Scott Pilgrim is solid, but hasn't aged too well imo in the short time since it came out
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 5 February 2015 14:08 (nine years ago) link
Voted for Certified Copy over The Turin Horse but, yeah, it's not a useless list.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 5 February 2015 14:33 (nine years ago) link
any chart with Scott Pilgrim and Frances Ha above something like Amour is just.....
― jamiesummerz, Thursday, 5 February 2015 14:36 (nine years ago) link
What I've seen, ranked:
MargaretHerBefore MidnightBoyhoodDogtoothToy Story 3Only Lovers Left AliveThe MasterTake ShelterStories We TellGravityThe Social NetworkInside Llewyn DavisThe Tree of LifeUnder the SkinFrances HaMelancholiaMartha Marcy May MarleneThe Wolf of Wall StreetCertified CopyWinter's BoneScott Pilgrim vs the World
I'd say about half of this list qualifies as Very Good/Rewatchable, to me, but really, the top two or three are the only ones I'd save in a fire. I have problems with quite a few of the films on the latter half of the list, but the bottom two are the only ones that I'd say flat-out suck. Scott Pilgrim, in particular, is one film that has the effect on me of a severe allergy.
― That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Thursday, 5 February 2015 14:48 (nine years ago) link
manages to include quite a few very good films while also being a hideous, hideous list - accurate.
Margaret
xp!
― Simon H., Thursday, 5 February 2015 14:49 (nine years ago) link
Margaret almost certainly my favourite film here yeah, tho ranking Certified Copy beneath most of those is mind-boggling to me :O
absolute fuck is Zero Dark Thirty doing here
― pro war Toby Keith songs would rub you the wrong way (imago), Thursday, 5 February 2015 14:51 (nine years ago) link
the ones I'd save:
Inherent ViceMelancholiaThe Turin HorseLove is StrangeLeviathanBlue is the Warmest ColourUncle BoonmeeAmourForce MajeureStories We TellTake ShelterThe Tree of LifeThe Master12 Years A SlaveFrances HaThe Grand Budapest HotelCertified CopyHer
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 5 February 2015 14:53 (nine years ago) link
What do we talk about when we talk about late Godard?
Ban this phrase.
― jmm, Thursday, 5 February 2015 14:59 (nine years ago) link
Movies I loved that I thought would have a good shot at making the list: Drive, True Grit, Stranger by the Lake.
― That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Thursday, 5 February 2015 15:00 (nine years ago) link
Wreck-It RalphEverything else.
― Jeff, Thursday, 5 February 2015 15:00 (nine years ago) link
i watched 'her' for the 1st time yesterday and i don't think its the crime against humanity that some do but slotting it as the 2nd best film of the last 5 yrs is ludicrous
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 5 February 2015 15:18 (nine years ago) link
Including Scott Pilgrim in the top 30 tells you pretty much everything you need to know.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 5 February 2015 15:21 (nine years ago) link
white guys in bathrobes?
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 5 February 2015 15:22 (nine years ago) link
Great year for films. Went with Gravity, with Whiplash a close second.
― rem remrum (dog latin), Thursday, 5 February 2015 15:23 (nine years ago) link
oh wait, this is 2010-2014. i thought some of these looked old.
― rem remrum (dog latin), Thursday, 5 February 2015 15:24 (nine years ago) link
dogtooth was very good, i thought.
― rem remrum (dog latin), Thursday, 5 February 2015 15:36 (nine years ago) link
ha I've only seen 6 of these; apparently I've completely lost interest in movies
50 Gravity49 Wreck-It Ralph45 Guardians of the Galaxy39 Bridesmaids30 Scott Pilgrim vs the World8 The Grand Budapest Hotel
― "Go pet your dog" is the name of my dog (DJP), Thursday, 5 February 2015 15:41 (nine years ago) link
This list is dogshit
― it's always bunby in trilladelphia (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 5 February 2015 15:56 (nine years ago) link
It's bottom to top!
I've actually seen 10 of them, though 2 were in the last few weeks and I've plans to see 5 more - I've seen a Leviathan, but they probably mean the Russian rather than the fish.
Always here to drink in the tears of Scott Pilgrim Haters, always delicious.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 5 February 2015 15:57 (nine years ago) link
Also The Dissolve = the old AV Club kids.
