Entertainment Forum General Chat Thread • Page 5

Nickel Boys at number one is a big swing, but it might be right.

 

There is some garbage on there (RRR, Babylon, Poor Things) but that is a great list with a lot of memories. Looking back on my top tens, 2020's Bacurau is the biggest omission.

It would be hard to pick a best film of the decade so far. Nickel Boys was actually third for me in 2024, after Hard Truths and Evil Does Not Exist. My brain says Pacifiction but my heart says Drive My Car.

 

the John Wick 2 dvd has too many previews but i just found out Keanu and Ana de Armas had already done a movie together before Ballerina haha. but it's Eli Roth so it's yucky

 

There are not 99 movies better than Megalopolis since 2020

 

I did wear my Madame Web shirt today.

 

Her web connects everything!

 

“Bride Hard,” the new Rebel Wilson movie, is getting savaged. Man, why can’t we get a decent studio comedy?

EDIT: I guess this isn’t a studio comedy. It’s an indie. That makes more sense.

 

To Live and Die in L.A. doesn’t get enough credit as one of the best crime movies. Usually morally dubious cops are often portrayed as at least being effective, but William Peterson’s character unambiguously fails at every turn and just keeps digging himself into a deeper and deeper hole

 

Haven’t ever seen it but I know my dad likes it

 

On its face it plays like a standard cop story of a detective trying to catch the criminal responsible for his partner’s murder. But each new thing he does to try to achieve that goal is more corrupt and fucked up than the last (culminating in one of the best car chase sequences ever), and most notably to no worthwhile end because he’s sincerely bad at his job. Truly nothing redeeming about the guy

Also Willem Dafoe is a great antagonist

 

And the soundtrack is great

 

Red Rooms and Perfect Days are pretty glaring omissions on that list and Barbie and Green Knight are pretty glaring inclusions

 

Red Rooms is fine, don’t think it should make the list. Makes sense why Barbie did.

 

Red Rooms is the only movie I've seen actually grapple with the bleakness of parasocial internet/true crime fascination culture, it's incredibly prescient and should be no lower than like 30

 

Barbie belongs.

 

Bloody Nose Empty Pockets and Rap World should be on there

 

Didn't we do quarter-century lists?

 

Paul Williams Developing PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE Stage Musical

 

Harold & Kumar Sequel in the Works with Cobra Kai Creators

 

John Cho basically looks exactly the same after just seeing him in Poker Face.

 

The substance ahead of Evil Does Not Exist is straight to jail. Universal Language is this years front runner

 

The Substance might be the least subtle movie of the decade. Evil Does Not Exist is playing chess.