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 Post subject: What are your favourite films you've watched in 2020?
PostPosted: 15 Dec 2020, 12:46 
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With 2020 nearly finshed, and my birthday over a year away, I figured it was time to look back at my diary and see what were my favourite films I have watched in 2020.

Just a couple of rules to adhere to before you make your own selections!

  • Choose 10 films only and rank them in order of preference.
  • Films can be any format, not just Laserdisc. So feel free to include VHD, Betamax, Hi8, cinema screenings, courtroom trial pastel sketches and so on.
  • Films can be from any year, not just 2020.
  • It must be a film you watched for the first time in 2020, not a re-watch.
  • If you're including Sky Riders in your top 10 you may only include it if you watched it on a Sunday afternoon. Watching it at any other time or day of the week is unacceptable and thus your selection will be deemed null and void.

My top 10 films (plus two honourable mentions!) I saw for the first time in 2020, and in order of how excellent they are, 1 being absolutely incredible to 10 being pretty frickkin' whopper but not as whoppers as being absolutely incredible, are as follows (links go to my reviews waffling drivel if you wish to read them, and where applicable):

    Most whopper film of 2020 is this yoke here:

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  1. Cleo from 5 to 7
    :clap: BEST FILM I SAW IN 2020 BY 820 TRILLION MILES :clap:

  2. Dead Tired (aka Grosse Fatigue)
    :arrow: Magnificent on almost every level. Just brilliant, brilliant, BRILLIANT. Watched it on Laserdisc, then bought the Blu Ray that came out in Feb of 2020 (complete with sanitized subtitles. Get the Blu, get the DVD and then mux your own ultimate edition with both subtitle tracks like I have done). ABSOLUTELY MONUMENTAL FILM. WATCH IT.

  3. Napoli… la camorra sfida, la città risponde
    :arrow: Whopper 1970's Italian ULTRAVIOLENCE.

  4. Singin' In The Rain
    :arrow: Caught me off guard. I hate musicals. This one is absolutely brilliant.

  5. Eight Hours of Terror
    :arrow: Never seen Stagecoach. I don't even need to watch it to know that this is better. Great film.

  6. Christmas In August
    :arrow: A wonderful, brilliantly-acted and highly moving film.

  7. Shin Dousei Jidai Hawaiian Breeze
    :arrow: Pure, one-room brilliance.

  8. Dial M for Murderesness
    :arrow: Sponsored by Meryl Streep's Versatility. Smell like Streep for cheap!

  9. The Peanuts Movie
    :arrow: A beautiful, lovingly-made film full of passion and craft. Loved by supermini-headmelters too! A film to treasure. I hope there is a sequel.

  10. Sky Riders
    :arrow: The aerial photography and ultraviolent opening scenes that somehow earned this film a PG rating make this film worth it alone. The rest is epic too. "DO NOT WATCH THIS FILM AT ANY OTHER TIME OR DAY OF THE WEEK THAN A SUNDAY AFTERNOON. PREFERABLY WHILE DOING IRONING. THIS IS THE LAW. LAW? I AM THE LAW!" - Sylvester Stallone c.1995

  11. Revenge
    :arrow: Does exactly what it says on the tin. :thumbup:

  12. The Rocketeer
    :arrow: Until 2020 all I knew about this film was a cardboard cutout lobby standee I saw in a cinema back in 1993. Wish I hadn't waited 27 years to watch it!

Link to the list is here: https://boxd.it/at4L0

What are your favourites? :?:
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PostPosted: 15 Dec 2020, 20:26 
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PostPosted: 16 Dec 2020, 02:20 
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Great choices! Added some to my watchlist, thanks.

I haven't looked it up yet but I assume, or rather I hope, that Highway To Hell is a sequel starring Michael Landon and that tubby bloke with the hat who I think was also in Airwolf?
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PostPosted: 16 Dec 2020, 02:54 
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teddanson wrote:
Great choices! Added some to my watchlist, thanks.

I haven't looked it up yet but I assume, or rather I hope, that Highway To Hell is a sequel starring Michael Landon and that tubby bloke with the hat who I think was also in Airwolf?


Duh, the OST went platinum seven times. Everyone knows this.
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Those were just what I could remember as being first time viewings for me this year. My taste is actually much worse. If I had watched Pioneer Laser Optics '88 Demonstration Disc (1988) [PAS-88-02] for the first time this year, it would be on the list :lol:.
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PostPosted: 03 Jan 2021, 10:14 
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Okay let's see now:

1. She's all that ( 1999 )
2. A guy thing ( 2003 )
3. The Big empty ( 2003 )
4. Bookies ( 2003 )
5. Moonrise Kingdom ( 2012 )
6. Taken ( 2008 )
7. Taken 2 ( 2012 )
8. Bad boys 3 ( 2020 )
9. Sonic The Hedgehog ( 2020 )
10. Heat ( 1995 )
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PostPosted: 03 Jan 2021, 11:33 
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My turn then...

American Werewolf in London, An (1981): 7/10
Annihilation (2018): 7/10
Atlantic City (1980): 7/10
Black Rain (1989): 7/10
Chronicle (2012): 7/10
Four Rooms (1995): 7/10
Joker (2019): 7/10
King of California (2007): 7/10
Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood (2019): 7/10
Raid 2, The (2014): 7/10

Interesting enough, my highest rated movie of 2020 got 7/10 and it was shared by 10 movies, that's why the alphabetical. If I must pick a favourite it would be the Werewolf one...
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PostPosted: 03 Jan 2021, 13:10 
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She's All That is a guilty pleasure. Yer wan Rachel Leigh Cook was great in Josie as well. Is she making films any more?

Have to throw in I Am Sartana Trade Your Guns For A Coffin and Your Name as late entries that didn't make the list too.

2020 was the year I discovered the sheer Majesty of Sartana. That man is so badass he could crush King Kong's head like a paper cup.

Sartana is so badass he doesn't need an alarm clock. He just sleeps on a pile of landmines to gently stir him from his slumber.

Sartana is an absolute unit. Almost, and I do stress almost, as badass as violent tubster Mario Marola in Napoli...la camorra sfida, la città risponde. Christ Almighty that's some film too. :clap:
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No particular order:

Vanguard (2020)
The Mummy (1999)
The Mummy Returns (2001)
Elf (2003)
The Departed (2006)
Sonic The Hedgehog (2020)


I saw Vanguard totally on he fly when I was passing by the movie theater in my local mall a month or so ago to see what was actually showing, and saw that this was on the list. Being a Jackie Chan film, I figured why not?

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Joker
Django unchained (best tarantino imho)
Sicario
Anna karenina (keira knightley)
Midway (Emmerich)

Waiting for two mindblowing events: the Zack Snyders
Justice League cut
and the Blade runner ultimate workprint.
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