Herzog is strongest as a documentarian/narrator, but his Nosferatu film was pretty good.

I watched My Best Friend, his film about Klaus Kinski, a couple years ago and it was great, so I'm definitely going to check out his other documentaries.

His fiction is pretty hit and miss for me. I've watched a few more years ago, but nothing I felt strongly about. I can't even really remember the Nosferatu movie. I guess it hit the right sort of atmosphere pretty well. I haven't even seen the original yet, so I can't compare.

I think I agree that Tarantino is overrated, and I say this as someone who loves Tarantino. This is because I largely disagree with his first films being his greatest. I don't have much love for Pulp Fiction or Reservoir Dogs. Even Kill Bill is a bit too facetious for me.

Inglourious Basterds, though, I think is Tarantino's best work, because I think it's his strongest story and I don't think he ever takes it to the cartoonish heights he does in Django Unchained or Kill Bill. I mean yeah, I understand the Tarantinoverse and the film-within-a-film thing, but I still don't think those stories are clean enough. The thing about arteurs is that sure, they get full reign over their creative vision, but that also means there's nobody to say "no, you need to tone it down and edit", and sometimes that's necessary. ****in' Django Unchained and Hateful Eight were probably 45 minutes longer than they needed to be. Inglourious Basterds though, I don't think it has any wasted scenes. And Christoph Waltz is a spectacle to behold as Hans Landa.

*Fiend

Oops. It's usually either Batty or Frown that do the nitpicking.

Grizzly Man was great.

Please, I'm one of this site's nitpickiest, most persnickety mofos.

One of my favorite films ever. Period. Can't get much better than 70's Pacino.

Pulp Fiction > Inglourious Basterds > The Hateful Eight > Reservoir Dogs > Kill Bill > Django Unchained > Jackie Brown > Death Proof

Pulp Fiction is by far my favorite. It is packed wall to wall with great, memorable scenes.

I would love to see a re-edit of Jackie Brown. I love the movie but it just drags on way too fucking long. The same can be said for Kill Bill but it's not as noticeable if you don't watch them back to back.

Only one I wouldn't re-watch is Death Proof, but I loved the other half of Grindhouse, Planet Terror.

Kill Bill Vol. 1 > Pulp Fiction > Inglorious Bastards > Reservoir Dogs > Kill Bill Vol. 2 > Django Unchained > The Hateful Eight > Jackie Brown > Death Proof

Reservoir Dogs > Inglourious Basterds > Pulp Fiction > The Hateful Eight > Kill Bill > Jackie Brown > Four Rooms > Django Unchained > Death Proof

Pulp Fiction > Inglorious Basterds > Reservoir Dogs > Kill Bill > Jackie Brown > Kill Bill Vol. 2 > The Hateful 8 > Django Unchained > Death Proof

TFW film dorks are ranking Tarantino movies for the 50th time on the forum.

Nah, I'm sure we're in the hundreds by now.

I feel like we haven't rated Lars Von Trier enough.

**** Lars von Trier.

Nah he's a ***** director.

lol

sure peeps/.

They're called comedies, not lol movies.

Von Trier can run circles around you faggots. Although I will admit that Kirsten Dunst movie was hot shit.

Nah, he's gotten kinda fat.

Sure sure he should shed some pounds but anyone responsible for getting Willem Dafoe's cock onscreen should be lauded.

Just watched this for the first time in years and **** me what an absolute masterpiece.

Completely forgotten how beautiful this thing is.

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The flying swordsman style martial arts movies can be pretty dull tbh. Hero was ****ing nice though.

After Matrix I hate every movie that looks like Matrix.

Well that's good then because no other films look like Matrix.

you plebieans don't know culture

http://sdccblog.com/wp-content/uploa...uiet-place.jpg

Dear lord I loved this

Who knew Jim from The Office would direct one of the finest horror films of the decade

The world-building, atmosphere, and sound design of this film are all impeccable

The acting is top-notch. Emily Blunt gives the performance of her life. Krasinski is also amazing especially whenever **** starts to hit the fan and he goes into Dad-protection-mode. The kid actors do a great job.

The scares are excellent outside of 1 or 2 cheesy jumps. The tension is built masterfully and I was on the edge of my seat for a good 30-40 minutes straight during the peak of the action.

Seriously go see this people, it deserves to be a huge hit and it's really an extraordinary experience. 9.5/10, only docking the half point for the aforementioned cheap jump scares and a couple questionable character decisions/minor plot holes.

^My brother saw that last night and was just saying this morning how fantastically made the movie is. Super stoked to hear that John Krasinski hit it out of the ball park. He deserves it.

I last watched BLUE STREAK (1999) on VHS :)

After two decades of hearing how amazing Fargo was, I was finally disappointed by it tonight. No where near as complex as I expected it to be after all that praise.

*flabbergasts*

No. Pinnacle of film Fargo be.

Let me come back to this when I'm sober but goddamn. No.

So I'm not alone!
I only got around to watching the movie after I finished the `1st season of the (amazing) tv series... and while it wasn't a bad or boring movie, I was seriously underwhelmed.

I really need to see Fargo again. I'm not a huge fan of those Coen brothers movies, but I think I really liked it. I remember it as a quite funny movie.

The few other Coen movies I really enjoy:

- Burn After Reading
- No Country for Old Men
- Intolerable Cruelty
- A Serious Man

I'm a huge Coen fan! But Fargo .. well, I assume it was because of just how well the tv show was made - it set the bar really high. Had I seen the movie before the tv show, I'd probably rate it higher, but...well, as it is, it's one of the weakest imo Coen movies.
A Serious Man is by far my favorite of them all, don't really know why, it just speaks to me.

Fargo's classic my dude. It doesn't beat out No Country for their best film, but it's worthy of top 5 of their films.

You like really complex movies? I’m not sure where I max out in terms of complicated plots, if that’s what you mean. What movies do you really like?

Also, did you find the financial troubles of Macy’s character fascinating at least? That’s what I liked best- how he got himself so ****ed up. I really liked when he was trying to arrange that business deal with his father-in-law but really wasn’t bringing anything to the table.

The kidnapping and all that was entertaining too but the best stuff was what I described above. It sort of reminded me of Glengarry Glen Ross but not as exciting to me.

I'll just watch it and do a fleshed out review. It's a great film for repeated viewings imo, it has so much to offer. I could watch it at any time tbh, one of my all time faves. I'm still picking up new things about it after at least 20 viewings.

Anyway, how about some Coen bros rankings?

A Serious Man>Fargo>No Country For Old Men>Burn After Reading>Raising Arizona>O Brother Where Art Thou?>Barton Fink>Miller's Crossing>The Big Lebowski>True Grit>The Hudsucker Proxy>Inside Llewyn Davis>Blood Simple>The Man Who Wasn't There


The ones that I haven't listed are ones that I haven't seen. I'm sure I'll eventually watch all of their films but if I'm missing out on any, let me know.