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Post by Xamnam on Feb 22, 2019 11:09:42 GMT -6
#8. You Were Never Really HereTotal points: 244 RT Rating: 89% Highest List Rating: rango420 - #1 McCleary said you were brutal. "Phoenix previously did his Quasimodo act, combining sleaze and bloodletting, in 8MM, but this time he’s swinging a ball-peen hammer. The point is to exploit current cruelty for the delectation of hipsters uninterested in Mizoguchi’s classical humanism or who would reject the cleansing social alarm of Eli Roth’s Death Wish." - Armond White, National Review
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2019 11:11:59 GMT -6
yesssssss, my greatest contribution to this list is ya'll having to see Infinity War in the final list. i...i dont think anyone here who saw it actively disliked it -- at least not enough to complain about it being on the list? I seem to recall quite a few people shitposting about it, but eh. |
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Post by Xamnam on Feb 22, 2019 11:14:56 GMT -6
#7. Paddington 2Total points: 277 RT Rating: 100%Highest List Rating: postfontain - #1 Exit bear, pursued by an actor-  "Between 2015 and 2017, 2016 happened. Okay, the political undertones of the character are more obvious and pointed in the original movie, and if it's less angry than just plain disappointed, the bear still has a few teeth left." - Brendan Kachel, Flayrah
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2019 11:18:49 GMT -6
i...i dont think anyone here who saw it actively disliked it -- at least not enough to complain about it being on the list? I seem to recall quite a few people shitposting about it, but eh. i think we all just had a pretty in depth analysis of what they're gonna do in Endgame and how Captain Marvel will tie into it (and how much all that will devalue the future franchise) but as a whole i think most of it at least enjoyed if not really liked IW on its own  |
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Post by Xamnam on Feb 22, 2019 11:19:22 GMT -6
#6. First ReformedTotal points: 310 RT Rating: 93% Highest List Rating: scoots - #1 Wisdom is holding two contradictory truths in our mind, simultaneously, Hope and despair. A life without despair is a life without hope. Holding these two ideas in our head is life itself. "Lacking Bresson’s sensuality, Godard’s existentialism, Spielberg’s former ecumenical vision, and Jared Hess’s beatific embrace of humanity in Nacho Libre and Don Verdean, Schrader’s dour films score points for the gatekeepers of today’s agnostic film culture. He takes Bresson’s search for God’s grace and turns it into the pitiless egotism of a perpetually spooked Toller (an ex-military skeptic)." - Armond White, National Review
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Post by sthubbins on Feb 22, 2019 11:20:54 GMT -6
Bresson, Godard, Spielberg and Jared Hess... cinema's "Big Four"
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Post by Xamnam on Feb 22, 2019 11:21:52 GMT -6
I audibly guffawed when I was reading it and saw Nacho Libre referenced.
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Post by rango420 on Feb 22, 2019 11:24:06 GMT -6
#8. You Were Never Really HereTotal points: 244 RT Rating: 89% Highest List Rating: irvred - #2 McCleary said you were brutal."Phoenix previously did his Quasimodo act, combining sleaze and bloodletting, in 8MM, but this time he’s swinging a ball-peen hammer. The point is to exploit current cruelty for the delectation of hipsters uninterested in Mizoguchi’s classical humanism or who would reject the cleansing social alarm of Eli Roth’s Death Wish." - Armond White, National Review It was #1 on my list #voterfraud |
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Post by Xamnam on Feb 22, 2019 11:25:24 GMT -6
#8. You Were Never Really HereTotal points: 244 RT Rating: 89% Highest List Rating: irvred - #2 McCleary said you were brutal."Phoenix previously did his Quasimodo act, combining sleaze and bloodletting, in 8MM, but this time he’s swinging a ball-peen hammer. The point is to exploit current cruelty for the delectation of hipsters uninterested in Mizoguchi’s classical humanism or who would reject the cleansing social alarm of Eli Roth’s Death Wish." - Armond White, National Review It was #1 on my list #voterfraud I mean, technically, you had You We're Never Really Here as #1. |
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Post by Xamnam on Feb 22, 2019 11:27:52 GMT -6
#5. HereditaryTotal points: 312 RT Rating: 89% Highest List Rating: sleeping / teekoh / Wretched - #2 It's heartening to see so many strange, new faces here today. I know my mom would be very touched, and probably a little suspicious.  "These days actors not only appear in bad movies, they are forced to produce their own flops themselves. Toni Collette and Gabriel Byrne co-executive produced Hereditary. They deserve what they get, in spades." - Rex Reed, Observer
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Post by concertgoer on Feb 22, 2019 11:29:48 GMT -6
I’m really not a horror movie guy, but Hereditary was great. It gave me nightmares on multiple nights.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2019 11:31:33 GMT -6
Only one good movie in the top 10 so far. for shame.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2019 11:32:04 GMT -6
im constantly having an internal debate about if Hereditary should've been my #1 over Annihilation. Hereditary is such a game-changing horror movie imo and left such a permanent scar on my psyche  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2019 11:32:40 GMT -6
Only one good movie in the top 10 so far. for shame. I think you may just have weird taste in movies. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2019 11:33:10 GMT -6
yeah I'm not big on pretentious films.
