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Post by Martin Stett on Nov 5, 2020 2:19:26 GMT
Not big on Se7en, but aside from that, this list is still pretty fire. Just don't let Goodfellas take #1.
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Post by urbanpatrician on Nov 5, 2020 2:22:40 GMT
I guess we know the films. What about the order???
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Nov 5, 2020 2:24:20 GMT
I guess we know the films. What about the order??? 5. Silence of the Lambs 4. Fargo 3. Heat 2. Pulp Fiction 1. Goodfellas
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Post by dadsburgers on Nov 5, 2020 2:28:38 GMT
Hoping for: 1. Pulp Fiction 2. Fargo 3. Silence of the Lambs 4. Goodfellas 5. Heat
No idea for predictions though, but that's what I'd like to see.
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Post by urbanpatrician on Nov 5, 2020 2:28:55 GMT
#5The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991) urbanpatrician says: I don't care for it, but I guess the serial killer movies craze started here much like the Holocaust movie copycats came after Schindler's List.447 points. 28 ballots. Highest placing #1 (on 2 people's lists)
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Post by pacinoyes on Nov 5, 2020 2:34:18 GMT
#5The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991)
The best thing about it is in how it addresses so much without harping on it - themes of the way men treat women (Foster's boss for one etc) or the the way you can rationalize a kind of madness through intellect are all woven into the plot........the movie never stops to lecture us or justify its POV.........it's kind of amazing in that way.........
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Post by urbanpatrician on Nov 5, 2020 2:38:34 GMT
#4Heat (Michael Mann, 1995) urbanpatrician says: I've exhausted all superlatives here. Cinema kinda began for me in a sense with Heat, and it also kinda ends here.. in a sense. But yeah, don't listen to this mumbo stuff from me....
it made the most people's #1 film in this poll. 8. Twice more than the one that got the 2nd most #1s.... Schindler's List, I believe.
459 points. 23 ballots. Highest placing #1 (on 8 people's lists)
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Post by pacinoyes on Nov 5, 2020 2:44:23 GMT
#4Heat (Michael Mann, 1995)
When you feel for the short order cook character or the mother of a slain child you kind of know it's the best written action movie ever.......DePac are superlative equals here - each carry their halves flawlessly........and rarely has crime filmed extended outwards so much in a such sprawling city on top of it..........an insanely influential film too......I see it ripped off all the time in far lesser incarnations.......this was my 5th or 6th iirc
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Post by urbanpatrician on Nov 5, 2020 2:48:50 GMT
#3
Fargo (Coens bros, 1996) urbanpatrician says: The true crime element here has a sense of upside down reality. Coens just had a really nice thing going here, and they capitalized on it.493 points. 32 ballots. Highest placing #1 (on 2 people's lists)
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Post by stephen on Nov 5, 2020 2:51:52 GMT
Yeah, not on board for this Heat obsession, but it's a staple of the board and I'll have to get used to it.
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Post by pacinoyes on Nov 5, 2020 2:52:02 GMT
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Fargo (Coens bros, 1996)
My number 1 .........what I love most about it is how lean it is yet how it feels so broad.........it's only 98 minutes but the tragedy of it feels far weightier than that. One of the great movie characters in its lead too .........
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Post by urbanpatrician on Nov 5, 2020 2:57:26 GMT
#2Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)
urbanpatrician says: So... I guess it came down to Pulp Fiction and Goodfellas in the end. Who would've thought?515 points. 29 ballots. Highest placing #1 (on 3 people's lists)
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Post by urbanpatrician on Nov 5, 2020 3:04:07 GMT
I like this 90s Top 10 way better than the 00s or 10s. I really only love one each from the Top 10s of those decades...... Return of the King and The Wolf of Wall Street.
Here... it's 6 or 7.
My guess what the Top 10 would've been in the early 00s.
