The Happening is in my top 20 for sure. Love that movie
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Yeah I saw it just once, I think as a theatrical re-release. But so many of the scenes are seared into my memory just for their emotional realism. Like the young main character being excited for the rare pineapple and her family ends up being dismissive of it. I can feel it as if it happened to me. I should watch the movie again!
Here are ten of my favourite movies that are not The Matrix!
- The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
- Tokyo Godfathers (2003)
- Igby Goes Down (2002)
- Memento (2000)
- Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)
- Better Than Chocolate (1999)
- Lola rennt (1998)
- Hackers (1995)
- Cabaret (1972)
- 『人間の條件』1961年
@TracyDMcGrath I gotta give it another shot then I guess. Unless you both are doing a psyop
@captain That’s alright with me: I actually forced myself to add one Canadian movie for some wider representation. I don’t like French-Canadian cinema very much either. On the other hand, Incendies might still be Denis Villeneuve’s best movie.
Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, 1933)
Whisper of the Heart (Yoshifumi Kondo, 1995)
Ran (Akira Kurosawa, 1985)
Metropolitan (Whit Stillman, 1990)
A Room with a View (James Ivory, 1985)
Atonement (Joe Wright, 2007)
Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan, 2016)
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (Isao Takahata, 2013)
Amarcord (Federico Fellini, 1973)
Dazed & Confused (Richard Linklater, 1993)
Don’t really remember what movies i’ve seen so it took me like an hour to remember 10 “oh yeah that one was pretty damn good” ones. As such this isn’t in any way definitive, but they’re all good so who cares really.
My top 10 is kinda basic millennial teenagecore tbh
- A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971)
- Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979) (Redux cut, 2001)
- Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982) (The Final Cut, 2007)
- Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio, 1982)
- Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone, 1984)
- Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)
- The End of Evangelion (Hideaki Anno & Kazuya Tsurumaki, 1997)
- Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (Mamoru Oshii, 2004)
- No Country For Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2007)
- There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
Runners up: 2001, Akira, Barry Lyndon, The Big Lebowski, The Empire Strikes Back, Eyes Wide Shut, The Graduate, It’s Such a Beautiful Day, The Last Temptation of Christ, Monty Python’s Life of Brian, Memories of Murder, Metropolis (1927), Munich, Once Upon a Time in the West, Persona, A Serious Man, Snowtown, Under the Skin
What can I say? I can appreciate highbrow domestic dramas and Euro arthouse fare, but I can only love existential genre pulp.
At a cursory glance it looks like Stalker is gearing up to be up there for the Insert Credit Sight & Sound Best Movie of All Time. Of course we would pick a movie based on a videogame!
@Gaagaagiins I personally would say Barking Dogs is better than Host and Parasite, but also everyone else listing Memories of Murder is objectively correct…
@xhekros This is the only list so far from which I’ve seen literally none of the films… not sure what to think about that
- Kick-Ass (2010)
1 (1). Nocturnal Animals (2016)
1 (2). Fish Story (2011)
1 (3). Tusk (2014)
1 (4). Red State (2011)
1 (5). North by Northwest (1959)
1 (6). The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers: Extended Edition (2002)
1 (7). Sound of Noise (2010)
1 (8). Say Anything (1989)
1 (9). Brassed Of! (1996)
Honorable mention because I remembered this eleventh after remembering that Ewan McGregor is in Brassed Off - 1(10). I Love You Phillip Morris (2009)
I added Say Anything because it’s the namesake of my favorite band and The Two Towers to mirror my selection of the GameCube game on the games list, so that’s a sample of my criteria
@baftaboo my books list is just The Arban’s Complete Technique for Cornet and Fundamentals of Guitar by Miles Okazaki
If we’re talking objective quality, I’d say my subjective comparison of objective quality puts Parasite at the top, with regards to overall execution! Feels like a “first work in a new period of artistic maturity” kind of film. Also very funny.
If there’s anything I could say to its detriment, it does in fact not feature Byun Hee Bong. I may think about it some more and switch it over to Barking Dogs Never Bite, if for no other reason than his role in that film.
Just remembered that Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) is at least the best movie that I watched on a plane
I think this all the time
Also big fan of Scott Pilgrim around the time it came out. I (maybe) learned bass guitar because of that movie (partially). I watched it in the last few years and didn’t get what I originally got out of it, but it may be because I was watching it with a partner I had somewhat soured on. (Maybe also because this was someone I knew since high school and both they and this movie reminded me too viscerally of my younger self)
@sabertoothalex I wrestled Before Sunset v. Flatliners for mine, I adore Sunset!! Cute story: I saw Before Sunset the first time at my college film society (s/o doc films), I went with a girl from my residence house I’d been dating for a bit, we hadn’t told anyone yet, it would have been a thing. On the way to the theater we ran into mutual friend Hanna, a hardnosed German feminist, who invites herself along. Along the way, not knowing the movie, she volunteers: “I like most movies except the romantic ones. They’re emotionally manipulative.” She sits between us in the theater ofc. Well, I’m still having a good time. Hanna is laughing at the jokes. After the movie I ask her with a minimum of trepidation what she thought and she is enraptured, she said something like “love is a rebellion against yourself.” We detour through the main quad to chat where she sees a few couples milling around, and she gallops past them, pumping her arms and shouting “live your love! live your love!” None of us had seen the first one
I wonder why Hannah felt that romance movies were emotionally manipulative lmao (hope Hannah is doing well, in general)
@yeso I think the entire M. Night “reevaluation” is a psyop personally
@xhekros When I see Garrel and Ruiz mentioned, I know we’re getting into the real secret sauce. (To be clear, I haven’t seen those two movies you listed, but I have deeply enjoyed other movies by those directors). (Also to be clear: this isn’t met to put anybody down because I’m loving every list I see on here…just cool to see some directors’ names I haven’t seen in a while!)
I have a weird relationship with movies because through all of high school I thought I was going to film school and for a period of about a year I watched a movie everyday(!) but then I kind of got burned out and asked myself: “Do I really like movies that much? Do I really enjoy watching movies or do I just enjoy making short films with my friends and since everyone kept telling me I was good at it, did I just assumed I had to love movies?”
The answer to that was messy and complicated. After that I stopped watching movies for a while (other than the occasional friend inviting me to watch something at the movies). My ADHD combined with quarantine made it extremely difficult for me to watch movies this last couple of years and only just recently I started to watch more movies again.
here’s my list:
Tampopo (1985)
Save the green Planet! (2003)
C’est arrivé près de chez vous (1992)
Je, tu, il, elle (1974)
Persepolis (2007)
Doggiewoggiez! Poochiewoochiez! (2012)
Waikiki Brothers (2001)
Les Rendez-vous d’Anna (1978)
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)
Wings (1966)
Also this thread has informed me that maybe I should watch Pride and Prejudice
beets-core films, a.k.a Cinéma du look, a.k.a racing & space movies and a few comedies.
Hackers (1995)
Redline (2009)
Tron Legacy (2010)
Speed Racer (2008)
Princess Mononoke (1997) ……………….. I am limiting myself to 1 ghibli movie.
Starship Troopers (1997)
Drive (2011)
Kill Bill Volume 1 (2003)
Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey (1991)
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)