select & button poll of the films

The lack of Southland Tales here makes me wonder if I even know this place, ya know?

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Freaks (1932)
Mommie Dearest (1981)
True Stories (1986)
Fire Walk With Me (1992)
The End of Evangelion (1997)
Freddie Got Fingered (2001)
Southland Tales (2007)
The September Issue (2009)
Tim and Ericā€™s Billion Dollar Movie* (2012)
Us (2019)

* the best movie with an original Aimee Mann song

edit: hadnā€™t noticed A Serious Man on Felixā€™s list, substituted Freaks

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Iā€™m not really a film buff so looking forward to going through everyones picks!

2001
Hearts in Atlantis
All the Presidents Men
Magnolia
CachƩ
Virgin Suicides
Patlabor 2
Road to Perdition
Western
In the Mood for Love

+1s

Das Boot
Fire Walk With Me
Angels Egg
Stalker
The Shining

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I think I just want a movie to antagonize me

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movies that i have at some point in my life considered my ā€œfavorite movie,ā€ even if only for the few minutes immediately after I saw it

Ghostbusters
Jurassic Park
Raising Arizona
Barry Lyndon
The Saragossa Manuscript
Jesusā€™ Son
Nosferatu
Yi Yi
California Split
A Touch of Sin

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for my list I had the rules no david lynch and no michael mann. I also tried to keep ā€œpro violent/criminal loner has an existential crisis after making eye contact with a girlā€ to a minimum. just take the shirt off my back while youā€™re at it

In a Lonely Place
Sanjuro
Romancing in Thin Air
Man of the West
Im Schatten
The Getaway
Classe tous risques
Robin and Marian
Cutterā€™s Way
Two-Lane Blacktop

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Do you like Grosse Point Blank?

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turns out iā€™ve only watched like, 6 movies

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I am bad at lists.

  • PREDATOR

  • The Conversation

  • Last Year at Marienbad

  • Millerā€™s Crossing

  • Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning

  • The Thing ('82)

  • The Sword of Doom

  • Only God Forgives

  • In the Mood for Love

  • Gojira ('54)

I think only five of these are obviously about castration, which is fewer than I expected.

EDIT THE + ONE(1)s:

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My horror realizing I saw every movie for several years (hundreds of movies) and yet I, like, ā€œthrow onā€ EoE on a Saturday afternoon

The Thing almost made it on to mine, that wouldā€™ve been a funny three-peat

orrite fuck it hereā€™s my ten and five. wanted to put a Kiarostami on there butā€¦ maybe iā€™ll duck in last minute and drop one of the docos

Irma Vep (1996)
A Single Man (2009)
The Handmaiden (2016)
High Life (2018)
Domains (2019)
Honeyland (2019)
Midnight Family (2019)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
Paris, Texas (1984)
You Were Never Really Here (2017)

big ups to:
Tetsuo: The Iron Man
Under the Skin
Angelā€™s Egg
Ghost in the Shell
Funeral Parade of Roses

NausicaƤ and Fire Walk With Me are actual favourites of mine but theyā€™re already doing fine. lots on here iā€™m excited to finally see

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I canā€™t remember

dangerous encounters of the first kind
letter never sent
the battle of algiers
master of the flying guillotine
total recall (1990)
ugetsu
merry christmas, mr. lawrence
the great silence
martin (1977)
goodbye, dragon inn

branded to kill (+1)
in a lonely place (+1)
blue collar (+1)
the thing (1982) (+1)
stalker (+1)

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These arenā€™t necessarily my absolute favourite top 10, but mostly a selection of movies I either tend to either find the easiest to rewatch over and over, or movies I think about a lot.

  • Hausu
  • A Brighter Summer Day
  • Neco Z Alenky
  • La Planete Sauvage
  • Akira
  • Ghost in the Shell
  • Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
  • A Touch of Zen
  • Mothra vs Godzilla
  • Angelā€™s Egg
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There are way more movies than games this is gonna be a tough one

Blazing Saddles
Ghostbusters
Hard Boiled
The Road Warrior
Jackie Brown
Heat
Army of Darkness
Blade
Unforgiven
Terminator 2

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No one will defeat me for White Guyest Of All

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screw it. iā€™m making a list.

Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home (1986)
The Pirates of Penzance (1983)
When Marnie Was There (2014)
Our Little Sister (2016)
Itā€™s a Wonderful Life (1946)
The Emperorā€™s New Groove (2000)
Princess Mononoke (1997)
Pacific Rim (2013)
[reserved]
Napoleon Dynamite (2004)

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mad max fury road
cure
jackie brown
alien
audition
do the right thing
under the skin
amadeus
bad santa
ed wood

wrote this off the top of my head, i acknowledge that this is extremely male and 90s-00s oriented

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