Eric Quinn

Yeah I checked everything I could, and Amadeus would not fit in this countdown. So we are gold like Rapunzel's hair. But if you want to know about some films that were eligible...

You haven’t seen a single frame of it.

Thank god we are finally over this Spiderman crap lmao

Season 8. It's the most chaotic season ever and has the most insane ensemble of people. Raj is the MVP. I'm also partial to Season 10, if only because it has Christina Wilson my queen. A legit inspiration.

#4 Casablanca 1933 points, 25 lists "Play it once, Sam. For old time's sake." Box Office: 3.7-6.9M Rotten Tomatoes: 99% Metacritic: 100 Awards: 3 Academy Awards and 5 nominations Its Legacy: Oft-considered the greatest WB movie ever made. Gave Claud Rains a paycheck. Features some of the greatest characters, lines, and songs in film history. The most iconic work of Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and Michael Curtiz. Adapted into radio, television and a novel. #2 on AFI's Top 100 Movies and #3 on their 2007 edition. Six entries in AFI's Top 100 Movie Quotes. One of the first films placed in the National Film Registry in 1989. Gave Claud Rains a paycheck. Commentary: Do you recall the most famous romance of all? When it first released in 1942, nobody expected that much out of it. Everybody involved knew this was going to be good, but did they think this would be hailed as the greatest film ever made, boast the most phenomenal romance story ever told, have the best dialogue ever crafted, and feature an all-star ensemble all at the top of their game? Did they think that? Of course not. And in fact, it was just considered a solid feature at the time. Yet more and more over time, this became the best of the best. The movie WB had as their gold standard. The film they came close to topping but never actually could. There’s a lot of good reasons why Casablanca is the best. I mean, it’s a movie with the message of “Fuck Nazis”. That’s a message we have plenty of, but still need every second of every day. But man...it’s just such a great fucking cast. And they all play such lovable and iconic characters. Humphrey Bogart is the ultimate sad sack Rick Blaine, torn between the woman and country he loves. Ingrid Bergman is the long lost love Ilsa, a gorgeous woman with the most soulful eyes ever seen in cinema. Paul Henreid is the dashing Austrian Victor Laszlo, the leader of the Rebellion. Peter Lorre is the cowardly Signor, who gets killed off in the beginning, making us aware of the dangers ahead. Conrad Veidt as the evil Nazi we have to take down. Dooley Wilson as the old time friend Sam, with the voice of an angel. And my personal favorite, Claude Rains as Captain Renault, who is just happy to be here and will be friends with whoever asks. It’s just such a memorable, incredibly-written ensemble. Everybody has their place, everybody does phenomenal work, and everybody complements a screenplay that has an incredibly tragic, yet uplifting storyline and a phenomenal ending that offers chills. All the while, peppered with some of the best dialogue in movie history. Every line from Julius and Philip Epstein and Howard Koch is just a bop and have transcended into iconic quotes within even casual conversation. These BOT lists will always be plagued by the evils of recency bias. So to have an amazing classic like this just barely miss the top 3..I think that says quite a bit about this special little masterpiece.

#5 Goodfellas 1907 points, 25 lists "As far back as I can remember I always wanted to be a gangster." Box Office: 47.1M Rotten Tomatoes: 96% Metacritic: 92 Awards: 1 Academy Award and 6 nominations, 5 Golden Globe Award nominations, 4 BAFTA Awards and 2 nominations Its Legacy: The arguable high point of Scorsese's career. The most famous film of his 1990s tenure. Redefined the mob/gangster movie. Hailed as one of the greatest films ever made. Joined the National Film Registry in 2000. Influenced The Sopranos. Ranked #94 on AFI's Top 100 Films, #92 in the 2007 edition. #6 on Empire Magazine's Top 500 Films of All Time. Saw a scrapped television series in development. Namedropped in Bee Movie. Gave Ray Liotta (RIP) a paycheck. Commentary: The messier, nastier successor to The Godfather, one of, if not the most beloved work of Martin Scorsese just gets better and better every passing year. It’s both an expertly crafted feature, with fantastic story beats and well-written characters, yet is also oddly loosey and goosey when necessary. Improv was a heavy part of the film’s dialogue, allowing the actors to breathe and figure out how their characters work. There’s fun comedy bits thrown in, there’s some detours with other characters, there’s even a whole moment where our “heroes” hang out with Martin Scorsese’s mom and eat some dinner. You don’t get that from The Godfather, let me tell you that. Honestly, it’s one of those movies where I just don’t know what else I can add. Everybody here has seen it, everybody here loves it, it influenced every future gangster and mob story ever, from The Sopranos to Scorsese’s other works. It’s clever, it’s classic, it’s modern, it’s familiar, it’s wholly original. It’s just the best. And that’s all I can really add here.

