The Top 5 List Thread

[zabu of nΩd]

Awesome movie but better than Terminator II? Worst. Opinion. Ever.

It's been forever since I've seen T2, but I thought the Connors were annoying characters, and the kid's friendship with the terminator a cheesy kind of Disneyesque feel-good story. It wasn't as scary or concise as T1. Anyway, Silence of the Lambs is fucking brilliant and perfect.

 

[CiG]

Top 5 films from 2000:

1. Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV
2. Gladiator
3. Snatch
4. Requiem for a Dream
5. The Way of the Gun

Top 5 films from 2001:

1. The Man Who Wasn't There
2. Black Hawk Down
3. Donnie Darko
4. The Fellowship of the Ring
5. Training Day

Top 5 films from 2002:

1. We Were Soldiers
2. Infernal Affairs
3. The Two Towers
4. City of God
5. Gangs of New York

Top 5 films from 2003:

1. Open Range
2. The Return of the King
3. Old Boy
4. Kill Bill
5. Ong-Bak

Top 5 films from 2004:

1. Kill Bill II
2. House of Flying Daggers
3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
4. Hellboy
5. The Punisher

Top 5 films from 2005:

1. A History of Violence
2. A Bittersweet Life
3. Sin City
4. Batman Begins
5. SPL

Top 5 films from 2006:

1. The Foot Fist Way
2. The Departed
3. Ten Canoes
4. Pan's Labyrinth
5. Slither

Top 5 films from 2007:

1. The Sasquatch Gang
2. The Darjeeling Limited
3. There Will Be Blood
4. Eastern Promises
5. Zodiac

Top 5 films from 2008:

1. Gran Torino
2. The Dark Knight
3. Rambo
4. Changeling
5. Taken

Top 5 films from 2009:

1. Watchmen
2. The Road
3. Inglorious Basterds
4. A Serious Man
5. Zombieland

 

[CiG]

It's been forever since I've seen T2, but I thought the Connors were annoying characters, and the kid's friendship with the terminator a cheesy kind of Disneyesque feel-good story. It wasn't as scary or concise as T1. Anyway, Silence of the Lambs is fucking brilliant and perfect.

Watch it again perhaps? Maybe you'll feel differently.

 

[rms]

t2 is cool but silence is definitely better

 

[CiG]

Fucks no.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Silence is good but T2 is definitely better

 

[no country for old wainds]

i feel like i have too many classic blind spots for the other decades atm but i'll do the '00s/'10s

Spoiler

2000

1) George Washington (D. G. Green)
2) In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai)
3) The House of Mirth (Davies)
4) Vinyl (Zweig)
5) Dancer in the Dark (Von Trier)

2001

1) Mulholland Drive (Lynch)
2) The Man Who Wasn't There (Coen Bros.)
3) The Royal Tenenbaums (W. Anderson)
4) Millennium Actress (Kon)
5) The Pledge (Penn)

2002

1) The Son (Dardenne Bros.)
2) Punch Drunk Love (P. T. Anderson)
3) Adaptation (Jonze)
4) Talk To Her (Almodovar)
5) The Twilight Samurai (Yamada)

2003

1) Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-Ho)
2) Dogville (Von Trier)
3) All the Real Girls (D. G. Green)
4) Finding Nemo (Stanton, Unkrich)
5) The Living World (E. Green)

2004

1) Keane (Kerrigan)
2) Mysterious Skin (Araki)
3) Before Sunset (Linklater)
4) The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (W. Anderson)
5) Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban (Cuarón)

2005

1) The New World (Malick)
2) L'Enfant (Dardenne Bros.)
3) A History of Violence (Cronenberg)
4) Cigarette Burns (Carpenter)
5) Tideland (Gilliam)

2006

1) Miami Vice (Mann)
2) Inland Empire (Lynch)
3) Children of Men (Cuarón)
4) Superman Returns (Singer)
5) Still Life (Zhang Ke Jia)

2007

1) There Will Be Blood (P. T. Anderson)
2) The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Dominik)
3) Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix (Yates)
4) My Winnipeg (Maddin)
5) No Country for Old Men (Coen Bros.)

