1. 2. 3. Lists.

[bono_212]

OK, maybe it was a mixture of performance and preference.

 

[Lancemc]

1. The Birdcage
2. Popeye
3. Louie




But srsly he was usually good and seemed like the sweetest guy, this is sad.

 

[monkeyskin]

Bacall / Bogart films:

1. The Big Sleep
2. Dark Passage
3. Key Largo
4. To Have and To Have Not

 

[bono_212]

To Have and to Have Not is up for tonight's viewing.

 

[Lancemc]

God damn Bacall was just the classiest of class acts. What a dame

 

[LemonMelon]

Ranking the best picture nominees:

1. Whiplash (A)
2. Birdman (A)
3. The Grand Budapest Hotel (A-)
4. Selma (B+)
5. The Imitation Game (B+)
6. The Theory of Everything (B)
7. Boyhood (C+)
8. American Sniper (C)

 

[bono_212]

And I will join you:

1. Whiplash (10/10)
2. The Grand Budapest Hotel (9/10)
3. Birdman (8.5/10)
4. The Imitation Game (8.5/10)
5. Selma (8/10)
6. The Theory of Everything (7.5/10)
7. Boyhood (8/10, because while it's an impressive film, I just don't enjoy it)
8. American Sniper (7/10)

 

[cobl04]

Monty Python films

1 Life of Brian
2 Holy Grail
3 Meaning of Life
4 And Now For Something Completely Different
5 Live at Hollywood Bowl

And Now... gets overlooked but it's really great, particularly if you don't care to sit through all of Flying Circus. Most of the skits are improved. And Meaning of Life is perennially underrated.

 

[MrPryck2U]

Tonight, I'm really going crazy. I busted out the Ginger Ale and I'm watching Point Break on Encore. Patrick Swayze was awesome in this movie. Then it got me thinking... Top 3 Swayze movies:

1- Outsiders
2- Point Break
3- Dirty Dancing

 

[djerdap]

Birdman
Whiplash

the rest

 

[LemonMelon]

In honor of the now-concluded Halloween season, a haphazard list of my favorite frightening and/or Halloween-suitable films. It's either got to be psychologically tense or, if it's lighthearted, have a fair amount of gore. For instance, I love Young Frankenstein, but it doesn't really fit on here.

1. Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960)
2. The Shining (Kubrick, 1980)
3. Repulsion (Polanski, 1965)
4. Audition (Miike, 1999)
5. Eraserhead (Lynch, 1977)
6. Jaws (Spielberg, 1975)
7. Perfect Blue (Kon, 1997)
8. The Thing (Carpenter, 1982)
9. Alien (Scott, 1979)
10. House (Obayashi, 1977)
11. The Sixth Sense (Shyamalan, 1999)
12. The Evil Dead (Raimi, 1981)
13. Diabolique (Clouzot, 1955)
14. Black Swan (Aronofsky, 2011)
15. The Night of the Hunter (Laughton, 1955)
16. The Innocents (Clayton, 1961)
17. The Silence of the Lambs (Demme, 1991)
18. Jacob's Ladder (Lyne, 1990)
19. Rosemary's Baby (Polanski, 1968)
20. Se7en (Fincher, 1995)
21. M (Lang, 1931)
22. Halloween (Carpenter, 1977)
23. Deep Red (Argento, 1975)
24. The Exorcist (Friedkin, 1973)
25. The Babadook (Kent, 2014)
26. The Omen (Donner, 1976)
27. Pan's Labyrinth (del Toro, 2006)
28. Shaun of the Dead (Wright, 2004)
29. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Aldrich, 1962)
30. American Psycho (Harron, 2000)
31. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Kaufman, 1978)
32. Let the Right One In (Alfredson, 2008)
33. The Cabin in the Woods (Goddard, 2011)
34. Suspiria (Argento, 1977)
35. Nosferatu (Murnau, 1922)
36. A Nightmare on Elm Street (Craven, 1984)
37. The Others (Amenábar, 2001)
38. Possession (Żuławski, 1981)
39. The Haunting (Wise, 1963)
40. The Orphanage (Bayona, 2007)
41. Zombieland (Fleischer, 2009)
42. Peeping Tom (Powell, 1960)
43. The Witch (Eggers, 2015)
44. Don't Look Now (Roeg, 1973)
45. The Tenant (Polanski, 1976)
46. The Vanishing (Sluizer, 1988)
47. Eyes Without a Face (Franju, 1960)
48. The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (Gessner, 1976)
49. Santa Sangre (Jodorowsky, 1989)
50. Brain Damage (Henenlotter, 1988)

Virtually guaranteed that I missed something and there are a ton of classics that I still haven't seen.

 

[bono_212]

That's a really great list, though. I'll try and put something together later.

 

[Lancemc]

Evil Dead 2 is so much better than Evil Dead

 

[LemonMelon]

Evil Dead 2 is too goofy for me. I'm not really that into Army of Darkness either. The first one hit the balance I like.

 

[Lancemc]

I don't feel the first is really goofy enough, or at least in a way that's entertaining. It's pretty boring imo. That said I don't really like Army of Darkness at all either.

 

[bono_212]

I usually use the Oscars as the cut-off point for when I make my top ten list, so as it stands, here are my top ten films of 2016:

1. Kubo and the Two Strings
2. Arrival
3. Hunt for the Wilderpeople
4. 20th Century Women
5. Silence
6. Swiss Army Man
7. Manchester By the Sea
8. Life, Animated
9. Jackie
10. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

With the VERY honorablist of mentions to:

1. The Neon Demon
2. The Lobster
3. La La Land
4. The Edge of Seventeen
5. 10 Cloverfield Lane

 

[Lancemc]

The Edge of Seventeen is so good

 

[Lancemc]

I finally saw The Handmaiden today and that's an easy top-threer

 

[bono_212]

I finally saw The Handmaiden today and that's an easy top-threer

I'm grabbing that sometime this week. Can't believe Korea didn't put it up for their Foreign Language submission.

