Kinda hate Primer, actually. A dull, needlessly convoluted and dramatically inert rendering of potentially interesting material.
― to welcome jer.fairall, pie is served. (jer.fairall), Friday, 29 June 2012 22:54 (10 months ago) Permalink
the magdalene sisters the best of these that i've seen
― Mordy, Friday, 29 June 2012 22:54 (10 months ago) Permalink
i'm so allergic to entertainment weekly i might as well be a jonathan rosenbaum-level dick. or dr. morbius. peter travers *rolls eyes down the street, onto the freeway, six hours later my eyes are in las vegas at the mandalay bay buffet*
― Misc. Carnivora (Matt P), Friday, 29 June 2012 22:55 (10 months ago) Permalink
I'd watch any of these again:
24 hour party peoplecold comfort farmeve's bayoughost dogthe iron giantmarwencalthe refthe rules of attraction
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 29 June 2012 22:59 (10 months ago) Permalink
of the ones i've seen they're 50/50 great/shitty.
― da croupier, Friday, 29 June 2012 23:00 (10 months ago) Permalink
murderball was 50/50 great/shitty in the same movie.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 29 June 2012 23:00 (10 months ago) Permalink
i liked rules of attraction in college but when i tried to watch it again recently it was reaaaall rough
― da croupier, Friday, 29 June 2012 23:01 (10 months ago) Permalink
faves are probably 24 hour party people, DIG!, The Ref and maybe wendy and lucy
― da croupier, Friday, 29 June 2012 23:03 (10 months ago) Permalink
to their credit, the half of the movies I haven't seen I do feel like I should
― da croupier, Friday, 29 June 2012 23:04 (10 months ago) Permalink
even if i know i'll hate half
Lilya 4-Ever is one of my favourite films. Pick of the rest, Perfect Blue and Together.
― Temporarily Famous In The Czech Republic (ShariVari), Friday, 29 June 2012 23:05 (10 months ago) Permalink
I did really enjoy Rare Exports, out of the ones that haven't been repped for so far.
― emil.y, Friday, 29 June 2012 23:09 (10 months ago) Permalink
I am always confused by The Iron Giant, because it's from 1999, but I remember a film *just like it* from when I was a little kid.
― emil.y, Friday, 29 June 2012 23:10 (10 months ago) Permalink
i also like 'fish tank' quite a bit
― johnny crunch, Friday, 29 June 2012 23:11 (10 months ago) Permalink
One of these three:
enter the void (2009)ghost dog: the way of the samurai (1999)the iron giant (1999)
Of the ones I don't like, I think Rescue Dawn is right up there with the worst.
― old people are made of poop (Eric H.), Friday, 29 June 2012 23:29 (10 months ago) Permalink
Feel that way about Idiocracy.
Idiocracy is horrible
― da croupier, Friday, 29 June 2012 23:34 (10 months ago) Permalink
Idiocracy was funny til it wussed out in the end.
― to welcome jer.fairall, pie is served. (jer.fairall), Friday, 29 June 2012 23:36 (10 months ago) Permalink
Idiocracy was racist til it racist
― some dude nights (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 29 June 2012 23:41 (10 months ago) Permalink
also, i remember in like 1994 I asked my friend if i should see the Ref and he was all, "The whole is just "FUCK YOU! NO FUCK YOU" and so i haven;t watched it to this day
― some dude nights (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 29 June 2012 23:42 (10 months ago) Permalink
some cool movies on this list. going enter the voooooiddd
― some dude nights (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 29 June 2012 23:44 (10 months ago) Permalink
i have seen some of these movies
― lag∞n, Friday, 29 June 2012 23:44 (10 months ago) Permalink
Idiocracy was racist even when it wasn't racist. But Fuddruckers --> Buttfuckers is XD
― old people are made of poop (Eric H.), Saturday, 30 June 2012 00:47 (10 months ago) Permalink
Century of the Self was pretty great, surprised to see it on the list actually
― Chris S, Saturday, 30 June 2012 00:58 (10 months ago) Permalink
why this is a list of good movies
― lag∞n, Saturday, 30 June 2012 01:01 (10 months ago) Permalink
just the whole anti-consumerism/anti-marketing theme not really being your usual entertainment weekly material
― Chris S, Saturday, 30 June 2012 01:11 (10 months ago) Permalink
Marwencol, Memories of Murder, Rescue Daw, Wendy and Lucy all great, most of the rest is hopelessly random. Went for Marwencol.
