Eric Quinn

TIMOTHEE SUPREMACY

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#290 - The BFG (85 points, 4 lists) #289 - Angels in the Outfield (85 points, 2 lists) #288 - Scary Movie 3 (85 points, 1 list) #287 - High School Musical (86 points, 3 lists) #286 - Scream 3 (86 points, 1 list) #285 - Insomnia (87 points, 3 lists) #284 - Adventures in Babysitting (87 points, 1 list) #283 - The Crow (88 points, 3 lists) #282 - Old Yeller (89 points, 4 lists) #281 - Beloved (89 points, 1 list)

#72 Encanto 727 points, 17 lists "Maybe your gift is being in denial." Box Office: 256.8M Rotten Tomatoes: 92% Metacritic: 75 Awards: 1 Academy Award and 2 nominations, 3 Annie Awards and 6 nominations, 1 Golden Globe Award and 2 nominations, 3 Grammy Awards, 4 Imagen Awards and 2 nominations Roger Ebert’s Review: N/A Its Legacy: Became a massive phenomenon in 2022. Inspired debates on mental health and family dynamics. The most-viewed film on streaming in 2022. The second-most viewed film on streaming in 2023. 27.7 billion views on Tiktok. "We Don't Talk About Bruno" became the first Disney song to hit #1 on Billboard since "A Whole New World". Expected to be one of Disney's biggest new franchises. Gave Stephanie Beatriz a paycheck. Commentary: It’s here we have one of Walt Disney Animation Studios’ more recent hits. This film became a worldwide phenomenon once it reached Disney+ for very good reasons. The directors Jared Bush and Bryon Howard, the duo who helped bring Zootopia to life, crafted a story that lovingly pays tribute to the beauty, the wonder, and the people of Colombia. It’s a story that isn’t about a princess finding love or talking animals discovering who they are. This is a very personal, family-driven story about the frustrations of expectations and generational divides that many empathize and relate to, regardless of your background. The film not only talks about familial pressures and the fears of not stacking up to what your loved ones wanted, but plays it smart by making all parties relatable and understandable and full of depth. Our protagonist Mirabel Madrigal is a quirky, yet kind-hearted and determined figure who just wants the best for her house and family, even if she’s the odd one out from all the powerful, more lauded members of her family. The abuela of the family could have easily been a one-dimensional and cruel matriarch, but her feelings and insecurities found in the film make sense, with a good sense of tragedy and a good sense of pathos, grounding the film in an emotional sincerity that anybody can enjoy and identify with. But of course, the real star of the show is America’s Sweetheart Lin-Manuel Miranda, who produced an absolutely incredible soundtrack full of catchy melodies, creative lyrics, and complex yet engaging compositions. It’s a soundtrack that is impossible to get out of your head and has of course become a sensation on Spotify and TikTok even now as we speak. The film has almost immediately become a staple of the Disney empire in the same way films like The Lion King and Frozen has and will likely become a huge franchise over the next few years. How big will the movie be? How much will its popularity transcend the decades? Well, it’s just getting started. But I have faith. A lot of good faith.

#73 Hercules 708 points, 19 lists "Honey, you mean Hunk-ules." Box Office: 252.7M Rotten Tomatoes: 82% Metacritic: 74 Awards: 1 Academy Award nomination, 4 Annie Awards and 2 nominations, 1 Golden Globe Award nomination Roger Ebert’s Review: "The movie has been directed by John Musker and Ron Clements, who inaugurated the modern era of Disney animation with the inspired "Little Mermaid" (1989) and also made "Aladdin" (1992). The look of their animation has a new freshness because of the style of Scarfe, famous in England for his sharp-penned caricatures of politicians and celebrities; the characters here are edgier and less rounded than your usual Disney heroes (although the cuddly Pegasus is in the traditional mode). The color palette too, makes less use of basic colors and stirs in more luminous shades, giving the picture a subtly different look that suggests it is different in geography and history from most Disney pictures." Its Legacy: Earned a strong fanbase despite underperforming at the box office. Brought Gerald Scarfe to Disney. Features a banging soundtrack. Oft-considered one of Musker and Clements' more underappreciated titles. Spawned a television series. Appeared in Kingdom Hearts. Given a musical stage show in 2019. A live-action remake is in development. Gave Bobcat Goldthwait a paycheck. Commentary: The big follow-up from Little Mermaid/Aladdin directors Ron Clements and John Musker, Hercules is a very odd duck when you get around to it. More of a Caesar’s Palace-style rendition of Greek mythology, we have a lot of the darker, sexual elements removed (for obvious reasons of course), Hercules acts more like Superman, there’s gospel music for almost all the numbers, there’s a lot of satire of merchandising and product placement that was common in the 90s, and our villain Hades was more like a shady car salesman than a booming threat. Still, it was a film that captured a lot of unique charms that, while reminiscent of other Musker/Clements features, also allowed the film to have a unique personality and style to it. This resulted in good songs, great characters, a fun and inspirational story about a misfit discovering himself and what it means to be a hero, and slick, stylized animation courtesy of Gerald Scarfe, who you may best know for his work with Pink Floyd. The film’s eccentricities meant it did underperform at the box office, but the movie’s unique identity, fun universe, and memorable sequences meant it was destined to get a strong audience. An audience that’s still enamored by the feature and still finds themselves singing its praises. And singing its catchy gospel songs.

