far too few documentaries and yet exit thru the gift shop
― harperlee jot shilly (wins), Thursday, 5 February 2015 21:16 (nine years ago) link
Anything to do with Banksy needs incinerating, but yeah so many good docs in the last five years.
― xelab, Thursday, 5 February 2015 21:19 (nine years ago) link
The Missing Picture for starters...
― xelab, Thursday, 5 February 2015 21:21 (nine years ago) link
I still get annoyed when I think of the ending of Meek's Cutoff.
― Chris L, Thursday, 5 February 2015 21:32 (nine years ago) link
have only seen about 10 of these tbh, but would probably go for under the skin.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 5 February 2015 21:35 (nine years ago) link
Still championing Zero Dark Thirty as great must be more out of stubbornness at this point
― Chris L, Thursday, 5 February 2015 21:38 (nine years ago) link
Better than Argo at any rate.
― Eric H., Thursday, 5 February 2015 21:41 (nine years ago) link
reluctantly agree. similar lies, worse craft, just a tad less odious in political context.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 February 2015 21:48 (nine years ago) link
Suspect "Boyhood" will be the Moby's "Play" of movies.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 5 February 2015 21:52 (nine years ago) link
By which I assume you mean "the superlative cultural artifact of its decade".
― Brodozer Coke Buffet (Old Lunch), Thursday, 5 February 2015 21:57 (nine years ago) link
Argo has a fatal smugness about it as well as all the bullshit, like the level of self satisfaction you get in the worst George Clooney movies/performances multiplied a couple of times.
― xelab, Thursday, 5 February 2015 22:00 (nine years ago) link
Suspect you're right. #1 ranking is ludicrous.
― Eric H., Thursday, 5 February 2015 22:01 (nine years ago) link
No Only God Forgives!?
― bit of a singles monster (Eazy), Thursday, 5 February 2015 22:01 (nine years ago) link
xp Tho, hey, better that than Social Network.
for sure, pretentious TV on the big screen. one great scene: the regatta.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 February 2015 22:07 (nine years ago) link
top 3 are far more regrettable/incomprehensible than the list overall
― A Severus of Snapes (contenderizer), Thursday, 5 February 2015 22:40 (nine years ago) link
short term 12 had the potential to be good but ended up awful. no idea why its on here.
― StillAdvance, Thursday, 5 February 2015 23:02 (nine years ago) link
no american hustle no credibility but that's just one ilx poster's opinion
― franklin, Thursday, 5 February 2015 23:08 (nine years ago) link
my top 10 -
Holy MotorsUncle BoonmeeMargaretThe Social NetworkA Seperation12 Years A SlaveThe Wolf of Wall StreetCertified CopyToy Story 3Goodbye to Language
― StillAdvance, Thursday, 5 February 2015 23:14 (nine years ago) link
Voted Uncle Boonmee. Since Stray Dogs isn't on there, that seems the obvious choice. With two Iranian directors in the top five, I can't really attack it too much for americo-centrism. Annoyingly.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 5 February 2015 23:23 (nine years ago) link
comment folks underneath the feature seem most perturbed by the lack of Drive, although i bloody loathed it so no harm done.
― piscesx, Thursday, 5 February 2015 23:25 (nine years ago) link
wish i liked uncle boonmee more. or that syndromes & a century had been released a little later.
― A Severus of Snapes (contenderizer), Thursday, 5 February 2015 23:27 (nine years ago) link
margaret -- one of my favorites of any half-decade
boyhood at 1 is a good argument for waiting 20 years before trying to build a canon
― qualx, Thursday, 5 February 2015 23:27 (nine years ago) link
the dissolve is supposed to be like a classier attempt at the av club right? av club would put out a v similar list probably
― qualx, Thursday, 5 February 2015 23:28 (nine years ago) link
Since Stray Dogs isn't on there, that seems the obvious choice.
― Frederik B, Thursday, February 5, 2015 3:23 PM (4 minutes ago)
since i've been dying to see this for quite some time & holding out for a decent copy, thought i'd mention it's now up on netflix instant view
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― A Severus of Snapes (contenderizer), Thursday, 5 February 2015 23:33 (nine years ago) link
GREAT:GravityWhiplashDogtoothInherent Vice
GOOD:Inside Llewyn DavisWreck-It RalphCoherenceThe Wolf of Wall StreetToy Story 3Take Shelter
OKAY:HerMeek's CutoffUpstream ColorMartha Marcy May MarleneZero Dark ThirtyThe MasterScott Pilgrim vs the WorldExit Through the Gift Shop
SHITE:Only Lovers Left AliveMoonrise KingdomThe Tree of LifeThe Grand Budapest HotelThe Social Network
― rem remrum (dog latin), Friday, 6 February 2015 09:27 (nine years ago) link
Glad Drive didn't make it in.
― rem remrum (dog latin), Friday, 6 February 2015 09:30 (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
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― 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