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This is my fav Scary Movie (2).. Which is yours?

While not what I intended to watch last night, it was featured and I couldn't help but do the rewatch. A fun ride from start to finish, they do a great job of keeping classic horror elements while still being focused on the larger story. It maintains the cliche tropes while also subverting them in enjoyable ways. Jokes spread throughout with an original cosmic horror-esque ending that I find rather good.

It is bad enough that I watched We Need to Talk About Kevin this week, then I randomly put on Requiem for Dream last night because I heard it was a good movie. I am ruined and don't know when I will recover. At the beginning I couldn't look away, by the end I wanted to look away. I'm never taking another Advil again. Pray for me

For me his best movie has to be Pulp Fiction (1994) hands down

But my top 5 Sam Jackson movies

- 5- Shaft (2000)

- 4- The Negotiator (1998)

- 3- Jackie Brown (1997)

- 2- The Hateful Eight (2015)

- 1- Pulp Fiction (1994)

Honorable mentions

- Fresh (1994)

- Jungle Fever (1991)

- Star Wars Prequel Trilogy (1999, 2002, 2005) as Mace Windu

Coming out tomorrow

Idk, just felt like getting into a lively debate with strangers.

I'm proud of this video it's peak. Some of these movies aren't the best ever made but they're my favourite and I just adore them so much

Pictures at for context only.

Examples.

Imelda Staunton Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Denzel Washington Training Day

Heath Ledger The Dark Night

Christopher Waltz Inglorious Basterds

My reasoning for each pick:

•Birth of A Nation - Unfortunately this was a very influential film. Not just on the art form of cinema but also in the real world. It contributed to the revival of The Klan and is an example of a movie that genuinely has a body count.

•Metropolis - The godfather of Sci-Fi.

•Mr. Smith Goes To Washington - Wizard of Oz may have seemed the obvious choice because of its standing in pop culture but I think more directors have tried, often successfully, to imitate Mr. Smith more than they did Oz.

•Citizen Kane - You may have heard of this film.

•Seven Samurai - A big influence of the spaghetti western genre which would come later and one of the great works by the master Kurosawa.

•Easy Rider - The box office hit that helped usher in the New Hollywood era.

•Star Wars: A New Hope - You may have also heard of this film.

•Blade Runner - I almost chose Ghostbusters because when people think of the 80’s, they think of fun high budget/high concept movies like that, Back To the Future, Robocop, etc. But Blade Runner has probably had a more longstanding impact on people who went on to be directors themselves.

•Pulp Fiction - Every crime movie that came out for the next decade wanted to be Pulp Fiction and its nonlinear storytelling would be adopted by many other writers and directors.

It’s not just one of the best endings of a 70’s movie, it’s one of the best endings seen onscreen. Complexity and subterfuge played out to an inexorable end. Martin Sheen oozes skeezy sleaze playing a guy with “short eyes” whose own hubris leads to his demise which is chilling portrayed entirely offscreen. By the time the camera gets to Jodie Foster’s impassive face with the fire behind her, we realize the hideous thing inside her has been masquerading as a human being this whole time.