Ultimate MovieJustice | Winner

[DJHazey]

334 | 14 Points




@funkyg (7th Movie)

Footloose | 1984 | USA

A city teenager moves to a small town where rock music and dancing have been banned, and his rebellious spirit shakes up the populace.

Drama, Music, Romance | PG | 1hr 47min

Herbert Ross | Kevin Bacon, Lori Singer, John Lithgow

6.6 IMDb | 42 Metascore | Nominated for 2 Oscars

$80 million | $8 million

American Fork, Utah

More Like This | Flashdance, Dirty Dancing, Saturday Night Fever



@thommyh (5th Movie)

Happy Death Day | 2017 | USA

A college student must relive the day of her murder over and over again, in a loop that will end only when she discovers her killer's identity.

Horror, Mystery, Thriller | PG-13 | 1hr 36min

Christopher Landon | Jessica Rothe, Israel Broussard, Ruby Modine

6.6 IMDb | 58 Metascore

$125 million | $4.8 million

New Orleans

More Like This | Truth or Dare, Escape Room, The Babysitter



@Hazey's Mom (5th Movie) - This was a welcomed surprise when we all watched it for the first time on a whim one New Years Eve (we always rent like 4 movies for the evening) - this had my Mom and I in tears laughing. I guess I shouldn't be so surprised considering the cast: Kevin Hart, The Rock Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Nebula <3 Karen Gillan, and even Nick Jonas too. I mean, talk about being stacked to the brim with talent! I was never fussed about the original (I don't even remember it) so I was like "okay whatever, we can watch this" but we all agree it was an instant classic and has seen it twice since. The hilarity still holds up! The particular scene of amazingness is Karen Gillan (a shy girl in 'real life' but in a confident babe's body being coached by the popular girl in Jack Black's body on how to attract guys aka the bad guys to distract them and she has no clue = rofl)

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle | 2017 | USA

Four teenagers are sucked into a magical video game, and the only way they can escape is to work together to finish the game.

Action, Adventure, Comedy | PG-13 | 1hr 59min

Jake Kasdan | Dwayne Johnson, Karen Gillan, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, Nick Jonas

6.9 IMDb | 58 Metascore

$962 million | $90 million

Honolulu, Hawaii

More Like This | Central Intelligence, Hobbs & Shaw, Jumanji



@Verandi (5th Movie)

Keeping Mum | 2005 | UK

A pastor preoccupied with writing the perfect sermon fails to realize that his wife is having an affair, and his children are up to no good.

Comedy, Crime | R | 1hr 39min

Niall Johnson | Rowan Atkinson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith

6.8 IMDb | 53 Metascore

$18 million | $169,000

Pickering, England

More Like This | Maigret in Montmarte, Johnny English, My Old Lady



@WhenTheSunGoesDown (7th Movie)

Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life | 2003 | USA

Adventurer Lara Croft goes on a quest to save the mythical Pandora's Box, before an evil scientist finds it, and recruits a former Marine turned mercenary to assist her.

Action, Adventure, Fantasy | PG-13 | 1hr 57min

Jan de Bont | Angelina Jolie, Gerard Butler, Chris Barrie

5.6 IMDb | 43 Metascore

$160 million | $95 million

Amboseli National Park, Kenya

More Like This | Other Tomb Raider Films, Salt, Wanted



@Phonetics Girl (12th Movie)

Magic | 1978 | USA

A failed magician finds sudden stardom as a ventriloquist when he comes across a foul-mouthed dummy named Fats. But as the pressures of stardom mount, something strange begins to happen as the dummy takes control of his human.

Drama, Horror | R | 1hr 47min

Richard Attenborough | Anthony Hopkins, Ann-Margaret, Burgess Meredith

6.8 IMDb | 49 Metascore

$7 million (est. budget)

Los Angeles

More Like This | Audrey Rose, Young Winston, Oh! What a Lovely War​

 

[4Roses]

28 Days Later gave us this melodramatic bop and Cillian looking like a scruffy mess

 

[torontodj]

@Hudweiser having taste again. I love Adventures in Babysitting.

"Babysitting Blues" is such a bop. I randomly just start singing it.

