The Movie Forums Top 100 of All-Time Refresh: Countdown

Big fan of Brazil. It just missed my list, and again, if I had been leaning more into the objective sector of my brain at the time, it would have most certainly been there. I easily could have created an entirely different list of 25 than what I ended up sending in, and it probably would have had an overall stronger list of films, and most certainly would have had less MoFos raising an eyebrow at my choices, which my current list is sure to provoke.

Brazil is thought provoking, funny, awe inspiring, chilling, disarming, and downright terrifying. My wife was haunted by the final act for days after seeing this for the first time, and these days, I have trouble getting her to revisit this classic dystopian nightmare.



Side note: Great work on the presentation, which is totally classic MoFo, fitting right in with the site. Yesterday I was thinking "Hmmm, Holden had such a cool style in his countdown, and I will kind of miss it in the Top 100 Refresh." Well, it looks like we will be getting some of Holden's work, as well, as he presents his list as each title is revealed. Bonus!

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Oh shnizzle pop. Suspiria.

Looking at the old list, it's interesting to see that these 2(3) choices weren't there, even though they aren't new films.

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*harumph...*

Yeah, we need to get rid of all those Corrie folks. They're invading this site.

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Corrie folks ?

I have Bergman on my list but not The Seventh Seal. Really hope my one makes it.
Seen both Suspiria and Brazil. I really like Suspiria and especially after seeing it in a theatre with Goblin doing the score live! Brazil is good but I'm not a huge fan so was never in consideration for my list.


Will echo everyone else. Presentation is absolutely filthy!

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The Corrierino forum that went belly up a couple of months ago. About a dozen of us landed here and a few others to Match Cut. The rest, scattered like a fart in the wind.

Am I understanding ths right? Suspiria. was only on 3 lists but got 70 points?!

I’m not the biggest fan of 100 or 99. Seventh Seal is hella good though.

Plus, you know, "Seal" has more than one meaning! I call bullsh*t!

Well played.

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Just for the record, my post was a joke as I'm one of the Corrie users.

The Corrierino was a movie forum that a handful of us used for a few years. After it shut down in mid-October though, many of us migrated here.

EDIT: Yeah, what Dumbear said.

A think a lot of great, older foreign language films won’t be on the list such as The Bicycle Thieves

The Seventh Seal is a very good film... Max Von Sydow.. an amazing actor!

Yup. One person had it 2nd, and two had it 3rd.

Good example of that thing I mentioned awhile back, about how this format disproportionately rewards slightly more polarizing classics, since it's common for even the top film to be on just a minority of ballots at all, anyway.

Re: presentation.

Thanks guys. Yeah, the nice thing about such a broad list, commemorating two different milestones (20th year for the site, 10th year since the last list), is that it was obvious that it should be clean, simple, and put the film's artwork front and center. TUS deserves credit, too, for giving me feedback and helping me iterate on it.

I obviously have a structural advantage in that I can mess with the underlying code to style the whole thing so it doesn't even look like a post at all. That's the thing that we can carry over, potentially, into future lists: giving Curators the ability to flag a post as a countdown entry so we can do things differently with it. Very open to helping with that for future lists.

Here's my hint for what #98 will be:

Kevin James, Shopping Center, Security Guard

Great presentation, @Yoda. It gives some great info besides just the title. I appreciate the stats in the far corners of the graphic. AND I like that your posts are slightly wider than all of our posts on my screen, so that we can all easily find them among the many stray comments in this never-ending thread.

Yeah, since it doesn't matter that I'm the one posting it, I figure, why not ditch the avatar and all the extra bits?

I particularly like being able to skim through the thread for list entries, which can be very hard under the usual inside-a-normal-post format. This way you can find things a lot easier. The fact that they're flagged means I could theoretically "pull" them all out programmatically, too. Lotta benefits.

I agree with you.. I love foreign language films (non-English) and I bet there wont be many..

Seventh Dugong probably the entry-est for bergman filmography and while an almost it still not make it. I wonder if it because so many variability of choices from a great director then the votes become disperse.
There still wild strawberries and persona to look at, but i wont expect some surprises beyond the those two.

And i dont pick any of him this occasion.