Eric Quinn

#2 Goodfellas (1990) 194 pts, 24 lists "As far back as I can remember I always wanted to be a gangster." #1 placements: 7 #2 placements: 6 #3 placements: 2 Top 5 placements: 18 Top 10 placements: 2 Box Office: $47.1 million Rotten Tomatoes: 96% Metacritic: 90 Awards: 1 Academy Award and 6 nominations, 5 Golden Globe nominations, 4 BAFTAs and 2 nominations, Silver Lion for Best Director, Audience Award, and Bastone Bianco Award at Venice Film Festival, 1 National Board of Review Award Roger Ebert’s Review: "What Scorsese does above all else is share his enthusiasm for the material. The film has the headlong momentum of a storyteller who knows he has a good one to share." BOT User Review: "The best movie of the '90s after Pulp Fiction." - @The Stingray 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 a paycheck. Commentary: The ultimate mob movie. Essentially the spiritual successor to Coppola’s Godfather duology (sorry Part III), Goodfellas is an exhilarating, unfiltered look into the life of Henry Hill and his associates in a film that is full of twists, turns, and surprises. The 2.5 hours just fly by as we follow the immense rise of the mob, only for a tough, wild descent into paranoia. Detailing the changing times from 1955 to 1980 with violence, comedy, and a whole lot of style, it’s a film that feels jam-packed with goodies, with nothing else that needed to be added or removed. Honestly, I don’t know what else to say about this movie. You’ve all seen it and you already know it’s good. I can’t bring anything else that every other critic (and also David Chase) has said about the film. I guess the only big surprise is that despite many citing this as Scorsese’s best, it’s only at #2. You probably know what #1 is by now, and I think, even if you prefer the other film, that this is a worthy silver medal.

#3 The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) 160 pts, 21 lists "As a rich man, when I have to face my problems, I show up in the back of the limo, wearing a $2000 suit and a $40,000 gold fuckin' watch." #1 placements: 2 #2 placements: 4 #3 placements: 3 Top 5 placements: 15 Top 10 placements: 3 Box Office: $392 million Rotten Tomatoes: 79% Metacritic: 75 Awards: Five Academy Award nominations, 4 BAFTA nominations, 1 Empire Award and 1 nomination, 1 Golden Globe Awards and 1 nomination, 1 Grammy Award nomination, 2 MTV Movie Awards and 6 nominations, 2 National Board of Review Awards Critic Review: "A very fast three hours, Wolf is a fascinating, revolting, outlandish, uproarious, exhilarating and exhausting master work on immorality." - Betsey Sharkey, Los Angeles Times BOT User Review: "This is not just the best film of the year, it is unquestionably one of the best films I've ever seen. Every scene, every shot, every performance is about as good as it gets. Standing out of course are DiCaprio and Hill. Hill transforms himself in this film but DiCaprio gives the best performance of his career." - @baumer Its Legacy: Martin Scorsese's highest-grossing film. The Scorsese film the youths can get behind. Resurfaced the story of Jordan Belfort. Hit with controversy and backlash one after the other. Made Margot Robbie a superstar. Scorsese's first digital film. First film distributed entirely digitally. Featured the most "fucks" in a narrative movie until 2014's Swearnet: The Movie. Gave Kyle Chandler a paycheck. Commentary: It’s funny to think this now, but way back in Christmas 2013, 8 years ago (Man, time really has flown), The Wolf of Wall Street wasn’t warmly regarded. Many audiences were repulsed by this three-hour debauchery on display. The film was way too sexy, way too self-indulgent, way too vulgar, way too extreme, and seemingly glorified the behaviors and actions and lifestyle of Jordan Belfort. That Belfort’s fraudulent actions, lust for women, and obsession with cocaine were seen as epic and cool and exciting. And yeah, the insanity found within this long as sin movie was not the wholesome fun a lot of unsuspecting folks wanted for Christmas. Of course, the narrative changed very fast. The people who knew what they were getting into loved it. Really loved it. And almost overnight, Wolf of Wall Street went from a polarizing, pearl-clutching release to being hailed as one of Scorsese’s absolute bests, in a decade that was full of hits for the guy. It continued to play in packed auditoriums into the new year, propelling itself as Martin’s biggest movie ever made. It’s by far the craziest, most intense thrill ride from the NYC director, which is saying quite a bit. Perfectly capturing the real life Jordan Belfort and his drug-filled experiences making it to the top of the food chain, the film is visceral, horrifying, unnerving, bizarre, untamed, and fascinating all at once, with a career-best DiCaprio and an epic storyline that is both reminiscent of the likes of Casino, yet also unlike anything else. Its raw, primal energy is one so chaotic and wild that it’s insane to think it was done by a 71-year-old man. Whether or not that’s a credit towards Scorsese’s vivid imagination and wild spirit or an indictment against the current crop of directors, you decide. However, there’s more than just flash here. What’s so brilliant is that despite the depictions that many feel endorse Belfort’s sexist, drug-fueled behavior, it’s also a slam against this very lifestyle in the first place. Belfort still loses so much humanity and dignity in this destructive lifestyle, becoming more and more of an inhuman beast due to this capitalist mindset. It’s both a cathartic feeling (remember, capitalism will kill us faster than the virus will) and also a depressing look into a reality we’re still in. In the era of crypto bros, meme stocks, and Elon Musk-types, the story of Belfort is more relevant than ever, and it makes the film all the more fascinating and all the more horrifying. Like Fight Club before it, Wolf of Wall Street is one of those films that a good chunk of viewers take the wrong way. But for those who get Scorsese’s true intention as an auteur, it serves as an incredible watershed moment in the man’s career and one folks will watch for years to come.

