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    How many films on the "1001 Movies to See Before You Die" list have you seen?

    in The Speakeasy

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    :lol:

     

    There are many that I should've seen but haven't, and a bunch of others that I've seen parts of, but can't really say I've seen all of them. 

    I understand that - there's a couple movies where I've seen parts of it (Full Metal Jacket is a glaring example) but I haven't watched it in its entirety.

     

    But that's still quite a list even if you take out the ones you've only seen parts of! :D

     

    I'm hoping to get there soon enough... film by film. If it weren't for Instant Netflix and TCM, I wouldn't even have seen more than 50-60 of them lol.

     

    Thanks.   :)

     

    Yeah, I have seen a ton of movies in my lifetime.  Most of the ones i haven't seen are the foreign ones as growing up, I wasn't into them yet.  Obviously my tastes have expanded since then :P

    Yeah, I haven't got into foreign films yet. The Bicycle Thief was excellent though... and most of Studio Ghibli's output is great especially Totoro and Kiki's Delivery Service. But I haven't watched any Kurosawa, Godard, Bergman, Renoir, Fellini- I've seen 2 Sergio Leone films though. I liked The Good, the Bad and the Ugly a lot - though the dubbing was a little off-putting at first since I thought it was an American movie :lol: now I know it's a spaghetti western!! No worries lol.

     

    Most of the ones I've seen are from 1977-present day

     

    If you took those out, I haven't seen nearly as many films... although it doesn't help that most of the movies I've seen aren't on the list - and I'm talking about good ones that would be considered classics.

    How many films on the "1001 Movies to See Before You Die" list have you seen?

    in The Speakeasy

    Posted · Edited by mahnamahna

    @75live

    179 out of the first 200?! Yeah I'm gonna guess you've seen over half of it at least! Nice job, sir!! :)

     

    I'm trying to pick 100 movies from the list to watch over the next year before I go to college and begin learning about Film Production with a second major that could be either Marketing, Theatre, or History. I've got 40 so far (in the list above) and I've seen 187/1099 (172/1001 if we go by the 2012 list)

     

    Any ones you've seen that I didn't list among these 40 that you would recommend?

     

      [*]Grave of the Fireflies [*]Reservoir Dogs [*]Unforgiven [*]Pulp Fiction [*]Se7en [*]Fargo [*]Princess Mononoke [*]L.A. Confidential [*]Fight Club [*]Spirited Away [*]The Departed [*]Akira [*]Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon [*]A Fish Called Wanda [*]Roger and Me [*]Total Recall [*]Moulin Rouge [*]Four Weddings and a Funeral [*]Black Swan [*]The Sting [*]Taxi Driver [*]Life of Brian [*]The Thing [*]Blade Runner [*]Ordinary People [*]Terms of Endearment [*]Vertigo [*]The Great Escape [*]My Fair Lady [*]Giant [*]Gone with the Wind [*]Strangers on a Train [*]The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo [*]Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy [*]Drive [*]Bridesmaids [*]

      West Side Story

      [*]

      There Will Be Blood

      [*]

      Apocalypse Now

      [*]

      The Marriage of Maria Braun

    Boxoffice.com's Top 100 Films of All Time 2013 -- RESULTS PRESENTATION 4 PM PST/7 PM EST

    in The Speakeasy

    Posted

    My list - I'd rather have 250 films to work with though! Still here's my top 100 (can change at any time!) 

     

    1. Toy Story2. E.T. The Extra Terrestrail3. It's a Wonderful Life4. Toy Story 35. Star Wars6. Forrest Gump7. Toy Story 28. The Empire Strikes Back9. The Muppet Movie10. The Dark Knight11. Finding Nemo12. Airplane!13. Return of the Jedi14. The Avengers15. The Lion King16. Dumb and Dumber17. Beauty and the Beast18. The Goonies19. Back to the Future20. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation21. All the President's Men22. Spider-Man 223. LOTR: Return of the King24. Who Framed Roger Rabbit?25. Anchorman26. Monsters, Inc27. The Great Muppet Caper28. Ferris Bueller's Day Off29. Superman (1978)30. Ace Ventura: Pet Detective31. Casablanca32. Psycho33. The Muppets34. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt. 235. The Muppets Take Manhattan36. Star Trek Into Darkness37. The Wizard of Oz38. Big39. Stand by Me40. The Graduate41. Tommy Boy42. Schindler's List43. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban44. Billy Madison45. Raiders of the Lost Ark46. National Lampoon's Vacation47. LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring48. Rear Window49. Dumbo50. Elf51. The Incredibles52. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs53. Blazing Saddles54. Frankenstein55. His Girl Friday56. The Ten Commandments57. Up58. The Breakfast Club59. Shrek60. Edward Scissorhands61. The Notebook62. Liar Liar63. Shrek 264. Network65. Aladdin66. Young Frankenstein67. Click68. Enchanted69. Lincoln70. Planet of the Apes (1968)71. Transformers72. Pinocchio (1940)73. Soylent Green74. Close Encounters of the Third Kind75. Happy Gilmore76. Mrs. Doubtfire77. The Silence of the Lambs78. The Little Mermaid79. Silver Linings Playbook80. Braveheart81. Meet the Fockers82. There's Something About Mary83. Lady and the Tramp84. Meet the Parents85. The Great Mouse Detective86. Wreck-it Ralph87. Dr. Strangelove88. Kiki's Delivery Service89. The Dark Knight Rises90. My Neighbor Totoro91. Beetlejuice92. Midnight in Paris93. WALL-E94. DodgeBall95. Coming to America96. Singin in the Rain97. Die Hard98. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington99. The Sound of Music100. Gran Torino

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    How many films on the "1001 Movies to See Before You Die" list have you seen?

    in The Speakeasy

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    I thought the omission of East of Eden and the inclusion of Giant was surprising. The former is superior in every way. There were others, but those films were toward the end of the list so I remember it better.

     

    I've never watched East of Eden - I know it has James Dean, and it's directed by Elia Kazan but I've never seen it.

     

    Here's 25 I'd say ought to be on the list:

    The Pride of the Yankees (1942)

    Bambi (1942)

    National Velvet (1944)

    The Yearling (1946)

    Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

    Cinderella (1950)

    Gojira (1954)

    Lady and the Tramp (1955)

    Old Yeller (1957)

    The Longest Day (1962)

    Fantastic Voyage (1966)

    Soylent Green (1973)

    Logan's Run (1975)

    Animal House (1978)

    Superman (1978)

    The Blues Brothers (1980)

    Trading Places (1983)

    My Neighbor Totoro (1988)

    Christmas Vacation (1989)

    The Little Mermaid (1989)

    Aladdin (1992)

    Finding Nemo (2003)

    Anchorman (2004)

    Spider-Man 2 (2004)

    Iron Man (2008)

    Up (2009)

     

    There's others that should be there but those are 25 off the top of my head

    How many films on the "1001 Movies to See Before You Die" list have you seen?

    in The Speakeasy

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      [*]Grave of the Fireflies

      [*]Reservoir Dogs

      [*]Unforgiven

      [*]Pulp Fiction

      [*]Se7en

      [*]Fargo

      [*]Princess Mononoke

      [*]L.A. Confidential

      [*]Fight Club

      [*]Spirited Away

      [*]The Departed

      [*]Akira

      [*]Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

      [*]A Fish Called Wanda

      [*]Roger and Me

      [*]Total Recall

      [*]Moulin Rouge

      [*]Four Weddings and a Funeral

      [*]Black Swan

      [*]The Sting

      [*]Taxi Driver

      [*]Life of Brian

      [*]The Thing

      [*]Blade Runner

      [*]Ordinary People

      [*]Terms of Endearment

      [*]Vertigo

      [*]The Great Escape

      [*]My Fair Lady

      [*]Giant

      [*]Gone with the Wind

      [*]Strangers on a Train

      [*]The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

      [*]Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

      [*]Drive

      [*]Bridesmaids

      [*]

      West Side Story

      [*]

      There Will Be Blood

      [*]

      Apocalypse Now

      [*]

      The Marriage of Maria Braun

    In the order they appear in this list:

    http://www.imdb.com/list/0CDu0uBkK3I/

    Alright! I've got 40 films on my must-watch list now... this is great!

     

    Although I did find some of the omissions surprising... am I the only one who was wondering things like "Where's Miracle on 34th Street?" or "Where's Bambi?" - stuff like that?

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    2013 Best Picture Thread

    in And The Winner Is...

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    Avatar was a terrible movie - it's the kind of blockbuster that SHOULDN'T get nominated. It made me furious that a mediocre piece of enviromentalist tripe with some good 3D effects was considered a BP front-runner while TDK and WALL-E both got the shaft yet they both should have been BP front-runners the year before.

     

    I also would say Network or All the President's Men should have won Best Picture over Rocky - I seriously have no idea why it was given a nod lol.

     

     

    I don't necessarily think movies need to be deep or profound to be the Best Picture of a given year. Granted some deep films truly were the Best Picture of their year (Schindler's List, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, the first two Godfathers, Silence of the Lambs, Casablanca, arguably Best Years of Our Lives) but I've noticed that the timeless and classic movies of all-time tend to be escapist. I simply don't understand how a BP winner can't be fun - Return of the King, Annie Hall, and It Happened One Night are probably the only remotely fun films to ever win BP.

     

    I know plenty of blockbusters won back in the 90s - but Shakespeare in Love was a costume drama: not even close to a blockbuster.

     

    Forrest Gump, Titanic, Braveheart, Unforgiven, Dances With Wolves and Silence of the Lambs were the blockbuster winners. But if you look at the last 15 years, only 2 blockbusters have won (Gladiator, LOTR - Return of the King) and if it weren't for the Oscar nods, most Best Picture winners wouldn't even get close to $100 million. Lincoln, The Help and The Blind Side are all exceptions but those had great WOM, not just Oscar buzz.

     

    My point is that the Academy relegates blockbusters to effects awards (which usually go to some prestige pic half of the time) while terrible movies like The Reader and The Iron Lady sweep acting awards (both have rotten ratings on RT while Avengers has a 93%)

     

    Honestly, The Avengers spoke to more people in its opening weekend than I reckon Silver Linings Playbook ever will. It was a good movie but it doesn't have the emotional punch of Avengers or Toy Story 3 or countless other great blockbusters I've seen in my life. Jennifer Lawrence and Robert DeNiro are what make it good. Bradley Cooper was just unconvincing as a mentally ill guy - Zach Galifanakis or Will Ferrell would have both worked better as a crazy guy who thinks his ex-wife still loves him.

     

    And you saying Out of Africa is an epic period piece is the exact bias I'm talking about - it's automatically considered better by Academy voters simply because it's a 180-200 minute period piece with Meryl Streep and Robert Redford... yet it's a terrible movie! Ask the majority of straight men who have been subjected to the overlong chick flick.

     

    BTTF isn't better because it's a blockbuster - it's better because of its writing, its story, its acting, its directing, its pacing, its effects, its tone... they all make it the BP of 1985. What movie are people still watching almost 30 years later? Hint: it's not the pompous costume drama.

     

    I find it appaling that someone actually thinks being an epic period piece makes something a great film yet being a sci-fi flick disqualifies it from being Oscar-worthy. Thankfully, this bias will go away as more and more voters born from 1985 to 2000 join the Academy - maybe then Pixar,  Christopher Nolan, and other popular blockbusters in years to come will get the Oscar recognition they deserve.

     

     

    How many films on the "1001 Movies to See Before You Die" list have you seen?

    in The Speakeasy

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    A lot, unfortunately. Almost half. Most of the pre-1960 films, for starters. I'm taking Film History from 1925-65 in the fall, though, so hopefully I can see some more older films.

    Yeah a lot of them are really short though - Duck Soup, Frankenstein, Dracula, and those Buster Keaton films are all 60-70 minutes tops. And I'd say Frank Capra, John Ford, Hitchcock, William Wyler, and Michael Curtiz are five directors to follow from Old Hollywood. Good luck with watching the classics!

    How many films on the "1001 Movies to See Before You Die" list have you seen?

    in The Speakeasy

    Posted

    It's a German movie by a guy named Fassbinder that I watched in my intro film class. I expected it to be dull but I was blown away. It's definitely not for everyone though, since there are big chunks where not much happens plot-wise.

    Ok, gonna put it in my Netflix queue! I've only watched 1 foreign film (Bicycle Thief) but I've been wanting to broaden my horizons film-wise. I'm gonna give it a chance.Any films I listed that you haven't seen?

    How many films on the "1001 Movies to See Before You Die" list have you seen?

    in The Speakeasy

    Posted

    Some of my favorites that weren't on your list are:Pulp FictionApocalypse NowThe Marriage of Maria BraunBlack SwanWest Side StoryThere Will Be Blood

    I definitely have been meaning to watch Pulp Fiction, Apocalypse Now, and West Side Story! Good thing AN is on instant Netflix. Black Swan and There Will Be Blood are on cable quite a bit but I should probably just put em in my queue.Can't say I've heard of The Marriage of Maria Braun though... I'll have to look that one up!

    How many films on the "1001 Movies to See Before You Die" list have you seen?

    in The Speakeasy

    Posted

    So this is a list of films to see before you die and so far, after 2.5 years of using the list and starting at roughly 20-30 films, I've seen... 187 out of 1099 (that's including every film that's been on the list).

    How many of these have you seen?

    Which ones should have been on the list?

    And which ones would you recommend I watch that are also on instant Netflix?

     

    Hope this sparks good discussion - here's the ones I've seen!

      [*]Sherlock, Jr. (1924) [*]The Gold Rush (1925) [*]The General (1926) [*]Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) [*]City Lights (1931) [*]Dracula (1931) [*]Frankenstein (1931) [*]The Public Enemy (1931) [*]Duck Soup (1933) [*]King Kong (1933) [*]It Happened One Night (1934) [*]The Thin Man (1934) [*]The 39 Steps (1935) [*]Bride of Frankenstein (1935) [*]Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) [*]Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) [*]The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) [*]Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) [*]The Wizard of Oz (1939) [*]His Girl Friday (1940) [*]The Philadelphia Story (1940) [*]Pinocchio (1940) [*]Dumbo (1941) [*]The Maltese Falcon (1941) [*]Sergeant York (1941) [*]Sullivan’s Travels (1941) [*]The Wolf-Man (1941) [*]To Be or Not to Be (1942) [*]Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) [*]Casablanca (1943) [*]Double Indemnity (1944) [*]To Have and Have Not (1944) [*]Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) [*]The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) [*]Gilda (1946) [*]It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) [*]Great Expectations (1947) [*]The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) [*]The Bicycle Thief (1949) [*]A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) [*]The African Queen (1951) [*]The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) [*]High Noon (1952) [*]Singin’ in the Rain (1952) [*]Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) [*]On the Waterfront (1954) [*]Rear Window (1954) [*]Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) [*]Marty (1955) [*]The Night of the Hunter (1955) [*]Rebel Without a Cause (1955) [*]Forbidden Planet (1956) [*]The Ten Commandments (1956) [*]12 Angry Men (1957) [*]Ben-Hur (1959) [*]Some Like it Hot (1959) [*]Psycho (1960) [*]Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961) [*]To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) [*]The Manchurian Candidate (1962) [*]The Birds (1963) [*]The Nutty Professor (1963) [*]Dr. Strangelove (1964) [*]Goldfinger (1964) [*]A Hard Day’s Night (1964) [*]The Masque of the Red Death (1964) [*]The Sound of Music (1965) [*]The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966) [*]Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) [*]The Graduate (1967) [*]The Jungle Book (1967) [*]Night of the Living Dead (1968) [*]Planet of the Apes (1968) [*]Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) [*]Patton (1970) [*]Dirty Harry (1971) [*]Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971) [*]Deliverance (1972) [*]High Plains Drifter (1972) [*]The Godfather (1972) [*]American Graffiti (1973) [*]Badlands (1973) [*]The Exorcist (1973) [*]Serpico (1973) [*]Chinatown (1974) [*]Young Frankenstein (1974) [*]Jaws (1975) [*]One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) [*]All the President’s Men (1976) [*]Carrie (1976) [*]Network (1976) [*]The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) [*]Rocky (1976) [*]Annie Hall (1977) [*]Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) [*]Star Wars (1977) [*]Grease (1978) [*]Alien (1979) [*]Being There (1979) [*]Breaking Away (1979) [*]The Jerk (1979) [*]Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) [*]Mad Max (1979) [*]The Muppet Movie (1979) [*]Airplane! (1980) [*]The Shining (1980) [*]Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980) [*]On Golden Pond (1981) [*]Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) [*]E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) [*]Poltergeist (1982) [*]A Christmas Story (1983) [*]Scarface (1983) [*]Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983) [*]Beverly Hills Cop (1984) [*]Ghostbusters (1984) [*]The Natural (1984) [*]The Terminator (1984) [*]Back to the Future (1985) [*]The Breakfast Club (1985) [*]The Color Purple (1985) [*]Aliens (1986) [*]The Fly (1986) [*]Platoon (1986) [*]Stand by Me (1986) [*]Top Gun (1986) [*]Fatal Attraction (1987) [*]Moonstruck (1987) [*]The Princess Bride (1987) [*]The Untouchables (1987) [*]Big (1988) [*]Bull Durham (1988) [*]Die Hard (1988) [*]The Naked Gun (1988) [*]Rain Man (1988) [*]Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) [*]Batman (1989) [*]Glory (1989) [*]Say Anything (1989) [*]When Harry Met Sally (1989) [*]Edward Scissorhands (1990) [*]Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) [*]Groundhog Day (1993) [*]Jurassic Park (1993) [*]Schindler’s List (1993) [*]Forrest Gump (1994) [*]The Lion King (1994) [*]The Shawshank Redemption (1994) [*]Babe (1995) [*]Braveheart (1995) [*]Clueless (1995) [*]Toy Story (1995) [*]The Usual Suspects (1995) [*]Independence Day (1996) [*]Scream (1996) [*]Titanic (1997) [*]Saving Private Ryan (1998) [*]There’s Something About Mary (1998) [*]The Matrix (1999) [*]The Sixth Sense (1999) [*]Gladiator (2000) [*]Meet the Parents (2000) [*]The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) [*]Chicago (2002) [*]The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) [*]The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) [*]The Aviator (2004) [*]Collateral (2004) [*]The Passion of the Christ (2004) [*]The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) [*]Paranormal Activity (2007) [*]The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) [*]The Dark Knight (2008) [*]Slumdog Millionaire (2008) [*]WALL-E (2008) [*]Avatar (2009) [*]District 9 (2009) [*]The Hurt Locker (2009) [*]Inglorious Basterds (2009) [*]Inception (2010) [*]The King’s Speech (2010) [*]The Social Network (2010) [*]True Grit (2010) [*]The Artist (2011) [*]The Descendants (2011) [*]Hugo (2011) [*]War Horse (2011)

    Why there are so many tent poles scheduled for 2015 ?

    in The Speakeasy

    Posted · Edited by mahnamahna

    The Penguins of Madagascar, Kung Fu Panda 3, Untitled Illumination Entertainment Film, Inside Out, Terminator, Independence Day 2, Fantastic Four, Pirates of the Caribbean 5, Ted 2, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2, Kung Fu Panda 3, Finding Dory,  Hotel Transylvania 2, Jurassic Park 4, Star Wars Episode VII, The Avengers 2, Ant-Man, some sort of DC Comics film, possibly Bond 24

     

    All of these are candidates for 150M+, if not 200.

