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[The Panda]

7 hours ago, Jake Gittes said:

Number 62

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"Life isn't some cartoon musical where you sing a little song and all your insipid dreams magically come true. So let it go."

198 points, 22 lists

directed by Byron Howard & Rich Moore | US | 2016

 

The Pitch: In a city of anthropomorphic animals, a rabbit police officer and a fox con artist uncover a criminal conspiracy.

 

Top 12 Placements: 1
Metacritic: 78
Box Office: $1.023 billion WW
Awards: Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
BOT History: #3, Top Movies of 2016; BOFFY Awards for Best Original Screenplay and Best Animated Film
Critic Opinion: "The genius of Zootopia is that it works on two levels: It’s a timely and clever examination of the prejudices endemic to society, and also an entertaining, funny adventure about furry creatures engaged in solving a mystery." - Jen Chaney, The Washington Post

"Where Zootopia surpasses Big Hero 6, and any number of entertaining second-tier studio cartoons, is the way it ties a typical kid-movie message about believing in yourself—Zootopia is a place where “anyone can be anything”—to the real-world obstacles that can prevent self-confidence from prevailing on its own. By investigating the mechanics of long-held cartoon assumptions (both about the harmoniousness of some cartoon animals, and the characteristics of others), Disney is encouraging viewers young and old to see the world differently and more thoughtfully. It turns out slyness isn’t just a fox thing." - Jesse Hassenger, The AV Club
BOT Sez: "Honestly, Zootopia has more mature themes and handles them better than most actual Oscar contenders I've seen.  The movie floored me, it is one of Disney's best movies period.  This is golden aged Pixar level quality.  The film is quirky, funny, emotional, smart, layered, and gorgeous to look at.  The film comes packed with a message and themes that honestly adults need to hear more than the children it's aimed at.  I am hoping and praying this becomes a Disney staple that kids watch and re-watch, because it could make this world a better place for it. Every few years you get a movie that flips a mirror on the audience, to expose their own behavior, and does it perfectly.  Zootopia does just that (and the message isn't the only reason the movie is great, it's just that it is literally the driving force behind the film).  And honestly, with all of the directions American politics have gone lately (especially with Trump), this movie manages to expose the hatefulness out of fear that has been driving so much of it.  It has the punch of a great documentary about diversity while being an entertaining Disney film that anyone can watch and enjoy." - @The Panda
"Take me seriously when I say this; Zootopia is a deconstruction of the American Dream, and what we can do to repair it. You've heard it before; America is the big cultural melting pot where all men are created equal and there is opportunity for everyone. The same way that's shown not to be true in Zootopia, that universal message is losing it's meaning every single day when we look down upon those different from us. But if we all get rid of those labels, we can make the American Dream alive once again. It's probably one of the most powerful messages I've seen come from an animated film in years, let alone a talking animal one. And it's executed so perfectly as well. It's not completely shoved in your face to the point where it becomes preachy (like this review might be :P), but it's not tossed aside completely to the point where it loses it's meaning amid the rest of the film." - @Alpha
Commentary: Staying in blockbuster territory, we get today's dose of animation in the form of the Disney sensation that combined cute animals, a noir-inflected plot, a massive onscreen world to play around in and timely, rug-pulling social commentary. A word-of-mouth hit that played for weeks and weeks, it became only the second original film to cross $1 billion worldwide after Avatar, and largely dominated Best Animated Film awards. But is it the last 2016 WDAS release to appear here?

 

 

 

 

Quoted me, but the movie didn’t even come close to making my list 

[cannastop]

8 hours ago, Jake Gittes said:

BOFFY Awards for Best Original Screenplay

Wait seriously? Zootopia? I guess I invited all the stans to vote there, even if I didn't vote in the BOFFYs.

Edited April 14, 2020 by cannastop

[4815162342]

8 hours ago, Jake Gittes said:

Number 61

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"Is it just me or it's getting crazier out there?"

199 points, 12 lists

directed by Todd Phillips | US | 2019

 

The Pitch: A failed, victimized stand-up comedian descends into madness in 1981 Gotham City.

 

Top 5 Placements: 2

Top 12 Placements: 5

 

 

 

 

Top 5 Placements: 2

Top 12 Placements: 5

 

Some members of BOT live in their own society

[Jake Gittes]

34 minutes ago, 4815162342 said:

 

Top 5 Placements: 2

Top 12 Placements: 5

 

Some members of BOT live in their own society

Four of the lists I received came from people who have never posted anything, they strictly lurk. (Hey guys!) They all had Joker in their top 10.

 

They are out there.

[CoolioD1]

11 hours ago, Jake Gittes said:

Number 66

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"It's what it is."

