Top 10 all-time favourite movies

[PrincessHades]

In no order:

Psycho
Until the Light Takes Us
Hated
The Simpsons Movie
Star Trek Beyond
Star Trek Voyager: Dark Frontier
(I'm calling it a movie even though it's a two part episode due to the weight of its plot and its length)

That's about it as far as all of the good movies I've seen...

 

[no country for old wainds]

In no order:

Psycho
Until the Light Takes Us
Hated
The Simpsons Movie
Star Trek Beyond
Star Trek Voyager: Dark Frontier
(I'm calling it a movie even though it's a two part episode due to the weight of its plot and its length)

That's about it as far as all of the good movies I've seen...

introduce yourself to arthouse cinema by watching THE SEVENTH SEAL and AGUIRRE: THE WRATH OF GOD and RAN. perfect for varg-loving BM teens like yourself, speaking from experience.

 

[PrincessHades]

introduce yourself to arthouse cinema by watching THE SEVENTH SEAL and AGUIRRE: THE WRATH OF GOD and RAN. perfect for varg-loving BM teens like yourself, speaking from experience.

I'm hardly a Varg lover. He is a great musician and very persuasive, but only about half of his views are agreeable. I used to almost venerate him.

Thanks for the recommendation though.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i was kinda fucking with you with that comment, but in all seriousness those are all great movies for BM types i think. they were my gateway into more 'serious' cinema at a time when i was pretty exclusively a BM nut, and there's plenty of overlap thematically.

 

[CiG]

Until the Light Takes Us

Gay.

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

Marketa Lazarová (1967) is a very black metal movie.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i've had that wishlisted for a long ass time.

 

[PrincessHades]

Gay.

It's a well done documentary...some of it was a bit tryhard, notably the part involving Frost from Satyricon breathing fire, stabbing the shit out of a couch, and subsequently cutting his arm and neck.

It's very based in aesthetic and mystique, but I think that's it's primary source for appeal.

 

[CiG]

Did we watch the same documentary? Hahaha. Aesthetic and mystique? The best part about that whole shit was the special features on the DVD with all the interviews.

 

[PrincessHades]

Did we watch the same documentary? Hahaha. Aesthetic and mystique? The best part about that whole shit was the special features on the DVD with all the interviews.

It seemed more nostalgic and 'atmospheric' than it did documentative. More based in superfluous aesthetics like Frost's 'art piece'. I'm fine with stuff like using music to make a short tour of Helvete dramatically charged, but we didn't really need to see a video of questionable legitimacy involving Frost being self destructive. It really helped acquaint me with black metal which is why I appreciate the documentary.

I learned a cool trick from Varg on an outtake from the film, the one where he does the "pick a tool and a color". I had fun trying that, but the people I surround myself with are intelligent enough to pick a color other than "blue". I got hammer right mostly, though.

 

[no country for old wainds]

Given that, I'm really glad I quite literally just went and purchased this for $13.

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have you watched exiled yet?

 

[CiG]

have you watched exiled yet?

Yeah for sure, I watched that whole trilogy almost immediately back then.

 

[no country for old wainds]

nice. i saw it recently and thought you'd like it, it gave me some kitano vibes at times as well as some spaghetti western vibes. i saw you voted for election in your 2000s list, have you seen the sequel?

 

[CiG]

nice. i saw it recently and thought you'd like it, it gave me some kitano vibes at times as well as some spaghetti western vibes. i saw you voted for election in your 2000s list, have you seen the sequel?

Yeah I liked Exiled a lot, it was easily the best of the trio.

I've seen Election 2 yeah, awesome movie but for me the first is still the best. That top 50 list was fucking brutal.

 

[Bloopy]

Over 6 years later my top 10 is still 100% the same apart from one slight order adjustment. Sometime I'll rewatch my top 30 or so and refine that tosh.

 

[Bloopy]

1. The Birds
2. Mulholland Dr.
3. Pulp Fiction
4. Milk & Money (1996 featuring Calista Flockhart milking cows, absurdly hilarious)
5. Bad Taste
6. Kill Bill (either Vol. 1 or both together)
7. Frenzy
8. Sin City
9. Fight Club
10. Hannibal

Update after rewatching. But why stop at 10? All somewhat whimsical or absurd stuff, peak Bloopy entertainment:

1. The Birds (1963)
2. Mulholland Dr. (2001)
3. Pulp Fiction (1994)
4. Milk & Money (1996)
5. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
6. Bad Taste (1987)
7. Frenzy (1972)
8. Sin City (2005)
9. Hannibal (2001)
10. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

11. Fargo (1996)
12. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990)
13. The Exorcist (1973)
14. Sound of Noise (2010)
15. The Pink Panther (1963)
16. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
17. Jamaica Inn (1939)
18. Fight Club (1999)
19. Rich and Strange (1931)
20. Miś (1981)

21. The Spanish Prisoner (1997)
22. Rebecca (1940)
23. Notorious (1946)
24. eXistenZ (1999)
25. Exam (2009)
26. Happy End (1967)
27. Planet of the Apes (1968)
28. White of the Eye (1987)
29. God's Puzzle (2008)
30. Slacker (1990)
31. Relatos salvajes (2014)
32. Happiness (1998)

I like how my top 10s never change much across decades. Only Fight Club got demoted from the 10. I cooled off on it a little, but not as much as my appreciation of all the other faves grew.

At first it seemed silly even considering God's Puzzle as the Takashi Miike film that could make the list. But it's funny, and when it's not funny it's insightful, and when it's not insightful it's turning into a dramatic Hollywood-ish hacker/disaster movie, but still with weird Japanese elements. The particle accelerator is such an absurd construction.

edit: added Happiness