Ten Films That Ruined The World

I don't think so - I've read Ruthless Reviews from time to time, and Matt Cale, while clearly in love with Matt Cale the ruthless reviewer, does hit a helluva lot of nails bang on the head. The review of 'Top Gun', for example, is relevant - horribly so - to America's 'Top Cock' military bullying today. The ghastly, schmaltzy 'po' boy done good' movies which dot the American filmscape do also point to a very American sentimentalisation of the innate good of the poor. Which is pure social crap - the poor in America will forever remain poor unless they set up drug cartels and rob banks. American jails are full of American poor, and for decade after decade, poor black Americans have been and are far more likely to be fatally gassed, jabbed or fritzed than their criminal white counterparts. Jimmy Stewart's fine thespian skills have singularly failed to sway any of those good ole boys heading up the Deep South's courtrooms.

The films Cale's selected haven't ruined anything except a couple of hours misspent watching them: some were a joke to start with (I mean, come on, did anybody really weep over 'Love Story' or find it the slightest bit better than a slushy Mills & Boon romance novel?), Forrest Gump was peurile tosh (yes, life's just like a box of chocolates - sometimes you get to eat the whole lot, and sometimes you get a nut allergy from the pralines). Most of the films are old and outdated and represented no known reality, just overblown emoting or unrealistic moralising. But I bet there's a further ten that any of us could add... :brows:
 
Exactly. He wan`t lambasting the films, just people`s reaction to them. The following quote is Matt on the RR forum:

To Kill a Mockingbird is a four-star film. I've seen it 3 or 4 times and love it from top to bottom. But for inspiring everyone trying to appear compassionate and PC to say it is their all-time favorite, I'm including it. In fact, I like several of the movies listed, including The Color Purple and Easy Rider. This is different than a "worst of" list.


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Suggesting that Easy Rider "In terms of the cinema, this movie nearly killed the industry outright" is ridiculous given it helped usher in a golden era of films.
 
A lot of incomprehensible hippie-trippy stuff like 'Zabriskie Point', 'Electric Glide in Blue', and any amount of dense British stuff which was raved over as long as it starred Trevor Hemmings?
 
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Too much bluddy racing getting in the way of the tiny brain, Colin! David, even!! Although I'm now much taken with the thought of Mr. Blackpool starring with all those esoteric and erotic lovelies!
 
It's surprise success (it made $60m in 1969, worth around $250m+ these days) along with that of other late 60s films such as Bonnie & Clyde broke Hollywood out of its musicals-and-epics era, and into the era that brought us a whole new raft of young directors who spent the decade indulging their personal visions and popping out classic after classic from The Godfathers and Chinatown through Taxi Driver and The Deer Hunter, the first true blockbusters like Jaws and Star Wars, and the last gasps of Apocalypse Now and Raging Bull, by which time the blockbuster action movie was on it's way to becoming king.
 
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