What was your absolute favourite film of 2016

me is pic related

> dude no plot LMAO

That movie was shit

Because I'm a piece of shit refnfag with no taste in kino.
Fuck you guys this actually WAS my fav movie of the year and if I said otherwise I'd be lying.

Did they fug for real in this?

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The Handmaiden

Park finally returning to form.

i still liked it because I sold newspapers door to doors in the 1990s when I was 10

13 Hours, Knight of Cups, Cemetery of Splendour.

mein negher

You're a fucking retard. That movie was pure garbage and I felt like an idiot for finishing it.

I doubt it's pure garbage, Fish Tank was a sound film but I suppose Andrea's films are those that men won't understand.

I loved it. Cinematography was so good

I thought Swiss Army Man was a joy to watch

>degeneracy promoting film written and directed by a woman

I'll give it a miss thanks

You are gonna have to learn to separate your politics from everyday life or you are going to miserable for the rest of your life

I'm interested in this. That said and as much as this makes me sound like an uber-pleb, a film like this that's almost 3 hours long turns me off.

3 hours went by fast but I myself loved it, movie is a hit and miss for many

3 hours is nothing.

If you want eternal cheatmode for 3-5 hour films just watch Satantango and any 6 hour Lav Diaz film.

After these two misery porn films any 3 hour film that isn't by them will feel like a fart in the desert gone before you can smell it

Your name

do you like Lav Diaz? Where should I start?

pic related is my top 10, in order of preference

good taste

I don't like him but I've seen bunch of his stuff.
I start chronologically with the films I can get my hands on, with any director.

They're just pure misery & realism though. I wasn't prepared for it even though I had grown to idea of watching a 5 and half hour film of nothing fancy.

steak, pls

is joshy any good?

no, i put it in my top 10 because i hated it

Thank you.

Normally I would say 3 hours is really not that long for a movie but in American Honey's case it is extremely long.

The movie goes on interminably.

>watching films for the plot

thanks man! Seems like I'm going to be entertained for a wile then

I don't think it's possible to have a more contrarian list, besides Certain Women

well if i were aiming for contrarianism i would've included Suicide Squad and London Has Fallen for starters

i'm sure i could've come up with something more effective

London Has Fallen is a 8/10 red pill kino that was only shit on by Trump hating cucks. So it's hardly contrarian to praise it here.

yeah, i've seen a few people praising it here. pretty ridiculous if you ask me. politics aside, i don't see how you can claim to like movies if you enjoy something as inept and awful as that.

meme

>i don't see how you can claim to like movies if you enjoy something as inept and awful as that.
Uncompromizing white masculinity is something you should support unconditionally. It's more important than your widely accepted cinema memes of "good taste" and "quality".

kek

You took the meme life too hard

Not him, but it's my favorite film of the year. Baena grew leaps and bounds from Life After Beth. That film was shapeless and awkward but here he takes a trite comedy and injects it with lived-in, real relationships and a unique tragic bent. Balancing his chosen level of drama and comedy without stooping to navel-gazing seems like a tightrope act for a mumblecore film but he did it. I admire his understated approach to visual comedy. And it's funny as shit.

>entertained
>while watching Lav Diaz.
This is not humanly possible.

Not the same poster, but I actually thought it was pretty damn good. It took me off-guard though. I was expecting a comedy, but it's closer to "The Comedy" with Tim Heidecker. It's a very sad film, very realistic characters/performances

I was sarcastic. Still interested in those movies though

I still don't understand why I'm the only one that liked this film. It's got its flaws, I don't know if it's the "best" of the year, but it's the one that really stands out in my memory. It's the only film I saw this year that I wanted to re-watch immediately, and I liked it even better on second viewing.

It's the darkest comedy of the year, and Ben Wheatley's first real masterpiece

Godspeed you mad bastard.

hahaaHAHAHAHA

Green Room.

Kubo and the Two Strings was awesome too, but the ending felt rushed and I didn't really like Ralph Fiennes performance.

me too.

andrea is now contending the place as my favorite contemporary director with sofia coppola

Most people in Sup Forums aren't trapped like people in high rise, mortgage to a shit house tricked into it by jews in power etc.

