Watched 10 Cloverfield Lane for the first time. Pretty enjoyable although it went off the rails at the very end.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead was fantastic in this though. She is so good-looking, but still has the regular girl quality and badass-ness... it's a very uncommon combination. She is primed to be a massive movie star I think, given the right role.

On a side note, I know this is blasphemy but I am not a fan of John Goodman at all. He is consistently over the top and I really don't think he's a very good dramatic actor. He is better suited to zany parts in Coen Brothers comedies. I think this movie could have been a lot better with a different actor in his role.

I thought Goodman was perfect in this role. He does creepy very well, and had no trouble setting me on edge for the entire flick.

The Revenant I enjoyed this quite a bit. Good, not great. Hardy was fantastic.

I think this is the first Leonardo movie I've ever seen where I wasn't thinking "that's Leonardo up there".

Okja

Tilda Swinton finds a super pig which she plans to breed in order to sell cheap meat. 26 super pigs are given to farmers around the world to raise for 10 years. In South Korea the granddaughter of one of the farmers, named Mikja, helps to raise the super pig named Okja. Jake Gyllenhaal plays a Steve Irwin type character.

It's strange and gets stranger. The director of Snowpiercer wrote and directed this, so yeah it gets really weird. Despite hating Snowpiercer I managed to enjoy this although it lost me for a bit. I was especially confused because reading the synopsis of the film led me to believe it was going to be very different from what it was. I later checked and the film is in the "action/adventure" category, and then I found out who the director was and it all made sense.

Memories of Murder is really the only Boon Joon-Ho movie that I unequivocally like.

Okja almost made me become a vegetarian

The Great Wagnerian Free Enterprise is like Freudian comfort food... I love it!

So Suicide Squad is reaaaaally really bad. For the life of me, I couldn't figure out what Harlequin's special talent is, except for being bat-**** insane.

Wind River is a great film. Incredibly tense and well directed. Will make my top 10 I think.

how are you guys watching Wind River.

Playing at my theatre.

lol oh

I gave the nice lady at the ticket booth 9 dollars and she let me into this big room with lots of seats and a big screen, and then the movie came on soon after that.

We Are Still Here

Another win for the indie horror genre. I feel like in recent years, horror movies have finally figured it out. Directors and writers actually understand how to construct a film that manages to both entertain and terrify us. Audiences aren't satisfied anymore with straight slasher flicks, or torture porn, or just poorly constructed 'scary' movies. We finally have people pulling the strings who understand how to create characters and situations that we actually care about, and then how to turn it so that we are horrified once things start going poorly for those characters.

This movie starts out as your typical 'Amityville' type movie with a haunted house and a grieving couple who lost their son tragically. We think we know where that's going, but boy are we wrong. First time director Ted Geoghegan (who also wrote this) manages to build a slow head of steam before knocking our socks off with a bloody third act. My eyes were wide and my mouth agape during the climax.

Started watching the original anime version of Death Note just because it got mentioned here. Pretty good so far.

We should all try to remember that some forum members still live out in the provinces.

I'm upset that I "have to" watch 7 hours of brand new David Lynch all in the next week and that I can't stretch and savor. I haven't been able to watch the last few weeks (I'm through episode 11) and now obviously have to get caught up and watch the finale with everyone else next week to avoid being spoiled.

Utterly infuriating to me that there was a movie Logan and now there's this "Lucky Logan" thing in the same year that I have to keep track of too.

Haven't seen (ever). Leaving out Pee Wee's Big Adventure in a top 100 is a large mistake and is partly a product of recency/classic bias (Parker/Stone comedies on there). I'd put The Great Muppet Caper as well.

It's always a bit weird with comedies; are we rating based on laughs or based on "the best overall film that is also sort of funny"?

Saw Some Like it Hot in the last year and wouldn't put it very high.

"I hate fiction, I only watch documentaries" - smart ppl. (They also believe everything presented in the documentary as gospel and fight tooth and nail if you point out inaccuracies.)

Not a bad list. Too many old movies for my liking, but I'm only 31. I'll never really understand how movies like Raising Arizona are funny (and I love the Coens). Maybe it was funny originally but it comes off so hacky nowadays that it wouldn't be on my list.

Team America absolutely should be on that list. Firstly, I laughed for about half the run time. Secondly, it's important to be able to joke about extremely sensitive / offensive stuff and those two have been revolutionary in pushing the boundaries of what you're allowed to talk/joke about. You're right it won't age well though. I just think those guys are really smart and funny and thats sometimes lost amongst the poop jokes.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall and 40 Year Old Virgin are glaring omissions. Also Wedding Crashers, Old School, Superbad and Super Troopers? Pulp Fiction is a pretty wtf inclusion.

Borat #41; Born Yesterday #96; Repo Man not even on it. The only word for this list is pathetic.

Borats so easy to take exception to but he basically invented an entirely new format of comedy and was incredibly good at it. Again it won't age that well, but it was groundbreaking stuff at the time and people loved it. The movie was a little gimmicky and less improvisational than Da Ali G Show which I can't recommend enough. Fun fact: Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg got their start writing for that show.

There's a lot of snobbery going on with that list. I'd also add Superbad as a glaring omission.

I think that comedies have to have a good compelling story and emotional engagement with the audience in order to be GOAT. It's why Groundhog Day is a much better movie than Airplane.

lol I literally did edit that into my post before I saw yours

That seems like the kind of thing you would be utterly infuriated by.



Exactly this. Airplane! is a series of gags loosely chained together, it isn't even a real movie. The characters are not characters, they are caricatures. Contrast that with Groundhog Day, which has actual characters and a real story that develops over the course of the movie, despite nonstop repetition of the same day over and over again.

That list is pure lol. Yeah definitely make a top 100 comedies list that doesn't include Planes, Trains, and Automobiles or Coming to America. Right.

Shirley you can't be serious.

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