Can't imagine this one will last long but I wanna talk about it so away we go
Add: Drunktown's Finest
Remove: 15 Minutes
Drunktown's Finest is an independent movie, the debut feature of Sydney Freeland who directed two episodes of Reservation Dogs and four of Rutherford Falls last year. She's a Navajo trans woman, and her first film follows three outcasts on her own reservation - a young man running with a bad crowd, a young woman trying to reconnect with her tribe after a lifetime with an adoptive white family, a young trans woman trying to figuring out how to love a tradition and a culture that doesn't always feel like it loves her back.
It's the best portrayal of a reservation I've ever seen on film, capturing the beauty without pretending the ugly parts aren't there. It's got the single best and most realistic "dirtbag party that takes a turn" that I've seen, edging out even Better Luck Tomorrow. It's cast from Freeland's own reservation, with entirely non-professional actors, so it's filled with people you'll literally never see in movies. It has an ending so beautiful and hopeful and human that I wept. She shot the whole thing in like a week or two, which is fucking absurd.
It is a wonderful film, and I love it, and I hope folks check it out.
1 Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The 3rd Man
4 Lions
The 5th Element
7 Samurai
12 Angry Men
13 Assassins (2010)
Airplane!
Aliens
Beauty and the Beast (1946)
The Big Lebowski
Black Dynamite
Bladerunner
Blazing Saddles
Children of Men
Chungking Express
Clue
Do The Right Thing
Double Indemnity
Drunktown's Finest
The Fall (2006)
Furious 7
Galaxy Quest
Ghostbusters (1984)
Ghost in the Shell (1995)
Godzilla(1998)
The Hunt for Red October
In the Heat of the Night
Jurassic Park
Knives Out
Laputa: Castle in the Sky
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Matrix
Memories of Murder
Miami Connection
Parasite
Ready or Not (2019)
The Rocketeer
Run Lola Run
The Secret of NIMH
Shaun of the Dead
The Shawshank Redemption
She's All That
Spider Man: Into the Spider Verse
Support the Girls
The Sting
The Thing (1982)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Young Frankenstein
Your Name
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edited January 2022
Add: Terminator 2: Judgement Day
Remove: Ready or Not (2019)
I can't believe we've got this long without some representation for Arnie!
1 Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The 3rd Man
4 Lions
The 5th Element
7 Samurai
12 Angry Men
13 Assassins (2010)
Airplane!
Aliens
Beauty and the Beast (1946)
The Big Lebowski
Black Dynamite
Bladerunner
Blazing Saddles
Children of Men
Chungking Express
Clue
Do The Right Thing
Double Indemnity
Drunktown's Finest
The Fall (2006)
Furious 7
Galaxy Quest
Ghostbusters (1984)
Ghost in the Shell (1995)
Godzilla(1998)
The Hunt for Red October
In the Heat of the Night
Jurassic Park
Knives Out
Laputa: Castle in the Sky
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Matrix
Memories of Murder
Miami Connection
Parasite
The Rocketeer
Run Lola Run
The Secret of NIMH
Shaun of the Dead
The Shawshank Redemption
She's All That
Spider Man: Into the Spider Verse
Support the Girls
The Sting
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
The Thing (1982)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Young Frankenstein
Your Name
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Zonugal(He/Him) The Holiday ArmadilloI'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered Userregular
I want to add a crime film to the list, one that is fairly recent and also features fantastic performances from Constance Wu and especially Jennifer Lopez.
Zonugal(He/Him) The Holiday ArmadilloI'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered Userregular
At this point I honestly wonder how many films I can get on this list that feature Usher.
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zepherinRussian warship, go fuck yourselfRegistered Userregular
Hustlers is a fun movie, but I only watched it one and a half times.
I’ve seen Ghostbusters a lot. So many times. But I won’t have to do anything. Ghostbusters will sort itself back on the list.
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edited January 2022
Add: Heat
Remove:Hustlers
If we're doing a crime movie, let's do a classic.
Full disclosure: I have a personal beef with Hustlers. The club where they shot the scenes for the movie stiffed the dancers who normally work there. They were shut out of work for a week while Lopez and co. shot their movie and got paid millions. This travesty is certainly on the club and not the cast or the production itself, it leaves a bad taste in my mouth that, upon finding out about the lost wages, none of the richer benefactors of the movie's success did absolutely anything about it. Hollywood frequently takes advantage of sex workers and people who do work adjacent to sex work for its own gain, and this movie was no different.
1 Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The 3rd Man
4 Lions
The 5th Element
7 Samurai
12 Angry Men
13 Assassins (2010)
Airplane!
