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Right, most porn don't get theatrical releases is my point.
On Golden Blonde was in the era before direct to video though.
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RULING: Porn is in
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Right, most porn don't get theatrical releases is my point.
I don't see anything requiring theatrical releases anywhere.
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Right, most porn don't get theatrical releases is my point.
I don't see anything requiring theatrical releases anywhere.
I was asking for a clarification because Zonny denied TV movies.
If Batman vs TMNT is allowed I'm putting it in.
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What the hell.
Cut: Dr. Strangelove
Add: Batman vs the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Airplane!
12 Angry Men
The Big Lebowski
Batman vs the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Bladerunner
Blazing Saddles
Brazil
Carol
Children of Men
Clue
The Dark Knight
Die Hard
Do the Right thing
Double Indemnity
The Emperor's New Groove
The Fall (2006)
Ghostbusters (1984)
Ghost in the Shell (1995)
Groundhog Day
The Hunt for Red October
In the Heat of the Night
Kill Bill Volume 1
Knives Out
Laputa: Castle in the Sky
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Matrix
Memories of a Murder
Miami Connection
My Cousin Vinny
My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
Nightmare on elm street (1984)
On Golden Blonde
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Police Story
Prestige
Ratatouille
Ready or Not (2019)
The Rocketeer
Run Lola Run
Seven Samurai
The Shawshank Redemption
Snatch
Spaceballs
Speed Racer
Spider Man: Into the Spider Verse
Star Trek IV: The One With The Whales
The Thing (1982)
The Third Man
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Young Frankenstein
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my favorite films are A Bullet for the General, The Last Unicorn, The Laurel-Hardy Murder Mystery, Midnight Cowboy, and My Neighbor Totoro.
this is irrelevant, as i will not be adding or subtracting any from the list.
cut: The Emperor's New Groove
add: Attack of the Flying Lizards
Airplane!
12 Angry Men
Attack of the Flying Lizards
The Big Lebowski
Batman vs the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Bladerunner
Blazing Saddles
Brazil
Carol
Children of Men
Clue
The Dark Knight
Die Hard
Do the Right thing
Double Indemnity
The Fall (2006)
Ghostbusters (1984)
Ghost in the Shell (1995)
Groundhog Day
The Hunt for Red October
In the Heat of the Night
Kill Bill Volume 1
Knives Out
Laputa: Castle in the Sky
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Matrix
Memories of a Murder
Miami Connection
My Cousin Vinny
My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
Nightmare on elm street (1984)
On Golden Blonde
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Police Story
Prestige
Ratatouille
Ready or Not (2019)
The Rocketeer
Run Lola Run
Seven Samurai
The Shawshank Redemption
Snatch
Spaceballs
Speed Racer
Spider Man: Into the Spider Verse
Star Trek IV: The One With The Whales
The Thing (1982)
The Third Man
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Young Frankenstein
alright, i'm done now.
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This kind of exercise really makes you confront just how broad and amazing the corpus of filmic tradition really is, and how trifling it can feel to attempting to create a top fifty list. How could you choose? Surely more than fifty films deserve to be recognized throughout the ages as great contributions to art and progress?
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Hm, I dunno if we need two Batman movies on here.
Cut: The Dark Knight
Add: The Sting
Airplane!
12 Angry Men
Attack of the Flying Lizards
The Big Lebowski
Batman vs the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Bladerunner
Blazing Saddles
Brazil
Carol
Children of Men
Clue
Die Hard
Do the Right thing
Double Indemnity
Dragnet
The Fall (2006)
Galaxy Quest
Ghostbusters (1984)
Ghost in the Shell (1995)
Groundhog Day
The Hunt for Red October
In the Heat of the Night
Kill Bill Volume 1
Knives Out
Laputa: Castle in the Sky
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Matrix
Memories of a Murder
Miami Connection
My Cousin Vinny
My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
Nightmare on elm street (1984)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Police Story
Prestige
Ratatouille
Ready or Not (2019)
The Rocketeer
Run Lola Run
Seven Samurai
The Shawshank Redemption
Snatch
Spaceballs
Speed Racer
Spider Man: Into the Spider Verse
The Sting
The Thing (1982)
The Third Man
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Young Frankenstein
EDIT: Wow, love the unintended poetry of the list going "The Sting" to "The Thing"
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edited January 2022
YES
EDIT: oh wait
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So, we just concluded a nearly identical thread related to this community determining the top 50 games of all time. And I imagine some folks are still ragin' and fumin' from that experience. Well, let's build on that anger with capital-A interest.
