HUSTLE
― bae (sic), Thursday, 7 March 2024 21:59 (three months ago) link
Kung Fu Hustle, w/2046 the runner up
― omar little, Thursday, 7 March 2024 22:09 (three months ago) link
would've voted for the village
― ivy., Thursday, 7 March 2024 22:11 (three months ago) link
Not feeling this list at all. I hated Sideways and have a hard time seeing now it gets even tepid acclaim.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 8 March 2024 01:58 (three months ago) link
LOVED King Bill v 2
― Swen, Friday, 8 March 2024 02:41 (three months ago) link
Kill lol
― Swen, Friday, 8 March 2024 02:45 (three months ago) link
Kill Bing
― Rich E. (Eric H.), Friday, 8 March 2024 02:50 (three months ago) link
i accidentally typed King Bing first! i saw Kung and RAN with it
― Swen, Friday, 8 March 2024 03:05 (three months ago) link
L'intrus and Tropical Malady I admired as much as one can movies where you say "impressive, but I have no idea what that was, or meant". Martel's film was interesting but she would continue to improve.
From the lower list, Rois et Reine was really well-directed (and not just in a flashy, surface way), but over the course of the film, as the mechanics of the set-up for the "big scene" at the end became clear, I really resented it, and haven't been inclined to see any other Desplechin films since.
I'll vote for The World, which is a lot warmer and more hopeful than your typical Jia Zhangke film, especially in the years since. Moolaadé is a very close second and is a great proof that a social "propaganda" film (in this case, against female circumcision) can be multi-layered and explore a lot of subtleties that you wouldn't expect from a mere description of the action.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 8 March 2024 17:39 (three months ago) link
Kung Fu Hustle, with Tropical Malady very close
― UKXEPCTED TWITS (WmC), Friday, 8 March 2024 17:45 (three months ago) link
The World, Moolaadé, and Tropical Malady haunted me after watching them, so much so that I haven't watched them again.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 8 March 2024 17:55 (three months ago) link
voted for the incredibles. i'm not even a pixar stan or animation nerd but it's possibly the best pixar movie in their hot run. i remember loving eternal sunshine and kung fu hustle but haven't rewatched them recently enough to vote for them now in good conscience.
― na (NA), Friday, 8 March 2024 17:58 (three months ago) link
Kung-Fu Hustle is a classic, Kill Bill 2 I loved when it came out, but it didn't age well for me (not least because I'd become well-versed in the kung fu films that inspired the Pai Mei sequence, including actual Pai Mei films, and it retroactively ruined the Gordon Liu bit for me).
loved Million Dollar Baby at the time, I suspect ILX probably hated that movie and still does. it was definitely Oscar-bait.
enjoyed Incredibles, not opening up that 'debate' here again about the libertarian ethics etc etc.
Shaun of the Dead absolute classic, and quotable but not in the mega annoying way other similar movies are.
Sideways I also expect ILX probably hated/hates, I found it hilarious and it temporarily turned me onto wine drinking. I understand the objections to Thomas Hayden Church not getting any comeuppance and it's valid, though at the same token "No, I'm not drinking fucking MERLOT" still makes me laugh.
still never seen Eternal Sunshine. can't vote until I've seen more of these, so time to queue up.
