GMD Social Poll: Top Ten Films of 2015

[Bloopy]

The only accent that irritates me is the genuine New Zealand one, because I'm so used to watching movies and TV from overseas. Seeing Zoë Bell pop up in Tarantino films is jarring, especially when she has to have a line about how she's from NZ. Some NZ accents are several times worse than others too, as if being too lazy to enunciate well is contagious here.

I'm not bothered at all by someone else faking an NZ accent, eg. Anthony Hopkins in The World's Fastest Indian. Just makes it more entertaining.

 

[CiG]

The only accent that irritates me is the genuine New Zealand one, because I'm so used to watching movies and TV from overseas. Seeing Zoë Bell pop up in Tarantino films is jarring, especially when she has to have a line about how she's from NZ. Some NZ accents are several times worse than others too, as if being too lazy to enunciate well is contagious here.

That's kinda sad, lmao. Watching Once Were Warriors must be a warzone of irritation for you.

just seeing this. And no i didnt even know about it!

I view it as a kind of spiritual sequel to Training Day, and I'd be interested to know your opinion on how authentic it is in terms of the west coast culture it portrays. Apparently Bale spent several weeks hanging out with ex-cons and former gangbangers to get into the role.

 

[Bloopy]

Watching Once Were Warriors must be a warzone of irritation for you.

Well yeah, but it's only one element and far from the most uncomfortable part about watching OWW. I don't normally hold realistic films in quite as high a regard as quirky or flamboyant ones anyway. The accent that sounds goofy to me works best in goofy films.

 

[challenge_everything]

So when are we wrapping this up?

 

[CiG]

Whew I actually thought I had, I was waiting patiently for Wainds to end the 2018 game. I'm scatterbrained lately.

 

[challenge_everything]

I think we will still be doing the 2018 game in 2048

 

[CiG]

Feels bad. I'll start tallying this tonight.

 

[CiG]

10th) Too Late directed by Dennis Hauck



Voted for by:
@Anom@nder Rake (3rd place)
@challenge_everything (3rd place)
@CiG (7th place)

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IMDB
Main cast:

John Hawkes


Crystal Reed


Dichen Lachman

TOTAL POINTS: 20

 

[CiG]

=8th) Embrace of the Serpent (El Abrazo de la Serpiente) directed by Ciro Guerra



Voted for by:
@challenge_everything (1st place)
@Anom@nder Rake (5th place)
@Bloopy (5th place)

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IMDB
Main cast:

Nilbio Torres


Antonio Bolivar


Brionne Davis


Jan Bijvoet

TOTAL POINTS: 22


=8th) Bone Tomahawk directed by S. Craig Zahler



Voted for by:

@RadicalThrasher (2nd place)
@CiG (6th place)
@Anom@nder Rake (7th place)
@Slayed Necros (7th place)​

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IMDB
Main cast:

Kurt Russell

Patrick Wilson

Richard Jenkins

Lili Simmons

TOTAL POINTS: 22

 

[CiG]

7th) The H8ful Eight directed by Quentin Tarantino



Voted for by:
@RadicalThrasher (3rd place)
@Bloopy (4th place)
@TechnicalBarbarity (4th place)
@Anom@nder Rake (6th place)

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Main cast:

Samuel L. Jackson


Kurt Russell


Jennifer Jason Leigh


Tim Roth


Michael Madsen


Walton Goggins


Bruce Dern


Demián Bichir

TOTAL POINTS: 26

 

[CiG]

=5th) Blackhat directed by Michael Mann



Voted for by:
@CiG (1st place)
@no country for old wainds (2nd place)
@Slayed Necros (3rd place)
@RadicalThrasher (8th place)

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Main cast:

Chris Hemsworth


Tang Wei


Viola Davis


Wang Leehom

TOTAL POINTS: 30


=5th) The Revenant directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu



Voted for by:
@RadicalThrasher (1st place)
@Einherjar86 (4th place)
@Slayed Necros (5th place)
@Anom@nder Rake (8th place)
@challenge_everything (9th place)
@CiG (9th place)

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Main cast:

Leonardo DiCaprio


Tom Hardy


Forrest Goodluck

TOTAL POINTS: 30

 

[CiG]

4th) Green Room directed by Jeremy Saulnier



Voted for by:
@Anom@nder Rake (1st place)
@zabu of nΩd (2nd place)
@CiG (4th place)
@Bloopy (7th place)
@challenge_everything (7th place)
@Einherjar86 (7th place)
@Slayed Necros (9th place)

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Main cast:

Anton Yelchin


Imogen Poots


Patrick Stewart


Alia Shawkat


Joe Cole


Callum Turner

TOTAL POINTS: 40

 

[CiG]

=2nd) Sicario directed by Dennis Villeneuve



Voted for by:
@TechnicalBarbarity (1st place)
@Einherjar86 (3rd place)
@Anom@nder Rake (4th place)
@Slayed Necros (4th place)
@challenge_everything (5th place)
@CiG (5th place)

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Main cast:

Emily Blunt


Benicio del Toro


Josh Brolin


Daniel Kaluuya

TOTAL POINTS: 44


=2nd) The VVitch: A New England Folktale directed by Robert Eggers



Voted for by:
@Anom@nder Rake (2nd place)
@challenge_everything (2nd place)
@Einherjar86 (2nd place)
@Slayed Necros (2nd place)
@no country for old wainds (3rd place)

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Main cast:

Anya Taylor-Joy


Ralph Ineson

TOTAL POINTS: 44

 

[CiG]

1st) Mad Max: Fury Road directed by George Miller



Voted for by:
@Einherjar86 (1st place)
@Slayed Necros (1st place)
@CiG (3rd place)
@zabu of nΩd (3rd place)
@Slammed (4th place)
@RadicalThrasher (6th place)
@no country for old wainds (8th place)
@Bloopy (10th place)

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Main cast:

Charlize Theron


Tom Hardy


Nicholas Hoult


Hugh Keays-Byrne

TOTAL POINTS: 52

 

[no country for old wainds]

solid fucking list tbh

 

[CiG]

Agreed, this was a fucking sweet year. I really need to see The VVitch already though.

 

[Einherjar86]

I need to see Blackhat. That movie went totally under my radar when it came out.

 

[challenge_everything]

Same.

 

[challenge_everything]

So how did The Lobster not make it? I saw it on like 6 lists.

 

[CiG]

It was on a bunch of lists but always on the lower half.