Lyndon in 2025

[Lord_Lyndon]

Hi guys. I hope you are doing well. This is my first post this year. I haven't seen anything in the last couple of weeks of the last year. I started this year very slowly as well, seeing only 6 films in January.

1. Casino (1995; Martin Scorsese) 10/10
Definitely one of my 3 favourite Scorsese films. I keep returning to this one, mostly because it is so entertaining. Just great cinematography, editing, excellent use of voice-overs, great performances. I really love James Woods in this, he just might be my favourite of the cast.

2. Holes (2003; Andrew Davis) 7/10
Pretty good film which offers fairly imaginative and original plot/scenario. Good performance from young Shia LaBeouf.

3. 48 Hrs. (1982; Walter Hill) 7/10
A cop (Nick Nolte) and a criminal (Eddie Murphy) team up to track down a cop killer. This was good, with mostly good screenplay/dialogues, very good direction from Walter Hill (he loves his neon lights), and really great performances from Nolte/Murphy duo.

4. The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972; John Huston) 7/10
Actually a pretty good revisionist Western with a very good performance from Paul Newman.

5. Porco Rosso (1992; Hayao Miyazaki) 8.5/10
This was my 3rd time seeing this. It is an excellent animated film from legendary Hayao which brilliantly combines adventure, drama, romance, action, comedy. And those flying sequences were just beautiful.

6. The Quick and the Dead (1995; Sam Raimi) 8/10
Raimi is a great director. I loved all of his films I've seen, and this underrated Western is no exception. His direction was awesome (great editing and great use of close-ups). As far as the performances are concerned, the legendary Gene Hackman dominates the film. Pretty much as expected, you might say.

Any thoughts, guys?

[Gendo]

Your review of Quick and the Dead sounds like we share the exact same opinion! I’ve seen Casino and Holes but only once. I can’t quite remember if I saw Porco Rosso; I think I did way back in college. I unfortunately have only seen a few Miyazaki films so far.

[Raxivace]

1. Casino (1995; Martin Scorsese) 10/10
Definitely one of my 3 favourite Scorsese films. I keep returning to this one, mostly because it is so entertaining. Just great cinematography, editing, excellent use of voice-overs, great performances. I really love James Woods in this, he just might be my favourite of the cast.

Yeah I find this one underrated myself. Great fun.

2. Holes (2003; Andrew Davis) 7/10
Pretty good film which offers fairly imaginative and original plot/scenario. Good performance from young Shia LaBeouf.

Loved both the original novel and this film as a kid. Even read the sequel novel, Small Steps! Not quite sure how they hold up but I have fond memories of them.

5. Porco Rosso (1992; Hayao Miyazaki) 8.5/10
This was my 3rd time seeing this. It is an excellent animated film from legendary Hayao which brilliantly combines adventure, drama, romance, action, comedy. And those flying sequences were just beautiful.

Yeah I largely agree with this I think. I read the original manga this is based on a few months ago and it was shockingly different- very short and even had some 4th wall breaking bits. Film was huge improvement.

6. The Quick and the Dead (1995; Sam Raimi) 8/10
Raimi is a great director. I loved all of his films I've seen, and this underrated Western is no exception. His direction was awesome (great editing and great use of close-ups). As far as the performances are concerned, the legendary Gene Hackman dominates the film. Pretty much as expected, you might say.

Wonderful film which I gave an even higher rating than you did.

[Lord_Lyndon]

Hi guys! I was having some fun today and I made my top 30 of all time. What is interesting about this list is that I ranked them from my favourite to my least favourite. Definitely check out the list guys and I'm looking forward to your thoughts if you have some!