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Friday, 8 March 2024 17:59 (three months ago) link
The list I came up with a few years ago:
Moolaadé (Ousmane Sembène)Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)Vera Drake (Mike Leigh)Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-Liang)I ♥ Huckabees (David O. Russell)Ray (Taylor Hackford)The World (Jia Zhangke)Mean Girls (Mark Waters)Notre Musique (Jean-Luc Godard)
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 8 March 2024 18:03 (three months ago) link
I ♥ Huckabees
Now there's a movie whose standing has diminished over time
― Rich E. (Eric H.), Friday, 8 March 2024 19:34 (three months ago) link
it does matter if you use petroleum
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Friday, 8 March 2024 19:35 (three months ago) link
I'm not sure it was ever beloved. It stands up as a screwball comedy, i.e. your favorite genre.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 8 March 2024 19:46 (three months ago) link
nothing was funnier to me than the Mark Wahlberg ranting politics at Christian businessman's dinner table and upsetting the dude's kids
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Friday, 8 March 2024 19:58 (three months ago) link
which very closely resembled conversations around the Neanderthal family dinner table around that timeframe
xp true, I mistakenly remembered it winning the FC poll in '04. It didn't (tho it made the top 20)
https://www.filmcomment.com/article/best-films-of-2004/
― Rich E. (Eric H.), Friday, 8 March 2024 19:59 (three months ago) link
Both Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and I ♥ Huckabees had really interesting premises that I didn't feel were worked out especially effectively.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 8 March 2024 21:26 (three months ago) link
Huckabees was one of the most unpleasant films I turned off after 20 minutes, it was like a smart npr version of those terrible MST3K live skits or something
― brimstead, Friday, 8 March 2024 22:47 (three months ago) link
sorry to be mean it just really hurt my soul
― brimstead, Friday, 8 March 2024 22:48 (three months ago) link
I don't deny it. I haven't watched it again since 2005. I didn't like what Russell made Huppert endure. But the film's also a farewell to the Russell I liked.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 8 March 2024 23:18 (three months ago) link
kung fu hustle and altho i like plenty from this list its not close for a seconf
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 8 March 2024 23:45 (three months ago) link
God, I saw Huckabees on election night 2004 when it was clear that W was getting re-elected (or might the night after election night), and somehow it felt profoundly about the red/blue-state divide, but haven't seen it since.
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Friday, 8 March 2024 23:46 (three months ago) link
I don't remember seeing Eternal Sunshine, but after watching The Truman Show and Man On the Moon I realized that as much as I love Jim Carrey's over-the-top comedic performances (especially in Dumb and Dumber), I'm not quite inclined to take him as seriously as a dramatic actor. I guess the film must be good since it is so highly rated. I will see it at some point
― Dan S, Saturday, 9 March 2024 00:56 (three months ago) link
Tropical Malady is beautiful and mysterious, but I agree with Halfway there but for you, it is hard to understand. L'Intrus is the most bizarre and inscrutable of all of Claire Denis' films, but it is interesting.
― Dan S, Saturday, 9 March 2024 00:57 (three months ago) link
I watched Eternal Sunshine two weeks ago for the first time in 20 years too: my students were writing about it. The slapstick stuff with Tom Hiddleston, Frodo, and Mark Ruffalo holds up, and Kate Winslet disembowels the Manic Pixie Girl cliche.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 9 March 2024 01:12 (three months ago) link
Where's Academy Award nominee SHREK 2?
― formerly abanana (dat), Saturday, 9 March 2024 01:15 (three months ago) link
Nobody Knows is an excellent film if you are in the mood to curl up and want to die afterwards (based on a true story no less!)
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 9 March 2024 01:15 (three months ago) link
It is my favorite Kore-eda film
― Dan S, Saturday, 9 March 2024 01:21 (three months ago) link
the 14-year old boy Yûya Yagira won the best actor prize at Canes that year
― Dan S, Saturday, 9 March 2024 01:26 (three months ago) link
*Cannes
The first part of Tropical Malady is about the burgeoning love between Keng a soldier stationed in a rural village in northern Thailand and Tong a villager, and about their courtship. The rural location is idyllic, and the nature sounds overwhelm the soundtrack. They are amplified in the most incredible way.
― Dan S, Saturday, 9 March 2024 01:28 (three months ago) link
There is an interlude. The next day we see a soldier examining a room and a bed that a boy has slept in and the photos he has kept, but it’s not clear that it is Keng and Tong.
