The MoFo Top 100 of the 2010s Countdown

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12-20-22

I watched The Raid:

Originally Posted by Miss Vicky

Countdown Rectification #2

The Raid: Redemption (Serbuan maut) (Gareth Evans, 2011)

The action in this movie is absolutely relentless and it features some incredibly well choreographed fights that display some truly impressive skill. If I was a fan of martial arts and martial art films, I might have loved this.

But the reality is that I'm not a fan of such things and that non-stop action quickly began to feel monotonous. This feeling was not helped by the fact that this film has very little else to offer. It has the skeleton of a good story here, but neither that story nor the characters in it felt fleshed out to me really at all and so, as impressive as those fights were, I simply didn't care who won. The end result was that I was rather bored by it all and its 100 minute runtime felt far longer. I don't regret watching it, but I certainly won't be revisiting it nor am I likely to bother with its sequel.

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Thursday Next

I never could get the hang of Thursdays.

12-20-22

Have I seen The Raid? Or have I seen Dredd? I've definitely seen a film in which cops go into a building and there's a drug lord, all the residents are out to kill them (except one who ends up helping them) and someone gets thrown down a stairwell. Which one is that?

Perhaps I'm just imagining that I remember seeing it because my future clone showed me the memory...

I had not seen World of Tomorrow until yesterday, but today I can say I have definitely seen it. I liked the design and the ideas. It has the same strangely successful mixture of humour and existential angst as It's Such A Beautiful Day. What both do so well is to imagine a fate worse than death, in sending up the ways people might try to cheat death which would inevitably be horrific. I would like to see the next two films in the sequence.

Chypmunk

12-20-22

Seen the clues and they seem to fit my faildictions of
98. La La Land
97. Manchester By The Sea

edit: Just watched World Of Tomorrow, being a short it wouldn't have made my ballot but it's a really nice and clever watch that made me smile and I've absolutely no problem with it making the countdown. I'll probably seek out more from Hertzfeldt as the tone is definitely my type of thing.

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Originally Posted by Yoda

terrible, 0/5, not enough puppies.

Last edited by Chypmunk; 12-20-22 at 07:44 AM.

mrblond

Society ennobler, last seen in Medici's Florence

12-20-22

Originally Posted by Kaplan

The Mill and the Cross was my 1-pointer. It's a beautiful, meditative film which takes us into the world of the painting The Procession to Calary from the 1500s, bringing the painting to life and introducing us to several of the figures in the painting. I felt like it deserved a tiny bit of recognition. If interested, the full movie is available on youtube.

Thanks for promoting this film!

When I saw Pieter Bruegel's painting and Rutger Hauer and Charlotte Rampling in the cast I was in a hurry to find this movie.
Several years ago, I had a highly emotional moments in Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna exactly with Bruegel's works... and the film is about one of these paintings ...and in the final scene they've included a shots from the museum space... Wow.

Saw the movie yesterday. An Hour and a half of Bruegel visualizations, a great experience. Highly recommended for art addicts.

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Burning

Registered User

12-20-22

Hello all, I haven't seen any of the films so far (one pointers, Raid and World of Tomorrow). But I heard the last two and actually I am really happy to see a film like World of Tomorrow in the list.

Btw, I want to answer these questions.

Originally Posted by SpelingError

Here are a few questions:

1. What director do you think will be represented the most?

2. What year do you think will appear on this list the most?

3. What film do you think will be at #1? HINT: It's Mall Cop 2

1)I'll go with Villeneuve, if he is not, it will be Nolan I guess.

2)2013-2014

3)I think it will be Mad Max or Parasite

Originally Posted by SpelingError

Here are some more questions:

1) What films do you think will be at #100 and #99?

2) What genre do you think will be represented the most?

3) What foreign country do you think will be represented the most?

1)It's too late to answer

but I'd say some Marvel movie. And actually I was expecting something like Raid in these spots.

2)Action

3)Korea may be

Mr Minio

Subtle Slayer of Normies

12-20-22

The Raid: Redemption struck me as a rather soulless exercise in bone-breaking, neck-twisting martial arts ballyhoo that had nothing of the charm of the fighting films of the yore nor the specks of the style of its sequel.

Ever since the two sequels were released, it's hard for me to look at World of Tomorrow as a separate work. It's good but it feels better in my memory when coupled with its sequels, if not all of Hertzfeldt's output. A sort of "the whole thing is better than the sum of its parts" thing, ya know?

Unsurprisingly bland start to the list.

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rauldc14

Survivor 7 Champion

12-20-22

Originally Posted by SpelingError

Hints:

Okay, so for the next set of hints, you're actually going to have to search this forum to find them. Try to think of a time where I acted narcissistic in the past.

Too much work. You win.

rauldc14

Survivor 7 Champion

12-20-22

97. The Artist

ScarletLion

Professional horse shoe straightener

12-20-22

Originally Posted by SpelingError

Hints:

Okay, so for the next set of hints, you're actually going to have to search this forum to find them. Try to think of a time where I acted narcissistic in the past.

Ok I'm going for:

#98:
'A Dying Man named Steve:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5565600/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_2

#97:
'The Shed' :
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8236366/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Thief

Master of None

12-20-22

Originally Posted by SpelingError

Hints:

Okay, so for the next set of hints, you're actually going to have to search this forum to find them. Try to think of a time where I acted narcissistic in the past.

I can tell you're being narcissistic NOW thinking we're gonna remember a specific time where you said this or that!

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Jackie Daytona

Regular Human Guy

12-20-22

The Raid is like the Citizen Kane of martial arts films. Having said that, if you're not a fan of the genre, you're not going to like it much.

ScarletLion

Professional horse shoe straightener

12-20-22

Originally Posted by Jackie Daytona

The Raid is like the Citizen Kane of martial arts films.

In what way?

Little Ash

he/him

12-20-22

You know what, if the hint is about narcissism, in going to guess that Michael Keaton Birdman movie. Or maybe Spiderman: Homecoming?
(Is that from this decade?)

jiraffejustin

Let the night air cool you off

12-20-22

World of Tomorrow is my #7. It is great on its own, but it also represents a vote for the entire series.

Sedai

A system of cells interlinked

12-20-22

Originally Posted by Little Ash

You know what, if the hint is about narcissism, in going to guess that Michael Keaton Birdman movie. Or maybe Spiderman: Homecoming?
(Is that from this decade?)

This was my first guess when I saw the clue about the clues he had posted.

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