For some reason I've not watched Master and Commander. I decided to rent it after seeing it mentioned in so many top ten lists.

Wow, what a great movie! Russell Crowe was fantastic.

I don't know what movie I'm going to move out of my top ten list, but I have to add this one.

Watching Almost Famous now on Paramount +. My wife says we have seen it but I have no memory of it. We are 51 so when it came out we were in late 20's with 2 kids and I was in residency training so that makes sense!

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Watching Almost Famous now on Paramount +. My wife says we have seen it but I have no memory of it. We are 51 so when it came out we were in late 20's with 2 kids and I was in residency training so that makes sense!

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Almost Famous is another movie I haven't seen that is also on a lot of top ten lists. I'm going to try and watch it soon too.

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Watching Almost Famous now on Paramount +. My wife says we have seen it but I have no memory of it. We are 51 so when it came out we were in late 20's with 2 kids and I was in residency training so that makes sense!

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Almost Famous is another movie I haven't seen that is also on a lot of top ten lists. I'm going to try and watch it soon too.

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Frances McDormand and Phillip Seymour Hoffman are in it sparingly, but they both steal every scene they are in. Such great performances of great writing from each of them in this movie.

Almost Famous is pretty terrible. Great music but just a tired story with a nerdy male protagonist. The only way I can think this makes people's top list is if they were teens when it came out and identified with the nerdy protagonist and discovered great early 70's rock at the same time. Compared to Gladiator, LOTR, Idiocracy, Anchorman, Braveheart, Highlander, and tons more this was a big snooze fest.

So many huge actors in this before they were huge, which was pretty cool to see.


(from the point of view of a dude born in the early 70s)

I do agree that it is overrated around these parts. Good movie? Yes. And at times great. Didn't even think about including the movie when I was whittling down from 20 to 10.

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Almost Famous is pretty terrible. Great music but just a tired story with a nerdy male protagonist. The only way I can think this makes people's top list is if they were teens when it came out and identified with the nerdy protagonist and discovered great early 70's rock at the same time. Compared to Gladiator, LOTR, Idiocracy, Anchorman, Braveheart, Highlander, and tons more this was a big snooze fest.

So many huge actors in this before they were huge, which was pretty cool to see.


(from the point of view of a dude born in the early 70s)

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I think it's a really good movie, probably top 100 of the century, but it would be in the bottom half of the list.

It sounds like you have some very specific tastes, and a weird thing against seeing "nerds" as protagonists? Even so, calling Almost Famous "terrible" is one of the most insane takes I've ever seen.

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It sounds like you have some very specific tastes, and a weird thing against seeing "nerds" as protagonists? Even so, calling Almost Famous "terrible" is one of the most insane takes I've ever seen.

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I'm a huge nerd myself so nothing against nerds. I mean I grew up playing D&D then went to med school so not exactly a cool cat. I just didn't find the protagonist of Almost Famous interesting in any way. And I already stated I have terrible taste in films and didn't agree with most people's list. So I'm making it a project to watch a movie I haven't seen or don't recall from the list to see what I'm missing out on.

So far Almost Famous is pretty bad, and currently rewatching Tropic Thunder and it is amazing!

I appreciate the effort you're making to fill in your movie-watching gaps. I'm just sorry your opinion is so wrong.

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I appreciate the effort you're making to fill in your movie-watching gaps. I'm just sorry your opinion is so wrong.

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And I am just fine with that! Tropic Thunder is still cracking me up. The way Robert Downey Jr lampoons himself and character actors in general is just an art-form!

The Replacements
Hangover
Kung Fu Panda
School of Rock
Skyfall
Elf
Love Actually
The King's Speech
Old School
Run Fat Boy Run

This thread also reminds me of how old I am but also how great movies were in the 70's, 80's and 90's. Maybe not from a special effects standpoint (especially compared to now) but just fun ass movies.

Yeah just rewatched almost famous. Billy cruddup is about the only redeemable thing about the movie. Francis mcdormand deserves an honorable mention.

Kate Hudson and William bring a potentially ok movie way down.

It's like someone said "hey Cameron Crowe, we will pay you to make a movie about your life and you can even lie make it super awesome," and he completely messed up the assignment.

I do agree Almost Famous is overrated. It is fine and all, just don't think it's as good or all time as some make it out to be. Very forgettable.

When I saw this bump, I was hoping someone was adding Road House to their list.

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I've turned over a new leaf. More positivity and optimism instead of negativity and pessimism. Glass half full, etc. And I think I was only able to do so by beginning to have sex with women instead of men. And I mean women - they've all been 35+. Weird stuff, but that's life.

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This feels like a test to see who actually reads the post.

Am I on drugs?

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I did this to a young prof at A&M who I was absolutely certain was not reading our submitted papers.

In the middle of an essay I typed "gotta step away from the keyboard cause I have the sh***". I swear I got my score back and it was like a 94 and he never mentioned it.

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MY 9th grade English teacher made us do an essay project where we wrote a single page for 60 straight days about a book we were reading that was long as hell. The common theory was that she opened it to a random page and gave you a grade on that page. To test that theory, one of my journal entries was about me winning the Super Bowl playing quarterback. The book was about being a frontier-era school teacher. I got a 98 on the essay.

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i was an IT guy throughout college but was a communications major because it was easier. i did an MIS/CS minor just to give my degree a bit more credence as i went into that field in the early 2000s.

my MIS teacher was a joke and i would put random things like, "i will bet you $20 that you don't read half of what we turn in and just put random grades out there," or other such things in almost every paper and still made a 4.0

ironically, my girlfriend (now wife) was 2 years older than me schoolwise and i did most of her technical work for her, and she had a better grade than i did when she took it. but he was also a horn dog.

Going to give a mention for an animated movie, Inside Out.