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LightningStrikes posted...

Not sure if I can do this but Ill try. Sheep, Im in Ireland but would probably still benefit from a UK list as streaming-wise theyre 99% the same, that would be a huge help thank you!

Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) - BFI
The Rules of the Game (1937) - BFI
Citizen Kane (1941) - BBC iPlayer/BFI/Prime
Ikiru (1952) - BFI
Tokyo Story (1953) - BFI
Ordet (1955) - BFI
Pather Panchali (1955) - Plex
Harakiri (1962) - Amazon
8 1/2 (1963) - BFI
Black Girl (1966) - Plex
The Battle of Algiers (1966) - BFI
Persona (1966) - BFI
Playtime (1967) - Criterion
The Conformist (1970) - Youtube
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) - BFI
The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) - Criterion
The Holy Mountain (1973) - Prime
Mirror (1975) - Plex
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) - BFI
Eraserhead (1977) - Criterion/Amazon
The Ascent (1977) - Amazon
Three Colors: Red (1994) - Amazon
Vive L'Amour (1994) - Not available in UK - although I can access it with my university library card via Kanopy?? Your local library card might do it.
Beau Travail (1999) - Criterion
Amlie (2001) - Amazon
Pan's Labyrinth (2006) - Amazon/Youtube
Synecdoche, New York (2008) - Apple/Amazon/Youtube
The Tree of Life (2011) - Apple/Amazon
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) - Disney
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) - Netflix

This is what I've got, it might be quite a bit different for you since I don't know if you can access the BFI and that's where I'll be getting a lot of these. If there's only one service shown for a movie that is probably on more, it's because that's the only one that comes with a subscription rather than a "rent". Amazon means you "rent" it, and the few instances I've listed Prime means it's with the subscription. A hell of a lot of this stuff doesn't come with streaming packages unfortunately.

Space Lion in last is certainly one of the takes I have now seen.

NO RETREAT
+3 Turtonator
+2 Krabby
+1 Dewott
-1 Loudred
-2 Kabuto
-3 Landorus

LIGHT SCREEN
+3 Whirlipede
+2 Gloom
+1 Golbat
-1 Chimecho
-2 Tapu Koko
-3 Wiglett

I really like both of these divisions even if they perhaps aren't the strongest. Not a fan of Lando or my bottom three in Light Screen but the other 16 could all get +s in most divisions.

I Want To Hold Your Hand
Here Comes The Sun
Strawberry Fields Forever
Let It Be

I will fulfil the prophecy and say that I think both are mediocre selections.

I voted for Fighting because Annihilape, Pawmot and the paradox mons are all solid, and the only one which sucks is Okidogi, compared to the excellent Flygon and Altaria, godawful Latis and meh everything else in Gen 3.

SUPERSONIC
+3 Shellos
+2 Vanillish
+1 Claydol
-1 Blaziken
-2 Dodrio
-3 Zeraora

SILK TRAP
+3 Dunsparce
+2 Brambleghast
+1 Coalossal
-1 Minun
-2 Naganadel
-3 Grookey

Two interesting divisions, not really sure how either will pan out. Supersonic looks strong, even if I don't personally love much there.

Suprak_the_Stud posted...

Oh man. I feel like half the battle here is going to be finding half of these.

Funnily enough, I think most of them seem very accessible to me via one service, moreso than the usual lists! Looks like the BFI have the majority of the movies from before the 90s due to their "artsy" nature, and those after are simple for me to find on streaming or pick up on DVD, but unfortunately the BFI is not accessible internationally. Vive L'Amour seems the odd one out which I couldn't find a stream or digital "rent" for. It's not available on any services in the UK, and it looks to be upwards of 30 to get physically (50 for the blu-ray). Thankfully, I can watch the movie on Kanopy using my... university library card? Think it might be available for local library cards as well.

If anyone else is in the UK would like the list of streaming services for working out practicalities, let me know and I'll pop it in here.

Oddish deserved to live :( but that division was just too good. I hoped Jynx might come close to -100 but alas.

ttgl

Been meaning to participate in one of these for a while and I think this would be a fun one, plenty of movies I enjoy and plenty I have been meaning to see. Any ideas on the deadline? Think I should be able to participate but probably won't have time to start watching until mid-May.

EARTHQUAKE
+3 Zorua
+2 Dustox
+1 Rowlet
-1 Cramorant
-2 Plusle
-3 Gothita

INSTRUCT
+3 Drapion
+2 Golisopod
+1 Zapdos
-1 Drizzile
-2 Happiny
-3 Seaking

Once again in disagreement with MZero, I gotta say today is really mediocre. Instruct at least has things I want to give pluses to, but I'd happily give minuses to everything except Zorua in Earthquake.

