GMD Poll: Top Ten Films of 2023

[CiG]

I actually started watching that last year but something came up 30 mins in and for some reason I never got back to it. Cheers for the reminder lol.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

I actually started watching that last year but something came up 30 mins in and for some reason I never got back to it. Cheers for the reminder lol.

Boay, you get on and watch that film or "ill slap you to sleep and slap you for sleepin"

 

[RadicalThrasher]

Just watched Mob Land...

Fuckin badass. @CiG @RadicalThrasher you guys gotta check this one out.

Seen it ! Yeah pretty good i thought

 

[RadicalThrasher]

Anybody seen The Iron Claw? Thought that was pretty good. Von Erich wrestling family, will probably be on my list somewhere.

Some other pretty good stuff I've seen.

When Evil Lurks - Argentinian horror flick. Very Evil Deadish, creates it's own mythology. Pretty twisted, left me thinking after it was over.

Sound of Freedom - solid flick, very well made

Desperation Road - Mel Gibson side vehicle, kind has that same vibe as mob land as far as production.

Infinity Pool - made by cronenberg's kid.....head fuck horror

Sisu - just badass

 

[CiG]

Revolution Road - Mel Gibson side vehicle, kind has that same vibe as mob land as far as production.

I think you mean Desperation Road? Either way that's what came up when I Googled it lol and it looks right up my alley, cheers.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Still need to check out The Iron Claw. Binged a bunch of older wrestling shows from the early/mid 80s on Peacock and one of the promotions they had on there was WCCW which was run by the Von Erichs dad. Dudes were super talented as far as in ring work went. I also watched Kerry Von Erich when i was a kid, but knew him as The Texas Tornado. Crazy that he wrestled only on one leg and kept it a secret for such a long time.

 

[RadicalThrasher]

I think you mean Desperation Road? Either way that's what came up when I Googled it lol and it looks right up my alley, cheers.

ha yeah yeah that's it....memory is slipping



I also want to see that Late Night with the Devil, got to check if it's streaming on one of the services i have

 

[RadicalThrasher]

Still need to check out The Iron Claw. Binged a bunch of older wrestling shows from the early/mid 80s on Peacock and one of the promotions they had on there was WCCW which was run by the Von Erichs dad. Dudes were super talented as far as in ring work went. I also watched Kerry Von Erich when i was a kid, but knew him as The Texas Tornado. Crazy that he wrestled only on one leg and kept it a secret for such a long time.

Good movie. Kind of depressing actually, lots of messed up stuff happens to that family

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Good movie. Kind of depressing actually, lots of messed up stuff happens to that family

Yeah man its a trip how...

Spoiler

they all went out in the same way

 

[RadicalThrasher]

Spoiler

@CiG Not sure if i liked or hated God is a Bullet, needs another viewing

 

[CiG]

I liked it a lot, but at the same time Nikolaj Coster-Waldau was just kinda... there. Very forgettable performance. Maika Monroe basically carried most of the movie on her own.

 

[AbelTim]

1. Close (Director: Lukas Dhont)
2. Babylon (Director: Damien Chazelle)
3. As Bestas aka The Beasts (Director: Rodrigo Sorogoyen)
4. Tár (Director: Todd Field)
5. Oppenheimer (Director: Christopher Nolan)
6. Sisu (Director: Jalmari Helander)
7. عنکبوت مقدس aka Holy Spider (Director: Ali Abbasi)
8. Pearl (Director: Ti West)
9. Beau is Afraid (Director: Ari Aster)
10. Reptile (Director: Grant Singer)

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

@RadicalThrasher Infinity Pool and When Evil Lurks are both on Hulu. Gonna check em out

 

[CiG]

Finally ticked Mob Land off the list. Awesome movie and the plot totally went in ways I wasn't expecting. Great final act!

The use of shaky cam was a bit annoying, but forgivable for a first time director. Gotta keep an eye on him, considering Travolta rarely puts out good performances anymore and this guy got one out of him, I wanna see what he does next.

In that same gritty psychological crime thriller vein, Rumble Through the Dark is one I'd recommend from 2023.



Aaron Eckhart plays an over-the-hill underground fighter with brain trauma, who is in massive debt to a crime boss. Really good physical performance in this one, he's very hunched and rundown. Eckhart also did Muzzle last year, a revenge movie about a cop whose service dog gets killed.

 

[CiG]

@Slammed don't forget about Limbo!

 

[Slammed]

Have I done a list?

 

[CiG]

My top 10 in reverse order:

10. Poor Things (dir. Yorgos Lanthimos)
"My empathy is creeping towards what I would describe... a contemptuous rage."


9. Earth Mama (dir. Savanah Leaf)
"It's so hard to explain to a child, that you don't know better yourself."


8. The Creator (dir. Gareth Edwards)
"You can't beat AI. It is evolution."


7. Limbo (dir. Ivan Sen)
"They just thought our sister went walkabout, they didn't care.
Nobody cares y'know? Nobody's ever cared. People like you fuckin' come and go, nothin' ever changes."


6. John Wick: Chapter 4 (dir. Chad Stahelski)
"I'm going to kill them all."


5. A Thousand and One (dir. A.V. Rockwell)
"I'd go to war for you, d'you know that? Against this whole city!"


4. Sisu (dir. Jalmari Helander)
"You see, this is not about who's the strongest. This is about not giving up, and he won't. Ever."


3. The Zone of Interest (dir. Jonathan Glazer)
"I wasn't really paying attention... I was too busy thinking how I would gas everyone in the room."


2. Killers of the Flower Moon (dir. Martin Scorsese)
"Can you find the wolves in this picture?"


1. How to Blow Up a Pipeline (dir. Daniel Goldhaber)
"Jesus was a terrorist!"