niktemadur

Streisand Effect: now I REALLY wanna UWU.

Who would win?
60 medieval nobles.
One creaky boye.

Blimey!

The Wicker Man is at the very top for me, I never seek out horror films as any sort of fan of the genre, and this one transcends it.
So does Evil Dead 2. As well as The Shining.
So that's three. Alien also belongs up there. Four down, one to go...

I'll round it out with The Exorcist. And you know why that film was so shocking for the time? Because it wasn't filmed as a horror film, but as a family drama. That dry context is what made it feel so immediate for seventies audiences, and it's still effective today, as it's not a conceit nor gimmick, it's an artistic statement of intent.

Or when you twist or stretch too suddenly and feel a little something go snap in your lower back, that's when you know yer gonna be using Advil for at least a couple of days.

This is as wholesome as a comic strip/meme can be, and I really, really like this particular iteration of that sentiment.

I went to starbucks and bought a large reusable plastic cup that I'll probably never use again... I helped save the planet!

And none of it, along with so many more billions of dollars worth of economic impact - let alone the catastrophic humanitarian costs - had any reasonable need to occur. But you know... that all-consuming russian inferiority complex and cruelty, ignorance and alcoholism, corruption and ineptitude.

Heil Hiller!

So... kinda like a wavefunction?

This guy's style seems to me to be radically orthodox, in the context of his own era. This guy was pushing forcefully in the opposite direction as JMW Turner was doing at the same time.

Yeah, I gotta agree. Except for its' bookends, the film lacked a sense of immediacy that the first one had in droves.

But that final shot, man... that one very last image...
I am aware it's a mental, faulty-memory mirage, but that moment alone raises this film's estimation in my incomplete recollection of it, when it came out... I might have even seen it in a theater, not quite sure. Might have rented it on DVD. It's a patchy, unraveling quilt, that's how bad my memory of it is... and the final image stands out.

Oh, but I have a MUCH more vivid memory of 28 Days Later, remember the plot with fairly clear detail, went to see it twice on a large screen.

And that, in a nutshell, is me agreeing with you.

EDIT: It's amazing when you think about it, Danny Boyle has such an incredible gut instinct, has managed to catch lightning in a bottle at least three times, and that's several times more than most directors.

Trainspotting.
28 Days Later.
Slumdog Millionaire.

Personally, I much prefer Sunshine over Slumdog and believe it has had a more lasting impact, but I remember it being ignored in its' day.

But I can tell you this: in my town, Sunshine hung on in the theater, word of mouth kept bringing people into the seats. One of 'em was me, twice.
No publicity to speak of. All word of mouth.
If Sunshine had come out in the past few years, it would be given an Oppenheimer/Nolan-style red carpet treatment.