And "Don't f--k with the babysitter!" is endlessly quotable. Elisabeth Shue is an icon. And Penelope Ann Miller (Brenda) is the ultimate scene-stealer.

 

[Phonetics Girl]

Happy Death Day and Jumanji were entertaining. (I'll never forget the way the Robin Williams original FRIGHTENED me, though. Shouldn't have watched it as a pre-schooler, I guess dd). Speaking of frightening, that Fats in Magic is the creepiest fkn doll I've ever seen. Annabelle found rotted at the back of the closet!

 

[4Roses]

Cradle of Life holds a special place in my childhood as a [REDACTED]...

Spoiler

 

[MollieSwift21]

I looooved Brooklyn. Saoirse pops up a couple of times on my list, she has made such brilliant choices in her career so far.

Our movie taste is very similar it seems!

 

[Ana Raquel]

A Silent Voice!!!! Great movie. The manga is also fantastic.

 

[Hudvar]

@Hudweiser having taste again. I love Adventures in Babysitting.

"Babysitting Blues" is such a bop. I randomly just start singing it.

And "Don't f--k with the babysitter!" is endlessly quotable. Elisabeth Shue is an icon. And Penelope Ann Miller (Brenda) is the ultimate scene-stealer.

When she tries to buy the hot dog with the check!

 

[P'NutButter]

This year at times truly felt like 28 Days Later. I think it'll be even creepier to watch now.

 

[torontodj]

When she tries to buy the hot dog with the check!

"It's a perfectly good check!"

 

[Remorque]

I remember watching Adventures in Babysitting religiously for a few months when I was young during the holidays. Wonderful teen movie!

And when at uni we went to watch 28 Days Later in the cinema not knowing a single thing about the movie, so those first fifteen minutes were... something. Poor the girls who hated horror and had to endure that. I was living!

 

[DJHazey]

334 | 14 Points




@DJHazey (8th Movie) - I mentioned during the Dodgeball writeup how I loved me some Ben Stiller comedies and I'd have to say this is the gold standard. My mind will always go to There's Something About Mary too, as both are usually listed 1-2 by any comedy fans, since they define this era in the genre. I've probably seen it oh I don't know 25 to 30 times now in my life, or at least good chunks of it over and over. I could quote so many scenes but you (hopefully) all know them anyway. I will say that the scene when Stiller and De Niro are sitting at the red light, both knowing that they want to be the first back to the house to either expose or cover up the Jinxy Cat Scandal, and they're pretending to street race. Me and my Dad always do that now whenever we happen to see each other around town in our cars. It's just a classic in every way possible.

Meet the Parents | 2000 | USA

Male nurse Greg Focker meets his girlfriend's parents before proposing, but her suspicious father is every date's worst nightmare.

Comedy, Romance | PG-13 | 1hr 48min

Jay Roach | Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro, Teri Polo

7.0 IMDb | 73 Metascore | Nominated for 1 Oscar

$330 million | $55 million

Port Washington, New York

More Like This | There's Something About Mary, Bruce Almighty, Liar Liar



@Lost In Japan. (5th Movie)

Other People | 2016 | USA

A struggling comedy writer, fresh off a breakup and in the midst of the worst year of his life, returns to Sacramento to care for his dying mother.

Comedy, Drama | NR | 1hr 37min

Chris Kelly | Jesse Plemons, Molly Shannon, Bradley Whitford

6.8 IMDb | 67 Metascore

$91,000

More Like This | Paddleton, The Land of Steady Habits, Private Life



@Ana Raquel (8th Movie)

Party Monster: The Shockumentary | 1998 | USA

Documentary film exploring the rise of Club Kid legend Michael Alig and his fall in 1996 when he murdered his drug dealer/roommate Angel Melendez.

Documentary, Biography | NR | 57min

Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato | Michael Alig, Gitsie, James St. James

7.3 IMDb

New York City

More Like This | Glory Daze: The Life and Times of Michael Alig, Limelight, Scumbag



@pop3blow2 (10th Movie)

Pinocchio | 1940 | USA

A living puppet, with the help of a cricket as his conscience, must prove himself worthy to become a real boy.

