The 150 Movie Challenge - 2015

Post by **Pappa** » Fri Feb 13, 2015 3:39 pm

tattuchu wrote:
rachelbean wrote:Tat, it would be a lot easier to read you star ratings if you used stars...
Does everyone use five stars? Is that the standard? If so, I'll switch.

I should probably just give a mark out of 10 as I seem to award half stars so often.

Post by **Pappa** » Sat Feb 14, 2015 12:12 am

41. The King of Kong - *****
42. Autómata - ****
43. Fat City - ***
44. The Call of Cthulhu (2005) - **
45. Escape from New York - ***
46. The Insider - ****
47. M (1931) - ***.5
48. Cloud Atlas - *

Post by **Brian Peacock** » Sat Feb 14, 2015 12:45 am

I don't know where you folks find the time.

Post by **tattuchu** » Sat Feb 14, 2015 12:28 pm

Brian Peacock wrote:I don't know where you folks find the time.

In my case, I'm out of work because of a shitty back. In Pappa's case, I believe magic is involved and I suspect it's to do with his mustache. A twirl of his mustache...awesome kids. Another twirl...a beautiful woman by his side. Not enough hours in the day? Another twirl still and time slows down. It's a mistake to think that every wizard carries a wand. That's far too obvious and there are more subtle means, case in point being Pappa's magnificent mustache. Yes, it's much more subtle but it's easy enough to spot once you've worked it out.

Post by **Brian Peacock** » Sat Feb 14, 2015 12:56 pm

I think you're onto something there. I recall that he was twirling his mustache when I had an overwhelming urge to void the contents of my stomach up his back wall last autumn. Devious swine!

:{)

Post by **piscator** » Sun Feb 15, 2015 1:58 am

Pappa wrote:
tattuchu wrote:
rachelbean wrote:Tat, it would be a lot easier to read you star ratings if you used stars...
Does everyone use five stars? Is that the standard? If so, I'll switch.
I should probably just give a mark out of 10 as I seem to award half stars so often.

All measurement systems are constructs of convenience.

Post by **piscator** » Sun Feb 15, 2015 2:51 am

21. Back To Bataan (1945)**** A young John Wayne with the natural athletic power and grace of a tiger. He was 6'5" and 240lbs with a 34" waist, and could move like Darth Maul. It's almost impossible to look at anyone else in a scene he's in, and totally impossible the moment he speaks. Wow. Other than that, 1945 propaganda film plot, characterization, and production values, except for a brief and very interesting battlefield montage shot at a scale you don't see every day. Chilling in a sort of 'mass casualties World War Oneish' way.

Having watched Fury again, I'm going to rerate it a star higher. There's a fine inversion of Peter Shaffer's Equus underneath that blood and filth.
4.5 Stars also added for John Ford's Cavalry Trilogy

Post by **Pappa** » Sun Feb 15, 2015 9:51 am

Brian Peacock wrote:I think you're onto something there. I recall that he was twirling his mustache when I had an overwhelming urge to void the contents of my stomach up his back wall last autumn. Devious swine!

:{)

You can void the contents of your stomach up my back wall anytime Brian.

Post by **Animavore** » Sun Feb 15, 2015 2:45 pm

1. Elf ***
2. Snowpiercer ****
3. Mad Max: The Road Warrior ****
4. Sin City 2 ***
5. Phobia **
6. The Book of Life ***
7. Ben 10: Race Againt Time **
8. Big Hero 6 ***.5
9. John Wick ***
10. Birdman *****
11. Batman (Burton) ****
12. American Sniper ***
13. Grabbers ***.5
14. The Other Guys **
15. Ex Machina *****
16. Paddington ***.5
17. Wild Card **
18. Escobar: Paradise Lost ***
19. The Zero Theorem ***
20. The Guest ***.5
21. Moonwalker ***.5