― Simon H., Saturday, 30 June 2012 01:44 (10 months ago) Permalink
ah shit, didn't see Wendy and Lucy on there. gave a vote to Ghost Dog instead. dogs, man.
― circa1916, Saturday, 30 June 2012 02:03 (10 months ago) Permalink
Glad someone voted Marwencol.
― to welcome jer.fairall, pie is served. (jer.fairall), Saturday, 30 June 2012 02:05 (10 months ago) Permalink
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― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Saturday, 30 June 2012 02:22 (10 months ago) Permalink
Tho i did lol at least a little at the buttfuckers thing.
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Saturday, 30 June 2012 02:23 (10 months ago) Permalink
I've seen and liked
24 hr party peoplebackbeatbubba ho-tep cold comfort farm the daytrippers DIG! next stop wonderland murderballthe refrules of attractionwalking and talking
Voting 24 hr pp.
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Saturday, 30 June 2012 02:26 (10 months ago) Permalink
Like some others, the paradoxical nature of this poll jumped out at me...Wendy and Lisa, followed by The Daytrippers. I saw The Rules of Attraction a few weeks ago. Loved the "Colours" sequence, liked it on the whole, found parts a little flashy. Roger Avary spoke before and after. God, does he ramble.
― clemenza, Saturday, 30 June 2012 02:34 (10 months ago) Permalink
Wendy and Lucy--and I was concentrating on not making that very mistake.
― clemenza, Saturday, 30 June 2012 02:36 (10 months ago) Permalink
That would be a very different movie.
― Electro-Shock Rory (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 30 June 2012 04:21 (10 months ago) Permalink
Decided to go with Cold Comfort Farm because I saw something nasty in the wood shed.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 30 June 2012 04:54 (10 months ago) Permalink
disowning all ilxors who don't vote Ghost Dog
― mh, Saturday, 30 June 2012 04:57 (10 months ago) Permalink
The Iron Giant
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 30 June 2012 05:27 (10 months ago) Permalink
I like a bunch of these, but will vote George Washington out of nostalgia for a time when David Gordon Green was going to be an important and interesting dude.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 30 June 2012 11:42 (10 months ago) Permalink
And special shout-out to Box of Moonlight for being filmed in/around Knoxville.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 30 June 2012 11:44 (10 months ago) Permalink
this one, i think
― uncondensed milky way (remy bean), Saturday, 30 June 2012 11:48 (10 months ago) Permalink
memories of murder.
― me so fat (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Saturday, 30 June 2012 12:43 (10 months ago) Permalink
then probably 24 hr pp, ghost dog, iron giant, and perfect blue.
― me so fat (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Saturday, 30 June 2012 12:45 (10 months ago) Permalink
torn between 'the daytrippers' and 'together'
― Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Saturday, 30 June 2012 12:53 (10 months ago) Permalink
looooove Walking and Talking, which does what the title says.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 30 June 2012 12:58 (10 months ago) Permalink
iron giant won my vote, though i strongly considered ghost dog, 24 hour party people and marwencol.
― kurwa mać (Polish for "long life") (Eisbaer), Saturday, 30 June 2012 13:44 (10 months ago) Permalink
Hate a few of those, but these are all good:
Iron GiantDevil's PlaygroundFly Away HomeTogetherOrphanageEve's BayouLayer CakeRescue Dawn24 Hour Party PeopleRare ExportsMemories of MurderMoon
Idiocracy is sort of brilliant despite being messed with by the studio disaster.
Anyway, what a stupid random EW list.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 30 June 2012 13:55 (10 months ago) Permalink
Wait is Rules of Attraction that awful Brett Easton Ellis thing? That was awful.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Saturday, 30 June 2012 14:05 (10 months ago) Permalink
Backbeat haha.
