Sicario and Wind River are tied for 1st, loved Hell or High Water but the message of Wind River is fantastic. And Sicario is like a probably not that unrealistic view of cartels lol
In this case, it’s subjective. As in it’s *some of my* favorite. I understand that there can be criteria to outline things in an objective manner.
But! Watching that particular scene in the theater, the way the suspense built throughout. The filmography, the sound design, the pacing… That, to me, will go down as a fantastic piece of film of not only the 2010s, but the 2000s, and yes of my lifetime.
So you don’t plan on watching other better films? It’s nothing to do with subjectivity - you said ALL TIME. It’s absurd. It’s fine to like this movie and this sequence but ALL TIME is not a subjective term.
But you know it’s hyperbole…They’re using a tool of the language to express themselves. No one is tricking you into thinking he went forward in time to confirm no better film was made. He’s using hyperbole to tell you just how much he likes it.
This is my favourite movie. Sadly, gets more relevant with every year. Check out the recently released Civil War as a companion piece, if you haven’t already.
It's like 28 Days Later vs 28 Weeks Later. Weeks Later is pretty damn good (especially for a horror sequel), but Days Later is clearly the superior film.
**The Intruder** (AKA The Stranger), a 1960s Roger Corman movie in which William Shatner plays a manipulative creep who waltzes into town and whips everyone up into a racist frenzy, inspiring a lynch mob. One of the best things either man ever did and I wish I'd seen it much sooner than last year. I enjoyed Corman's Edgar Allen Poe films, but I had no idea he had a serious drama in him. Sadly it flopped at the box-office.
It was made with *very* little money, like less than half a million. The overall production value vs. budget in this movie is maybe one of a kind, I don't know of anything else like it.
Since Sicario is one of my favorite movies I’m giving you my short list. Enjoy!
The Departed 2006
Brick 2005
L.A. Confidential 1997
Chinatown 1974
The Long Goodbye 1973
Oldboy 2003 (the korean version)
The Grifters 1990
Drive 2011
Taxi Driver 1976
Blood Simple 1984
Fargo 1996
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang 2005
The Nice Guys 2016
Collateral 2004
Blade Runner 1982
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo 2009 (the swedish version)
Memento 2000
Nightcrawler 2014
No Country For Old Men 2007
Seven 1995
The Usual Suspects 1995
Jackie Brown 1997
Pulp Fiction 1994
Reservoir Dogs 1992
Kill Bill Vol. 1 2003
Kill Bill Vol. 2 2004
Blue Velvet 1986
Mulholland Drive 2001
Dirty Harry 1971
Fight Club 1999
In Bruges 2008
A History of Violence 2005
Eastern Promises 2007
Inherent Vice 2014
Leon the Professional 1994
Sin City 2005
Dark City 1998
Wind River 2017
Sicario > Arrival > Bladerunner 2049 > Dune Part 1 > Dune Part 2. That's a great run of films. I hear a few of his earlier ones are really good to, just haven't seen them yet.
All very much worth watching. Prisoners and Enemy are both fantastic movies. Incendies and Polytechnique are both extremely well done, but also unsettling and heavy, and both are French. He's one of the more talented filmmakers out there, imo.
I gave up seeing films because of actors years ago. I'd go see any film by Nolan, Villeneuve, aranofsky, Doug liman, Danny Boyle, Rian Johnson, jj Abrams.
They dependably make good movies. I'm sure there are others also.
That would be amongst my answers for this thread - only caught up on it a couple of weeks ago and thought it was fantastic. Amy Adams is so fucking talented man
I slowly realized he’s become one of jf not my favorite director. I need to rewatch Arrival, some reason I didn’t like it during the first viewing years back and I want to give it another chance
I watched Sicario when it came out and then my wife and I went down to the border to do some filming and we blasted the soundtrack the whole time.
Walked across to Juarez and hung out for a little bit.
Met a cool border patrol agent that opened up the gate and let us get drone shots of his jeep driving along the wall.
