Recommend (or don't) a movie thread v2

[djsFlames]

Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden

I'll be brave enough to rank em, but full disclosure I don't watch a ton of movies so lots will be left off the list, and there is also a healthy amount of recency bias. Outside of entertainment, I tried to choose movies that I thought made very good arguments about humanity.


10)The Raid: Redemption
9)Blade Runner 2049
8)Into the Spider-Verse
7)Hell or High Water
6)Free Solo
5)The Grand Budapest Hotel
4)Wolf of Wall Street
3)What We Do in the Shadows
2)Mad Max: Fury Road
1)Ex Machina

You're just going to overlook all the great chick flicks of the last decade?

And no, ex machina doesn't count

[TheIronMaiden]

Originally Posted by djsFlames

You're just going to overlook all the great chick flicks of the last decade?

And no, ex machina doesn't count

How could I leave out any of these cultural milestones

Spoiler!

[CofR]

Originally Posted by Wormius

I would probably remove Killing of A Sacred Deer. I don't think the movie says anything that hasn't been said before. It offers a rare role reversal of Danny McBride playing the subordinate to the Josh Brolin alpha male ego. But otherwise its really just the ####olded divorced dad who tries too hard to get his disinterested son to love him.

I think you’re thinking of The Legacy Of A Whitetail Deer Hunter. The Killing Of A Sacred Deer is a Yorgos Lanthimos film from 2017 starting Colin Farrel and Nicole Kidman.

[icecube]

10) OJ: Made in America
9) Gone Girl
8) Drive
7)Hot Tub Time Machine
6) Green Room
5) Blade Runner 2049
4) Mad Max Fury Road
3) It Follows
2) The Wolf of Wall Street
1) The Social Network

Honorable mentions: Scott Pilgrim vs the world, Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Fincher), Nightcrawler, Hereditary, Grand Budapest Hotel, Interstellar, Mandy, Straight Outta Compton, It 1 and 2, Avengers Infinity War and Endgame, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, The Irishman

Hopefully a few I haven't seen could crack either list.

[Johnny Makarov]

hmm with all the great TV out there now, I just realized I barely watched any movies the past 10 years. I haven't watched like 70% of the movies you guys listed.
Parasite is prob my favourite movie in the past 20 years. and who can't love a movie where Tom Cruise dies like 1000 times.

1. Parasite
2. Edge of Tomorrow
3. Inception
4. Joker
5. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
6. Looper
7. Gone Girl
8. Get Out
9. Grand Budapest Hotel
10. The Revenant

Downloaded and need to watch: Wolf of Wall Street, Big Short, Social Network, Mad Max, The Irishmen, Lala Land, Free Solo, Ex Machina, Sicario, John Wick 1,2,3, Interstellar, Birdman, Shape of Water, Blade Runner 2049, Toy Story 3,4, Dredd, Skyfall, Nightcrawler, Zero Dark Thirty, Arrival, Aquaman, Brightburn and Bohemian Rhapsody.

[CofR]

Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

Several of these I haven't seen, but I feel like at least one of them needs to be removed in favour of Arrival so you can have the full Villeneuve trifecta.

I love Arrival, but I think if I were to add another Villeneuve film to the list it would be Prisoners

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by CofR

I think you’re thinking of The Legacy Of A Whitetail Deer Hunter. The Killing Of A Sacred Deer is a Yorgos Lanthimos film from 2017 starting Colin Farrel and Nicole Kidman.

Ugh.

[Fuzz]

I finally got around to watching Dunkirk, and man, I don't get the hype. Sure, the Spitfire scenes were great. But the story was a bit of a mess, and the editing. Oh, the editing. The non-linear nature of it was a disaster, and only served to derail the suspense. How did that make it out of the editing room like that? Jumping from the beach, to the boats, to the planes, all at different times out of order was just garbage.

