In Bruges 2008

My personal ranking of Martin McDonagh films.

Movies with at least 75% rating on trakt (and enough votes). No documentaries, reality tv or anime.

(Find the post-2010 list here: https://trakt.tv/users/themlethem/lists/highly-rated-movies-post-2010)

(Find the tv show list here: https://trakt.tv/users/themlethem/lists/highly-rated-shows-pre-2010)

"Some films should never have been made. They are too unsettling, too dangerous, too challenging, too outrageous and even too badly made to be let loose on unsuspecting audiences.

Yet these films, from the shocking Cannibal Holocaust to the apocalyptic Donnie Darko, from the destructive Tetsuo to the awfully bad The Room, from the hilarious This Is Spı¨nal Tap to the campy Showgirls, from the asylum of Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari to the circus of Freaks, from the gangs of The Warriors to the gangsters of In Bruges and from the flamboyant Rocky Horror Picture Show to the ultimate cool of The Big Lebowski, have all garnered passionate fan followings.

Cult cinema has made tragic misfits, monsters and cyborgs, such as Edward Scissorhands or Blade Runner's replicants, heroes of our times. 100 Cult Films explains why these figures continue to inspire fans around the globe. Cult film experts Ernest Mathijs and Xavier Mendik round up the most cultish of giallo, blaxploitation, anime, sexploitation, zombie, vampire and werewolf films, exploring both the cults that live hidden inside the underground (Nekromantik, Café Flesh) and the cult side of the mainstream (Dirty Dancing, The Lord of the Rings, and even The Sound of Music).

100 Cult Films is a true trip around the world, providing a lively and illuminating guide to films from more than a dozen countries, across nine decades, representing a wide range of genres and key cult directors such as David Cronenberg, Terry Gilliam and David Lynch."

Source: http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=470133

Note: Cafe Flesh (1982) is missing from this list.

Movies that are equivalent to dream-pop, shoegaze music - They possess an ethereal emptiness…

Art is the principal way in which the human mind has tried to remake the world in a way that makes sense. The carefully edited, slow-motion, action replay of a rugby tackle, a car crash or a sex act has more significance than the original event. Thanks to virtual reality, we will soon be moving into a world where a heightened super-reality will consist entirely of action replays, and reality will therefore be all the more rich and meaningful.

JG Ballard: Theatre of Cruelty

I might be a nihilist except that I don’t believe in anything.
― Mitchell Heisman

Rotten Tomatoes - Best of year

Could be movies about traveling...
Could be movies with travel...
Could be traveler characters...
Could just be that magic wanderlust traveling feeling...

Top voted comments in the /r/AskReddit thread below.

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/37kyst/what_largely_unknown_movie_is_a_must_watch/

The 50 best comedies as voted by you, the users.

1 - The Big Lebowski - 65 Votes
2 - Office Space - 58 Votes
3 - Shaun of the Dead - 53 Votes
4 - Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy - 47 Votes
5 - Superbad - 46 Votes
6 - The Hangover - 45 Votes
7 - Monty Python and the Holy Grail - 42 Votes
8 - Airplane! - 40 Votes
9 - Groundhog Day - 33 Votes
10 - Hot Fuzz - 33 Votes
11 - Dr. Strangelove - 32 Votes
12 - Monty Python's Life of Brian - 26 Votes
13 - Clerks - 25 Votes
14 - Pineapple Express - 21 Votes
15 - Caddyshack - 20 Votes
16 - Super Troopers - 20 Votes
17 - Borat - 19 Votes
18 - Dumb and Dumber - 19 votes
19 - Spaceballs - 19 Votes
20 - Young Frankenstein - 17 Votes
21 - The Princess Bride - 16 Votes
22 - Zoolander - 16 Votes
23 - Animal House - 15 Votes
24 - Tropic Thunder - 15 Votes
25 - Zombieland - 15 Votes
26 - Annie Hall - 14 Votes
27 - Rushmore - 14 Votes
28 - Blazing Saddles - 13 Votes
29 - Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle - 13 Votes
30 - 40 Year-Old Virgin - 12 Votes
31 - Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story - 12 Votes
32 - Stepbrothers - 12 Votes
33 - Wedding Crashers - 12 Votes
34 - In Bruges - 11 Votes
35 - The Blues Brothers - 11 Votes
36 - The Jerk - 11 Votes
37 - Ace Ventura: Pet Detective - 10 Votes
38 - Happy Gilmore - 10 Votes
39 - Some Like it Hot - 10 Vote
40 - This is Spinal Tap - 10 Votes
41 - Clerks 2 - 9 Votes
42 - Forgetting Sarah Marshall - 9 Votes
43 - Hot Rod - 9 votes
44 - Little Miss Sunshine - 9 Votes
45 - Mallrats - 9 Votes
46 - Team America: World Police - 9 Votes
47 - Wayne's World - 9 Votes
48 - Wet Hot American Summer 9 Votes
49 - A Fish Called Wanda - 8 Votes
50 - The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! - 8 Votes

(OP) TheJakalope at 2010-12-23T06:49
"""
UPDATE: VOTING IS NOW OVER

This is a poll like PTP's Top 250 Movies.

It's simple, you list your top 10 comedies, I'll add together all the votes and this will show the favorite comedies of this community. After that's done, I'll get a collection made of all of them.

Rules
Vote only once.
You don't need to order them from 1-10.
No more then 10 Movies in a list.
No stand up, must have an actual plot line.
Though this seems obvious, your entries must be comedies.

I'll start.

1.Anchorman
2.Hot Rod
3.Pineapple Express
4.Hot Fuzz
5.Zombieland
6.The Royal Tenenbaums
7.Shaun of the Dead
8.Knocked Up
9.Monty Python and the Holy Grail
10.Mean Girls

EDIT: thisguy has generously offered to send 1000 Points to everyone who votes!
Last edited by TheJakalope 2010-12-27T06:28
"""

Californian's vote at 2010-12-26T07:26
"""
Here's my list, and I can't really choose an order except to say that Zoolander is probably my favorite movie ever. And thanks for having us make this; I need to download some of these still and watch them again (and again)!
Zoolander
Anchorman
Office Space
Superbad
The Hangover
Knocked Up
In Bruges (kinda dark, but still a comedy in my book)
Thank You For Smoking
I Love You, Man
Pineapple Express
"""

I started off by gathering ratings from IMDB (User/Critic Average), Rotten Tomatoes (Tomatometer, Critic Average, Audience Score, User Average), Metacritic (Critic Average, User Average) and Letterboxd (User Average). I was then able to determine a rating (out of 10) for each individual rating and therefore come up with an average rating for each site. Each site’s average rating was then weighted fairly so that no site’s ratings were favored above the rest.

The next step was to make sure that each film was treated fairly. Other top movie list’s like IMDb’s Top 1000 removes films that have under a certain viewing number (25,000 I think), but rather than ruling out films that may have been overlooked by the general audience (especially older films), I opted to alter these films score by carefully deducting points depending on how many people have seen it, and therefore voted on it. I also thought it was needed to make sure that recent films (released within the past 36 months) were also not favored, as it usually takes 3 years for the average rating to settle down. So I also added a deduction to these films that fell under this rule.

Taken from here: https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/3hbiio/update_1001_greatest_movies_of_all_time_plus/

Movies of the 2000's, Jürgen Müller (ed.) Taschen.

fav. coll.

My favorite movies about gangs / mobs