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Post by Xamnam on Feb 22, 2019 11:33:44 GMT -6
Not matter how hard we wish, not every movie can be Paddington 2.
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Post by Xamnam on Feb 22, 2019 11:34:02 GMT -6
#4. RomaTotal points: 342 RT Rating: 96% Highest List Rating: iasm / Neader - #1 We are alone. No matter what they tell you, we women are always alone.  "Museo > Roma: Alonso Ruizpalacios explores Mexican nationalism and finds its cultural heart, while Alfonso Cuaron petitions white liberal condescension, remaking The Help as a Latin American turdscape." - Armond White, National Review
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2019 11:34:22 GMT -6
yeah I'm not big on pretentious films. *checks your top 5* *audibly chuckles* |
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Post by neader on Feb 22, 2019 11:34:26 GMT -6
i watched annihilation for the first time tuesday or wednesday night, whatever night this was due to put it on my list since you all ranked it as like #1 and was not that big of a fan.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2019 11:35:20 GMT -6
really wish i could've seen Roma in a proper theater but probably won't happen unless it's screening somewhere nearby this weekend
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Post by sthubbins on Feb 22, 2019 11:35:57 GMT -6
still haven't seen Roma, just can't get myself in the mood to put it on
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Post by Xamnam on Feb 22, 2019 11:37:40 GMT -6
#3. Sorry to Bother YouTotal points: 407 RT Rating: 93% Highest List Rating: monasterymonochrome / teekoh - #1 Welcome, Cassius Green. I hope you have not masturbated today. We need you sharp and ready to go. "But there’s a messy, first-draft quality to how the film fits said ideas together, and a general sloppiness to the execution, with Riley botching the timing on too many jokes. Once Armie Hammer shows up as the company’s amoral CEO, tilting the plot into sci-fi dystopian lunacy, even Stanfield can’t keep Sorry To Bother You anchored to any emotional or political reality. Hit-or-miss zaniness swallows whole the project’s good intentions." - A.A. Dowd, AV Club
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Post by Xamnam on Feb 22, 2019 11:42:57 GMT -6
#2. AnnihilationTotal points: 414 RT Rating: 88% Highest List Rating: Timbo / Wretched / xamnam - #1 It's not destroying. It's making something new. "What precisely was Garland hoping we might take away from his film beyond a kind of moody befuddlement? To borrow a phrase: I don’t know. Worse, by the end of the movie, I didn’t care." - Christopher Orr, The Atlantic
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Post by munkivelli on Feb 22, 2019 11:43:41 GMT -6
Looks like we know what our favourite is:P
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Post by Xamnam on Feb 22, 2019 11:43:47 GMT -6
#1. The FavoriteTotal points: 459 RT Rating: 94% Highest List Rating: andrewvb / concertgoer / irvred / munkivelli / thebosma - #1 Some wounds do not close; I have many such. "His reputation (based on the unwatchable amoral tales Dogtooth, The Lobster, and The Killing of a Sacred Deer) is based on fake avant-garde narrative experimentation. But any smart-aleck high-school film nerd can tell you that Lanthimos is copying Kubrick, the fish-eye lenses maestro, who couldn’t resist preening technology to underscore his misanthropic tales. Lanthimos outlived Kubrick and so gives us the fish-eye cliché to reassure Millennial viewers that it’s okay to laugh at people who are targets of their envy and disdain." - Armond White, National Review
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2019 11:43:48 GMT -6
top 4 is ace. I'm happy.
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Post by wanny on Feb 22, 2019 11:44:09 GMT -6
#7 for the best movie ever. Yikes
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Post by sthubbins on Feb 22, 2019 11:44:15 GMT -6
I like Sorry to Bother You but I'm pretty surprised it ranked so high
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Post by wanny on Feb 22, 2019 11:44:26 GMT -6
Thank you for doing this xam!
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Post by sthubbins on Feb 22, 2019 11:45:26 GMT -6
nice work xam
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