Dementeleus Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 #13 Looperwritten and directed by: Rian Johnson starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt Number of first-place votes: 0 IMDB synopsis: In 2074, when the mob wants to get rid of someone, the target is sent into the past, where a hired gun awaits - someone like Joe - who one day learns the mob wants to 'close the loop' by sending back Joe's future self for assassination. Rian Johnson’s twisty time-travel character study was influenced by many movies: THE TERMINATOR, WITNESS, AKIRA, DOMU: A CHILD’S DREAM, 12 MONKEYS, TIMECRIMES, and HARD-BOILED WONDERLAND AND THE END OF THE WORLD. About his movie, Johnson says: “Even though it's a time-travel movie, the pleasure of it doesn't come from the mass of time travel. It's not a film like Primer, for instance, where the big part of the enjoyment is kind of working out all the intricacies of it. For Looper, I very much wanted it to be a more character-based movie that is more about how these characters dealt with the situation time travel has brought about. So the biggest challenge was figuring out how to not spend the whole movie explaining the rules and figure out how to put it out there in a way that made sense on some intuitive level for the audience; then get past it and deal with the real meat of the story.” LOOPER was produced on a very modest budget of about 30 million, and it garnered a lot of critical praise. It grossed 66 million in the US and 176 million worldwide. Tomato meter: 93%, 8.1/10 average rating Academy Awards: 0 wins, 0 nominations Random critic comment: “This is an exciting, exceptionally well-made futuristic thriller that also happens to be loaded with lived-in touches and punchy ideas.” —Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald Random RTM comment: “Movie Review Haiku for LOOPER: ...see this movie please! Brilliant from start to finish. Don't think, go now and…” —@Rallax 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BadAtGender Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 Too low for Looper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Gittes Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 I thought one of the great things about Lincoln was that Kushner's writing + DDL's performance so believably showed him as both a human and a mythic larger-than-life figure. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grim22 Posted May 12, 2017 Author Share Posted May 12, 2017 81-100 81 Here Comes the Boom 82 Kon-Tiki 83 The Lorax 84 Much Ado About Nothing 85 Cosmopolis 86 No 87 A Royal Affair 88 End of Watch 89 Parental Guidance 90 Taken 2 91 This is 40 92 The Sessions 93 Get the Gringo 94 Smashed 95 Joyful Noise 96 Ice Age: Continental Drift 97 The Vow 98 Journey 2 - The Mysterious Island 99 Hitchcock 100 Le Jour de Corneilles 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aabattery Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 2 minutes ago, grim22 said: 81-100 81 Here Comes the Boom 82 Kon-Tiki 83 The Lorax 84 Much Ado About Nothing 85 Cosmopolis 86 No 87 A Royal Affair 88 End of Watch 89 Parental Guidance 90 Taken 2 91 This is 40 92 The Sessions 93 Get the Gringo 94 Smashed 95 Joyful Noise 96 Ice Age: Continental Drift 97 The Vow 98 Journey 2 - The Mysterious Island 99 Hitchcock 100 Le Jour de Corneilles lmao @ Taken 2 being on someones list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethan Hunt Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 4 minutes ago, aabattery said: lmao @ Taken 2 being on someones list. Its the best taken movie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TalismanRing Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 Kon-Tiki made #82 and it wasn't even eligible. Top 25 next year here we come. Go watch it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethan Hunt Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 Also disappointingly low for Perks 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baumer Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 4 hours ago, Tele Came Back said: #14 Reveal hidden contents The Perks of Being a Wallflowerwritten and directed by: Stephen Chbotsky, based on his book starring: Logan Lerman, Emma Watson Number of first-place votes: 2IMDB synopsis: An introvert freshman is taken under the wings of two seniors who welcome him to the real world. First published as a popular teen book, PERKS got the interest of various filmmakers from the start. John Hughes actually got the rights first, but he never finished his screenplay (which he envisioned as a black comedy). Ron Howard, Richard Linklater, McG, Joel Schumacher, Ryan Murphy, and Danny Boyle were also interested in the project. However, author Chbotsky had a desire to make the movie himself, and when the producers of JUNO agreed, a deal was made. Chbotsky read Hughes’ script and felt parts of it would work, so he negotiated the rights from Hughes’ heirs and ended up using roughly half of Hughes’ material. The production was inexpensive — about 13 million — and a modest hit, grossing 33 million worldwide.Tomato meter: 86%, 7.5/10 average ratingAcademy Awards: 0 wins, 0 nominationsRandom critic comment: “Stephen Chbosky's script is insightful about the exhilaration of soul-piercing first love, and the misery of being swept into a relationship with someone who's forceful, determined and utterly wrong for you.” —Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star TribuneRandom RTM comment: “It's a film adaptation that replaces the cliche mainstream swagger with some painful realities and simply lets the audience understand the whole point of it.” —@Heretic You fucking PEOPLE! Way way too low. Now I'm melting down for sure. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aabattery Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 1 minute ago, baumer said: You fucking PEOPLE! Way way too low. Now I'm melting down for sure. If it makes you feel any better, it's probably under TDKR as well! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dementeleus Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 1 minute ago, aabattery said: If it makes you feel any better, it's probably under TDKR as well! Interesting that you assume TDKR made it. @MrPink 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baumer Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 3 hours ago, Tele Came Back said: Interesting that you assume TDKR made it. @MrPink I will fart the theme to JAWS if TDKR misses. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fancyarcher Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 34 minutes ago, TalismanRing said: Kon-Tiki made #82 and it wasn't even eligible. Top 25 next year here we come. Go watch it. It was on my list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arlborn Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 (edited) 1 hour ago, grim22 said: 97 The Vow Meh Edited May 13, 2017 by Arlborn 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPink Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 36 minutes ago, Tele Came Back said: Interesting that you assume TDKR made it. @MrPink 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
narniadis Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 I would be thrilled if TDKR actually missed but I just can't see it being the case. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dementeleus Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 Sorry for the delays on this, #12 and #11 coming up shortly and then I hand things back to @grim22 for 10-6... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dementeleus Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 #12 Zero Dark Thirtywritten by: Mark Boal directed by: Kathryn Bigelow starring: Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler, Jennifer Ehle Number of first-place votes: 1 IMDB synopsis: A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L.s Team 6 in May 2011. The film's working title was FOR GOD AND COUNTRY. The final title — ZERO DARK THIRTY — is military slang for (technically) 30 minutes past midnight and (broadly) a time in the dark of night well before dawn. It’s also, of course, a metaphor for the dark espionage campaign to track Bin Laden and hunt him down. Bigelow and Boal had initially worked on and finished a screenplay centered on the December 2001 Battle of Tora Bora, and the long, unsuccessful efforts to find Osama bin Laden in the region. The two were about to begin filming when news broke that bin Laden had been killed. They immediately shelved the film they had been working on and redirected their focus, essentially starting from scratch. “But a lot of the homework I'd done for the first script and a lot of the contacts I made, carried over,” Boal remarked during an interview with Entertainment Weekly. He added, “The years I had spent talking to military and intelligence operators involved in counter-terrorism was helpful in both projects. Some of the sourcing I had developed long, long ago continued to be helpful for this version.” The final movie received rave reviews and did well at the box office, grossing 132 million worldwide (the bulk of this coming from the United States) on a 40 million dollar budget. It did attract some controversy from both political sides, some claiming it was too “pro-torture” and over-emphasized the data received from “enhanced interrogation” and some claiming that the movie was pro-Obama propaganda with a release date aimed at influencing the 2012 election. Tomato meter: 92%, 8.6/10 average rating Academy Awards: 1 win, 5 nominations Random critic comment: “From the very first scenes of Zero Dark Thirty, director Kathryn Bigelow demonstrates why she is such a formidable filmmaker, as adept with human emotion as with visceral, pulse-quickening action.” —Ann Hornaday, Washington Post Random RTM comment: “Over 2.5 hours long and not a single moment feels wasted. Some parts are unbelievable tense like the ending raid, and others are extremely hard to watch like the first twenty minutes which are basically just a guy getting tortured. Great cast all the way down to the smallest roles.” —@CoolioD1 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grim22 Posted May 13, 2017 Author Share Posted May 13, 2017 66-80 (75 was double counted, moved it up a spot) 66 Goon 67 Searching for Sugar Man 68 The Bay 69 Mud 70 A Cat in Paris 71 Bourne Legacy 72 Lords of Salem 73 Rock of Ages 74 Wuthering Heights 76 Think Like a Man 77 The Expendables 2 78 Oslo, August 31 79 Headhunters 80 Snow White and the Huntsman 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dementeleus Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 #11 The Raidwritten and directed by: Gareth Evans starring: Iko Uwais, Joe Taslim, Yayan Ruhian Number of first-place votes: 1 IMDB synopsis: A SWAT team becomes trapped in a tenement run by a ruthless mobster and his army of killers and thugs. Director Gareth Evans came across the idea for the film when he moved to Indonesia to film a documentary about the country's martial art, Pencak Silat. Evans and his producers began work on a Silat film project called BERANDAL, a large-scale prison gangster film. A teaser trailer was shot, but the project proved more complex and time consuming than anticipated. After a year and a half, Evans and the producers found themselves with insufficient funds to produce BERANDAL, so they changed the film to a simpler but different story with a smaller budget. They called the project THE RAID and Evans designed it to be a "full-on" action film. They shot the movie using prosumer HD cameras and replica paintball guns, digitally creating the shells and muzzle flashes. The result was a small-scale hit that won instant acclaim and put Evans, Uwais, and Ruhian on the international film scene.Tomato meter: 85%, 7.5/10 average ratingAcademy Awards: 0 wins, 0 nominationsRandom critic comment: “A slam-bang, knock-your-socks-off action bonanza with some of the most peerlessly shot, performed and choreographed fight sequences you're likely to see on screen.” —Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles TimesRandom RTM comment: “I'm probably going to sound like a little kid here but holy fucking shit! Everything you have heard about this film is absolutely true.” —@baumer 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...