#74 O Brother, Where Art Thou? 698 points, 11 lists "It would be so nice if something would make sense for a change." Box Office: 71.9M Rotten Tomatoes: 78% Metacritic: 69 Awards: 2 Academy Award nominations, 3 BAFTA Award nominations, 1 Golden Globe Award and 1 nomination, 2 Grammy Award wins, 2 MTV Movie Award nominations Roger Ebert’s Review: "All of these scenes are wonderful in their different ways, and yet I left the movie uncertain and unsatisfied. I saw it a second time, admired the same parts, left with the same feeling. I do not demand that all movies have a story to pull us from beginning to end, and indeed one of the charms of "The Big Lebowski," the Coens' previous film, is how its stoned hero loses track of the thread of his own life. But with "O Brother, Where Are Thou?" I had the sense of invention set adrift; of a series of bright ideas wondering why they had all been invited to the same film." Its Legacy: Competed for Palme D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Its soundtrack went 8x Platinum. More successful than the film itself. Created the Soggy Bottom Boys and the Down from the Mountain concert tour. Gave the youths a fresh spin on Homer's The Odyssey. The first collaboration between the Coens and T Bone Burnett. Also the first collaboration between the Coens and George Clooney. Gave Charles Durning a paycheck. Commentary: One of the most famous Coen releases ever, it’s also one of the best films that showcase the idiosyncrasies of the two brothers and what make their films so unique and stylish. It’s a hilarious comedy, a fun adventure, a dramatic tale on brotherhood, and a fantastic insight into the strange, yet endearing world of the American South. All the while, having one amazing soundtrack. The songs in here, both from our Soggy Bottom Boys and not from them, is full of great bangers, highlighting the charms of folk and bluegrass music, while setting up the quirky tone of the feature perfectly. The songs here would soon take a life of their own, winning Album of the Year at the Grammys among other accolades, and is still a hit decades later, with nearly 9 million copies sold and many young folk knowing who Ralph Stanley and Haywire Mac thanks to this film. And while the soundtrack plays a big part in what makes the film so good, it’s also very funny, very well-paced, full of great twists and turns, and a tone and scale that feels loopy and silly, yet also grand and exciting. It’s an odyssey that’s as good as...well, as good as The Odyssey.

Dune: 170 Kung Fu Panda: 160 Ghostbusters: 85 GxK: 90

#300 - The Castle (80 points, 1 list) #299 - Shanghai Noon, Treasure Island (81 points, 2 lists, avg. ranking #60) #298 - Infernal Affairs (81 points, 2 lists, avg. ranking #39) #297 - Open Range (82 points, 3 lists) #296 - Miracle (82 points, 2 lists) #295 - Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella (1997) (82 points, 1 list) #294 - What About Bob? (83 points, 3 lists) #293 - What's Love Got To Do With It? (83 points, 2 lists) #292 - Bandits (83 points, 1 list) #291 - He Got Game, The Lion King 1 1/2 (84 points, 2 lists)

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You’re surprised by this? People always gravitate towards recent movies as their favorite lol

Ah yes. Before BvS, movies always had good word of mouth and always had good legs.