Animation, Comedy, Family | G | 1hr 28min

Norman Ferguson, T. Hee | Dickie Jones, Christian Rub, Mel Blanc

7.4 IMDb | 99 Metascore | Won 2 Oscars

$121 million | $2.6 million

Burbank, California

More Like This | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Dumbo, Bambi



@Milotic (9th Movie)

Resident Evil: Apocalypse | 2004 | Germany

Alice wakes up in the Raccoon City hospital after the area has been overrun by zombies, and must now make it out of the city before a nuclear bomb is dropped.

Action, Horror, Sci-Fi | R | 1hr 34min

Alexander Witt | Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Eric Mabius

6.2 IMDb | 35 Metascore

$129 million | $45 million

Toronto

More Like This | Other Resident Evil Films, Underworld: Evolution



@Phonetics Mum (14th Movie)

Sabrina | 1995 | Germany

An ugly duckling having undergone a remarkable change, still harbors feelings for her crush: a carefree playboy, but not before his business-focused brother has something to say about it.

Comedy, Drama, Romance | PG | 2hr 7min

Sydney Pollack | Harrison Ford, Julie Ormond, Greg Kinnear

6.3 IMDb | 56 Metascore | Nominated for 2 Oscars

$53 million | $58 million

New York City

More Like This | Regarding Henry, Working Girl, Six Days Seven Nights​

 

[VicePresidentJocasta]

Other People is such a beautiful, underrated gem. Pleasant surprise seeing that pop up.

 

[pop3blow2]

Loved seeing Happy Death Day, here! I watch a YouTube video essayist (LadyKnightTheBrave), and I will watch anything I see that they make an essay about. Of course, I want to watch said topic movie before watching their essays. As such, The Happy Death Day movies weren't really on my radar, but I moved them up my queue so I could get caught up on their channel! After watching them & her essay... I was hooked.

Arguments can be made for what the someone thinks the greatest Disney film is of all-time. I tend to divide them into eras. For the 'classic Walt-era', nothing comes close to Pinocchio in my mind (maybe Fanstasia, but that movie is a different animal)

There are parts of Pinocchio that are just art. The backgrounds, the camera angles, the character design, Just wow. Snow White was groundbreaking, but when you watch Pinocchio right after it, it's almost hard to believe the artistic leaps the company made in the art form of animation in such a short time. Blows my mind, to this day.

 

[VitaminBee]

I love Meet The Parents so much. It was so close to getting on my list but I went with Duplex instead. I still need to watch Other People though. It’s by Chris Kelly who also did The Other Two, which I love and I’ve been told it’s amazing.

 

[DJHazey]

334 | 14 Points




@Music Is Death (8th Movie)

Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island | 1998 | USA

The Mystery Gang reunite and visit Moonscar Island, a remote island with a dark secret. Daphne wants more than just a villain in a costume, and they get more than they ever expected.

Animation, Adventure, Comedy | TV-G | 1hr 17min

Jim Stenstrum | Scott Innes, Billy West, Mary Kay Bergman

7.8 IMDb

More Like This | Other Scooby-Doo Films



@sorabel (9th Movie)

Terra em Transe/Entranced Earth | 1967 | Brazil

In the fictional Latin American country Eldorado, a poet tries to effect political change by influencing powerful men.

Drama | NR | 1hr 51min

Glauber Rocha | Jardel Filho, Paulo Autran, Jose Lewgoy

7.5 IMDb

Rio de Janeiro

More Like This | Black God, White Devil, Antonio das Mortes, Barravento



@Hybridcookie (7th Movie)

The Greatest Showman | 2017 | USA

Celebrates the birth of show business and tells of a visionary who rose from nothing to create a spectacle that became a worldwide sensation.

Biography, Drama, Musical | PG | 1hr 45min

Michael Gracey | Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams, Zac Efron

7.6 IMDb | 48 Metascore | Nominated for 1 Oscar

$435 million | $84 million

New York City

More Like This | Les Miserables, Black Panther, Mamma Mia!



@Pink Frost (9th Movie)

The Holy Mountain | 1973 | Mexico

In a corrupt, greed-fueled world, a powerful alchemist leads a messianic character and seven materialistic figures to the Holy Mountain, where they hope to achieve enlightenment.

