Jake Gittes

Can you though.

Forum on the whole still not worthy of Lynch. Someday... Glad that Chinatown made it but that it's in the same position it was in 2016. Tele doesn't submit a list and Lawrence of Arabia drops 66 spots, a self-proclaimed "I have no taste for aesthetics" poster submits a box-office chart and is the sole reason Avatar is in the top 100, and Ethan and Before Sunset... Ethan I'm coming for you.

Got around to The Best Years of Our Lives. Very quality stuff right here. My worst fear was that it would be a pile-up of forced awkwardness but that's only there in small enough doses to, well, not be that forced (and that "Just look at the facts!" guy is straight up a '40s version of today's right-wing internet assholes) and is largely outweighed by what is basically a hangout movie with people who are worthy of one. (That entire night-on-the-town sequence early on is just wonderful). Potent meld of studio system craft and behavioral realism, the only obvious flaw is the score which Wyler was right to detest.

Numbers has mastered the next level of reaction-via-gifs, bravo

Best version of The Thing btw

Gotta love that you post this and yet you had the fucking nerve to give me shit for loving some John Carpenter movies a little less than you

They aren't really going for the same things though. LLL's attitude towards Hollywood is actually pretty close in spirit to ASIB I think but in terms of singing and dancing it's more Jacques Demy than classic Hollywood.

Yeah. That's about the one cool thing that happens in it

It's very good.

I had Cabaret, A Star Is Born, The Pirate and The Young Girls of Rochefort on mine. And Nashville, if that counts. Really need to see Hedwig and Rocky Horror, plus Phantom of the Paradise, in addition to a bunch of Golden Age classics I still have left.

The Pirate is my favorite. Kelly in full-on walking cartoon mode, Garland with her finest comic performance, and the whole thing is so kinky and feverish and hothouse-like - yet surprisingly smart, too - it's not quite like anything else I've seen from the period. You might be the first person I've encountered who actually likes Anchors Aweigh. I thought it was basically On the Town with 150% of its running time and about 1% of its energy. George Sidney is my nemesis for that one and The Harvey Girls. You've clearly seen a good deal more than me, though as it happens I am on another small musical kick right now. Watched Cabin in the Sky yesterday. Quite something.

I don't think I've even seen the entire movie. But that opening is fun as hell. Better than a lot of feature-length films

On the Town > Singin' in the Rain imo but I can't begrudge the latter being there. Kinda wish people would explore more of the genre if they love its most famous movie so much though.

Who let that guy in?

Bad takes by Coolio are rare but when they're bad they're pretty damn bad.

Keep forgetting that Life of the Party apparently has Gillian Jacobs graduating to playing the third- or fourth biggest role in a studio comedy when she should've been headlining her own big movies for years now. C'mon Donald Glover and to a lesser extent Alison Brie can't be the only Community cast members to really make it big.

Eurovision is still a thing?

Yeah I didn't have Boyhood in my list this year. Loved it on my sole viewing in '14 but never felt the urge to revisit tbh. I don't think people here or elsewhere are gonna turn on it en masse or anything but I'm not surprised its stock has gone a bit lower.

Forget it Dax, it's BOT.

Now can he just get another editor who'd actually know what's best for a movie. No one's gonna equal Sally Menke but I really want this to be tighter than his last two.

I like 12AM but I always thought it was kind of a random-ass classic black-and-white drama to finish so close to the top among all the fanboy favorites. Do you all just get it shown in schools or something.

Hyped for the new Godard