NBooth Report post Posted December 24, 2017 (edited) Not sure it's quite fair--and I liked the newer movie--but the original A Nightmare on Elm Street is a better version of the 2017 It. (For that matter, though for a slightly different reason, so is A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge) Edited December 24, 2017 by NBooth Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kenmorefield Report post Posted December 24, 2017 10 hours ago, Darrel Manson said: Films about the same fairly short period of time and events: Dunkirk is better than Darkest Hour. (Although I think they would make a great double feature--Dunkirk playing first I actually thought Darkest Hour was the better of the two movies, but I appear to be in the minority. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andrew Report post Posted December 25, 2017 Darkest Hour is still in my screener pile (I'll view it in the coming week if it gets any noms in the NCFCA), but I expect I would agree with you, as I was immensely disappointed with Dunkirk. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kenmorefield Report post Posted December 26, 2017 22 hours ago, Andrew said: Darkest Hour is still in my screener pile (I'll view it in the coming week if it gets any noms in the NCFCA), but I expect I would agree with you, as I was immensely disappointed with Dunkirk. One of the things I preferred was that DH was able to convey--at least to me--that the principals really were uncertain about the outcome. That gave it much more emotional power in my viewing. I appreciated the cinematography of Dunkirk, but in part because of the BIG MOVIE structure, it would have seemed as anti-conventional for the last mission to fail as it would have been, say, for all the rebels to get wiped out at the end of Star Wars (spoilers for Star Wars, I guess). Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Evan C Report post Posted January 6, 2018 If I interpreted the final scene of Thelma correctly, and I'm not 100% sure I did, Lady Macbeth is a better version of Thelma. Also, Frozen is a better version of Thelma. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Joel Mayward Report post Posted January 8, 2018 For 2017 films about the same WWII event: Dunkirk > Their Finest > Darkest Hour. They're all worth viewing, but for entirely different reasons. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Evan C Report post Posted November 28, 2018 For the woman/women fall on hard times and look to illegal means of solving their financial troubles, I thought Can You Ever Forgive Me? was a better version of Widows. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Darrel Manson Report post Posted December 11, 2018 Colette vs. The Wife: Which is better? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andrew Report post Posted December 11, 2018 Haven't seen The Wife yet, but I found Colette to be quite engrossing, though its hagiographic tendencies are highly problematic. Boy Erased is a better conversion therapy film than The Miseducation of Cameron Post. Beautiful Boy > Ben Is Back, on addressing the havoc that addiction plays in the lives of young addicts and the families who care about him. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Evan C Report post Posted December 16, 2018 (edited) For films about strong female monarchs who embrace Catholicism as a part of their liberalism, anachronistic pro-LGBTQ beliefs, and as a rebellion against their patriarchal, misogynistic, homophobic, fundamentalist, Protestant courts, Mary Queen of Scots is a better version of The Girl King. I never thought I would write that sentence or see a second movie which links Catholicism to the female protagonist's feminism and threat it poses to the toxic masculinity linked with Protestantism. Edited December 16, 2018 by Evan C Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kenmorefield Report post Posted December 16, 2018 Can You Ever Forgive Me? is a better version of Oceans 8. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Joel Mayward Report post Posted December 22, 2018 Whiplash is a better version of Free Solo. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Joel Mayward Report post Posted December 26, 2018 The Lost City of Z is a better version of Zama. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Evan C Report post Posted December 26, 2018 3 hours ago, Joel Mayward said: The Lost City of Z is a better version of Zama. I thought Jauja was a better version of Zama, but I agree with your choice as well. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Joel Mayward Report post Posted December 26, 2018 19 minutes ago, Evan C said: I thought Jauja was a better version of Zama, but I agree with your choice as well. Yes! I totally thought of Jauja while watching Zama, and couldn't remember the title, just the image of a soldier on a lush green beach and the aspect ratio. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Darrel Manson Report post Posted February 24 Arctic is a better version of All Is Lost Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andrew Report post Posted March 3 (edited) On 2/23/2019 at 8:54 PM, Darrel Manson said: Arctic is a better version of All Is Lost Huh. I felt almost the complete opposite, and said as much in my review: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/secularcinephile/2019/03/despite-its-hype-arctic-left-me-mostly-cold/ Edited March 3 by Andrew Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
