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

ah shit, didn't see Wendy and Lucy on there. gave a vote to Ghost Dog instead. dogs, man.

Glad someone voted Marwencol.

Idiocracy is horrible

― da croupier, Friday, June 29, 2012 7:34 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Tho i did lol at least a little at the buttfuckers thing.

I've seen and liked

24 hr party people
backbeat
bubba ho-tep
cold comfort farm
the daytrippers
DIG!
next stop wonderland
murderball
the ref
rules of attraction
walking and talking

Voting 24 hr pp.

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.

Wendy and Lucy--and I was concentrating on not making that very mistake.

That would be a very different movie.

Decided to go with Cold Comfort Farm because I saw something nasty in the wood shed.

disowning all ilxors who don't vote Ghost Dog

The Iron Giant

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.

And special shout-out to Box of Moonlight for being filmed in/around Knoxville.

http://gothamist.com/images/together.jpg

this one, i think

http://old.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/images/issue/420/together_420.jpg

http://www.skandinavskydum.cz/files/obrazky/tillsamm3.jpg

memories of murder.

then probably 24 hr pp, ghost dog, iron giant, and perfect blue.

torn between 'the daytrippers' and 'together'

looooove Walking and Talking, which does what the title says.

iron giant won my vote, though i strongly considered ghost dog, 24 hour party people and marwencol.

Hate a few of those, but these are all good:

Iron Giant
Devil's Playground
Fly Away Home
Together
Orphanage
Eve's Bayou
Layer Cake
Rescue Dawn
24 Hour Party People
Rare Exports
Memories of Murder
Moon

Idiocracy is sort of brilliant despite being messed with by the studio disaster.

Anyway, what a stupid random EW list.

Wait is Rules of Attraction that awful Brett Easton Ellis thing? That was awful.

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.

i don't keep up w/ box-office receipts and shit, but i always kind of thought that layer cake and moon did OK when they were in the cinemas or as rentals. they didn't pull down harry potter-type money or get twilight levels of hype, but neither are they one of those movies that no-one but hard-core film nerds have ever heard of.

It's weird to me that Lilya-4-Ever made the list, but 'Show Me Love' didn't, and I think that is 10 times over the best film.

choose just one of these 50 movies an entertainment weekly intern likes

Is bubba ho-tep actually any good? It's always seemed lol Bruce Campbl as Elvis to me.

That's pretty much what it is, but that's not really a bad thing.

Rules of attraction is great.

Bubba ho-tep is fun, yeah.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mKWAIKrEy0w/TY2kwzbVJSI/AAAAAAAAADo/i9nT3dx6lCI/s1600/ghost-dog1.jpg

i never saw lilya 4-ever cuz i heard there was a scene in it that would make me cry

interesting they went for that over fucking åmal/show me love or together tho

i think i voted memories of murder, maybe ghost dog, idocracy is terrible but it has some good lines

go away im baitin!

tho i guess that would be batin

gatorade its what plants crave

for anyone who wants to see a sweet scifi romantic comedy starring dinafrio and tomei happy accidents is a recommend

george washington is good, primer too

I liked Lilya 4-Ever but the end kind of ruined it for me, to be honest. Don't want to discuss it too much, because spoilers.

i never saw lilya 4-ever cuz i heard there was a scene in it that would make me cry

The whole thing will make you cry. A number of people had to be physically helped from the cinema when i saw it. It's horrific but enormously powerful. It's also completely different to Fucking Amal.

I saw Ghost Dog in France. I found a screening with English subtitles, and it turns out I pick the one movie that happened to have a funny scene half in French, which of course was not subtitled.

i saw it in france too!

memories of murder is good but it kind of paled to the host and i saw that one first so my expectations were crazy high

chuck and buck has not aged well imo

but like is Iron Giant even in this discussion? If you're the type of person who would be interested in an article like this Iron Giant is practically Star Wars

I remember Chuck & Buck being interesting but so visually ugly I couldn't enjoy it.

I don't think Iron Giant belongs on this list either, but that has nothing to do with its quality.

two family house!! i loved that movie when it came out. it really spoke to me. michael rispoli's such an underrated actor. i actually had a dream with him in it a few weeks ago - i told him he was really underrated and he thanked me and invited me to eat a spaghetti dinner with his family, which i accepted

Lilja 4-ever was amazing to me when it came out too but i find it really corny now.

idgi how can you guys rank all of these movie that you've never even seen?

how are we sure these movies even exist?

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

I've seen 13 of these. Probably would have voted for Together.

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.

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) 2
moon (2009) 1
ghost dog: the way of the samurai (1999) 7
24 hour party people (2002) 10
happy accidents (2000) 0
the iron giant (1999) 8
bubba ho-tep (2002) 0
marwencol (2010) 3
DIG! (2004) 1
layer 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.

primer

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.

two family house!! i loved that movie when it came out. it really spoke to me. michael rispoli's such an underrated actor. i actually had a dream with him in it a few weeks ago - i told him he was really underrated and he thanked me and invited me to eat a spaghetti dinner with his family, which i accepted

― Black_vegeta (Hungry4Ass), Saturday, June 30, 2012 12:15 PM (11 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i watched this, def solid. the frank whaley narration is a bit bzarre imo tho. canks, rispoli is on 'magic city' on starz now tho not in it nearly enough yea love him

Rispoli is really great in the otherwise-useless The Rum Diary.