The Top 5 List Thread

[no country for old wainds]

I've seen these ones and really dig them all, except Dracula which is cool but not in the caliber of the rest IMO. Womenz seem to absolutely love it though, all my femchums rave about it, which I do get since it's basically peak gothromantic vampire cinema along with Interview with a Vampire.

you should check out TWIXT sometime. it's the complete opposite of his '70s work in that it's a really small, idiosyncratic oddity with an extremely limited target demographic - i think he's kinda lived the dream in that he had all his success early and was able to use that reputation to carry a long subsequent career of obscure personal shit that hardly anyone else would be able to get made. i mean, TWIXT is a hokey tacky stephen king-style dime store ghost story starring val kilmer, it couldn't really be further removed from the trends of today. it also rummages through all his issues, from writer's block to marital breakdown to financial difficulties to paternal grief (you may be aware his son tragically died in a boating accident IRL). objectively it's probably a shitty movie but it has a ton of personality and it's completely sincere, while also being funny and sad.

 

[CiG]

Cheers I'll keep it in mind.

Has anybody seen many movies from this year? Enough for a top 5? I haven't seen pretty much anything so I'm looking for some recs that are a bit stronger than a casual namedrop.

 

[Bloopy]

I pretty much avoid new movies like the plague, but sometimes what people say about them eventually catches my eye like a year later or so. The only one I saw in the theatre this year was Swagger of Thieves, although it's from last year. Good doco on the NZ band Head Like a Hole.

 

[The Butt]

Top five favorite Pokemon/evolution chains:
1) Larvitar/Pupitar/Tyranitar
2) Gastly/Haunter/Gengar
3) Aron/Lairon/Aggron
4) Roselia/Roserade
5) Chatot (pissed its a regional in Pokemon Go)

 

[Vegard Pompey]

Cheers I'll keep it in mind.

Has anybody seen many movies from this year? Enough for a top 5? I haven't seen pretty much anything so I'm looking for some recs that are a bit stronger than a casual namedrop.

There's no cinema where I live so I don't keep up with current movies very well, but two good ones I did see are Annihilation and Hereditary. Annihilation is a visually gorgeous Lovecraftian horror film and Hereditary is more of a modern take on 70's supernatural/occult horror.

 

[CiG]

Thx mang, those two have been passed my way a few times actually.

Edit: also been keeping an eye out for a copy of Margaret.

 

[no country for old wainds]

There's no cinema where I live so I don't keep up with current movies very well, but two good ones I did see are Annihilation and Hereditary. Annihilation is a visually gorgeous Lovecraftian horror film and Hereditary is more of a modern take on 70's supernatural/occult horror.

there's the lynne ramsay one you loved as well, i know that's a 2017 movie on IMDB but it's a 2018 movie for anyone who doesn't live in central europe, i'll be counting it toward my eventual 2018 list

 

[no country for old wainds]

4) Roselia/Roserade

um are you gay or something

most of my favs are standalones but as for chains:
1) cuborak
2) charmanleonzard
3) exeggcutor
4) vultales
5) magidos
HM: abradabrazam

only gen 1 is real

 

[Vegard Pompey]

Oh yeah, if YWNRH counts as 2018 that's definitely at the top of my list.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i don't worry about it with past years but my arbitrary eligibility rule for the current year tends to be "which year did it first premiere in theaters in either the US or UK", because a lot of the time the official release year is festival-only and i wouldn't have access to half those movies 'til the middle of 2019 or something.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Started binging movies again, and maintaining lists of favorites by era as I go. Here are my autistic results thus far:

1900-1965:

1. Dr. Strangelove
2. Fantasia
3. Lawrence of Arabia
4. The Sound of Music
5. The Big Sleep

1966-1976 (cultural revolution marks radical departure in acting and cinematography):

1. A Clockwork Orange
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. Chinatown
4. Easy Rider
5. Monty Python and the Holy Grail

