Top 25 Favorite Movies

[BurtReynolds]

Also, he should replace Kick-Ass with Super, a vastly superior movie.

[The Argonaut]

Also, he should replace Kick-Ass with Super, a vastly superior movie.

Super is pretty great, yes

[Anders]

I have not seen Super (2010).

Love Kick-Ass.

[Anders]

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

I’m Norwegian, and studied for five years at the University College that the students in the movie go to. The main actor is also a famius Norwegian comedian. I probably had a different reaction to it because of these things. In a way if you put a movie on a list like this, it should be for others as well, not just yourself, nevertheless, I recentiy rewatched it, and I loved every minute of it.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

I have not seen Super (2010).

Love Kick-Ass.

Same

[epilogue]

I have not seen Super (2010).

Love Kick-Ass.

Same

Haven't seen Kick-Ass.

Super is terrible.

[bart]

I just learned that Super is a different movie than Super 8. Huh.

[Anders]

I have seen Super 8, it’s a 2011 movie, and it’s ok.

[epilogue]

Super 8 is The goddamn Godfather compared to Super

[Jorge]

I have seen Super 8, it’s a 2011 movie, and it’s ok.

Wow they made 7 sequels in one year

[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

I was trying to figure out when I first saw some of these movies and was searching on the archived board a bit. I made a very similar post in 2012, also saying "here is the top ten list I would have submitted, had I been invited". My language is consistent. But here was my list from 2012:

Pierrot le Fou (1965, Godard)
A Woman Under the Influence (1974,Cassavetes)
A Clockwork Orange (1971, Kubrick)
Psycho (1960, Hitchcock)
Punch-Drunk Love (2002, Anderson)
Fitzcarraldo (1982, Herzog)
M (1931, Lang)
Dead Man (1995, Jarmusch)
Grey Gardens (1975, Maysles)
Ikiru (1952, Kurosawa)

So that's four movies that remain 2012 to 2022. I switched out the Kubrick and the Jarmusch for alternate Kubricks and Jarmusches. I was bummed when I made the 2022 list that I didn't have space for any Herzog or documentaries, as I apparently did in 2012.

What's odd is that I'm pretty sure the only movie from the 2022 list that I hadn't seen in 2012 is Paterson (2016). Perhaps I'm not as open to accepting something into my top tier of most vaulted artworks as I was in my youth.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Okay but Babylon is here now.

[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

I was trying to figure out when I first saw some of these movies and was searching on the archived board a bit. I made a very similar post in 2012, also saying "here is the top ten list I would have submitted, had I been invited". My language is consistent. But here was my list from 2012:

Pierrot le Fou (1965, Godard)
A Woman Under the Influence (1974,Cassavetes)
A Clockwork Orange (1971, Kubrick)
Psycho (1960, Hitchcock)
Punch-Drunk Love (2002, Anderson)
Fitzcarraldo (1982, Herzog)
M (1931, Lang)
Dead Man (1995, Jarmusch)
Grey Gardens (1975, Maysles)
Ikiru (1952, Kurosawa)

So that's four movies that remain 2012 to 2022. I switched out the Kubrick and the Jarmusch for alternate Kubricks and Jarmusches. I was bummed when I made the 2022 list that I didn't have space for any Herzog or documentaries, as I apparently did in 2012.

What's odd is that I'm pretty sure the only movie from the 2022 list that I hadn't seen in 2012 is Paterson (2016). Perhaps I'm not as open to accepting something into my top tier of most vaulted artworks as I was in my youth.

Letterboxd has the date you rated any movie. You could even import your ratings from another site, and if possible, it will be listed.

[The Argonaut]

I corrupted my data in 2012. I used to have dates going back to 2006, but I lost them. I still know what I watched, just not when.
I used to keep track on IMDb, but I didn't like the headspace that rating every movie was putting me in. I started relying exclusively on icheckmovies.com and one time when I imported the data from one site to the other I clicked the wrong button and didn't transfer the dates over. Then I deleted my IMDb account, and whammo bammo dates are gone. It's ok

[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.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

A Clockwork Orange sucks so bad

It's fine, but I didn't understand the complete acclaim.

[The Argonaut]

I watched the first half hour or so a couple months ago, and it's killer. Just beautiful, wild, evil shit

[lennytheweedwhacker]

I watched the first half hour or so a couple months ago, and it's killer. Just beautiful, wild, evil shit

It lost me a bit more in the second half, if I recall correctly. It's been years though so i'm not against a rewatch.

[Ello Sailor]

A Clockwork Orange sucks so bad

It's because of the rape, isn't it?

[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.