BOTs Top 25 Movies of 2017 | NOLANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

[Ethan Hunt]

Better be Get Out. It's quite a bit better than the other two options (which both made my list but Get Out was top 5)

[4815162342]

18 minutes ago, grim22 said:

#s 61-100

 

63	Five Came Back

 

Considering the only person I know of who joined me with this was @Telemachos, I am ok with this

[MrGamer]

That late King Arthur push got it in the Top 50. 

[That One Girl]

1 minute ago, grim22 said:

50 The Killing of a Sacred Deer

20 minutes ago, grim22 said:

72 Killing of a Sacred Deer

 

[SchumacherFTW]

A Silent Voice only fractionally in to the top 50 😕

[B D Joe]

Would be a nice surprise if Colossal or A Ghost Story were in the top 3.

 

oops Colossal was 56.

Edited February 4, 2018 by B D Joe

[grim22]

Just now, That One Guy said:

 

Not enough to get it to the top 40 even combined though.

[That One Girl]

2 minutes ago, grim22 said:

55 Valerian

 

I will accept this

 

2 minutes ago, grim22 said:

56 Colossal 57 Brawl in Cell Block 99

 

I will also accept this

2 minutes ago, grim22 said:

59 Life

 

I absolutely, 100%, will not tolerate this

[filmlover]

1 minute ago, grim22 said:

#41-60

 

 

41	Raw
42	God's Own Country
43	Columbus
44	Jumanji
45	Only The Brave
46	A Silent Voice
47	Hostiles
48	King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
49	Gifted
50	The Killing of a Sacred Deer
51	Darkest Hour
52	Murder on the Orient Express
53	Ingrid Goes West
54	The Death of Stalin
55	Valerian
56	Colossal
57	Brawl in Cell Block 99
58	Atomic Blonde
59	Life
60	Wonder

Darkest Hour missing the top 50 when every other Best Picture nominee at the Oscars made the top 20 here lmao. Also cool to see a nice little movie like Gifted get that high even though I figured hardly anyone here saw it (or maybe it really is the Captain America Effect lol).

[That One Girl]

Just now, grim22 said:

Not enough to get it to the top 40 even combined though.

 

?????????

[4815162342]

3 minutes ago, grim22 said:

47    Hostiles
48    King Arthur: Legend of the Sword

 

This could have been dangerous

 

 

 

3 minutes ago, grim22 said:

54    The Death of Stalin

 

Not bad considering no one in the US (maybe even anywhere outside the UK) has seen it

 

[KJsooner]

Very happy to see Gifted in the top 50. Really really liked that movie. Glad I wasn’t the only one who had it in my list.

[baumer]

Only the Brave should have been top 5.

[Ethan Hunt]

3 minutes ago, B D Joe said:

Would be a nice surprise if Colossal or A Ghost Story were in the top 3.

 

oops Colossal was 56.

Logan Lucky or Detorit showing up instead of Blade Runner/Dunkirk would be phenomenal 

[Cap]

1 minute ago, filmlover said:

. Also cool to see a nice little movie like Gifted get that high even though I figured hardly anyone here saw it (or maybe it really is the Captain America Effect lol).

Scruffy Chris Evans running into a animal shelter to save a cat is the DEFINITION of female gaze. It easily slid into my Top 25. 

[filmlover]

Just now, baumer said:

Only the Brave should have been top 5.

Such a shame that hardly anyone saw that movie at all.

[grim22]

#3

 

Spoiler

Get Out

 

 

 

 

White people amirite? Get Out was one of my favorite movies of the year, a very well planned script, an actual trope knowing character and a very underrated perfomance by Kaluyya (luckily he got that Oscar nom) and villainous turns by some great character actors. Jordan Peele's directorial debut was a perfect movie for the times.

 

User Reviews:

 

Speaking as someone who's generally not a big horror fan, GET OUT was terrific. The best mainstream horror thriller since THE SIXTH SENSE. Pulling for some awards love and $200m domestic, because by God does it deserve it. A

 @Eevin

 

It's brilliant how after reflecting about the movie all the details you experienced on surface level work on a whole upper level of social commentary about racial politics, you realize how Jordan Peele really thought out and framed the narrative to make sense on a subtext level. The "twist" shines a truly unsettling and horrifying light on all the main protagonist's interactions (played by fresh faced newcomer Daniel Kaluuya). The movie felt like the embodiment of that troubling angst black people consciously or unconsciously experience while navigating their environment in a black skin inside the western world in which your appearance can ankwardly taint, impact and dictate your interactions (and ultimately your whole life) at a minute notice. But the devastating truth is that insidious ankwardness is a thinly veiled sneaky paradigm actually rooted in hard boiled prejudice that can trigger its ugly head exploding back into your face. (As a black guy born and bred in Europe, I can certainly relate to that experience).