Some good movies on this list (lots and lots of Sam Rockwell hah). Memories of Murder probably the best of the bunch, but there is a bunch of stuff I wouldn't have any issue with watching again.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Saturday, 30 June 2012 14:09 (10 months ago) Permalink
well, certainly not MI4 anyway. i dunno, they all have their merits, but i though iron giant was... a little too obvious? the humor wasn't as sophisticated? just a little slower, not as polished as, say, ratatouille?
iron giant is probably "deeper" than the pixar flicks, i'll give you that. also, a+ for bambi reference
anyway, also.... um, look, this is probably gonna just devolve into namecalling and snark, but... why is idiocracy racist? the black dude is president, he's smarter than every other character in a world full of straight up stupid characters (including the only middlingly dumb lead), he saves the day... i mean, ok, there's some pimpology going on and stuff, but given that basically the whole movie is making fun of a) white trash idjuts and b) the dorky white upper middle class dorks they outbreed off the face of the earth.... i just don't see it.
but, i'm open to hearing why i might be wrong, so: please explain the racism in idiocracy.
― messiahwannabe, Thursday, 5 July 2012 09:10 (10 months ago) Permalink
surnames like Pendejo, Camacho and Chavez pop up a lot in this future world that is supposedly the product of dumb people reproducing too much
― some dude, Thursday, 5 July 2012 10:31 (10 months ago) Permalink
also think "white trash idjuts" might be a racially loaded term but hey
― coopflaggypost (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 5 July 2012 10:34 (10 months ago) Permalink
Voted "DIG!" Saw this once because it happened to be free on Hulu -- it's a documentary about bands I don't know anything about or even really care about but it was riveting.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 5 July 2012 12:48 (10 months ago) Permalink
i think there is a big ilx thread on the racism or not of idiocracy
voted bamboozled
― thomp, Thursday, 5 July 2012 13:11 (10 months ago) Permalink
why is idiocracy racist? the black dude is president, he's smarter than every other character in a world full of straight up stupid characters (including the only middlingly dumb lead), he saves the day... i mean, ok, there's some pimpology going on and stuff, but given that basically the whole movie is making fun of a) white trash idjuts and b) the dorky white upper middle class dorks they outbreed off the face of the earth.... i just don't see it.
some dude otm. the only real social difference between this "stupid" future and our own present day is the heavy presence of hispanic names and faces at every level of society. i just don't understand why judge thought this was necessary or funny.
― contenderizer, Thursday, 5 July 2012 15:03 (10 months ago) Permalink
ok, i see this has been discussed to death by two camps on another thread. i'll call it a tie - i get what the racist camp saying, but i don't really see mike judge as some sort of kkk sympathizer or anything. comedy, sometimes it pushes buttons i guess. i still think it was funny as hell - all the awesome quotes on the other thread made me want to watch it again
― messiahwannabe, Thursday, 5 July 2012 15:58 (10 months ago) Permalink
i mean i can give him the benefit of the doubt that being from Texas he just thought of the ubiquity of hispanic names as the norm and factored in that it's a growing population in general, but not putting two and two together how that would come across in a movie about society getting dumber would be pretty naive/wreckless
― some dude, Thursday, 5 July 2012 16:09 (10 months ago) Permalink
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 6 July 2012 00:01 (10 months ago) Permalink
24 hour party people both sucks and blows
who was the other two family house voter??
― Black_vegeta (Hungry4Ass), Friday, 6 July 2012 00:08 (10 months ago) Permalink
lol i think it's ok but i maintain u have 2 be a britisher of the rt age or a hardcore anglophile 2 rly get off on it
― johnny crunch, Friday, 6 July 2012 00:10 (10 months ago) Permalink
i have a hard time believing ghost dog is good but maybe i shd watch it
― johnny crunch, Friday, 6 July 2012 00:12 (10 months ago) Permalink
I still have never seen 24 hour party people.