Slowdive - When The Sun Hits

NFUN posted...

When I'm trying hard not to vomit, repeating the litany against fear seems to be very effective. It kind of makes me feel like a jackass but if it works it works

I feel like it's one of those things, like counting sheep, where you need literally any simple process to take your mind off the task at hand to help you succeed at it. There's plenty of lamer self-empowerment monologues out there than the litany against fear, anyway.

If it's your first colonoscopy, the prep is by far the worst bit. If you follow the dietary advice strictly (no proper vegetable fibre for 24h but I would do ~36 hours beforehand, no solid food for 18h) and drink at least half the solution, the actual bum tube is a walk in the park. Generally the more unpleasant the prep, the more pleasant the procedure, and the less likely you did something wrong and they need to try again.

Drink approximately half of the provided two litres of saccharine salt juice along with four times as much water and repeat "I will not throw up, I will not throw up, I will not throw up" internally until I begin to believe it.

Music and low-stakes games on your phone with no time constraints are also good options. Sudoku or something.

AQUA TAIL
+3 Lillipup
+2 Vikavolt
+1 Litwick
-1 Oddish
-2 Scrafty
-3 Jynx

POWER TRIP
+3 Revavroom
+2 Roserade
+1 Smoliv
-1 Delcatty
-2 Palkia
-3 Keldeo

Aqua Tail crazy stacked. Power Trip less so.

1) Tank!
2) Space Lion I very nearly like this more than Tank and thats high praise indeed.
3) Rush
4) Waltz for Zizi
5) Piano Black
6) Too Good Too Bad
7) Cat Blues
8) Cosmos
9) The Egg and I
10) Memory
11) Rain
12) Pot City
13) Felt Tip Pen
14) Digging My Potato
15) Car 24
16) Bad Dog No Biscuits
17) Spokey Dokey Im sorry, but can we please have a tiny, teensy bit less harmonica? Just a tad? A smidgen toned down, perhaps? I promise, I like it. I love your harmonica, Ms Kanno, I really do. Its just a lot, yknow?

I love Bebop, I love this soundtrack as a soundtrack, I dont care for it so much as an album. A lot of other soundtracks work better in album form, and either feel more wildly varied (like, game soundtracks tend to cover wider tones) or like they have more cohesion without getting tiring. Rains vocalist was a jumpscare and a half the first listen, and the actionier songs didnt tend to sit so highly with me past the opening two. The 1-2 punch of Spokey Dokey and Bad Dog No Biscuits was rough following that, and I dont think they led well into the rest of the album. Most of the rest flows decently, given its not really intended to be a typical album. Still obviously so much great music here! I feel like I'm being very critical but it's unfortunately hindered by not being the best way I've experienced this soundtrack. Go watch Bebop (the anime version please) if you haven't already - one of the best animated shows of all time.

RPG_Lover666 posted...

Pollyanna (I Believe in You ) from EarthBound Beginnings/Mother by Catherine Warwick

I adore this song to an indescribable extent

My current earworm is probably All I Really Want is You by The Marias. And still Working on the Highway by Springsteen, which I have listened to twice ever, not for multiple months, and don't even like.

ICE BURN
+3 Swablu
+2 Rabsca
+1 Tangela
-1 Cresselia
-2 Lechonk
-3 Walking Wake

ATTRACT
+3 Zubat
+2 Crobat
+1 Caterpie
-1 Psyduck
-2 Wugtrio
-3 Cherubi

I have so many ideas for nominations here. Laufey was my first thought because of how unique her recent stuff is and how much she's blown up, but she was part-raised in the US so it kinda goes against the spirit and I think there's more interesting options anyway.

BTS and Shakira both feel like they should be covered at some point, and I really enjoy a few Spanish-language artists like Mon Laferte (and Kali Uchis who I have just realised is American lol I could swear she was Colombian), as well as a ton of Japanese artists, but before picking from them I wonder if people would be interested if I nominated a Polish-language artist? I think I'm the only Pole here so I assume nobody has even heard of them, and I'm a little hesitant to throw in an artist literally nobody else will know (I was thinking of Kult, Myslovitz, or Kwiat Jabloni if any of those mean anything to y'all).

