bear in mind I was 13 though, it may not hold up for an adult like toy story does

for example, i finally watched the iron giant last month (ready player one inspired me to watch it) and I feel like having not seen it as a kid, it just didn't resonate

great film, was really surprised to see this, i've actually been at the location where it's been filmed

Back when this thread was created, my pick for 2008 was Bottle Shock, which I still love to re-watch. In fact, I just watched it again a few nights ago. Here's the trailer for those who are unfamiliar with it, as well as a link to my entire list from earlier in this thread.

https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/s...6&postcount=20

I actually studied this event in econ class in college, had no idea there was a movie made on it, will definitely check it out

also, just wanted to mention that I think 2+2ers have excellent taste in movies, I didn't want to read what others wrote before submitting my own but have been playing catch up and there's a lot of good stuff as well as keeping a list of anything i haven't seen to watch going forward - this thread was an excellent idea and very happy someone bumped it

Rick, you can be forgiven for The Goofy Movie as you were only thirteen. Not many (any?) thirteen year olds have discerning tastes at that age. And it is, as others have pointed out, favorite movies not best movies.

I was just teasing you.

Re: Appaloosa. I was in Santa Fe for a conference when it was being filmed. Many of the stars were staying in the same hotel, and we were asked to leave them alone if we ran into them. I didn't think I had seen anyone in the cast, but the first morning I went out early for a cigarette and talked to another guy doing the same for about fifteen minutes. It wasn't until a month later I realized the familiar looking guy was Lance Henricksen.

Wasn't mentioned towards any specific post. Just a reminder that it's about personal favs. There's several movies on my list which I doubt would rank in a typical top 10 best movies list for their year. It's about where you were at that time, how you remember the movie, etc.

That's pretty awesome. It started my infatuation with Gong Li. Where was it filmed?

oh man, never tell a Chinese person you love Gong Li or they'll spend 20 minutes reminding you how ugly she is by Chinese standards and that you have yellow fever

I recognize your name from the China group, perhaps you still live there. It's in a small village in Shanxi near the town of Pingyao. Everything is maybe an hour or so outside of Taiyuan. Pingyao alone is worth the trip as it was the banking center of Asia (where they literally invented money transfers, etc. If you're interested in finance, it's pretty amazing to go there to and see contracts where x merchant deposited y amount in Pingyao and would thus have z line of credit for his business partner when he arrives at their branch in Tianjin. Anyway... after collapse of the Qing, there was literally no reason to have a specialized, tiny and landlocked city for banking purposes so the economy collapsed, the banks moved to big coastal cities and the city become a time capsule of what an affluent Qing Dynasty town looked like as it was then too broke to bulldoze and development modern infrastructure. They still have much of the original buildings and are still encapsulated within their city wall.



About half an hour or so outside the city is a mansion that belonged to a wealthy family and that's where it was filmed. Pingyao and that mansion are definitely places you need to visit if you haven't already.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qiao_Family_Compound

Datong is also another criminally under rated place to visit. Was the capital of the Northern Wei dynasty but today is the largest coal production center in all of China so it's associated with being dirty and poor and thus not many Chinese think of it but the Buddha Grottoes and Hanging Temple were two of the most amazing places I've ever been to and I've literally traveled all over the world. In fact, from the Buddha Grottoes, you can see one of the world's largest coal mines, so big it has it's own hospital and school - basically a city unto itself.

lol I never heard that she was ugly before, although I guess I rarely brought her up.

That's a cool bit of info, I've never even heard of that city before. It sounds like the compound is even more massive that the movie could show.

Thanks for the write up.

They take it very personally, in fact some of the most talked about Asian celebrities are those who they find ugly but can't understand why white people love them. I really like her as well and whenever I mention her it's usually followed with a "you think she's an ugly actress or a beautiful actress?" I've been given many lectures about how she's extremely talented butt don't understand why foreign media always says she's beautiful in their film reviews

For the record, I think she's attractive. Nothing amazing, but nevertheless she's good looking in my book.

Sandra Oh getting listed as one of the most beautiful people shocked them, as is every Asian beauty queen, Lucy Liu also considered very ugly and they simply can't understand why Asa Akira is so popular.

I was hopping a bus at MacCarran. Three Chines people get on, a guy and his wife in their 20s, and the guy's father. I smile. The father looks at me and asks me if I think is daughter-in-law is pretty. I laugh and say, Yes, extremely--she looks like a young Michelle Reis.

Both men shake their heads and tell me that Michelle Reis isn't very good looking. The girl turns around, smiles at me and says, "Thank you very much."

I think it may be a cultural thing, like they're trying not to jinx themselves. If not, those guys were insane.

btw, Gong Li is amazing.

Protip: If a Japanese asks you if a girl is beautiful, simply say, "Yes, but her mouth is too big." They'll nod.

oh, you guys now need to post for me some examples of women who Chinese people would find attractive - especially if Gong Li isn't one of them.

