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  1. Wall-E is a great choice for number 1, the best of the realistic options.
  2. That's just Leoh's posting style, and not just for Godzilla. He likes to repeat his opinions about 30 times for each movie, whether he thinks it will do well or not. He was high on KFP4 (which worked out) and Madame web (LOL) and Ghostbusters, but low on Dune (wrong) and now Godzilla. If it bothers you, you should just put him on ignore.
  3. Made it to 68 films, almost everything I wanted to get to: 1 Poor Things 2 Oppenheimer 3 Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse 4 Guardians Of The Galaxy 3 5 Killers Of The Flower Moon 6 Society Of The Snow 7 Saltburn 8 Seven Blessings 9 American Fiction 10 The Iron Claw 11 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem 12 They Cloned Tyrone 13 The Holdovers 14 The Color Purple 15 Past Lives 16 Anatomy Of A Fall 17 Bottoms 18 Talk To Me 19 No Hard Feelings 20 Nyad 21 The Zone Of Interest 22 Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves 23 Theater Camp 24 M3gan 25 Elemental
  4. I have seen 8 of the best picture nominees, and they are all very good. But leaving off Poor Things, the best film of the year, ugh.
  5. About 10 minutes of bad plot, with the rest of the time padded by incredibly long and dull songs: 10 minutes about cooking and cleaning, 10 minutes about taking a bath... It might be important for the development of animations and Disney, but it's also one of the most boring films I have ever seen.
  6. That's not tracking, that's box office pro predictions. I respect Shawn and maybe this ends up being correct, but I don't think it's fair to call everyone else's numbers as predictions, and theirs as tracking.
  7. Another film that only I voted for, this one I saw specifically for this list. It looked interesting enough from the description, but I was still surprised about how much I loved this. Also a 90's film that feels more topical than ever.
  8. Amsterdam, Frida and Blindness, we have reached the "films that I loved but no one else here did" stage of the list.
  9. The only other Meirelles film I have seen is Blindness, which got mediocre reviews, but I thought was great and I had at 26 on this list. Probably means I should watch the constant Gardner and maybe The Two Popes.
  10. After shitting on WDAS it's time to give credit when it's due. This film is great and deserves to make this list.
  11. I submitted a list and I'm following the reveal of a Disney list despite thinking that the 1937 Snow White is one of the worst films of all time (and several other classic WDAS are bad). I know what I'm getting myself into, and I'm OK with that.
  12. This is it, we have reached the cinematic peak of this list, with one of the greatest films ever made. I could complain about its low placing and how 90 lesser films will now follow, but considering the kind of film and list this is, I consider it a win just making the top 100.
  13. I know what I care about isn't what studios do, but I'm not the studio and nobody else here is either. And studios might not care about comparing films but they do care about how much a film makes beyond categorizing it as flop or not flop. 200M and 400M is not the same to the studio even if both are below the break even number. Sequels are made by predicting what the film will make, which is only partly based on the previous films performance. And legs are part of what you can use to predict the sequels. The mechanic didn't make 2x its budget, making it a flop based on the thinking on this forum, but got a sequel anyway. And on the other end there are films that made their break even but the bad legs caused by being received poorly make them long term failures for the studio. BVS and Quantumania did fine in pure box office analysis, but studios should not be pleased because they clearly harmed the sequels. Even if you care about the financial health of the studio, I don't think the break even point is even the most important anyway. The goal of the studio isn't to break even, it's to make a profit. Merely hitting the exact break even point on every film would still be bad.
  14. There are several reasons I don't like the break even discussions. 1. The discussions are based solely on box office numbers, and non box office revenue is ignored. This hasn’t made sense since the invention of television, but it's especially strange in today's world. We now have 100M+ budgeted films with no theatrical release considered a success by the studio, but a film with that budget making 200M in the box office is declared a definitive flop. 2. We don’t have all the proper data to know what the break even from theatrical is. The box office numbers themselves are available. how much studios actually make from that we have some idea but not all of it. Budgets estimates are quite unreliable, you can easily get estimates 50M apart from two different sites, or even from the same site a month apart. Marketing budgets are basically guesswork, which is why people will often throw out numbers 100M apart. 3. The break even discussion is dichotomous in a way that it isn’t in reality. Every film either makes its break even number and is a success or misses it and is a flop. But in reality it’s more about how much it makes than whether it hit a specific number. You can call the break even of a 200M budgeted film at 500M, but 450M is still closer to 550M than 200M (despite both being flops) and 550M is still closer to 450M than 1B (despite both being successful). Personally I care more about how a film performs compared to similar films, whether a sequel increases or decreases from the original, or how a film holds week to week, than whether it hits a single magic number.
  15. I went through the list in the original post and I have seen 285 of them so this is all of those ranked. This top 100 will surely be amongst the least Disneyish.
  16. Warner Brothers is a business whish succeeds when it makes a profit. These little pieces of gossip are irrelevant.
  17. Never mind then, but it's strange that Disney is your least favourite studio but your list is almost entirely regular Disney without all the Miramax and foreign films.
  18. You should look at the list in the first post, I think you will find that you have far more options than you think.
  19. I have seen 46 films so far, and there are important films I still need to see, but here's what I have now: 1 Oppenheimer 2 Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse 3 Guardians Of The Galaxy 3 4 Killers Of The Flower Moon 5 Saltburn 6 Seven Blessings 7 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem 8 They Cloned Tyrone 9 The Holdovers 10 Past Lives 11 Bottoms 12 No Hard Feelings 13 Nyad 14 Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves 15 Theater Camp 16 Elemental 17 John Wick 4 18 Dream Scenario 19 You Hurt My Feelings 20 Tetris 21 The Monkey House 22 Dumb Money 23 Priscilla 24 The Flash 25 Sisu
  20. Thanks, did you get the numbers from here? https://cinemascope.co.il/archives/32565#more-32565
  21. Don't worry about me forgetting, my list is ready but I'm still watching films for this so I'll wait until the deadline. I just finished watching Farewell My Concubine, and it's great and will be doing very well on my list.
  22. My first thought about this list was that I'm not a big Disney guy and that I would end up with a list full of films that I thought were good but not great. Seeing what is actually eligible though, dispels that notion. So many great and diverse films are on the list: with The Last Duel, Princess Mononoke, Gangs Of New York and Pulp Fiction, It's going to be a great list, although maybe not a very "Disney-like" one.
  23. 1 American History X 1998 2 Lawrence Of Arabia 1962 3 Memento 2000 4 Vertigo 1958 5 Ace In The Hole 1951 6 The Banshees Of Inisherin 2022 7 Sunset Boulevard 1950 8 Parasite 2019 9 Grave of the Fireflies 1988 10 The Fly 1986 11 One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest 1975 12 Miller's Crossing 1990 13 Heat 1995 14 Oppenheimer 2023 15 Good Time 2017 16 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 17 Ford V Ferrari 2019 18 The Northman 2022 19 Tunes Of Glory 1960 20 Promising Young Woman 2020 21 Sweet Smell Of Success 1957 22 Network 1976 23 Barry Lyndon 1975 24 Ran 1985 25 25th Hour 2002 26 The Red Shoes 1948 27 The Third Man 1949 28 Of Mice And Men 1939 29 Million Dollar Baby 2004 30 The Age Of Innocence 1993
  24. I wasn't expecting a film from my country to make this list, if I knew I definitely would have seen it.
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