XXX9's Best Movies: X0 Years Later

Sorry for the terrible title.

My head says Truffaut, my heart says haunted house in space.

Either 400 Blows or Serious Man. Weakest is Midnight Cowboy.

Ooh tough selection

Regles tho

voted for 4 of these in the original polls. my favorite is Late Spring

Well these aren't very XXX.

The 400 Blows, tho

Sorry for the terrible title.

― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Friday, August 23, 2019 2:47 PM (twenty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

xxxtentacion + tekashi 69?

Agreed that Midnight Cowboy is probably the weakest one here. It just barely beat out Kes and The Color of Pomegranates.

1969's Best Movies: 50 Years Later

Règle du jeu - madness always wins the day. It’s close between the first four though tbh. And I want a Balzac shrine.

1. The 400 Blows, 2. Midnight Cowboy or The Straight Story

Poll results: 1. The Rules of the Game, 2. Tokyo Story, 3. Do the Right Thing

Love: The Rules of the Game, Late Spring, Alien

Appreciate: Man With a Movie Camera, 400 Blows, Do the Right Thing, A Serious Man

I haven't seen the remainder.

Alien still sucks as much as when it bored and disgusted me 40 years ago

Gonna be the asshole who votes Vertov

A Serious Cowboy Alien

Well these aren't very XXX.

― jmm, Friday, August 23, 2019 3:16 PM (yesterday)

yeah, midnight cowboy was only an X!

man with a movie camera because no one else is going to vote for it

Same reasoning, although It'll make me vote for Beau Travail

people will vote for beau travail

I like the most recent films on the list, especially Beau Travail, but the films of the first four decades are really the ones imo

i barely remember a serious man.

Alien still sucks as much as when it bored and disgusted me 40 years ago

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 24 August 2019 12:44 (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Possibly the wrongest opinion yet from a master of wrong opinions

you hadn’t encountered it yet? he repeats it so often

out of all his wrong opinions that one is probably the most objectively wrong

I fucked up and never saw Alien in a theater before Disney sealed the vault

Alien is screening at the AFI Silver in Silver Spring this weekend, probably as a DCP.

Morbs has had way wronger opinions than that, come along.

I'd probably rank them ...

THE RULES OF THE GAME (Jean Renoir, France, 1939)
DO THE RIGHT THING (Spike Lee, USA, 1989)
LATE SPRING (Yasujiro Ozu, Japan, 1949)

A SERIOUS MAN (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA, 2009)
BEAU TRAVAIL (Claire Denis, France, 1999)
MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (Dziga Vertov, USSR, 1929)
THE 400 BLOWS (François Truffaut, France, 1959)

THE STRAIGHT STORY (David Lynch, USA, 1999)
ALIEN (Ridley Scott, USA, 1979)

MIDNIGHT COWBOY (John Schlesinger, USA, 1969)

Those are in groupings of roughly equal merit.

haven't seen the Coens or Denis, but that looks otm

Midnight Cowboy was great I thought.

just watched The Straight Story for the first time. I liked it a lot but didn't think it was as great as the films of the earlier decades

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you horror-film pantswetters should read more carefully

that The Monster On the Spaceship bored and disgusted *me* is a fact, not an opinion

you find the movie boring and disgusting

overall the results seem pretty good

It's a fact based on your opinions, you ninny

xp didn't vote for The Rules of the Game (went for The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums, would have picked The Wizard of Oz second), but can't argue that it is one of the greatest films

overall the results seem pretty good

Great, even.

yes

really like Midnight Cowboy but My Night at Maud's, which came in 8th in the 1969 poll, is one of my favorite films of all time