No Country for Old Men vs. Kill Bill Vol. 1
25th Hour vs. Spirited Away
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind vs. Shaun of the Dead
Mulholland Drive vs. Before Sunset
There Will Be Blood vs. Memento
Zodiac vs. Children of Men
A Serious Man vs. Wall-E
Inglourious Basterds vs. Yi Yi
No Country for Old Men vs. Kill Bill Vol. 1
25th Hour vs. Spirited Away
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind vs. Shaun of the Dead
Mulholland Drive vs. Before Sunset
There Will Be Blood vs. Memento - (rewatchability)
Zodiac vs. Children of Men
A Serious Man vs. Wall-E - (haven't seen all of a Serious Man)
Inglourious Basterds vs. Yi Yi
Skitch and I need to have a viewing party - we've nearly voted the same starting in round 1.
Burn all the Yi Yi deniers.Quoting Yxklyx (view post)
No Country for Old Men vs. Kill Bill Vol. 1
25th Hour vs. Spirited Away
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind vs. Shaun of the Dead
Mulholland Drive vs. Before Sunset
There Will Be Blood vs. Memento
Zodiac vs. Children of Men
A Serious Man vs. Wall-E
Inglourious Basterds vs. Yi Yi
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
No Country for Old Men > Kill Bill, Vol. 1. A good (if pretentious) movie vs. some good scenes.
25th Hour > Spirited Away. This is really comparing apples and oranges here. Both are great in completely different ways, but Lee's film seems to me the more inexhaustible of the two, which is to say that I suspect it still has new things to reveal to me that would justify watching it again.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind vs. Shaun of the Dead
Mulholland Drive > Before Sunset. Tough call, but of the two, Lynch's film is more the innovative, tightly structured, and inexhaustible. Actually maybe it's not such a tough call, although I still love Linklater's film.
There Will Be Blood > Memento. I'd watch Anderson's film again.
Children of Men > Zodiac. A toss-up between two movies I'm less than enthralled with. Of the two, Cuarón's seems to me the more disciplined.
A Serious Man > Wall-E. I've seen the Coens' film four times and would watch it again; I've seen Wall-E once and have no desire to see it again.
Yi Yi > Inglourious Basterds. In addition to its other virtues, Yang's film doesn't make me feel dirty for watching it.
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
The (New) World
Doing the Baby Doll thing....
No Country for Old Men vs. Kill Bill Vol. 1
-Anton Chigurh would kill Bill.
25th Hour vs. Spirited Away
-26 hours on drugs
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind vs. Shaun of the Dead
-This mind remembers little to nothing of Shaun
Mulholland Drive vs. Before Sunset
-Before Sunset, more like before drinking one of the finest espressos in the world.
HELP MEEEEEE
There Will Be Blood vs. Memento
-WOULD DRINK GUY PEARCE'S MILKSHAKE.
Zodiac vs. Children of Men
-Zodiac Killer would've just gotten high with Michael Caine.
A Serious Man vs. Wall-E
-Actually forgot what I voted on here.
Inglourious Basterds vs. Yi Yi
-Nay nay... couldn't vote
No Country for Old Men vs. Kill Bill Vol. 1
25th Hour vs. Spirited Away
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind vs. Shaun of the Dead
Mulholland Drivevs. Before Sunset
There Will Be Blood vs. Memento
Zodiac vs. Children of Men
A Serious Man vs. Wall-E
Inglourious Basterds vs. Yi Yi
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
No Country for Old Men vs. Kill Bill Vol. 1
25th Hour vs. Spirited Away
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind vs. Shaun of the Dead
Mulholland Drive vs. Before Sunset
There Will Be Blood vs. Memento
Zodiac vs. Children of Men
A Serious Man vs. Wall-E
Inglourious Basterds vs. Yi Yi (can't vote)
I abstain from this round. MC stinks.
Hi Mr. McGibblets. It's been a while.
Blog!
And it's happened once again
I'll turn to a friend
Someone that understands
And sees through the master plan
But everybody's gone
And I've been here for too long
To face this on my own
Well, I guess this is growing up
The three actual best movies of the 2000s are still alive, so that's a bonus (though one won't be there in the next round because of the match ups). But the next-best three are missing: Oldboy, Battle Royale, and In the Mood for Love..... MC anti-Asian cinema confirmed? (/s)
Last 10 Movies Seen
(90+ = canonical, 80-89 = brilliant, 70-79 = strongly recommended, 60-69 = good, 50-59 = mixed, 40-49 = below average with some good points, 30-39 = poor, 20-29 = bad, 10-19 = terrible, 0-9 = soul-crushingly inept in every way)
Run (2020) 64
The Whistlers (2019) 55
Pawn (2020) 62
Matilda (1996) 37
The Town that Dreaded Sundown (1976) 61
Moby Dick (2011) 50
Soul (2020) 64
Heroic Duo (2003) 55
A Moment of Romance (1990) 61
As Tears Go By (1988) 65
Stuff at Letterboxd
Listening Habits at LastFM
Don't lump me in there.
No Country for Old Men vs. Kill Bill Vol. 1
25th Hour vs. Spirited Away
There Will Be Blood vs. Memento
Zodiac vs. Children of Men
Huh?
RIP In the Mood for Love. That's one swift kick in the balls for such an elegant movie.
