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fuckyeaharthuriana · 10 months ago

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mordred through time (movies, tv shows, opera and musicals)

Part 5: From 2018 to 2023 (and 2024)

Other Parts: Part 1: From 1949 to 1981 -> here Part 2: From 1982 to 2002 -> here Part 3: From 2002 to 2010 -> here Part 4: From 2014 to 2017 -> here

For this last part I wanted to talk a bit about queer Mordred!

First of all, Mordred is one of the main characters who is written as LGBTQ in novels and other media. My arthurian excel list of queer arthurian characters (arthurian list of everything, in the LGBTQ sheet) is up to a few years ago, but the numbers seem to be: LGBTQ Lancelot in 16 media, Arthur in 13 media which is equal to Mordred who is also LGBTQ in 13 media (two being interpretations: White's "The once and future king" and "Fall of Camelot" fromt he Time Life books). Most of these are, of course, novels, with the first ever appearance of LGBTQ Mordred in 1956 Borowsky's novel "The Queen's knight", where Mordred is a gay man. Then in 1982 Cherryh's "Port Eternity" has asexual Mordred, even if the characters could be debated on how arthurian they are. We then jump to 1997 with the short story "The Pretender" by Stephen Dedman, with mlm Mordred.

2005 "A Connecticut Fashionista in King Arthur's Court" by Mari Mancusi (gay Mordred) 2006 "Mordred bastard son" by Douglas Clegg (gay Mordred) 2008 "The Silurian series" by Wilson (gay Mordred) 2012 "The Prince and the Program" by Mercer (bisexual Mordred) 2014 "Mordred and the king" by Curlovich (gay Mordred)

In movies, shows and musicals instead we could consider 2008 musical Mordred the first iteration of queer Mordred (part 3). This is of course an interpretation and it might probably just be a case of queer-coding of villains that reminds of Disney movies. Still, there is no doubt Bobby Steggert, who is an out gay actor (at the time, now he is a therapist) played an obvious queer coded Mordred.

It is only in 2014 that we have an explicit LGBTQ Mordred with "High Noon over Camelot" which also for the first time ever introduces Mordred as a trans man. From 2017 we also get introduced to Fate's Mordred (Fate/Aprocrypha and subsequient movies and stage shows) whose gender has always been a debated topic. I already talked about it in part 4, but Mordred in Fate is definitely written as a non binary character. In 2018 the webseries "The Campaign for Camelot" has Mordred as a protagonist and mlm, with a romance as well (another male character in the show). The last time we saw Mordred with a romance was back in the 60s, in the movie "Sword of Lancelot"!

I think the most interesting thing is that Mordred is without a doubt the character who is the most interpreted as LGBTQ in movies and tv shows. From memory, the only other characters are Morgana (in the Netflix's "Cursed", webseries "Legend" and "The Campaign for Camelot"), Lancelot (in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", "High Noon over Camelot" and "Spamalot"), Galahad (in Josh Ritter's song "Galahad"), Arthur ("High noon over Camelot") and Merlin (webseries "Legend").

2018 Arthur et les enfants de la Table Ronde: This is a two-seasons French animated show that narrates the adventures of Arthur, an orphan kid living in Uther's kingdom. The show has other arthurian characters as kids (Guinevere, Gawain, Sagramore, Morgana) and Mordred himself is also a kid. Morgause and Igraine (Morgana's sisters) are the main villain and Mordred (their cousin) is also a villain. The voice from the clip is from the Italian dub but the original French voice actor was Ricardo Richter.

2018 The Campaign for Camelot (webseries): This websites (you can watch it here) is a complete 78 short episodes series where different modern arthurian characters decide to run for the school board against Arthur's wishes. Mordred is one of the main protagonists and he is introduced in episode 7. Over the series he also develops a romance with Izzy (Iddawg, from “The Dream of Rhonabwy”). To clarify, in the clip Mordred is the guy without the glasses and the darker shirt! And he is played by Dylan Martin.

2018/2019 OSK's Knights of the Round Table musical: This clip is from a recording but a dvd also exists. OSK is a Japanese theater company of all women. Mordred was interpreted by Momo Mika. The story of the musical follows the classical Arthur-Guinevere-Lancelot triangle with Mordred appearing (as Arthur's son) in the second part of the story.

2020 Arthur and Merlin: Knights of Camelot: A much less exciting movie than I expected, focusing on Arthur trying to reclaim Camelot after Mordred betrays him. Mordred (played by Joel Phillimore) plays Arthur's son and the villain of the story. He often uses threats of sexual violence towards Guinevere.

2020 Fate/Grand Order the movie: Camelot: Another installment in the Fate series. This movie is set in the Grand Order timeline (different from Apocrypha), but Mordred is still a very similar character and they are still voiced by Miyuki Sawashiro. The original title is Fate/Grand Order: Shinsei Entaku Ryouiki Camelot 1 - Wandering; Agateram as in 2020 only part 1 released. Part 2 is called Fate/Grand Order: Shinsei Entaku Ryouiki Camelot - Paladin; Agateram and was released in 2021. Basically part one is Wandering Agateram and part two is Paladin Agateram. Different from other Fate series, this one is set in the past (in 1273 A.D.).

2021 Fate/Grand Order: The Grand Temple of Time: Another movie based on the videogame Fate/Grand Order... please do not ask me the plot, I just know Mordred is not as present here as in the previous movie or as in Fate/Apocrypha.

2021 Le Roi Arthus opera: This is a 1895 opera written by Ernest Chausson and sung in French. I already talked about it before, just know this is the most recent iteration of it and the only video we have of the opera performed in arthurian clothes (the previous filmed performance was a modernization). Mordred was played by baritone Justin Austin.

2023 Camelot Revival: The return of the musical Camelot! There are a few bootlegs around (at least 4 of them) if you want to watch it, but I am not allowed to share them. Still, I got them from asking a gift on the reddit BootlegsGifts. As I still have to watch it I cannot comment on any possible difference here, just know this version was extremely successful. Mordred is played by Taylor Trensch, and Hawley Gould was his understudy (not in audio).

#mordred through time #mordred #camelot #camelot revival #arhturian legend #camelot musical #le roi arthus #opera #musical #video #arthur and merlin #the campaign for camelot #arthur et les enfants de la table ronde #characters through time #lgbtq

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kingarthurtournament · 2 years ago

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More infos on Revival Rounds

After this Round ends we'll have a short hiatus from the main tournament for 4 one-day revival rounds. We will start with the losers of round 1 of the main tournament and work up from there until 4 characters comes on top and join the competition. It will be organised like this:

Round 1: 4 polls of 8 (32 round 1 losers)

-> top 2 of each poll go up (8 total)

Round 2: 4 polls of 6 (16 round 2 losers + 8)

-> top 2 of each poll go up (8 total)

Round 3: 4 polls of 4 (8 round 3 losers + 8)

-> top 2 of each poll go up (8 total)

Round 4: 4 polls of 3 (4 round 4 losers + 8)

-> top 1 of each poll go back to the main tournament for the quarter finales!

All the character have been randomly put into 4 groups and those will only change if characters who already met in the main bracket end up against each other again.

Revival Round 1 will start on May 7th at 8 am UTC.

Groupes under the cut!

