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In Reply to: The RGA challenge posted by Victor Khomenko on March 20, 2004 at 08:33:13:

This was not hard. List 10 films out of America produced with Hollywood budgets. So there is a modifcation...how be we open it up to American directors who personally get things financed and don't go through Hollywood such as Spielberg, Redford and that ilk.
I'm not going to list a pile of movies...if you can't think of ten great ones then you mst not feel there are ten.
Casino was a solid entertaining film...a poor man's Goodfellas though.
Certainly I don't expect that we will agree on every movie buit you seem to thionk everyone who doesn't agree with you has kaka for brains. Sorry mate but lots of films listed in this thread already that are considered GREAT out of the US I disagree with.
Magnolia has a screenplay that fails a resolution - they use an old style "Act of God" ending to resoiolve it. Anyone in the theater knows that these ending s are the worst sort which is why Magnolia fails for me.
Fargo is solid not great. Time has not been good to Fargo either - basically it's forgettable.
I didn't love Heat either - it's good entertainment but certainly not a great movie IMO.

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Re: The RGA challenge - ephemere 22:37:35 03/20/04 (0)
You wrote:
how be we open it up to American directors who personally get things financed and don't go through Hollywood
Does that include Jim Jarmusch and John Sayles? Then here are the best ones...
- Dead Man
- Ghost Dog
- City of Hope
- Passion Fish
- Lone Star
- Men With Guns
- Limbo
Hey, I'm already up to 7 films with just 2 directors. Can I add David Lynch? Then throw in...
- Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
- Lost Highway
- The Straight Story
There you go, 10 excellent films from 3 American directors in the 1990s.
Perhaps the contest should have been to come up with 10 great American directors of the 1990s?
Re: The RGA challenge - RGA 11:35:03 03/20/04 (0)
I have not seen a lot of films over the last 5 years I mainly try and see the critically praised movies and the odd fun film like the Dawn of the Dead remake yesterday. I have recorded over 1000 films in my database which one day I will get around to writing reviews for. of those 1000 there is 17 films I have as a 5 star out of 5 effort. And several of those are very borderline.
I count a great film as a 4 star effort. So it may very well be a difference in grading criteria.
If you look at someone like Leonard maltin and Roger Ebert you'll see a LOT more 4 star films from Ebert - he gives em out like candy. Maltin does not...he's a lot tougher and rarely gives 4 stars.

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