we have very similar taste in film.

My 15th round pick is Paddington 2. My two big crushes are Juliette Binoche and Sally Hawkins, so I have two films for each.

Can't really do right ups without internet, but I also considered

Stories We Tell
Under The Skin
Capturing the Friedmans
La La Land
35 Shots of Rum
Syndromes and a Century
White Material

and

Spirited Away

Others I strongly considered:

Yup. You were really the only person in this draft that I was worried about sniping me.

Thanks for running this, Dom. Was good fun.

oh my god I don't have access to the spreadsheet right now but if somehow no one drafted



it will invalidate this whole draft.

it might be the greatest original screenplay ever and for sure one of my all time fav films.

pls tell me I just got sniped and am having a brain fart and not that somehow we all forgot to take it I refuse to believe that's possible.

oh man Paddington 2 is such a fantastic film, well done.

ya you sniped me a few times.
zodiac is in my top 5 and man how did I forget about downfall that's such a great film.

Was taken in round 4.

And I have a feeling that if this draft was done in a couple of weeks time, there would probably be another QT movie getting drafted.

****, I forgot:

Beginners

Coherence

Just out of curiosity, did I draft any movies that you haven't seen?

starred up and this is england.

I will remedy that quickly.

I assume you've seen all mine aside from maybe eagle vs shark?

oh another great film I didn't forget but thought was made before 2000 was the believer starring ryan gosling about a jewish neo-nazi.

really fantastic highly recommend.

Yep, just that one, but it will be the next movie I watch. Going away for a week tomorrow and won't have time to watch it before then, but I'll watch it when I get back for sure.

I think you'll really enjoy those 2 movies.

ya the best part of these drafts is getting new movies to watch, can't wait.

My 15th pick is my favorite from this century: In This Corner of the World, a slowly developed story of an obscure place and time. I don't think it would be of much interest to the general viewer.

I could have gone on for a lot more. Off the top of my head, here are movies I assumed I would get around to picking if nobody sniped them...

District 13
Ratatouille
The Tower
No
American Sniper
The Wind Rises
Ong-Bak
Shaolin Soccer
2046
Spirited Away

Ratatouille!

can't think of anything I don't love patton in.

I almost picked Pistol Opera, but I didn't want anybody to watch it as their first Suzuki film.

I also considered a number of films by Michael Winterbottom and Ben Wheatley.

Sorry I was absent for so long, but life.

My remaining picks before I check any spoilers:

The Neon Demon



This is one of those movies that you could study for a course and write an English paper about. It's full of symbolism, motifs, metaphors and all the other stuff that goes on behind the scenes. But that's not why I like it. It's moody and it's dark and it takes its time. I enjoy watching it.

Out of the Furnace



Look at that picture and the way it's constructed. It's a B movie right? Except it has Christian Bale, Casey Affleck, Woody Harelson and Forest Whitaker. It is a total B movie in its success.



Before you write it off, look at this image and give it a chance. It's dark, very well acted, got a good story and gripped me from start to finish. You don't have to suspend your disbelief at any point. The hero doesn't make miraculous recoveries or escapes when things look dark. Good characters don't get rewarded for being good and bad characters don't get their comeuppance just for being bad. It's not a morality tale. It's far more realistic than that which you can't say for a lot of B movies.

Snowpiercer



I love this movie. I think it's a great premise well executed. It's a bit bonkers but I can believe the world that they're in. It's formulaic in the way that it's "get the the front of the train, the bad guys keep on coming, the good guys get fewer and fewer" but I don't care. It's done well enough to keep me interested and there's a few twists and turns along the way.

It's a bit on the dark side, but if you're ok with that then give it a watch.

you left out the best part of out of the furnace, sam shepard!

Thanks to Dom for running this! Seems like everyone had an enjoyable time, I am sure that I did. These drafts are always fun.

Lots of movies here I absolutely loved, lots I haven't seen (yet) and lots I just flat out hated But everyone has different tastes.

cool pick on neon demon! you seen too old to die young? feel like it's very very underrated atm

bummed i missed this draft so here's 15 i think has not been taken and which i woulda been happy with anyway

collateral
speed racer
the new world
southland tales
oslo, august 31st
spring breakers
macgruber
holy motors
brawl in cell block 99
enter the void
pineapple express
still walking
post tenebras lux
freddy got fingered
i'm not there

collateral and pineapple express are both fantastic and I would have been very happy with them on my list.

Free Solo should've been picked