WONDER ROOM
+3 Finneon
+2 Yanmega
+1 Jangmo-o
-1 Smeargle
-2 Reshiram
-3 Thwackey

G-MAX RAPID FLOW
+3 Parasect
+2 Fearow
+1 Dreepy
-1 Sewaddle
-2 Pidove
-3 Regigigas

Rapid Flow has so many of my favourites in, Dreepy does not deserve to only get a +1 and I have a soft spot for everything down to Gigas. Praying Finneon won't get absolutely destroyed today but I don't hold out much hope.

Edit: Clarified what I voted for Dreepy to not confuse the vote counters

s undertale

San Marino was my second thought but alas

The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay

Game looks insanely good for the console it was on. Not sure what other standouts there are, Project Gotham Racing 2 doesn't quite hold up to Gran Turismo, Halo is amazing but technically not exceptional, and I think Half-Life 2 was on the original Xbox but that feels like cheating.

I agree that the Iron names are very boring, and a little confusing to differentiate at the start of the gen too. At least give them names of different metals!

UF8 posted...

regardless it's wild that you'd actually shit on one of the most conceptually awesome ones, it's a mysterious hostile invader from space that is clearly ready to fuck shit up, it's also one of the most fun to use, and its theme goes hard, what's not to like?

(i'm eyeing the other minusers here too)

Deoxys is one I want to like but just don't click with. It's a cool concept and the whole DNA thing is neat I've just never particularly cared for it. I think it being a pain or practically impossible to access in the games I've played makes it rank lower since I've gotten no chance to use it. Definitely not a bottom-tier legend, I just kinda like other things in that division more.

MZero posted...

I've noticed that Sheep and I have very different opinions on Pokemon. I think Substitute is the much weaker division today! Cannonade does have a tragic bottom three but I could see everything else getting a + in the right division

I have a lot of Pokemon hot takes but one of them is that almost all legendaries are ugly as hell (in a not-fun way) and a lot of them are boring with no personality to boot. There's only one mon in Cannonade I actually like and that's Torterra. Everything else ranges from meh enough that I'd normally give it a -1 or a -2 to actual travesties like Latias, Thundurus, Zarude and Poliwhirl. I guess Togepi and the non-Thundurus Gen 5 mons are all fine but I wouldn't consider any of them a + vote. Substitute is mostly meh, but has a few mons I really like and also Pidgeotto.

SUBSTITUTE
+3 Golett
+2 Budew
+1 Grubbin
-1 Clauncher
-2 Deoxys
-3 Pidgeotto

G-MAX CANNONADE
+3 Torterra
+2 Togepi
+1 Mienfoo
-1 Zarude
-2 Thundurus
-3 Latias

Cannonade is probably gonna be the worst division in this whole thing.

NFUN posted...

Ozirc Tentacles

Hell yeah, thanks for the rec! I've just been sticking on things that are marked as similar on Spotify, and their other albums, so it's nice to have something specifically suggested.

I also listened to a bunch of Massive Attack and Air recently, because of cycle 1. I love more ambient, less lyrically-focused music, probably due to listening to lots of soundtracks. I always struggled to find a place to start outside of things that are intended to be heard in other media first and foremost. This series has been great for that, and discovering new music that suits my tastes in general!

Seanchan posted...

Final bump from me, I promise!

Sheep, did you listen to any other cycles?

I'm currently making my way through cycle 2! I utterly adored The Stranger (which I was kinda expecting but not to the extent I did) and the Outkast album (which I definitely wasn't expecting, I just remember them as the Hey Ya guys. Specifically the video with the low quality audio and rotating fish). Absolutely phenomenal, both of them. Outkast are incredibly witty, a little heartfelt at times but generally very tongue in cheek, and I went through a lot of their discography right after. I also enjoyed the Spice Girls in an oddly similar fashion when I was expecting them to grate on me.

Meanwhile, I discovered I don't actually like Taylor Swift! I've heard a bunch of her singles obviously, and enjoyed most of them a lot even though I thought they were overplayed. Speak Now was mediocre to me, though, with no real standout songs, a very safe approach and grating lyrics. Probably the worst so far of cycle 2, having just finished Steely Dan. I don't think it was a bad listen, but it's put me off seeking more from her.

Mostly just listening to Shpongle-adjacent stuff right now though with my thesis due shortly.

"Scum" was recently ruled by the UK courts to be a reasonable way to discuss a political actor's beliefs, so I'm glad to say it's not inflammatory. It is political, however, so I'm afraid it looks like we'll have to shut this whole operation down. Fandom policy.

Cmon Atletico sort it out

I will admit I have a bit of fondness for Barca specifically because of how brilliant they've been over the years, but supporting PSG of all teams over them as a neutral is wild to me. Like, this is the oil team, the team who kicked off all of the transfer market hyperinflation bullshit with Neymar. Man City are awful especially on the wages side of things but PSG are far, far more flagrant. They bought two players for 400m in a single transfer window and are such a soulless shambles that they still can't even win their league every year, let alone challenge for CL.

