The Top 5 List Thread

[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

<3

 

[no country for old wainds]

3. The Terminator/T2 (depending on my mood)

this speaks to me

1. Hana-bi

this also

 

[no country for old wainds]

The Long Goodbye I already knew about

speaking of arnie films...

 

[zabu of nΩd]

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

1966 ... cultural revolution marks radical departure in acting and cinematography
1977 ... Star Wars revolutionizes special effects and action sequences
1997 ... CGI and Internet culture break new technical and conceptual ground

 

[CiG]

derp

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Just realized that out of the ~40 movies I saw for the first time this year, none of them made it into my above lists, which is kinda boring. Here are my "saw for the first time" top fives:

1997-Present:

1. Princess Mononoke
2. The Ninth Gate
3. The Devil's Advocate
4. The Blair Witch Project
5. Coherence

• HM: eXistenZ (grateful to @Oblivious Maximus for recommending this a few months back)

1900-1996 (no need to break down further as I've overwhelmingly been watching newer stuff):

1. Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
2. The Seventh Seal (1957)
3. Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
   
4. The Third Man (1949)
5. Institute Benjamenta (1995)

 

[challenge_everything]

It seems odd combining the silent era with 40s/50s "golden age" of Hollywood, with French nouvelle vague, Italian neo-realism etc.

People that think cinema drastically changed from about 1967 are right only insofar as we're talking about American cinema. They were playing catch up.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

It seems odd combining the silent era with 40s/50s "golden age" of Hollywood, with French nouvelle vague, Italian neo-realism etc.

People that think cinema drastically changed from about 1967 are right only insofar as we're talking about American cinema. They were playing catch up.

I didn't mean it as a definitive way of dividing movie eras, just a useful way based on my own tastes. If you were to combine any two of the adjacent periods I used, my top X list would be dominated by movies of the later period. It's a way of parsing out movies I admire from ones that give me more pleasure just because they're newer / more relateable.

In the case of 1900-1965, I just don't watch enough from that era to justify dividing it further for myself.

 

[The Ozzman]

Top 5 Obituary albums:

1) World Demise
2) Cause of Death
3) Obituary
4) Slowly We Rot
5) The End Complete