Edge of Seventeen was a hard movie for me to watch, in a lot of ways, because it reminded me SO much of my own trials in high school. Really got me in a good way.

 

[lazarus]

I finally saw The Handmaiden today and that's an easy top-threer

Yep.

 

[bono_212]

One. Year. Later.

Top ten of 2017:

1. Lady Bird
2. Baby Driver​
3. Blade Runner: 2049​
4. Spider-man Homecoming​
5. The Insult​
6. I, Tonya​
7. The Shape of Water​
8. Phantom Thread​
9. Loveless​
10. The Square​

With the specialist of mentions to some of my absolute favorites that I wish would've fit:

1. The Florida Project​
2. Killing of a Sacred Deer​
3. Colossal​
4. Ingrid Goes West​
5. Thor: Ragnarok
   ​

 

[lazarus]

Great list, Ashley. I didn't get around to seeing Loveless or The Insult yet.

I feel pretty mainstream this year because four films in my Top 10 were nominated for Best Picture, but I guess they picked a nice diverse bunch this year.

1. Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve, USA)
2. Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)
3. Faces Places (Agnès Varda & JR, France)
4. Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas, France)
5. Get Out (Jordan Peele, USA)
6. Thelma (Joachim Trier, Norway)
7. Song to Song (Terrence Malick, USA)
8. The Shape of Water (Guillermo del Toro, USA)
9. The Square (Ruben Ostlünd, Sweden)
10. Call Me By Your Name (Luca Guadagnino, Italy)

and for anyone who cares, my long list of honorable mentions:

Marjorie Prime (Michael Almereyda, USA)
The Lost City of Z (James Gray, USA)
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Yorgos Lanthimos, Ireland/UK)
Wonder Wheel (Woody Allen, USA)
The Lure (Agnieszka Smoczyńska, Poland)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Martin McDonagh, UK/USA)
Raw (Julia Ducournau, France)
Hermia & Helena (Matias Piñeiro, Argentina/USA)
A Ghost Story (David Lowery, USA)
Mudbound (Dee Rees, USA)
Youth (Feng Xiaogang, China)
Coco (Lee Unkrich & Adrian Molina, USA)
Dunkirk (Christopher Nolan, UK/USA)
The Ornithologist (João Pedro Rodrigues, Portugal)
Novitiate (Margaret Betts, USA)
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (Luc Besson, France)
Columbus (Kogonada, USA)
Jane (Brett Morgen, USA)
Blame (Quinn Shephard, USA)
The Last Jedi (Rian Johnson, USA)
Princess Cyd (Stephen Cone, USA)
Logan (James Mangold, USA)
War For The Planet Of The Apes (Matt Reeves, USA)
After The Storm (Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan)
Our Time Will Come (Ann Hui, China)
The Breadwinner (Nora Twomey, Canada/Ireland)
The Other Side of Hope (Aki Kaurismäki, Finland)
Lucky (John Carroll Lynch, USA)
Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig, USA)
I, Tonya (Craig Gillespie, USA)

 

[LemonMelon]

I'll make my list after I see a few other films of interest that got shafted by the Academy (Columbus, Lucky, Wind River).

 

[cobl04]

I am hearing that the movie that won the most prestigious award is about a woman who fucks fish, is this true?

 

[LemonMelon]

Just one fish, and she seems quite dedicated to said fish, but they do indeed fuck. More than once.

And people say the Oscars only go with the safest picks.

 

[lazarus]

I'll make my list after I see a few other films of interest that got shafted by the Academy (Columbus, Lucky, Wind River).

Those were all great. And I highly recommend Marjorie Prime, which on a second viewing may have jumped onto my short list. Based on a play but some very interesting themes relating to What is human? in the Philip K. Dick vein. Jon Hamm, Lois Smith, Tim Robbins, and Geena Davis were all fantastic.

 

[bono_212]

Almost forgot to do the annual bump.

My top ten films of 2018:

1. Hereditary - 9/10
2. Shoplifters - 9/10
3. Death of Stalin - 8.5/10
4. Tully - 8.5/10
5. Paddington 2 - 8.25/10
6. Annihilation - 8/10
7. Avengers: Infinity War - 7.5/10
8. Miseducation of Cameron Post - 8.5/10
9. You Were Never Really Here - 8/10
10. Mandy - 8/10

With very honorable mentions (but not quite as honorable as last year) to the following films:

• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse - 8.5/10
• The Favourite - 8.5/10
• Cold War - 8.5/10
• Minding the Gap - 8.5/10
• Can You Ever Forgive Me? - 8.5/10
• Isle of Dogs - 8/10
• Won't You Be My Neighbor - 8/10
• Eighth Grade - 8/10
• The Rider - 8/10
• Collette - 8/10

 

[LemonMelon]

Your honorable mentions list is far better than your top 10 IMO

In fact, it's basically my top 10, which I'm too lazy to list right now.

 

[bono_212]

I extended out to twenty to get Collette in there. Idk why I won't move it up any higher, but it was also one of movies that stuck with me most through the year (since I saw it, at any rate).

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

Hereditary - 9/10

that fucking movie disturbed me more than anything I have seen in a while...