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Post by goodson on Jul 23, 2019 14:23:38 GMT -6
well get ready for 6 pages on resident evil retribution then
best top i have ever had i think
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2019 14:30:51 GMT -6
am i gonna have to be the one to stan the resident evil films or who knew films from the 2010's was the one topic goodson and i bonded over |
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Post by sick2b on Jul 23, 2019 15:21:45 GMT -6
Can't agree more. Would have def made my draft list were we allowed to include docs What? You are allowed to include docs on the board list Oh.. sorry for the confusion and great then.. have added that one to my tentative list +a few other movies, and might add a handful more docs Incendies Leviathan The Fall of the American Empire Snowpiercer The Skin I Live in Aurora Borealis Biutiful Tangerines The Florida Project Ex Machina In Between The Hunt Moonlight Bullhead Act of Killing A Man called Ove Monsieur Lazhar The Square A Prophet Foxtrot Mustang Roma Her My life as a Courgette The Rabbi's Cat Of Gods and Men |
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Post by sick2b on Jul 23, 2019 15:27:01 GMT -6
Mind you my list will ultimately be pretty useless for this board compilation considering that about 90% of the movies that I'll end up listing aren't American, and moreover that a bunch of them weren't widely seen to start with..
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Post by goodson on Jul 23, 2019 15:27:44 GMT -6
longest eyeroll in human history begins now
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Post by sick2b on Jul 23, 2019 15:33:28 GMT -6
longest eyeroll in human history begins now Hey, keep trying to push it farther.. perhaps that long eyeroll will ultimately lead you to the foreign movie corner of whatever streaming torrent you are using.. don't give up |
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Post by goodson on Jul 23, 2019 15:35:24 GMT -6
what's a foreign movie?  |
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Post by thebosma on Jul 23, 2019 15:35:37 GMT -6
Mind you my list will ultimately be pretty useless for this board compilation considering that about 90% of the movies that I'll end up listing aren't American, and moreover that a bunch of them weren't widely seen to start with.. It seems like a lot of people are into the same stuff (foreign, not as widely seen, etc), and part of the purpose of opening the thread up so early is so we can watch each other’s suggestions! I think it’ll be great! |
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Post by goodson on Jul 23, 2019 15:39:10 GMT -6
bosma i'm pretty sure this thread is only for discussion of the fast and the furious series can you talk about all your lame nerd movies somewhere else!?
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Post by sick2b on Jul 23, 2019 15:39:59 GMT -6
Mind you my list will ultimately be pretty useless for this board compilation considering that about 90% of the movies that I'll end up listing aren't American, and moreover that a bunch of them weren't widely seen to start with.. It seems like a lot of people are into the same stuff (foreign, not as widely seen, etc), and part of the purpose of opening the thread up so early is so we can watch each other’s suggestions! I think it’ll be great! Yet, most folks who love Villeneuve's blockbusters have yet to see Incendies or Maelstrom.. but Here is hoping.. I have myself watched some grrat movies after seeing them referenced here (special thanks to Andrew and you of late.. though honestly from what I recall from my early days on the board (when Pulp Symb and a few other boarders whose name I can't recall), there were more foreign or indie movies referenced/discussed regularly overall.. but I guess it is all ebbs and flows |
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Post by goodson on Jul 23, 2019 15:42:34 GMT -6
my favorite movie of the 2010's is "sad black-and-white movie about death" directed by French Man
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Post by sick2b on Jul 23, 2019 15:46:48 GMT -6
Great for you  .. what I am trying to say is that year after year, in the Board's MOTY table, I don't think I can recall a single instance of say three foreign language movies cracking the top 10. Maybe they are also less easily available in the US that they are in Canada (beside the ones crowned by Cannes or the Academy at least)? |
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Post by thebosma on Jul 23, 2019 15:49:56 GMT -6
I get what you’re saying, but I also think that a big problem is US distribution of foreign language films. If you don’t live in a major city it is incredibly difficult to get a hold of foreign language films on their first run. Even if you do have an art theater nearby, if you can’t make it one or two nights you’ll miss it entirely. Usually we’re a handful of months behind on foreign films as a result, and I think if you tabulated the results a year later they’d probably be a little bit different.