In this thread we'll "scientifically" decide what the community of SE++ thinks are the 50 best films of all time.
The ground rules, in no particular order:
-- Each post you make can add one film to the definitive list of the 50 best films of all time, and once our communal list reaches 50, you may instead replace an existing film with your choice. For organizational clarity, please copy & paste the existing list of movies with your changes at the top of your post. For readability's sake, let's continue the tradition of having the list be in alphabetical order.
Example:
"Add: Scream Blacula Scream"
Current List:
"-- Scream Blacula Scream"
Example 2:
"Remove: Scream Blacula Scream"
"Add: The Meteor Man"
"*section of the post where I would copy and paste the master list of 50 games, but now my change is added*"
-- You cannot add or replace the same film more than once per person.* If you really think Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure needs to be on this list, or Zack Snyder's Justice League doesn't, you'll have to convince others.
-- If you're adding a film with multiple versions (I.e. reboots, remakes, ect...), please specify the year alongside it.
-- When this thread hits Page 100, that's it, no more debating about the top 50 ever, you had your chance.
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
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FishmanPut your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain.Registered Userregular
List needs Satoshi Kon.
...but not yet.
Instead let's go to Takeshi Miike.
Add: Blade of the Immortal Cut: Nightmare on elm street (1984)
Look, Freddy's alright, I guess, but lat's face it, Wes was still just warming up. Blade of the Immortal is the 100th movie by an absolute machine of a Director, who's responsible for some of the best horror, action, comedy... actually, he's pretty much covered every genre. I'll be bringing Takeshi Miike back again later.
Freddy has a blade hand? Manji is an Immortal cursed ronin who adopts the blades of every one he kills. So against mooks, he's fine, but as he gets into boss battles, he slowly digs his way through a veritible swiss army arsenal of blades pulled somewhat comically continually from inside his kimono. Like all Miike joints, it's big, loud, brash and fun, with absolute acres of character and dumb fun.. plus gore, violence, dark humour and more than a touch of the supernatural.
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KetarCome on upstairswe're having a partyRegistered Userregular
Cut into tiny pieces with dozens of swords meticulously placed in advance: Blade of the Immortal.
Total Massacre: 13 Assassins
12 Angry Men
13 Assassins
Airplane!
The Big Lebowski
Batman vs the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Bladerunner
Blazing Saddles
Brazil
Carol
Children of Men
Chungking Express
Clue
Die Hard
Do the Right thing
Double Indemnity
Dragnet
Drive (1997)
The Fall (2006)
Galaxy Quest
Ghostbusters (1984)
Ghost in the Shell (1995)
Groundhog Day
The Hunt for Red October
In the Heat of the Night
Jurassic Park
Kill Bill Volume 1
Knives Out
Laputa: Castle in the Sky
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Matrix
Memories of a Murder
Miami Connection
My Cousin Vinny
My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Police Story
Prestige
Ready or Not (2019)
The Rocketeer
Run Lola Run
Seven Samurai
The Shawshank Redemption
Snatch
Speed Racer
Spider Man: Into the Spider Verse
The Sting
The Thing (1982)
The Third Man
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Young Frankenstein
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edited January 2022
Remove: Brazil
Add: 7 Samurai
12 Angry Men
13 Assassins
Airplane!
The Big Lebowski
Batman vs the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Bladerunner
Blazing Saddles
Brazil
Carol
Children of Men
Chungking Express
Clue
Die Hard
Do the Right thing
Double Indemnity
Dragnet
Drive (1997)
The Fall (2006)
Galaxy Quest
Ghostbusters (1984)
Ghost in the Shell (1995)
Groundhog Day
The Hunt for Red October
In the Heat of the Night
Jurassic Park
Kill Bill Volume 1
Knives Out
Laputa: Castle in the Sky
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Matrix
Memories of a Murder
Miami Connection
My Cousin Vinny
My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Police Story
Prestige
Ready or Not (2019)
The Rocketeer
Run Lola Run
Seven Samurai
The Shawshank Redemption
Snatch
Speed Racer
Spider Man: Into the Spider Verse
The Sting
The Thing (1982)
The Third Man
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Young Frankenstein
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That's unbelievably cool. Your new name is cool guy. Let's have sex.