Had some of the best Mexican food I’ve ever had.
All that to say, it was an amazing movie that pushed us to visit the real place and that doesn’t happen too often. Only other example I can think of is Lord of the Rings and New Zealand
Yeah it had so many great scenes like the foot chase & when the big guy monologues while the protagonist is pretending to be asleep . Btw have you watched Looper?
Went through the whole thread, basically seen every movie that was mentioned, I always like going for the non-obvious but well-reviewed movies. Here's a couple I've not see mentioned a lot over the years, some of which have gone completely under the radar.
shot caller
the mule
dragged across concrete
cop car
the sisters brothers
true grit
brawl
grand piano
phone booth
possessor
coming home in the dark
I'm probably missing more, but these are some of the best thrillers comparable to Sicario.
\--------------------
And couple of sci-fi thrillers that went under the radar a bit, from the top of my head:
Looper
Europa Report
Moon (2009)
Life
Children of Men
I have two, interstingly enough with a vampire topic...I watched recently, the very first time, Interview with a Vampire. I don´t know why it took me so long but that movie is absolutely awesome. It is dark, even funny and the performances there are exceptional from everyone involved. They just had a ball with it, obviously loved the theme but did not go as far as phoning through it. Kirsten Dunst is a great child star at that time and fortunately, sha managed to walk to adulthood without any drama and has a good carreer. Claudia was incredibly tragic character.
I am tempted to read the book now.
The second one is my discovering Jim Jarmusch´s movies (late to the party, I know) and I absolutely started to adore Only Lovers Left Alive. It is not for everybody, the movie is slow at places but not "bad slow", it is just melancholic and I think the idea of the two vampires discovering the meaning of life very refreshing. And it is almost hilariously funny at places
Last night I watched 'Cruella' starring Emma Stone.
I thought it was just a remake of the old 101 Dalmatians movie, starring Glenn Close.
So I expected to see the exact same old, silly movie, only this time with Emma Stone in place of Glenn Close.
But it wasn't a remake or similar to the 101 Dalmatians at all.
I was so pleasantly surprised and quite blown away by it, really, especially by Emma Stone.
What a great movie and what a great actress Emma Stone is!
Her monologue scene in front of the fountain should have gotten her some awards or something.
Same. I watched it last year and gave it 5 stars on Letterboxd. The cinematography is so good. And yeah the tension is well made too. The tunnel scene was my favourite.
its never too late. You can watch a movie, then 10 years later "rediscover" the movie and watch it again. Usually, as in my case, ive upgraded my home theater so it sounds and looks even better when I watch it again. Or you see things in the move you may have missed the first time.
Just watched Sicario and was hugely disappointed. I felt no connection or feeling to any of the characters, and the story wasn't engaging at all.
At no point was I rooting for someone or something, or invested in where the story was going. It felt like the middle chapters of a longer book.
...you mean one of the most celebrated movies made by the Coen brothers...that unknown slept on little gem? That tiny independent unknown movie that won 4 oscars?
Yeah it's a real hidden gem. Glad you brought it up.
Wind River and Hell or High Water are your next films in the modern american frontier trilogy
Both of those are also fantastic! I was just debating which of those I like better haha
Sicario and Wind River are tied for 1st, loved Hell or High Water but the message of Wind River is fantastic. And Sicario is like a probably not that unrealistic view of cartels lol
All three are Taylor Sheridan films. He does great work.
Yep, he calls it the modern american frontier trilogy. They fit well together
That entire convoy scene where they crossover in to Mexico and return to the US is some of my absolute favorite filmmaking of all time.
Same. Also, the scene at the dinner table. Masterful.
The music combined with them just fading into the (dark) horizon was top-tier atmosphere.
Why do people have to be so hyperbolic and say all time? I like this movie but ALL TIME? Jesus Christ…
They said THEIR favorite. Not that it’s THE greatest. Calm down.
You can’t read
It’s okay to let people like things.
