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Long Century replied to the thread Unpopular Entertainment Opinions.
Don't trust my high school self to not be tricked by twists and effects but I liked A Scanner Darkly
Apr 26, 2024 at 5:18 PM -
Long Century liked aliens exist's post in the thread Movie Your Top 20 Films of All-Time (As of 2024).
Tallied up everyone's lists with similar rules to the last time we did this. If a film appeared in first place on somebody's list, it got 150 points; second place got 149 points, and so on. I had to take some liberties; if a list was posted "in no particular order," I counted in the order posted. I didn't include "honorable mentions" and only counted the first 20 films from each list. The full list of 364 films is here. Enjoy! Top 50 1. No Country for Old Men 2. Jurassic Park 3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 4. The Thing 5. There Will Be Blood 6. Mulholland Drive 7. Mad Max: Fury Road 8. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 9. The Departed 10. The Big Lebowski 11. The Social Network 12. Scream 13. Everything Everywhere All at Once 14. Goodfellas 15. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 16. The Shining 17. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back 18. Zodiac 19. Se7en 20. Inglourious Basterds 21. The Matrix 22. Boogie Nights 23. Blue Velvet 24. Halloween 25. Inside Llewyn Davis 26. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood 27. Nope 28. 2001: A Space Odyssey 29. The Truman Show 30. Spirited Away 31. Punch-Drunk Love 32. American Movie 33. Do the Right Thing 34. The Godfather 35. MacGruber 36. The Silence of the Lambs 37. Arrival 38. The Godfather Part II 39. Before Sunset 40. Shaun of the Dead 41. Tommy Boy 42. Pulp Fiction 43. In Bruges 44. Blade Runner 2049 45. Mission: Impossible - Fallout 46. Drive 47. Dazed and Confused 48. Possession 49. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 50. It's a Wonderful Life
Apr 26, 2024 at 7:47 AM -
Long Century liked Halitosis Jones's post in the thread Unpopular Entertainment Opinions.
That's T2 lol
Apr 25, 2024 at 9:50 PM -
Long Century liked iCarly Rae Jepsen's post in the thread Unpopular Entertainment Opinions.
was a weird 5 year old who wasn't watching Holocaust movies
Apr 25, 2024 at 9:49 PM -
Long Century liked cshadows2887's post in the thread Unpopular Entertainment Opinions.
If you want drama, that or Double Indemnity. If you want comedy, The Apartment or Some Like It Hot. If you want one of the best rom-coms ever, Sabrina. Dude made so many straight-up classics. Edit: I don't mean to be unhelpful. It's just genuinely hard to choose. It's like picking the best Beatles album for someone to start with.
Apr 25, 2024 at 9:46 PM -
Long Century liked George's post in the thread Your Top Twenty Shows of All Time (As of 2024).
I don’t think I’ve watched any new TV shows since we last did this, so the below probably still stands for me! Actually, I did like Australian sitcom, “Colin from Accounts” - that gets to be an honourable mention as probably the last new TV show I watched.
Apr 25, 2024 at 8:52 PM -
Long Century replied to the thread Your Top Twenty Shows of All Time (As of 2024).
Bad seasons should be weighed in accordance to how important continuity and overarching story is to a show. If every episode is self contained they dont matter. Story based Shows like Game of Thrones and Lost should be penalised heavily for bad seasons and endings. US office is in the middle, It had long storylines but they werent the mainfocus then jumped the shark and continued with bad seasons.
Apr 25, 2024 at 8:49 PM -
Long Century replied to the thread Unpopular Entertainment Opinions.
I'm on zero, should I just start with Sunset Boulevard?
Apr 25, 2024 at 7:48 PM -
Long Century liked chewbacca110's post in the thread Absurdist Twitter.
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Apr 25, 2024 at 7:38 PM -
Long Century liked iCarly Rae Jepsen's post in the thread Entertainment Forum General Chat Thread.
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Apr 25, 2024 at 7:37 PM -
Long Century replied to the thread Unpopular Entertainment Opinions.