Can't even name 50 movies without including a talking CGI raccoon
― it's always bunby in trilladelphia (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 5 February 2015 15:58 (nine years ago) link
It's true, they really only review 10 a year, this is it.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 5 February 2015 16:00 (nine years ago) link
Looks heavily weighted towards Amurrican movies
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 5 February 2015 16:00 (nine years ago) link
Guardians of the Galaxy seems like the title most likely to drop off these lists by the decade's end.
― That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Thursday, 5 February 2015 16:00 (nine years ago) link
I'm not really a Scott Pilgrim hater but its presence is a handy barometer of whimsical indie bullshit, and the top 10 makes sense in that regard.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 5 February 2015 16:01 (nine years ago) link
sex bob-omb hahaha it's like the flipper song and the mario enemy did we successfully pander to our audience yet, love michael cera
― it's always bunby in trilladelphia (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 5 February 2015 16:03 (nine years ago) link
at this point I'm assuming Whiney has everyone else killfilled and every submitted post is sending a quick shock to the electrodes on his nuts
― "Go pet your dog" is the name of my dog (DJP), Thursday, 5 February 2015 16:04 (nine years ago) link
Margaret just ahead of The Turin Horse and Certified Copy.
― ʎɐpunsunɾɐɔ (cajunsunday), Thursday, 5 February 2015 16:04 (nine years ago) link
Only 8&9 really fit that description though? xp
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 5 February 2015 16:06 (nine years ago) link
In fairness Whiney has no way to know that indie bands often name themselves after stupid jokes.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 5 February 2015 16:07 (nine years ago) link
Her
fucking worst goddam fucking worst movie. destroy this list now.
― A Severus of Snapes (contenderizer), Thursday, 5 February 2015 16:17 (nine years ago) link
liked these a lot, so i guess it works out:
Wreck-It RalphUpstream ColorAmourScott Pilgrim vs the WorldDogtoothExit Through the Gift ShopWinter's BoneMoonrise KingdomThe Tree of LifeHoly MotorsUnder the Skin
favorites would be Holy Motors, Amour and Exit Through the Gift Shop, in that order. still dragging my heels on Turin Horse and Certified Copy, no idea why :(
― A Severus of Snapes (contenderizer), Thursday, 5 February 2015 16:24 (nine years ago) link
Coherence is a low budget time travel anomaly movie in the vein of Primer or Timecrimes. I didn't realise it was a listicle type movie, it was pretty damn good but seems a bit incongruous on this type of list.
― xelab, Thursday, 5 February 2015 16:27 (nine years ago) link
I honestly do not know but this list is really p bad
Really? I liked every film on this list.
― Allen (etaeoe), Thursday, 5 February 2015 16:32 (nine years ago) link
Re-watched this last week and enjoyed it! But I can't imagine anybody uncovering it in 10+ years and enjoying it.
― Allen (etaeoe), Thursday, 5 February 2015 16:33 (nine years ago) link
otm
Turin HorseCertified CopyA SeperationUncle BoonmeeAmour
Tough to choose between Scott Pilgrim and Her as the worst
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 5 February 2015 16:34 (nine years ago) link
Winter's Bone, Dogtooth, The Social Network are all good.
I hated both Wolf of Wall Street and Margaret (should have known I'd hate this after LJ waxed lyrical about it on it's ilx thread).
The other 20 or so I've seen are okay.
― pandemic, Thursday, 5 February 2015 16:38 (nine years ago) link
what did you hate about it
― pro war Toby Keith songs would rub you the wrong way (imago), Thursday, 5 February 2015 16:46 (nine years ago) link
lol pands
― anima corrective (nakhchivan), Thursday, 5 February 2015 16:50 (nine years ago) link
I wouldn't say it's badly made I just didn't care about anybody in the film or believe anyone in it. Actually that's not true I found Ruffalo's character believable enough.
― pandemic, Thursday, 5 February 2015 16:51 (nine years ago) link
Always here to drink in the tears of Scott Pilgrim Her Haters, always delicious.
― Eric H., Thursday, 5 February 2015 16:54 (nine years ago) link
voted for Exit Through the Gift Shop
― Mordy, Thursday, 5 February 2015 17:01 (nine years ago) link
I scanned this list of titles on a message board
There are quite a few really excellent films here
Some I did not care for
Some are ok
The people responsible should be murdered in their sleep
― socki fan taytay (wins), Thursday, 5 February 2015 17:03 (nine years ago) link
lol xp
― socki fan taytay (wins), Thursday, 5 February 2015 17:04 (nine years ago) link
Which leviathan is this? I really liked both.
