Screengrab Wants YOU (to let us know what Top Tens you'd like to see in the Screengrab)!

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Janet — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:17:16 GMT

I'd like to see the corollary of Yiyer's first idea: Top ten solid/great performances in crap movies. The example I usually use is Donald Sutherland in Buffy The Vampire Slayer, but there's some terrible Italian SciFi film with Claude Rains that would fit as well.

re: Screengrab Wants YOU (to let us know what Top Tens you'd like to see in the Screengrab)!

Krauthammer — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:01:58 GMT

^ You could add directors to that. Querell is not supposed to by Fassbinder's best...

Great Scripts ruined by bad direction?

Unfairly Maligned Films/Filmmakers? (I'm talking about movies that are bywords for terrible, Heaven's Gate, Ishtar, Manos , Ed Wood and Michael Bay. Not just something like Step Up 2 The Streets or McG that no one really cared about anyway)

Oh! I Have a good one! 10 most divisive films of all time! Moulin Rouge, Showgirls, Passion of the Christ and Magnolia come to mind instantly (and that's only of the past ten years), as does the entire oeuvre of Brian de Palma. Movies that one side thinks is genius and the other side thinks is absolutely terrible. You could even have an argument for and against by different contributers. I'd really like this one.

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Other matt — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:43:30 GMT

Top ten ignominous exits. Those final films of an actor that are less than glorious and not befitting to be the last we see of them on celluloid. I will be forever disappointed that the last we saw of Raul Julia was his haggard appearance in Street Fighter.

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Matt — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:31:54 GMT

Have you done "greatest scenes from otherwise-terrible movies" yet?

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Miles_Forrester — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 03:55:05 GMT

best foreign original versions ( Yojimbo, Funny Games, Nosferatu)

or best character actor performance ( The Impostors)

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Yiyer — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:54:24 GMT

How about:

Ten films ruined by a horrible performance (anything with Robin Williams)

Worst settings in a movie (the post-apocalyptic Earth from Battlefield Earth seemed pretty half-assed, as did everything else about that movie)

Best continuous tracking shots in a movie. (Obviously inspired by your Kubrick ad link. This could also go "Best continuous tracking shots that aren't in a Kubrick movie" which would be the least sexy post title in Screengrab history. Still I think it would be an interesting post. Children of Men.

Best movies with little dialogue. This needs to be tweaked so Wall-E would fit in, but Kim Ki-Duk's 3-Iron would work as well.

Top ten Movies that were better than their book (Fight Club).

Top Ten movie titles that make for great porn titles.

Thanks

re: Screengrab Wants YOU (to let us know what Top Tens you'd like to see in the Screengrab)!

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:54:28 GMT

Top ten animal heroes in cinema; these mutts, pigs, fish, ants, etc. put their lives on the line in order ensure a happy ending, isn't it about time they got their due?

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Miles_Forrester — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:46:02 GMT

How about the ten best films that are good despite their pretentiousness followed up by the ten worst films because of... Would cause alot debate. Or ten best movies by music video directors.