GROUPE A

Round 1

Ari Helix (Once and Future)

England (Hetalia)

Wart (The Once and Future King by T.H. White)

King Arthur (Quest for Camelot)

Peter Pevensie (Chronicles of Narnia)

Tedros (The School for Good and Evil)

Jim Lake Jr (Trollhunters Tales of Arcadia)

Round 2

Thomas the Tank Engine (Thomas and Friends: King of the Railway)

Saber Artoria (Fate Stay Night)

Fjord Stone (Critical Role)

King Arthur (Gargoyles)

+ winners of Round 1

Round 3

Jack and Annie (The Magic Tree House)

Adora (She-Ra and the Princess of Power)

+ winners of Round 2

Round 4

To be determined + winners of Round 3

GROUPE B

Round 1

Ky Kiske (Guilty Gear)

Arthur (Arthur King of Time and Space)

Prince Marth of Altea (Fire Emblem)

Firestar (Warrior Cats)

Martin the Warrior (Redwall)

Arthur Liebowitz (Fairy Odd Parents)

Arthur (Shrek 3)

Rand Al’Thor (The Wheel of Time)

Round 2

Zagreus (Hades)

The Luidaeg (October Daye)

Lord Foog the 2st

Arthur Dent (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

+ winners of Round 1

Round 3

King (The Owl House)

King Arthur (Monty Python)

+ winners of Round 2

Round 4

To be determined + winners of Round 3

GROUPE C

Round 1

King Arthur Baking Company

Sora (Kingdom Hearts)

Arthur (Code Geass)

John Uskglass (Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell)

Arthur Pendragon (Kaamelott)

Queen Elisabeth’s ghost

Merric (Fire Emblem)

Arthur King (King Arthur and the Knights of Justice)

Round 2

Arthur (Disney's Sword in the Stone)

Roland Deschain (The Dark Tower)

Arthur Pendragon (Seven Deadly Sins)

Arthur Lester (Malevolent)

+ winners of Round 1

Round 3

Stabby the Roomba

Link (The Legend of Zelda)

+ winners of Round 2

Round 4

To be determined + winners of Round 3

GROUPE D

Round 1

Lucille Kensington (Where the Stars Fell)

Bob (The Minions)

Magnus Burnsides (The Adventure Zone)

Arthur Boyle (Fire Force)

Sailor Venus (Sailor Moon)

Poptropica PC (Poptropica Astroknight Island)

King Artorius (Wizard 101)

Arthur Kingsmen (Mystery Skull)

Round 2

Simon Snow (Carry On)

Richard Campbell Gansey III (The Raven Cycle)

Flynn Carson (The Librarians)

Arthur Pendragon (The Mechanisms' High Noon Over Camelot)

+ winners of Round 1

Round 3

Excalibur (Soul Eater)

Arthur Read (Arthur)

+ winners of Round 2

Round 4

To be determined + winners of Round 3

#king arthur tournament #revival round #announcement #masterpost #rules #bracket #tumblr tournament

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gibelwho · 5 years ago

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Top 5: Directorial Debuts

This Top 5 reviews Directorial Debuts, considering the film that was the opening gambit in a director’s career. The requirements for this list are straightforward - the films considered must be full length and had a theatrical run, so short films (although oftentimes a way into the business for directors) were not counted and neither were made for TV movies. Additionally, this list is considering films that were directed by a single person, so first films with co-director’s were not considered (although some fantastic films fall into this category, such as On the Town or Monty Python and the Holy Grail). The final consideration, although not a firm requirement, was that this first film was an opening artistic achievement that became a launching point for a notable and long career to follow.

Gibelwho Productions Presents Directorial Debuts:

5. Spike Jonze / Being John Malkovich

4. Rob Reiner / This is Spinal Tap

3. Pete Doctor / Monsters, Inc.

2. Alex Garland / Ex Machina

Rob Marshall / Chicago

Spike Jonze / Being John Malkovich (1999): This film was not only the theatrical directorial debut for music video savant Spike Jonze, but was also the first feature penned by the now acclaimed screenwriter Charlie Kaufman. Their appreciation for bizarre storylines and unique artistic sensibilities combined to make a mark on the cinematic landscape of Hollywood and opened the doors for both to careers that continue to tell non-traditional stories. Jonze had to contend with a confounding script, but managed to keep the audiences engaged with the twists and turns, and also tuned into the emotional journeys of his main players, including a representation of real-life actor John Malkovich himself. The film is filled with memorable visual sequences, including an office floor with cramped ceilings, John Malkovich’s point of view shot when ordering bath towels, and the incredible mind-bending sequence when John Malkovich enters the portal into his own mind, encountering a world filled with multiple John Malkovichs.

Rob Reiner / This is Spinal Tap (1984): Not only is Rob Reiner’s first feature a hilarious mixture of conceits with a generous helping of improvisation from comedic actors, but it also launched an entirely new genre - the mockumentary. To keep the documentary feel, Reiner produced a mix of shooting styles, including hand-held cinema-verite style, titles to introduce band members, creating black and white faux television “archival” footage, traditional documentary interview footage, and also capturing onstage theatrics. While most of the humor is in the actor’s improvised lines, the camera is not just silently observing, but also gets into the jokes and elevates the gags with visual commentary. With this film, Reiner transitioned from an actor to an established director and continued into a fabulous career that dipped into a multitude of different genres, producing several films now considered modern classics.

Pete Doctor / Monsters, Inc. (2001): While Toy Story was the original revolutionary release from the new animation studio Pixar (also with a first time director), Monsters, Inc. earns its place on this list because of the genius of Pete Doctor. The film was the fourth feature from Pixar, and the first to be helmed by a director other than John Lasseter. Pixar’s legacy (and now future, as he has assumed the role of Chief Creative Officer at Pixar following Lasseter’s exit for inappropriate behavior), was in safe hands with Doctor, who has consistently produced the Pixar films with the most unique conceits and beloved characters. This all started with his story development and leadership on Monsters, Inc., a film that achieved technical advancement with the realistic rendering of monster Sulley’s fur, but also one of the most breathtaking action sequences Pixar has ever envisioned, involving the hunt for little Boo’s bedroom door amongst a cavalcade of children’s doors, all swirling around madly in the warehouse storage space. Doctor’s first effort at Pixar produced a delightful tale, proving that Pixar could still herald the magic when the reigns were handed to other directors, and setting him up for more delightful classics to be directed.

Alex Garland / Ex Machina (2014): Alex Garland transitioned from a successful screenwriting career to directing with this astonishing piece of art - intellectual, challenging, visually stunning, and with a twisting plot that ensures the audience is on the edge of their seat throughout the film’s runtime. The screenplay was especially tight, as to be expected from a writer of Garland’s quality, but his work behind the camera was also incredibly solid, playing with the various textures of the setting’s remote mansion’s stone, wood, metal, and glass and also with the robot Ava’s combination of machine metal and human flesh. Garland expertly uncoils a new element in each conversation, scene, and session, slowly expanding the audience's understanding of the world and motivations of each character, until an explosive ending that revels in a woman taking control of her own destiny.

Rob Marshall / Chicago (2002): What are the odds that a directorial debut revitalizes the musical genre for a modern audience - and then goes on to win the Academy Award? Rob Marshall’s background as a dancer and choreographer masterly transferred to the filmmaking space - expertly conceiving the musical numbers (and entire film!), using all the tools at a filmmaker's disposal that a live theatrical experience cannot - camera composition such as close ups, crafting pacing through editing cuts, and matching sound to image. In the best tradition of Bob Fosse, newly minted director Rob Marshall set his mark upon the filmmaking landscape and brought back musicals as a viable avenue for the industry - a popular success at both the box office and amongst critical circles. Plus the film is so damn fun, with inspired performances by Renee Zellweger and Catherine Zeta-Jones as the two murderers on death’s row that just want to make it in show business. Each number tops the next and (with the small exception of Richerd Gere’s tepid singing and dancing skills) are executed with such spirit and razzle dazzle. And all that jazz!

Honorable Mentions:

Orson Welles / Citizen Kane (1941): For the movie that is consistently hailed as the greatest cinematic film ever to be made, it is quite amazing that it was created by a first time director who also cast himself as the lead role. After Orson Welles notorious stunt with the radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds (which caused mayhem as many in the public believed the play was in fact news outlets reporting actual happenings), Hollywood courted this untried director, giving him immense freedom inside the usually structured studio system. The result was a film that experimented with cinematography, editing, writing and narrative structure - all which have since been hailed as innovative leaps forward in the conception and construction of filmmaking. While the film at the time was a box office flop, Welles left his indelible mark on the industry after the promotion of his efforts by the celebrated French film critic and auteur theory supporter Andre Bazan in Cahiers du Cinema. The film can be a bit rough to the tastes of modern audiences, including the exaggerated performance style, but its technical achievements are not to be missed.

Frank Darabont / The Shawshank Redemption (1994): Another film that did middling during its initial box office run, but has since achieved the status of cult and critical favorite, came from the creative spirit of Frank Darabont, who adapted a Stephen King novella and, by sticking to his resolution to lead the film, was eventually given the chance to direct the feature. With a tight screenplay, phenomenal performances by Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman, and cinematography by the masterful Roger Deakins - it flourished in the rental market and endured to become one of the highest rated films across many critical lists.

Andrew Niccol / Gattaca (1997): Another writer / new director’s debut contains provocative ideas and powerful imagery paired with striking production design. It is incredible what Andrew Niccol accomplished on a smaller budget, all in service of the story’s dystopian future that feels as though it could be only a few generations away from our own time, where genetics determine a human’s entire future and those who were conceived naturally are condemned to live as a lower caste. The human’s desire to improve their lot in life and explore the universe comes in direct conflict with how science can be used to create fissures in society, enabling human expansion to space, but also limiting a single human’s rights and liberties. Grand ideas and grand design are the drapery for a compelling human story.

Upcoming

Lin-Manuel Miranda / tick, tick...Boom! (TBD): Based on the first stage musical by Jonathan Larson, this will be Lin-Manuel Miranda’s first foray into the directorial seat. Since the debut of the smash hit Hamilton, his career has been expanding by leaps and bounds, but he has taken a studied, measured approach to stepping into the director’s role. Miranda cited one reason for signing on to the Mary Poppins Returns movie as a chance to study under the masterful Rob Marshall, receiving a front row seat to a masterclass from one of the best filmmakers to capture musical theater in the cinematic format. Miranda himself was part of a theatrical production of tick, tick...Boom! earlier in his career, so he is very familiar with the material (although the screenplay will need to significantly expand the set of characters from a modest three to include the many roles that have been cast). Unfortunately, at the time of writing, due to the pandemic, filming has shut down; but once they have resumed and the film has a chance to see the light of day on Netflix, I will be eagerly awaiting one of my most beloved musicals to come to life through Miranda’s nascent directorial vision.

#spike jonze #being john malkovich #rob reiner #this is spinal tap #pete doctor #monsters inc.#alex garland #ex machina #rob marshall #chicago

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theliberaltony · 7 years ago

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Pretend I’m the owner of a polling company that surveys political races. I prominently advertise my results: According to a Walt Hickey Polling Inc. survey of 600 likely voters, John Doe is beating Jane Doe 58 percent to 40 percent — John Doe will likely win the election. (Let’s say it’s a race for the U.S. Senate.)

But then you keep reading and you notice that the sample on which my poll is based consists of 400 men and 200 women. You can’t really tell whether I’m adjusting the numbers, and if so, how. Would you trust that number? Unless there’s some state I don’t know about where men outnumber women 2-to-1, you shouldn’t.

So why aren’t we more skeptical of movie ratings that do the same thing?

It’s a worthwhile question, and lately it’s made it pretty hard for us to take the ratings provided on IMDb, the largest and most popular movie site on the internet, at face value. The Academy Awards rightly get criticized for reflecting the preferences of a small, unrepresentative sample of the population, but online ratings have the same problem. Even the vaunted IMDb Top 250 — nominally the best-liked films ever — is worth taking with 250 grains of salt. Women accounted for 52 percent of moviegoers in the U.S. and Canada in 2016, according to the most recent annual study by the Motion Picture Association of America. But on the internet, and on ratings sites, they’re a much smaller percentage.

“If you see any number that is a rating number or a number with a percentage sign, it may be compelling or meaningful and it may not be,” said Gary Langer, the president of Langer Research Associates, the polling firm that has long conducted surveys for ABC News. “And what we need to do rather than be seduced by the number is to subject it to meaningful inquiry as to how it was obtained.”

OK, but how skeptical should we be? To figure that out, I wanted to see how strong the male skew of raters is on IMDb and how big an effect that skew has on movies’ scores.

We’ll start with every film that’s eligible for IMDb’s Top 250 list. A film needs 25,000 ratings from regular IMDb voters to qualify for the list. As of Feb. 14, that was 4,377 titles. Of those movies, only 97 had more ratings from women than men. The other 4,280 films were mostly rated by men, and it wasn’t even close for all but a few films. In 3,942 cases (90 percent of all eligible films), the men outnumbered the women by at least 2-to-1. In 2,212 cases (51 percent), men outnumbered women more than 5-to-1. And in 513 cases (12 percent), the men outnumbered the women by at least 10-to-1.

Looking strictly at IMDb’s weighted average — IMDb adjusts the raw ratings it gets “in order to eliminate and reduce attempts at vote stuffing,” but it does not disclose how — the male skew of raters has a pretty significant effect. In 17 percent of cases, the weighted average of the male and female voters was equal, and in another 26 percent of cases, the votes of the men and women were within 0.1 points of one another. But when there was bigger disagreement — i.e. men and women rated a movie differently by 0.2 points or more, on average — the overall score overwhelmingly broke closer to the men’s rating than the women’s rating. The score was closer to the men’s rating more than 48 percent of the time and closer to the women’s rating less than 9 percent of the time, meaning that when there was disagreement, the male preference won out about 85 percent of the time.

That male skew of raters is also apparent in the 250 movies that make IMDb’s top list, which we pulled on Feb. 16:

So, what’s the issue here? If IMDb is content with its ratings being intended almost solely for men, then there isn’t one. (We reached out to IMDb for comment and for more information on how the site adjusts its ratings, but we received no response. So we don’t know, for example, if IMDb is already doing something to the data that accounts for the gender disparity in raters.) But if IMDb seeks to reflect the opinions of the actual movie-going population, the situation is grave.

Can we fix that? Langer is skeptical. Mainly, besides how simple it is for a dedicated individual or group to “manufacture” results, online data from a self-selected group of people is so inherently dubious that any reweighting of that data is also inherently dubious. You can’t just adjust troublesome data to make it reflect the world, he said.

“The notion that you can take bad data and weight it to be OK is … hazardous to your health,” Langer cautioned.

That said, since the scores of the most popular movie site on the internet are already being calculated based on an entirely self-selected sample, would it destroy the IMDb Top 250 to try to mimic actual movie audiences more? I don’t really think so. As a thought experiment, I used everything we know about IMDb’s rating adjustments — which is far from the full picture — and ran them on the ratings of the 4,377 eligible films after I adjusted the raw ratings to weight men’s and women’s views equally.

We can’t do an adjustment that allows us to perfectly replicate the top 250 — again, we don’t know what’s in the black box, so we can’t re-create it — but to approximate it, I excluded any film that didn’t either a) make the IMDb top 1,000 movies list or b) have a rating from the site’s top 1,000 users within 0.87 points1 of the rating from its users overall. This allows us to sidestep films that would have made the top 250 through vote-stuffing.

My main point is that overall, the naive reweighting didn’t destroy the general look of the 250, and if anything, it elevated films that may have been overlooked because one gender is vastly outnumbered.2

What if IMDb adjusted ratings toward gender parity?

Estimated highest-ranking films on IMDb if the men’s and women’s ratings were weighted toward 50-50 vs. IMDb’s actual rank as of Feb. 16, 2018

Rankings Year▲▼ Film▲▼ Actual▲▼ Women only▲▼ Men only▲▼ Gender- weighted▲▼ 1994 The Shawshank Redemption 1 1 1 1 1972 The Godfather 2 10 2 2 2008 The Dark Knight 4 3 3 3 2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 8 2 4 4 1993 Schindler’s List 6 6 11 5 1999 Fight Club 10 5 8 6 2001 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 11 7 10 7 1957 12 Angry Men 5 27 7 8 1974 The Godfather: Part II 3 22 5 9 2010 Inception 14 8 6 10 1994 Forrest Gump 12 9 13 11 2002 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 15 11 14 12 1994 The Lion King 47 4 29 13 1994 Pulp Fiction 7 15 9 14 2014 Interstellar 30 25 15 15 1999 The Green Mile 32 12 28 16 1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 16 24 19 17 1966 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 9 115 12 18 2006 The Prestige 48 26 16 19 1998 American History X 31 17 27 20 2012 The Dark Knight Rises 65 23 22 21 1997 Life Is Beautiful 25 16 41 22 1980 Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back 13 41 17 23 1994 Leon: The Professional 27 21 37 24 2002 City of God 21 64 20 25 1995 Se7en 22 28 23 26 2001 Spirited Away 28 13 56 27 1991 The Silence of the Lambs 23 20 33 28 2006 The Departed 40 35 26 29 1990 Goodfellas 17 71 18 30 2011 The Intouchables 37 19 52 31 2014 Whiplash 45 54 30 32 2000 Gladiator 46 44 24 33 2012 Django Unchained 60 29 31 34 2002 The Pianist 39 31 53 35 1946 It’s a Wonderful Life 24 56 51 36 1960 Psycho 34 55 40 37 1977 Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope 20 48 32 38 2009 Inglourious Basterds 97 32 43 39 1998 Saving Private Ryan 29 70 25 40 1995 The Usual Suspects 26 58 36 41 1999 The Matrix 18 62 21 42 2000 Memento 49 57 34 43 1942 Casablanca 36 73 42 44 1999 American Beauty 63 51 35 45 1985 Back to the Future 44 49 46 46 2001 A Beautiful Mind 144 34 68 47 1954 Rear Window 43 80 60 48 2000 Requiem for a Dream 80 50 49 49 2011 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 218 14 126 50 2006 The Lives of Others 58 86 78 51 2010 Shutter Island 177 39 59 52 2008 WALL-E 62 42 62 53 2004 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 87 38 66 54 1980 The Shining 61 61 47 55 1997 Good Will Hunting 102 60 48 56 1971 A Clockwork Orange 84 79 50 57 2001 Amelie 82 30 90 58 1954 Seven Samurai 19 336 39 59 1983 Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi 76 87 63 60 1992 Reservoir Dogs 77 94 64 61 2017 Coco 51 209 166 62 1988 Cinema Paradiso 54 165 97 63 1979 Apocalypse Now 50 219 38 64 1940 The Great Dictator 53 262 101 65 1950 Sunset Boulevard 55 190 108 66 1931 City Lights 35 294 92 67 1997 Princess Mononoke 64 118 100 68 2015 Room 143 82 139 69 2003 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl > 250 36 113 70 2004 Howl’s Moving Castle 137 43 216 71 1962 To Kill a Mockingbird 89 102 135 72 2009 Up 115 37 117 73 2014 Gone Girl 179 81 70 74 2010 Toy Story 3 98 66 82 75 1936 Modern Times 38 248 96 76 1988 Grave of the Fireflies 57 159 133 77 2006 Pan’s Labyrinth 130 74 91 78 2016 Hacksaw Ridge 175 161 124 79 1968 2001: A Space Odyssey 91 195 54 80 2007 Into the Wild 181 84 95 81 1958 Vertigo 72 154 87 82 2015 Inside Out 140 78 107 83 2005 Batman Begins 116 106 58 84 1975 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 103 123 104 85 2009 3 Idiots 93 203 93 86 2003 Oldeuboi 67 171 73 87 1964 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 56 236 57 88 1991 Terminator 2 42 178 44 89 1959 North by Northwest 74 205 99 90 1968 Once Upon a Time in the West 33 447 55 91 1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark 41 131 65 92 1995 Toy Story 94 85 80 93 1952 Singin’ in the Rain 90 110 170 94 2016 La La Land 207 122 86 95 1979 Alien 52 151 67 96 1941 Citizen Kane 71 188 74 97 2002 Catch Me if You Can 219 97 81 98 1983 Scarface 105 181 69 99 1976 Taxi Driver 88 164 71 100 2014 The Grand Budapest Hotel 194 65 128 101 1987 Full Metal Jacket 92 177 83 102 2010 How to Train Your Dragon 176 47 165 103 1984 Amadeus 83 128 121 104 2007 There Will Be Blood 165 212 72 105 2012 The Avengers > 250 52 144 106 1984 Once Upon a Time in America 69 337 88 107 2013 The Wolf of Wall Street 150 158 45 108 2005 V for Vendetta 151 76 112 109 1939 Gone With the Wind 157 46 279 110 2003 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 174 89 114 111 1995 Braveheart 75 141 61 112 2003 Finding Nemo 166 53 151 113 1999 The Sixth Sense 160 75 116 114 2011 The Help 241 33 245 115 2015 Star Wars: The Force Awakens > 250 92 154 116 2015 Mad Max: Fury Road 204 135 79 117 2000 Snatch 100 144 76 118 2016 Dangal 73 649 195 119 2016 Zootopia > 250 95 187 120 2001 Donnie Darko 226 91 122 121 2008 Gran Torino 158 121 120 122 1989 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 112 156 84 123 2012 Jagten 101 183 141 124 1988 My Neighbor Totoro 132 112 183 125 1996 Trainspotting 156 107 127 126 2013 12 Years a Slave 201 100 131 127 1959 Some Like It Hot 118 124 186 128 1973 The Sting 95 284 143 129 2013 Prisoners 215 148 98 130 2017 Logan 202 193 103 131 2016 Your Name 79 399 190 132 2007 Taare Zameen Par 81 448 138 133 2011 A Separation 109 242 125 134 1997 Titanic > 250 45 188 135 2011 Warrior 154 213 134 136 2017 Dunkirk 236 192 145 137 2015 Spotlight 205 155 152 138 1986 Stand by Me 192 125 184 139 2014 X-Men: Days of Future Past > 250 113 159 140 2004 Kill Bill: Vol. 2 > 250 116 157 141 2014 The Imitation Game > 250 69 209 142 2010 The King’s Speech > 250 59 206 143 1986 Aliens 68 217 85 144 2004 Downfall 121 288 115 145 1998 Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels 142 199 130 146 1997 L.A. Confidential 106 225 94 147 2016 Arrival > 250 169 137 148 1957 Paths of Glory 59 704 109 149 2017 Blade Runner 2049 147 368 102 150 1991 Beauty and the Beast 247 40 379 151 2014 Guardians of the Galaxy > 250 111 147 152 1962 Lawrence of Arabia 85 396 105 153 1993 Jurassic Park 198 150 118 154 1927 Metropolis 108 331 182 155 2016 Deadpool > 250 126 155 156 2012 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey > 250 90 192 157 2001 Monsters, Inc. 224 77 196 158 1988 Die Hard 122 220 77 159 1989 Dead Poets Society 238 103 239 160 2010 Black Swan > 250 98 161 161 2015 The Martian > 250 134 160 162 1957 Witness for the Prosecution 66 476 229 163 2004 Hotel Rwanda 190 176 181 164 2009 Star Trek > 250 117 199 165 2013 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug > 250 109 205 166 2009 Hachi: A Dog’s Tale 212 127 288 167 2017 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 111 351 204 168 1981 Das Boot 70 603 111 169 1995 Heat 123 332 89 170 1978 The Deer Hunter 159 