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What HAVEN'T you seen?

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1 (0.3%)
Another Round
10 (2.5%)
The Assistant
6 (1.5%)
Bacurau
8 (2%)
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
15 (3.8%)
Blow the Man Down
11 (2.8%)
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
7 (1.8%)
Boys State
9 (2.3%)
Collective
13 (3.3%)
Da 5 Bloods
6 (1.5%)
David Byrne's American Utopia
9 (2.3%)
Deerskin
11 (2.8%)
Dick Johnson Is Dead
8 (2%)
Disclosure
15 (3.8%)
Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
10 (2.5%)
Feels Good Man
13 (3.3%)
First Cow
4 (1%)
The Forty-Year-Old Version
12 (3%)
Heimat is a Space in Time
16 (4%)
His House
13 (3.3%)
House of Hummingbird
15 (3.8%)
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
3 (0.8%)
The Invisible Man
5 (1.3%)
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
8 (2%)
Mank
8 (2%)
Martin Eden
13 (3.3%)
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
7 (1.8%)
Nomadland
6 (1.5%)
One Night in Miami
8 (2%)
Onward
8 (2%)
Out
13 (3.3%)
Palm Springs
1 (0.3%)
The Physics of Sorrow
14 (3.5%)
Possessor
8 (2%)
Promising Young Woman
7 (1.8%)
Small Axe: Lover's Rock
7 (1.8%)
Soul
5 (1.3%)
Sound of Metal
4 (1%)
Tenet
5 (1.3%)
Time
10 (2.5%)
The Trial of the Chicago 7
7 (1.8%)
Varda by Agnès
14 (3.5%)
The Vast of Night
8 (2%)
The Way Back
12 (3%)
Wolfwalkers
6 (1.5%)

Total Members Voted: 18

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Filmspots 2020: Nominated Films Checklist
« on: April 07, 2021, 12:21:12 AM »
Select the films you HAVEN'T seen in the poll above.

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« Last Edit: April 07, 2021, 02:06:59 AM by pixote »
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Re: Filmspots 2020: Nominated Films Checklist
« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2021, 04:01:44 AM »
That would have been much easier the other way around:(
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Re: Filmspots 2020: Nominated Films Checklist
« Reply #2 on: April 07, 2021, 07:31:19 AM »
Still haven't seen 14, which seems high given how many movies I managed to see last year.
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Re: Filmspots 2020: Nominated Films Checklist
« Reply #3 on: April 07, 2021, 08:43:39 AM »
Haven't seen 11, most of the docs and foreign language ones.

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Re: Filmspots 2020: Nominated Films Checklist
« Reply #4 on: April 07, 2021, 02:25:45 PM »
30 unseen.

Martin Eden has been sitting on my watchlist forever - having only seen Marcello's previous film Lost and Beautiful and not caring much for it. The new one supposedly is quite different, so maybe I can muster up enough enthusiasm in a timely fashion.

Also might give Possessor another try since I quit pretty early on the first run. On the other hand, Cronenberg Jr's previous film did even less for me than the Marcello.



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Re: Filmspots 2020: Nominated Films Checklist
« Reply #5 on: April 07, 2021, 09:07:48 PM »
Haven't seen 17. I was not nearly as thorough in 2020 as I was in 2019. Thank goodness the theaters are back open and I can just see everything, again.
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Re: Filmspots 2020: Nominated Films Checklist
« Reply #6 on: April 07, 2021, 09:15:52 PM »
Another Round
Bacurau
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
Blow the Man Down
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Boys State
Collective
Da 5 Bloods
David Byrne's American Utopia
Deerskin
Disclosure
Feels Good Man
First Cow
Heimat is a Space in Time
His House
House of Hummingbird
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Mank
Martin Eden
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
One Night in Miami
Onward
Out
The Physics of Sorrow
Possessor
Promising Young Woman
Small Axe: Lover's Rock
Soul
Tenet
Time
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Varda by Agnès
The Vast of Night
The Way Back
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Re: Filmspots 2020: Nominated Films Checklist
« Reply #7 on: April 08, 2021, 12:08:58 AM »
Hopefully can get through these.

The Assistant
Sound of Metal
Nomadland
One Night in Miami
Soul
Collective
David Byrne's American Utopia
Wolfwalkers
The Vast of Night
Boys State
Bacurau
Deerskin
Martin Eden
Time
Out
The Physics of Sorrow
The Way Back
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
House of Hummingbird
Heimat is a Space in Time
Varda by Agnès
Blow the Man Down
« Last Edit: May 01, 2021, 03:17:24 AM by Beavermoose »

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Re: Filmspots 2020: Nominated Films Checklist
« Reply #8 on: April 08, 2021, 07:56:21 PM »
The nominees in the categories I care about the most that I must see:

Boys State
David Byrne's American Utopia
Heimat is a Space in Time
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
One Night in Miami
Soul
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Varda by Agnes

Mank is the only one I'm really not interested in. I think Soul at least has a floor of "OK-to-good" that it can't go below, and I could be pleasantly (though only somewhat) surprised that it's actually fantastic. We'll see, I'm skeptical still. Fincher is just a very talented filmmaker who has now made two films that I am totally ambivalent about when it comes to the subject matter - The Social Network (don't care about Facebook, don't care about Mark Zuckerberg, mainly just hate everyone involved) and Mank (don't care about the writing of Citizen Kane, no matter how much I enjoy the film...honestly, give me something about The Magnificent Ambersons, and I might be more inclined to take it in, that is to me the more interesting - if not as good because of what Hollywood did to the original - film). Maybe Mank will surprise me. I don't hate-watch, I'm just worried I'll be bored and wish I was watching something else. The rest I'm pretty excited about.
« Last Edit: April 20, 2021, 11:49:15 PM by Eric/E.T. »
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Re: Filmspots 2020: Nominated Films Checklist
« Reply #9 on: April 08, 2021, 08:31:48 PM »
It has become a cliche to say that The Social Network isn't really about Facebook or Zuckerberg as we know him. It's a cliche for a reason: it's true. Your doing yourself a disservice by writing it off so easily.


Mank is boring, tho.
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