#6 Inception 1820 points, 27 lists "Musn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling." Box Office: 870.7M Rotten Tomatoes: 87% Metacritic: 74 Awards: 4 Academy Awards and 4 nominations, 1 Grammy Award nomination, 3 BAFTA Awards and 6 nominations, 4 Golden Globe Award nominations, 1 MTV Movie Award and 6 nominations Its Legacy: When Christopher Nolan became Papa Nolan. Considered one of the greatest movies of the 2010s. Referenced in hip hop and pop tracks, as well as parodied on The Simpsons, South Park and Rick and Morty. Caused the "-ception" meme. Considered the most overrated movie of 2010 according to an informal Los Angeles Times poll. #51 on BBC's Best Films of the 21st Century. Gave Ken Watanabe a paycheck. Commentary: This was the film where Christopehr Nolan became Papa Nolan. The ultimate chad director who could bring in the masses just on his name. While his Batman movies had the DC branding, all Inception had was Nolan, Leo, and a dream. And what a dream it was. The film was perhaps a bit too convoluted on a first viewing, yet that weirdly meant audiences wanted to see it again and again. To analyze every detail, understand how the concept of extraction, inception, and dream layering even works, and what the hell was even going on. And it was thanks to the fact that, even if you don’t pay too close attention, it’s still a rollicking good heist adventure. An incredible ensemble cast full of Papa Nolan’s reliable players. Incredible action set pieces. A fun, high-octane storyline that keeps people invested. And by all accounts, this has all of Nolan’s unique ideas and concepts as an auteur placed into one slick and cool package. Nolan's ideas of time, the metaphysical, and cinema itself are all in this package, and the director was given all the money to make his wacky ideas a reality. And in a world where "one for you, one for me" doesn't exist for directors anymore, this really does feel like a breath of fresh air. A swing for the fences tentpole blockbuster that doesn't try to sell you toys or build a franchise. Something legit risky and out there. And it largely works more often when it doesn't. We deserve more movies like this.

It's better than arguing about the Sequel Trilogy again. That one feels like we're doing it every week now. We really need new conversation starters.

This is a sad one to hear. His work on both Mr. Robot and especially This is Us was phenomenal.

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This might ruffle some feathers, but I'm not even sure if Deadpool 3 is safe from underperforming. It really does feel like even the hardcore fans are sick of the whole entire genre at this point.

Moderation @El Gato this whole “we are never ever ever ever ever seeing Aquaman or Flash or Blue Beetle in a million years because DC movies are dead forever” schtick isn’t cute anymore. It’s not funny, never was funny, and frankly seems like you’re trying to troll. If you continue this hyperbolic nonsense further, you will lead me no choice but to threadban you.

Yes. Many a time in fact. Crazy Rich Asians, Coco, Girls Trip, Shang-Chi, Moana, Wonder Woman, the recent Disney Star Wars movies, Halle's Little Mermaid (no, I don't care about its overseas box office), Spider-Verse. And if we add in TV, we have Glee, Empire, Never Have I Ever, Pose, and tons more. Some pushed it more than others, but these have all been parts of their marketing strategy. And it's a fantastic tool, considering that moviegoing, at least here in the States, is the most diverse and non-white it has ever been. So yeah. It's worked a lot.

I will say however that I do feel WB is to blame for Blue Beetle's opening, because they barely did a thing to advertise it. Even before the SAG strikes happened, they basically gave the film the table scraps of their marketing budget in favor of The Flash and Barbie. I saw more advertising done by fans of the Blue Beetle character than the actual conglomerate that has more money than God. I've never seen something like this before with a big movie like this. It's frankly so scummy to put all the marketing stops, with major press and industry screeenings and forcing Tom Cruise and Stephen King, to say ultra-positive things and hype the movie up as the second coming, over a film starring a known abuser and asshole and a bunch of deepfake cameos of dead people, and then ditch your better-reviewed movie starring a POC lead. I obviously don't think it would have opened like crazy, but I see no reason to think you couldn't have given us a solid 45M opening with stronger advertising and a "representation matters" hook towards the most active moviegoing audience. It's also way cheaper than Flash too, so an opening on that level was a way better investment, especially if this is supposed to tie into the new Gunn universe. It's like those WB execs want to fail. Sheer idiocy.

This El Gato fellow does this a lot. I remember him shouting that Aquaman's middling opening, despite being fine enough for December, was a sign that DC was doomed forever and that it was all Snyder's fault. So this has been a very frustrating pattern of this that has gotten pretty darn old if you ask me. Hopefully he'll realize his schtick has gotten old and tired sooner rather than later.

Right here.

Moderation Yeah, we're uh...we're not doing this "Latinos shouldn't star in movies" thing here. Especially over a movie that, frankly, WB left to die. End it here.

Insane that PTA predicted Nazifurs. He really is a director ahead of his time.

Well now you're saying it should happen so we can get pure chaos and pandemonium. That's an inviting ticket, lemme tell ya.

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Quorum Updates Back on the Strip T-1: 22.03% Awareness Golda T-8: 17.07% Awareness Bottoms T-15: 14.84% Awareness The Nun II T-22: 43.87% Awareness Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie T-43: 31.93% Awareness The Marvels T-85: 47.59% Awareness Drive Away Dolls T-190: 16.17% Awareness Blue Beetle T-1: 43.94% Awareness Final Awareness: 89% chance of 10M, 59% chance of 20M, 37% chance of 30M, 22% chance of 40M, 11% chance of 70M DC/MCU Awareness: 100% chance of 70M Strays T-1: 48.89% Awareness Final Awareness: 89% chance of 10M, 59% chance of 20M Low Awareness: 100% chance of 10M, 25% chance of 20M Gran Turismo T-8: 40.36% Awareness Final Awareness: 89% chance of 10M, 59% chance of 20M, 37% chance of 30M Medium Awareness: 82% chance of 10M, 64% chance of 20M, 54% chance of 30M