Top five of the last ten years

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gbastos
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Re: Top five of the last ten years

Post by gbastos »

Interesting topic. Very interesting to see the subjectivity.

My list is:
12 Years a Slave
The Dark Knight
Dallas Buyers Club
Interstellar
The First Grader *
The Secret in Their Eyes *

* Tie

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Re: Top five of the last ten years

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Kung Fu Panda
District 9
Elite Squad 2
This Is It
The Boat That Rocked

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Re: Top five of the last ten years

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paulofilmo wrote:
Stewball wrote:Sorry, there are some movies for which I have a hair trigger.


nevertheless, i think about it a lot.
and then i have memories of discussions about it with other people, and the emotions spurred - so it's linked with memories in my life (which should probably always happen with art, yet never normally does with me).


Are those positive emotions and memories, about the movie I mean? I mean look here now, we're having a discussion about it right now. 8-) I get emotional about movies all the time, and it's unseemly for me; angry at the idiotic ones, and misty eyed at the ones that grab me. As many times as I've seen The Accountant, when the music starts for the last sequence.....

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Re: Top five of the last ten years

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In Bruges
The Artist
Gone Baby Gone
Hot Fuzz
Eastern Promises

Special mentions for Fruitvale Station, both Raid movies and Beasts of the Southern Wild.

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Re: Top five of the last ten years

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Kis Uykusu (2014)
A Separation (2011)
Manchester by the Sea (2016)
The Hunt (2012)
The Dark Knight (2008)

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Re: Top five of the last ten years

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Stewball wrote:Are those positive emotions and memories, about the movie I mean? I mean look here now, we're having a discussion about it right now. 8-) I get emotional about movies all the time, and it's unseemly for me; angry at the idiotic ones, and misty eyed at the ones that grab me. As many times as I've seen The Accountant, when the music starts for the last sequence.....


i don't understand what that has to do with it. sorry

talking about that film helped develop relationships that had been stagnating. i remember those evenings.

i get caught in patterns in work, and forget to self-reflect. it's nice to get a slap in the face by a film like this now-and-then.

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Re: Top five of the last ten years

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Trying to list 5 without caveats...

The Act of Killing (2012)
A Serious Man (2009)
Tôkyô sonata (2008)
Kotoko (2011)
Love Exposure (2008)

Children of Men (2006) is edged out by three weeks.

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Re: Top five of the last ten years

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And my top five documentaries from the same period:

    1. Adam Curtis: All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace, The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom, It Felt Like a Kiss, and HyperNormalisation
    2. Nostalgia for the Light
    3. La danse – Le ballet de l'Opéra de Paris
    4. Photographic Memory
    5. Pina.

A couple that come very close are El botón de nácar and Un voyageur. Oppenheimer is no doubt a very promising documentarian, but I wasn't quite persuaded to completely accept the ethics of An Act of Killing, and The Look of Silence is very good but not quite at the level of those listed above.

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Re: Top five of the last ten years

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The Good, the Bad, the Weird (2008)
The Social Network (2010)
There Will Be Blood (2007)
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
WALL-E (2008)

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Re: Top five of the last ten years

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As my ratings currently stand ...

The Dark Knight
Hot Fuzz
Mad Max: Fury Road
Zodiac

I then have four tied on the same rating for 5th spot

Grand Budapest Hotel
Scott Pilgrim vs The World
The Lego Movie
Ratatouille

Which I would probably rank in that order if pushed.

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