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    Now, if I can just stop myself from referring to it as Green Book.
    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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    Before Midnight (2014)
    First Man (2018)
    It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012)
    The Lost City of Z (2017)
    Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
    Magic Mike XXL (2015)
    Margaret (2011)
    The Social Network (2010)
    The Tree of Life (2011)
    The Wind Rises (2013)
    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 Lost City of Z (2017)

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    Over the past few days I've watched a couple of films from this thread to start playing catch-up and it's paid off very well so far.

    A Separation was one that's long eluded me, even though I knew it was universally praised. Somehow I had thought it was essentially an Iranian Scenes from a Marriage. I was very happy to find that it was much more than that. But damn, the real surprise was Green Room, maybe because I had more modest expectations. It's not easy to make a film feel dangerous and tense for nearly 90 straight minutes, but this one had me gripped. I thought no way would it stick the ending, but the ending was fantastic! Really surprised at how effective it was.
    Nice! Glad you dug it, and your thoughts further down are great. It's one of the few thrillers I've seen where it feels like it's happening as you're watching it.

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    Green Room and Don’t Breathe are two of my recent favourite theatrical experiences. Great collective freakout sessions for the audience.
    Midnight Run (1988) - 9
    The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) - 8.5
    The Adventures of Robinhood (1938) - 8
    Sisters (1973) - 6.5
    Shin Godzilla (2016) - 7.5

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    I've put together a checklist for myself, hoping to watch at least one new film from everybody's list by the end of the year. If I can get through these, I'll try to watch more. Here's what I am targeting so far:

    What We Do in the Shadows (transmogrifier)
    The Great Beauty (Grouchy)
    Cloud Atlas (Peng)
    A Separation (Mr. McGibbletts)
    The Immigrant (Pop Trash)
    Green Room (Dead and Messed Up)
    Upstream Color (Neclord)
    The Forbidden Room (baby doll)
    Oslo, August 31st (Ezee)
    Our Little Sister (Purple)
    The Lost City of Z (Watashi)
    Only Lovers Left Alive (dreamdead)
    I Saw the Devil (Duke)
    Prisoners (Ivan)
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    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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    It’s Such a Beautiful Day
    The Lobster
    The Handmaiden
    Mad Max: Fury Road
    Only Lovers Left Alive
    Stranger by the Lake
    Upstream Color
    Timbuktu
    A Separation
    Tree of Life

    HM: Girl Walk All Day; Before Midnight; Grand Budapest Hotel; Columbus; Support the Girls or Results; Burning; Oslo, August 31st;
    The Boat People - 9
    The Power of the Dog - 7.5
    The King of Pigs - 7

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    Oh man, I really want to know what Spinal thinks of Cloud Atlas.
    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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    Quote Quoting Watashi (view post)
    Oh man, I really want to know what Spinal thinks of Cloud Atlas.
    I wanted to read the book first, which is why it's taken me so long. That may or may not happen.
    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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    Good to see Oslo, August 31st on many lists. I'm due for a rewatch.

    Barbarian - ***
    Bones and All - ***
    Tar - **


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    Cloud Atlas is one of the few movies I have done a complete 180 upon rewatch. I unabashedly love it now even though I still recognize the same qualms from my first viewing.
    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."
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    Shit. I didn't create a Letterboxd list for this decade....
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    Uwe Boll movies > all Marvel U movies
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    I work in grocery. I have not gotten sick. My fellow employees have not gotten sick. If the virus were even remotely as contagious as its being presented as, why haven’t entire store staffs who come into contact with hundreds of people per day, thousands per week, all falling ill in mass nationwide?

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    Spinal needs to watch MacGruber.
    Ratings on a 1-10 scale for your pleasure:

    Top Gun: Maverick - 8
    Top Gun - 7
    McCabe & Mrs. Miller - 8
    Crimes of the Future - 8
    Videodrome - 9
    Valley Girl - 8
    Summer of '42 - 7
    In the Line of Fire - 8
    Passenger 57 - 7
    Everything Everywhere All at Once - 6



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    2010
    1.Inception*
    2. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World


    2011
    1.Melancholia*
    2.I Saw the Devil*
    3. A Separation
    4. The Raid
    5. Drive*
    6.Attack the Block*

    2012
    1.The Cabin in the Woods*
    2.John Dies at the End*
    3.Life of Pi*
    4.The Avengers*
    5.The Intouchables*
    6.Wrong*
    7.The Act of Killing*


    2013
    1.Upstream Color
    2.The Wolf of Wall Street
    3.John Dies at the End
    4.Odd Thomas
    5.Her


    2014
    1.Interstellar*
    2.Captain America: The Winter Soldier*
    3.Predestination*
    4.Whiplash*
    5.Gone Girl*
    6.Big Hero 6


    2015
    1.Mad Max: Fury Road*
    2.Avengers: Age of Ultron*
    3.Bone Tomahawk*


    2016
    1.The Lobster*
    2.Captain Fantastic*
    3.Nocturnal Animals
    4.Swiss Army Man*
    5.Zootopia*


    2017
    1. Mother!
    2.Get Out*
    3. Colossal*


    2018
    1.Hereditary*
    2.Roma*
    3.Avengers: Infinity War*


    2019
    X
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    Uwe Boll movies > all Marvel U movies
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    I work in grocery. I have not gotten sick. My fellow employees have not gotten sick. If the virus were even remotely as contagious as its being presented as, why haven’t entire store staffs who come into contact with hundreds of people per day, thousands per week, all falling ill in mass nationwide?

