The New York Times 25 Best Movies of the Century

I like the double meaning in dara's last post

1. Boyhood or Wendy and Lucy; Llewyn (prefer No Country) or In Jackson Heights (prefer At Berkeley) after that. Zodiac ahead of all of them.

at least they sort of admit they fucked up their Coens choice

For all of its adherence to the traditional Pixar "journey" plot, Inside Out made me cry way more than any other movie of the century.

For what its worth, I haven't seen:

The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
Summer Hours
In Jackson Heights
l'Enfant
White Material
The Gleaners and I
Mad Max: Fury Road
Wendy and Lucy

And as far as I can recall, I don't think I've even heard of:

A Touch of Sin
Timbuktu
Three Times

Of the former list, some are things I've kept vaguely meaning to see and others are ones I just don't care about. Feel free to correct me on anything that my life is lesser for not having seen from either list, though (as long as it isn't Mad Max).

Your life is poorer for not having seen Summer Hours, In Jackson Heights, and The Gleaners and I.

haven't seen them all, but had to go with The Gleaners and I, which is just so outstanding

3. Million Dollar Baby

Still taking this in.

Isn't AO Scott a notorious Eastwood fanboy?

Can't decide between TWBB, Yi Yi, Spirited Away.

If you're above considering mad max then lol enjoy your supercereal worthiness

I'm not "above" Mad Max, I'm just not interested in it.

If it'll make me appear like less of a stick in the mud, I've picked up the DVD of White Material a couple of times at the library, read the back, and went "nah, looks boring."

I can't describe your taste, I'll say that for ya.

White Material has some eye candy.

A Touch of Sin, Boyhood or Eternal Sunshine are all excellent, but my favourite five movies of the century are all not there. "I'm Not There" is there instead.

Still very much opposed to the weird consensus that mawkish Pixar films are now to be considered great art.

Inside out is steaming garbage. Shakes otm. Yi Yi for the win.

they also got a bizarre selection of "notable filmmakers" to pick

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/09/movies/directors-favorite-movies.html

I'm generally fairly positive about Paul Feig, but that list... Moulin Rouge? Deadpool? Casino Royale? Love Actually?

I'm Not There is a pretty easy choice for me, I haven't seen it since it came out but the others I'd consider voting for are probably worse than I remember (There Will Be Blood & Eternal Sunshine).

Moonlight is officially overrated btw

Pick the two of the 25 I have not seen.

Went with Boyhood; mind you, I've only seen a few of these.

Why the eff is "The 40 Year Old Virgin" on this list?

That's the kind of early 21st century comedy where I look back at it and can say "you know, like five or six of the scenes extraneous to the main plot were brilliant, why couldn't these scenes have BEEN the movie?"

outside of "Spirited Away", which is a masterpiece this list fucking sucks

There Will Be Blood was decent. the level of praise it gets is astounding.

well Mad Max and Eternal Sunshine was cool, havent seen most of these tbh, the ones i have were entirely forgettable

i saw There Will Be Blood twice in the theaters and a couple other times at home, don't think since 2009 though. the ending is amazing - specifically the last shot, the last line, and blaring Brahms before cutting to credits. A movie can get away with a lot of problems in the middle if you've got a great opening and a great ending. Just remembered that the first hour has almost no dialogue.

A movie can get away with a lot of problems in the middle if you've got a great opening and a great ending.

I want to say that about Out 1, but I don't really remember the opening.

Yeah, Adam, a list with popcorn fare like Summer Hours, In Jackson Heights, and The Gleaners and I fucking sucks.

i hated the last 20 minutes of Blood with the fire of a thousand suns. It would not have taken me that long to off that sniveler.

I love music. I hate movies.

*updates mrsnrub.ppt* think i'm gonna use the stick guy with a lightbulb over his head for this one

lol @ combination of "this list fucking sucks" and "havent seen most of these tbh"

and that right there is your internet, folks

PTA's last two films are better >>>> TWBB

A movie can get away with a lot of problems in the middle if you've got a great opening and a great ending.

didn't save melancholia

Looking at the list again I'm mostly just grateful they didn't shoehorn some superhero garbage in.

I like most of the ones I've seen but I don't think I'd put anything but the top two on a list of my favorite films of the century.

Ha, was literally just about to ask where the Marvel movies were.

where is Kung Fu Hustle? that'd be the kind of 'populism' that wdn't make me puke

anyhoo the way this intro is written makes it 100% unclear if Times readers on FB chose part of the list.

There's only one movie on here that if someone told me they hadn't seen it I'd tell them "You really gotta see it", and that's "Spirited Away". There's about 10 others I consider pretty good, and one I didn't like much at all ("I'm Not There"). The rest I haven't seen. Lots of good choices on the 6 directors' lists in the linked article. The list definitely should have had more comedy on it.

If you haven't seen the rest, how do you know you wouldn't have laughed?

Spirited Away. Is bad and pointless and boring. I think Boyhood is the film I like most of these. I left the cinem halfway through Yiyi, I know that's terrible but I didn't care about it. I care a lot more about Museum Hours and Children of Men than I do with anything here.

Wendy and Lucy isn't good. It's so fake.

(xp to Alfred) That Mr Lazarescu one looks like it might have been funny in a weird way, but unless those Clint Eastwood and Claire Denis films are very uncharacteristic, I doubt they are very amusing. I would have liked to see a lot more obvious comedy though - stuff like "Borat", "The Hangover", "Grand Budapest Hotel", "Napoleon Dynamite", "The Trip", "Shaun of the Dead" - as well as comedy-dramas like "The Squid and the Whale", "Happy Go Lucky", "Happy Christmas", "Rachel Getting Married", "Please Give", etc.. - any of which I would put on a list like this.

It's stupid that Mulholland Drive isn't on the List though.

For non-comedies I think should be here: "The Wrestler", "Grizzly Man", and "Tree of Life" come to mind.

35 shots of rum / 35 Rhums is so much better than The White 'Material though #Claire Denis Stan.

Tree of Life not being on there is stupid.

list is missing Synecdoche, New York and Mulholland Drive

let's keep an ongoing list of movies that are missing from this arbitrary list that david brooks tooted out his butt

1. Josie and the Pussycats (2001)

Zoolander

this is where KJB wd sigh heavily and not mention downloads

and where i wd advise you to live in the right city

I saw Mahjong and A Brighter Summer Day on shitty YouTube uploads several years ago, but I care about these things.

I wonder how many other Yang films were made in this century? Oh, none? Is it none? Oh, OK then.

I never said otherwise, but you're probably lightheaded from your most recent Showgirls viewing.

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck alllllllllll liiiiiiiiiiiists

If by lightheaded you mean giddy, exhilarated, reveling in the pleasure that movies can give you if you enjoy either life or movies? Sure. Yeah.

Or cocktails.

Byron couldn't have said it more graciously.

Stuart Byron or Byron Buxton?

https://www.google.com/search?q=screaming+lord+byron&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjaz_rFj4TVAhXD6CYKHTbPCnkQ_AUICigB&biw=1570&bih=838#imgrc=K2TsLxPS6Q08lM:

Screaming Lord Byron

https://media1.giphy.com/media/uiB82DOQjJTbO/200_s.gif

(Yi Yi wasn't made in this century either)