1. Apocalypse Now (1979; Francis Ford Coppola)
2. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966; Sergio Leone)
3. Barry Lyndon (1975; Stanley Kubrick)
4. Days of Heaven (1978; Terrence Malick)
5. Fallen Angels (1995; Wong Kar-wai)
6. Ran (1985; Akira Kurosawa)
7. Taxi Driver (1976; Martin Scorsese)
8. Casino (1995; Martin Scorsese)
9. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998; Terry Gilliam)
10. The Revenant (2015; Alejandro González Iñárritu)
11. Seven Samurai (1954; Akira Kurosawa)
12. Mirror/Zerkalo (1975; Andrei Tarkovsky)
13. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972; Werner Herzog)
14. The Turin Horse (2011; Béla Tarr)
15. The Passenger (1975; Michelangelo Antonioni)
16. Memories of Murder (2003; Bong Joon-ho)
17. Touch of Evil (1958; Orson Welles)
18. Shadow of a Doubt (1943; Alfred Hitchcock)
19. The Seventh Seal (1957; Ingmar Bergman)
20. Lady Vengeance (2005; Park Chan-wook)
21. Yi Yi (2000; Edward Yang)
22. Brazil (1985; Terry Gilliam)
23. Breathless (1960; Jean-Luc Godard)
24. Dog Day Afternoon (1975; Sidney Lumet)
25. Werckmeister Harmonies (2000; Béla Tarr)
26. 3-Iron (2004; Kim Ki-duk)
27. Blade Runner (1982; Ridley Scott)
28. Chungking Express (1994; Wong Kar-wai)
29. The Shining (1980; Stanley Kubrick)
30. Ugetsu (1953; Kenji Mizoguchi)

[Gendo]

I've only seen 10 of those; largely because I just haven't seen enough foreign films. Barry Lyndon and Brazil are in my collection but not yet seen, which means I'll almost certainly watch them this year.

Doug Walker (AKA The Nostalgia Critic) just released a video of his top 20 films; Fear and Loathing was in there, and Brazil was number 1.

[Raxivace]

Hi guys! I was having some fun today and I made my top 30 of all time. What is interesting about this list is that I ranked them from my favourite to my least favourite. Definitely check out the list guys and I'm looking forward to your thoughts if you have some!

1. Apocalypse Now (1979; Francis Ford Coppola)
2. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966; Sergio Leone)
3. Barry Lyndon (1975; Stanley Kubrick)
4. Days of Heaven (1978; Terrence Malick)
5. Fallen Angels (1995; Wong Kar-wai)
6. Ran (1985; Akira Kurosawa)
7. Taxi Driver (1976; Martin Scorsese)
8. Casino (1995; Martin Scorsese)
9. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998; Terry Gilliam)
10. The Revenant (2015; Alejandro González Iñárritu)
11. Seven Samurai (1954; Akira Kurosawa)
12. Mirror/Zerkalo (1975; Andrei Tarkovsky)
13. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972; Werner Herzog)
14. The Turin Horse (2011; Béla Tarr)
15. The Passenger (1975; Michelangelo Antonioni)
16. Memories of Murder (2003; Bong Joon-ho)
17. Touch of Evil (1958; Orson Welles)
18. Shadow of a Doubt (1943; Alfred Hitchcock)
19. The Seventh Seal (1957; Ingmar Bergman)
20. Lady Vengeance (2005; Park Chan-wook)
21. Yi Yi (2000; Edward Yang)
22. Brazil (1985; Terry Gilliam)
23. Breathless (1960; Jean-Luc Godard)
24. Dog Day Afternoon (1975; Sidney Lumet)
25. Werckmeister Harmonies (2000; Béla Tarr)
26. 3-Iron (2004; Kim Ki-duk)
27. Blade Runner (1982; Ridley Scott)
28. Chungking Express (1994; Wong Kar-wai)
29. The Shining (1980; Stanley Kubrick)
30. Ugetsu (1953; Kenji Mizoguchi)

Seen most of these and, and for ones I've not seen I've at least other films from their director (Except Kim Ki-duk and Bela Tarr). Other than Lumet who I don't get the love for, the rest I find to be good.

[Lord_Lyndon]

Thanks guys! I really appreciate your thoughts.
Regarding what Gendo said, I just looked at the list and half of those films are not in English. That is a bit surprising.
Regarding what Rax said, here are my very short thoughts about Lumet. I think he is a director who is remembered as someone who did not necessarily have a strong visual style, but he often worked with really good material/screenplays and with some really good actors. I think why I love Dog Day Afternoon so much is mostly because, honestly, Pacino gives one of my three favourite performances of all time (the other two being De Niro in Taxi Driver and Brando in Last Tango in Paris). Regarding other Lumet films, I really did enjoy Network (1976) and Prince of the City (1981) the most.