Post by **Pappa** » Sun Feb 15, 2015 5:35 pm

41. The King of Kong - *****
42. Autómata - ****
43. Fat City - ***
44. The Call of Cthulhu (2005) - **
45. Escape from New York - ***
46. The Insider - ****
47. M (1931) - ***.5
48. Cloud Atlas - *
49. Guardians of the Galaxy - ****.5
50. Shaun the Sheep - ***

Post by **rachelbean** » Sun Feb 15, 2015 7:16 pm

Okay, I've got to start my own list, since it's slightly different to Pappa's and some of his ratings are so wrong

1. Escape Plan - **
2. The Theory of Everything - ***.5
3. The Interview - **
4. The Signal - ***
5. Midnight in Paris - ****
6. Housebound - **.5
7. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind - ***.5
8. What we do in the Shadows - ****
9. Boyhood - ****
10. The Skeleton Twins - ***.5
11. Dinosaur 13 - ***
12. Fury - ***
13. Birdman - ****
14. Unbroken - **
15. The Book of Life - ***.5
16. American Sniper - **
17. The Judge - ***.5
18. Wild - ***
19. Whiplash - ****
20. Selma - ***.5
21. The Godfather - *****
22. The Godfather: Part 2 - *****
23. Foxcatcher - ***
24. The Godfather: Part 3 - **
25. Dear White People - **.5
26. Big Hero 6 - ***
27. Inherent Vice - ***
28. St. Vincent - ***.5
29. John Wick - **
30. Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet - **
31. Interstellar - ****
32. The Little Death - ***
33. The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her - ***
34. Kill the Messenger - ****
35. The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him - ***.5
36. Olympus has Fallen - *.5
37. Clouds of Sils Maria - ****
38. Get on Up - **.5
39. Fat City - **
40. Escape from New York - ***
41. The Insider - ****
42. Cloud Atlas - ****.5
43. Guardians of the Galaxy - ****
44. Shaun the Sheep - ***

Post by **Animavore** » Sun Feb 15, 2015 7:19 pm

I feel like I should justfy my score of Moonwalker. The last time I saw this film was in 1988, in the cinema, with the Cub Scouts. It was interesting seeing how my memory of it matched the reality of it. There were bits I remembered. Bits I remembered when I saw them. Bits I remembered, but not as the way they are. And bits I completely don't remember.

The film is a mish-mash of genres with no rhyme or reason. Nothing made sense in it, but it was just so funny seeing Michael Jackson runnning around with those children in light of what we know or suspect about him now. Almost every single line or situation became double ententre or innuendo. And on top of all this Joe Pesci hamming it up more so than usual.

That's not to say it was all bad. The Smooth Criminal section was undoubtedly one of the best things ever.

Post by **rachelbean** » Sun Feb 15, 2015 7:20 pm

Dude, I LOVE Moonwalker. I hadn't watched it in years and watched it a couple ago, and it made me so happy. It's ridiculous.

Post by **Pappa** » Sun Feb 15, 2015 10:17 pm

51. Still Alice - ***

Post by **Clinton Huxley** » Wed Feb 18, 2015 7:12 pm

1) E.T. ****
2) Enemy ***
3) The Kings Of Summer ****
4) 127 Hours ****
5) Big Hero 6 ***** (loved it)
6) Son Of Rambow ***.5
7) Warm Bodies ***
8) Chernobyl Diaries **
9) The Grand Budapest Hotel ****
10) Suspicion ***.5
11) Howl's Moving Castle ****.5
12) Armageddon * (or *****, depending on what mood I'm in)
13) Lord Of the Rings Part 1 ****
14) The Place Beyond The Pines ***.5
15) Hot Fuzz ****
16) A Simple Plan ***
17) Headhunters ****
18) The Lady Vanishes ***
19) Rust And Bone ***
20) Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World *.5
21) Beasts Of The Southern Wild ****
22) The Road ***
23) Despicable Me ***
24) Captain Phillips ****
25) Ex Machina ****
26) Raiders of the Lost Ark *****
27) Shaun The Sheep ***

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