All that to say, I think this project is going to be fun and I look forward to everyone’s input, regardless of obscurity
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Post by sick2b on Jul 23, 2019 15:54:19 GMT -6
I get what you’re saying, but I also think that a big problem is US distribution of foreign language films. If you don’t live in a major city it is incredibly difficult to get a hold of foreign language films on their first run. Even if you do have an art theater nearby, if you can’t make it one or two nights you’ll miss it entirely. Usually we’re a handful of months behind on foreign films as a result, and I think if you tabulated the results a year later they’d probably be a little bit different. All that to say, I think this project is going to be fun and I look forward to everyone’s input, regardless of obscurity Thanks.. and yes I am sure you are right.. we are spoiled where I live with two indie movie theaters.. also my boyfriend is pretty good at finding online some other ones though sometimes without the subtitles (hence why Im still buying DVDs some times on Ebay..say if I see a movie at a film festival and want friends ro see it too, e.g. the Hungarian movie Aurora Borealis or Arab-Israeli one In between!)  |
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Post by llamaoftime on Jul 23, 2019 16:05:50 GMT -6
I get what you’re saying, but I also think that a big problem is US distribution of foreign language films. If you don’t live in a major city it is incredibly difficult to get a hold of foreign language films on their first run. Even if you do have an art theater nearby, if you can’t make it one or two nights you’ll miss it entirely. Usually we’re a handful of months behind on foreign films as a result, and I think if you tabulated the results a year later they’d probably be a little bit different. All that to say, I think this project is going to be fun and I look forward to everyone’s input, regardless of obscurity Yeah this leads to a gray area sometimes. Like I didn't know whether to count Dogtooth as a 2010's movie, because it was released in 2010 here and I've seen it on some 2010's lists, but it came out in 2009 in Greece. And in general it makes end of year lists harder for figuring out where to count those movies. I'll admit though I do not get around to many foreign language films. I want to fix that, I know there's lots of good stuff out there, but I always have a backlog of the big films here and sometimes I prioritize those just because they are popular and part of pop culture right now and I wanna be able to join in on the conversation. And there's so much media nowadays of various types I enjoy that I just don't have time for everything. On top of that, I don't know a lot of good resources for good foreign films besides when I hear about something winning/being nominated for awards or topping the year end lists I read |
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Post by andrewvb on Jul 23, 2019 16:26:15 GMT -6
dogtooth came out in the US in theaters in 2010 and was nominated for the 2010 oscars, so i think it should count as 2010 even though it was at film festivals in 2009. it seems like we normally count films in the year they came to theaters when we are doing our year end lists and stuff.
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Post by andrewvb on Jul 23, 2019 16:30:01 GMT -6
speaking of, i would have voted for dogtooth in the 2010 best foreign language film voting. how about y'all? i havent seen outside the law (or even heard of it). i think we know which sick2b would have voted for.... In a Better World (Denmark) in Danish – Susanne Bierdouble-dagger Biutiful (Mexico) in Spanish – Alejandro González Iñárritu Dogtooth (Greece) in Greek – Yorgos Lanthimos Incendies (Canada) in French – Denis Villeneuve Outside the Law (Algeria) in Arabic – Rachid Bouchareb |
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Post by goodson on Jul 23, 2019 16:35:20 GMT -6
dogtooth is the only good movie on this list
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Post by goodson on Jul 23, 2019 16:35:44 GMT -6
can i submit inarritu as the most overrated director of the decade
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Post by andrewvb on Jul 23, 2019 16:50:20 GMT -6
can i submit inarritu as the most overrated director of the decade im more interested in making an overrated directors list than a best films list tbh |
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Post by thebosma on Jul 23, 2019 17:12:16 GMT -6
My new hot take is that movies are shit
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Post by krentist on Jul 23, 2019 17:16:00 GMT -6
can i submit inarritu as the most overrated director of the decade Do people actually like him? I remember everyone was pretty baffled by his Oscars as they were happening and they certainly haven't looked any better in hindsight |
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Post by neader on Jul 23, 2019 17:18:47 GMT -6
Is the big short a good movie or do I have bad taste?
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Post by thebosma on Jul 23, 2019 17:20:11 GMT -6
I remember really loving Amores Perros but that’s pretty much all I remember about it, and I watched Birdman a few months back and thought it held up. I so rarely think about the Revenant despite the fact that it’s on my shelf.
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Post by krentist on Jul 23, 2019 17:21:59 GMT -6
There was probably a good action movie buried in the Revenant. However, our mans couldn't stop sniffing his own ass
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Post by thebosma on Jul 23, 2019 17:22:18 GMT -6
Is the big short a good movie or do I have bad taste? If I hadn’t ended up watching it like a trillion times while getting an economics degree I would probably enjoy it a lot more. At a bare minimum the performances are good and it does a great job at contextualizing who the actual bad guys in the financial crisis were, so it gets points for that. |
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Post by krentist on Jul 23, 2019 17:22:57 GMT -6
Also, please listen to the Dollop on Hugh Glass and tell me Inarritu didn't actually make the story more boring
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Post by neader on Jul 23, 2019 17:29:50 GMT -6
Is the big short a good movie or do I have bad taste? If I hadn’t ended up watching it like a trillion times while getting an economics degree I would probably enjoy it a lot more. At a bare minimum the performances are good and it does a great job at contextualizing who the actual bad guys in the financial crisis were, so it gets points for that. So I have bad taste. Got it. |
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Post by thebosma on Jul 23, 2019 17:30:46 GMT -6
If I hadn’t ended up watching it like a trillion times while getting an economics degree I would probably enjoy it a lot more. At a bare minimum the performances are good and it does a great job at contextualizing who the actual bad guys in the financial crisis were, so it gets points for that. So I have bad taste. Got it. No  |
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Post by teekoh on Jul 23, 2019 17:33:40 GMT -6
I still dig Birdman. Might be the only one of his I’ve seen, though.
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.. what I am trying to say is that year after year, in the Board's MOTY table, I don't think I can recall a single instance of say three foreign language movies cracking the top 10. 
