[Hayden]

[TheKing]

[CA Dreamin]

Been away on vacation for a while, what did I miss?

Our 2024 list! (finally) Three movies at the top separated by one point, crazy. I don't agree that #1 should be decided by a tie-breaker. What would have happened if there was a run-off election, haha? I would have gone 1. Anora 2. The Substance 3. I Saw the TV Glow. I didn't like I Saw the TV Glow. I liked Anora and Substance enough for my Top 10. But nothing came close to The Brutalist and Evil Does Not Exist imo. Far and away my #1 and #2. And neither ranked very high, SMH. Hundreds of Beavers, what a nice placement in the Top 10. We really did good lobbying job for that comedic wonder. What's crazier to me is that it finished only 10 points behind Dune (dang, I should've padded my list with more mediocrity, and that would have put Beavers ahead). Beavers was 1/1200th of the budget of Dune and a hundredfold better. May there be more movies like it in the future!

Anyway, I'm so ready for the 40s. Who's with me!!‽‽??

[Hayden]

I also thought The Brutalist was a sure-fire for top 5, but that's how the dice roll—

I'd also go 1. Anora 2. The Substance 3. I Saw the TV Glow, but that's not because I disliked the last two— I think those being our top 3 is fantastic— and I think BEA leaning a little horror and choosing The Substance is very us. But yeah, the last-minute tie with the point tally was wild.

I should also note I was really happy with where The Wild Robot landed. What a great film— I didn't know too much about it going in, but I watched it with my mother, and the entire thing hit hard— some beautiful moments—

Also, with the wrap of 2024's list, we've been doing this for 10 years — here's our decade-anniversary hall of fame—

2015— Mad Max: Fury Road
2016— Arrival
2017— Lady Bird
2018— The Favourite
2019— Parasite
2020— Minari
2021— Drive My Car
2022— The Banshees of Inisherin
2023— Oppenheimer
2024— The Substance


And I think it's aged pretty well
I think the most surprising in-the-moment was 2016 (Moonlight v La La Land was everywhere), but I appreciated we went our own way. I'm not sure how Arrival will be remembered as a film (20, 30 years down the road), I found it never quite hit the pop-culture zeitgeist, but it's a good one—

[cestuneblague]

Arrival was one of my favorites

Yeah great job as always Hayden, sorry I didn't contribute but considering I saw maybe four films from last year and was never more than "that's good" for any of them, I didn't think a personal list would mean anything in a poll like this. That being said I'm definitely down for a new decade/general poll, but perhaps wait until it starts getting chillier cuz I know I'm taking advantage of the beaches once the heat wave subsides.

[Olli]

I've already started looking at the BEA list of films from the 1940s that I still haven't seen. Of the 100, I haven't seen 25 yet.

[BozoTyrannus]

[Hayden]

[CA Dreamin]

I recently watched The Seed of the Sacred Fig. Go watch it. It's criminally under-ranked here (which is partly my fault for not seeing it before this poll closed).

[Hayden]