Top Films: Honorable Mentions
Oct. 30th, 2013 04:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormsewerSome films that I love and seriously considered for the Top Ten list but that didn't make the final cut (some of these might mature into top-ten contenders in the future):
Most Honorable Mention: Princess Mononoke
This is the film I feel most guilty about not including in the top ten. It was there in the first draft of the list, but given that there were so many other worthy contenders, and that I already had a Miyazaki film in there, I decided to drop it. In many ways this film is a revisit of the themes and even the characters of Nausicaä. You could even make a case for saying it's better than Nausicaä; it makes dividing the characters into simple categories of "good" and "bad" harder than ever, and stubbornly resists the deus ex machina problems in the ending of Nausicaä. It's painfully beautiful, hosts my favorite film score of all time, has just the right amount of cute, and is terribly Japanese. At least for me it doesn't quite manage the emotional power that Nausicaä does, but it's still a work of genius.
Other Honorable Mentions
Amélie, Better Off Dead, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Blade Runner, Dancer in the Dark, The Emperor's New Groove, Labyrinth, The Matrix, Metropolis (Lang version), Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Moonrise Kingdom, Run Lola Run, Scott Pilgrim Versus the World, So I Married An Axe Murderer, Spirited Away, Synecdoche New York
Most Honorable Mention: Princess Mononoke
This is the film I feel most guilty about not including in the top ten. It was there in the first draft of the list, but given that there were so many other worthy contenders, and that I already had a Miyazaki film in there, I decided to drop it. In many ways this film is a revisit of the themes and even the characters of Nausicaä. You could even make a case for saying it's better than Nausicaä; it makes dividing the characters into simple categories of "good" and "bad" harder than ever, and stubbornly resists the deus ex machina problems in the ending of Nausicaä. It's painfully beautiful, hosts my favorite film score of all time, has just the right amount of cute, and is terribly Japanese. At least for me it doesn't quite manage the emotional power that Nausicaä does, but it's still a work of genius.
Other Honorable Mentions
Amélie, Better Off Dead, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Blade Runner, Dancer in the Dark, The Emperor's New Groove, Labyrinth, The Matrix, Metropolis (Lang version), Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Moonrise Kingdom, Run Lola Run, Scott Pilgrim Versus the World, So I Married An Axe Murderer, Spirited Away, Synecdoche New York