I need to watch Color of Money. It's joked about here and I never get it
Apr 25, 2024 at 7:28 PM -
Long Century replied to the thread Unpopular Entertainment Opinions.
10yr old me seeing the thumbs up and wondering why everyone was crying.
Apr 25, 2024 at 7:14 PM -
Long Century liked imthegrimace's post in the thread Unpopular Entertainment Opinions.
Gone in 60 seconds is so stupid but so fun. Perfect action movie and peak Cage.
Apr 25, 2024 at 7:04 PM -
Long Century replied to the thread Unpopular Entertainment Opinions.
I'm sold, it will be.a great bounce back from Mr List
Apr 25, 2024 at 7:04 PM -
Long Century replied to the thread Unpopular Entertainment Opinions.
Ive added it and the 28 others from your list I hadn't seen to my watch list. I watched bicycle thieves earlier this week I didn't think the blue people looked cool. Ive added Gone in 60 Seconds from your list
Apr 25, 2024 at 6:50 PM -
Long Century replied to the thread Unpopular Entertainment Opinions.
Im not sure Ive seen terminator either Ive seen the end of the one where he sticks his thumb up out of the lava
Apr 25, 2024 at 6:44 PM -
Long Century liked OhTheWater's post in the thread Unpopular Entertainment Opinions.
I’ve never seen it either
Apr 25, 2024 at 6:42 PM -
Long Century liked irthesteve's post in the thread Entertainment Forum General Chat Thread.
GRIMACE!!!!
Apr 25, 2024 at 6:22 PM -
Long Century liked cshadows2887's post in the thread Entertainment Forum General Chat Thread.
I can't remember the last time I blocked someone on here but I was hovering over the button for this.
Apr 25, 2024 at 6:22 PM -
Long Century liked imthegrimace's post in the thread Entertainment Forum General Chat Thread.
go ahead and I’ll go dig up my Hailey it happens CD and run it over with my car!!
Apr 25, 2024 at 6:21 PM -
Long Century replied to the thread Unpopular Entertainment Opinions.
Titanic Avatar Avatar 2 Avengers and any Marvel movie after Schindler's List
Apr 25, 2024 at 6:14 PM -
Long Century liked Halitosis Jones's post in the thread Unpopular Entertainment Opinions.
I only saw Schindler's List for the first time like 6 months ago
Apr 25, 2024 at 5:49 PM -
Long Century liked imthegrimace's post in the thread Movie The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (Guy Ritchie, April 19, 2024).
This was fun as hell. My dad and I loved it. Total dad movie.
Apr 25, 2024 at 8:04 AM -
Long Century liked Morrissey's post in the thread Movie Your Top 20 Films of All-Time (As of 2024).
[IMG] 1 (tie): CONTEMPT AND MASCULIN FEMININ DIRECTED BY: JEAN-LUC GODARD Jean-Luc Godard died recently, and it really emphasized just what a unique presence he had on the film landscape. When you watch somber European arthouse films releasing today, you can see the clear influences of Bergman and Antonioni. Bela Tarr very obviously owes a lot to Andrei Tarkovsky. The big-budget directors all want to be Steven Spielberg, and Paul Thomas Anderson's deliberate and slowly paced filmography has shades of Stanley Kubrick. However, no one ever really captures what Godard was doing in his "cinematic period" from 1960-1968, and it might be impossible to ever recreate ever again. While all of the French New Wave directors were rebelling against the stuffy prestige films of the time, it was Godard who was most questioning what cinema can be, how you can change the defined rules of the medium, and how to play with audience expectations. When he wanted to, he could make a beautiful mainstream drama like CONTEMPT, and after he had proven to the world how great he was, he would begin to infuse his politics and move away from traditional narrative, starting with MASCULIN FEMININ. Godard's cinematic period is almost parallel with Dylan's pre-motorcycle crash career, and the similarities illustrate the changing world of the Sixties. Godard and Dylan both proved themselves to be masters of the form in the early Sixties; Godard making ironic crime capers like some sort of proto-Wes Anderson while Dylan became the leader of the political folk movement, and then both men began to move against their own language, Godard becoming meaner and more openly polemical and Dylan embracing electric elements and moving beyond the protest movement. Throw in John Lennon and you have artistic growth that