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I'll get going on the top ten in a few hours after I get my wordcount for the day done. But for now here's some stats! If you average the films in my top 15 together you'd have a film that is: 110 minutes long Has a $76m budget Grossed $353m WW

Maybe? Ludlum's possible reasons for the name "Bourne": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bourne_Identity_(novel)#The_name_.22Bourne.22 The Jason bit isn't explained so it's possible he chose it to have the same JB initials, though I think it's more likely because it sounds nice and rolls off the tongue.

My friends and I have been doing a monthly-ish movie night for the past five years. Each time someone picks two movies that, in theory, have a bit of thematic connection. Here's the pairings I've done so far: Princess Mononoke The Secret of Kells Paprika Inception Rango Spirited Away The Iron Giant How to Train Your Dragon Speed Racer Fast 5 Moon WALL-E Network Bolt Mary & Max Ernest & Celestine Lilo & Stitch Man of Steel The Last Unicorn

All right. That's it for today. I'll be back tomorrow to start the top 10!

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One more for the day. What will it be?

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How the hell did Shrek 2 get past round 1? It's terrible! ROUND 2 Raiders of the Lost Ark vs. Shrek 2 Star Wars IV: A New Hope vs. Batman (1989) The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers vs. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Jaws vs. Spider-Man Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back vs. Titanic The Lion King vs. The Ten Commandments Jurassic Park vs. Pinocchio Back to the Future vs. Ghostbusters Forrest Gump vs. Beverly Hills Cop The Godfather vs. The Avengers The Jungle Book vs. 101 Dalmatians The Dark Knight vs. American Graffiti Mary Poppins vs. Avatar The Sting vs. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid vs. Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi Doctor Zhivago vs. Gone with the Wind

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#15 An entry in 2015's most popular genre!

Do you like lists? Do you want to kvetch about how other people always list things wrong? Well I have a list for you! My top 15 films of 2015 is going to start... SOON! Be there!

First off, some honorable mentions. Not every film is good enough to make it into a top X list, but I tend to enjoy pretty much any movie I see, at least if I'm willing to sit through it. There's only a couple films this year that I really don't like in the slightest (*coughJWcough*), and over time things that were honorable may stand up and rise in my opinion. These are alphabetical order, because ranking is for top 15s only. Honorable Mention #1 Honorable Mention #2 Honorable Mention #3 Honorable Mention #4 Honorable Mention #5 I've got more honorable mentions, but I'll get started on the list before I go into those.

I don't believe I've done a top x list in any previous year, but I had a lot of feelings about the movies of 2015, so you're going to suffer from me rambling about things I like for a bit. It won't be as cool as Tele's supercut (damn him for putting points into editing), but hopefully you'll enjoy it. Stay tuned. The complete list is posted on page three. Click the link if you want to just read that, but I'll leave all the spoiler tags for anyone who wants to read along with all the twists and turns.

I suppose now I can start my own top 15 in the Speakeasy.

WITNESS!

The reason Snowpiercer failed: lack of a tight shirt.

Wow. This list just went in the shitter. JW and AOU in the top 15? Let's shut it down and start over, people, because we definitely suck at this.

Based on this list and what we've seen, it looks like five of my top ten will be in the actual top ten.

It's got one nicely conceived and executed shot.

From JW to BOS, that's a huge jump in quality. I think it proves that Spielberg is a considerably better director than he is a producer.

Yeah, forgetting about the Super Bowl did not do me any favors this week.

We should have a game every January where we predict our top 25 for the year.

So far we have things on my list and things I haven't seen. I'm okay with this.

I feel like I had a week or two where it would have been better to take a zero and get a chance at a makeup.