― socki fan taytay (wins), Thursday, 5 February 2015 17:07 (nine years ago) link
the one with the fish heads
― Eric H., Thursday, 5 February 2015 17:12 (nine years ago) link
choosing one out of any list of 50 is almost always absurd, even if ten of these wouldn't get near my top 300 of the half-decade.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 February 2015 17:13 (nine years ago) link
Two of these are in my top 100 OAT, so one of those two.
― Eric H., Thursday, 5 February 2015 17:15 (nine years ago) link
what are your top 300 films of the half-decade so far, Dr Morbius?
― socki fan taytay (wins), Thursday, 5 February 2015 17:15 (nine years ago) link
Of the 27 I've seen I'd only cut Scott Pilgrim, Zero Dark Thirty and Holy Motors (which probably deserves to be in there but man I hated it) and push Her way down the list.
― Minaj moron (Re-Make/Re-Model), Friday, 6 February 2015 11:55 (nine years ago) link
Tree of Life. I've enjoyed the ones I've seen but they most of the ones I've seen don't belong on this list.
― Brodozer Coke Buffet (Old Lunch), Friday, 6 February 2015 12:28 (nine years ago) link
Christ, the Wes Anderson hate is becoming such a cliche
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 February 2015 12:41 (nine years ago) link
well, he's shite in'he?
― rem remrum (dog latin), Friday, 6 February 2015 12:46 (nine years ago) link
feel kinda dumbstruck at having choose one of these, so i just chose the one i'd be happiest to watch again right now: Inside Llewyn Davis.
― ryan, Friday, 6 February 2015 12:51 (nine years ago) link
http://thedissolve.com/news/4683-our-best-films-of-the-half-decade-orphans/
(only one of these I've seen is Best Worst Movie)
― That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Friday, 6 February 2015 15:03 (nine years ago) link
I've seen The Kid With a Bike. Its good! Its about this kid who has a bike.
― ʎɐpunsunɾɐɔ (cajunsunday), Friday, 6 February 2015 16:10 (nine years ago) link
and a knife
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 February 2015 16:17 (nine years ago) link
Spoiler alert.
― Eric H., Friday, 6 February 2015 16:18 (nine years ago) link
I'm surprised I've managed to see 14 of these, considering that since I have young kids, I basically only watch about one non-kids movie a month. (I have seen Wreck-it Ralph and Toy Story 3 multiple times. Both are better than average kids movies, I guess.)
50 Gravity49 Wreck-It Ralph43 Upstream Color34 Blue is the Warmest Colour24 Exit Through the Gift Shop17 Moonrise Kingdom14 The Tree of Life13 The Master12 12 Years A Slave11 Toy Story 310 Holy Motors8 The Grand Budapest Hotel6 Inside Llewyn Davis5 A Seperation
Didn't really dislike any of these. Tempted to vote for Upstream Color for some reason.
― silverfish, Friday, 6 February 2015 16:57 (nine years ago) link
Thought I'd have to wait a decade from release to see Scott Pilgrim attract hate flack for being overrated!! Too soon for the backlash, but it's going to survive. Holds up nicely as a kid-touchstone movie, as its many repeats in my kid-filled living room attest (I have ended up seeing most of this a lot....anyway it gives me pleasure to tell all the mostly-younger-than-me people posting here that YOU ARE TOO OLD FOR THIS MOVIE. ha ha ha). Anyway, haven't seen most of these so won't vote, but for me
1 - would pick "Dish and the Spoon" not "Frances Ha" (Greta Gerwig substitution)2 - would pick "Resurrect Dead - The Toynbee Tiles" not "Exit Through The Gift Shop" (concept/unreliable narrator art documentary substitution)
Finally two notes1 - "Gravity" will obviously last because it's a formal triumph and that never dies.2 - "Toy Story 3" is ghastly, how in the world...?
― Vic Perry, Friday, 6 February 2015 20:45 (nine years ago) link
Oh, understandably not here: "How I Live Now" (2013) was so scarily on that it got plenty of negative reviews for a range of babyish critical excuses. Most frightening movie I've seen in years.
― Vic Perry, Friday, 6 February 2015 21:10 (nine years ago) link
You will no doubt also love some of these other recent "frightening" young adult dystopias like The Maze Runner & The Giver yeah?