Goodfellas Pulp Fiction The Silence of the Lambs Fargo Heat American Beauty Schindler's List Se7en L.A. Confidential...........
and probably Magnolia or Fight Club or The Shawshank Redemption or The Usual Suspects for the last spot.
Hasn't changed too much, but Eyes Wide Shut and Unforgiven were not near this type of elation back then.
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Post by urbanpatrician on Nov 5, 2020 3:06:53 GMT
#1Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990) urbanpatrician says: And here.... I bow out. Lol. The boringest choice, I guess is a Pulp Fiction and Goodfellas final 2.578 points. 31 ballots. Highest placing #1 (on 2 people's lists)
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Post by urbanpatrician on Nov 5, 2020 3:13:14 GMT
I'll conclude with a simple message from Sir Alf.....
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Post by pacinoyes on Nov 5, 2020 3:15:10 GMT
#1Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990)
I'll say this for it - and I sometimes nitpick this movie (the characters don't develop much, the narration switch to Bracco, and Liotta getting off the witness stand etc. ALL bothers me to no end) but come across this movie at any point and try to not watch it..........it's almost impossible to turn it off....... GREAT job urbanpatrician - this was one of our best ones I think, you did an awesome presentation ..........and great job MAR too .........this was a stellar group of films, the amount of foreign films was a pleasant surprise especially.
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Post by Film Socialism on Nov 5, 2020 3:18:47 GMT
absd robbed! next time. good presentation!
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Post by urbanpatrician on Nov 5, 2020 3:19:04 GMT
#1Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990)
I'll say this for it - and I sometimes nitpick this movie (the characters don't develop much, the narration switch to Bracco, and Liotta getting off the witness stand etc. ALL bothers me to no end) but come across this movie at any point and try to not watch it..........it's almost impossible to turn it off....... GREAT job urbanpatrician - this was one of our best ones I think, you did an awesome presentation ..........and great job MAR too .........this was a stellar group of films, the amount of foreign films was a pleasant surprise especially. Totally agreed. Maybe a slight less overall interest for this one because the 90s are 20 years old and most people here are more familiar with the 10s, and to a lesser extent the 00s........but the selections are the best in this poll, imo. So many quality entries and gems that aren't talked about much, or just kind of buried in memory a bit. Now onto the 80s... I think wilcinema 's gonna do that one. I'll be trying hard to get Come Back to the Five and Dime into at least the Top 100. Javi too, I guess lol.
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Nov 5, 2020 3:21:28 GMT
Great presentation! Most of my list did decent enough. A Perfect World was robbed though!!!!
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Post by therealcomicman117 on Nov 5, 2020 3:21:30 GMT
Somewhat predictable number one, but still good job. Great presentation too urbanpatrician.
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Post by Javi on Nov 5, 2020 3:25:20 GMT
Great work! And your love for the decade really came through (speaking as a fellow 90s child). Onto the 80s
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Post by DeepArcher on Nov 5, 2020 3:30:42 GMT
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Post by flasuss on Nov 5, 2020 3:44:22 GMT
This top 10 is so...basic. Meh. Not that I don't like most of the films there, but just...ugh.
Really, every single movie on the top 5 is an American crime movie with a cast of pretty much only white people (Pulp Fiction being an exception in this last regard), and most movies in the top 20 also fitting that bill (and from top 20, 19 are American). For a forum of cinephiles, you'd think we have more variety.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2020 4:02:27 GMT
A Brighter Summer Day below nonsense like Shawshank Redemption LMFAO Some godly films on this list for sure. Placements are IMDb-ish but what can you do Cool presentation, thanks urbanpatrician
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Post by countjohn on Nov 5, 2020 4:17:12 GMT
JP is a bit high but I guess I'm glad it made it at all given how indifferent this board is to blockbusters/action sometimes. Unforgiven was also a bit low, forget if I had it at no. 1 but it definitely should have been top five. Schindler's List was about right.
Not much of a GoodFellas fan to be honest but it is not a surprise at no. 1.
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