 

And that's what makes it more frightening than most horror movies because those fucked up racial dynamics actually exist in the real world and have been for a long time. So at first, it seems like a typical modern horror movie with comedic relief then you realize you're watching a clever psychological thriller dealing with relevant contemporary issues that could have been made in the seventies full of social metaphors and allegories. (I was thinking of Body Snatchers, obviously, especially when the "maid servant" was oblivious to Chris use of the word "snatch". After the revelation, it's now obvious why...Similarly that throwaway joke about the grandpa being gutted Jesse Owens beat him back then takes a creepy turn when you realize who actually inhabits the athletic housekeeper's body. Likewise, the fact that Chris is a talented photographer that is auctioned to a talentless blind old white man that literally wants to steal his gaze, co-opt his works and reap the rewards of a black man's talent. A creepy illustration of appropriation). But Peele keeps it firmly grounded in our current times aesthetically (so the movie references don't jump at you overtly in a fan-service-y way to detract you from the movie's disturbing story) and tonally. (It also made me think of the work of photographer Hank Willis Thomas about the commodification of black people throughout american history up to this day).

 

A real sucker punch of a movie. Not only we should need more horror movies crafted like this but also we just need more movies like this. Period.

 

(Yeah, Fuck Dirty Dancing)

 

A+.

@dashrendar44

 

[Kvikk Lunsj]

1 minute ago, baumer said:

Only the Brave should have been top 5.

I feel like I have read this before but where? 

[That One Girl]

NO NOLAN NO NOLAN NO NOLAN NO NOLAN NO NOLAN

[Kvikk Lunsj]

Just now, grim22 said:

#3

 

  Reveal hidden contents

Get Out

 

 

 

 

White people amirite? Get Out was one of my favorite movies of the year, a very well planned script, an actual trope knowing character and a very underrated perfomance by Kaluyya (luckily he got that Oscar nom) and villainous turns by some great character actors. Jordan Peele's directorial debut was a perfect movie for the times.

 

User Reviews:

 

Speaking as someone who's generally not a big horror fan, GET OUT was terrific. The best mainstream horror thriller since THE SIXTH SENSE. Pulling for some awards love and $200m domestic, because by God does it deserve it. A

 @Eevin

 

It's brilliant how after reflecting about the movie all the details you experienced on surface level work on a whole upper level of social commentary about racial politics, you realize how Jordan Peele really thought out and framed the narrative to make sense on a subtext level. The "twist" shines a truly unsettling and horrifying light on all the main protagonist's interactions (played by fresh faced newcomer Daniel Kaluuya). The movie felt like the embodiment of that troubling angst black people consciously or unconsciously experience while navigating their environment in a black skin inside the western world in which your appearance can ankwardly taint, impact and dictate your interactions (and ultimately your whole life) at a minute notice. But the devastating truth is that insidious ankwardness is a thinly veiled sneaky paradigm actually rooted in hard boiled prejudice that can trigger its ugly head exploding back into your face. (As a black guy born and bred in Europe, I can certainly relate to that experience).

 

And that's what makes it more frightening than most horror movies because those fucked up racial dynamics actually exist in the real world and have been for a long time. So at first, it seems like a typical modern horror movie with comedic relief then you realize you're watching a clever psychological thriller dealing with relevant contemporary issues that could have been made in the seventies full of social metaphors and allegories. (I was thinking of Body Snatchers, obviously, especially when the "maid servant" was oblivious to Chris use of the word "snatch". After the revelation, it's now obvious why...Similarly that throwaway joke about the grandpa being gutted Jesse Owens beat him back then takes a creepy turn when you realize who actually inhabits the athletic housekeeper's body. Likewise, the fact that Chris is a talented photographer that is auctioned to a talentless blind old white man that literally wants to steal his gaze, co-opt his works and reap the rewards of a black man's talent. A creepy illustration of appropriation). But Peele keeps it firmly grounded in our current times aesthetically (so the movie references don't jump at you overtly in a fan-service-y way to detract you from the movie's disturbing story) and tonally. (It also made me think of the work of photographer Hank Willis Thomas about the commodification of black people throughout american history up to this day).

 

A real sucker punch of a movie. Not only we should need more horror movies crafted like this but also we just need more movies like this. Period.

 

(Yeah, Fuck Dirty Dancing)

 

A+.

@dashrendar44

 

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it should have been two.  Who are these Blade Runner people?