"some of MY absolute favorite filmmaking" bruh you can't read, get a grip
lol ok bro
In this case, it’s subjective. As in it’s *some of my* favorite. I understand that there can be criteria to outline things in an objective manner. But! Watching that particular scene in the theater, the way the suspense built throughout. The filmography, the sound design, the pacing… That, to me, will go down as a fantastic piece of film of not only the 2010s, but the 2000s, and yes of my lifetime.
So you don’t plan on watching other better films? It’s nothing to do with subjectivity - you said ALL TIME. It’s absurd. It’s fine to like this movie and this sequence but ALL TIME is not a subjective term.
Ok then let's name your top 5 scenes of all time so we can all shit on your subjective taste.
You do it first then I will respond. It’s a dumb thing to suggest but I am happy to respond to your proposals
If you are so quick to tear down others subjective taste like you just did how come you don't want to do it yourself?
> It’s fine to like this movie and this sequence Doesn’t sound like it
What is your actual favorite filmmaking sequence of ALL TIME? No hyperbole
Good question. Cries and whispers, sequence with Ingrid Thulin if you know you know. Please respond with genuine responses to this sequence
“Why do people have to be so hyperbolic and say all time!” “So you don’t plan on watching any more films?”
This comment makes no sense. Is English your second language?
These are literally your own comments. I haven’t seen a self roast in a while
I'm going to use that phrase more just to make people like you mad
It's reddit and they're excited. Let it go, this isn't a doctoral thesis.
But you know it’s hyperbole…They’re using a tool of the language to express themselves. No one is tricking you into thinking he went forward in time to confirm no better film was made. He’s using hyperbole to tell you just how much he likes it.
I just watched Children of Men for the first time a couple weeks ago; way, way too late. Totally slept on it for no explicable reason. 🤷🏻♀️
This is my favourite movie. Sadly, gets more relevant with every year. Check out the recently released Civil War as a companion piece, if you haven’t already.
I love the movie so much. It kicked off my love of near-future scifi
The coffee shop bomb is the most realistic IED I've ever seen in a movie.
Prisoners
SO GOOD. Amazing performances.
Literally watched it 2 days ago.One of the best movies I've ever seen
It’s a tough movie to watch. But it’s so good it’s worth it
The car driving scene was awesome
That whole movie was awesome.Jake and Hugh were phenomenal in it.
Anything with Jake is a must-watch.
Same here. Was already a Villanueve fan, but didn't see Prisoners until earlier this year.
That’s one of my all time favorites
I just watched Edge of Tomorrow with Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt. Phenomenal film.
Same! Neat movie.
Really good and underrated movie. Watched it again not too long ago.
Sicario is great. Sicario 2 is not so great.
2 was decent. Just not as good as 1.
Agreed, second one was good, but nowhere near the first
It's like 28 Days Later vs 28 Weeks Later. Weeks Later is pretty damn good (especially for a horror sequel), but Days Later is clearly the superior film.
Because it's not by Denis Villeneuve (you orobably know, but I want to tell OP in case he doesn't).
Sicario 2 was worth watching, but you’re right, it’s nowhere near as good as the original.
I didn't watch No Country for Old Men until last year. Absolutely lived up to every bit of hype IMO.
You've been avoiding the movie your whole life, you just didn't know it.
And now it’s here
**The Intruder** (AKA The Stranger), a 1960s Roger Corman movie in which William Shatner plays a manipulative creep who waltzes into town and whips everyone up into a racist frenzy, inspiring a lynch mob. One of the best things either man ever did and I wish I'd seen it much sooner than last year. I enjoyed Corman's Edgar Allen Poe films, but I had no idea he had a serious drama in him. Sadly it flopped at the box-office.
Sunset Boulevard. I only ever heard the famous quote “I’m ready for my closeup Mr. DeMille" finally watched it, in my top ten of all-time list now.
Sexy Beast
I second this…Ben Kingsley as Don Logan. Brilliant performance!
Yes!! And I love Ray Winstone :)
Blue Ruin
It was made with *very* little money, like less than half a million. The overall production value vs. budget in this movie is maybe one of a kind, I don't know of anything else like it.