Aliens
Beauty and the Beast (1946)
The Big Lebowski
Black Dynamite
Bladerunner
Blazing Saddles
Children of Men
Chungking Express
Clue
Do The Right Thing
Double Indemnity
Drunktown's Finest
The Fall (2006)
Furious 7
Galaxy Quest
Ghost in the Shell (1995)
Godzilla(1998)
Heat
The Hunt for Red October
In the Heat of the Night
Jurassic Park
Knives Out
Laputa: Castle in the Sky
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Matrix
Memories of Murder
Miami Connection
Parasite
The Rocketeer
Run Lola Run
The Secret of NIMH
Shaun of the Dead
The Shawshank Redemption
She's All That
Spider Man: Into the Spider Verse
Support the Girls
The Sting
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
The Thing (1982)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Young Frankenstein
Your Name
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
I remember Heat as the movie my Criminal Law professor absolutely hated.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
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But how did he feel about My Cousin Vinny?
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Zonugal(He/Him) The Holiday ArmadilloI'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered Userregular
Today is a day for crime.
Let's add a crime movie with maybe the funniest physical-performance from the last decade:
-- Remove: Children of Men
-- Add: The Wolf of Wall Street
1 Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The 3rd Man
4 Lions
The 5th Element
7 Samurai
12 Angry Men
13 Assassins (2010)
Airplane!
Aliens
Beauty and the Beast (1946)
The Big Lebowski
Black Dynamite
Bladerunner
Blazing Saddles
Chungking Express
Clue
Do The Right Thing
Double Indemnity
Drunktown's Finest
The Fall (2006)
Furious 7
Galaxy Quest
Ghost in the Shell (1995)
Godzilla(1998)
Heat
The Hunt for Red October
In the Heat of the Night
Jurassic Park
Knives Out
Laputa: Castle in the Sky
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Matrix
Memories of Murder
Miami Connection
Parasite
The Rocketeer
Run Lola Run
The Secret of NIMH
Shaun of the Dead
The Shawshank Redemption
She's All That
Spider Man: Into the Spider Verse
Support the Girls
The Sting
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
The Thing (1982)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
The Wolf of Wall Street
Young Frankenstein
Your Name
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Is used to highlight why you don't ask a question of a witness when you don't know exactly how they are going to answer.
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zepherinRussian warship, go fuck yourselfRegistered Userregular
edited January 2022
Add: Drunken Master (1978)
Remove: Double Indemnity
I think we need to have some Jackie Chan on the board. And keep this in mind that Jackie Chan has more movies than tetris games. So perhaps pick the one you like the most. I happen to love the original drunken master. But if someone wants to go rumble in the Bronx, drunken master 2, or The Foreigner. I would get behind that as well.
The Secret of NIMH is a very good movie! Unfortunately it got on the list by cutting Princess Mononoke, which got on by cutting Laputa: Castle in the Sky, which got on by cutting A Fish Called Wanda, which got on by cutting Wanda, which got on by cutting Carol
Add Sword Art Online Progressive: Aria of a Starless Night
According to this wikipedia entry I just googled, "Sword Art Online Progressive: Aria of a Starless Night is a 2021 Japanese animated science fiction action adventure film based on the Sword Art Online: Progressive light novels written by Reki Kawahara and illustrated by abec, which serve as an expanded retelling of Sword Art Online's Aincrad storyline. The film is produced by A-1 Pictures and directed by Ayako Kōno, while featuring character designs by Kento Toya and music by Yuki Kajiura. This is the second film, after Sword Art Online The Movie: Ordinal Scale of the Sword Art Online series. The film depicts the story of the encounter between Kirito and Asuna, covering the events on Aincrad's first floor, in particular Asuna's initial struggle to cope with the realities of her new world. The film premiered in Japan on October 30, 2021."
1 Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The 3rd Man
4 Lions
The 5th Element
7 Samurai
12 Angry Men
13 Assassins (2010)
Airplane!
Aliens
Beauty and the Beast (1946)
The Big Lebowski
Black Dynamite
Bladerunner
Blazing Saddles
Children of Men
Chungking Express
Clue
Do The Right Thing
Drunken Master (1978)
Drunktown's Finest
The Fall (2006)
Galaxy Quest
Ghost in the Shell (1995)
Godzilla(1998)
Heat
The Hunt for Red October
In the Heat of the Night
Jurassic Park
Knives Out
Laputa: Castle in the Sky
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Matrix
Memories of Murder
Miami Connection
Parasite
Redline
The Rocketeer
Run Lola Run
Shaun of the Dead
The Shawshank Redemption
She's All That
Spider Man: Into the Spider Verse
Support the Girls
Sword Art Online Progressive: Aria of a Starless Night
The Sting
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
The Thing (1982)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Young Frankenstein
Your Name
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LasbrookIt takes a lot to make a stewWhen it comes to me and youRegistered Userregular
Already got out first illegal addition? I feel like it took us longer with video games.
Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Cut: Sword Art Online
Add: Yojimbo
1 Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The 3rd Man
4 Lions
The 5th Element
7 Samurai
12 Angry Men
13 Assassins (2010)
Airplane!
Aliens
Beauty and the Beast (1946)
The Big Lebowski
Black Dynamite
Bladerunner
Blazing Saddles
Children of Men
Chungking Express
Clue
Do The Right Thing
Drunken Master (1978)
Drunktown's Finest
The Fall (2006)
Galaxy Quest
Ghost in the Shell (1995)
Godzilla(1998)
Heat
The Hunt for Red October
In the Heat of the Night
Jurassic Park
Knives Out
Laputa: Castle in the Sky
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Matrix
Memories of Murder
Miami Connection
Parasite
Redline
The Rocketeer
Run Lola Run
Shaun of the Dead
The Shawshank Redemption
She's All That
Spider Man: Into the Spider Verse
Support the Girls
The Sting
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
The Thing (1982)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Yojimbo
Young Frankenstein
Your Name
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zepherinRussian warship, go fuck yourselfRegistered Userregular
I thought I could just lurk and watch but argh, Children on Men, I love that movie. So I will add a movie that I love. Sorry Aliens, you were number 9 on the list, that's all.
We have a very good zombie movie on this list, but I don't think we have the best zombie movie.
Remove: Shaun of the Dead Add: One Cut of the Dead
I don't want to say too much about the movie, as it's got a great twist, and just about the biggest tonal swerve I've ever seen.
It's a low-budget zombie film about a low-budget zombie film that gets attacked by zombies. It's clever as hell and gets better with each re-watch.
It's also similar to Shaun of the Dead, in that they are two of the only zombie movies I can think of that subvert the genre and get largely happy endings. The end of Shaun, however, relies on the government coming in to save the day, which in recent years, seems more and more outlandish. And the acceptance with the new normal of life with the zombies, while a spot on prediction, is just a bit too depressingly accurate these days.
One Cut, however, is just a straight up triumph of people working together to overcome an insurmountable adversity, which is a bit more appealingly aspirational.
I don't know how long it'll last on this list, as I feel it's name paints a target on it for cutting, but I highly recommend it to everyone that has the chance to see it.
1 Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The 3rd Man
4 Lions
The 5th Element
7 Samurai
12 Angry Men
13 Assassins (2010)
Airplane!
Beauty and the Beast (1946)
The Big Lebowski
Black Dynamite
Bladerunner
Blazing Saddles
Children of Men
Chungking Express
Clue
District 9
Do The Right Thing
Drunken Master (1978)
Drunktown's Finest
The Fall (2006)
Galaxy Quest
Ghost in the Shell (1995)
Godzilla(1998)
Heat
The Hunt for Red October
In the Heat of the Night
Jurassic Park
Knives Out
Laputa: Castle in the Sky
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Matrix
Memories of Murder
Miami Connection
One Cut of the Dead
Parasite
Redline
The Rocketeer
Run Lola Run
The Shawshank Redemption
She's All That
Spider Man: Into the Spider Verse
Support the Girls
The Sting
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
The Thing (1982)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Yojimbo
Young Frankenstein
Your Name
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Add: Drunktown's Finest
Remove: 15 Minutes
Drunktown's Finest is an independent movie, the debut feature of Sydney Freeland who directed two episodes of Reservation Dogs and four of Rutherford Falls last year. She's a Navajo trans woman, and her first film follows three outcasts on her own reservation - a young man running with a bad crowd, a young woman trying to reconnect with her tribe after a lifetime with an adoptive white family, a young trans woman trying to figuring out how to love a tradition and a culture that doesn't always feel like it loves her back.
It's the best portrayal of a reservation I've ever seen on film, capturing the beauty without pretending the ugly parts aren't there. It's got the single best and most realistic "dirtbag party that takes a turn" that I've seen, edging out even Better Luck Tomorrow. It's cast from Freeland's own reservation, with entirely non-professional actors, so it's filled with people you'll literally never see in movies. It has an ending so beautiful and hopeful and human that I wept. She shot the whole thing in like a week or two, which is fucking absurd.
It is a wonderful film, and I love it, and I hope folks check it out.
Remove: Ready or Not (2019)
I can't believe we've got this long without some representation for Arnie!
-- Remove: Ghostbusters (1984)
-- Add: Hustlers
This movie fucking rules.
https://youtu.be/JZ_plXFNwfc?t=5
I’ve seen Ghostbusters a lot. So many times. But I won’t have to do anything. Ghostbusters will sort itself back on the list.