188 points, 18 lists

directed by Martin Scorsese | US | 2019

 

The Pitch: An elderly former mafia hitman recalls a life of violence and betrayal. 

 

Top 12 Placements: 1
Metacritic: 94
Box Office: N/A
Awards: 10 Academy Award nominations
BOT History: #10, Top Movies of 2019; BOFFY for Best Adapted Screenplay
Critic Opinion: "For the first two and a half hours of its three-and-a-half-hour runtime, The Irishman is clever and entertaining, to the point where you may think that’s all it’s going to be. But its last half-hour is deeply moving in a way that creeps up on you, and it’s then that you see what Scorsese was working toward all along: A mini-history of late-20th century America as filtered through the eyes of a smalltime guy who needs and wants to believe in his own importance and capacity for decency—and who can’t see, though Scorsese can, that it’s the end of a life that tells the truth about the middle." - Stephanie Zacharek, TIME
BOT Sez: "It may be long and expensive but it's an intimate movie at heart, and it's never boring. De Niro is terrifically understated and the moments where he shows the tiniest bits of fear and remorse hit really hard. I don't usually get annoyed about award snubs but this was surely worth an oscar nom, for the scene where he calls Hoffa's wife alone. It may be one of the best depictions of a sociopath I've ever seen. Pesci is great too - if this is his last movie it was totally worth it. 
This should probably be Scorcese's last mafia movie - it's a perfect sendoff and there's nothing else to really say after this. It's a lonely, un-glamourous life and no amount of cool montages with 70s music can stop what's coming." - @Hatebox
“I thought it played like an average Scorsese flick for the first half but that second half is absolutely masterful. I think Scorsese made an interesting choice by making it clear that Sheeran didn't have a motive. He doesn't know why he's doing any of what he's doing. He's no Jordan Belfort or Henry Hill who are clearly motivated by greed. It's why Paquin's "Why?" has such a strong impact. That's the first time Sheeran actually thinks about what he's done.” - @lorddemaxus
Commentary: The one that brought the boys back. Getting in business with Netflix, Martin Scorsese traded a wide big-screen release for a chance to make perhaps his biggest film yet, and (what very much plays like) his final statement on the subject matter with which he's become most associated, viz. organized crime, those who are involved with it, and their place in mid-to-late 20th century American history. With a blank check and the most iconic living faces of gangster cinema at his disposal, the director went the opposite way of playing the greatest hits, subverting his familiar jazzed-up style for a confidently moving but unmistakably somber story about age, death and the wreckage that becomes the legacy of a violent life.

 

 

 

 

 

11 hours ago, Jake Gittes said:

Number 65

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"We have a Hulk."

190 points, 13 lists

directed by Joss Whedon | US | 2012

 

The Pitch: The Avengers assemble.

 

#1 Placements: 1
Top 12 Placements: 2
Metacritic: 69
Box Office: $1.519 billion WW
Awards: Academy Award nomination for Best Visual Effects; 4 Saturn Awards
BOT History: #8, Top Movies of 2012; #3, Top Movies of 2012 Revisited (2017); #8, Top Comic Book Movies of All Time (2019); 2 BOFFY nominations
Critic Opinion: "Like a superior, state-of-the-art model built from reconstituted parts, Joss Whedon's buoyant, witty and robustly entertaining superhero smash-up is escapism of a sophisticated order, boasting a tonal assurance and rich reserves of humor that offset the potentially lumbering and unavoidably formulaic aspects of this 143-minute team-origin story." - Justin Chang, Variety
BOT Sez: "One of the most fun and rewatchable blockbusters of all time. The humor, the action, the group dynamics, all the seamless introductions, the gloriously petty villain, coulson's death, nothing gets old in this movie despite the bajilion superhero movies that followed since. There's a weird alchemy going on here, everything fell in its right place in a way that's impossible to replicate. I'll never get bored of it. The avengers assemble 360 alone, is one of the most iconic shots of 21st century cinema." - @Joel M
Commentary: The movie that first demonstrated what a powerhouse Marvel and its cinematic-universe strategy could be, although 8 years on it ironically already feels like more of an exception than the norm for the studio, being a film written and directed by a single person with a readily identifiable voice. Much of the scoring process suggested that it would in fact miss the list entirely, with it attracting much less love than the more recent Avengers installments, but in the end it surged forward after collecting 2/3 of its eventual points from the last five lists it appeared on.

