SPOILERS FOR BURNING


I find the protagonist so awful that the film just didn’t at all work for me. I get that he is awful, but the whole film hinges on starting out thinking he’s relatable and then slowly having the rug pulled out from under you. But he’s such a gross Nice Guy creep from the get-go that I found…

THANK YOU! It really is a massive oversight. 

OK obviously (I hope) I thought I was responding to a comment about Drive here, not Fury Road.

OK I’ve been putting off seeing that movie since it came out, because absolutely nothing about it sounds remotely interesting to me. But ... you’ve piqued my interest Toasterlad. Maybe I’ll relent. 

Brooks is outstanding. 

I still love it! 

There were a few scenes in Boyhood that I loved. And there were a few I loathed. Overall, I was pretty meh about the whole experience and certainly have no desire to ever see it again. But I’ve given up fighting that fight around these parts. 

I don’t really think the film excuses torture. I also don’t think it’s a particularly good film. 

It has one good scene. And a lot of garbage. 

I find it a very beautiful, very disturbing play on familiar noir tropes that’s a little bit about attempting to imagine how dysfunctional it would be to actually live like any of those character archetypes, but it really is mostly about style (and I’m totally fine with that). 

Seriously though. I liked Lost City of Z a lot. (James Gray 4eva.) But Embrace of the Serpent basically negated the need for it to exist or for anyone to ever make a “white man goes into the jungle” movie ever again. I saw James Gray do a Q&A after Lost City and I really wanted to ask him about Embrace of the Serpent,…

Albert Brooks and the knife are ingrained in my nightmares. I love that film, but I can’t rewatch it often, because that scene freaks me out so much that I literally have bad dreams about it. 

I did expect to see Green Room, but I was pleasantly surprised by how high it was ranked. 

I’m not surprised not to see any of those, although I would have liked to see Toy Story 3 or Dunkirk make the cut. But Fury? Are you serious? 

There’s nothing wrong with really well executed style over substance. 

Yeah I was surprised not to see The Clouds of Sils Maria, Good Time, Embrace of the Serpent, or The Fits on here. As much as I like Everybody Wants Some and Black Swan, I am not surprised they didn’t make the cut. 

I like Melancholia and It Follows, but no one will ever convince me that The Lobster is a good movie. It has good parts, certainly. But overall it lacks a coherent thesis and thinks it’s much cleverer than it actually is.

There’s a few movies I dislike on here (ahem Her Smell, Burning, The Lobster), and a few I haven’t seen, but lots of gems that I’d think would have been forgotten in a decadal overview (The Loneliest Planet, Stranger By the Lake, Support the Girls). And I really can’t argue with that top 10. My only complaint is that…

I have an issue with the director going way, way too big and flashy with his technique, masking and ignoring the nearly hollow emptiness of his story, which leans way to hard on a generic, wishy washy emphasis on “love” and is way too shallow to avoid accidentally opening the door for ugly interpretations that I don’t…

I think Shults intends to be sending a message of love and unity. I think he saw Moonlight and desperately wants to be Barry Jenkins, but doesn’t actually know how to be Barry Jenkins (nevermind that he should want to be himself, because his other films showed much more promise than this one). In his clueless attempt…