much of a rehash of the original. I did like the new additions; the setting and a few scenes here and there.

The Dark Knight is a masterpiece. Blockbusters are usually a lot of fun and rarely would I call them favorites, but TDK is a genuinely well-crafted movie with a great story, interesting characters and it's a blast to watch. I still love it to this day.

The Lego Movie I thought was ok but didn't live up to all the hype I'd heard beforehand. And while I appreciated the idea behind its finale I just found the transition rather jarring. I'll give it another go someday. I love Willy Wonka (not Charlie) & the Chocolate Factory and have since I was a wee nipper. Though it's really only the second half that I love, from the moment when Gene Wilder enters proceedings. He's what makes the film. And the Home Alone films are also childhood favourites that I still love.

I've seen The Dark Knight two or three times and have been unable to warm to it; it just leaves me completely cold. I just found it too grim and broody and after a decent performance in Batman Begins, for me it's here that Bale's performance starts to slip into self-parody almost with his gloomy moodiness (I think he's channeling the kids from Twilight!) and growly voice. I'll return to it again at some point to see if it finally clicks for me. I've got a few other criticisms of the film but Batman/Nolan fanboys tend to be quite aggressive and don't take well to criticism so I'll keep them to myself.