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  1. Oh also, if anyone wants... I thought it would be interesting to hear your picks from these 100 movies for

    Best Picture
    Best Director
    Best Actor
    Best Actress
    Best Supporting Actor
    Best Supporting Actress
    Best Screenplay

    (and if you want to do Razzie versions too, feel free!)

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  2. These were my top-10

    2001
    Modern Times
    Lord of the Rings
    Vertigo
    Do The Right Thing
    The Silence of the Lambs
    The Wizard of Oz
    Double Indemnity
    Duck Soup
    Intolerance

    I'll add that I ended up rating 20 of the 100 as five stars on Letterboxd; with 15 more at 4.5. 

    and my bottom-10

    The Searchers
    Annie Hall
    The Wild Bunch
    The Graduate
    The Deer Hunter
    Saving Private Ryan
    Tootsie
    MASH
    Yankee Doodle Dandy
    Forrest Gump

     

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  3. 3 hours ago, ol' eddy wrecks said:

    Well, we're about two years away from getting another BFI Sight & Sound list, which certainly isn't as influenced by films winning Oscars.

    Oh ya, I honestly don't expect the AFI to update again. Can you imagine if they did, and it was again like 92 white men movies? Better to just not go there.

     

     


  4. 10 hours ago, sycasey 2.0 said:

    Right. Do the Right Thing and Blade Runner didn't win any Oscars, but both are on the list.

    I still think my point stands: one needs to look past the awards to find more a diverse list of greatness.

    The one black directed film and the one sci-fi on the list? That proves what you can find if you look further.


  5. I think it is possible with American movies, but you would have to stop requiring the films to have won awards. I think AFI should adjust and the rule should just be "award-nominated," if not just strike it completely. 

    Then you can get your top-100 list filled with Killer of Sheep and John Waters and I'm sure other Poitier films are great and comedies and heck, even Shaft could be considered.

    You could get a diverse, representative list if the Oscars didn't exist!


  6.  I'll make more of a list later in the week of things I think could be on there too, but to answer I'd say Moonlight and 12 Years A Slave would be shoo-ins for a new list. Could Spike Lee have another one? Not sure which of his others I'd raise that high though. Boyz In The Hood. Lady Bird maybe too. I'd be pro-Clueless and a modern rom-com or two directed by a woman (unsure which I'd pick right now). There's lots of ideas for this, I think, it wouldn't be hard. (Maybe not if you're bound to the 'must have won Oscars' rule though.)

     


  7. I'm still finalizing my top-100, and want to re-watch 3-4 of the movies this week, but I will say, all along I've had a film that was sort of the demarcation point of "stays on the list / off the list" that helped me keep my list in order. Looking at it now, I've got 51 films above that point. So cutting it to 50 is fairly easy for me, lol


  8. 2 hours ago, The_Triple_Lindy said:

    And Review has been on the list for quite some time.

    You're in for a treat. Review is one of the darkest, laugh-out-loud funniest, most sublime shows in existence. Jason is in it a little too (as are a lot of Earwolf favorites). It's unbelievable. I read a thing once about it being the comedic version of like all those anti-hero shows, like Breaking Bad, etc.

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  9. 2 minutes ago, sycasey 2.0 said:

    I'd say they're riffing on Westerns thematically, though they're not actually taking place in the Old West.

    Yea, and since they came out at the same time basically as Butch, they compare well to each other. 


  10. I've been grouping it with Westerns in my head, and there's A LOT on this list. I think, easily, too many. High Noon, Butch Cassidy, Wild Bunch, Unforgiven, Searchers, Shane. I don't know if Easy Rider, Bonnie & Clyde and Midnight Cowboy are quite actually Westerns, but they're close enough. This is almost 10% of the list! And there's good ones not on here, like Stagecoach or Red River or whatnot.

    So yea like @sycasey 2.0, Butch is probably my favorite of all of these (I like High Noon too). But I almost think most of these others should be on the list ahead of it, even those I don't like. So it's in a weird place in my head right now. I'm not sure exactly where I sit with it in regards to this list.

     

     

     


  11. 34 minutes ago, ol' eddy wrecks said:

    The word itself isn't inherently bad, but the white supremist group who killed some cops during the BLM protests as part of a plan to start a race war - that operation (or, I think it's supposed to be their code-word for their long standing, overall goal) got named after that sequel (at least AFAIK). Bonkers, right?

    Anyhow, I was just guessing it's probably a little too soon to be casually doing reference jokes to it right now. A less extreme form of Archer had its spy agency named ISIS.

    I hadn't heard about that at all. Let's just say I'm reclaiming it back!


  12. 33 minutes ago, ol' eddy wrecks said:

    I guess they'll want to rename that boogaloo part now, with the white supremist trying to start a race war and such. 

    Oh, that was just me referencing the greatest sequel of all-time, not official. Didn't know it was a bad word now, sorry all


  13. 52 minutes ago, bleary said:

    So after finally hitting all five Spielberg films on the list, what are everyone's thoughts?  How many Spielbergs does the list need, and which ones?

    Personally, I could live with only keeping Jaws, Schindler's List, and Raiders of the Lost Ark.  If I had to add another, it would probably be Close Encounters of the Third Kind rather than E.T., Saving Private Ryan, or Jurassic Park.

    I think I agree with that, though I side with Paul & Amy with Jurassic Park over Jaws. JP, SL and Raiders would be my choices. Close Encounters is my favorite Spielberg probably, though, but I don't think it should be on the list over the others.

     

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  14. 27 minutes ago, GrahamS. said:

    I’ll watch this soon...I’ve returned to the Rona (my nickname for COVID)—induced loss of any sense of time or perhaps reality itself. What week is it? What year? Wait, we elected that guy? 

    Truly, since the school year has ended, time has lost all meaning. I have to check my phone to remember what the day/date is. Speaking of which, I’ll do that now!

    That's what Musical Mondays and Unspooled Thursdays and HDTGM Fridays are for. Otherwise, I'd have no clue either.

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  15. I loved this, it was very entertaining! The music is awesome. Some of the sets and things maybe lean too weird-as-fuck, but I don't mind that at all. I'm so glad I watched this!

    2 hours ago, Cam Bert said:

    I think Dorothy here has real weak motivations and not a real arc.

    Hm one of the main critiques of the original is the whole is message is "there's no place like home" which makes little sense after visiting a magical wonderland like Oz. Here, it makes a bit more sense because Dorothy is such a homebody introvert. 

    But that said, Diana Ross isn't very good in this; she's the weak point in this movie if you ask me. Which sucks because out of everyone in the film, she's the one I'm a big fan of. She doesn't get the arc or motivation across well. 

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  16. 9 minutes ago, Cameron H. said:

    Trollhunters is fantastic! Make sure you watch 3 Below afterwards. It’s set in the same universe. There’s supposed to be a third part called Wizards coming out this summer. 

    Oh ya I'm planning to, my nieces filled me in on it all! I'm still in the season 1, just 20 eps in, so I have a ways to go. The set-up reminds me of Buffy in a way, which helped me connect to it pretty quick.

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  17. 6 minutes ago, DannytheWall said:

    Tho that line of thinking makes me wonder how much is it a coming of age kind of story for Ellie.

    Yea I think that makes sense as a way to look at it, especially with the ending being her realization she has to go do what she chooses, not what's expected. That's a pretty adult decision.

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