Red Mosquito

God no Ruddo not one of the Hobbit movies....no.

bada wrote:God no Ruddo not one of the Hobbit movies....no.

It's acceptable as long as he only saw 25 movies that year.

bada wrote:God no Ruddo not one of the Hobbit movies....no.

Smaug -> Vader

You got me there.

this was hard, but I think this list reflects my life in movies as I see it in 2022; in no particular order, apart from my top 2, which are unmoving...

Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg, 1993)
The Blair Witch Project (Eduardo Sánchez/Daniel Myrick, 1999)
Freaks (Tod Browning, 1932)
Martha Marcy May Marlene (Sean Durkin, 2011)
The Truman Show (Peter Weir, 1998)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Spielberg, 1977)
My Girl (Howard Zieff, 1991)
The Matrix (The Wachowski Sisters, 1999)
The Prince of Egypt (Brenda Chapman/Steve Hickner/Simon Wells, 1998)
The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy, 1973)
The VVitch (Robert Eggers, 2014)
Wayne's World (Penelope Spheeris, 1992)
Tangerine (Sean Baker, 2015)
Home Alone (Chris Columbus, 1990)
Beauty & The Beast (Gary Trousdale/Kirk Wise, 1991)
Get Out (Jordan Peele, 2017)
Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly, 2001)
Ring (Hideo Nakata, 1998)
Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson, 2008)
Faults (Riley Stearns, 2014)
Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro, 2006)
Song of The Sea (Tomm Moore, 2013)
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Ken Loach, 2006)
10 Things I Hate About You (Gil Junger, 1999)
Frozen (Chris Buck/Jennifer Lee, 2013)

I'm still in "best 25 from the last 20 years" mode so that was disorienting for a bit

lol I clicked on the first post then answered it; last 20 years might have been an easier list!

ill try to make the last 25 years list but its going to be super hard

Malloy wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:You should take Malloy and Mickey with to your next film festival.

laugh it up, glass. you’re coming too

I’m just a dumb hick from Alabama. He doesn’t want me there.

Ms Harmless wrote:this was hard, but I think this list reflects my life in movies as I see it in 2022; in no particular order, apart from my top 2, which are unmoving...

Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg, 1993)
The Blair Witch Project (Eduardo Sánchez/Daniel Myrick, 1999)
Freaks (Tod Browning, 1932)
Martha Marcy May Marlene (Sean Durkin, 2011)
The Truman Show (Peter Weir, 1998)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Spielberg, 1977)
My Girl (Howard Zieff, 1991)
The Matrix (The Wachowski Sisters, 1999)
The Prince of Egypt (Brenda Chapman/Steve Hickner/Simon Wells, 1998)
The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy, 1973)
The VVitch (Robert Eggers, 2014)
Wayne's World (Penelope Spheeris, 1992)
Tangerine (Sean Baker, 2015)
Home Alone (Chris Columbus, 1990)
Beauty & The Beast (Gary Trousdale/Kirk Wise, 1991)
Get Out (Jordan Peele, 2017)
Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly, 2001)
Ring (Hideo Nakata, 1998)
Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson, 2008)
Faults (Riley Stearns, 2014)
Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro, 2006)
Song of The Sea (Tomm Moore, 2013)
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Ken Loach, 2006)
10 Things I Hate About You (Gil Junger, 1999)
Frozen (Chris Buck/Jennifer Lee, 2013)

I'm sensing nostalgia is a potent force for you, yeah? There's a lot of movies here that look like maybe they captured your imagination as a teen/youth and never let go

Ms Harmless wrote:lol I clicked on the first post then answered it; last 20 years might have been an easier list!

We've been doing ten years, not twenty. Jorge lied to you!

The Argonaut wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:this was hard, but I think this list reflects my life in movies as I see it in 2022; in no particular order, apart from my top 2, which are unmoving...

Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg, 1993)
The Blair Witch Project (Eduardo Sánchez/Daniel Myrick, 1999)
Freaks (Tod Browning, 1932)
Martha Marcy May Marlene (Sean Durkin, 2011)
The Truman Show (Peter Weir, 1998)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Spielberg, 1977)
My Girl (Howard Zieff, 1991)
The Matrix (The Wachowski Sisters, 1999)
The Prince of Egypt (Brenda Chapman/Steve Hickner/Simon Wells, 1998)
The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy, 1973)
The VVitch (Robert Eggers, 2014)
Wayne's World (Penelope Spheeris, 1992)
Tangerine (Sean Baker, 2015)
Home Alone (Chris Columbus, 1990)
Beauty & The Beast (Gary Trousdale/Kirk Wise, 1991)
Get Out (Jordan Peele, 2017)
Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly, 2001)
Ring (Hideo Nakata, 1998)
Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson, 2008)
Faults (Riley Stearns, 2014)
Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro, 2006)
Song of The Sea (Tomm Moore, 2013)
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Ken Loach, 2006)
10 Things I Hate About You (Gil Junger, 1999)
Frozen (Chris Buck/Jennifer Lee, 2013)

I'm sensing nostalgia is a potent force for you, yeah? There's a lot of movies here that look like maybe they captured your imagination as a teen/youth and never let go

yes and no; I have a complicated relationship with nostalgia and don't find looking back easy

but I've listed films that either had the greatest impact on my life as a whole and never dropped for me in quality or enjoyment, or films I discovered or revisited (finding new significance in them) as I went through major reassessments of my life and identity in the last 15 or so years

I think the only through-line is that they were all formative in terms of my identity, at various stages but with a lasting impact

The Argonaut wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:lol I clicked on the first post then answered it; last 20 years might have been an easier list!

We've been doing ten years, not twenty. Jorge lied to you!

the scumbag

The Argonaut wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:lol I clicked on the first post then answered it; last 20 years might have been an easier list!

We've been doing ten years, not twenty. Jorge lied to you!

Okay but now we should do last 20. 2002-2021

Sorry, yes, 10 years

No we've moved on.

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

Malloy wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:You should take Malloy and Mickey with to your next film festival.

laugh it up, glass. you’re coming too

I’m just a dumb hick from Alabama. He doesn’t want me there.

who says it’s up to him

Malloy wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

Malloy wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:You should take Malloy and Mickey with to your next film festival.

laugh it up, glass. you’re coming too

I’m just a dumb hick from Alabama. He doesn’t want me there.

who says it’s up to him

He did.

If I had a top 25 list, The Bicycle Thief would be on it.

washing machine wrote:If I had a top 25 list, The Bicycle Thief would be on it.

What would not be on it?