Oh, forgot Hell or High Water, that’d be in my top 100 for sure.
Completely forgot that one. Might be top 50 for me.
Bad Times at the El Royale would be in my top 10-20 for sure.
I love The Prestige. It’s in my top 10 or 20 favorites ever.
I’m a fan of Three Billboards Outside Ebbings, Missouri, despite its flaws, but I think The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is an even better Coen Bros movie.
I totted up how many of these I’ve seen and it comes to 66. There are also 3 I tried to watch but gave up on as they were just too much hard work (shameful, I know); The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Master, The Royal Tennenbaums.
I keep thinking of ones that I’d definitely have on my list… In Bruges - where the hell is that?!
I also remember getting quite emotional at the end of Finding Neverland. One of Johnny Depp’s best performances.
And my fabourite of the Jason Bourne films, The Bourne Ultimatum, I’d have that on my list too.
Hmmm…did you think the Coen Brothers made Three Billboards? It was Martin McDonagh.
Who also did In Bruges, a definite contender for the top 5 if I made a list.
You know, between the various streaming services I’m on, I’m pretty sure there’s only one DVD that I’ve bought in the last fifteen years: Birdman.
I mean, sure, looking like it’s being shot in one take is a gimmick — and, if you want, we could separate that out to evaluate the story. And, sure, the story of a guy struggling to make a serious-actor comeback decades after the blockbuster ‘superhero’ role that still overshadows him — well, that gets big unavoidable bonus points from him being Michael Keaton, but we could evaluate the movie on its own minus that gimmick, too. And maybe show-within-a-show is the oldest storytelling gimmick of ‘em all, and twice as much if you’re blurring the lines between reality and fiction for what the characters are living through — but, hey, maybe you could still cobble together a straight-ahead story worth telling out of what’s left over even without all of that stuff.
But: why do that? If you simply take it as a whole, it’s terrific! It’s obvious why it won the Oscar for Best Picture: it’s equal parts entertaining and interesting!
Oh, good grief, I just assumed with Frances McDormand… Thanks!
I understand not liking Burning (2019) but it has its fans. Glow and Burning both depict isolation, loneliness and alienation in very special ways. I’m surprised there’s not more love for Makotos films in the US. Maybe just not in film social media.
If we combine all the Lord of the Rings movies into one, it would be my number 1 without a doubt.
Ones I didn’t see on the list that are in my top 100:
Sideways
Kung Fu Hustle
The Lives of Others
12 Years a Slave
Inside Out
Roma
Joker
Dunkirk
Poor Things
Manchester by the Sea
Ex Machina
District 9
Let the Right One In
Children of Men
Once
Notes on a Scandal
The Triplets of Belleville
I’d add these:
Gravity
Ex Machina
The Martian
Man from Earth
Edge of Tomorrow
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish