Contentious C

Well, I can think of at least 16 (maybe 17, we haven't seen Birdman yet) of the last 27 that will come out; only one is a legit "ugh" movie being that high, and that's Scott Pilgrim. Hopefully Coco finishes ahead of Toy Story 3, for that matter, but I'm not holding my breath. The others are basically what you'd expect. I think Spider-Verse is at least Top 15.

WW already appeared.

Isaiah Simmons!!

Welp, that blows up the Marvel theory. Mad Max FTW.

Rise of Pile of Crap would have been infinitely better if Kylo Ren died with a big ol' "UH-OH!"

I saw that and wondered if it was going to be a full-blown physical release or not. But it turns out it's like $6 for both games, so I will be picking that up eventually. Kinda too bad they didn't just tack onto Switch Online, but it looks like it plays the same regardless (meaning, rewind feature).

And Randy McGirt is now one of my favorite names.

Moonlight or Mad Max seem like the best bets. Parasite is probably too new despite how great it is. Nothing from pre-2015 really jumps out as having enough staying power. Maybe 12 Years a Slave, but I really doubt that. If it's Marvel, it's Infinity War or Black Panther. I guess Spider-Verse should lump in with that. I'd say 30% each for the first two, 10% Marvel, 30% the field.

When in doubt, always pull for the team that has never won a title. Go Rays.

I hate the edit system going to the upper right. Hate.

Moneyball has also 1. been out forever and 2. been on Netflix forever. Availability is going to be a big skew, if Dunkirk (which has neither of those aforementioned qualities) is any indication.

I started playing this since it's been on Game Pass for a long time, and it's...a game? It's threading an interesting needle through the likes of KOTOR, Fallout, Borderlands, and even a little bit of Bioshock (the latter two more aesthetically than in terms of play), but it's a game that distinctly feels like it's less than the sum of its parts, where all the others were more. I haven't gone too far - just got Nyoka - but I'm probably better off having played it this way rather than getting it for sale on Prime Day.

I watched Into the Forest on Netflix over the last couple of nights (the one from 2015 with Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood), and I almost wish I hadn't. In the hands of anyone less talented, I think this would have come off as just too unbearably grim -- and occasionally shot through with moments that are too light that they become almost hokey. But instead it's two of the better actors of their generation reining this in and making it believable...ish. There's also a, uh, moment that will be reminiscent of Westworld, let's leave it at that, but holy mother of God is this portrayal of it just so much more bleak (like everything else in the film). Afterwards it sort of turns on its head a little and goes this other way that leaves you wondering, "Well, why didn't they do some of this sooner? Why now?" It's not confusing, per se, just...muddled. It nails the growing, lingering sense of pervasive dread and little else. What was confusing was Callum Keith Rennie; he can play good guys?!? At least it's off my Netflix list. I tried watching Uncut Gems as well and only made it through about 15 minutes before I had to turn it off because it was too much of a car wreck. I also made it about as far into Good Time, the other Safdie brothers movie, before the same thing happened. I get they're going for a whole aesthetic with the grainy 70s/80s look, but it does nothing for me. I just feel like I've seen this a thousand times and I didn't like it when it was Dino de Laurentiis funding movies like this. And I certainly don't need movies to be upbeat - I just finished watching Into the goddamned Forest for crying out loud - but there's a level of, I don't know, mockery? Glee? Something that seems to be taking a perverse joy in the screw-ups of these screwed-up people they've made their movies about. I guess I'll try to actually finish this one to see if they manage to make the rest of it a little more believable. They do have a knack for chaos, though; the first Kevin Garnett scene is appropriately over-the-top in that respect.

At least his two worst entries of this decade ended up outside the top 100 (though neither one is as excruciatingly pointless as his remake of Insomnia).

I don't think Octo could be the high vote @ 18 for 2 movies in a row.

Ended up ordering Twilight Princess for GC; if it turns out I don't like it, I can always just put it back on Ebay and get most of my money back. Made more sense (right now at least) than adding yet another console. My TV area is a bit overfull as-is. If this nation pulls its head out of its collective ass and passes another round of stimulus checks, I'm going to pay someone to haul off some furniture, and maybe I'll make a little space for consoles. Finished Link's Awakening. That is in fact a kind-of messed-up game. But I like being able to jump in a top-down Zelda. Added to the Unintentional Nintendo Porn Catalog: "Organ of Evening Calm". Geez. Plus I just realized how "Duck Hunt" sounds if you say it the right way. What is wrong with me?

Isn't Link's Awakening supposed to be a kid's game? Because man, I picked up the Conch Horn in the second dungeon and thought, "Now...THAT is a duck's vagina."

I only just realized part of the fine print in the Carfax commercials says, "Car Fox furrier in person." Unrelatedly, who the Hell has ever called it a "Whopper sandwich"?

The Florida AD wants to bitch and whine about crowds, so obviously the answer is to rename the SEC to the Super-spreader Event Conference. What a tool. I hope everyone who gets COVID after their next home game sues the fuck out of him.

Well, I still have my Gamecube, so that's no big deal. But a Wii U just looks too expensive when all I'm really thinking of doing is playing Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword. OTOH, I could end up spending that much anyway if a Wii bricks on me... and Twilight on GC is as much as a used Wii as well. If only they'd port things to Switch...

Jesus, this game has had everything. Fuck the Lakers.

I guess I could ask my father if they want to offload the one they used to have, but that would, you know, involve talking to my father (think Glenn Howerton from It's Always Sunny).

I'm tempted to buy a used Wii these days. Anyone interested in talking me out of - or into - this decision?

Because you continuing to troll me is so very on-topic. Thanks.

Not really a fan of Before Midnight myself - Sunset was better - but it's one of those movies I can see others liking enough. He's never been someone who really struck me as great, or, maybe more to the point, greater than his contemporaries. I'm a little surprised it tapped out here. I kind of considered the idea of what a select list - everyone who did 100 with at least 5 foreign films & 5 documentaries - would look like; got to think it's one of those movies that would end up higher as a result. (Only double-posted because I accidentally quoted myself again and felt I should backfill this with actual content, so...)