2008

1) Synecdoche New York (Kaufman)
2) Love Exposure (Sono)
3) Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou)
4) The Dark Knight (Nolan)
5) Melancholia (Von Trier)

2009

1) Where the Wild Things Are (Jonze)
2) Two Lovers (Gray)
3) Antichrist (Von Trier)
4) Observe & Report (Hill)
5) Julia (Zonca)

2010

1) Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows I (Yates)
2) Into Eternity (Madsen)
3) Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichpatong)
4) Certified Copy (Kiarostami)
5) Toy Story 3 (Unkrich)

2011

1) Margaret (Lonergan)
2) Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Alfredson)
3) Twixt (F. F. Coppola)
4) Wuthering Heights (Arnold)
5) The Color Wheel (Perry)

2012

1) Tabu (Gomes)
2) Romancing in Thin Air (To)
3) Cosmopolis (Cronenberg)
4) The Master (P. T. Anderson)
5) The Act of Killing (Oppenheimer)

2013

1) A Field in England (Wheatley)
2) Inside Llewyn Davis (Coen Bros.)
3) Before Midnight (Linklater)
4) The Wind Rises (Miyazaki)
5) Blind Detective (To)

2014

1) Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2 (To)
2) Inherent Vice (P. T. Anderson)
3) The Grand Budapest Hotel (W. Anderson)
4) Hill of Freedom (Hong)
5) The Homesman (Tommy Lee Jones)

2015

1) Cemetery of Splendor (Apichatpong)
2) Blackhat (Mann)
3) Aaaaaaaah! (Oram)
4) Anomalisa (Kaufman)
5) Mad Max: Fury Road (Miller)

2016

1) The Witch (Eggers)
2) The Handmaiden (Park)
3) Certain Women (Reichardt)
4) The Alchemist Cookbook (Potrykus)
5) The Wailing (Na)

 

[CiG]

Your lists overwhelm me because everything I haven't heard of always looks really good and always a bit weird, tonally or thematically.

My autism kicks in and I start writing shit down. Excited to look through this once I have a good 30 minutes.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

There Will Be Blood and No Country For Old Men are the two best movies to be released in my lifetime.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

There Will Be Blood was pretty damn boring.

 

[CiG]

Top 5 films from 1960:

1. Spartacus
2. The Magnificent Seven
3. Psycho
4. Eyes Without a Face
5. The Bad Sleep Well

Top 5 films from 1961:

1. Yojimbo
2. El Cid
3. King of Kings
4. The Misfits
5. The Hustler

Top 5 films from 1962:

1. Lawrence of Arabia
2. The Tale of Zatoichi
3. Sanjuro
4. Lolita
5. The Tale of Zatoichi Continues

Top 5 films from 1963:

1. Jason and the Argonauts
2. Lord of the Flies
3. New Tale of Zatoichi
4. Zatoichi the Fugitive
5. High and Low

Top 5 films from 1964:

1. Dr. Strangelove
2. A Fistful of Dollars
3. Woman in the Dunes
4. Zulu
5. The Masque of the Red Death

Top 5 films from 1965:

1. Doctor Zhivago
2. For a Few Dollars More
3. The Greatest Story Ever Told
4. Battle of the Bulge
5. Red Beard

Top 5 films from 1966:

1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
2. The Bible: In the Begnning
3. Tokyo Drifter
4. Django
5. Fahrenheit 451

Top 5 films from 1967:

1. Cool Hand Luke
2. Le Samouraï
   
3. In Cold Blood
4. The Dirty Dozen
5. In the Heat of the Night

Top 5 films from 1968:

1. Planet of the Apes
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. Once Upon a Time in the West
4. Night of the Living Dead
5. Will Penny

Top 5 films from 1969:

1. The Italian Job
2. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
3. The Wild Bunch
4. Midnight Cowboy
5. Shinsengumi

 

[no country for old wainds]

There Will Be Blood was pretty damn boring.

boring seems like a weird way to describe a movie so intense and off-kilter but ok

NO COUNTRY was my favourite film when i was 19 or so and back then i got pissy at anyone who preferred THERE WILL BE BLOOD, but the latter has only grown for me and i've cooled a little on the former. it's a perfect adaptation though, the coens are geniuses, i just think mccarthy's done better elsewhere where his subtext has been more buried. that book is very on-the-nose about its themes (which rarely works for me in fairness - i guess COSMOPOLIS is an exception but the themes there are so fucking difficult to parse that it matters less), and i think i worshipped the film's worldview more than i worshipped the actual film in retrospect. i do still like it a lot though.

 

[CiG]

I like No Country for Old Men quite a bit actually but I always felt like it falls apart towards the end.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i think that movie ends the only way it possibly can end while staying true to its own worldview, and it was pretty damn ballsy to savagely subvert thriller conventions by concluding it in such a sudden and anti-climactic way (followed by the elegiac monologue).

 

[CiG]

Probably my fault for desiring a kind of conclusive final moment a la Red Rock West because they're similar tonally.

I spent too many years drinking beer and watching gore and action films, I almost feel like only in the last 4 years have I started actually seeing and hearing the films I'm watching and because of this, there's a lot of lag with properly understanding cinema and so on. I feel like a toddler.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

i thought the ending was perfect.

would have preferred if they actually showed Llewelyn's death though. Probably my only complaint, if i can even call it that.