1977-1996 (Star Wars revolutionizes special effects and action sequences):

1. Star Wars series
2. Heavy Metal
3. Akira
4. The Terminator
5. The Silence of the Lambs

1997-Present (CGI and Internet culture break new technical and conceptual ground):

1. The Matrix
2. Lord of the Rings series
3. Waking Life
4. Mulholland Drive
5. Fight Club

 

[no country for old wainds]

1900-1965:

1. Vertigo
2. My Darling Clementine
3. The Last Laugh
4. The Kid
5. The Misfits
   
6. Last Year At Marienbad
7. North by Northwest
8. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
   
9. In A Lonely Place
10. Woman in the Dunes

1966-1976:

1. Aguirre: The Wrath of God
2. A Woman Under the Influence
3. Minnie & Moskowitz
4. Badlands
5. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
6. McCabe & Mrs. Miller
7. The Conversation
8. Seconds
9. Husbands
10. A Clockwork Orange

1977-1996:

1. The Fly
2. Days of Heaven
3. Naked
4. Miller's Crossing
5. Stranger Than Paradise
6. Love Streams
7. The Thing
8. Gremlins 2: The New Batch
9. Paris, Texas
10. Dead Ringers

1997-Present:

1. Synecdoche New York
2. Love Exposure
3. Mulholland Drive
4. The Man Who Wasn't There
5. Perfect Blue
6. The Son
7. Where the Wild Things Are
8. Margaret
9. Miami Vice
10. Memories of Murder

 

[CiG]

Chinatown is so damn good.

 

[no country for old wainds]

anyone who likes CHINATOWN should check out altman’s THE LONG GOODBYE and arthur penn’s NIGHT MOVES.

 

[CiG]

Both are actually in my Ebay cart right now, The Long Goodbye I already knew about but I think someone here talked about Night Moves at some point. Looks really good!

 

[CiG]

@zabu of nΩd any particular reason for the way you split up the eras?

 

[Bloopy]

eh

-1965
1. The Birds
2. The Pink Panther
3. Jamaica Inn
4. Rich and Strange
5. Rebecca

1966-1976
1. Frenzy
2. The Exorcist
3. Happy End
4. Planet of the Apes
5. 2001: A Space Odyssey

1977-1996
1. Pulp Fiction
2. Milk & Money
3. Bad Taste
4. A Nightmare on Elm Street
5. Fargo

1997-
1. Mulholland Dr.
2. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
3. Sin City
4. Fight Club
5. Hannibal

 

[CiG]

Okay I'll bite. Just endlessly posting lists until died.

1900-1965:

1. Doctor Zhivago
2. Jason and the Argonauts
3. Moby Dick
4. Ben-Hur
5. Yojimbo

1966-1976:

1. Taxi Driver
2. The Godfather
3. Assault on Precinct 13
4. Chinatown
5. In the Realm of the Senses

1977-1996:

1. Conan the Barbarian
2. Alien
3. The Terminator/T2 (depending on my mood)
4. The Thing
5. Braveheart

1997-Present:

1. Hana-bi
2. Collateral
3. Starship Troopers
4. Brawl in Cell Block 99
5. Gladiator

1977 to 1996 was a savage period to try and narrow down, fucking hell. I could've filled it with almost all Arnie films. I still feel weird about not putting The Predator in there somewhere.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

1900-1965:

1. Sunset Blvd.
2. Double Indemnity
3. Umberto D.
4. Woman in the Dunes
5. Vertigo

1966-1976:

1. Dark Star
2. Lady Snowblood
3. Aguirre
4. A Clockwork Orange
5. Badlands

1977-1996:

1. Stroszek
2. Das Boot
3. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
4. Blue Velvet
5. Ran

1997-Present:

1. Margaret
2. Synecdoche, New York
3. Memories of Murder
4. The Man Without a Past
5. You Were Never Really Here

 

[CiG]

Dark Star

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