346 153 171 1980 The Elephant Man 148 261 177 172 1931 M 78 465 167 173 1950 All About Eve 114 227 302 174 1921 The Kid 99 459 249 175 1944 Double Indemnity 86 433 169 176 2013 Her > 250 194 106 177 2009 Mary and Max 178 175 274 178 2017 Thor: Ragnarok > 250 200 260 179 2013 Dallas Buyers Club > 250 146 175 180 1960 The Apartment 107 322 189 181 2008 In Bruges > 250 239 140 182 1998 The Truman Show 206 132 149 183 2010 Incendies 131 300 253 184 1939 The Wizard of Oz 232 119 241 185 2008 Slumdog Millionaire > 250 99 191 186 2007 No Country for Old Men 162 244 75 187 1999 The Boondock Saints > 250 254 250 188 2009 The Secret in Their Eyes 135 265 198 189 2016 Lion > 250 170 332 190 2017 Baahubali 2: The Conclusion > 250 1170 343 191 2015 The Revenant > 250 214 129 192 2004 Million Dollar Baby 203 163 162 193 2005 Babam ve Oglum 117 526 291 194 1963 The Great Escape 126 479 174 195 1948 Bicycle Thieves 96 458 202 196 2004 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban > 250 72 339 197 2006 Blood Diamond > 250 172 212 198 1993 The Nightmare Before Christmas > 250 105 318 199 1974 Chinatown 129 360 158 200 2012 The Perks of Being a Wallflower > 250 108 232 201 1990 Edward Scissorhands > 250 67 357 202 1949 The Third Man 127 484 224 203 2003 Big Fish > 250 133 226 204 2013 Rush 193 252 172 205 1954 Dial M for Murder 155 352 233 206 1995 Before Sunrise 211 179 228 207 1940 Rebecca 173 250 350 208 1992 Unforgiven 120 543 110 209 1979 Life of Brian 183 266 179 210 1998 The Big Lebowski 167 256 123 211 1992 Aladdin > 250 120 308 212 2000 Amores Perros 209 260 225 213 2007 The Bourne Ultimatum 234 235 156 214 2007 Ratatouille > 250 138 211 215 1996 Fargo 161 230 164 216 1995 Twelve Monkeys 245 238 163 217 1965 For a Few Dollars More 104 792 142 218 1980 Raging Bull 124 599 119 219 2005 Serenity > 250 208 295 220 1967 Cool Hand Luke 172 539 215 221 1969 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 210 421 231 222 1957 The Bridge on the River Kwai 138 581 180 223 1988 Rain Man > 250 182 217 224 1965 The Sound of Music > 250 101 516 225 1957 The Seventh Seal 141 462 223 226 1993 In the Name of the Father 188 408 268 227 2014 Wild Tales 185 323 282 228 1939 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 145 466 297 229 2006 The Pursuit of Happyness > 250 185 220 230 1995 Casino 146 419 136 231 1987 The Princess Bride 214 136 298 232 1950 Rashomon 110 626 185 233 2008 Iron Man > 250 140 244 234 1975 Dog Day Afternoon > 250 417 252 235 2014 PK > 250 646 246 236 2005 Sin City > 250 231 148 237 1954 On the Waterfront 139 546 237 238 1982 Gandhi 227 370 221 239 2017 Call Me by Your Name 186 347 528 240 2011 X: First Class > 250 157 248 241 1948 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 119 786 230 242 2014 Kingsman: The Secret Service > 250 174 259 243 2012 Life of Pi > 250 152 257 244 2016 Captain America: Civil War > 250 215 265 245 2005 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire > 250 96 431 246 2004 The Notebook > 250 63 452 247 1976 Rocky 220 442 132 248 2013 About Time > 250 189 269 249 1977 Annie Hall 233 289 218 250 2003 Mystic River > 250 245 219 251 2011 The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo > 250 216 222 252 1992 Scent of a Woman > 250 276 255 253 2007 Atonement > 250 139 366 254 2011 The Artist > 250 197 325 255 2014 Big Hero 6 > 250 129 462 256 1986 Platoon 187 490 176 257 1984 Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind 213 378 301 258 1973 The Exorcist > 250 309 178 259 1925 The Gold Rush 136 684 306 260 1953 Roman Holiday > 250 206 426 261 1982 The Thing 163 528 146 262 1984 The Terminator 229 318 150 263 1985 The Breakfast Club > 250 137 391 264 2007 Persepolis > 250 291 477 265 2004 Before Sunset > 250 263 240 266 1959 Ben-Hur 195 481 227 267 1961 Judgment at Nuremberg 134 752 375 268 2013 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire > 250 83 525 269 2004 The Incredibles > 250 222 208 270 2000 Remember the Titans > 250 312 346 271 2001 Shrek > 250 143 323 272 1934 It Happened One Night 184 366 424 273 2001 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone > 250 88 530 274 2006 Casino Royale > 250 282 200 275 2014 Edge of Tomorrow > 250 293 203 276 2014 How to Train Your Dragon 2 > 250 186 395 277 1941 The Maltese Falcon 216 541 271 278 2014 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) > 250 299 168 279 1974 Young Frankenstein > 250 443 334 280 1957 Wild Strawberries 152 609 329 281 2001 Ocean’s Eleven > 250 221 262 282 2004 Shaun of the Dead > 250 233 261 283 1967 The Graduate > 250 285 254 284 2006 The Fall > 250 223 594 285 1995 La Haine 231 561 276 286 2006 Little Miss Sunshine > 250 149 349 287 2003 Dogville > 250 328 365 288 2015 The Hateful Eight > 250 411 171 289 2005 Pride & Prejudice > 250 68 754 290 2014 Nightcrawler > 250 380 173 291 1990 Dances With Wolves > 250 375 264 292 1986 Castle in the Sky 250 379 310 293 2010 Tangled > 250 93 599 294 1999 The Iron Giant > 250 418 312 295 2000 In the Mood for Love 240 358 423 296 2016 Hidden Figures > 250 180 651 297 2008 Yip Man > 250 744 214 298 1951 Strangers on a Train > 250 478 371 299 1948 Rope > 250 503 369 300 2009 Moon > 250 350 284 301 2016 Manchester by the Sea > 250 427 243 302 1951 A Streetcar Named Desire > 250 348 448 303 1986 Ferris Bueller’s Day Off > 250 255 303 304 2001 Mulholland Drive > 250 349 242 305 2014 Captain America: The Winter Soldier > 250 204 316 306 2009 District 9 > 250 324 193 307 1982 Blade Runner 149 341 197 308 1999 Magnolia > 250 444 194 309 1985 Brazil > 250 554 287 310 2002 The Bourne Identity > 250 298 256 311 2002 Hero > 250 492 355 312 2005 Cinderella Man > 250 495 286 313 2000 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon > 250 354 313 314 1999 Toy Story 2 > 250 249 266 315 2013 Star Trek: Into Darkness > 250 191 417 316 1968 Rosemary’s Baby > 250 343 304 317 1946 Notorious > 250 500 450 318 1976 Network 191 720 273 319 2016 Rogue One > 250 283 337 320 1997 Children of Heaven 128 678 519 321 2007 Hot Fuzz > 250 259 331 322 1983 A Christmas Story > 250 415 377 323 2004 Crash > 250 226 336 324 2010 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 > 250 104 696 325 1995 Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge > 250 902 437 326 2013 Captain Phillips > 250 270 340 327 2005 Walk the Line > 250 224 418 328 2017 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 > 250 241 446 329 2007 Elite Squad > 250 974 307 330 1982 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial > 250 246 370 331 2000 Dancer in the Dark > 250 400 447 332 1966 Persona 196 548 400 333 2009 The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo > 250 269 412 334 2008 