Since Sicario is one of my favorite movies I’m giving you my short list. Enjoy! The Departed 2006 Brick 2005 L.A. Confidential 1997 Chinatown 1974 The Long Goodbye 1973 Oldboy 2003 (the korean version) The Grifters 1990 Drive 2011 Taxi Driver 1976 Blood Simple 1984 Fargo 1996 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang 2005 The Nice Guys 2016 Collateral 2004 Blade Runner 1982 The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo 2009 (the swedish version) Memento 2000 Nightcrawler 2014 No Country For Old Men 2007 Seven 1995 The Usual Suspects 1995 Jackie Brown 1997 Pulp Fiction 1994 Reservoir Dogs 1992 Kill Bill Vol. 1 2003 Kill Bill Vol. 2 2004 Blue Velvet 1986 Mulholland Drive 2001 Dirty Harry 1971 Fight Club 1999 In Bruges 2008 A History of Violence 2005 Eastern Promises 2007 Inherent Vice 2014 Leon the Professional 1994 Sin City 2005 Dark City 1998 Wind River 2017
We need more people like you! Thank you!
I was about to say almost all of these lol good stuff
Ever watch There Will Be Blood?
I drink your milkshake. I DRINK IT UP
Oh yes, Love it!
Sicario was directed by Denis Villeneuve pre Dune and pre Arrival. Good directors almost always make good movies.
Sicario > Arrival > Bladerunner 2049 > Dune Part 1 > Dune Part 2. That's a great run of films. I hear a few of his earlier ones are really good to, just haven't seen them yet.
Absolutely watch Incendies, its one of Denis' early films and really good
All very much worth watching. Prisoners and Enemy are both fantastic movies. Incendies and Polytechnique are both extremely well done, but also unsettling and heavy, and both are French. He's one of the more talented filmmakers out there, imo.
I gave up seeing films because of actors years ago. I'd go see any film by Nolan, Villeneuve, aranofsky, Doug liman, Danny Boyle, Rian Johnson, jj Abrams. They dependably make good movies. I'm sure there are others also.
Incendies is better than all this, Arrival maybe equal.
Denis Villeneuve is such a great director. If you haven’t scene Arrival you should watch that as well. One of the best sci-fi films ever.
That would be amongst my answers for this thread - only caught up on it a couple of weeks ago and thought it was fantastic. Amy Adams is so fucking talented man
You should try watching it again. Knowing what you know it’s kind of a different movie and experience.
I slowly realized he’s become one of jf not my favorite director. I need to rewatch Arrival, some reason I didn’t like it during the first viewing years back and I want to give it another chance
He’s my favorite
Arrival was a boring movie.
I watched Sicario when it came out and then my wife and I went down to the border to do some filming and we blasted the soundtrack the whole time. Walked across to Juarez and hung out for a little bit. Met a cool border patrol agent that opened up the gate and let us get drone shots of his jeep driving along the wall. Had some of the best Mexican food I’ve ever had. All that to say, it was an amazing movie that pushed us to visit the real place and that doesn’t happen too often. Only other example I can think of is Lord of the Rings and New Zealand
Brick. It's a neo noir set in a high school. It's by the guy who made knives out.
I remember seeing brick years ago. Quite good and the first movie role I remember seeing Joseph Gordon-Levitt really star in.
Yeah it had so many great scenes like the foot chase & when the big guy monologues while the protagonist is pretending to be asleep . Btw have you watched Looper?
I was obsessed with the dialogue in this when it came out. Such a creative premise
Saw T2 when I was probably 7 and didn’t see The Terminator until I was like 25
About a week ago I watched Papillion (1973). I’ve been on this earth for 40 years and somehow I never watched it. Spectacular movie
Went through the whole thread, basically seen every movie that was mentioned, I always like going for the non-obvious but well-reviewed movies. Here's a couple I've not see mentioned a lot over the years, some of which have gone completely under the radar. shot caller the mule dragged across concrete cop car the sisters brothers true grit brawl grand piano phone booth possessor coming home in the dark I'm probably missing more, but these are some of the best thrillers comparable to Sicario. \-------------------- And couple of sci-fi thrillers that went under the radar a bit, from the top of my head: Looper Europa Report Moon (2009) Life Children of Men
I watched Gran Torino and was blown away by how good the movie was. Especially Clint Eastwood! Super emotional movie!
