curious who all is participating in this one
one thing I'm noticing from this list is movie watchers seem to go really absurdly hard on both ends up the spectrum from "this is boring and anyone who says they like it is a liar" to "this is the greatest film ever made and nothing to come after will or can ever be better"
I would have gone with The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure
Well I haven't seen them all. I think the list is light on that kind of thing but:
- Harakiri has a scene in which someone commits seppuku
- The Battle of Algiers and Aguirre have some violent scenes, idk how extreme they get
- Eraserhead has some body horror elements and Pan's Labyrinth has disturbing creature designs
- The Holy Mountain is really weird
- Joan of Arc gets set on fire in Passion of Joan of Arc
Oh man. I feel like half the battle here is going to be finding half of these.
@rockus
Watch your tongue boy if you like this job!
I didn't include Return of the Living Dead since it was done in a previous ranking!
The Fog feels like a big exclusion but I probably would've cut it too
But ultimately, a good story is a good story.
Can we PLEASE eliminate more of the shitty art films
13. Gremlins
Fright Night was a refreshing & meta take on vampire movies when it first came out, and still holds up pretty well today. It's somewhat of a parody but is also pretty damn scary, which is rare. Evil Ed reverting back from a wolf freaked me out as a kid, and Chris Sarandon plays the right blend of charming and sinister. Meanwhile Roddy McDowall's reluctant hero character is one the best 'good guys' in 80s horror.
Christine is one of King's worst stories in my opinion, or at least worst concepts. I'm all for 'cursed object' horror, but an evil car always seemed silly to me.
Evil Ed and Charlies friendship really captures a high school friendship, in that I have no idea why either of them decide to hang out with each other.
I had no idea that Fright Night was that well-liked, to the point where people consider it superior to Child's Play. Chucky is so iconic, whereas the only time I've ever heard anyone refer to Fright Night was Herschel Walker on the campaign trail.
Let's keep it rolling with The Dead Zone
Also guessing Creepshow, just because it feels bizarre to still have in, when its tone and filmmaking is very similar to Killer Klowns.
Artsy is a bit of a loaded term in this topic series lol
Absolute boo. Child's Play was astonishingly fun and deserves to have outlasted all the unpleasant artsy horror movies on the list.
What's frustrating is there WERE aspects of Sleepaway Camp that were very good. The performances and protective relationship between the siblings was really endearing. Eat shit and live is a great line!
Kind of a slight spoiler for the movie butMalignant(2021)
You think kung fu panda 4 is gonna sweep next year?
Methinks ya guys like Wes too much
ummmm dude its film crit hulk, not film critic hulk
A fascinating mix of douchebaggery and awesome
no I got thatwhy is it here? Seems like it should be on the movies board lol
Top 7 to show De Niro
Robert Downey Jr (Oppenheimer)
Mark Ruffalo (Poor Things)
Ryan Gosling (Barbie)
Charles Melton (May December)
Dominic Sessa (The Holdovers)
Sterling K Brown (American Fiction)
Robert De Niro (Killers)
I don't hate Downey Jr. in Oppenheimer, but I think by and large Nolan still doesn't let his characters be human enough for me to find anything to blow me away in the resulting performances. Love it or hate it or in between, I think the direction makes Oppenheimer what it is far more so than any of the performances. The performances were uniformly solid and did what they needed to do--and, spoiler, it did make my ensemble ballot--but none individually electrified me.
I didn't have Yen on my ballot, but he would have come before RDJ or Dafoe. If the people of CE want Poor Things representation, I did have Ruffalo and Kathryn Hunter (supporting actress) on my ballot, and had it at second for production design, behind Asteroid City.
You sound exactly the same as Zithers
But where is Robert Downey Jr?
I really did love Fallen Leaves btw. It just feels way too constrained and empty for Production Design