Best and Worst Kurt Russell Movie [using the CBOOIMDB system]

[DostoyevskyClone]

Here's how my system works (each category was weighted equally [25%]):

C = Critics rating [taken from Rotten Tomatoes]
BO = Box Office [this represents the gross of the film adjusted for inflation; I used the CPI Inflation Calculator]
O = number of Oscar points [1 point for an Oscar nomination; 3 points for an Oscar win]
IMDB = rating on IMDB

Top 10 Kurt Russell Movies
1. Tombstone
2. Silkwood [most Oscar points]
3. Backdraft [highest box office gross]
4. Miracle
5. Escape from New York
6. Breakdown
7. Vanilla Sky
8. Unlawful Entry
9. The Thing [highest IMDB rating]
10. Stargate

Bottom 3 Kurt Russell Movies
1. Winter People
2. 3000 Miles to Graceland
3. Soldier

 

[Odo's_Bucket]

I actually kind of liked soldier. It could have been far better than it was, though it wasn't that bad.

 

[HobartFloyt]

Shows the flaw with people other than Hari Seldon reducing things to mathematics since Big Trouble in Little China rules them all, and it's not even mentioned.

 

[thedude]

Hello. My name is Executive Decision and I sucked. That is all.

 

[LutherSloan]

Everyone should have known, based on the presence of BOTH Kurt Russell and Kevin Costner in the cast, that 3000 Miles to Graceland would bomb. In fact, it's one of the worst movies ever.

 

[Kirk's_Tights]

Tombstone owns.

No Big Trouble in Little China makes Jade an angry woman.

 

[Icemizer]

Executive Desicion was awesome they killed Segal in the first ten minutes!! Ok it was bad after that.

Liked Soldier but as said above it could have been much better.

 

[od0_ital]

Stargate is still one of my favorites of his. Its awesome.

 

[Starkers]

Shame Escape from New York and The Thing aren't placed higher...glad to see Escape from LA isn't in the bottom 3.

 

[DostoyevskyClone]

I realized I should have posted the complete list, so here it is:

01. Tombstone
02. Silkwood [most Oscar points]
03. Backdraft [highest box office gross, adjusted for inflation]
04. Miracle
05. Escape from New York
06. Breakdown
07. Vanillla Sky
08. Unlawful Entry
09. The Thing [highest IMDB rating]
10. Stargate

11. Executive Decision
12. Big Trouble in Little China
13. Sky High
14. Tango and Cash
15. Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story
16. Tequila Sunrise
17. Used Cars
18. Swing Shift [highest rating on Rotten Tomatoes]
19. Overboard
20. Poseidon

21. Escape from L.A.
22. Dark Blue
23. The Mean Season
24. Captain Ron
25. The Best of Times
26. Soldier
27. 3000 Miles to Graceland
28. Winter People

 

[DostoyevskyClone]

Big Trouble in Little China: one of my top 5 favorite movies of all-time. It's an amazing, incredibly entertaining movie. I would have loved to have seen it higher. Technically, it was tied for 10th place with Stargate and Executive Decision, so I looked at other awards (aside from Oscars) that the films had been nominated for and received. Stargate had more nominations and wins than Executive Decision, and Executive Decision and more nominations and wins than Big Trouble in Little China (unfortunately).

The flaw of reducing things to mathematics: I agree that this system is not the best. I just wanted a way to dispassionately rank movies that took several different things into account (artistic merit, popular opinion, commerical success, etc). I've definitely found use in these lists - it's helped me decide which movies I should still make the effort to see (i.e. there's 4 movies on that top 10 I haven't seen yet)

Escape from New York: It's a good, entertaining film, but not amazing (I find). I think The Thing is way better, but EFNY did better at the box office and had a better Rotten Tomatoes rating.

 

[Barbados Slim]

That's bullshit that Captain Ron is so far down the list. That movie is among the best of the 80s/90s family vacation comedies.

 

[SlyCardie]

Shame Escape from New York and The Thing aren't placed higher...glad to see Escape from LA isn't in the bottom 3.

It deserves to be except that it embraces it's camp.

I don't think Soldier and Graceland should be in the bottom 3 but hey, that's my opinion. I enjoyed Soldier as well, but it wasn't a good movie by any stretch of the imagination. Also, Backdraft was not his 3rd best film. It's interesting though, this thing does seem to be pretty accurate. Even though I can quibble about minor rankings, most of them seem to have the right idea and I can't say I'd rank them that much different if you made me.

 

[Trubinator]

I liked Executive Decision. 3,000 Miles was OK...

 

[Zachary Smith]

Tombstone owns.

No Big Trouble in Little China makes Jade an angry woman.

Son of a bitch MUST PAY!

 

[ToddPence]

I think this is the same formula the BCS uses in college football.

 

[Winterwind]

I just re-watched Big Trouble in Little China a couple nights ago.

Loved it then and still do. I always thought it was shame it didn't do better with the critics and at the box office.

 

[Zachary Smith]

I just re-watched Big Trouble in Little China a couple nights ago.

Loved it then and still do. I always thought it was shame it didn't do better with the critics and at the box office.

I was working at a movie theater when it came out and it I watched it once, I must have watched it 15 times. I was always slipping into the auditorium to catch different scenes.

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

Soldier is Saving Private Ryan compared to the epic shitfest that is TANGO AND CASH.

Overboard is horribly underrated.

Big Trouble in Little China is it. It's the one.

Russell's Earp in Tombstone is so utterly unlikable that I would've preferred Powers Boothe kill him.

 

[flandry84]

I loved "Mean season",but only because of the great Richard Jordan,such a menacing baddie.
"Dark blue".They tried for a "LA Confidential"vibe.They failed.(and poor Brendan Gleason was dreadfully miscast.)
"Tombstone" and "Big trouble.." are my favourite of Kurt's movies,but looking at the complete list of his movies,well,oh dear...the turkey quota does seem rather high.