― I found him in a Bon Ton ad (Nicole), Friday, 6 July 2012 00:23 (10 months ago) Permalink
that's kind of shocking, nicole!
this and the lack of any acknowledgement of class (who designs these machines for idiots?), plus having a lead be a squirming luke wilson who just frowns at everything undercut the occasional good bit (like dr. justin long). that he followed this film with The Goode Family and a movie about the misery of owning a factory full of lazy workers hasn't made me want to be any kinder to it.
― da croupier, Friday, 6 July 2012 00:24 (10 months ago) Permalink
everyone deserves to see george washington
― the late great, Friday, 6 July 2012 00:31 (10 months ago) Permalink
Extract is a terrible terrible movie. xp
― I found him in a Bon Ton ad (Nicole), Friday, 6 July 2012 00:34 (10 months ago) Permalink
xp george washington is as good as anything by malick and also as bad, but somehow more affecting, first because they're little kids and second because they're non-actors
― the late great, Friday, 6 July 2012 00:35 (10 months ago) Permalink
i would say it is actually better than any of the others english-language movies above it except maybe bamboozled
and uh i haven't seen the foreign language ones
of the rest on the list
chuck & buck (2000) - recommended to anyone who wants to watch a movie in which the best and most memorable line is "chuck and buck ... suck and fuck"
― the late great, Friday, 6 July 2012 00:39 (10 months ago) Permalink
ha i saw it in college and that is basically the only thing i remember
― da croupier, Friday, 6 July 2012 00:40 (10 months ago) Permalink
nice results. of the top 10, i like 7 of the 8 i've seen. voted for bamboozled.
― contenderizer, Friday, 6 July 2012 00:40 (10 months ago) Permalink
i blathered plenty about my problems with bamboozled in the bamboozled thread, but i'll admit the good bits have stuck in my head more than the bad
― da croupier, Friday, 6 July 2012 00:45 (10 months ago) Permalink
felt vague motion sickness after enter the void iirc its p wack other than the rad title card/credits
― johnny crunch, Friday, 6 July 2012 00:46 (10 months ago) Permalink
i will go to bat for my summer of love, perfect blue, enter the void, backbeat
i'm w/ contenderizer about rescue dawn
ghost dog is not going to impress anyone who has not already been impressed with kill bill or adult swim
the orphanage starts out as good as ringu or juon or whatever but then degenerates into sub-pan's labyrinth schlock
― the late great, Friday, 6 July 2012 00:49 (10 months ago) Permalink
enter the void perhaps best appreciated over consecutive nights in bed, on cough syrup
― the late great, Friday, 6 July 2012 00:50 (10 months ago) Permalink
"lilya 4-ever" is great if you like stuff like haneke and "un prophet", which i quite do
― the late great, Friday, 6 July 2012 00:51 (10 months ago) Permalink
i recall thinking "the ref" was fucking genius as a hs senior
― the late great, Friday, 6 July 2012 00:53 (10 months ago) Permalink
i voted lilya. i shd really revisit moodysson stuff to cnfirm how much i recall liking that (&together) but im a huge stan of his
g. wash is good; i prefer all the real girls tbrr
― johnny crunch, Friday, 6 July 2012 00:59 (10 months ago) Permalink
rescue dawn's solid, its going for something way different from little dieter. it has a very german sense of humor.
― Black_vegeta (Hungry4Ass), Friday, 6 July 2012 01:09 (10 months ago) Permalink
i feel like there is another movie with an "emigrating to western europe" plot that was in some ways similar, but i'm forgetting ... i recall a memorable sequence where they were arguing in a trailer park by the freeway and everything was beige or this nasty drizzly grey daylight color, somewhere like belgium or the netherlands.
― the late great, Friday, 6 July 2012 01:10 (10 months ago) Permalink
similar to lilja-4-ever
i was surprised there's no haneke on that list
― the late great, Friday, 6 July 2012 01:11 (10 months ago) Permalink
this and the lack of any acknowledgement of class (who designs these machines for idiots?)
computers designed and manufactured in days of yore, i think? ones that break easily and no one can fix? not sure it's important to the enjoyment of the film, i think it's pretty clear from the get go one has to suspend a bit of disbelief here. "just repeat to yourself it's just a show, i should really just relax" etc etc
on the other hand, people on lix are starting to quote messages in their responses! this is excellent, i've been lobbying for this for years! it almost makes me want to agree with you!