runs the gamut from the clean and optimistic early part of the decade and the chaos, violence, and conservative pushback of the later part of the decade. Talking about Godard's later films is contentious, as he often seemed to be trying to alienate the people who adored his earlier work, but those fifteen films over a nine period represent perhaps the greatest artistic output in the history of the artform. [IMG] [IMG] Jerry Prokosch: Whenever I hear the word "culture," I bring out my checkbook. Madeleine Zimmer: Give us a TV and a car, but deliver us from liberty. They are both films about relationships, but everything else is radically different. CONTEMPT, made in color despite being the older film, is as mainstream as a Godard film was ever going to be. With an internationally famous model and a significant portion in English, it depicts the pain of falling out of love and the moments that betray trust. While the decisions can appear minor, and we know they are done for career purposes, those betrayals are irreversible, and you cannot even look at that person you used to share a bed with the same way again. Godard's personal history with women is problematic, to say the least, but more than almost any other director he really tried to explore the silent suffering of women of that time period, who were at once expected to become sophisticated modern women while also being expected to shut it down and become a dutiful housewife when the time required it. MASCULIN FEMININ is about young love and the ways so much jealousy and competitiveness will ruin the moment, only for us to realize what we were missing years later. It is about those people who were the first generation born after the war, able to access all the luxuries and benefits of modern society without the pain and trials of the first half of the twentieth century. Today we call them baby boomers and we think of their selfishness in less romantic terms, but they did not realize how much damage they were doing when their biggest concern was getting a date for Saturday. Famously, one of the intertitles claims that we are the children of Marx and Coca-Cola, juxtaposing our idealism and desire for equality with our ultimate selfishness and materialism. Both films end violently, as Godard films often do. Dead characters do not need messy resolutions, after all. This can be used as a criticism of Godard, but it is to illustrate how fleeting these moments and scenarios are. Godard ended up outliving virtually all of his peers, but he was constantly trying to reinvent himself in case he became the sort of stuffy museum piece that he diagnosed when he was a film critic to start his career. We will always be his students.
Apr 25, 2024 at 7:42 AM -
Long Century replied to the thread Movie Your Top 20 Films of All-Time (As of 2024).
Let's not go crazy. Ideally it should be edited
Apr 25, 2024 at 2:28 AM -
Long Century liked the rural juror's post in the thread Movie Your Top 20 Films of All-Time (As of 2024).
2 appletinis and the mask will slip and he’ll tell you Garden State is his favorite movie of all time
Apr 24, 2024 at 11:23 PM -
Long Century replied to the thread Movie Your Top 20 Films of All-Time (As of 2024).
A tie pulls the entirety of an other wise excellent list's diginity into question
Apr 24, 2024 at 9:14 PM -
Long Century liked imthegrimace's post in the thread Movie Your Top 20 Films of All-Time (As of 2024).
A tie?? Lame as hell
Apr 24, 2024 at 9:10 PM -
Long Century replied to the thread Unpopular Entertainment Opinions.
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Apr 24, 2024 at 9:09 PM -
Long Century liked sophos34's post in the thread Movie Your Top 20 Films of All-Time (As of 2024).
oh yeah if i have even one drink i cant sleep for shit
Apr 24, 2024 at 7:25 PM -
Long Century liked Morrissey's post in the thread Movie Your Top 20 Films of All-Time (As of 2024).
I have not had a beer since 2008 but I will have an appletini once in a while.
Apr 24, 2024 at 6:42 PM -
Long Century liked spiffa0's post in the thread Movie Your Top 20 Films of All-Time (As of 2024).
Just don’t wear jeans
Apr 24, 2024 at 6:33 PM -
Long Century liked Serh's post in the thread Absurdist Twitter.
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Apr 24, 2024 at 3:00 PM