 

 

 

 

[Joel M]

Even Scorsese likes the first Avengers

[Jake Gittes]

Stats after #100-61

 

Yearly breakdown: 2011 (3), 2012 (5), 2013 (5), 2014 (5), 2015 (5), 2016 (5), 2017 (2), 2018 (4), 2019 (6)

Directors with multiple films on the list: Sam Mendes (2)

Actors with multiple characters on the list: Robert De Niro (3); Brad Pitt (3); Octavia Spencer (3); Cate Blanchett (2); Emily Blunt (2); Kyle Chandler (2); Jessica Chastain (2); Jason Clarke (2); Tom Cruise (2); Idris Elba (2); Chris Evans (2); Brian Tyree Henry (2); John Hurt (2); Brie Larson (2); Jennifer Lawrence (2); Amy Ryan (2)

[Jake Gittes]

19 minutes ago, Joel M said:

Even Scorsese likes the first Avengers

Yes I propose that it is cool to like the Whedon Avengers now that we're in the frères Rousseau era.

Edited April 14, 2020 by Jake Gittes

[RealLyre]

Only Lulu Wang and Kathryn Bigelow in the top 100 so far.

 

Think Greta Gerwig and maybe Céline Sciamma, Olivia Wilde or Debra Granik will also be in next but probably not much more 🤔

[lorddemaxus]

The fact that the best Avengers movie is listed lower than the last two, worse Avengers movies (I'm assuming Age of Ultron hasn't made it in) shows how much recency bias has affected this list.

[terrestrial]

11 minutes ago, lorddemaxus said:

The fact that the best Avengers movie is listed lower than the last two, worse Avengers movies (I'm assuming Age of Ultron hasn't made it in) shows how much recency bias has affected this list.

Funny, I thought I am the only one who likes the 1st one best. Didn’t like A2-4 to varying degrees. 

I am aware about its weaknesses, but still think it did manage things not done before and was in my POV the real start of the MCU.

(yes, Tele hates it I think, yes I understand that for especially someone with his profession, but to me its about other details)

 

[SchumacherFTW]

1 minute ago, terrestrial said:

Funny, I thought I am the only one who likes the 1st one best. Didn’t like A2-4 to varying degrees. 

I am aware about its weaknesses, but still think it did manage things not done before and was in my POV the real start of the MCU.

(yes, Tele hates it I think, yes I understand that for especially someone with his profession, but to me its about other details)

 

First Avengers is definitely the best one, rewatchable as hell

[Ethan Hunt]

46 minutes ago, RealLyre said:

Only Lulu Wang and Kathryn Bigelow in the top 100 so far.

 

Think Greta Gerwig and maybe Céline Sciamma, Olivia Wilde or Debra Granik will also be in next but probably not much more 🤔

it'll just be Gerwig and Granik I think

[lorddemaxus]

36 minutes ago, terrestrial said:

Funny, I thought I am the only one who likes the 1st one best. Didn’t like A2-4 to varying degrees. 

I am aware about its weaknesses, but still think it did manage things not done before and was in my POV the real start of the MCU.

(yes, Tele hates it I think, yes I understand that for especially someone with his profession, but to me its about other details)

 

Considering that it's pretty much the only film in the whole quadrilogy that actually touches on themes of heroism, focuses on character dynamics rather than action, and has a genuinely meaningful death (Agent Coulson's death is still the most important death in the entire MCU even if he comes back in some TV show I don't care about), I'd say the first film is still the best. Age of Ultron also tries to be as ambitious and complex as the first film but failed because of studio meddling while the last two just had a lot of cool moments I guess.

Edited April 14, 2020 by lorddemaxus

[Cap]

Lol at the best Avengers talk. 

[Madhuvan]

Avengers Endgame is the best Avengers movie. 

 

 

[lorddemaxus]

2 hours ago, Ethan Hunt said:

it'll just be Gerwig and Granik I think

Sciamma is getting in if Granik is. I think enough people on this forum have seen Portrait for the film to get in. It's at least more likely than Leave no Trace or Winter's Bone getting in.

[MrPink]

Leave No Trace gang was super strong in 2018. I don't think enough people have seen Portrait since it only just recently hit streaming and wasn't available in most theaters.

[Ethan Hunt]

15 minutes ago, lorddemaxus said:

Sciamma is getting in if Granik is. I think enough people on this forum have seen Portrait for the film to get in. It's at least more likely than Leave no Trace or Winter's Bone getting in.

Leave No Trace is WAY more likley ( in fact it's a 100% chance tbh)  to make it than Portrait of A Lady on Fire (which I don't see happening)

[Plain Old Tele]

29 minutes ago, Ethan Hunt said:

Leave No Trace is WAY more likley ( in fact it's a 100% chance tbh)  to make it than Portrait of A Lady on Fire (which I don't see happening)

One might even say that PORTRAIT will leave no trace on the list.