Eric Quinn

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No reason to be ashamed of liking a banger. Of course, it's no Ninja Rap.

#269 - 42nd Street (107 points, 4 lists, avg. ranking #74) #268 - The Matrix Revolutions (107 points, 4 lists, avg. ranking #63) #267 - The Pajama Game (107 points, 2 lists) #266 - The In-Laws (108 points, 2 lists) #265 - The Killing Fields (109 points, 4 lists) #264 - Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (112 points, 4 lists) #263 - Bones and All (113 points, 4 lists) #262 - Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (113 points, 3 lists) #261 - The Crimson Pirate (114 points, 2 lists, avg. ranking #44) #260 - Natural Born Killers (114 points, 2 lists, avg. ranking #28)

#279 - Analyze This (99 points, 3 lists) #278 - Mad Max (99 points, 2 lists) #277 - The Maltese Falcon (1931) (99 points, 1 list) #276 - The Dark Knight Returns Part II (100 points, 1 list) #275 - The Jazz Singer (102 points, 2 lists) #274 - They Shall Not Grow Old (104 points, 2 lists, avg. ranking #49) #273 - Batman: Under the Red Hood (104 points, 2 lists, avg. ranking #43) #272 - Meet John Doe (105 points, 2 lists) #271 - Innerspace (106 points, 4 lists) #270 - A Little Princess (106 points, 2 lists)

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Quorum Updates Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem T-0: 61.36% Awareness Strays T-16: 32.39% Awareness The Hill T-23: 15.67% Awareness Dumb Money T-51: 13.48% Awareness The Marvels T-100: 44.12% Awareness Boys in the Boat T-145: 8.86% Awareness Kung Fu Panda 4 T-219: 40.23% Awareness Meg 2: The Trench T-2: 53.86% Awareness Final Awareness: 100% chance of 10M, 89% chance of 20M, 68% chance of 30M, 42% chance of 40M, 32% chance of 50M Tentpole Awareness: 100% chance of 40M, 50% chance of 50M The Nun 2 T-37: 38.63% Awareness T-30 Awareness: 86% chance of 10M, 59% chance of 20M, 41% chance of 30M, 14% chance of 40M Horror Awareness: 100% chance of 10M, 80% chance of 20M, 60% chance of 30M, 20% chance of 40M Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie T-58: 28.48% Awareness T-60 Awareness: 56% chance of 10M, 28% chance of 20M Animation/Family Awareness: 60% chance of 10M, 20% chance of 20M

If Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3 isn’t #1, I will personally shut down the whole forum.

Chaos incarnate lol

When you work at Target 8 hours a day every day, your brain goes through relapses like these. I’ll fix this later lol I mean I voted for it! Love the hell out of that movie. Guess it’s just too gay for people to handle

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#60 All the President's Men 636 points, 10 lists "Nothing's riding on this except the first amendment to the Constitution, freedom of the press, and maybe the future of the country." Box Office: 70.6M Rotten Tomatoes: 94% Metacritic: 84 Awards: 4 Academy Awards and 4 nominations, 10 BAFTA Award nominations, 4 Golden Globe Award nominations, 4 National Board of Review Awards, Its Legacy: Dramatized the epic story of Woodward, Bernstein, and Watergate, making sure people never forget these events. The best film of 1976 to Gene Siskel. One of seven films to win Best Picture from 3 out of 4 major US film critic groups. #57 on AFI's Best Thrillers, #27 for Best Heroes, #34 for Most Inspiring, and #77 on the Top 100 Movies of All Time (2007 Edition). Saw a documentary based on the movie for Sundance Channel in 2013. Joined the National Film Registry in 2010. Gave Jack Warden a paycheck. Commentary: Well, here’s another anti-establishment movie. One that’s also an important lesson on how cool journalism is and how necessary it is within our society. Tackling how Bernstein and Woodward discovered and revealed the Watergate scandal, it’s a nerve-wracking feature. Yes, we all know what happens. But the tension comes from how the late director Alan J. Pakula puts this drama into perspective. This is the most important news that needs to be shared and we need that truth out there. Come hell or high water. It’s the one movie where the sounds of a typewriter leave just as impact as the sound of a shotgun. We see not only the pressure between these two men, portrayed perfectly by Al Pacino and Dustin Hoffman, but even how easily the media was in favor of Nixon, manipulated by his statements. It’s a film that asks its viewers to not believe everything you read and that the free press is the most crucial aspect of our lives and must give the right information to people. Give people what they want to know, and we lead to lies and misinformation. Give people what they need to know, and we are all better for it. And well...recent events have made that message more important than ever. Wish I could say this movie was dated and of its time; like I said, gotta tell you what you need to know.