Apologies once again for getting this out so late, but now I'm finally getting out the top three. Thank you all for your patience!

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Sing 2 Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-2 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 1 93 2622 15871 16.52% Total Seats Sold Today: 221 Total Seats WITHOUT EARLY ACCESS: 1,214 Comp (WITHOUT Early Access) 2.240x of Cruella Thu+Fri T-2 (17.26M) 5.101x of Jungle Cruise T-2 (13.77M) 5.233x of Encanto T-2 (7.85M)

The Matrix: Resurrections Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-2 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 77 2,161 13638 15.85% Total Shows Added Today: 3 Total Seats Added Today: 240 Total Seats Sold Today: 204 Comp 0.743x of Godzilla vs. Kong T-2 (7.21M) 2.406x of The Suicide Squad T-2 (9.87M) 1.423x of Dune T-2 (7.26M) I dunno guys, I still don't think 10M+ is happening

The King's Man Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-1 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 1 41 269 6357 4.23% Comp 1.035x of Snake Eyes T-1 (1.45M) 0.246x of The Suicide Squad T-1 (1.01M) 0.117x of No Time to Die T-1 (735K) 0.153x of Dune T-1 (779K)

Guys you're trying to champion over which soulless corp deserves more recognition. Does it really matter?

Do you exist?

I'm stuck on this. What are the answers to these riddles?

"Standalone" Yeah sure buddy.

Moderation You had your fun debating Star Wars last night, but we're not kickstarting this stuff again. Don't even bother.

If you don't like reading this stuff, you can just ignore it if you want.

Now this is how I would support Andrew being in the Marvel Industrial Complex

Here's an interesting tidbit: I generally like most of the CBMs that come out every year. Black Widow was a good time, helped by a very endearing and strong supporting cast. Shang-Chi was very much the same. The Suicide Squad was an absolute thrill ride from beginning to end. And No Way Home surprised me on how much I enjoyed it, though I still think Jon Watts can't direct action for shit. I'll probably end up liking Eternals too, because it seems to contain interesting elements I like in these kinds of films. It just so happens that I'm critical on them and have issues with these movies quality-wise. So yeah, despite liking them, I think I am allowed to knock the series down a few pegs or say that I prefer if an actor I love does something I would find more interesting personally. It's cool if people want something different from what I want, but I don't see why I have to keep my mouth shut. It's not like people can't just ignore me or move on to another post.

I mean...yeah. Me stating my own opinion is me being biased. Just as people saying that Garfield should be back as Spider-Man are also being biased. Not sure what you're going after here.

Nahhh, keep Garfield out of the Marvel industrial complex. They don't deserve his talent.

Honey you do not disrespect the true star of Legend of Tarzan, The V, like that.

I respect the optimism here, and I'm sure my stuff is an outlier, but...I dunno, I remember NTTD starting to flounder at the same point in time here in Philly, while things seemed fine with the other trackers, only for it to open to lukewarm results. And when you consider the fact that Matrix is probably fan-driven in presales and Spider-Man is sucking up all the attention in multiplexes, both in gross and WOM, I just think we're in real trouble here. I really am wishing the best for Matrix, like I do with every movie, but I feel like my Philly sales shouldn't just be waved off just yet.