― Dan S, Saturday, 9 March 2024 01:29 (three months ago) link
The last part is the most mysterious. The soldier is tracking a tiger. “As the inner worlds of both man and man-tiger draw closer together in their shared desperation, the world of the forest becomes dreamy and ghostlike, filled with monkeys that seem on the verge of speech and spirits that rise from dead cows”
― Dan S, Saturday, 9 March 2024 01:32 (three months ago) link
Of all of the reviews I have read, the one by Tash Aw makes the most sense of it. “We realize how they must have felt, because we feel it now too: love is dangerous, love will consume us; we are powerless before our desire.”
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/11/13/the-hypnotic-threat-of-apichatpongs-tropical-malady/
― Dan S, Saturday, 9 March 2024 01:36 (three months ago) link
As per usual it isn't the film that's on trial here
― Morris O’Shea Salazar (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 9 March 2024 03:38 (three months ago) link
There's no way it's not Howl's
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Saturday, 9 March 2024 03:55 (three months ago) link
theres every way, I'll tell you two, with a bonus specific moment-
- the first time the axe gang visit pig sty alley
- the second time the axe gang visit pig sty alley
bonus- the moment the landlord floats down with the musical assassins
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Saturday, 9 March 2024 08:18 (three months ago) link
Tropical Malady
― Ward Fowler, Saturday, 9 March 2024 09:08 (three months ago) link
I need to rewatch Kung Fu Hustle now that I've seen a fair amount of the films it's riffing on.
There was a list online (probably still is?) that detailed every reference in both Kill Bills and it wasn't a half bad guide for me getting into world genre cinema.
― Daniel_Rf, Saturday, 9 March 2024 09:23 (three months ago) link
those lists can be helpful!
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Saturday, 9 March 2024 13:42 (three months ago) link
The Incredibles is incredibly underrated, and despite some absolute classics in this list that I adore, it ended up getting my vote
― octobeard, Saturday, 9 March 2024 18:50 (three months ago) link
The slapstick stuff with Tom Hiddleston
Wilkinson!
darragh otm about the gap
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 9 March 2024 19:29 (three months ago) link
Yeah, duh, lol
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 9 March 2024 19:39 (three months ago) link
I'd love to slap Tom Hiddleston with uh
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 9 March 2024 19:40 (three months ago) link
― Morris O’Shea Salazar (Noodle Vague), Friday, March 8, 2024
on trial? don't understand this post
― Dan S, Sunday, 10 March 2024 01:00 (three months ago) link
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2021/04/11/painting-trial/
― Morris O’Shea Salazar (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 10 March 2024 09:26 (three months ago) link
Does anyone still believe in objective quality?
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 11 March 2024 01:21 (three months ago) link
A visitor to the Louvre in Paris viewed the renowned Mona Lisa and stated loudly, “That painting is nothing special. I am unimpressed.” A curator who was standing nearby said, “That painting is not on trial; you are on trial.”“This novel is boring; it contains too many details about whale hunting,” insisted a student. The teacher replied, “Hermann Melville and his tour de force are not on trial. You students are on trial.”
“This novel is boring; it contains too many details about whale hunting,” insisted a student. The teacher replied, “Hermann Melville and his tour de force are not on trial. You students are on trial.”
This attitude doesn't serve to elucidate or educate, it's just a reinforcement of the snobbery of the so-called judge.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 11 March 2024 11:47 (three months ago) link
We are all on trial, and of course we're guilty as hell.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 11 March 2024 12:12 (three months ago) link
No, but in a miraculous coincidence my personal tastes match the standards of objective quality perfectly
― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Monday, 11 March 2024 13:33 (three months ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Sunday, 7 April 2024 00:01 (two months ago) link
voted The World, haven't seen it in 19 years but it has really stuck with me
― intheblanks, Sunday, 7 April 2024 01:56 (two months ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Monday, 8 April 2024 00:01 (two months ago) link
Extremeley satisfactory
― Rich E. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 01:24 (two months ago) link