#61 Cool Hand Luke 630 points, 10 lists "What we've got here is failure to communicate" Box Office: 16.2M Rotten Tomatoes: 100% Metacritic: 92 Awards: 1 Academy Award and 3 nominations, 1 DGA Award nomination, 2 Golden Globe Award nominations, Its Legacy: Solidified Paul Newman as one of the most bankable movie stars. An iconic piece of anti-establishment cinema during the Vietnam War era. One of the few movies to recieve a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. Ranked #11 in AFI's Top 100 Movie Quotes, #30 in Movie Heroes, and #71 in Most Insipiring Movies. Inducted into the National Film Registry in 2005. Adapted into a West End play. Inspired the Christian alternative rock band of the same name. Gave George Kennedey a paycheck. Commentary: Paul Newman’s the coolest fucking dude ever. Every role he was in, he understood the assignment and delivered banger performances. One of the best to ever do it. And Cool Hand Luke is a masterclass of acting in what is a very powerful and politically charged piece of anti-establishment cinema. The film is a slam against tyranny, the evils of the prison system, and fighting for what you believe in. Yes, Luke Jackson is still a criminal, but he is surrounded by people who are even worse. Those who use our systems to abuse others and take advantage of their power to do acts worse than the criminals they are imprisoning. Having Luke serve as the cool rebel, the guy who has an unbreakable will, gives us insights onto how we can rebel against our systems. In many ways, it’s a sad look at how we unfairly treat people who deserve better, but also a symbol for how we can rise up against the man. It’s a perfect example of that late 60s rebellion against the man and how we need to push for individuality and determination against tyrannical rule and abuse. A lesson that is not new, but always needed to be re-learned again and again. And this is one of the best to do it.

#62 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 629 points, 12 lists "Don't that picture look dusty?" Box Office: 15M Rotten Tomatoes: 77% Metacritic: 68 Awards: 2 Academy Award nominations, 1 Empire Award nomination, 1 Golden Globe Award nomination, 1 National Board of Review Award, 1 Satellite Award and 3 nominations Its Legacy: Ranked in the National Board of Review's Top 10 Movies of 2007. Nominee for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Earned the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival. Appeared in numerous best movies of the year lists from critics. Frequently re-released into theaters thanks to the Jesse James Revival fan campaign. Director Andrew Dominik's breakout film. Gave Mary-Louise Parker a paycheck. Commentary: Long before Andrew Dominik embarrassed himself with his awful, terrible, horrible, no good, very bad movie about Marilyn Monroe, he was actually a smart, competent filmmaker. And this is best shown in his most loved and famous work, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford...long title. The appeal of Jesse James is twofold. The first and more obvious is how this serves as a character study. Jesse James and Robert Ford, played by Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck, are both very layered individual. James is a hard-stoned criminal, but also a devoted family man. Robert Ford is an outcast who desperately wants to be part of James’ crew and gain notoriety. Is Ford a coward for wanting to take down a criminal? Is James really that terrible a person? Can either crook be redeemed? All of this is explored in this layered storyline. This film also appears under the backdrop of the death of the Wild West. The mythology of these epic figures are losing their luster and the freedom of the open range is disappearing due to the growing societies taking place in their wake. It’s a powerful look into an aspect of the Western that is seldom explored, even in a post-Dances with Wolves era of deconstruction we are still living in. The western has been a staple of WB. Ones that are about deconstructing the mythos and legends of the era and the film genre itself. And this more recent take is one of their strongest and a major reason why we still get these movies even long after the actual Wild West has disappeared for a century.

It's more that boomers sadly reject going to the movies now and will just wait to see this at home. A lot of other things hurt Indy (that Cannes premieres killed any and all momentum frankly) and it still wouldn't have been a huge hit or whatever, but if we were back at 2018/2019 attendance, I feel it would have at least matched Solo.

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Lol every time I've visited the theater, I'm surrounded by pink shirts. It makes me feel so awkward and lonely when I'm the asshole seeing the Toy Story re-release or the new Mission: Impossible. Some real "Homer in a lesbian bar" vibes. Bryan Adams in general 🤮 They were basically the blueprint for Gerwig's Barbie when you really think about it.

#289 - The Last Days of Disco (91 points, 2 lists) #288 - The Hangover Part 3 (92 points, 2 lists) #287 - King Richard (93 points, 3 lists) #286 - Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (93 points, 2 lists) #285 - The Dark Knight Returns Part I (95 points, 1 list) #284 - The Life of Emile Zola (96 points, 1 list) #283 - Calamity Jane (97 points, 2 lists) #282 - A Midsummer Night's Dream (97 points, 1 list) #281 - The Way Back (98 points, 4 lists) #280 - The Mystery of the Wax Museum (98 points, 1 list)

Hi Jessie. Bye Jessie. You’re a bigoted fuckhead, you make the world worse, and you wasting your life in a place you’re banned isn’t funny anymore. Please fuck off. Thank you 😘

#299 - The Letter (83 points, 1 list) #298 - Any Given Sunday (84 points, 2 lists) #297 - The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (85 points, 1 list, avg. ranking #16) #296 - Hereafter (85 points, 1 list, avg. ranking #4) #295 - Body Heat (87 points, 3 lists) #294 - A Stolen Life (87 points, 1 list) #293 - Lethal Weapon 2 (88 points, 3 lists) #292 - Sayonara (88 points, 2 lists) #291 - Watch on the Rhine (89 points, 1 list) #290 - The Mosquito Coast (90 points, 1 list)