Let the Right One In > 250 384 270 335 2014 Boyhood > 250 335 238 336 2012 Barfi! > 250 877 440 337 2009 Mr. Nobody > 250 253 434 338 1993 True Romance > 250 557 280 339 2010 My Name Is Khan > 250 535 517 340 2009 The Hangover > 250 258 247 341 1926 The General 153 891 381 342 2012 Moonrise Kingdom > 250 232 386 343 2012 Les Miserables > 250 168 499 344 1979 Stalker 197 767 347 345 2017 Baby Driver > 250 389 305 346 2012 Silver Linings Playbook > 250 237 251 347 2016 Contratiempo > 250 589 561 348 2004 The Sea Inside > 250 428 507 349 2006 Apocalypto > 250 364 373 350 1959 The 400 Blows 200 637 374 351 2017 Get Out > 250 344 314 352 1988 Akira > 250 882 267 353 1964 Fistful of Dollars > 250 950 278 354 2009 The Blind Side > 250 198 488 355 2008 Taken > 250 257 315 356 2008 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button > 250 211 320 357 2007 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly > 250 432 397 358 2011 Drive > 250 361 207 359 2003 Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring > 250 572 416 360 1987 The Untouchables > 250 604 300 361 1944 Arsenic and Old Lace > 250 464 617 362 1996 Sling Blade > 250 715 464 363 2008 The Boy in the Striped Pajamas > 250 207 601 364 2002 Talk to Her > 250 394 430 365 1979 Manhattan > 250 508 359 366 2013 Short Term 12 > 250 474 529 367 2015 Straight Outta Compton > 250 513 459 368 2010 Despicable Me > 250 145 543 369 2000 Almost Famous > 250 320 322 370 1982 Pink Floyd: The Wall > 250 656 510 371 2006 Children of Men > 250 355 263 372 2014 Ex Machina > 250 362 272 373 1997 Boogie Nights > 250 660 213 374 2013 Queen > 250 1005 484 375 1973 Papillon > 250 831 354 376 2010 Elite Squad: The Enemy Within > 250 1116 352 377 2014 The Theory of Everything > 250 173 591 378 1940 The Philadelphia Story > 250 393 766 379 1940 The Grapes of Wrath 221 728 403 380 1971 Harold and Maude > 250 436 685 381 2016 Captain Fantastic > 250 363 505 382 1993 What’s Eating Gilbert Grape > 250 202 574 383 2003 Memories of Murder 199 916 330 384 2009 Avatar > 250 228 296 385 2002 Infernal Affairs 243 875 292 386 1994 Three Colors: Red > 250 644 415 387 1976 All the President’s Men > 250 755 420 388 2016 The Handmaiden 246 595 549 389 1955 The Night of the Hunter > 250 737 471 390 1995 Underground > 250 751 541 391 1990 The Godfather: Part III > 250 440 358 392 1984 Paris, Texas 244 736 455 393 2010 The Fighter > 250 452 283 394 1966 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? > 250 537 565 395 2014 The Fault in Our Stars > 250 187 513 396 2005 Brokeback Mountain > 250 162 611 397 2007 Chak de! India > 250 1278 317 398 2006 Lucky Number Slevin > 250 416 363 399 1991 JFK > 250 847 324 400 1998 The Legend of 1900 242 608 607 401 2017 The Greatest Showman > 250 272 972 402 2000 O Brother, Where Art Thou? > 250 401 387 403 2010 The Social Network > 250 414 201 404 1997 Gattaca > 250 356 390 405 2012 Argo > 250 243 409 406 1993 Groundhog Day 230 457 210 407 1962 The Manchurian Candidate > 250 849 506 408 1984 This Is Spinal Tap > 250 762 348 409 2013 Frozen > 250 130 692 410 1990 Misery > 250 402 466 411 2007 The Man From Earth > 250 764 290 412 1968 Planet of the Apes > 250 789 294 413 2000 Cast Away > 250 314 328 414 1998 Black Cat, White Cat > 250 676 605 415 1971 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory > 250 333 496 416 1985 Ran 133 1207 234 417 2008 Changeling > 250 296 405 418 2006 Rang De Basanti 180 1218 236 419 1989 Glory > 250 768 427 420 1989 Back to the Future Part II > 250 374 338 421 2004 The Bourne Supremacy > 250 413 333 422 2006 Letters From Iwo Jima > 250 791 364 423 1952 High Noon > 250 890 407 424 1997 The Fifth Element > 250 247 546 425 2017 Wonder Woman > 250 196 706 426 1995 Ghost in the Shell > 250 917 361 427 1961 Yojimbo 113 1281 235 428 2015 Bahubali: The Beginning > 250 1491 393 429 2007 Zodiac > 250 435 275 430 1990 Awakenings > 250 467 559 431 1993 Three Colors: Blue > 250 552 603 432 1950 Harvey > 250 645 680 433 2014 Fury > 250 449 341 434 1993 Philadelphia > 250 277 644 435 1998 The Celebration > 250 785 404 436 1946 The Big Sleep > 250 750 489 437 1987 Wings of Desire > 250 622 638 438 2016 Hunt for the Wilderpeople > 250 605 701 439 1994 Chungking Express > 250 712 600 440 2012 Kahaani > 250 1212 478 441 1958 Touch of Evil 228 1008 356 442 2004 Finding Neverland > 250 240 570 443 2004 The Machinist > 250 330 438 444 1987 Empire of the Sun > 250 530 668 445 2012 Wreck-It Ralph > 250 281 458 446 1968 Night of the Living Dead > 250 837 385 447 1993 Carlito’s Way > 250 876 326 448 1996 The Bandit 171 1181 362 449 1997 The Game > 250 441 367 450 1946 The Best Years of Our Lives 239 772 604 451 2004 Man on Fire > 250 406 444 452 2014 The Lego Movie > 250 397 380 453 1964 Mary Poppins > 250 234 806 454 1959 Anatomy of a Murder > 250 864 515 455 1999 Being John Malkovich > 250 392 383 456 2015 The Big Short > 250 515 299 457 2008 The Wrestler > 250 621 289 458 1954 La Strada > 250 748 623 459 1999 All About My Mother > 250 405 712 460 2007 3:10 to Yuma > 250 511 456 461 1975 Barry Lyndon 225 991 281 462 2009 Fantastic Mr. Fox > 250 423 445 463 1922 Nosferatu > 250 716 468 464 2017 Wonder > 250 577 862 465 2006 The Last King of Scotland > 250 455 535 466 1980 The Blues Brothers > 250 687 372 467 2012 Skyfall > 250 295 401 468 1997 As Good as It Gets > 250 367 396 469 1955 Diabolique 223 910 534 470 2016 Kubo and the Two Strings > 250 600 616 471 1972 Solaris > 250 996 429 472 2013 Before Midnight > 250 453 449 473 1989 Kiki’s Delivery Service > 250 357 674 474 1994 Ed Wood > 250 545 384 475 1960 La Dolce Vita > 250 793 512 476 1993 The Fugitive > 250 569 392 477 1967 Bonnie and Clyde > 250 648 501 478 1996 Primal Fear > 250 426 578 479 2002 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets > 250 142 831 480 1999 The Insider > 250 863 378 481 2004 3-Iron > 250 651 719 482 1965 Doctor Zhivago > 250 714 577 483 1927 Sunrise 164 995 633 484 2009 Zombieland > 250 329 414 485 2001 Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India 249 1190 293 486 1993 Tombstone > 250 794 526 487 2008 Departures > 250 731 613 488 2009 (500) Days of Summer > 250 310 345 489 1969 Midnight Cowboy > 250 818 502 490 1961 Breakfast at Tiffany’s > 250 210 802 491 2007 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix > 250 147 837 492 2004 The Butterfly Effect > 250 303 428 493 2003 21 Grams > 250 410 500 494 2016 Doctor Strange > 250 287 556 495 2009 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince > 250 160 846 496 1953 Stalag 17 > 250 1059 642 497 1962 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? > 250 585 793 498 2007 Once > 250 463 487 499 2013 Mandariinid > 250 666 865 500