I assume it has to do with the Asian women the West tends to find attractive usually have more "Western" facial features.

http://www.sixthtone.com/news/100366...gh-level-faces

angelababy is considered very beautiful and she's been in the new independence day - she's had an absurd amount of plastic surgery though - which actually makes her a great example because she's literally been carved that way to really focus in on their local beauty standards

you should watch The Lion Roars from 2002, Cecilia Chung in that film is basically peak Asian beauty standards (and mesmerizing to look at as well) and it also made famous Fan Bingbing, who many considered the most beautiful woman of the aughts - Fan Bingbing is a bit of a chamelion, there are many images of her where I find her utterly stunning but many more where she's just very plain looking

could have sworn i posted a video of pingyao that seems to not be here anymore, not sure if there are rules against video in this forum or not but behold - peak Chinese beauty standards



sorry for derailing the thread guys

one last note, they don't consider calling someone ugly an insult, it's like pointing out someone is tall or has blonde hair - just a fact of life and they don't take it personally, it took me a really long time to get used to people saying "you need to talk to Li in accounting, he's the fat and ugly one"

and also those images of the two models they used are really ugly by standards out here, like disastrously ugly - you know the chris farley chip n dale's SNL skit, it's like they are seeing that but it's not a joke but deadly serious - just imagine if every time you saw you Shaun Deeb on TV and the commentators wouldn't shut up about how handsome he is and they are deadly serious

I'm confused....she looks like Zhang Ziyi

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Hot bitches are hot bitches, you Yahoos are confusing the issue!
Simplify.

I took issue with Mars Attacks! Saw it in theater, was super excited and incredibly disappointed. Hated it.

Election was amazing but watched it again maybe.2 years ago and while enjoyable, it wasn't the same. Still strongly considered it for my own list along with office space, half baked and the matrix.

Why should anyone take issue with one of your picks? This is a list of one's favorite movies, not what anyone things is the best or even a particularly good movie from any specific year. Your favorite movie is your favorite movie. It's as simple as that. There's nothing to take issue with or to argue about.

I'd never heard of Election. Will look for it.

Mars Attacks! (considered one of the greatest artistic achievements of the 20th Century) was a solid pick, but I'm pretty sure everyone picked it.

mars attacks is ****ing awesome

Mars Attacks was based on a series of trading cards from the early 60's which were so scary at the time they had to be taken off of the market. Thing is the Martians in the cards were just as goofy looking as the ones in the movie. Those cards wouldn't be even mildly scary or offensive in this day and age but I had a bunch of those cards and as a little kid they did creep me out a little.

I had those cards, too.

Election is a fine movie. Mars Attacks is good fun. H/T to Slim Whitman.

Bump

legit haven't seen too many movies these last few years so a lot of the competition for these years listing now still unwatched so this could change if i revisit it again in a few years

2019 - JoJo Rabbit
2020 - Palm Springs
2021 - Promising Young Woman (released Dec 25th 2020 so basically a 2021 film imo)

have not yet seen Dune yet, which I imagine should take #1 in 2021

Following rickroll's lead, here's my updated list. A couple of changes and then the last few years.

1947 -- Lady in the Lake
1948 -- Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House*
1949 -- Twelve O'Clock High
1950 -- Born Yesterday
1951 -- Alice in Wonderland*
1952 -- High Noon
1953 -- From Here to Eternity
1954 -- Seven Samurai
1955 -- Rififi
1956 -- The Killing
1957 -- Throne of Blood
1958 -- King Creole*
1959 -- The Mouse That Roared*
1960 -- The Apartment
1961 -- West Side Story
1962 -- Lonely Are the Brave
1963 -- Hud
1964 -- A Shot in the Dark
1965 -- The Great Race**
1966 -- A Man For All Seasons
1967 -- Point Blank
1968 -- 2001
1969 -- Wild Bunch
1970 -- The Ballad of Cable Hogue
1971 -- McCabe & Mrs. Miller
1972 -- Super Fly
1973 -- Lady Snowblood
1974 -- Chinatown
1975 -- A Boy and His Dog
1976 -- Network
1977 -- Close Encounters
1978 -- Animal House
1979 -- Apocalypse Now
1980 -- Raging Bull
1981 -- Time Bandits
1982 -- Sophie's Choice
1983 -- Flamenco Carmen
1984 -- Repo Man
1985 -- After Hours
1986 -- Sid & Nancy**
1987 -- Sign "☮" the Times
1988 -- Tapeheads**
1989 -- Do the Right Thing***
1990 -- La Femme Nikita
1991 -- What About Bob?
1992 -- Buffy the Vampire Slayer****
1993 -- Schindler's List
1994 -- Chungking Express
1995 -- Fallen Angels
1996 -- Fargo
1997 -- L.A. Confidential
1998 -- The Big Lebowski
1999 -- Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
2000 -- Almost Famous
2001 -- Amélie
2002 -- Dogtown and Z-Boys
2003 -- Zatoichi**
2004 -- Napoleon Dynamite
2005 -- Brick
2006 -- The Host 16 Blocks
2007 -- 3:10 to Yuma
2008 -- Chocolate
2009 -- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (original)
2010 -- Restrepo
2011 -- Killer Joe
2012 -- Zero Dark Thirty
2013 -- Pain and Gain
2014 -- Inherent Vice
2015 -- Big Short Our Little Sister
2016 -- Handmaiden
2017 -- Tie: Lego Batman and Paterson
2018 -- One Cut of the Dead
2019 -- First Love
2020 -- Emma ?
2021 -- Pig

Last 2 years involved very little movie going.