Top 25 Favorite Movies

[BurtReynolds]

Dropped Alien and added Maximum Overdrive.

What are your feelings on Repo Man?

Gonna have to rewatch it.

[BurtReynolds]

5 more: Heat, Mad Max Fury Road, Alien, Bringing Out the Dead, The Master

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[BurtReynolds]

5 more:
Heat
Mad Max Fury Road
Alien
Bringing Out the Dead
The Master

5 more:

Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust
The Secret of NIMH
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Return to Oz
Goonies

[The Argonaut]

If I had been invited to vote in the 2022 Sight & Sound poll:

Pierrot le fou (Godard)
Fargo (J&E Coen)
A Woman Under the Influence (Cassavetes)
Ikiru (Kurosawa)
Taxi Driver (Scorsese)
Punch-Drunk Love (PTA)
Paterson (Jarmusch)
Vengeance is Mine (Imamura)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
Point Blank (Boorman)

That's ten movies

[Jorge]

Good list

[The Argonaut]

I'm hoping someone from Sight & Sound joins RM this decade and I get invited to submit a list in 2032

[Anders]

2010 top ten:

1. Black Swan
2. The King’s Speech
3. How To Train Your Dragon
4. Kick-Ass
5. Trollhunter
6. Toy Story 3
7. Inception
8. The Fighter
9. Flipped
10. Winter’s Bone

2011 top ten:

1. A Separation
2. War Horse
3. Warrior
4. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
5. Headhunters
6. The Descendants
7. Intouchables
8. The Lincoln Lawyer
9. The Raid: Redemption
10. Drive

Been watching a lot of movies from these years recently. Nearly done with 2012. Have a top ten list ready, but will watch the remaining thirteen movies before posting it here.

[epilogue]

If I had been invited to vote in the 2022 Sight & Sound poll:

Pierrot le fou (Godard)
Fargo (J&E Coen)
A Woman Under the Influence (Cassavetes)
Ikiru (Kurosawa)
Taxi Driver (Scorsese)
Punch-Drunk Love (PTA)
Paterson (Jarmusch)
Vengeance is Mine (Imamura)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
Point Blank (Boorman)

That's ten movies

Mine would probably be something like:

Mulholland Drive (Lynch)
Fight Club (Fincher)
Do The Right Thing (Lee)
Vertigo (Hitchcock)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
Birdman (Iñárritu)
Barton Fink (J&E Coen)
Broken Embraces (Almodóvar)
Upstream Color (Carruth)
Blue Valentine (Cianfrance)

I guess I like movies that start with the letter 'B'

[Anders]

If I had been invited to vote in the 2022 Sight & Sound poll:

Pierrot le fou (Godard)
Fargo (J&E Coen)
A Woman Under the Influence (Cassavetes)
Ikiru (Kurosawa)
Taxi Driver (Scorsese)
Punch-Drunk Love (PTA)
Paterson (Jarmusch)
Vengeance is Mine (Imamura)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
Point Blank (Boorman)

That's ten movies

Mine would probably be something like:

Mulholland Drive (Lynch)
Fight Club (Fincher)
Do The Right Thing (Lee)
Vertigo (Hitchcock)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
Birdman (Iñárritu)
Barton Fink (J&E Coen)
Broken Embraces (Almodóvar)
Upstream Color (Carruth)
Blue Valentine (Cianfrance)

I guess I like movies that start with the letter 'B'

Casablanca
The Searchers
12 Angry Men
Harakiri
Some Like It Hot
Lawrence Of Arabia
The Godfather
The Empire Strikes Back
Apocalypse Now
Fargo

[Malloy]

burt, has your illiberal turn altered your appraisal of avengers (or marvel more broadly) and/or the films of wes anderson?

[Malloy]

If I had been invited to vote in the 2022 Sight & Sound poll:

Pierrot le fou (Godard)
Fargo (J&E Coen)
A Woman Under the Influence (Cassavetes)
Ikiru (Kurosawa)
Taxi Driver (Scorsese)
Punch-Drunk Love (PTA)
Paterson (Jarmusch)
Vengeance is Mine (Imamura)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
Point Blank (Boorman)

That's ten movies

feel like pierrot is/was an important movie for a lot of film-going a&e regulars. as ever, good to see point blank on a list.

[Ello Sailor]

2010 top ten:

1. Black Swan
2. The King’s Speech
3. How To Train Your Dragon
4. Kick-Ass
5. Trollhunter
6. Toy Story 3
7. Inception
8. The Fighter
9. Flipped
10. Winter’s Bone

Seeing these four above Inception is freaking me out.

[The Argonaut]

Toy Story 3 blows Inception out of the water

[bart]

How to train your dragon is definitely better than Inception. I liked troll hunter but it’s been a decade since I saw it - I remember thinking it was fun but really only like 45 minutes worth of movie stretched into 90

[BurtReynolds]

burt, has your illiberal turn altered your appraisal of avengers (or marvel more broadly) and/or the films of wes anderson?

Avengers is an embarrassing choice, though i will say it kinda represents a death of my childhood (but in a good way). Pretty impressive logistical feat if nothing else. Marvel is easy to hate now, but they actually treated those original characters very well. Props to them for not turning Captain America another dull "liberal" mouthpiece.

Not sure why Darjeeling is on my old list but Life Aquatic isn't. I don't remember much about Darjeeling except that I like it. Life Aquatic is much more pleasingly right wing. What a man that Steve Zissou is!

[Ello Sailor]

Toy Story 3 blows Inception out of the water

You have a poo brain.

[Ello Sailor]

How to train your dragon is definitely better than Inception.

You also have a poo brain.

[BurtReynolds]

Inception sucks, sailor

[Ello Sailor]

And you have the most poo brain of them all!