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Current Movie Rankings in Various Categories

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Directed by Quentin Tarantino

  1. Pulp Fiction
  2. Jackie Brown
  3. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
  4. Reservoir Dogs

I need to up by Tarantino game.

Directed by Stanley Kubrick

  1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
  2. Dr. Strangelove, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  3. Barry Lyndon
  4. Full Metal Jacket
  5. The Shining

Need to step up my Kubrick game, too.

Directed by Mel Brooks

  1. The Producers
  2. Young Frankenstein
  3. 12 Chairs
  4. Spaceballs
  5. Robin Hood: Men in Tights
  6. Blazing Saddles
  7. To Be or not to Be
  8. Dracula: Dead and Loving It
  9. High Anxiety

Studio Ghibli

  1. Spirited Away
  2. Whisper of the Heart
  3. Porco Rosso
  4. Princess Mononoke
  5. Nausicaa in the Valley of the Wind*
  6. Castle in the Sky
  7. Kiko’s Delivery Service
  8. Secret World of Arriety
  9. The Wind Rises
  10. Ponyo
  11. Howl’s Moving Castle

Disney Animated

  1. The Little Mermaid
  2. Cinderella
  3. Frozen
  4. Lady and the Tramp
  5. Robin Hood
  6. Dumbo
  7. The Sword in the Stone
  8. Aladdin
  9. 101 Dalmatians
  10. The Jungle Book
  11. Pinocchio
  12. Alice in Wonderland
  13. The Lion King
  14. Peter Pan
  15. Beauty and the Beast

These are only ones I remember well enough to rank, I saw a lot of the others long ago but don’t remember them well enough to rank.

Best Picture Winners

  1. Lawrence of Arabia
  2. Casablanca
  3. The Godfather
  4. The Godfather Part II
  5. The Artist
  6. Rebecca
  7. Rocky
  8. Everything Everywhere All at Once
  9. One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest
  10. On the Waterfront
  11. Amadeus
  12. Forrest Gump
  13. Gone with the Wind
  14. My Fair Lady
  15. The Departed
  16. Annie Hall
  17. The French Connection
  18. The Sound of Music
  19. The Sting
  20. The Lord of the Rings, Return of the King
  21. Rain Man
  22. Parasite

Grand list of every superhero movie I have seen

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I am not a fan of today’s superhero movies, but even I’m surprised how few I’ve seen. Here’s a literal complete list.

All four of the Superman movies with Christopher Reeve4 wasn’t as bad as everyone says, 3 was worse than people say, and I don’t remember a single thing about 2, other than that the villains were the criminals who were banished at the beginning of the first movie, though I am sure I saw it in whole once.
The Batman Movie based on the show from the 60’sAKA the only true Batman, according to Boomers. (“Some days you just can’t get rid of a bomb.”)
The two Tim Burton Batman movies with Michael KeatonAKA not fun like the 60’s Batman was, again according to Boomers. It was okay in a ten year old boy fandom kind of way.
The first Spiderman with Toby MacguireIt sufficed as entertainment on a flight.
First two Christopher Nolan Batman movies with Christian BaleBatman Begins and the Dark Knight, these were pretty entertaining actually, but I can’t say I really thought about them a lot after.
Mystery MenUnderrated parody of superhero movies. (“We’ve got a blind date with destiny, and it looks like she ordered the lobster.”)
The Powerpuff Girls MovieWhich was not unlike a longer episode of the show, so it was pretty good.
Guardians of the Galaxy Part 2My brothers dragged me to see it. It did not convince me to give any other Marvel movies a chance.

An that’s it. There are a few more dubious superhero movies I’ve seen, such as The Rocketeer and Robocop.

What amazes me is how pervasive the concept of a superhero has become. I don’t read comics, and have watched little TV and fewer movies about superheroes. Most of my exposure comes from watching cartoons as a kid. Yet, almost nothing about a superhero is unfamiliar to me, the whole story cycle of a superhero and every note it hits is as well known to me any story archetype.

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