La La Land or Manchester By the Sea. Really wish Silence was playing near me.

what was this pose meant to communicate

Now that you mention it the poster makes no fucking sense

>I loved it.

ur a girl right

it's only natural that things make you feel like an idiot

It's supposed to resemble this.

I just love Ralph Finnes

I had such high hopes for that movie. I can't believe it ended up on my worst of the year list. Have you read the novel? It's brilliant.

It's playing right around the corner from me and I'm refusing to watch it because I am too smart for modern Scorsese.

The Nice Guys

It's expanding this week.

I hope it comes to my city soon, it sounds amazing

no, I just like films with good cinematography

I really liked this, but they could have done a better job of showing why the didn't just leave the high rise when shit started to hit the fan.

How big is Kyle Chandler's role in Manchester by the Sea? I love the actor

I haven't read the novel, but I thought the film was absolutely brilliant in its own right. What did you dislike about it?

Fuck this movie, gimme my 2 and a half hours back

love that scooby doo font

Very small.

He leaves a mark though, just like everything he's in. It's Affleck's show.

>BITCH YOU GUESSED IT

I loved Kill List but nothing Wheatley has made since then has done it for me.

you dont deserve them

I sort of dislike Casey since he is this 'older than looks, tired weary man weighed down by sorrows' in about everything, literally EVERYTHING I have seen him in.

Was hoping MbtS would've have been him and Chandler trying to outperform each other on the screen, but I suppose that was a dream.

You don't deserve my digits, check em

>they could have done a better job of showing why the didn't just leave the high rise when shit started to hit the fan
That was the joke. Why don't people leave their home country when shit starts to hit the fan? Sometimes you just don't see the shit coming until you're already covered in it

There was an absurd, surreal tone to the entire film, from the base concept to the characterization and performances. It was like Monty Python crossed with David Cronenberg

I hate the fact that I unironically love Refn fuck me

Comfiest movie of the year. It's not high art on any level, but this definitely wins "most likely to re-watch the whole thing if it's playing on TV"

I thought it was tortuously repetitive and overlong. I get that its repetition is intentional and meant to stress the depravity of the situation but I just found it very on-the-nose. Then there were elements added to the movie like that child listening to Margaret Thatcher that served to further ram the movie's ideas down your throat. I think the movie also takes the central conflict of the novel and changes it into something less interesting. The scenes of the wealthy at the top of the building speaking as though they are in a battle with the lower classes all came off as very silly and demonizing to me. The idea in the novel is that the people in the middle of the building are the ones in the toughest spot because they have elevated themselves beyond the poor but haven't reached the heights of the truly rich and that level of mediocrity, of being close but still beneath the top, is the biggest disappointment.

Why don't people leave them now? They live in the housing bubble - especially London that is a horrible bubble. Costs millions to get a suicide box apartment.

Why don't they? This is the bizarre fact of reality that they don't leave. Some people in the film leave their debt filled live with a suicide, jumping off the high rise though.

>Comfiest movie of the year
Code for "most reddit". Cinema is an antagonization medium. If your skull isn't left shattered spilling your brains onto the floor then what you witnessed was not art, but instead "entertainment" sensibility video game pornography.

I really like Casey in general though I get what you're saying. Fortunately in Manchester his world weariness is entirely justified. His withdrawn misery works absolutely perfectly for the character. It's truly a brilliant performance.

The wealthy are in a perpetual war against the lower/working class though since their economical interest contradict each other.

>I get that its repetition is intentional

I absolutely hate it when novels do this. BEE's American Psycho does this so much I never finished reading it, fuck.

It won the "first time I don't wanna punch Ryan Gosling in the face" prize on my book.

I actually appreciate antagonizing cinema that leaves marks, but there's no need to tip the fedora so hard against >le evil entertainment.

Cool.

>tfw would have to fly to London to see the film.
fuck Binland

kys

Get free. Love that fact

Ryan Gosling's physicality/physical comedy in TNG was amazing. I was laughing at everything his face did in the film.

The novel doesn't actually do it that much. The film is far guiltier of that offense. I agree on American Psycho. I finished it but it was a painfully protracted experience with very diminishing returns.

