Worst and Best canadian Movies

[Retired_Can_Soldier]

There are lots of best and worsts, but here are two worth mentioning.


Worst in my book - Passchendaele.

The lives of a troubled veteran, his nurse girlfriend and a naive boy intersect first in Alberta and then in Belgium during the bloody World War I battle of Passchendaele.



Best in my book - The Amatuer

A researcher for the CIA who convinces his superiors to send him to the eastern bloc in order to avenge the murder of his wife by enemy agents discovers a web of deception underneath his wife's death.

 

[#juan]

Passchendaele has had good reviews. I've watched all the trailers but I haven't
yet seen the movie. Looking forward to seeing it.

 

[captain morgan]

Worst in my book - Anything done by the CBC.



Best in my book - I'll have to get back to you on that

 

[WLDB]

Passchendaele has had good reviews. I've watched all the trailers but I haven't
yet seen the movie. Looking forward to seeing it.

Its basically "Pearl Harbor" but in Canada. It really really sucked.

I havent seen enough Canadian movies to say what the best one is.

 

[Retired_Can_Soldier]

Passchendaele has had good reviews. I've watched all the trailers but I haven't
yet seen the movie. Looking forward to seeing it.

Well if you like it, power to yuh old boy. I had a lot of issues with it. Doing a fiction book or film with a historical backdrop is always a risky venture. I was very disappointed.

 

[EagleSmack]

The Final Sacrifice!

But I really can't say if it was the worst or the best.

 

[Cliffy]

Best Canadian film I have seen was "The Decline of the American Empire" out of Quebec. Some of the most memorable lines in any movie.

 

[Retired_Can_Soldier]

Best Canadian film I have seen was "The Decline of the American Empire" out of Quebec. Some of the most memorable lines in any movie.

Interesting title. Does it actually get discussed.

 

[EagleSmack]

Interesting title. Does it actually get discussed.

I never heard of it.

 

[Retired_Can_Soldier]

I never heard of it.

I think the title is a one off. The synopsis is about friends and lovers and the opposite sex.

 

[#juan]

Well if you like it, power to yuh old boy. I had a lot of issues with it. Doing a fiction book or film with a historical backdrop is always a risky venture. I was very disappointed.

Well, "Old Boy", the battle of Passchedeale was a movie of a major battle of WW1 that lasted four or five months.
I'm sure different people saw it differently but most agreed that it was a horror.

 

[Retired_Can_Soldier]

Well, "Old Boy", the battle of Passchedeale was a movie of a major battle of WW1 that lasted four or five months.
I'm sure different people saw it differently but most agreed that it was a horror.

I agree it was a horror, in fact I've read a number of books on the Great War.

This movie was not so much about that battle as it was about pumping up Paul Gross' ego.

This movie was a let down.

Judge for yourself Juan.

 

[EagleSmack]

Well, "Old Boy", the battle of Passchedeale was a movie of a major battle of WW1 that lasted four or five months.
I'm sure different people saw it differently but most agreed that it was a horror.

I just watched a short clip and Passchedale looks pretty good. I wonder if they have it on Netflix.

 

[SLM]

Polytechique, The Barbarian Invasions, Dance Me Outside, Pontypool, Gingersnaps all pretty good films.
Anything by Cronenberg is weird, but often weird in a good way.
Anything by Atom Egoyan is usually depressing, but Ararat was pretty good. Also The Sweet Hereafter.

I can't really think of a Canadian film that I thought was really bad. Mostly they just have a sort of quirky charm to them, at least the ones I've seen.

 

[Nuggler]

Passchendaele has had good reviews. I've watched all the trailers but I haven't
yet seen the movie. Looking forward to seeing it.

T'was a good movie, Juan, but the love interest got a bit shmaltzy..........lf you and your significant other go see it, make sure she has a box of kleenex.

I mean, the mortars are fallin, the krauts are chargin, the blood is spillin, and these two.....................er.............well, don't wanna spoil it for you............

 

[Kreskin]

The Final Sacrifice!

But I really can't say if it was the worst or the best.

Might be the only!

 

[taxslave]

For worst any of the Final Destination set. We worked on FD2 for something to do as it was a slow year for logging. Probably 50 loggers there. Spent 3 weeks driving back and forth on the new highway around Campbell River to make it. Got my truck in for about 1/2 second.

 

[relic]

My favorite would have to be "Goin' Down the Road" An awfull lot of Nova Scotians can identify with it,except meby for the ripping off the grocery store part.

 

[Coddfish]

The ones I personally enjoy:

Black Christmas (1974)
The Brood (1979)
The Changeling (1980)
Strange Brew (1983)
Videodrome (1983)
Ginger Snaps (2000)
Pontypool, from 2008
Suck (2009)

Others I found watchable:

Prom Night (1980)
My Bloody Valentine (1981)
Scanners (1981)

And so far, the only one that I haven't really liked in terms of Canadian films was Phobia (1980). Such a bad psychological thriller, and from John Huston, too! (Yes, he was an American director, but he was hired to work on this Canadian made film. And he did have a dad who was originally from Canada, Walter Huston. They also had family in around Ontario, and in my area, if I was told right.)

 

[#juan]

I agree it was a horror, in fact I've read a number of books on the Great War.

This movie was not so much about that battle as it was about pumping up Paul Gross' ego.

This movie was a let down.

Judge for yourself Juan.

Unfortunately, there is nobody left alive who fought at Passchendeale. Paul Gross apparently got the story from
his grandfather who WAS there. I think Gross did the best he could and most reviewers reckoned it wasn't all bad.
I would say Gross was poorly cast but since Gross wrote, produced, directed, and starred in that movie, we are
left to take what we got. Like it or lump it........