 

[CiG]

My pen is now dried up (no joke) from writing all that shit down.

Has anybody ever looked at someone's favourite films list, seen some things you don't know so you look them up and end up feeling ashamed by the ones you don't know because they look so good?

In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai)
The Twilight Samurai (Yamada)

So far these two made me feel like that.
I have a Maggie Cheung boner right now.

The New World (Malick)
Miami Vice (Mann)

Really surprising to see both these films praised by you. I've been seeing them around and I was always apprehensive to grab them, clearly I should just grab them.

Btw, noticed a bunch of Harry Potter films in your lists. I was about to ask if you were simply scraping the bottom of the choice barrel but then I saw Deathly Hallows in a #1 spot. I didn't realise you were that into Harry Potter.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

i feel like i have too many classic blind spots for the other decades atm but i'll do the '00s/'10s

Spoiler

2000

1) George Washington (D. G. Green)
2) In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai)
3) The House of Mirth (Davies)
4) Vinyl (Zweig)
5) Dancer in the Dark (Von Trier)

2001

1) Mulholland Drive (Lynch)
2) The Man Who Wasn't There (Coen Bros.)
3) The Royal Tenenbaums (W. Anderson)
4) Millennium Actress (Kon)
5) The Pledge (Penn)

2002

1) The Son (Dardenne Bros.)
2) Punch Drunk Love (P. T. Anderson)
3) Adaptation (Jonze)
4) Talk To Her (Almodovar)
5) The Twilight Samurai (Yamada)

2003

1) Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-Ho)
2) Dogville (Von Trier)
3) All the Real Girls (D. G. Green)
4) Finding Nemo (Stanton, Unkrich)
5) The Living World (E. Green)

2004

1) Keane (Kerrigan)
2) Mysterious Skin (Araki)
3) Before Sunset (Linklater)
4) The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (W. Anderson)
5) Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban (Cuarón)

2005

1) The New World (Malick)
2) L'Enfant (Dardenne Bros.)
3) A History of Violence (Cronenberg)
4) Cigarette Burns (Carpenter)
5) Tideland (Gilliam)

2006

1) Miami Vice (Mann)
2) Inland Empire (Lynch)
3) Children of Men (Cuarón)
4) Superman Returns (Singer)
5) Still Life (Zhang Ke Jia)

2007

1) There Will Be Blood (P. T. Anderson)
2) The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Dominik)
3) Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix (Yates)
4) My Winnipeg (Maddin)
5) No Country for Old Men (Coen Bros.)

2008

1) Synecdoche New York (Kaufman)
2) Love Exposure (Sono)
3) Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou)
4) The Dark Knight (Nolan)
5) Melancholia (Von Trier)

2009

1) Where the Wild Things Are (Jonze)
2) Two Lovers (Gray)
3) Antichrist (Von Trier)
4) Observe & Report (Hill)
5) Julia (Zonca)

2010

1) Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows I (Yates)
2) Into Eternity (Madsen)
3) Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichpatong)
4) Certified Copy (Kiarostami)
5) Toy Story 3 (Unkrich)

2011

1) Margaret (Lonergan)
2) Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Alfredson)
3) Twixt (F. F. Coppola)
4) Wuthering Heights (Arnold)
5) The Color Wheel (Perry)

2012

1) Tabu (Gomes)
2) Romancing in Thin Air (To)
3) Cosmopolis (Cronenberg)
4) The Master (P. T. Anderson)
5) The Act of Killing (Oppenheimer)

2013

1) A Field in England (Wheatley)
2) Inside Llewyn Davis (Coen Bros.)
3) Before Midnight (Linklater)
4) The Wind Rises (Miyazaki)
5) Blind Detective (To)

2014

1) Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2 (To)
2) Inherent Vice (P. T. Anderson)
3) The Grand Budapest Hotel (W. Anderson)
4) Hill of Freedom (Hong)
5) The Homesman (Tommy Lee Jones)

2015

1) Cemetery of Splendor (Apichatpong)
2) Blackhat (Mann)
3) Aaaaaaaah! (Oram)
4) Anomalisa (Kaufman)
5) Mad Max: Fury Road (Miller)

2016

1) The Witch (Eggers)
2) The Handmaiden (Park)
3) Certain Women (Reichardt)
4) The Alchemist Cookbook (Potrykus)
5) The Wailing (Na)

Sick list. Great use of images. I would like to participate in this game but I haven't seen nearly enough movies unfortunately.

Can't remember if we had this conversation before but would I like The New World, do you think?

 

[EspaDa]

Has anyone enjoyed Altered States?

 

[CiG]

Has anyone enjoyed Altered States?

Great movie, I've only watched it twice because it takes so much mental effort for me to take it all in. @Carpe Mortem is a fan too.