I don’t think I have. I’ll have to listen to their roast.
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I’m very fond of Pan’s Labyrinth.
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Trying to think of a year with a stronger top five.
My 1999 top five:
The Insider
The Matrix
Fight Club
Toy Story 2
The Sixth Sense
That’s really strong - in both cases, the whole top five is in my personal all-time top 100 - but I’ve gotta go with 2007. It gets harder to find candidates that run quite as deep from there.
1980 makes a really compelling top three - The Shining, The Empire Strikes Back, Airplane all five-star classics in my book - and I do think Raging Bull is a strong #4, but I’m yet to find an all-timer for a #5. Dressed to Kill might be my next favorite from that year? And it doesn’t rate with these others named.
1957 does feature two elite five-star movies (12 Angry Men and The Bridge on the River Kwai), 1994 offers the same (Pulp Fiction and Shawshank, shoutout @ctr123 for his continued commitment to never watching Shawshank), but I don’t think those years can stack up 1-5 in the same way. Admittedly I do need to see more 1957 films to be able to properly judge that year.
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If I have a counterpart to your Fury Road, it’s that.
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Agree. The lake house is decent.
I wish mine was a dormant movie with no follow-ups from 25 years ago, that would be way less annoying. But yeah I think The Sixth Sense is excellent. And I say that as someone who likes to rip on M. Night Shyamalan.
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I can’t forget Moonfall. It’s not even fun bad and the reveal and subsequent plotting are eyeroll inducing.
I have not seen Serenity but I did read about the twist which sounds ridiculous. So ridiculous that I was tempted to watch it but I haven’t gone through with it as of yet.
I disagree on Moonfall, I think it’s hilarious. The Lexus product placement alone is laugh-out-loud funny. But, I almost always am only watching these movies because How Did This Get Made has done an episode on them, so I head into them expecting them to be bad and looking for the funny stuff.
If you already know the Serenity twist it will be a lot less fun I think.
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When Stitcher went out of business somebody on Reddit compiled an archive of all the old episodes on two Google drives:
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1IL58meqWVWmPdXpkwD4AoK_5lWtxYnNJ
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1WEtnPZev0HNPbohWlg3bmWhcyAmKdClO
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I think it’s unfortunate because until the twist, the movie played very well for me. I was into it. But the twist is something else and unfortunately then the whole movie suddenly is preposterous.
I was hamming it up and I can now see that I gilded the lily a bit.
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Run Lola Run
9.9/10
Watched in the theater. On re-watch not a 10 because there’s a bit of annoying pretension at the beginning and they introduce the cast of characters twice, and the ending of the second iteration is played for a bit for laughs when it needed more shock value, but once the movie hits the ground, uhm, running, it’s great.
Also leave it to the Germans to make gambling at a casino look like a bore.
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No love for “Heaven’s gate” ?
Caddyshack?
Happy 40th anniversary to BOTH Ghostbusters and Gremlins, which were both released on June 8, 1984.
What a day.
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This one I’ve not seen, so I can’t rule that out. It being over 3.5 hours and me having had multiple people call it “boring” to me has admittedly spooked me a little.
Not the biggest fan. It’s funny, it’s pretty good, but I don’t think it stands up to time nearly as well as Airplane does.
I think the length is actually really good at getting you a feel for these people’s lives before “things happen”. I actually first saw the “short” (2h45) version (back when the long one was not easily accessible), and it didn’t work well for me. Seeing the long one in a theater (with intermission) was an incredible experience. Its one of my all-time favourites fwiw.
But I understand that it may be hard to find motivation for long movies. If you want some help we can say I’ll watch Shawshank if you watch this one 
Hot take is ghostbusters is not a very good movie. At a minimum it’s not funny at all.
Please turn in your passport and your man card on your way out of the country.
I think the humor in Airplane feels more dated and more forced than in Caddyshack.
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