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Post by Jeremy on Jan 2, 2020 17:13:32 GMT -8
Sing is a film I enjoyed on first viewing, but my opinion of it dropped precipitously the second time around. It's one of Illumination's more watchable efforts, but it's also one of their most blatantly "product," between its cookie-cutter and safely marketable characters and its endlessly changing musical cues. Character and set designs are also pretty bland (it's animals in a humanesque world, except without any of the visual and humorous innovation of Zootopia, or even Chicken Little).It's as unremarkable and risk-free as an animated film can get. Jennings is a good director ( Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a fun film with some visual flair), but apart from a couple of decent musical scenes in the climax, the studio's mid-budget animation doesn't give him much to work with. It's just... a near-total yawner. (If you have 20 minutes to kill, this video details the problems with the film pretty well.)
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Post by guttersnipe on Jan 5, 2020 8:19:58 GMT -8
That's kinda what I figured, but thanks for the feedback. I'm sure I'll watch the film before long.
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Post by ThirdMan on Jan 14, 2020 2:23:39 GMT -8
We were discussing TV shows that showed up on the most critics' Top 10 of the Decade lists on Metacritic, so I decided to check the equivalent for films, and, wow, Mad Max: Fury Road was well ahead of the pack. It far and away had the most first-place votes, and the most votes overall (you need to scroll down for the second aggregate list): www.metacritic.com/feature/best-movies-of-the-decade-2010sThis isn't necessarily directed at Snipe: it just seemed like the most logical thread in the forum to post it.
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Post by guttersnipe on Jan 22, 2020 17:04:59 GMT -8
I never really perceive anything as a dig. Incidentally Fury Road is one of the highest new entrants in the TSPDT Top 1,000, which was updated for 2020 just last week.
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Post by guttersnipe on Jan 22, 2020 17:27:50 GMT -8
You know, when I started constricting this thread I actually found it pretty easy to make a Top 500 and then deemed it probably unnecessary to chuck out so much information in one go. But the text was still sitting there with nowhere to go, so why not better late than never?
400- 301:
Las Acasias The Adventures of Tintin Africa United Alien: Covenant All Cheerleaders Die Angèle et Tony Arctic At Eternity's Gate Baby Driver Barbara Birds of Passage The Bleeder Burying the Ex Captain America: Civil War Cherry Tree Lane Christopher Robin Crimson Peak The Dark Knight Rises The Day He Arrives The Dead (Ford brothers) The Devil's Rock Diplomacy The Drop The Eagle Easy A Eden Embrace of the Serpent Faust (Alexander Sokurov) The Fifth Estate Flipped La Folie Almayer Force Majeure Frankenstein (Bernard Rose) Gallants Generation П Giovanni's Island The Grand Budapest Hotel Green Book The Grey Guilty of Romance Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai The Hateful Eight Le Havre Headhunters Heartbreaker Hell or High Water High Life The Hunter (Rafi Pitts) Hunt for the Wilderpeople Jackie Journeyman Joy Keyhole King Lear (Richard Eyre) Kubo and the Two Strings Kung Fu Panda 3* Little Sparrows Logan Louder Than Bombs Lucy Machete Marshland Mary and the Witch's Flower* Megamind The Mercy Moana Monos A Most Wanted Man Mr. Holmes Murdered by My Father Neds Oki's Movie Once Upon a Time in Anatolia Pawn Sacrifice Phoenix The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! Pluto Prometheus The Raid The Raid 2: Berandal Rocketman Shun Li and the Poet Shutter Island The Song of Lunch Spectre The Spy Gone North Sucker Punch Surviving Life Tatsumi Tokyo Tribe Transit Trishna Tucker & Dale vs Evil T2 Trainspotting Walesa: Man of Hope What We Do in the Shadows Win Win You Don't Know Jack your name. Yuli
These should actually be a tier higher; some of the text for my 2017 log got monkeyed around with.
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Post by Jeremy on Jan 22, 2020 17:47:41 GMT -8
I moved this to the "Top Films" thread, since it's obviously a follow-up to the films on that list.