Remove:Hustlers
If we're doing a crime movie, let's do a classic.
Full disclosure: I have a personal beef with Hustlers. The club where they shot the scenes for the movie stiffed the dancers who normally work there. They were shut out of work for a week while Lopez and co. shot their movie and got paid millions. This travesty is certainly on the club and not the cast or the production itself, it leaves a bad taste in my mouth that, upon finding out about the lost wages, none of the richer benefactors of the movie's success did absolutely anything about it. Hollywood frequently takes advantage of sex workers and people who do work adjacent to sex work for its own gain, and this movie was no different.
Let's add a crime movie with maybe the funniest physical-performance from the last decade:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP5e2XJsB_4
-- Remove: Children of Men
-- Add: The Wolf of Wall Street
Loved it.
My Cousin Vinny was used in more than one class as a teaching example.
EDIT: This scene in particular:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSuaVMjheNk
Is used to highlight why you don't ask a question of a witness when you don't know exactly how they are going to answer.
Remove: Double Indemnity
I think we need to have some Jackie Chan on the board. And keep this in mind that Jackie Chan has more movies than tetris games. So perhaps pick the one you like the most. I happen to love the original drunken master. But if someone wants to go rumble in the Bronx, drunken master 2, or The Foreigner. I would get behind that as well.
cut: Furious 7
add: Redline
Cut The Secret of NIMH
The Secret of NIMH is a very good movie! Unfortunately it got on the list by cutting Princess Mononoke, which got on by cutting Laputa: Castle in the Sky, which got on by cutting A Fish Called Wanda, which got on by cutting Wanda, which got on by cutting Carol
Add Sword Art Online Progressive: Aria of a Starless Night
According to this wikipedia entry I just googled, "Sword Art Online Progressive: Aria of a Starless Night is a 2021 Japanese animated science fiction action adventure film based on the Sword Art Online: Progressive light novels written by Reki Kawahara and illustrated by abec, which serve as an expanded retelling of Sword Art Online's Aincrad storyline. The film is produced by A-1 Pictures and directed by Ayako Kōno, while featuring character designs by Kento Toya and music by Yuki Kajiura. This is the second film, after Sword Art Online The Movie: Ordinal Scale of the Sword Art Online series. The film depicts the story of the encounter between Kirito and Asuna, covering the events on Aincrad's first floor, in particular Asuna's initial struggle to cope with the realities of her new world. The film premiered in Japan on October 30, 2021."
Steam
Add: Yojimbo
Cut: Aliens
Add: District 9
If it's Redline, no one added it into the list when I first put it in so at this point I figure I'll just do it again
Yojimbo is great!
I'll be back to cut it, or whatever has replaced it, with the other SAO movie in another 10 pages or so
Remove: Shaun of the Dead
Add: One Cut of the Dead
I don't want to say too much about the movie, as it's got a great twist, and just about the biggest tonal swerve I've ever seen.
It's a low-budget zombie film about a low-budget zombie film that gets attacked by zombies. It's clever as hell and gets better with each re-watch.
It's also similar to Shaun of the Dead, in that they are two of the only zombie movies I can think of that subvert the genre and get largely happy endings. The end of Shaun, however, relies on the government coming in to save the day, which in recent years, seems more and more outlandish. And the acceptance with the new normal of life with the zombies, while a spot on prediction, is just a bit too depressingly accurate these days.
One Cut, however, is just a straight up triumph of people working together to overcome an insurmountable adversity, which is a bit more appealingly aspirational.
I don't know how long it'll last on this list, as I feel it's name paints a target on it for cutting, but I highly recommend it to everyone that has the chance to see it.
Ah, I thought it had already gotten cut.
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-Never cared for Tarsem's pageantry. He's better off making perfume commercials. I like Ishioka's costumes though.
Add A Matter of Life and Death
-The greatest film by The Archers, an unequaled, very original cinematic fantasy.
Add Tremors
I'm not putting some heartfelt appeal or defense out there. It's Tremors. It's fantastic.
Tremors is far & away better than District 9
Wha... you can't do that!
They can't do that!
Judges!
Somebody do something!
Add: 10 Things I Hate About You
Add Colossal
Wish someone would have told me about that movie
Alas, I cannot.
But,
Remove: The Matrix
Add: Hackers
Add - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Add: Clueless
What we do need is an adorable French rom-com.
-- Remove: Blazing Saddles
-- Add: Amélie (2001)
Man the 90's where a while ago, huh?
Sounds more like a porn setup.
First movie I ever directly noticed the "Not Gays"
Add: Major League
Add Hunt for Red October.
We are pulling a crazy Ivan