This might be one of the hardest albums to rank so far, three and a half listens and I don't think I'm any closer to reaching a conclusion. Just gonna throw something in that vaguely reflects my feelings. There's lots of things that are very catchy here which I don't actually like as much as the songs I find less catchy, and Artadi's voice is slowly driving me to the Kero Kero Bonito delirium I hinted at prior. This feels much more ambitious musically, overall better and bit less mind-boggling though. Despite actually leaning into weirdness through the lyrics, where KKB would be singing about like, going to school and drinking plenty of water or some shit.

Im The President
The Abyss
Nightmare
Real Nice Moment
Do Hot Girls Like Chords?
Its All Nothing Until Its Everything
Ride That Dolphin
It Will Get Real
Crash The Car
Same Smile Different Face
Knower Forever

HYDRO CANNON
+3 Luxray
+2 Hippopotas
+1 Mudbray
-1 Sneasel
-2 Stakataka
-3 Steenee

LEAF TORNADO
+3 Starly
+2 Zoroark
+1 Aromatisse
-1 Metang
-2 Terrakion
-3 Snorunt

Jakyl25 posted...

Is it weird that my first thought is The Wind Waker? I know its probably demonstrably not

Wind Waker particle effects are phenomenal but yeah I'm not sure this is it. Metroid Prime is close but gonna go with Pikmin 2 also.

I got 194 berries in Celeste (so most of the goldens, just missing some of the later B sides and Farewell). I also broke into the top 500 for a few weeks on the original Overwatch back in 2019, albeit on EU console servers.

HURRICANE
+3 Orbeetle
+2 Buzzwole
+1 Barboach
-1 Solosis
-2 Eelektrik
-3 Shelmet

CLOSE COMBAT
+3 Chi-Yu
+2 Slugma
+1 Glimmora
-1 Totodile
-2 Sliggoo
-3 Tapu Lele

What was that about Emery again

Both solid, I think the sheer number of good things in Gen 6 make up for the shitty Latis and their unbelievably boring megas. Plus most of the other megas aren't bad by the low standards megas have, and Tyrunt is adorable.

Madoka

OBLIVION WING
+3 Sandshrew
+2 Spiritomb
+1 Toedscool
-1 Burmy
-2 Bewear
-3 Dialga

ELECTRIFY
+3 Garganacl
+2 Froslass
+1 Phanpy
-1 Veluza
-2 Audino
-3 Tympole

First listen done, but mostly in the background. Definitely need another one before even thinking about rankings. The vocals and even sometimes the lyrics remind me of Kero Kero Bonito. I don't get the same delirious euphoria from them, but I also find the songs sufferable so it's a mixed tradeoff. Also, holy shit the arrangements are wild. They had a lotttt of fun making this.

I have Crohn's so this isn't a theoretical question but the answer is absolutely yes even if you don't know it yet.

SOUL-STEALING 7-STAR STRIKE
+3 Camerupt
+2 Ting-Lu
+1 Rampardos
-1 Grapploct
-2 Regieleki
-3 Wailmer

SHADOW BONE
+3 Yanma
+2 Bisharp
+1 Leafeon
-1 Pumpkaboo
-2 Okidogi
-3 Spewpa

I am very glad we get Suprak writeups despite not getting a Suprak list.

Gonna continue to sit out for the time being sorry, no time for Mafia right now.

TORMENT
+3 Krokorok
+2 Kartana
+1 Cyndaquil
-1 Nosepass
-2 Quaxwell
-3 Torkoal

PSYCHO CUT
+3 Golurk
+2 Mareep
+1 Spectrier
-1 Meltan
-2 Sawk
-3 Xerneas

I think that's the first time I've seen something drop in the bottom three and still gone "hell yeah, that's made me wanna check it out". Big Klown fan.

KINESIS
+3 Gastrodon
+2 Klinklang
+1 Bunnelby
-1 Passimian
-2 Illumise
-3 Watchog

HEAL BELL
+3 Pyroar
+2 Binacle
+1 Tadbulb
-1 Tynamo
-2 Swampert
-3 Tornadus

Fomantis :(

Same as Espurr where it's got big eyes and looks sad and is the best mon of its generation. Can't believe it went already, and with such a bad score.

Gen 7 is probably the best here. Only one that sucks (Brionne), a couple mediocre ones (Bruxish and Fini) and the rest are great.