Just to cap it all off at the very end there was a really awkward cut back to a spitfire, and away again with a really weird pace, just to remind you that ya, the editing was that bad.

I won't embed it if anyone else still wants to avoid spoilers, but ya... from 2:55 to the end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXSJHyUbsbM

[Magnum PEI]

Haha it won the oscar for best editing!
The thing I didn't like about it was Kenneth Brannagh's character, all his dialogue was needless exposition, and mostly cliches.

[Fuzz]

How TF did it win an Oscar??? The editing was the worst part of the movie! That's it, Academy. You just made the list.

[Cecil Terwilliger]

I really liked Dunkirk but the editing award is a joke. They gave it to Bohemian Rhapsody which had some of the worst editing ever in a Hollywood film.

[Cali Panthers Fan]

Okay, this took some time, but I think I have my top 10 of the decade. This was harder than I originally thought it would be, so I made a top 20 instead.

20. Bridesmaids
19. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (disclaimer: huge fan of the comic series)
18. Manchester By The Sea
17. Whiplash
16. What We Do In The Shadows
15. Logan
14. Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse
13. La La Land
12. Birdman
11. The Big Short

10. 12 Years A Slave
9. Her
8. The Handmaiden
7. The Grand Budapest Hotel
6. Black Swan
5. Drive
4. The Favourite
3. Blade Runner 2049
2. Get Out
1. The Social Network

[Johnny Makarov]

Dunkirk was the most disappointing movie in the past 20 years considering who directed it. what a complete waste of time.

[Weitz]

Originally Posted by icecube

10) OJ: Made in America
9) Gone Girl
8) Drive
7)Hot Tub Time Machine
6) Green Room
5) Blade Runner 2049
4) Mad Max Fury Road
3) It Follows
2) The Wolf of Wall Street
1) The Social Network

Honorable mentions: Scott Pilgrim vs the world, Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Fincher), Nightcrawler, Hereditary, Grand Budapest Hotel, Interstellar, Mandy, Straight Outta Compton, It 1 and 2, Avengers Infinity War and Endgame, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, The Irishman

Hopefully a few I haven't seen could crack either list.

Gone Girl is under rated for sure. My only issue is it's not quite as enjoyable the next couple times through but I think you ranked it well.

[TheIronMaiden]

I haven't watched the social network in a looong time. Maybe I missed something because people seems to really like it on here.

[Cali Panthers Fan]

Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden

I haven't watched the social network in a looong time. Maybe I missed something because people seems to really like it on here.

I think the screenplay is incredible, one of the better ones I've ever seen. The direction is fantastic because you find a way to effortlessly immerse yourself in this world where you may not be familiar, and you all of a sudden find the world of computer programming very compelling; no easy feat (although I am a huge Fincher fan in general). I think all the details of the production design, editing, sound, and music (especially this last one with Trent Reznor's work) were near flawless. The performances are quite strong, but it isn't even the best part of the movie.

All in all, I'm hard pressed to think of a more complete film in the last decade.

[Strange Brew]

How do you come up with a top 10 list. Do you start with making a list of all the movies you saw? That would be impossible unless you kept a log?

So what’s your starting point? Other top lists and then you edit as you see fit?

[Cecil Terwilliger]

I actually use a movie tracking app. That made it quite easy. I assume most people go from memory or browse other lists.

[TheIronMaiden]

Originally Posted by Strange Brew

How do you come up with a top 10 list. Do you start with making a list of all the movies you saw? That would be impossible unless you kept a log?

So what’s your starting point? Other top lists and then you edit as you see fit?

I read a top 100 movies of the decade list and chose my favourite ten.

[CofR]

Originally Posted by Strange Brew

How do you come up with a top 10 list. Do you start with making a list of all the movies you saw? That would be impossible unless you kept a log?

So what’s your starting point? Other top lists and then you edit as you see fit?

Letterboxd truly changed my life in the way I track the movies I watch. I highly recommend it for everyone who watches lots of movies