The Top 5 List Thread

[CiG]

It's weird how much hype it's getting when it felt like their debut went under a lot of radars. But it is a twisted fucking disgusting monster of an album, so...

 

[CiG]

Top 5 metal releases of March 2021:

1. Metharoma - Pipe Dreams (Through the Alley)
   
   
   
2. Rapture - Malevolent Demise Incarnation
   
   
   
3. Gruesome Stuff Relish - Kill Baby Grind
   
   
   
4. Eyehategod - A History of Nomadic Behavior
   
   
   
5. Twitch of the Death Nerve - Beset by False Prophets
   

 

[zerostatic]

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2. Pan-Amerikan Native Front - Little Turtle's War
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This looks interesting. I will have to track it down and give it a listen.

 

[Bloopy]

Cities I've seen the most live shows/concerts/music festivals in:

701 ... Auckland, NZ
100 ... Wellington, NZ
20 ... Melbourne, Australia
16 ... Hamilton, NZ
8= ... Christchurch, NZ
8= ... Tauranga, NZ

Saw my 100th in Wellington last night. I've lived near Wellington for about a third of my gig-attending life, but my gig addiction didn't really take off until I moved to Auckland so that's way ahead (plus it's bigger so it's got more worth going to).

 

[challenge_everything]

Top 5 Netflix original movies (in no particular order):

1. The Other Side of the Wind
2. Mank
3. Marriage Story
4. Roma
5. Uncut Gems

 

[CiG]

Top 5 Netflix original movies

(in order)
1. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
2. Hold the Dark
3. Roma
4. The Irishman
5. Marriage Story

I haven't seen The Other Side of the Wind yet and Uncut Gems isn't a Netflix Original btw, it's A24.

 

[challenge_everything]

(in order)
1. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
2. Hold the Dark
3. Roma
4. The Irishman
5. Marriage Story

I haven't seen The Other Side of the Wind yet and Uncut Gems isn't a Netflix Original btw, it's A24.

I guess The Irishman would replace Uncut Gems on my list then. I'm surprised you liked I'm Thinking of Ending Things so much - I love Kaufman but I found it too alienating and self-conscious and not in a good way like Synecdoche.

 

[CiG]

I'm surprised you liked I'm Thinking of Ending Things so much - I love Kaufman but I found it too alienating and self-conscious and not in a good way like Synecdoche.

Alienating I get but what do you mean by too self-conscious?

 

[challenge_everything]

Alienating I get but what do you mean by too self-conscious?

I guess I really meant self-indulgent. Either that or it was totally over my head. It really lost me when they got to the high school, hinting at some grand symbolic revelation which frankly I couldnt see at all.

 

[CiG]

I guess I really meant self-indulgent. Either that or it was totally over my head. It really lost me when they got to the high school, hinting at some grand symbolic revelation which frankly I couldnt see at all.

Question; have you only watched it once?

 

[challenge_everything]

Yeah. I figure it requires another watch but not sure I have the motivation for that slog though.

 

[CiG]

Yeah. I figure it requires another watch but not sure I have the motivation for that slog though.

Definitely does. You can't catch it all the first time around, there are way too many clues, subtle edits and tricks throughout.

 

[CiG]

Top 5 favourite directors who debuted no more than a decade ago:

1. S. Craig Zahler (Duh!)
2. Gu Xiaogang (I can't wait to see where he goes after Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains.)
3. Michael O'Shea (The Transfiguration is one of the coolest takes on the vampire genre ever.)
4. Joel Potrykus (This fuckin' guy.)
5. Joe Begos (Bliss and VFW slayed, wanna see where he goes next.)

Honourable mentions: Robert Eggers, Mark Jenkin, Ana Lily Amirpour, Ryan Prows.

 

[no country for old wainds]

1) bi gan
2) joshua oppenheimer
3) jim cummings (haven’t seen the new one yet)
4) joel potrykus
5) robert eggers

 

[challenge_everything]

Ari Aster needs some love there.

 

[CiG]

Just saw the other day Ari's next film will star Joaquin Phoenix.

 

[challenge_everything]

Just saw the other day Ari's next film will star Joaquin Phoenix.

Awesome. Was that the 4 hour psycho comedy he was working on?

 

[CiG]

Awesome. Was that the 4 hour psycho comedy he was working on?

I'm not sure, but the small amount of info available says the plot is "an intimate, decades-spanning portrait of one of the most successful entrepreneurs of all time."

 

[challenge_everything]

Oh here we go. https://www.indiewire.com/2021/02/ari-aster-joaquin-phoenix-disappointment-blvd-a24-1234617813/

 

[zerostatic]

Top 5 Episodes of Psych:
1) Last Night Gus
2) Tuesday the 17th
3) Scary Sherry Bianca's Toast
4) Viagra Falls
5) Autopsy Turvy

Top 5 Episodes of Burn Notice:
1)Lesser Evil
2) Rough Seas
3)Bad Breaks
4) The Devil You Know
5) Double Booked