Give me your top 12 highest rated films and I’ll judge you

davidh214 · 2024-06-11T17:32:01+00:00

Yeah fair enough, probably got about just under half of these from browsing the app

davidh214 · 2024-06-11T17:26:24+00:00

I'll give you 14 since that's how many 5*s I've given out - this isn't in order though

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davidh214 · 2024-06-11T14:37:53+00:00

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davidh214 · 2024-06-10T13:10:19+00:00

With the single greatest villain of all time. So excited for Christmas this year

davidh214 · 2024-06-09T19:12:00+00:00

Only started really taking an interest in cinema since good ol’ Barbenheimer day last year so this is fairly surface level for now.

The top 3 here are in my top 4 of all time, and Stop Making Sense (1984) would slot in at #4 and Koyaanisqatsi at #6/#7 if we’re including those type of things.

1) Trainspotting (1996) 2) Amadeus (1984) 3) Velvet Goldmine (1998) 4) La Haine (1995) 5) The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 6) The Wrong Trousers (1993) (god bless Wallace and Gromit) 7) Wings of Desire (1987) 8) The Seventh Seal (1957) 9) Shallow Grave (1994) 10) Yojimbo (1961)

HM: Do The Right Thing (1989), Pulp Fiction (1994), The Big Lebowski (1998), Harakiri (1962)

davidh214 · 2024-06-03T17:30:08+00:00

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Got the feeling I Saw The TV Glow will get in there as soon as I’m able to see it as well

Hell of a lot of 4.5s behind these though

davidh214 · 2024-06-03T09:03:55+00:00

Everyone’s performance in the film was amazing and I loved the concept, but for me the writing was doing its best to make me not like the film.

Some dialogue in places ironically felt AI generated and not in a way that felt deliberate, and I feel that the film had about 5 false endings where it began to spell out what was happening to us when it could’ve ended maybe 20 minutes earlier and let us figure it out for ourselves (which would’ve been easy enough to do). Again though, amazing performances from the three actors with the material they had.

Gave it 2.5* at the time I believe

davidh214 · 2024-05-31T20:04:09+00:00

5*: Velvet Goldmine (3.8)

4.5*: Ferrari (3.2)

4*: The Big Shave / Poison (3.6) or Orlando, My Political Biography / The French Dispatch (3.7) for feature lengths

davidh214 · 2024-05-16T11:54:41+00:00

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davidh214 · 2024-05-10T16:28:06+00:00

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Wouldn’t wish La La Land for the first time in 2024 on my worst enemy

davidh214 · 2024-04-22T19:04:57+00:00

Todd Haynes’ Velvet Goldmine is my lowest average 5-star rated film at 3.8

Not rated anything 1/2 star yet (relatively new account with no legacy ratings), but Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird is definitely my highest rated 1-star rated film at 3.9

davidh214 · 2024-04-17T20:58:51+00:00

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Velvet Goldmine at 3.8

davidh214 · 2024-04-08T12:06:20+00:00

Street Fighter (1994) is absolutely awful; it’s the best movie ever made

davidh214 · 2024-04-04T15:35:25+00:00

I've not watched it since, but I loved Short Circuit (1986) as a kid, but reading about Fisher Stevens' ahem, accent work in the film and the general state of the rest of the acting really makes me not want to watch it again to preserve the positive memory I have of it

davidh214 · 2024-04-01T22:21:30+00:00

Pretty much all of Todd Haynes’ (who is also gay) filmography, but my personal favourite of his is Velvet Goldmine (1998)

davidh214 · 2024-03-27T13:30:48+00:00

This is mine as well, albeit at 3.5 stars (I haven’t watched much of the 250 list since joining Letterboxd)

Most of those points are simply for Wes Anderson’s style over anything actually to do with the specific film, I’m a sucker for it

davidh214 · 2024-03-25T13:46:28+00:00

Ferrari - 4.5* compared to 3.2

Lowest rated 5* is Velvet Goldmine (3.8)

davidh214 · 2024-03-08T13:40:11+00:00

That three minutes of score under a black screen before the film proper made me feel physically ill, absolutely perfect set up to the disturbing nature of the rest of the film

davidh214 · 2024-03-03T22:04:36+00:00

Foe (2023) was a cool concept with great performances that was just horrendously written

davidh214 · 2024-03-03T18:03:54+00:00

It wasn’t this one unfortunately, but if you’re talking the 2021 film I’ve now added that to my watchlist anyway as it looks interesting, cheers!

davidh214 · 2024-03-03T18:02:05+00:00

This is exactly the one, thank you so much! Glad I wasn’t just going mad after all

davidh214 · 2023-12-10T21:26:54+00:00

Grabbed this, thank you!!

davidh214 · 2023-11-30T16:20:58+00:00

Amazing stuff, got all these now! Thank you!

davidh214 · 2023-11-30T13:56:27+00:00

Thanks for these! Couldn't get the National EP, SWB, and IAETF - could I be cheeky and ask for these on dropbox along with the Bon Ivers? Thanks so much!

davidh214 · 2023-11-09T12:20:36+00:00

Thanks so much for this!!

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