I've seen 16 of these. Nice too see Easy A, Sucker Punch, and Christopher Robin get mentioned - all have significant faults, but are enjoyable watches nonetheless.
Amusing that you have The Pirates! listed under its original title, while I gave it the American name earlier in this thread. I think the original name is slightly better, though that's partly because ours has only one exclamation point.
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Post by guttersnipe on Jan 22, 2020 17:51:12 GMT -8
500-401:
All Is True Anna The Babadook The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Barney's Version Beasts of the Southern Wild Bohemian Rhapsody Breathe Broken The Cabin in the Woods Can't Come Out to Play Captain America: The Winter Soldier The Children Act Colossal The Commune Cymbeline The Danish Girl Dear White People The Death of Stalin Despicable Me Disobedience The Double Drive Eddie the Eagle An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker Fair Game A Fantastic Woman The Fits Fortress of War Fruitvale Station The German Doctor Good Kill Greatful Dead Greta Haunter Hearts Beat Loud Here, Then High-Rise The Homesman I Am Not a Witch Incredibles 2 Inherent Vice Interstellar Jackboots on Whitehall Josh: Against the Grain Journey to the Shore Killer Joe The King's Speech Kong: Skull Island Labor Day Landmine Goes Click The LEGO Batman Movie L'Homme Fidèle Lilting Lincoln Lords of Chaos Love & Friendship Manglehorn Martha Marcy May Marlene Men & Chicken Missing Link Muppets Most Wanted 99 Homes North Sea, Texas Omar Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood Paterson Pride A Promise R100 Rafiki Ralph Breaks the Internet The Rocket Room in Rome The Rover Samba See You Tomorrow, Everyone Silver Linings Playbook Skylab Snowpiercer Sorry to Bother You Starfish Stonehearst Asylum Suffragette Sunset Thelma The Theory of Everything Toy Story 4 Turbo Kid Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives Vice A Vida Invisível The Way Back Weathering with You West Why Don't You Play in Hell? The Wife Wonder Wheel The World of Kanako The Zookeeper's Wife
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Post by guttersnipe on Jan 22, 2020 17:53:21 GMT -8
I moved this to the "Top Films" thread, since it's obviously a follow-up to the films on that list. Oh yeah, I just realised I'd dropped it in the wrong place. I didn't know you'd seen Sucker Punch; good to know I'm not the only one in its corner.
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Post by Jeremy on Jan 22, 2020 18:11:27 GMT -8
Yeah, I finally got around to watching it recently. It's one of Zack Snyder's better films, despite its meandering and unfocused plot. I agree with Sonny Bunch's review, which dubs the film an "interesting failure." I've seen 15 in your latest roundup (plus a few more that I started and never finished). I must say, your list is a handy reference list for a few hundred films I need to check out.
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Post by unkinhead on Feb 17, 2020 10:30:45 GMT -8
I've seen way too few films of this decade to be able to feel great about this but here goes:
10. The Witch 9. Blade Runner: 2049 8. Sicario 7. Phantom Thread 6. All is Lost 5. The Master 4. Drive 3. The Hunt 2. Mad Max: Fury Road 1. The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
Honestly just based on quality of films in the top ten I'd wager that this would be among my least favorite decades of film, but theres tons of movies still on my watchlist from the past 10 years, especially since I've chosen to focus on older films as a priority.
For contrast, here would be my tentative 2000's list (the overall quality is much higher)
10. In the Mood for Love 9. City of God 8. Before Sunset 7. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 6. The Dark Knight 5. Zodiac 4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 3. There Will Be Blood 2. No Country for Old Men 1. Mulholland Drive
I could easily extend this to Top 25 (in no particular order): Wereckmeister Harmonies, The Departed, Requiem for a Dream, Punch Drunk Love, Pan's Labyrinth, Let the Right One in, Hot Fuzz, Mother, Oldboy, Memories of Murder, Ameile, Gladiator, Kill Bill, Y Tu Mama Tambien, and Almost Famous
That was easy, it was terribly hard picking 10 for the latest decade.