IMDb makes adjustments to its raw ratings but does not disclose its methodology. Therefore, these rankings — which start with the raw ratings — may not match a gender-weighted version of a list made by IMDb itself because we can’t re-create the site’s adjustments.

Source: IMDb

The top 100 largely includes films from the original list of 250, and the additions to the list — there are a lot of best picture winners among the newbies — appear mainly in the back half of the 250.

Attempting to reflect a target population is a common practice in many fields that use surveys. It’s not clear to me why movie rating sites don’t do it — or, at the least, why they don’t indicate that their scores are almost all based mostly on the opinions of male users.

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Archive Project - May 30, 2014 - Maleficent Review

Maleficent, 2014. Robert Stromberg 97 Minutes Jeez.. Why can't it just be next week already? The only movie i'm really into seeing right now is Edge of Tomorrow, because it unlike most everything else right now seems to be the only thing that is likely going to be an optimistic change of pace in terms of movies right now. No offense to Fault in our Stars, as I don't have a strong enough grip on the source material to get excited to see it, but with the poor reception of A Million Ways to Die in the West and Maleficent, i'm just a little tired of the current output of movies and I just want it to be June already so that I can see how How to Train Your Dragon 2 and Transformers 4 turn out. In any case, I set aside time last weekend to see the original Sleeping Beauty to prepare for this. Prior to this i'd only seen the film once as a little kid and didn't remember any of it. I really liked it! I don't think its a perfect movie but as far as pure storytelling goes its a really good example of the power of simplicity. The movie lacks a lot of well known "Disney-isms" and instead merely sprinkles them on lightly over a bare bones plot about true love and overcoming evil. I can't remember the last time I saw a film with a story so simple and uncomplicated since the last time I watched True Grit. That simplicity ends up being its saving grace. The movie is mostly without flaws and i'd go as far as to say it would be a masterpiece if the Prince and the villain had slightly deeper motivations. Fast forward fifty years into the future, and Disney has entered a period in which they have decided to see how many times they can rip off Wicked and get away with it, by turning every one of their bad guys into a good guy…. or at least a morally grey guy. In this reimagining of the classic Sleeping Beauty, Maleficent was once a powerful and good defender of a race of fairies known as the Moors. She is unfortunately betrayed by a close ally of hers and looses the wings she was born with. Now vengeful of loosing her wings, she transforms herself into a powerful sorceress and curses the daughter of the king with imminent death. Maleficent however soon forms a bond with the young girl and tries to remove the curse. First off, right off the bat the movie makes the mistake of not thoroughly establishing what Maleficent's actual powers are beyond reminding you of what they were in the original movie. At the beginning of the movie she mainly fights people by using her wings. She does have some magical powers but they are never fully brought out until after she looses her wings, and we find out that her powers are great to the point of omnipresence and that they are so great that even she cannot defeat them… Also she has The Wolverine's healing factor for some reason… I will say that this movie looks really good! The visual effects are meticulous in this movie and they all look really great and diverse! The good visual however do undermine the movie multiple times. For whatever reason, the human characters look like they were filmed on the set of Monty Python and the Holy Grail and the visuals didn't mesh well with the CGI. The shot composition at that was extremely uneven and switched between doing pretty good, and then letting the camera violently shake during action scenes for some reason… Of course, this is a Sleeping Beauty movie and the famous Dragon does show up in the movie (executed in a way that was underwhelming..). Unfortunately, the creature that composed one of the best scenes of the original movie was far less visually interesting in a movie where Frog Goblins and Snakes made out of Trees are a regular occurrence. Other than that, the story and acting were pretty bad.. The story sine waves between mature, ultra dark fantasy and riding on the back of the original movie whenever it gets tired. Subsequently the entire second act was a pointless rehash of the events of Sleeping Beauty. The acting wasn't much better as a lot of actors end up giving poor performances or just overdue their part. This isn't helped by the terrible dialog that I kept thinking of alternatives to make better throughout the movie. Plus one of the main character's costume made him look like he just walked off the set of Twilight…. I really don't see anybody liking this movie that isn't a Die Hard fan of Sleeping Beauty or isn't a kid. I don't recommend checking this one out unless you are an insane Disney fanatic. Thank you for reading! Live long and prosper!

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#102: Watch every movie on the IMDB top 250 movies list

The goal of this list item was to expand my pop culture exposure I guess. I hadn’t seen most of these before. There were too many war movies and westerns on this list for my liking, but at least I can say I saw them. I put little <3 next to the ones I really liked. This list was created 31/12/15 when I finished started last year’s list.

1. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

2. The Godfather (1972)

3. The Godfather: Part II (1974)

4. The Dark Knight (2008)

5. 12 Angry Men (1957)

6. Schindler’s List (1993)

7. Pulp Fiction (1994)

8. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)

9. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

10. Fight Club (1999)

11. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

12. Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

13. Forrest Gump (1994)

14. Inception (2010)

15. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)

16. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

17. The Matrix (1999)

18. Goodfellas (1990)

19. Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977)

20. Seven Samurai (1954)

21. City of God (2002)

22. Se7en (1995)

23. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

24. The Usual Suspects (1995)

25. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)

26. Life is Beautiful (1997)

27. Leon: The Professional (1994)

28. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

29. Interstellar (2014) <3

30. Saving Private Ryan (1998) <3

31. Spirited Away (2001) <3

32. American History X (1998)

33. Casablanca (1942)

34. City Lights (1931)

35. Psycho (1960)

36. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

37. Rear Window (1954)

38. The Intouchables (2011)

39. Modern Times (1936)

40. The Green Mile (1999) <3

41. Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)

42. The Pianist (2002)

43. Whiplash (2014)

44. The Departed (2006)

45. Back to the Future (1985) <3

46. Memento (2000)

47. Gladiator (2000)

48. Apocalypse Now (1979)

49. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

50. Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)

51. Sunset Blvd. (1950)

52. The Prestige (2006)

53. Alien (1979)

54. The Lion King (1994) <3

55. The Great Dictator (1940)

56. The Lives of Others (2006)

57. Cinema Paradiso (1988) <3

58. Paths of Glory (1957)

59. The Shining (1980) <3

60. Django Unchained (2012)

61. The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

62. WALL-E (2008) <3

63. American Beauty (1999)

64. Grave of Fireflies (1988)

65. Aliens (1986)

66. Citizen Kane (1941)

67. North by Northwest (1959)

68. Princess Mononoke (1997)

69. Oldboy (2003)

70. Vertigo (1958)

71. Das Boot (1981)

72. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

73. Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983)

74. M (1931)

75. Amelie (2001) <3 <3 <3

76. Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

77. Reservoir Dogs (1992)

78. Braveheart (1995)

79. A Clockwork Orange (1971)

80. Toy Story 3 (2010)

81. Requiem for a Dream (2000)

82. Taxi Driver (1976)

83. Double Indeminity (1944)

84. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) <3

85. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

86. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

87. Full Metal Jacket (1987)

88. Amadeus (1984) <3

89. The Sting (1973)

90. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)

91. Bicycle Thieves (1948)

92. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

93. Snatch (2000)

94. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) <3

95. Inside Out (2015) <3

96. The Kid (1921)

97. Toy Story (1995) <3

98. L.A. Confidential (1997)

99. For a Few Dollars More (1965)

100. Inglorious Basterds (2009)

101: Rashomon (1950)

102. The Apartment (1960)

103. All About Eve (1950)

104. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

105. A Separation (2011)

106. Metropolis (1927)

107. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

108. Scarface (1983)

109. Yojimbo (1961)

110. Some Like It Hot (1959)

111. Batman Begins (2005)

112. The Third Man (1949)

113. Unforgiven (1992)

114. 3 Idiots (2009)

115. Up (2009) <3

116. The Hunt (2012)

117. Raging Bull (1980)

118. Downfall (2004)

119. Good Will Hunting (1997)

120. Die Hard (1988)

121. The Great Escape (1963)

122. Chinatown (1974)

123. Heat (1995)

124. Sunrise (1927)

125. On the Waterfront (1954)

126. Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)

127. Sholay (1975)

128. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)<3

129. My Neighbor Totoro (1988)

130. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

131. The Gold Rush (1925)

132. Ikiru (1952)

133. Ran (1985)

134. The Seventh Seal (1957)

135. Blade Runner (1982)

136. The Secret in Their Eyes (2009)

137. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)

