2017 TV/Movie/Book Thread with Spoilers

[ReasonablySober]

If (and ONLY IF) you've seen season one of The Good Place, here's the cast's reaction to THAT THING when they first heard it pitched. It's really great.

[Lippo]

Ha, fitting. The only one on that list I've seen is Zodiac (agreed, I like it a lot).

Movie buff like you and never saw Millers Crossing?

[ReasonablySober]

Ha, fitting. The only one on that list I've seen is Zodiac (agreed, I like it a lot).

Movie buff like you and never saw Millers Crossing?

Eh, I'm not really a movie buff. It's only over the last couple years that I've made a point to watch everything notable. But these lists are gonna be useful. Lots to go back and check out.

[Lippo]

I had to limit myself to 30 minutes so that I'd actually go to bed. Could go back and forth on these and a half dozen other great films.

Brick
Mad Max: Fury Road
Kingdom of Heaven (Director's Cut)
3:10 to Yuma
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Nightcrawler
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Prestige
28 Days Later
City of God

Yes, loved this move, its one of those ones whenever I channel surf and find I end up watching again, seen it probably 15x by now...
Is the directors cut much better, not sure ive seen it...

[FrieAaron]

Kingdom of Heaven (Director's Cut)

Yes, loved this move, its one of those ones whenever I channel surf and find I end up watching again, seen it probably 15x by now...
Is the directors cut much better, not sure ive seen it...

I've never seen either but I've heard from many people that the director's cut is a vast improvement.

[Lippo]

Yeah, any Coen Brothers fan who hasn't seen "Miller's Crossing" or "Barton Fink" needs to do so. The score for the former is a great one as well.

My 10 favorite movies of the 2010s so far:

The Social Network
Manchester By the Sea
The Tree of Life
Drive
Mad Max: Fury Road
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nightcrawler
Birdman
Les Miserables

If going back 10 years instead of just since 2010, I'd have to make room for these movies:

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
There Will Be Blood
No Country For Old Men
Wall•E
The Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Road

Damn some slow depressing movies on that list, are you ok?

[ReasonablySober]

Brick is such a great movie.

[crkone]

Brick is such a great movie.

Decent song too

[FrieAaron]

Yeah, any Coen Brothers fan who hasn't seen "Miller's Crossing" or "Barton Fink" needs to do so. The score for the former is a great one as well.

My 10 favorite movies of the 2010s so far:

The Social Network
Manchester By the Sea
The Tree of Life
Drive
Mad Max: Fury Road
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nightcrawler
Birdman
Les Miserables

If going back 10 years instead of just since 2010, I'd have to make room for these movies:

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
There Will Be Blood
No Country For Old Men
Wall•E
The Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Road

Damn some slow depressing movies on that list, are you ok?

I do definitely have a thing for slow burs and character driven stories, and I do like my humor dark ("In Bruges"). I'm less of a stickler for plot, though of course I think a great film can kind of check any variety of boxes and not have to be one thing. I think only a few of those are really depressing , though. Even something like "Manchester by the Sea" has a lot of humor in it.

[Lippo]

1) Gladiator
2) Braveheart
3) Fight Club
4) Unforgiven
5) Holy Grail
6) Kingdom of Heaven
7) Jaws
8) Tombstone
9) Momento
10) Gangs of New York
11) Saving Privte Ryan
12) Shawshenk Redemption
13) Blade
14) Blade Runnner
15) 5th Element
16) V for Vendetta
17) Good Will Hunting
18) 300
19) Ghost in the Darkness
20) Mad Max - Fury Road

quick of top of my head.

[FrieAaron]

Brick is such a great movie.

I just saw this movie for the first time last week. I liked it, but I thought the tone was a little odd. Like sometimes it's very self aware of the silliness of creating a neo-noir story set in high-school, but other times it's deadly serious. And I like both of those halves of the movie, but found the sudden flips between the two kind of off-putting, if that makes sense.

[Lippo]

Yeah, any Coen Brothers fan who hasn't seen "Miller's Crossing" or "Barton Fink" needs to do so. The score for the former is a great one as well.