No Country for Old Men vs. Kill Bill Vol. 1
25th Hour vs. Spirited Away (25th Hour still in the competition, aye?)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind vs. Shaun of the Dead
Mulholland Drive vs. Before Sunset (well, this just sucks, but I guess I really am a softy)
There Will Be Blood vs. Memento
Zodiac vs. Children of Men
A Serious Man vs. Wall-E
Inglorious Bastards vs. Yi Yi
:-) This works on several levels and may just win the comments for this round.
Rewatchability. I think this is it! The first time I watched Memento it was mind-blowing. The second time, utterly satisfying. The third time the structure was cool, but I was able to just appreciate the film aside from its structure-- the superb performance by Guy Pierce, the bang-on noir mise en scene, the moments of genuine heartbreak, while still having a thread of humor running throughout. The forth time, the structure became a distraction. Same with the fifth and sixth. After a few viewings, the structure becomes a parlor trick that obscures the qualities of the film.
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Stuff I've Watched out of *****
The Last Duel - ***
Only Murders in the Building: **
Squid Games: **.5
In terms of filmmaking craft, Inglourious Basterds may be the best film Tarantino has ever made, but both times I've seen it, I start to feel slightly nauseous in the last forty minutes because all that craft has been placed in the service of a rather simplistic agenda: namely, to get the spectator to root for the brutalization and murder of Nazis. Tarantino appears to regard his audience as a mob howling for blood, and the film uses the historical crimes of fascism simply as a pretext for giving it to them (much as he would subsequently use the horrors of slavery in Django Unchained and the crimes of the Manson family in Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood, both less accomplished films). In other words, notwithstanding the fact that Melanie Laurent is obviously no Romy Schneider, Tarantino has put all of his considerable craft and technique into making the best possible version of Le Vieux fusil.
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
The (New) World
Agreed. There is also the element of how sad the story is. Sure, TWBB isn't a happy go fun time either, but being presented in a linear story arc/journey makes it easier to revisit every few years whereas the parlor trick of Momento takes away from rewatchability. Not that rewatchability is the most important key to whether a film is good or not, but when you know whats coming it can detract from revisiting. Not always...I've seen The Sixth Sense maybe twice...and Fight Club dozens of times.
No Country for Old Men vs. Kill Bill Vol. 1
25th Hour vs. Spirited Away
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind vs. Shaun of the Dead
Mulholland Drive vs. Before Sunset
There Will Be Blood vs. Memento
Zodiac vs. Children of Men
A Serious Man vs. Wall-E
Inglourious Basterds vs. Yi Yi
last four:
black widow - 8
zero dark thirty - 9
the muse - 7
freaky - 7
now reading:
lonesome dove - larry mcmurtry
Letterboxd
The Harrison Marathon - A Podcast About Harrison Ford
No Country for Old Men vs. Kill Bill Vol. 1
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind vs. Shaun of the Dead
There Will Be Blood vs. Memento
Zodiac vs. Children of Men
A Serious Man vs. Wall-E
My YouTube Channel: Grim Street Grindhouse
My Top 100 Horror Movies OF ALL TIME.
No Country for Old Men vs. Kill Bill Vol. 1
25th Hour vs. Spirited Away
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind vs. Shaun of the Dead
There Will Be Blood vs. Memento
Zodiac vs. Children of Men
Inglourious Basterds vs. Yi Yi
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
615 Film
Letterboxd
Yeh but they won't survive. So F this.
So sad to see Zodiac fall to another one of Cuaron's flashy technical exercises in nothingness.
Last 10 Movies Seen
(90+ = canonical, 80-89 = brilliant, 70-79 = strongly recommended, 60-69 = good, 50-59 = mixed, 40-49 = below average with some good points, 30-39 = poor, 20-29 = bad, 10-19 = terrible, 0-9 = soul-crushingly inept in every way)
Run (2020) 64
The Whistlers (2019) 55
Pawn (2020) 62
Matilda (1996) 37
The Town that Dreaded Sundown (1976) 61
Moby Dick (2011) 50
Soul (2020) 64
Heroic Duo (2003) 55
A Moment of Romance (1990) 61
As Tears Go By (1988) 65
Stuff at Letterboxd
Listening Habits at LastFM
No Country for Old Men vs. Kill Bill Vol. 1
25th Hour vs. Spirited Away
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind vs. Shaun of the Dead
There Will Be Blood vs. Memento
Zodiac vs. Children of Men
A Serious Man vs. Wall-E
Last Seen:
Uncle from Another World (S. Kawai, 2022-23) ☆
Why the Hell are You Here, Teacher!? + OVA (H. Kaneko/T. Tokoro, 2018-19) ☆
The Dangers in My Heart, S2 (H. Akagi, 2024) ☆
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, S1 (K. Saitō, 2023?24) ☆
Knocked Up (J. Apatow, 2007) ☆
Cobra (G. P. Cosmatos, 1986)
Lawless (J. Hillcoat, 2012) ☆
Pantheon, S1 & 2 (C. Silverstein, 2022-23) ☆
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (S. Peckinpah, 1974)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden, Dragon (A. Lee, 2000)
First time ☆
No Country for Old Men vs. Kill Bill Vol. 1
25th Hour vs. Spirited Away
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind vs. Shaun of the Dead
Mulholland Drive vs. Before Sunset - y'all be evil... these two and ITMFL are probably my 3 favorites of this decade.
There Will Be Blood vs. Memento
Zodiac vs. Children of Men
A Serious Man vs. Wall-E
Inglourious Basterds vs. Yi Yi
The Boat People - 9
The Power of the Dog - 7.5
The King of Pigs - 7
Who even are you?!
Only one movie survives. Best not to get too emotionally attached.
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