top 50 films for the half decade; Kalo's list begins! (pg. 45)

[baumer]

Wolf was your number one of 2013.  So I'm not sure what your number one is.

 

Perhaps this movie?

 

[darkelf]

It will take you 12 years to post your number 1, won't it?

[Plain Old Tele]

Wolf was your number one of 2013. So I'm not sure what your number one is.

Perhaps this movie?

It was, although most of the top 10 is so close to each other that I won't be surprised if ranking change slightly over time. They're all neck and neck.

[Avatree]

STOP TEASING US TELE.

 

[baumer]

[Mango]

It's totally Iron Man.

[Avatree]

Shrek 4?

[Plain Old Tele]

#1: Boyhood

written and directed by: Richard Linklater

 

 

The opposite, in many ways, to my #2 movie, this is a more sprawling story. It gently unfolds. Characters (almost exclusively) are treated warmly. It’s not a judgemental film, it’s not about the darker aspects of human nature. In fact, in almost every way, describing it makes it sound nondescript. And yet, there’s a cumulative power here that’s almost overwhelming… it just sneaks up on you. The last forty-five minutes or so is the most emotional continuous experience I’ve had in movies since… I dunno, maybe ROTK. It manages to be a movie of precise, small, nondescript moments very specific to Texas at the turn of the century, and yet it’s completely and powerfully universal as well. This is not a movie for the brain, it’s a movie for your heart.

 

[The Futurist]

#1: Boyhood

written and directed by: Richard Linklater

 

 

The opposite, in many ways, to my #2 movie, this is a more sprawling story. It gently unfolds. Characters (almost exclusively) are treated warmly. It’s not a judgemental film, it’s not about the darker aspects of human nature. In fact, in almost every way, describing it makes it sound nondescript. And yet, there’s a cumulative power here that’s almost overwhelming… it just sneaks up on you. The last forty-five minutes or so is the most emotional continuous experience I’ve had in movies since… I dunno, maybe ROTK. It manages to be a movie of precise, small, nondescript moments very specific to Texas at the turn of the century, and yet it’s completely and powerfully universal as well. This is not a movie for the brain, it’s a movie for your heart.

 

[Plain Old Tele]

My complete list:

 

50. Kon-Tiki (Rønning/Sandberg, 2012)

49. The Rover (Michôd, 2014)

48. Pacific Rim (del Toro, 2013)

47. Meek's Cutoff (Reichardt, 2011)

46. We Are the Best! (Moodysson, 2014)

45. The Fighter (Russell, 2010)

44. Rango (Verbinski, 2011)

43. The Raid 2: Berandal (Evans, 2014)

42. Drug War (To, 2013)

41. Looper (Johnson, 2012)

40. The Dark Knight Rises (Nolan, 2012)

39. The Drop (Roskam, 2014)

38. Moonrise Kingdom (Anderson, 2012)

37. The Raid (Evans, 2012)

36. Snowpiercer (Bong, 2014) 

35. Argo (Affleck, 2012)

34. Drive (Refn, 2011)

33. War Horse (Spielberg, 2011)

32. The Edge of Tomorrow (Liman, 2014)

31. Fast Five (Lin, 2011)

30. Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy, 2010)

29. Captain Phillips (Greengrass, 2013)

28. The Life of Pi (Lee, 2012)

27. 127 Hours (Boyle, 2010)

26. Beasts of the Southern Wild (Zeitlin, 2012)

25. 12 Years a Slave (McQueen, 2013)

24. Upstream Color (Carruth, 2013)

23. A Most Violent Year (Chandor, 2014)

22. Carlos (Assayas, 2010)

21. Under the Skin (Glazer, 2014)

20. Ida (Pawlikowski, 2014)

19. The Master (P.T. Anderson, 2012)

18. The Tree of Life (Malick, 2011)

17. Gone Girl (Fincher, 2013)

16. The Act of Killing (Oppenheimer, et al, 2012)

15. Gravity (Cuaron, 2013)

14. The Grand Budapest Hotel (Anderson, 2014)

13. Amour (Haneke, 2012)

12. Black Swan (Aronofsky, 2010)

11. Inception (Nolan, 2010)

10. Locke (Knight, 2014)

9. Zero Dark Thirty (Bigelow, 2012)

8. Her (Jonze, 2013)

7. All is Lost (Chandor, 2013)

6. Inside Llewyn Davis (the Coens, 2013)

5. The Wolf of Wall Street (Scorsese, 2013)

4. Leviathan (Zvyagintsev, 2014)

3. The Grey (Carnahan, 2012)

2. The Social Network (Fincher, 2010)

1. Boyhood (Linklater, 2014)

[Mango]

Hmm...

[Mango]

Needs more Transcendence.

[CoolioD1]

Thumbs up for THE GREY. If i did one of these lists it would be #1.  

[The Futurist]

The Grey is an underrated gem but man, that movie is really bleak as fuck.

And the story of this movie gives me the chills when you know what happened to Liam Neeson in real life.

Edited February 13, 2015 by A Grey Future

[Plain Old Tele]

The Grey is an underrated gem but man, that movie is really bleak as fuck.

 

But it isn't.

[The Futurist]

But it isn't.

?

[CoolioD1]

Thinking about it The Grey and Gravity are basically the same thing thematically. And tele's right, it's more hopeful than bleak, and Neeson's personal life adds to it. Did you kno Bradley Cooper was originally gonna lead that film? I like him, but no way.

[Plain Old Tele]

Thinking about it The Grey and Gravity are basically the same thing thematically. And tele's right, it's more hopeful than bleak, and Neeson's personal life adds to it. Did you kno Bradley Cooper was originally gonna lead that film? I like him, but no way.

 

Agreed, he's too young, Neeson's age really helped.

 

?

 

Did you think it was bleak because

they all died?

[Fancyarcher]

Great list Tele. I think I love / enjoy every single film on your top 10, though I haven't seen Leviathan yet, admittedly. 

[The Futurist]

Hope was nowhere to be found in The Grey I thought.

Weird that you see hope in this movie.