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Hayden
Location: Vietnam 
- #31
- Posted: 06/15/2025 14:08
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TheKing wrote: | Great list!
I purposely left out Hit Man and Evil Does Not Exist from my list since I already ranked them last year but it's cool to see them doubling up! |
Completely missed Hit Man being on both lists
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- #32
- Posted: 06/15/2025 14:26
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Hayden wrote: | TheKing wrote: | Great list!
I purposely left out Hit Man and Evil Does Not Exist from my list since I already ranked them last year but it's cool to see them doubling up! |
Completely missed Hit Man being on both lists  |
ranked 38th both times
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CA Dreamin
Gender: Male
Location: LA 
- #33
- Posted: 06/21/2025 19:43
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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!!‽‽??
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Hayden
Location: Vietnam 
- #34
- Posted: 06/24/2025 06:05
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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—
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cestuneblague
Eyebrow of the Hurricane
Location: Chi-Town
- #35
- Posted: 06/24/2025 15:12
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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.
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Olli
Gender: Male
Age: 56
- #36
- Posted: 06/24/2025 16:39
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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.
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BozoTyrannus
Gender: Male
Age: 33
- #37
- Posted: 06/25/2025 21:34
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Hayden wrote: | 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
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All nominees or winners at the Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director _________________ I wanna take Sean Penn
And take Sean Bean
Put 'em in a blender
And make Sean Pean
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Hayden
Location: Vietnam 
- #38
- Posted: 06/26/2025 04:50
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BozoTyrannus wrote: | All nominees or winners at the Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director |
Interesting, not a bad thing. Only two BP winners coincide though (both absolute mammoths of films, but).
Nationalities of the directors is a nice eclectic mix too. Australian, Canadian, American, Greek, Korean, Japanese, Irish, British & French.
(Mind, the Oscar for Best Director has had a solid international representation the last 15 years as well— 6 almost consecutive wins for Mexico in the 10s is wild). Bar maybe 2010 & 2022, it's probably the category I've had the least gripes with in recent ceremonies.
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CA Dreamin
Gender: Male
Location: LA 
- #39
- Posted: 3 days ago
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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).
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Hayden
Location: Vietnam 
- #40
- Posted: 3 days ago
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CA Dreamin wrote: | 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). |
For sure. Definitely one of the more down-to-Earth/raw/realistic 'epics' of the decade, but I just feel like not enough people care about it. Maybe it's a hard sell to western audiences? Considering the constant critical hype, not sure why it was so underwatched. It's a striking piece of cinema.
Still annoyed the Cannes jury chickened out of giving it an actual award. Rasoulof should've walked out with the Jury Prize.
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