― messiahwannabe, Friday, 6 July 2012 02:56 (10 months ago) Permalink
People have been quoting things for a solid decade.
I'm not entirely clear on the thematic or stylistic link between Ghost Dog and Adult Swim.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 6 July 2012 06:36 (10 months ago) Permalink
first time this has ever been said by anyone about an entertainment weekly list
― of family bonds and individual triumph. Narrated by Tim Allen, (zachlyon), Friday, 6 July 2012 08:37 (10 months ago) Permalink
the orphanage was v v scary to watch in a theater, stuck with me afterwards
― of family bonds and individual triumph. Narrated by Tim Allen, (zachlyon), Friday, 6 July 2012 08:39 (10 months ago) Permalink
One thing I will give 24 Hour Party People is that, as I recall, it's one of the few movies besides Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me that really captures what a loud club is like. The sound was amazing, but also the atmosphere, everything. I remember feeling unsatisfied with the ending, but maybe that's part of music history so suffer.
― Pete Scholtes, Friday, 6 July 2012 13:54 (10 months ago) Permalink
Since it's not the kind of thing you're likely to seek out, another shout for Fly Away Home: Jeff Daniels and Anna Paquin in genuinely fun/moving family/nature adventure directed by Carroll Ballard (The Black Stallion), Never Cry Wolf).
― Pete Scholtes, Friday, 6 July 2012 14:17 (10 months ago) Permalink
yeah - on other boards! for some reason here they always say xpost here. xpost. geeze, which xpost goddamn it! there's always only like 927 answers per question/thread to chose from. i mean, yeah, i know, suppose i could theoretically decipher from context, reading all previous posts, but sometimes, what can i say tldr (<-useful webslang from other board[s?])
anyway screw it, ilx is ilx, i'm not complaining. i liklove the erase-what-you-were-typing-and-type-something-else thing they do here
― messiahwannabe, Saturday, 7 July 2012 13:58 (10 months ago) Permalink
I've seen 13 of these. Probably would have voted for Together.
― Never translate Dutch (jaymc), Saturday, 7 July 2012 16:03 (10 months ago) Permalink
ok, so i'm making my way through various thread recommendations, and if i could go back in time and change the past i'd totally give happy accidents a vote.
― messiahwannabe, Tuesday, 24 July 2012 16:49 (10 months ago) Permalink
DIG! was an interesting movie but i'd have liked it better if i liked the bands at *all*. all that talk about crazy dude's staggering genius and i'm thinking "it's just a mediocre indie take on 60's kitch, why does anybody even care!?!?" i remember being completely underwhelmed with them in the 90's or whenever they came out as well but i suppose they must have had their fans. still, interesting enough flick.
so, what should i watch next? i've now seen (in order of most enjoyment):
idiocracy (2006) 2moon (2009) 1ghost dog: the way of the samurai (1999) 724 hour party people (2002) 10happy accidents (2000) 0the iron giant (1999) 8bubba ho-tep (2002) 0marwencol (2010) 3DIG! (2004) 1layer cake (2005) 0+ i tried to watch cold comfort farm but couldn't even make it past the first 10 minutes.
i tried to watch "together" but the subtitles seemed screwed up, so not that one.
― messiahwannabe, Thursday, 23 August 2012 09:48 (9 months ago) Permalink
primer
― WheatusVEVO (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, 23 August 2012 13:22 (9 months ago) Permalink
ok, i understood maybe 80% of that? 70%? lets be generous and say 71%. i may watch it again today to see if it makes more sense. i understand it's meant to be convoluted and hard to parse the first time around...
anyway good recommend, i like time travel stories.
― messiahwannabe, Saturday, 25 August 2012 04:31 (9 months ago) Permalink