Jake Gittes

Like you could have seen Robbie or Negga or Larson or Felicity Jones a year out. Let the damn movies premiere first.

I would say after the staircase murder. There and during Arbogast's earlier interrogation of Norman it's still firing on all cylinders. But then most of what follows is two boring people finding out stuff we already know or could have guessed. Also, did you just turn me into a #brand there?.. ... Go on.

Gonna throw in a few STRONG recommendations

I feel like too many folks are jumping the gun here considering there's still two full months to watch and rewatch movies. Even if most or all of these aren't the final lists, still kinda weird.

Was a Hitchcock night tonight. The Lady Vanishes pretty slight and even 96 minutes is stretching it, but it's generally fun and elevated by two great leads (Margaret Lockwood ); I got a real kick out of Strangers on a Train though, which is awesomely dark (especially in the first third or so; Patricia Highsmith's cynical spirit really comes through in this) and a joy to watch not knowing anything beyond the bare-bones premise. Robert Walker does a complete 180 here from The Clock, the only other movie I've seen him in; he had the talent of a world-class actor. Such a tragic fate.

I genuinely don't understand how this wasn't the consensus right away. I came out of it thinking it was the most basic blockbuster I've ever seen.

thatsthejoke.jpg *checking your letterboxd* May I suggest The Night of the Hunter, To Be or Not to Be, and High and Low.

Do it, and grab a camera there's a documentary in this.

I think The Blair Witch Project is really great, you should check that out.

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You mean Jizzelle

"Denis Villeneuve Appreciation Club" is practically this forum's middle name as it is.

C'mon we all know no one can do what I did.

well the point structure solves this partly I hope. Don't need to bother ranking anything in the 51-75 range, for example, since each of those movies is worth 2 points.

Her?

Empire/ROTK

1. 12 Years a Slave 2. Spotlight 3. The Artist 4. Argo 5. Moonlight 6. The King's Speech 7. Birdman 8. The Shape of Water 1. Alfonso Cuaron 2. Damien Chazelle 3. Michel Hazanavicius 4. Ang Lee 5. Inarritu (Birdman) 6. Tom Hooper 7. Inarritu (Revenant) 8. Guillermo del Toro 1. Daniel Day-Lewis 2. Casey Affleck 3. Jean Dujardin 4. Colin Firth 5. Matthew McConaughey 6. Leonardo DiCaprio 7. Gary Oldman 1. Cate Blanchett 2. Natalie Portman 3. Brie Larson 4. Emma Stone 5. Frances McDormand 6. Jennifer Lawrence 1. Christian Bale 2. J.K. Simmons 3. Mark Rylance 4. Christoph Waltz 5. Christopher Plummer 6. Mahershala Ali 7. Sam Rockwell 8. Jared Leto 1. Patricia Arquette 2. Viola Davis 3. Lupita Nyong'o 4. Anne Hathaway 5. Alicia Vikander 6. Melissa Leo 1. Manchester By The Sea 2. Django Unchained 3. Spotlight 4. Get Out 5. Midnight in Paris 6. Her 7. The King's Speech 8. Birdman 1. The Social Network 2. Call Me by Your Name 3. 12 Years a Slave 4. Moonlight 5. The Big Short 6. Argo

He also proposed they make it three movies instead of two, which strikes me as straight-up masochistic.

You can always count on Stingray for a solid-ass list. Watch Sorcerer, Manhunter, Chinatown and Mulholland Drive everyone who still hasn't.

That's just common sense.

Well there was Mad Max. Which even won with all those snobby elitist fun-hating critics! The Academy only has itself to blame for missing that one.

It's a pointless discussion because a LOTR movie in 2018 would never be exactly like the LOTR movies from the early 2000s from the start. Those are the movies of their time and they were justly rewarded in their time, doesn't make them any worse now but we as a culture don't live in that time anymore.

Evidently. The scars on her neck are practically the first thing we see of her. And her backstory is plainly told.

Tis the life of the free account.