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I love how the taste of the movie-going public gets so much better if we account for the fact that movies cost $12.50 now vs. $0.50 then. I don't love every movie on the adjusted-for-inflation list, but note how there's not a single sequel or remake in the top ten.
I'm not a hater of Titanic. The story is cornball melodrama, but I just take it as a story in the style of the era being portrayed. I'm too big a Titanic geek to not appreciate the faithful recreation of the ship and the astounding way in which the sinking was portrayed. I've come to love the film more since the recent DVD release, which has some deleted scenes (one big action scene in particular) which I think actually make the film better ... albeit a bit longer.
As bad as Phantom Menace was (and it stank like last year's fish), it was Citizen Kane compared to the horror of Revenge of the Sith.
And Return of the King was a freaking mess. That series let me down so much. If only Fellowship of the Ring would have been the travesty that I expected of it. But, no. It had to go and be the most frelling awesome adaptation of LotR I could conceive. And the films went downhill from there. By the time of the last one, which made the most money and won all the awards, the series had devolved into trash. This might have been expected if the films were lensed consecutively. But bits and pieces of all the films were shot concurrently, and it's a mystery why the first one was so great, the middle was pretty bad, and the third one sucked curdled beans.
My movie pick of the week: A History of Violence. Sheer brilliance.
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