JohnnY
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I'm still not sure how to rate this movie. I need to watch it a second time because I feel like I don't agree with some of the things it tries to imply. I remember watching Melancholia and loving it, only to start hating it after the movie became clearer to me on a second view. Curiously, the opposite happened to Tree of Life, I really disliked it at first and then I fell in love with it.
I did have a good time watching it, I was far from bored, but I hardly think this is groundbreaking. Lars Von Trier, Jodorowsky, Ingmar Bergman, Lynch and Terrence Malick all made movies that were either more gruesome or more allegorical/psychedelic than this. There's literally nothing in this movie that is shocking or complex in a way people have never seen before. Hell, this is the guy that directed Pi and The Fountain, he used to do "artsy stuff", aren't people over reacting? I suppose the movie is shocking to people who are used to Hollywood blockbusters and Oscar baits, and I'm sure that JLaw and the marketing ended up attracting a lot of people who expect something completely different. That's probably where all the "this movie made no sense, it's a piece of trash" reviews are coming from. Negative critics about it being excessively allegorical in order to pose as an arthouse movie are valid imo, though.
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In my university even the teachers make copies of books, it is a normal practice in Brazil.
I really don't think we should keep this kind of knowledge away from people who don't have money. The average Brazilian university student don't have money to buy these books and this is the only way of making scientific knowledge readily available for them.
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Lol no the publishers don't allow that...
There be one copy and that's it.
Plus you can keep that for what 2 weeks?
In my university only 2 weeks, but you can renew that how many times you want if no one needs the book.
The academic books business need to die anyway.
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Textbook piracy I have no reservations over.
I just saved 230 dollars cash.
Can't you get those books in a library?
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Btw, even though services like Spotify and Kindle unlimited are not illegal, artists don't usually get a lot of money from it. I'm really not sure what's the solution.
I've never paid for Spotify, I would just use the browser version and block ads with an add on. Spotify in my country imposed a time limit for free streaming so recently I just started listening to stuff on YouTube while still blocking ads with ad blocker.
What I'm doing is completely legal, but that raises the question... Is it fair to block ads?
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I pirate a lot of stuff because of money issues, but I try to stick to cheap options when it's possible (Spotify, Netflix, YouTube, steam)
Not sure how much money I 'steal' from the industry. I haven't downloaded a movie in the last 4 months and i saw literally zero movies since August.
I try to support stuff that I enjoy, like buying band's self pressed vinyls and indie games on steam, but I don't have the money to support everyone. And I usually don't buy new stuff, most of the time I get my music, comics and books from second hand stores or public libraries.
What freaking annoys me is when book stores charge a lot of money for old philosophy books. Why on earth should I pay for something written by a guy who died 500 years ago? And I say that as a philosophy student who is trying to get into the translation business.
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Congratulations, guys! And thanks for running the game, Andy.
I'm planning on returning to the game this year, but I've already missed the first week lol
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Oh wow, Inside Outt? This is insane. But I'm pretty sure the movie will go down a few positions if we do a Top 100 again in a few years.
It doesn't really surprise me that so many people like it, I also love it. It's just unexpected to see this grabbing the 1st place.
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Has inside out already been mentioned? Which rank?
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The first one is OK, but I don't really care about it
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What is Kfp2 doing in this list, what a horrible movie
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I need to watch Song of the Sea and The Book of Life...
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i'm loving the list, but to see KFP3 and MU above Nausicaa makes me want to gouge my eyes out.
By the way, could someone make a list of the movies that were already mentioned?
I'ill be a bit surprised if Summer Wars didn't make the list, did it make the list, @chasmmi?
What about Arrietty and Anomalisa?
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i think we should also consider wall-e for 1st place
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eeehh... I liked Power Rangers because it was kind of a childish fantasy series. It was not supposed to be realistic, it was about interplanetary villains creating cheesy monsters.
Just like Dragon Ball Evolution and The Last Airbender were not able to emulate their original series, this doesn't look like Power Rangers.
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14 hours ago, chasmmi said:
118th - The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
56pts - 4 votes, 1 top 5 (2014: 134th: Up 16)
The title sounds like a Thai film that gets nominated for Foreign Language Oscars to me, but that may just be me.
Another film to receive a small pocket of very strong votes. It's a film that I know absolutely nothing about and further embarrasses me as someone who thinks they can host a best animation list countdown. Clearly I am an Ice Age and Turbo-loving troglodyte (actually, I really liked Turbo
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16 places is a good increase too, a sign that Japanese animation will show strongly this list???
Great to see this movie on the list, even if it's not in a good rank. I'm curious, who were the other 3 that voted for it?
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oh, god, i completely forgot about putting Eldorado in my list
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6 hours ago, No Prisoners said:
Are you in europe?
I'm in Romania right now. I get my picks all set on Thursday. I find theater counts affect just 1-3 picks each week and make a couple adjustments quickly before 10 am Friday (12 PDT deadline.)
Japan.
Yeah, maybe I could just do the predictions without theater counts, then on the next morning I check which ones are getting huge theater drops and make some adjustments.
I'll try this next week, it's just that I'm so used to waiting for theater numbers.
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Ever since i changed my time zone I go to bed before we have theater counts (like right now, for example) and on the next day I have classes until after the deadline.
It will be hard for me to play this again.
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On 25/09/2016 at 2:23 PM, TalismanRing said:
This is weeks old, but RDJ is too low.
he's too high
actually, he shouldn't even be in the top 100
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I feel kinda bad because I've never seen Beauty and the Beast and the Iron Giant, they are always mentioned on best animated movies lists.
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I keep missing the deadline...
Btw, the lack of players is making the game less appealing.
I don't get it, we are in a box office forum, why aren't users interested in predicting box office?
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Just wanted to check if this list is possibly going to get any longer [emoji4][emoji6]
It will, just give me a few days.
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so i decided to play this again after one year and a half and apparently i'm gonna end almost at the last place
how cool