Adventure, Drama, Fantasy | R | 1hr 54min

Alejandro Jodorowsky | Alejandro Jodorowsky, Horacio Salinas, Zamira Saunders

7.9 IMDb

$104,000 | $750,000

Mexico

More Like This | El Topo, Santa Sangre, The Dance of Reality



@Sprocky's Boy (8th Movie)

Twilight | 2008 | USA

When Bella Swan moves to a small town in the Pacific Northwest, she falls in love with Edward Cullen, a mysterious classmate who reveals himself to be a 108-year-old vampire.

Drama, Fantasy, Romance | PG-13 | 2hr 2min

Catherine Hardwicke | Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Billy Burke

5.2 IMDb | 56 Metascore

$408 million | $37 million

St. Helens, Oregon

More Like This | Fifty Shades of Grey, Snow White and the Huntsmen, Other Films from the Twilight Saga



@silkandskin (9th Movie)

Weekend | 2011 | UK

After a drunken house party with his straight mates, Russell heads out to a gay club. Just before closing time he picks up Glen but what's expected to be just a one-night stand becomes something else, something special.

Drama, Romance | NR | 1hr 37min

Andrew Haigh | Tom Cullen, Chris New, Jonathan Race

7.6 IMDb | 81 Metascore

$1.1 million | GBP120,000

Nottingham, England

More Like This | Freier Fall, Shelter, God's Own Country



332 | 14 Points




7 | @Lost In Japan. (6th Movie) @soratami (4th Movie)

Call Me By Your Name | 2017 | Italy

In 1980s Italy, romance blossoms between a seventeen-year-old student and the older man hired as his father's research assistant.

Drama, Romance | R | 2hr 12min

Luca Guadagnino | Armie Hammer, Timothee Chalamat, Michael Stuhlbarg

7.9 IMDb | 93 Metascore | Won 1 Oscar

$41 million | EUR4,000,000

Cremona, Italy

More Like This | Lady Bird, La La Land, Moonlight



9 | @Hazey's Mom (6th Movie)
5 | @DJHazey (9th Movie) - Ahh, yes boy do we need to a re-watch because all the nitty-gritty details of this and the great sequel as well has left me but this the definition of 'good fun' in a movie. It always keeps you guessing, on the edge of your seat, and the pace of it was fluid. I was a history major in college so that helps too. There's a lot of fun interplay between the main cast too. Basically it's the ultimate treasure hunt, but with historical landmark edge to it and Nicolas Cage plays a historical expert with a ton of charm and wit. It saddens me to see such a low Metascore but I'm not surprised, but I wouldn't let it detract you from giving it a shot some weekend if you trust in my taste! Especially @Sprockrooster, if you and your boyfriend haven't seen this yet, do it yesterday!

National Treasure | 2004 | USA

A historian races to find the legendary Templar Treasure before a team of mercenaries.

John Turteltaub | Nicolas Cage, Diane Kruger, Justin Bartha

6.9 IMDb | 39 Metascore

$347 million | $100 million

Burbank, California

More Like This | Gone in 60 Seconds, Face/Off, Con Air
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[Milotic]

I think it’s time for my annual marathon of the Resident Evil films. They’re so bad but I love them so much.

Except the Final Chapter. That movie can rot.

 

[Lost In Japan.]

Other People is such a beautiful, underrated gem. Pleasant surprise seeing that pop up.

So happy to see it getting some love in the thread even if it didn't get any other votes! The main storyline with the mother absolutely wrecks me every time (Drops of Jupiter has never been the same since) but it's also a great movie about the gay experience.

Chris Kelly, who directed it, is also responsible for my favourite new TV show of recent years (The Other Two).

Speaking of gay af movies, I know it's not looked upon as fondly now as it was on release but Call Me By Your Name is just so beautiful - both the locations and the actual film dd. Timothée is so talented and there are so many little moments in there that feel so honest and real, like the scene where Elio dances with his friends just close enough for Oliver to notice him.


I love how many of you and your mom/dad or your parents' movies match up, Hazey!

 

[WowWowWowWow]

Chris Kelly, who directed it, is also responsible for my favourite new TV show of recent years (The Other Two).

With this choice, I am GAGGING for you!

 

[silkandskin]

Ironic that Weekend and...that other film are right after each other!