― xelab, Friday, 6 February 2015 23:56 (nine years ago) link
I have only just noticed it is Winter's Bone not Ceylan's Winter Sleep on this poll, imago's post confused me.
― xelab, Friday, 6 February 2015 23:58 (nine years ago) link
voted upstream color out of annoyance with We Are The Best being missing, no idea why GotG and not, I dunno, Iron Man 3 or Cap 2.
― The Understated Twee Hotel On A Mountain (silby), Saturday, 7 February 2015 00:07 (nine years ago) link
We Are the Best!
^ true
― contenderizer, Saturday, 7 February 2015 01:47 (nine years ago) link
xelab, the movie I referred to is not a "young adult dystopia" or indeed any kind of dystopia. You are free not to like it but I suspect you actually have no idea what you are talking about.
― Vic Perry, Saturday, 7 February 2015 05:02 (nine years ago) link
"Wrong Cops" got robbed.
― billstevejim, Saturday, 7 February 2015 05:11 (nine years ago) link
Meg Rosoff (born 16 Oct 1956) is an American writer based in London, ... Her young-adult novel How I Live Now was published in 2004
― xelab, Saturday, 7 February 2015 08:07 (nine years ago) link
dystopia[dis-toh-pee-uh] Spell SyllablesExamples Word Originnoun1.a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.
― xelab, Saturday, 7 February 2015 08:13 (nine years ago) link
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
― qualx, Saturday, 7 February 2015 08:18 (nine years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 00:01 (nine years ago) link
I have seen exactly four of these.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 02:35 (nine years ago) link
Seen 24. Feel like that is rather too many than too few.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 15:45 (nine years ago) link
I've seen seven.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 15:47 (nine years ago) link
26, mostly good, some great. and her.
― contenderizer, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 15:50 (nine years ago) link
i've seen about 45, way too many.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 15:56 (nine years ago) link
like men
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 16:00 (nine years ago) link
he does iirc
― k3ller of sh1p (wins), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 16:01 (nine years ago) link
I liked Boyhood a lot, but the sui-generis aspects of its creation probably lead people to overrate it.
― Tove Lo Tove You Baby (jaymc), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 16:07 (nine years ago) link
whereas it was ADD-induced mania that led them to overrate Her.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 16:10 (nine years ago) link
Wondering whether such tasteful fare such as Winter Sleep will win.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 22:09 (nine years ago) link
;-)
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 12 February 2015 00:01 (nine years ago) link
from this list
Yes! (in roughly descending order of preference):Turin Horse (holy fucking shit yes)MelancholiaMoonrise KingdomGravityHoly MotorsGoodbye to LanguageTake ShelterInside Llewyn DavisA SeparationCertified CopyThe Grand Budapest HotelUncle BoonmeLeviathanThe Interrupters (this is the Kartemquin doc, right?)The MasterOnly Lovers Left Alive (to my surprise)Inherent ViceToy Story 3Guardians of the Galaxy
Eh:Tree of LifeWreck-It RalphAct of KillinWolf of Wall StFrances HaScott PilgrimMeek's CutoffBoyhood12 Years a SlaveThe Social Network (very mixed feelings)Selma
No:Winter's BoneBefore Midnight
Haven't seen:All the others
Conclusion.I like movies.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Thursday, 12 February 2015 00:31 (nine years ago) link
The Wolf of Wall Street 3
Kill it with fire. Otherwise, solid winners!
― Simon H., Thursday, 12 February 2015 00:37 (nine years ago) link
4 votes for Wreck-It Ralph seems weird but I never actually saw it so
― Simon H., Thursday, 12 February 2015 00:38 (nine years ago) link
it's massively overrated mediocredom
can't believe people voted for films itt
― https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI22vpZ5ztQ (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 12 February 2015 00:41 (nine years ago) link
amateurist, see Margaret!
― That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Thursday, 12 February 2015 00:45 (nine years ago) link
nah
― I dunno. (amateurist), Thursday, 12 February 2015 01:02 (nine years ago) link
i get a weird "american arnaud desplechin" vibe for it, and i hate arnaud desplechin. also you can count on me was boring.
that's a good analogy but the movie is okay Desplechin.
What do you hate about him?
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 12 February 2015 01:07 (nine years ago) link
lol I didn't even vote. knew I wouldn't need to :P
― not that sort of birdwatcher (imago), Thursday, 12 February 2015 01:31 (nine years ago) link