The PG Cooper List Thread: Gamer Days

Heh, in my original review I specifically cited that moment as one of the comedic low points.

I'm glad you feel the same way about "Chariots of Fire", easily one of the most disappointing Best Picture winners. After the great opening with the famous score, it's all downhill from there. The 1981 synthesizer score was so, so, so out of place in a movie set in the '10s and '20s, and none of the drama is interesting. I've already forgotten a lot about it and I watched it only a year or two ago.

I'm like that with a lot of Best Picture winners.  Despite the fact that they were awarded with the top prize, many are completely forgettable.  Most, I would say.

8. Ichi the Killer (Watched November 22nd)


Many have been shocked by the violence of Ichi the Killer. Personally I was shocked by how terrible a film it was. I really enjoyed Takashi Miike’s 13 Assassins and was thus looking forward to Ichi, but found the film to be an aggressively unpleasant and frustrated viewing experience. The film constantly throws empty style and violence at the viewer hoping something will hit and it rarely does. More often than not, the film just comes off as stupid, particularly the wacky ending. I can’t even give the film points for being shockingly violent as the CGI effects utilized in many of these scenes is some of the worst I’ve ever seen. Too comedic to be scary, too violent to be funny, too weird to be understood, and too uninteresting for me to care.

7. One Night of Love (Watched June 20th)


The story of an aspiring opera singer and her romance with her singing coach. This is one of those films made during the sound era which seems to be relying on the novelty of sound as a means of success, which is a bit odd given that the film came out about six years after the advent of sound. The only real draw to the film seems to be the opera numbers sung, which don’t sound very special to me. The actual story is a tired and boring one, made worse by one dimensional characters, particularly the lead, who is an annoying brat who throws a fit whenever things don’t go her way. Beyond, this is just a weak film and while it may not be the worst thing I saw all year, it might be the most forgettable.

6. Grease (Watched July 19th)


Grease is one of those really famous films that people would always be surprised when I said I’d never seen. Well, I finally rectified that this year and I can’t say I was missing much. This is an incredibly obnoxious movie which continuously throws over the top characters and empty musical numbers at the audience without ever giving anyone a second to breath. Despite the wall to wall noise, there really isn’t much of a plot here and the characters are not only simplistic, but aggressively irritating to boot. I’m also really not a fan of the music here, and while the numbers seem well-choreographed, they’re still boring since they’re not actually advancing a story. Bottom line, Grease is a vapid and pointless two hours made only slightly bearable by some of the actors.

It all comes by honestly.

Sounds like a great class.

Yeah, it's a mixed bag.  You have the '70s that are loaded with top-tier pictures, you have the '50s that is half great half shit, and the '30s with like 2 maybe 3 good ones and the rest are atrocious.  I was looking forward to "Chariots of Fire" but it was very disappointing, same with "Terms of Endearment" and "Out of Africa".  "Amadeus" was badass though, so it almost made up for the other misfires from the '80s.

I'm probably the only one here who loves Terms of Endearment. James L. Brooks is awesome. Even Spanglish was good. And Reds winning over Indiana Jones is also stupid. Didn't Warren Beatty win Best Director over Steven Spielberg? That's asinine.

Amadeus is indeed awesome, as is Platoon. The winners from that decade range from pretty good (Rain Main) to horrendous (Driving Miss. Daisy). I'm excluding The Last Emperor from this since I haven't actually seen it yet.



A girl commented on my facebook post of the list that I let her down with my thoughts on Grease. I kind of felt bd, haha.



I'm okay with Terms of Endearment. I also find Reds pretty overrated and would no way place it over Raiders.



Haven't seen Broadcast News. I have however seen As Good as It Gets which I thought was awful.

We can all agree that Star Trek V sucks.

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I don't like what Cooper has turned into.