My 10 favorite movies of the 2010s so far:

The Social Network
Manchester By the Sea
The Tree of Life
Drive
Mad Max: Fury Road
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nightcrawler
Birdman
Les Miserables

If going back 10 years instead of just since 2010, I'd have to make room for these movies:

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
There Will Be Blood
No Country For Old Men
Wall•E
The Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Road

Damn some slow depressing movies on that list, are you ok?

I do definitely have a thing for slow burs and character driven stories, and I do like my humor dark ("In Bruges"). I'm less of a stickler for plot, though of course I think a great film can kind of check any variety of boxes and not have to be one thing. I think only a few of those are really depressing , though. Even something like "Manchester by the Sea" has a lot of humor in it.

Yeah Ive seen all but 3 of those (bolded), good quality movies but I wanted to slit my wrists after the Road... I guess I have to get a little adrenaline going ... TAOJJBYCRF was so slow I fell asleep 3x before finishing it....like my acronym?
Drive and No Country For Old Men almost make my list...

[FrieAaron]

Damn some slow depressing movies on that list, are you ok?

I do definitely have a thing for slow burs and character driven stories, and I do like my humor dark ("In Bruges"). I'm less of a stickler for plot, though of course I think a great film can kind of check any variety of boxes and not have to be one thing. I think only a few of those are really depressing , though. Even something like "Manchester by the Sea" has a lot of humor in it.

Yeah Ive seen all but 3 of those (bolded), good quality movies but I wanted to slit my wrists after the Road... I guess I have to get a little adrenaline going ... TAOJJBYCRF was so slow I fell asleep 3x before finishing it....like my acronym?
Drive and No Country For Old Men almost make my list...

"The Road" is the most straight up depressing movie on my list, for sure. But I think, even given how grim it is, it's kind of beautiful as a story about a father trying to prepare and protect his son from the outside world. Jesse James seriously is all about the payoff, and I'm not just saying that because you fell asleep. I'm not sure if anyone else here has seen it, but the final 30 minutes or so are one of my favorite endings ever.

[Whiteman]

I had to limit myself to 30 minutes so that I'd actually go to bed. Could go back and forth on these and a half dozen other great films.

Brick
Mad Max: Fury Road
Kingdom of Heaven (Director's Cut)
3:10 to Yuma
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Nightcrawler
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Prestige
28 Days Later
City of God

Absolutely.
Great music too.

Watch on YouTube

[Lippo]

I did finally make it to the end, and yeah it did deliver, but not sure it was worth the 3 hours....

[Lippo]

I had to limit myself to 30 minutes so that I'd actually go to bed. Could go back and forth on these and a half dozen other great films.

Brick
Mad Max: Fury Road
Kingdom of Heaven (Director's Cut)
3:10 to Yuma
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Nightcrawler
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Prestige
28 Days Later
City of God

Absolutely.
Great music too.

Watch on YouTube

yeah if I heard that I would probably slowly start running and not know why...those where the scariest zombies by far...

[imithanos]

SW IV
Dead poets society
Braveheart
Terminator 2
Dark Knight
Matrix
Mulholland drive
Shawshank redemption
Fight club
Le Diner de cons

I definitely forget many films.
Some of the following could have easily made the list another day with different mood.
Alien, Good Will hunting, The broken circle breakdown, Willow, 2046, American beauty, Citizen Cane, Godfather, Training day, Leon, American history, Requiem for a dream, Seven, Platoon, Million dollar baby, Heat. Oh "o μπακαλόγατος" too.
I should probably choose one of these instead of Le Diner de cons, but I wanted to have a comedy in my list.

[MikeIsGood]

If (and ONLY IF) you've seen season one of The Good Place, here's the cast's reaction to THAT THING when they first heard it pitched. It's really great.

Awesome. I love this show.

[Turk Nowitzki]

Holy ****, it's back tonight? Cool

[blazza18]

The Punisher trailer looks dope. Hopefully the series can back it up.