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KetarCome on upstairswe're having a partyRegistered Userregular
I do really like 13 Assassins. I might have to watch it again sometime in the next week.
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edited January 2022
It's a damned shame we've already cut 10 things, because with 7 Samurai, 12 Angry Men, and 13 Assassins, we could make a concerted effort to fill slots 1-13 with movies starting 1-13.
Edit: I guess we could bring in the Third Man for 3, too.
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I am earnestly shocked by that cut.
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edited January 2022
This will hurt before it gets better.
Cut: Die Hard Add: The Sixth Sense
Bruce Willis swap. I'm sure there's a veritable array of 80's action movie wars ahead of us, so let's just get this first cut out of the way for some good old fashioned meta list manipulation.
there are two types of people who take part in this exercise
those who are looking for enemies
and those who are looking to hurt themselves
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edited January 2022
Annnnnd now I see the bit.
EDIT: Wait what the fuck? I thought I hit Brazil.
EDIT: Oh, 7 samurai was already on the list.
I am tired.
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It was Wind Waker
ADD: AIRPLANE!
Right, most porn don't get theatrical releases is my point.
On Golden Blonde was in the era before direct to video though.
Not according to IMBD
then i might be tempted to argue about them
Oh. Huh. So it does. Nvm then.
Cut: Drive
Add: Star Trek IV: The One With The Whales
That doesn't answer my question though! Are all direct to video movies allowed? Is Batman vs TMNT allowed?
I don't see anything requiring theatrical releases anywhere.
I was asking for a clarification because Zonny denied TV movies.
If Batman vs TMNT is allowed I'm putting it in.
Cut: Dr. Strangelove
Add: Batman vs the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
this is irrelevant, as i will not be adding or subtracting any from the list.
wait, hold on
add: Attack of the Flying Lizards
alright, i'm done now.
Anyway
Cut: On Golden Blonde
Add: Dragnet (1987)
-- Remove: Star Trek IV
-- Add: Galaxy Quest
Cut: The Dark Knight
Add: The Sting
EDIT: Wow, love the unintended poetry of the list going "The Sting" to "The Thing"
Cut Attack of the Flying Lizards
Add The Ring
EDIT: oh wait
Add Drive (1997)
You monster.
Add Jurassic Park
Add Chungking Express, the greatest Hong Kong romantic crime comedy-drama ever made.
...but not yet.
Instead let's go to Takeshi Miike.
Add: Blade of the Immortal
Cut: Nightmare on elm street (1984)
Look, Freddy's alright, I guess, but lat's face it, Wes was still just warming up. Blade of the Immortal is the 100th movie by an absolute machine of a Director, who's responsible for some of the best horror, action, comedy... actually, he's pretty much covered every genre. I'll be bringing Takeshi Miike back again later.
Freddy has a blade hand? Manji is an Immortal cursed ronin who adopts the blades of every one he kills. So against mooks, he's fine, but as he gets into boss battles, he slowly digs his way through a veritible swiss army arsenal of blades pulled somewhat comically continually from inside his kimono. Like all Miike joints, it's big, loud, brash and fun, with absolute acres of character and dumb fun.. plus gore, violence, dark humour and more than a touch of the supernatural.
Skip Elm St. Watch Blade of the Immortal.
Total Massacre: 13 Assassins
Add: 7 Samurai
Man, if you put a gun to my head and asked me to pick between 7 Samurai and 13 Assassins.... I'd probably pick 13 Assassins, and feel damned for it.
Edit: I guess we could bring in the Third Man for 3, too.
Cut: Drive.
Add: 2 Fast 2 Furious
Right, now what do I cut for Four Lions...
Cut: Carol
Action: Wanda
Gotta get Loden's only feature on the list for a little bit. What a stunner; one of the best American films of the 70s.
Also specifying which 13 Assassins has been added. The Eiichi Kudo 1963 original is also very good.
Cut: Do the Right Thing
Add: Four Lions
Add: The Fifth Element
Cut: Die Hard
Add: The Sixth Sense
Bruce Willis swap. I'm sure there's a veritable array of 80's action movie wars ahead of us, so let's just get this first cut out of the way for some good old fashioned meta list manipulation.
there are two types of people who take part in this exercise
those who are looking for enemies
and those who are looking to hurt themselves
EDIT: Wait what the fuck? I thought I hit Brazil.
EDIT: Oh, 7 samurai was already on the list.
I am tired.