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    Quote Quoting Winston* (view post)
    Why would you choose these two over this one?
    Maybe I just have bad taste?

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    Quote Quoting ledfloyd (view post)
    i was coming in here to nominate kylie minogue and daft punk. i've been beaten to the punch.
    Hey, remember, the more nominations the better. So really, nominate them even if they've already been mentioned.

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    Quote Quoting Sven (view post)
    Hey, remember, the more nominations the better. So really, nominate them even if they've already been mentioned.
    doh, just read the rules.

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    I have ten posted. Will post more later.

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    I'm allowed 3o, right? First 10 off the top of my head:

    Bob Dylan - SuBterranean Homesick Blues
    Beastie Boys - Hey Ladies
    Beastie Boys - Shadrach
    The Replacements - Bastards of Young
    Fatboy Slim - Weapon of Choice
    A-HA - Take on Me
    Radiohead - Karma Police
    Bjork - It's Oh So Quiet
    Bjork - All is Full of Love
    White Stripes - Fell In Love With A Girl
    Einsturzende Neubauten - Sabrina

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    I was gonna say Bastards of Young, but then I felt like that would've been too smuggish of me

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    Quote Quoting Sven (view post)

    Kate Bush - Babooshka (chainmail bikini)
    Ah, I like this choice. Might have to second it.
    Coming to America (Landis, 1988) **
    The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) *1/2
    Us (Peele, 2019) ***1/2
    Fugue (Smoczynska, 2018) ***1/2
    Prisoners (Villeneuve, 2013) ***1/2
    Shadow (Zhang, 2018) ***
    Oslo, August 31st (J. Trier, 2011) ****
    Climax (Noé, 2018) **1/2
    Fighting With My Family (Merchant, 2019) **
    Upstream Color (Carruth, 2013) ***

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    Drago, I assume you're gonna return and give me links for those, right?
    Coming to America (Landis, 1988) **
    The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) *1/2
    Us (Peele, 2019) ***1/2
    Fugue (Smoczynska, 2018) ***1/2
    Prisoners (Villeneuve, 2013) ***1/2
    Shadow (Zhang, 2018) ***
    Oslo, August 31st (J. Trier, 2011) ****
    Climax (Noé, 2018) **1/2
    Fighting With My Family (Merchant, 2019) **
    Upstream Color (Carruth, 2013) ***

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    Quote Quoting Adam (view post)
    I was gonna say Bastards of Young, but then I felt like that would've been too smuggish of me
    Smuggish would be listing 10 different Beastie Boys videos and another 10 Bjork vids.

    Bastards of Young's video is great.

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    Actually, the hardest part of this exercise is not making my list 50% Bjork.
    Coming to America (Landis, 1988) **
    The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) *1/2
    Us (Peele, 2019) ***1/2
    Fugue (Smoczynska, 2018) ***1/2
    Prisoners (Villeneuve, 2013) ***1/2
    Shadow (Zhang, 2018) ***
    Oslo, August 31st (J. Trier, 2011) ****
    Climax (Noé, 2018) **1/2
    Fighting With My Family (Merchant, 2019) **
    Upstream Color (Carruth, 2013) ***

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    Smuggish would be listing 10 different Beastie Boys videos and another 10 Bjork vids.

    Bastards of Young's video is great.
    Hmmm, I wasn't calling you smuggish, I was just commenting on my own self consciousness

    The video for Bastards of Young is great, but it's also the preeminent anti-music video and it felt out of place to me in a battle of everything it's taking a stand against

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    Quote Quoting Spinal (view post)
    Drago, I assume you're gonna return and give me links for those, right?
    Already given.
    Last Five Films I've Seen (Out of 5)

    The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse (Mackesy, 2022) 4.5
    Puss In Boots: The Last Wish (Crawford, 2022) 4
    Confess, Fletch (Mottola, 2022) 3.5
    M3GAN (Johnstone, 2023) 3.5
    Turning Red (Shi, 2022) 4.5
    Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953) 5

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    it would be very easy to list nothing but gondry and spike jonze videos. thought trapped in the closet is clearly the frontrunner.

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    Is Trapped in the Closet really that good, or is it "so bad, it's good"?
    Last Five Films I've Seen (Out of 5)

    The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse (Mackesy, 2022) 4.5
    Puss In Boots: The Last Wish (Crawford, 2022) 4
    Confess, Fletch (Mottola, 2022) 3.5
    M3GAN (Johnstone, 2023) 3.5
    Turning Red (Shi, 2022) 4.5
    Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953) 5

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    The Weird Al parody of Trapped in the Closet is better than Trapped in the Closet.
    Coming to America (Landis, 1988) **
    The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) *1/2
    Us (Peele, 2019) ***1/2
    Fugue (Smoczynska, 2018) ***1/2
    Prisoners (Villeneuve, 2013) ***1/2
    Shadow (Zhang, 2018) ***
    Oslo, August 31st (J. Trier, 2011) ****
    Climax (Noé, 2018) **1/2
    Fighting With My Family (Merchant, 2019) **
    Upstream Color (Carruth, 2013) ***

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    Are we actually counting Trapped in the Closet?
    Sure why not?

    STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI (Rian Johnson) - 9
    STRONGER (David Gordon Green) - 6
    THE DISASTER ARTIST (James Franco) - 7
    THE FLORIDA PROJECT (Sean Baker) - 9
    LADY BIRD (Greta Gerwig) - 8


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    The Beastie Boys - "Sabotage"
    Bjork - "All Is Full of Love"
    Bjork - "Joga"
    Blink 182 - "Always"
    The Chemical Brothers - "Let Forever Be"
    Daft Punk - "Around the World"
    Depeche Mode - "Wrong"
    Foo Fighters - "Everlong"
    Foo Fighters - "Learn to Fly"
    Green Day - "Holiday"
    Johnny Cash - "Hurt"
    Kanye West - "Can't Tell Me Nothin'"
    Kylie Minogue - "Come Into My World"
    Live - "Lightning Crashes"
    Madonna - "Frozen"
    My Chemical Romance - "Helena"
    Nine Inch Nails - "Closer"
    Outkast - "Hey Ya!"
    The Smashing Pumpkins - "Tonight, Tonight"
    The Smashing Pumpkins - "Disarm"
    TV on the Radio - "Wolf Like Me"
    Weezer - "Buddy Holly"
    Weird Al Yankovic - "Fat"
    The White Stripes - "The Hardest Button to Button"
    The White Stripes - "Seven Nation Army"

    And I'm spent.

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    The White Stripes - "Seven Nation Army"
    Johnny Cash - Hurt
    Michael Jackson - "Thriller"
    Nine Inch Nails - "Closer"
    Outkast - "Hey Ya!"

    Above for quoting/nominating, below for my choices:

    Blink 182 - "I Miss You" (Amazing video. Goth romance meshed with Soviet montage. Believe it.)
    My Chemical Romance - "The Ghost of You" (In a particularly brilliant shot, the ocean's waves and the war takes over the dance floor)
    Brand New - "Sic Transit Gloria... Glory Fades" (A slightly unnerving tale of mimicry and sexuality)
    Aphex Twin - "Come to Daddy" (Critique of hive-mind mentality and commercialization meets David Cronenberg)

    And the 2 greatest videos I've ever seen...

    Tool - "Schism" (Tool is fascinated with the human body)
    Tool - "Parabol/Parabola"[And that fascination very much continues here, with a brilliant feel for the spiritual]
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    Riddick (David Twohy | 2013 | USA/UK)
    Night Across the Street (Raoul Ruiz | 2012 | Chile/France)*
    Pain & Gain (Michael Bay | 2013 | USA)*
    You're Next (Adam Wingard | 2011 | USA)
    Little Odessa (James Gray | 1994 | USA)*

    *recommended *highly recommended

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    Ha. Nice. God, I love Tom Petty.
    Last 5 Viewed
    Riddick (David Twohy | 2013 | USA/UK)
    Night Across the Street (Raoul Ruiz | 2012 | Chile/France)*
    Pain & Gain (Michael Bay | 2013 | USA)*
    You're Next (Adam Wingard | 2011 | USA)
    Little Odessa (James Gray | 1994 | USA)*

    *recommended *highly recommended

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    Sure why not?

    STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI (Rian Johnson) - 9
    STRONGER (David Gordon Green) - 6
    THE DISASTER ARTIST (James Franco) - 7
    THE FLORIDA PROJECT (Sean Baker) - 9
    LADY BIRD (Greta Gerwig) - 8


    "Hitchcock is really bad at suspense."
    - Stay Puft

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    C'mon Sven, I can't believe I'm the only one to nominate Shine On Me.
    Sure why not?

    STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI (Rian Johnson) - 9
    STRONGER (David Gordon Green) - 6
    THE DISASTER ARTIST (James Franco) - 7
    THE FLORIDA PROJECT (Sean Baker) - 9
    LADY BIRD (Greta Gerwig) - 8


    "Hitchcock is really bad at suspense."
    - Stay Puft

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    Quote Quoting Watashi (view post)
    Are we actually counting Trapped in the Closet?
    If I thought I could avoid it, I would.
    Coming to America (Landis, 1988) **
    The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) *1/2
    Us (Peele, 2019) ***1/2
    Fugue (Smoczynska, 2018) ***1/2
    Prisoners (Villeneuve, 2013) ***1/2
    Shadow (Zhang, 2018) ***
    Oslo, August 31st (J. Trier, 2011) ****
    Climax (Noé, 2018) **1/2
    Fighting With My Family (Merchant, 2019) **
    Upstream Color (Carruth, 2013) ***

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    I'm nominating:

    Animal Collective - "My Girls"
    Animal Collective - "Peacebone"
    The Knife - "Pass This On"
    The Knife - "We Share Our Mother's Health"
    Radiohead - "Pyramid Song"
    Les Rita Mitsouko - "C'est Comme Ça"
    Röyksopp - "Only This Moment"
    Röyksopp - "Remind Me"
    Sigur Rós - "Sæglópur"
    Sparks - "When Do I Get to Sing 'My Way'?"
    Wolf Parade - "I'll Believe in Anything"
    Wolf Parade - "Modern World"

    I'm echoing:

    a-ha - "Take on Me"
    Daft Punk - "Around the World"
    Daft Punk - "Da Funk"
    Grizzly Bear - "Knife"
    m83 - "Kim & Jessie"
    Radiohead - "Just"
    Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Otherside"
    Tool - "Parabol/Parabola"
    Tool - "Schism"
    UNKLE - "Rabbit in Your Headlights"
    Giving up in 2020. Who cares.

    maɬni – towards the ocean, towards the shore (Sky Hopinka) ***½
    Without Remorse (Stefano Sollima) *½
    The Marksman (Robert Lorenz) **
    Beckett (Ferdinando Cito Filomarino) *½
    Night Hunter (David Raymond) *

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    I like it and all, but I really hope that "Thriller" doesn't win this thing.

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