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
Scott Pilgrim is solid, but hasn't aged too well imo in the short time since it came out
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
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
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
the ones your mama missed.
Amour, Exit Through the Gift Shop, Before Midnight, Wolf of Wall Street all even worse than Her
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 February 2015 17:17 (nine years ago) link
I voted Take Shelter, which is my 2nd fave Jeff Nichols movie.
I seem to remember Meek's Cutoff getting rave reviews but fell asleep watching it and can't recall much about it.
― xelab, Thursday, 5 February 2015 17:22 (nine years ago) link
I enjoyed every single movie on this list that I've seen. Which is only about ten of them.
― Modern French Music from Failure to Boulez (askance johnson), Thursday, 5 February 2015 17:23 (nine years ago) link
Turin horse is the only one of these I saw twice at the cinema. However voting inherent vice as it's the film I saw most recently, an important criterion often overlooked by voters in polls
― harperlee jot shilly (wins), Thursday, 5 February 2015 17:45 (nine years ago) link
Short Term 12 is also godawful.
Would probably vote one of Dogtooth, Certified Copy, This Is Not a Film
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 February 2015 17:48 (nine years ago) link
I've never even heard of short term 12! Dogtooth is great. Alps is pretty underrated. I'm grateful to "thedissolve.com" for reminding me that I like films
― harperlee jot shilly (wins), Thursday, 5 February 2015 17:54 (nine years ago) link
Certified Copy is the title on this list that most makes me feel like Armond White.
― That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Thursday, 5 February 2015 17:56 (nine years ago) link
Turin horse is the only one of these I saw twice at the cinema.
― harperlee jot shilly (wins)
Want an award?
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 5 February 2015 17:57 (nine years ago) link
After years of being passed over too fuckin right I do
― harperlee jot shilly (wins), Thursday, 5 February 2015 17:59 (nine years ago) link
Passionate?
― Eric H., Thursday, 5 February 2015 18:00 (nine years ago) link
Incoherent in the face of something far more complex and profound than your own ability to communicate?
Xxp It's a great film! It makes me hungry for potatoes and pálinka
― harperlee jot shilly (wins), Thursday, 5 February 2015 18:01 (nine years ago) link
Passionate vs Incoherent in the face of something far more complex and profound than your own ability to communicate?
sounds like one of AW's year end binaries.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 5 February 2015 18:04 (nine years ago) link
Plus it's got an awesome soundtrack:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ3-7C6RYOE
― Eric H., Thursday, 5 February 2015 18:04 (nine years ago) link
Not really passionate, but probably incoherent. More like the one guy who doesn't get what all the critics are raving about.
― That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Thursday, 5 February 2015 18:23 (nine years ago) link
I'm pretty incoherent about not getting what's so great about the Dardennes (who aren't on this list).
― Eric H., Thursday, 5 February 2015 18:25 (nine years ago) link
Still need to see a Dardennes film oneathesedays. Recommendations on best/most representative?
― That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Thursday, 5 February 2015 18:39 (nine years ago) link
The Son
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 February 2015 18:46 (nine years ago) link
I'd agree with that on both counts.
― Eric H., Thursday, 5 February 2015 18:47 (nine years ago) link
U-N-I-T-Y
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 February 2015 19:02 (nine years ago) link
The Son and Rosetta.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 5 February 2015 19:04 (nine years ago) link
i understood the hate for Rosetta.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 February 2015 19:28 (nine years ago) link
so Margaret is good then? how come it took so long to be released? looked .. intense from the trailer.
― piscesx, Thursday, 5 February 2015 19:41 (nine years ago) link
lengthy articles have addressed that topic.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 February 2015 19:41 (nine years ago) link
Its cult rivals any film's.
― Eric H., Thursday, 5 February 2015 19:42 (nine years ago) link
2 of the producers died during the making which didn't help.
Hulk wrote some good things about it here: http://badassdigest.com/2012/02/16/film-crit-hulk-smash-22-short-thoughts-about-margaret/
― ʎɐpunsunɾɐɔ (cajunsunday), Thursday, 5 February 2015 19:52 (nine years ago) link
Favorites:
1: The Social Network2: Boyhood3: Margaret
Hated:
1: The Grand Budapest Hotel2: The Wolf of Wall Street
Most Disappointing: Meek's Cutoff
Seen: 28
― clemenza, Thursday, 5 February 2015 20:56 (nine years ago) link
Huh from this list probably act of killing i think?
― a strawman stuffed with their collection of 12 cds (jjjusten), Thursday, 5 February 2015 21:10 (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