[TOP 100 VIDEO GAME CHARACTERS OF ALL TIME POLL - Countdown will start on Korean Tuesday, will accept lists up until first reveal because I am nice (and also one high position is tied and I want that tie broken)]

well, there's a bunch of people from the trails rpgs, and the demi-fiend from nocturne, and that narrator dude from stanley parable...

[Oldest film you have seen]

On 1/17/2017 at 10:05 AM, CrispyLips said:

Oldest movie I have seen is THE KID (1921)

 

5 movies from the 20s

38 movies from the 30s

72 movies from the 40s

68 movies from the 50s

65 movies from the 60s

56 movies from the 70s

77 movies from the 80s

127 movies from the 90s

700+ movies from 00s + 10s

 

hmm. well, including only feature films, here's my stats

 

18 from 1910s

46 from 1920s

53 from 1930s

54 from 1940s

100 from 1950s

155 from 1960s

128 from 1970s

124 from 1980s

171 from 1990s

377 from 2000s

162 from 2010s

[Oldest film you have seen]

in terms of feature films, l'inferno from 1911 is my earliest. it's pretty poor though. the earliest feature i've actually enjoyed would be l'enfant de paris from 1913, which is a really fun mystery film.

[Your top 3 movies from your top 3 directors]

i really liked the first two thirds of red shoes, up to and including the ballet scene. the final act was pretty miserable though.

[Your top 3 movies from your top 3 directors]

lars von trier: melancholia, dancer in the dark, breaking the waves

ingmar bergman: persona, cries and whispers, through a glass darkly

david lynch: inland empire, mulholland drive, eraserhead

 

incidentally, stanley kubrick and abbas kiarostami are the other two who would absolutely have three films in my top 85 (all the movies i've rated at least "incredible"). bela tarr, werner herzog, jacques rivette and robert bresson would all have a chance at rounding out the top 100 if i could be bothered constructing a list.

[Requested Movies to be Added: include the year of release (must be at least 40 minutes long)]

transformers: the movie (1986)

[Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted]

F

 

oh dear. i knew going up the best animated list was a bad idea.

[Pirates! Band of Misfits]

F

 

i did laugh a few times in the first half but this is worthless feel good garbage. now an animated film with pirates just stealing shit and burning shit down might be worth watching.

[Official BOT top 150 Animated Movies Countdown]

fuck it, i'm in an animation mood, i'll just watch everything i haven't seen from the bottom up until i'm bored. just saw nightmare before christmas (decent) and ernest and celestine (really good).

[Ernest and Celestine (2013)]

B+

 

a capitalist society hellbent on endless production requires the division of labour into segregated classes, preventing the development of genuine intimacy. the maintenance of this "society" is sustained not only at the end of law's baton, but in the dissemination of ideas: one must believe in the Big Bad Bear. a truly surprising and funny film that is not at all reducible to a simplistic "prejudice is bad".

[A Nightmare Before Christmas]

C+

 

the bit with the child screaming while a giant snake was eating their christmas tree was hilarious. obviously the oogie boogie man should have been the protagonist.

[Official BOT top 150 Animated Movies Countdown]

is there a list-to-date post somewhere? some of the films on the bottom half look interesting.

[Official BOT top 150 Animated Movies Countdown]

was kinda shocked to see waking life on here, not that linklater is some unknown avant-gardist but it just doesn't seem to be talked about much. it's the only film of his that i've actually enjoyed to date lol.

 

and yeah, still really need to see paprika/perfect blue/etc.

[BOT Top 100 Animated Films of all time - 24hours left to get votes in...]

wait, where am i?

 

well, here are a bunch of random shorts that are totally worth watching:

 

tale of tales (1979)
cat soup (2001)
dimensions of dialogue (1982)
world of tomorrow (2015)
glens falls sequence (1937)
echogram (2003)
my childhood mystery tree (2008)
a country doctor (2007)
rabbit (2005)
begone dull care (1949)
pixillation (1970)
tower bawher (2006)
pas de deux (1968)
hedgehog in the fog (1975)
fuji (1974)
neighbours (1952)
contrathemis (1941)

 

and the actual list:

1. it's such a beautiful day (2012)
2. ghost in the shell (1995)
3. akira (1988)
4. the illusionist (2010)
5. spirited away (2001)
6. fantastic mr fox (2009)
7. a town called panic (2009)
8. princess mononoke (1997)
9. waking life (2001)
10. mary and max (2009)
11. persepolis (2007)
12. my neighbour totoro (1988)

13. the secret of kells (2009)

14. coraline (2009)

15. yellow submarine (1968)

16. the secret world of arrietty (2010)

17. the wind in the willows (1983)

18. wall-e (2008)

 

 

[Best films of 2015]

○○○○○ = horrible

●○○○○ = *shrug*

●●○○○ = i like it

●●●○○ = i love it

●●●●○ = masterpiece

●●●●● = best thing ever

1. ●●●○○ world of tomorrow
2. ●●○○○ bitter lake
3. ●●○○○ ex machina
4. ●●○○○ no no sleep
5. ●●○○○ it follows
6. ●○○○○ inside out
7. ●○○○○ the gift
8. ●○○○○ straight outta compton
9. ●○○○○ mad max: fury road
10. ●○○○○ junun
11. ●○○○○ the case of hana and alice
12. ●○○○○ the martian
13. ●○○○○ tale of tales
14. ●○○○○ shaun the sheep movie
15. ●○○○○ bridge of spies
16. ○○○○○ jurassic world
17. ○○○○○ kung fury

[Best films of 2015]

80 masterpiece
70 amazing
60 very good
50 good
40 decent
30 pass
 
1. world of tomorrow 52
2. bitter lake 49
3. ex machina 37
4. no no sleep 36
5. inside out 28
6. mad max: fury road 21
7. the case of hana and alice 14
8. tale of tales 11
9. shaun the sheep movie 9
10. jurassic world 4
11. kung fury 3

 

really want to see:

- cemetery of splendour

- anomalisa

- love

- the exquisite corpus

- the forbidden room

- sicario

[Best films of 2015]

decimals are aesthetically disgusting.

[Best films of 2015]

a number is just a label, it doesn't have to mean percentage of goodness or whatever. i could give 0 to mean best and 100 worst, or anything else.

[Best films of 2015]

Nice top but why do you look movies? You hate almost every single one of them I would hate it if  I didn't like 75% of the movies I saw

 

30 is a pass grade and means i enjoyed it to some extent. 40 is recommended. 50 is good. 60 is very good and means i loved it.

 

i don't see the point in leaving so much rating space for bad movies, isn't it more important to know the difference between your very favourites than your very least favourites?

[F For Fake (1973)]

welles' best movie.

 

66/100 (very good)

[Best films of 2015]

out of 100:

 

1. world of tomorrow 52

2. bitter lake 49

3. ex machina 37

4. no no sleep 36

5. inside out 28

6. mad max: fury road 21

7. tale of tales 11

8. jurassic world 4

9. kung fury 3

[Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)]

i haven't seen them.

[Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)]

it should have been more batshit and less hollywood. the score was utterly abysmal, for instance. how about some zorn-style free jazz grindcore in the background? well, i can dream...

[Ex Machina (2015)]

it became very clear very quickly that at least part of this movie was going to be about a guy wanting to fuck a feminised robot, but it definitely wasn't as bad as it could have been, and was much less painful than, oh i dunno, HER in that respect. in other respects, it was okay, with a nice ending.

 

C

[Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)]

vaguely enjoyable

 

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