Predictable
Corny
Silly conveniences in plot to pull on heart strings
Close to zero complexity in character development
ughhhhhhhhh
I mean…
There’s a good reason why Stephen King is more highly regarded for his horror scripts than for his dramas.
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You might enjoy it more if you think Andy Dufresne is guilty
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I said no more, but just like that you pull me back in !!111!1!1!11!!!
Four of the most well-regarded King adaptations are dramas that also happen to be four of the most well-regarded films in cinema history.
Have you read the novels they are based on? Perhaps it’s the director Frank Darabont’s dramatic films you are less a fan of? Virtually no one watched The Majestic (except me), but everyone has seen his horror adaptations, especially his King adaptation The Mist or the first season of The Walking Dead.
Don’t sleep on Misery (i guess that’s technically horror)
I hotly dispute the description of those as four of the most well-regarded films in cinema history.
Misery is very good and certainly a horror film, surely?
Almost included it, but as you said, it’s horror.
The whole bag opens if we are just distinguishing real-world King from supernatural King.
Oh I forgot about Apt Pupil!!
Yeah it checks the boxes, but not supernatural horror like most of his horror work
But if we are talking King horror movies, The Shining and Doctor Sleep are certainly two more of the films in the history of film.
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Great picks. And thankfully now they are making good adaptations of his horror stories. For a long time, the only good King movies have been the dramas. The horror films have been horrific. I can’t believe my media addicted ass watched these pieces of shit lol.
And that’s not even half of them! Just year after year of TERRIBLE horror movies based on his books.
Most overrated films in cinematic history (no order):
Shawshank
Citizen Kane
Star Wars
ET
It’s A Wonderful Life
120 Days Of Sodom
Every Warhol film (haven’t seen them all but I’m confident of this)
Forrest Gump
Good Will Hunting
this is getting worse and worse
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Hot takes are so boring.
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Don’t forget to tell us what makes the cut (if any film has met your standards)
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I thought film likes/dislikes were the purpose of this thread?
As you used the phrase it would be good to see what you think are the most well-regarded films in cinema history, and what your view of each is.
You could even mark each with a Flush score from Nut High to Nut Low.
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I agree with you. I am interested in your likes/dislikes if you’re enjoying the conversation 
I have already run a thread on some of my favorite films. If it has less than 8% on Rotten Tomatoes, it’s probably on my list. I like movies no one else watches (or enjoys?). Well, 8% of us do…
I’d have to put some thought into it if you would really like for me to pontificate on their places in history. I just assume I talk enough about movies and am really more interested in discovering alternate perspectives.
Shawshank Development Meeting
Exec 1: I just saw this movie from the 60’s called Cool Hand Luke that blew people away. They still talk about it today. We need to make a movie like that but you know with some extra cheese.
Exec2: Gruyere?
Exec1: Explain
Exec2: Well it’s a nice cheese but most people don’t know it is a cheese. So we sneak the cheese in with subterfuge.
Exec1: I’m thinkin’ more of a blue cheese. It will stink to high heaven but people will think it’s sophisticated and high-culture.
Exec2: Agreed. We’ll have to spell out the redemption theme in the title. That way we don’t have to spend so much time developing it and trying to get knuckleheads to figure it out.
Exec1: Redemption Movie?
Exec2: Too on the nose.
Exec1: Shawshank Redemption
Exec2: What the fuck is a Shawshank?
Exec1: Fucked if I know, but it sounds cool.
Exec2: Agreed.
Exec1: We’ll need a cool catch phrase that people will quote for years to come. Something that will make them feel tough for saying it.
Exec2: How about “Fuck around, you won’t be around”
Exec1: No swearing.
Exec2: Fuck around! Why not?!
Exec1: This has to be something people can say in public without getting into trouble. The hoopleheads in the early 90’s don’t like strong language so much.
Exec2: How ‘bout "Get busy livin’, or get busy dyin’" ?
Exec1: Perfect! And let’s get a Morgan Freeman type to star in it.
Exec2: Lead role?
Exec1: Not quite. But make him an important role. It’s the early 90’s, we’ll do better with a bread and butter white lead.
Exec2: Cool, Cool, Cool
Lead Exec: Gentlemen, I think we have a fuckin’ movie.
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So…what do you actually like?
Okay, if you’re genuinely interested I’ll ignore the snark about my “standards” 
and do a quick list of my faves…
Battleship Potemkin
Un Chien Andalou
Boudu Saved From Drowning
M
Several Marx Brothers films
Seven Samurai
Some Like It Hot
Vertigo
Peeping Tom
Rear Window
Psycho
A Bout De Souffle
Touch Of Evil
Dr Strangelove
Oni Baba
Repulsion
One Upon A Time In The West
Rosemary’s Baby
Performance
Walkabout
2001
Godfather I & II
Chinatown
The Conversation
Nashville
The Long Goodbye
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
Jaws
Taxi Driver
Eraserhead
The Shining
Apocalypse Now
Raging Bull
Koyaanisqatsi
Come Back to The 5 And Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
Alien
Out Of The Blue
Terminator II
Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction
Goodfellas
Memento
Eternal Sunshine Of A Spotless Mind
Trainspotting
No Country For Old Men
Get Out
Ladybird
The Shape Of Water
Parasite
all the newer films I’ll have to look up to get the titles right lol - most are foreign language.
Intending to watch Barry Lyndon for the first time over the break and hopefully rewatch One From The Heart which I really liked first time around, though it was a huge commercial flop and broke Coppola.
Haven’t seen any of the Three Colours trilogy which is a huge oversight I want to fix.
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