EW the 50 best MOVIES youve NEVER seen...made after 1991

'century of the self' is awesome -- prob my favorite documentary ever.

'backbeat' is OK, but i prefer 'the hours and times.'

my wife and I quote "Eve's Bayou" all the time

bubba ho-tep (2002)
- enjoyed it a hell of a lot the first time through, bored the second, don't think i'll see it again

cold comfort farm (1995)
- funny enough

DIG! (2004)
- interesting documentary, seems like a niche thing

enter the void (2009)
- for fuck's sake

george washington (2000)
- i remember when "directed by david gordon green" was a promising credit

ghost dog: the way of the samurai (1999)
- last jarmusch movie i really cared for

idiocracy (2006)
- it's got laughs, but it's still racist crap

the iron giant (1999)
- like it, but not like so many others seem to

memories of murder (2005)
- better than zodiac

moon (2009)
- slight but good

the orphanage (2007)
- quite dull

perfect blue (1997)
- good anime-thriller, found the "who am i?" stuff a little trite

primer (2004)
- good, though dry and confusing as hell (refuse to read anyone else's analysis of the looping)

rescue dawn (2007)
- a disappointment after little dieter

wristcutters: a love story (2006)
- got bored and shut it off

Bubba Ho-Tep was a sad little object lesson in 'you can't create camp on purpose' imo

i always get wristcutters mixed up with *goes to vince vaugn's imdb page* thumbsucker

also The Chumscrubber

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Backbeat; a movie i've *never* seen?? yer joking!

Together ftw

together is the best movie ever, so that

No Strange Days, no credibility.

the iron giant was like 90% disney references. the deer!

not bad though - mean, i quite enjoyed it, but the incredibles was incredibler.

I'll never understand the love that people have for The Incredibles. It's a fine, fun movie but it doesn't even come close to The Iron Giant. Nothing Brad Bird's done since has

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.

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

also think "white trash idjuts" might be a racially loaded term but hey

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.

i think there is a big ilx thread on the racism or not of idiocracy

voted bamboozled

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.

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

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

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24 hour party people both sucks and blows

who was the other two family house voter??

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

i have a hard time believing ghost dog is good but maybe i shd watch it

I still have never seen 24 hour party people.

that's kind of shocking, nicole!

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

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.

everyone deserves to see george washington

Extract is a terrible terrible movie. xp

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

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"

ha i saw it in college and that is basically the only thing i remember

nice results. of the top 10, i like 7 of the 8 i've seen. voted for bamboozled.

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

felt vague motion sickness after enter the void iirc its p wack other than the rad title card/credits

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

enter the void perhaps best appreciated over consecutive nights in bed, on cough syrup

"lilya 4-ever" is great if you like stuff like haneke and "un prophet", which i quite do

i recall thinking "the ref" was fucking genius as a hs senior

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

rescue dawn's solid, its going for something way different from little dieter. it has a very german sense of humor.

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.

similar to lilja-4-ever

i was surprised there's no haneke on that list

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!

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.

i was surprised there's no haneke on that list

first time this has ever been said by anyone about an entertainment weekly list

the orphanage was v v scary to watch in a theater, stuck with me afterwards

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.

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).

People have been quoting things for a solid decade.

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