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Post by ThirdMan on Feb 17, 2020 14:57:46 GMT -8
Yeah, I think you need to watch a lot more films to get a more accurate feel for the past decade, which I felt was quite strong overall. Even if a lot of my absolute favourites for each year were American releases, there were many non-English language films nipping at their heels. And I say that as someone who also didn't watch nearly as many films as in past decades. I've been returning a lot of DVDs to the library unwatched in the past while, mostly because I've been too tired, or distracted by TV shows or video games.
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Post by unkinhead on Feb 17, 2020 21:48:39 GMT -8
We were discussing TV shows that showed up on the most critics' Top 10 of the Decade lists on Metacritic, so I decided to check the equivalent for films, and, wow, Mad Max: Fury Road was well ahead of the pack. It far and away had the most first-place votes, and the most votes overall (you need to scroll down for the second aggregate list): www.metacritic.com/feature/best-movies-of-the-decade-2010sThis isn't necessarily directed at Snipe: it just seemed like the most logical thread in the forum to post it. I never really perceive anything as a dig. Incidentally Fury Road is one of the highest new entrants in the TSPDT Top 1,000, which was updated for 2020 just last week. Incidentally Snipe, I was looking at your top 1000 director list and just found it funny that you have the guy that Directed The Powerpuff Girls Movie (and nothing else in film) beating out George Lucas. I know when you compile this much information you're going to string together some absurdly comical decisions from another person's perspective. But really what a savage burn to Star Wars fans.
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Post by guttersnipe on Feb 21, 2020 13:49:08 GMT -8
The Beeb have also been doing a short run of hour-long interviews with current directors in which they screen and analyse scenes that have greatly influenced their work. Edgar Wright chose one from Fury Road and another from Busby Berkeley's Dames, which has just become a new top priority. With regards to my list, the most important detail is that I try to keep it personal and honest. Which means I don't feel any obligation towards inserting certain people or pulling someone up higher because of some residual peer pressure. But for a list with over 11,000 views I'm surprised I've never picked up any heat for placing Joe Dante much higher than Jean-Marie Straub or Gore Verbinski above the Taviani brothers, to which I would simply reply that that's how my preference and experience with them works. As for McCracken and Lucas, we-ll, Star Wars fans should be more discerning. The Powerpuff Girls has a wonderfully dynamic (dare I say, punchy?) visual style (how often have you genuinely seen something that looked like it beyond its influences?), whereas most of A New Hope's shot compositions are just mapped over that of The Hidden Fortress, which isn't even anyone's idea of a great Kurosawa. In hindsight it's a shame that THX 1138's box office failure resulted in Lucas choosing commerce over art and spending his subsequent career coming up with new ideas for action figures. Nevertheless, he's earned a place on the honour roll.* * It probably would have helped if I'd remembered to make this public again at the time.
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Post by Quiara on Feb 23, 2020 10:45:34 GMT -8
Oh, so is your list including television and music video directors as well as film directors? That's an interesting way to do it (although I suspect McCracken is the rare example wherein there's no blurry boundary between the two).
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Post by guttersnipe on Feb 23, 2020 15:34:03 GMT -8
Hi Bosc! Yes, absolutely. The entries are organised by features, shorts, music videos, commercials, documentaries and television, and then what I've seen within each bracket is ranked. Each director's overall body of work then determines what tier (page) they end up on. As such, people like Ruben Fleischer and Marc Webb would never merit an entry based on their features alone, but luckily they have been responsible for some neat music videos. Contrast that with, say, Michel Gondry, who has not only made a large number of my all-time favourite videos plus some really good features, and he naturally appears much higher.
Time was I'd toyed with the idea of putting a score next to every single entry or ranking all of such-and-such's episodes, but this struck me as both immensely time-consuming and messy-looking.
EDIT: For McCracken, The Powerpuff Girls Movie is merely a 'good' film so my fondness for him is weighed more heavily on the series itself - the Powerpuff dynamic lends itself far better to short bursts than on a broader canvas.
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