    Remove Assassin's Creed and Smurfs 3 (both of those look like box office disappointments), add in the ones I did... and you've got a monster year for box office - $11 to 12 billion domestic yearly total, 2015 awaits you!! :P  not to mention there's still other films to be announced for that year (likely a few more tentpoles are coming for the summer and definitely for November & December!) 

     

    I really think 4 $400 million+ films are possible in 2015 (Avengers 2, Star Wars Episode VII, Mockingjay Pt. 2, and Finding Dory) but highly unlikely - either way that's going to be one huge year if you ask me!!

     

    But there's still plenty of unoccupied tentpole dates!

     

    May 8 (no clue)

    May 15 (no clue)

    May 22 (Star Wars - Episode VII pretty much owns this date lol)

    May 29 (no clue)

    June 5 (Ted 2 would be perfect here - but I could see JPIV going here too)

    June 12 (This is another great date for Ted 2)

    July 17 (no clue)

    July 24 (something will go up against Smurfs 2 lol)

    July 31 (Peregine isn't a tentpole really)

    August 7 (no clue)

    August 14 (no clue)

    August 21 (no clue)

    August 28 (no clue)

    November 13 (Bond 24? Maybe not since Ant-Man and Mockingjay would massacre it)

    December 11 (Alvin 4 isn't really a big tentpole)

    December 18 (major tentpole here - Sherlock 3 or Mission Impossible V)

    December 23 (no clue but it's Christmas week so something will go here)

     

     

    There's still plenty of weekends open for new tentpoles so 2015 isn't done adding them - I'm expecting Adam Sandler to have another film out that year while DodgeBall 2 is apparently coming out that year as well.

    Best performances of 2013

    in Lights, Camera, Favorites!

    Posted

    Of the ones I've seen:

     

    Joey King - Oz: Great and Powerful

    Benedict Cumberbauch - Star Trek Into Darkness

    Jonah Hill - This is the End

    Henry Cavill - Man of Steel

    Ben Kingsley - Iron Man 3

     

    Honorable mentions:

    Michael Shannon - Man of Steel

    Robert Downey Jr. - Iron Man 3

    Guy Pearce - Iron Man 3

    Bruce Campbell :D  - Oz: Great and Powerful

    Zachary Quinto - Star Trek Into Darkness

    Wkend #s: 82.5 DM2, 29.4 TFR, 25 Heat, 19.6 MU

    in Numbers and Data

    Posted

    Most of Disney's post-Lion King, pre-Meet the Robinsons animated films (except Hunchback, Hercules, and Stitch) don't appeal to me - it was really a dark age for Disney animation IMO, since Rescuers 1, Pooh, Aristocats, Fox and the Hound, Great Mouse Detective, and Oliver & Company all had that Disney charm still - some of them were pretty bleak though :lol:

    Wkend #s: 82.5 DM2, 29.4 TFR, 25 Heat, 19.6 MU

    in Numbers and Data

    Posted

    I enjoyed DM2 10x better than MU.(Though I saw MU on bootleg)

     

    I understand that - Monsters U, Cars 1 & 2, Brave, Bug's Life, and IMO Ratatouille aren't absolutely amazing movies by any degree - but only Brave is truly terrible (can't comment on MU since I haven't seen it yet)

     

    I love Despicable Me in the same way I love Shrek 1 & 2 & most of the Pixar movies I just listed (hated Brave though) - it's a hilarious, fun movie, not high art just a fun movie :)

     

    Can't wait to see DM2!! :D

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