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See AllThe 60 Best Movies Of All Time
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything - Julie Newmar > The Devil Wears Prada (which shouldn't be within a 500 mile radius of this list anyway)
Alien > Aliens
Snow White > Pinocchio
Sleeping Beauty > Beauty and the Beast (they kept the ENTIRE SCORE from the classic ballet intact!! "Once Upon A Dream" is the Garland Waltz! Come on, a smidgen of research, people. Please.)
True Grit--the real one with John Wayne--could replace any one of the 21st century movies here.
So could the original Hellraiser.
I may be the only film buff who LOATHES Apocalypse Now, so I'll let that one slide. (I'd hate it less if I hadn't been told going in that it was a film adaptation of my favorite book, Heart of Darkness. Because it's not. There's a river and a jungle and a dude named Kurtz. That's it. Otherwise it's just another self-indulgent Vietnam flick in classic lit drag, a pretentious Rambo. Miss me with that nonsense.)
10 Movies People Say Can’t Be Topped No Matter How Good A Reboot Would Be
The Godfather Part III was bad enough, we don't need a remake adding insult to injury...
Wes Craven's 10 Most Underrated Movies
Maybe this is because I spend a lot of time on the extreme cinema end of horror, but The Last House on the Left isn't underrated--it's legendary, and considered a classic over in these parts. It was a rare instance of a mainstream director like Craven tackling themes and levels of violence that were otherwise the domain of "video nasties" mondo filmmakers like Ruggero Deodato (Cannibal Holocaust, The House on the Edge of the Park*) and exploitation flicks of that era, without benefit of a sensational villain like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre's Leatherface. The idea that regular people could be just as brutal took it out of the realm of fantasy that Craven's other films occupied, leaving audiences without the psychological "safety net" of the outrageous and stylized. Idk if you ran out of underrated movies and just started listing ones that weren't well received upon their initial release or what, but I was shocked to find Last House here.
*These were released in 1980, and so technically followed Last House; they're just his 2 best known