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    What do the asterisks signify?
    Ratings on a 1-10 scale for your pleasure:

    Top Gun: Maverick - 8
    Top Gun - 7
    McCabe & Mrs. Miller - 8
    Crimes of the Future - 8
    Videodrome - 9
    Valley Girl - 8
    Summer of '42 - 7
    In the Line of Fire - 8
    Passenger 57 - 7
    Everything Everywhere All at Once - 6



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    I think that is just some junk characters that copied over from my copy/paste from Letterboxd. So ignore them. My list will be based on those movies plus anything in 2019.
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    Quote Quoting D_Davis (view post)
    Uwe Boll movies > all Marvel U movies
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    I work in grocery. I have not gotten sick. My fellow employees have not gotten sick. If the virus were even remotely as contagious as its being presented as, why haven’t entire store staffs who come into contact with hundreds of people per day, thousands per week, all falling ill in mass nationwide?

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    Quote Quoting Watashi (view post)
    Cloud Atlas is one of the few movies I have done a complete 180 upon rewatch. I unabashedly love it now even though I still recognize the same qualms from my first viewing.
    To this day I keep doing 180s on it. The first time I saw it I was meh on it, after the second I loved it. Then on the third time, I hated it and gave up on it. But when I reflect on it now, I admire it for its ambition. It's still a mess, but one that's watchable.
    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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    I can't get past Tom Hanks being horribly miscast in Cloud Atlas, but similar to Suspiria 2K18, I'm glad ambitious follies like these exist.
    Ratings on a 1-10 scale for your pleasure:

    Top Gun: Maverick - 8
    Top Gun - 7
    McCabe & Mrs. Miller - 8
    Crimes of the Future - 8
    Videodrome - 9
    Valley Girl - 8
    Summer of '42 - 7
    In the Line of Fire - 8
    Passenger 57 - 7
    Everything Everywhere All at Once - 6



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    Quote Quoting Pop Trash (view post)
    Spinal needs to watch MacGruber.
    I've seen it! I liked it a lot.
    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 Ezee E (view post)
    Good to see Oslo, August 31st on many lists. I'm due for a rewatch.
    Its a good movie. But 2012 was an excellent year for cinema. Wouldn't crack my top 10.
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    I work in grocery. I have not gotten sick. My fellow employees have not gotten sick. If the virus were even remotely as contagious as its being presented as, why haven’t entire store staffs who come into contact with hundreds of people per day, thousands per week, all falling ill in mass nationwide?

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    Quote Quoting Spinal (view post)
    I've seen it! I liked it a lot.
    Time to go pound some Cunth, Spinal.
    Ratings on a 1-10 scale for your pleasure:

    Top Gun: Maverick - 8
    Top Gun - 7
    McCabe & Mrs. Miller - 8
    Crimes of the Future - 8
    Videodrome - 9
    Valley Girl - 8
    Summer of '42 - 7
    In the Line of Fire - 8
    Passenger 57 - 7
    Everything Everywhere All at Once - 6



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    Going through these lists made me realize how many foreign language blindspots I still have. I blame crappy USA distribution.
    Ratings on a 1-10 scale for your pleasure:

    Top Gun: Maverick - 8
    Top Gun - 7
    McCabe & Mrs. Miller - 8
    Crimes of the Future - 8
    Videodrome - 9
    Valley Girl - 8
    Summer of '42 - 7
    In the Line of Fire - 8
    Passenger 57 - 7
    Everything Everywhere All at Once - 6



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    I expect this to change several times after I revisit my last decade of lists over the coming year.

    1. The Tree of Life
    2. Moonlight
    3. Black Swan
    4. The Act of Killing
    5. Under The Skin
    6. Prisoners
    7. Mad Max: Fury Road
    8. Blade Runner 2049
    9. You Were Never Really Here
    10. Call Me By Your Name
    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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    At the moment:

    1. 12 Years A Slave
    2. Wolf of Wall Street
    3. Django Unchained
    4. Social Network
    5. The Big Short
    6. Logan
    7. Interstellar
    8. The Grey
    9. Gone Girl
    10. The Revenant

    I should probably do a top ten foreign...

    Barbarian - ***
    Bones and All - ***
    Tar - **


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    Quote Quoting Pop Trash (view post)
    Going through these lists made me realize how many foreign language blindspots I still have. I blame crappy USA distribution.
    There are ways to circumvent this: torrents, festivals, not living in North America.
    Just because...
    The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg, 2022) mild
    Petite maman (Céline Sciamma, 2021) mild
    The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh, 2022) mild

    The last book I read was...
    The Complete Short Stories by Mark Twain


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