Damn I would have waited if you'd just told me your list was being posted today. Awesome list too, I think Cop Land would have made it into the final list with that 9 point bump, and another for Gattaca makes me happy haha.
Damn I would have waited if you'd just told me your list was being posted today. Awesome list too, I think Cop Land would have made it into the final list with that 9 point bump, and another for Gattaca makes me happy haha.
5th) Chasing Amy directed by Kevin Smith
Voted for by:
@Slammed (1st place)
@Terasophe (2nd place)
@Oblivious Maximus (9th place)
@Anom@nder Rake (10th place)
TOTAL POINTS: 22
Had to include this image, it sums up the film so perfectly.
Voted for by:
@Slammed (1st place)
@Terasophe (2nd place)
@Oblivious Maximus (9th place)
@Anom@nder Rake (10th place)
TOTAL POINTS: 22
Had to include this image, it sums up the film so perfectly.
4th) Event Horizon directed by Paul W.S. Anderson
Voted for by:
@Krow (2nd place)
@RadicalThrasher (4th place)
@dwellerINTHEdark (7th place)
@Anom@nder Rake (9th place)
@challenge_everything (9th place)
TOTAL POINTS: 24
Voted for by:
@Krow (2nd place)
@RadicalThrasher (4th place)
@dwellerINTHEdark (7th place)
@Anom@nder Rake (9th place)
@challenge_everything (9th place)
TOTAL POINTS: 24
3rd) L.A. Confidential directed by Curtis Hanson
Voted for by:
@Anom@nder Rake (2nd place)
@Krigloch the Furious (2nd place)
@zabu of nΩd (4th place)
@challenge_everything (5th place)
@dwellerINTHEdark (5th place)
@CiG (9th place)
TOTAL POINTS: 39
Voted for by:
@Anom@nder Rake (2nd place)
@Krigloch the Furious (2nd place)
@zabu of nΩd (4th place)
@challenge_everything (5th place)
@dwellerINTHEdark (5th place)
@CiG (9th place)
TOTAL POINTS: 39
2nd) Lost Highway directed by David Lynch
Voted for by:
@Anom@nder Rake (1st place)
@challenge_everything (1st place)
@Oblivious Maximus (1st place)
@Bloopy (2nd place)
@no country for old wainds (3rd place)
@CiG (4th place)
@zabu of nΩd (5th place)
TOTAL POINTS: 60
Voted for by:
@Anom@nder Rake (1st place)
@challenge_everything (1st place)
@Oblivious Maximus (1st place)
@Bloopy (2nd place)
@no country for old wainds (3rd place)
@CiG (4th place)
@zabu of nΩd (5th place)
TOTAL POINTS: 60
1st) Starship Troopers directed by Paul Verhoeven
Voted for by:
@RadicalThrasher (1st place)
@zabu of nΩd (1st place)
@CiG (2nd place)
@Oblivious Maximus (2nd place)
@Anom@nder Rake (3rd place)
@Terasophe (4th place)
@Krigloch the Furious (6th place)
@Krow (7th place)
TOTAL POINTS: 62
Voted for by:
@RadicalThrasher (1st place)
@zabu of nΩd (1st place)
@CiG (2nd place)
@Oblivious Maximus (2nd place)
@Anom@nder Rake (3rd place)
@Terasophe (4th place)
@Krigloch the Furious (6th place)
@Krow (7th place)
TOTAL POINTS: 62
Manic Ferocity
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I always found it odd how poorly Starship Troopers was received by critics. Such a great, underappreciated film.
challenge_everything
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Surprised I was the only one to vote for In the Company of Men. I thought this forum liked brutal black comedies?
We prefer campy sci-fi monster bug action splatter flicks.
TechnicalBarbarity
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The comment you made 2 days ago about trying to watch Donnie Brasco? There was no follow-up so I just assumed you were busy, since you've not been very active lately it made sense.
TechnicalBarbarity
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Another one i needed to watch again. I remember really liking this one.
edit: How in the world did a shitty film like The Lost World make this list?
I actually bought it tonight on Ebay haha can't wait to rewatch it, haven't seen it since I was a teen. That poster art rules.
lmfao I was thinking the exact same thing. 90's childhood nostalgia probably.
no country for old wainds
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i would’ve checked this out but didn’t get the chance. ditto the blackout, mother and son, event horizon etc
challenge_everything
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I highly recommend it - Aaron Eckhart is so good as the corporate psycho bully
Event Horizon is basically Solaris with splatter
Event Horizon is basically Solaris with splatter
Bloopy
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Good thing you counted this one in 2 different years to emphasise how great it is. I saw it last week and was impressed to be able to find an animated film so damn harrowing. But then my suspension of disbelief has zero trouble with the dated effects of my all-time fav movie The Birds also.1) Perfect Blue (Dir. Satoshi Kon)
what makes perfect blue so chilling is the way it plays upon the nature of its medium, just like vertigo all those years ago. anime is traditionally an intrinsically childlike mode of storytelling, and the same can be said for pop music; perfect blue presents both at their most idealised, innocent and naive, only to brutally, perversely corrupt them, or perhaps expose them as the facades they are, fragile fantasies designed to sugarcoat our deepest insecurities, fears and perversions until one mistake, or perhaps just the passage of time, causes the bubble to burst and all of them to pour out. like mulholland drive, this film is so disturbing because although most of us aren't so deluded as to hallucinate a fantasy world, all of us tell ourselves stories to suppress the undesirable parts of our existence and ourselves, whether it's our envy, our guilt over our more bestial and immoral impulses, our physical insecurities, our fears of death and decay and aging, our failures in life, and more. and we derive these stories from the arts, even the most basic pleasure of escapism is derived from a dissatisfaction with reality and the desire for something simpler, so to experience a movie that presents itself as a perfect projection of that desire only to begin unravelling before our eyes, fragmenting and crumbling and allowing all these dark thoughts and fears to mix in with its idealised movie-ness, the last place they're welcome, is an affront to the psyche. that sweet, fun pop song plays again, except now it makes you think of a repulsive stalker jerking off in his room, of death and degeneracy, your failing career, the pounds and years you've put on, and it's taunting and mocking you with its knowingly unattainable innocence and happiness.
May as well update my list here and throw in the 2 obscurities I managed to miss out before:
1. The Spanish Prisoner
2. Perfect Blue
3. Lost Highway
4. Con Air
5. Plastic Utopia
6. My Dog Vincent
7. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
8. Jackie Brown
9. Cube
10. The Man Who Knew Too Little
