Jake Gittes

I see your model wasn't programmed to understand sarcasm.

Pleasant movies for the masses that the masses all flocked to see, like Grindhouse and The Hateful Eight

In a platform release this could go the way of Suspiria so I can see them going straight wide, esp. since The Witch performed surprisingly well. Maybe a concentrated opening in like ~800 theaters to get both a wide release and a strong enough PTA that it doesn't immediately fall off a cliff.

I hope 12 Angry Men isn't #1. It'd be the least interesting option out of those movies

@MrPink you can take solace in me falling below you in QOTW

The evolution of the Hitchcock cameo

Two Kubricks in the top 10 yessss

I was shocked by how little Duck Soup did for me. Just no connection really. It's telling that the scene I liked by far the best was the wordless mirror routine. I'll keep trying with the Marxes though, maybe I'll see the light yet.

Just watch more of them if you're interested and don't kick yourself over things that aren't worth it.

Since I feel like making a shameless plug, I wrote a thing on Touch of Evil a few months back. No spoilers until the last paragraph https://www.the-solute.com/year-of-the-month-jake-gittes-on-touch-of-evil/

1. Eyes Wide Shut 2. Fight Club 3. The Blair Witch Project 4. Topsy-Turvy 5. Election 6. The Straight Story 7. The Matrix 8. Bringing Out the Dead 9. The Winslow Boy 10. The Talented Mr. Ripley 11. Leila 12. American Movie 13. Show Me Love 14. I Stand Alone 15. Toy Story 2 16. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut 17. The Insider 18. The Limey 19. The Mummy 20. Late August, Early September 21. Sweet and Lowdown 22. Run Lola Run 23. Princess Mononoke 24. The Iron Giant 25. The Sixth Sense

Only Angels Have Wings has just about everything I could want from a movie. I'd happily watch it once a week. Maybe the greatest screenplay ever written. If an exotic locale-set romantic hangout adventure about a community of stoic but likable professionals sounds any good to you you owe it to yourself to check this out.

Us' main problem for me is that it makes an attempt to explain/rationalize things that are best left irrational and nightmarish. In doing so it inadvertently makes all the endless "but how..." questions legitimate. That knocks it down a notch (and yeah I'm also... mixed on the ending) but it doesn't and shouldn't overshadow the amazing set-up, direction, Lupita's performance, imagery, music etc.

Harakiri is the kind of movie you wish you could just sit the whole world down in front of and press play. It's staggeringly good.

Audience isn't out there pitching studios the movies it wants them to make. No one would have demanded a photorealistic remake of The Lion King if it didn't exist. Disney just makes shit that's the easiest to sell.

8 1/2 has never done a lot for me. Much prefer La Dolce Vita. And All That Jazz as far as directors' thinly veiled autobiographies go.

I'm happy to hear you dug this. Yeah this is a top 3 horror movie for me, and the best I've ever seen at recreating the vibes of a classic Victorian ghost story. So elegant, so chilling.

That's because it can drop three tons of dynamite in two minutes.

About time I updated my ignore list

Yeah that's gotta be my favorite Kurosawa I've seen.

It's not a hill I'm gonna die on but I'm still surprised you allowed this. It's like putting the colorized version of Casablanca or something on a best color films list. All it does is take the spot of an actual black and white movie.

Everything to make this movie Doug Liman enough.