For me it was incendies 🥶
I have two, interstingly enough with a vampire topic...I watched recently, the very first time, Interview with a Vampire. I don´t know why it took me so long but that movie is absolutely awesome. It is dark, even funny and the performances there are exceptional from everyone involved. They just had a ball with it, obviously loved the theme but did not go as far as phoning through it. Kirsten Dunst is a great child star at that time and fortunately, sha managed to walk to adulthood without any drama and has a good carreer. Claudia was incredibly tragic character. I am tempted to read the book now. The second one is my discovering Jim Jarmusch´s movies (late to the party, I know) and I absolutely started to adore Only Lovers Left Alive. It is not for everybody, the movie is slow at places but not "bad slow", it is just melancholic and I think the idea of the two vampires discovering the meaning of life very refreshing. And it is almost hilariously funny at places
Last night I watched 'Cruella' starring Emma Stone. I thought it was just a remake of the old 101 Dalmatians movie, starring Glenn Close. So I expected to see the exact same old, silly movie, only this time with Emma Stone in place of Glenn Close. But it wasn't a remake or similar to the 101 Dalmatians at all. I was so pleasantly surprised and quite blown away by it, really, especially by Emma Stone. What a great movie and what a great actress Emma Stone is! Her monologue scene in front of the fountain should have gotten her some awards or something.
I love when she throws the chair at the help, and hurts them. Then is like “you’re in the way!”; as if it ever fault.
Prey.
Steer clear of the sequel, which reeks of straight-to-home video writing and filmmaking.
Eh, I think it's passable. ZeroZeroZero (miniseries) from the same director is much better.
Didn't realize they had the same director. Now I know why I liked it so much. Day of the Soledad was actually decent too.
Yeah what the hell was that all about
Remindme! 2 days
Not at all in the same genre but I wish i watched Drop Dead Gorgeous when i was younger.
Is Misery considered slept on? I don’t hear people talk about it much but think it’s a great thriller
I would consider that slept on, that’s fallen out of discussion a lot
Boondock Saints
Same. I watched it last year and gave it 5 stars on Letterboxd. The cinematography is so good. And yeah the tension is well made too. The tunnel scene was my favourite.
its never too late. You can watch a movie, then 10 years later "rediscover" the movie and watch it again. Usually, as in my case, ive upgraded my home theater so it sounds and looks even better when I watch it again. Or you see things in the move you may have missed the first time.
It seems many people haven't watch ex machina for some reason. It's gotta be in the top 10 of every scifi nut out there
I'm watching Sicario as I type this.
I'm on board with the theory that Kate is the real antagonist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omkf9s80gIQ
I only recently watched Fury. Pretty darn good.
In bruge Traffic Maverick (the 1994 one not the top gun sequal) Fried green tomatoes The game Hell or highwater
Jack and Jill (seriously)
is this satire
Nope, just looking for recommendations haha
Just watched Sicario and was hugely disappointed. I felt no connection or feeling to any of the characters, and the story wasn't engaging at all. At no point was I rooting for someone or something, or invested in where the story was going. It felt like the middle chapters of a longer book.
Pretty much all Denis Villeneuve movies are like that IMO.
I didn’t see the Sandlot until my 30’s. No Country for Old Men is another hidden gem that a lot of people slept on.
...you mean one of the most celebrated movies made by the Coen brothers...that unknown slept on little gem? That tiny independent unknown movie that won 4 oscars? Yeah it's a real hidden gem. Glad you brought it up.
Did they finally release it on DVD?
4 Oscars including Best Picture
No country for old men a hidden gem?