John from Cincinnati Posted October 17, 2020 Share Posted October 17, 2020 (edited) Ghost Protocol really established the image Cruise would try to cultivate for the remainder of the decade. It started to turn around his prospects and took a franchise most people had written off and made it something people actually got excited about. If the guy who directed The Iron Giant didn't make a fun as hell movie where Tom Cruise hangs off the side of the Burj Khalifa, I doubt anyone would still care about Cruise in 2020. Considering how much stuff can just blow by people because there's so much CGI around these days and audiences don't necessarily bite on everything, there's a way to present this that doesn't do a good enough job of emphasizing the scale and danger of it all. Bird and everyone involved did an amazing job keeping the city around him and the ground below him ever-present. I love it. Edited October 17, 2020 by Andy in Kansas 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted October 17, 2020 Share Posted October 17, 2020 1 hour ago, Execproducer said: C'mon. Ebenezer is not a villain. He repents, sure, but I mean Scrooge became a term for miserly jerk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.K.o.S. Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 Ha, Meek's Cutoff just missed the cutoff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaedmc Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 Holy shit I'll take it at 101. I was positive it wasn't going to make it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted October 18, 2020 Author Share Posted October 18, 2020 Just realized that should say a 3rd place vote for Jae not 30th Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill S. Preston ESQ. Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 2 hours ago, jaedmc said: Holy shit I'll take it at 101. I was positive it wasn't going to make it. Was my fave western of the decade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaedmc Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 2 hours ago, RIPPA said: Just realized that should say a 3rd place vote for Jae not 30th No you were right it's 30. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted October 18, 2020 Author Share Posted October 18, 2020 4 hours ago, jaedmc said: No you were right it's 30. Yeah - I confused myself because... spoiler... your #3 will be the very first movie I post today. It was the last one I prepped so that is why it was fresh in my head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLSigman Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 19 hours ago, RIPPA said: Regarding Homecoming: I still think Holland is the best Spider-man and Michael Keaton is great but far too much teenage angst for me to consider voting for it. Fair enough. I was expecting the angst and it delivered, and the reveal of who Keaton is the father of just about killed me. I have not seen Far From Home yet. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted October 18, 2020 Author Share Posted October 18, 2020 2 minutes ago, JLSigman said: Fair enough. I was expecting the angst and it delivered, and the reveal of who Keaton is the father of just about killed me. I have not seen Far From Home yet. I liked Far From Home more (also helpful that we didn't have to spend time on origin story). Obviously Keaton > Jake G but it has less teenage angst (there was still was some however) I also note again that I watched FFH with my teenage son so that was a much better experience 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted October 18, 2020 Author Share Posted October 18, 2020 Spoiler 100) IT FOLLOWS (2014) Director: David Robert Mitchell 236 Points (5 Votes + 1 HM) - HIGH VOTE: Jae (#3) - ADDITIONAL VOTES: Execproducer, Caley, Control, New Blood - HONORABLE MENTION: The Z IMDB : ROTTEN TOMATOES (95%/66%) : METACRITIC (83/7.7) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted October 18, 2020 Author Share Posted October 18, 2020 Whoops hit post a little too soon Here is @Lawful Metal's review of It Follows from Halloween Havoc 2016 And since I am in that thread and I didn't post it when the movie showed up Here is Train to Busan review from the same year (Ironically, selected by Lawful) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted October 18, 2020 Author Share Posted October 18, 2020 Spoiler 99) SPOTLIGHT (2015) Director: Tom McCarthy 237 Points (5 Votes) - HIGH VOTE: Octopus (#24) - ADDITIONAL VOTES: BP, Bill S Preston, Sublime, Caley IMDB : ROTTEN TOMATOES (97%/93%) : METACRITIC (93/8.1) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted October 18, 2020 Author Share Posted October 18, 2020 Spoiler 98) MONEYBALL (2011) Director: Bennett Miller 246 Points (5 Votes) - HIGH VOTE: BP (#28) - ADDITIONAL VOTES: Caley, Andy in Kansas, Mavs Fan, EVA IMDB : ROTTEN TOMATOES (94%/86%) : METACRITIC (87/8.0) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted October 18, 2020 Author Share Posted October 18, 2020 In the pantheon of overrated baseball movies, Moneyball is nowhere near as bad as Field of Dreams but... yeah 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted October 18, 2020 Author Share Posted October 18, 2020 Spoiler https://alternativemovieposters.com/amp/dunkirk-by-robotwig/ 97) DUNKIRK (2017) Director: Christopher Nolan 247 Points (3 Votes) - HIGH VOTE: EVA (#6) - ADDITIONAL VOTES: Sublime, The Z IMDB : ROTTEN TOMATOES (92%/81%) : METACRITIC (94/8.3) NOTE FROM RIPPA - Weirdly most of the discussion is from the 2017 Blockbuster thread talking about how it boned oh so many of us on our ballots 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted October 18, 2020 Author Share Posted October 18, 2020 Spoiler 96) MANDY (2018) Director: Panos Cosmatos 252 Points (6 Votes) - HIGH VOTE: BP (#24) - ADDITIONAL VOTES: Broken Lamp, Jae, Hobo Joe, Control, New Blood IMDB : ROTTEN TOMATOES (91%/66%) : METACRITIC (81/7.0) @S.K.o.S.'s review from Halloween Havoc 2018 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted October 18, 2020 Author Share Posted October 18, 2020 More sometime later today depending on how much football infuriates me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Control Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 I felt that MEEK’S CUTOFF fixated on the same theme of uncertainty as A SERIOUS MAN, even ha king a pretty similar ending, but did so in a far less interesting way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(BP) Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 I don’t know if it would even occur to me to categorize Moneyball as a baseball movie. I certainly don’t care about baseball or sports movies in general. It was actually hard to vote for something Sorkin was involved in, but I can’t knock him for finally being involved in something not awful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John from Cincinnati Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 (edited) Glad I'm not the only one here who feels that way about Sorkin. Pitt is real good in this one. Corny lines, abrasive shitheel behaviour, and Sorkin speeches that would rub me wrong in less capable hands land big here. The movie even sells the wistful, maudlin stuff fairly well. And I've stumbled onto it on cable too many times and enjoyed it too much for it not to have found a spot on my list. I've got respect in my heart for movies that belong in the Shawshank Redemption/The Rock category of Perfect Movie to Air on Cable Until the End of Time. Edited October 18, 2020 by Andy in Kansas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(BP) Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 Pitt may be the actor of the decade for me. Four of his movies made my list, and I’m probably the high vote on all of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted October 18, 2020 Author Share Posted October 18, 2020 As someone who read the book and follows the subject matter - it was very difficult to separate all of that from the actual film. It is also possible I am still bitter that Steven Soderbergh didn't end up as the director. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVA Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 Yeah, I find MONEYBALL immensely rewarchable. I think I’ve grown to like it more over time than when I first saw it. I also agree that I don’t even really think of it as a baseball movie. Very surprised by the lack of DUNKIRK appreciation, I must say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 Mandy hit the top 100. I like you guys. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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