BOT: THE REVISITING -- TOP 25 of 2007! | Calculations Done. Reveal whenever Tele finds the time.

[BadAtGender]

FYC, but also checking eligibility, @Telemachos

 

 

It hit the festival circuit in 2006 and popped up in a number of them, but didn't have its actual release until June of 2007. Good?

[Plain Old Tele]

4 minutes ago, DamienRoc said:

FYC, but also checking eligibility, @Telemachos

 

 

It hit the festival circuit in 2006 and popped up in a number of them, but didn't have its actual release until June of 2007. Good?

 

As long as it didn't play publicly (outside of a festival) in 2006. 

 

edit: confirmed, it's 2007. 

[BadAtGender]

6 minutes ago, Telemachos said:

 

As long as it didn't play publicly (outside of a festival) in 2006. 

 

edit: confirmed, it's 2007. 

 

Fucking awesome.

 

If y'all haven't seen it yet, go watch it now. Paprika is the amazing, final film that Satoshi Kon completed. 

[Arlborn]

1 hour ago, Goffe said:

 

i will try to see these before march 9

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Eastern Promises
Lives of Others
4 Months
Before the Devil
The Host
Red Road
Brand Upon the Brain
Persopolis
Into the Wild
The Lookout
Waitress
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
The Man from Earth
Assination of Jesse James
The Nines
I'm Not There
Teeth
The Orphanage
Trick r Treat
Starting Out in the Evening
In Bruges
3:10 Yuma
Atonement
Gone Baby Gone
Lust Caution

 

 

Isn't In Bruges from 2008?

[filmlover]

5 minutes ago, Arlborn said:

Isn't In Bruges from 2008?

Yes.

[CoolioD1]

paprika is ok. there's a few Kon movies that would make my yearly top 25s but not that one. pretty but muddled and kinda boring.

[Arlborn]

6 minutes ago, filmlover said:

Yes.

For a second there I had hope I was wrong, what a shame. That would have been right on the top3 of my list.

[Jake Gittes]

43 minutes ago, CoolioD1 said:

DEWEY COX (which everyone should watch for the list) made sure i could never take a musician biopic seriously ever again. a lot of what that film takes the piss out of is definitely in la vie en rose. in fact near a decade later and there's still oscar bait going by that playbook dewey cox mercilessly took the piss out of. not just musician movies, hacksaw ridge is full of that stuff too.

 

I don't care for about 98% of mainstream American comedy from the rise of Apatow onwards, but Walk Hard is the biggest exception. I assume it's the combination of the period sets and costumes and the fact that they were spoofing a very specific type of movie and had to save some time for the musical numbers that forced them to rely on an actual comedy script (!) with strong jokes in it (!!!) instead of just endless scenes of people standing around and riffing, and thank fucking god for that. Great music, great central performance, and it actually looks like it had a budget, too.

[Jake Gittes]

Black Book is absolutely essential and Bug is another one I'd recommend wholeheartedly. An all-timer of a performance from Ashley Judd opposite Michael Shannon already being great at his whole Michael Shannon thing a couple of years before his Revolutionary Road breakout. 

[elcaballero]

This is a great idea for movie recommendations that don't quite fall into the "can't-miss classic" category (at least for some of us younger members ).

Edited February 20, 2017 by elcaballero

[Tower]

2007 is before the time I got into watching movies, so I have only seen handful from then including trash like Transformers and the third Pirates that would never make my list, so I am going to have to watch a lot before submitting a list.

[SchumacherFTW]

Does The Dark Knight prologue count? 

[filmlover]

Just now, SchumacherFTW said:

Does The Dark Knight prologue count? 

[4815162342]

1 minute ago, SchumacherFTW said:

Does The Dark Knight prologue count? 

 

No

[SchumacherFTW]

3 minutes ago, filmlover said:

[filmlover]

We should probably just crown The Dark Knight now a year in advance of the poll for next year. Because reasons.

[dxmatrixdt]

do reissue movies count?

[Plain Old Tele]

9 minutes ago, filmlover said:

We should probably just crown The Dark Knight now a year in advance of the poll for next year. Because reasons.

Oh, I don't know. There might be a movie or two ahead of it on my list, for example. 

 

3 minutes ago, Matrix4You said:

do reissue movies count?

 Nope. 

[Jake Gittes]

18 minutes ago, filmlover said:

We should probably just crown Speed Racer now a year in advance of the poll for next year. Because it actually is that good.

 

Fixed that a little

[WrathOfHan]

8 year old WrathOfHan loved Speed Racer. I havent watched it in a long ass time