I mean that is true but I found the way the film handled it to be very cliche and again, on-the-nose. Depicting the wealthy sitting upstairs fucking and talking about their disdain for the poor just seemed very cheap to me.

Anyway, it seems to be a pretty polarizing film. I really love the other Wheatley movie I've seen, Kill List. If you haven't seen that one you should give it a look.

Haha I had to drive to Toronto to see it, 3 hours away from me. I'm a Lonergan diehard though.

Joshy is great, but nigger what is this list

it's my top 10 of the year in order of preference

>Depicting the wealthy sitting upstairs fucking and talking about their disdain for the poor just seemed very cheap to me.
Obvious doesn't mean cheap. It brings out the fact from real life where the situation is equal to what High Rise showed. Sure it is symbolical but not skewered at all. And it brings out the bizarre situation of it all (the real life) on your nose and makes you think why won't they just fucking leave

I'd agree that it was "on-the-nose," ESPECIALLY the Thatcher quote, and this was the biggest weakness of the film for me. I can see why you might not be crazy about the film if you'd already seen this concept explored better in the original novel. But the concept was new to me, and it bowled me over.

>The idea in the novel is that the people in the middle of the building are the ones in the toughest spot because they have elevated themselves beyond the poor but haven't reached the heights of the truly rich and that level of mediocrity, of being close but still beneath the top, is the biggest disappointment

I think they actually did a great job getting that point across through Laing and Wilder, who were basically the main characters of the film. Laing tries to suck up to the "upper floors" to transcend his station, is disappointed that he's always treated like an outsider, and ends up retreating into isolation to sit the whole conflict out as much as he can. Whereas Wilder is ANGRY at his position of "mediocrity," considers himself a hero for the "lower floors," and whips up their anger & discontent to direct a sort of half-assed rebellion against the "uppers."

Yeah, as satire it's still kind of on-the-nose. Somehow it just worked for me, though. The high-rise was a weird little microcosm of a larger civilization, where normal societal conflicts played out on a smaller scale, but faster and louder and more extreme. That bizarre surreal setting, the hyper-cynical satirical tone, and the sheer intricate detail of the production and editing were the main draws for me

I will definitely give it points for the way it maintained the ambiguity as to why people will not leave the building. That is one of the best aspects of the novel by far, which again I cannot recommend more highly, especially given that you like the movie a lot.

I'm just shocked that BvS and Assassin's Creed are on here. Why BvS?

The concept is definitely amazing, the movie mostly keeps it intact though I just found it lacking the nuance of the ideas explored in the novel.

Have you seen Cronenberg's Shivers? Strangely enough it came out the same year as Ballard's novel High Rise and it explores a very similar concept of an apartment complex's residents turning against one another.

I don't like HR (film) but I think your dislike for it is misguided. Or at least - reasons why I dislike aren't the same as yours.

What are your reasons for disliking it?

As I've been saying, the whole thing just felt completely vacuous to me, especially compared to its source material.

She's super qt. Am I alone in thinking this?

I didn't find it "visually striking" so I forgot about it almost instantly and that's the biggest mistake a film can do in my opinion.

I felt that disappointment as well. It's a shame because the images of the first 5 minute stretch of the movie are very striking but that quickly stopped being the case. Strangely mundane looking film

Green Room.


Haven't seen high rise yet though, been meaning to

Yep, and I was getting flashbacks to Cronenberg's work throughout. Definitely a strong influence there, and he's another director who was a big fan of Ballard.

I'd advise giving the film a second chance. It's so fast-paced in some sections that I missed a lot of detail on my first viewing. There are important plot points that occur in like a single line of dialogue, Wheatley doesn't subscribe to the "if it's important, give the audience 3 chances to hear it" rule of filmmaking. I was very intrigued the first time I saw this movie, and I only appreciated it more when I watched it again, knowing where it was all headed.

It's so cruel and cynical that I completely understand why most viewers were put off, but if you're on board with the whole concept, I'm surprised you disliked the film so much. I find that happens to me sometimes when I watch adaptations of books I really love - I already had an "adaptation" playing out in my own imagination when I read it, so it's tough at first to watch another person's interpretation of the same material