138. Wild Strawberries (1957)

139. The General (1926)

140. The Elephant Man (1980)

141. Casino (1995)

142. Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)<3

143. Warrior (2011)

144. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

145. V for Vendetta (2005)

146. Gran Torino (2008)

147. Judgement at Nuremberg (1961)

148. The Big Lebowski (1998)

149. A Beautiful Mind (2001)<3

150. Rebecca (1940)

151. The Deer Hunter (1978)

152. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

153. How to Train Your Dragon (2010) <3

154. Cool Hand Luke (1967)

155. Gone with the Wind (1939)

156. Fargo (1996) <3

157. Trainspotting (1996)

158. Dial M for Murder (1954)

159. Incendies (2010)

160. The Sixth Sense (1999)

161. Into the Wild (2007) <3

162. It Happened One Night (1934)

163. Finding Nemo (2003) <3

164. Gone Girl (2014)

165. No Country for Old Men (2007)

166. The Thing (1982)

167. Mary and Max (2009)

168. Rush (2013)

169. The Maltese Falcon (1941)

170. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)

171. Life of Brian (1979)

172. Hotel Rwanda (2004)

173. The Wages of Fear (1953)

174. Platoon (1986)

175. There Will Be Blood (2007)

176. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid (1969)

177. Network (1976)

178. The Martian (2015) <3

179. The 400 Blows (1959)

180. Stand by Me (1986) <3

181. Persona (1966)

182. The Revenant (2015)

183. Touch of Evil (1958)

184. 12 Years a Slave (2013)

185. The Princess Bride (1987)

186. The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) <3

187. In the Name of the Father (1993)

188. Amores Perros (2000)

189. Million Dollar Baby (2004)

190. Annie Hall (1977)

191. Ben-Hur (1959)

192. Shutter Island (2010)

193. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

194. Wild Tales (2014) <3

195. Hachi: A Dog’s Tale (2009)

196. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1984)

197. Diabolique (1955)

198. Stalker (1979)

199. Jurassic Park (1993)

200. Gandhi (1982)

201. The Wizard of Oz (1939) <3

202. The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)

203. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

204. Sin City (2005)

205. Donnie Darko (2001)

206. 8 ½ (1963)

207. Before Sunrise (1995)

208. Strangers on a Train (1951)

209. Twelve Monkeys (1995)

210. The Terminator (1984)

211. The Truman Show (1998) <3

212. Groundhog Day (1993)

213. Monsters, Inc (2001) <3

214. Jaws (1975)

215. Memories of Murder (2003)

216. Rocky (1976)

217. The Battle of Algiers (1966)

218. Infernal Affairs (2002)

219. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)

220. The Avengers (2012)

221. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

222. Barry Lyndon (1975)

223. Fanny and Alexander (1982)

224. La Haine (1995)

225. Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) <3

226. Throne of Blood (1957)

227. The Imitation Game (2014)

228. The King’s Speech (2010)

229. Ip Man (2008)

230. A Fistful of Dollars (1964)

231. High Noon (1952)

232. Prisoners (2013)

233. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) <3

234. Castle in the Sky (1986)

235. The Help (2011) <3

236. Roman Holiday (1953)

237. Notorious (1946)

238. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

239. Papillon (1973)

240. Beauty and the Beast (1991)

241. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter…and Spring (2003)

242. The Night of the Hunter (1955)

243. Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

244. Before Sunset (2004)

245. Catch me if You Can (2002)

246. Three Colors: Red (1994)

247. The Killing (1956)

248. La Strada (1954)

249. The Graduate (1967)

250. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

#imdb top 250 #2017 bucket list #film #movies #365for365

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monetsgf · 8 years ago

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IMDb Top 250 - To Watch

1. The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 2. The Godfather (1972) 3. The Godfather: Part II (1974) 4. The Dark Knight (2008) 5. 12 Angry Men (1957) 6. Schindler's List (1993) 7. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) 8. Pulp Fiction (1994) 9. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) 10. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring(2001) 11. Fight Club (1999) 12. Forrest Gump (1994) 13. Inception (2010) 14. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) 15. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back(1980) 16. The Matrix (1999) 17. Goodfellas (1990) 18. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) 19. Seven Samurai (1954) 20. Seven (1995) 21. Life Is Beautiful (1997) 22. City of God (2002) 23. The Silence of the Lambs (1991) 24. It's a Wonderful Life (1946) 25. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) 26. Saving Private Ryan (1998) 27. Spirited Away (2001) 28. The Green Mile (1999) 29. Interstellar (2014) 30. Parasite (2019) 31. Leon (1994) 32. The Usual Suspects (1995) 33. Harakiri (1962) 34. The Lion King (1994) 35. The Pianist (2002) 36. Back to the Future (1985) 37. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) 38. American History X (1998) 39. Modern Times (1936) 40. Psycho (1960) 41. Gladiator (2000) 42. City Lights (1931) 43. The Departed (2006) 44. Untouchable (2011) 45. Whiplash (2014) 46. The Prestige (2006) 47. Grave of the Fireflies (1988) 48. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) 49. Casablanca (1942) 50. Cinema Paradiso (1988) 51. Hamilton (2020) 52. Rear Window (1954) 53. Alien (1979) 54. Apocalypse Now (1979) 55. Memento (2000) 56. The Great Dictator (1940) 57. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 58. Django Unchained (2012) 59. The Lives of Others (2006) 60. Joker (2019) 61. Paths of Glory (1957) 62. WALL·E (2008) 63. The Shining (1980) 64. Avengers: Infinity War (2018) 65. Sunset Blvd. (1950) 66. Witness for the Prosecution (1957) 67. Oldboy (2003) 68. Princess Mononoke (1997) 69. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) 70. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 71. The Dark Knight Rises (2012) 72. Once Upon a Time in America (1984) 73. Aliens (1986) 74. Your Name. (2016) 75. Coco (2017) 76. Avengers: Endgame (2019) 77. American Beauty (1999) 78. Braveheart (1995) 79. Das Boot (1981) 80. 3 Idiots (2009) 81. Toy Story (1995) 82. Capernaum (2018) 83. High and Low (1963) 84. Amadeus (1984) 85. Inglourious Basterds (2009) 86. Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) 87. Like Stars on Earth (2007) 88. Good Will Hunting (1997) 89. Reservoir Dogs (1992) 90. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 91. Requiem for a Dream (2000) 92. Vertigo (1958) 93. M (1931) 94. The Hunt (2012) 95. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) 96. Citizen Kane (1941) 97. Dangal (2016) 98. Full Metal Jacket (1987) 99. Singin' in the Rain (1952) 100. Bicycle Thieves (1948) 101. The Kid (1921) 102. 1917 (2019) 103. North by Northwest (1959) 104. A Clockwork Orange (1971) 105. Snatch (2000) 106. Scarface (1983) 107. Ikiru (1952) 108. Taxi Driver (1976) 109. Come and See (1985) 110. Toy Story 3 (2010) 111. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) 112. Amélie (2001) 113. The Sting (1973) 114. A Separation (2011) 115. Metropolis (1927) 116. Incendies (2010) 117. For a Few Dollars More (1965) 118. The Apartment (1960) 119. Double Indemnity (1944) 120. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) 121. Up (2009) 122. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) 123. Heat (1995) 124. L.A. Confidential (1997) 125. Die Hard (1988) 126. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) 127. Green Book (2018) 128. Yojimbo (1961) 129. Rashomon (1950) 130. Batman Begins (2005) 131. Downfall (2004) 132. Children of Heaven (1997) 133. Unforgiven (1992) 134. Some Like It Hot (1959) 135. Ran (1985) 136. Howl's Moving Castle (2004) 137. All About Eve (1950) 138. A Beautiful Mind (2001) 139. Casino (1995) 140. The Great Escape (1963) 141. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) 142. Pan's Labyrinth (2006) 143. The Secret in Their Eyes (2009) 144. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) 145. There Will Be Blood (2007) 146. My Neighbour Totoro (1988) 147. Raging Bull (1980) 148. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) 149. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) 150. Dial M for Murder (1954) 151. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) 152. Shutter Island (2010) 153. The Gold Rush (1925) 154. Chinatown (1974) 155. My Father and My Son (2005) 156. No Country for Old Men (2007) 157. V for Vendetta (2005) 158. Soul (2020) 159. Inside Out (2015) 160. The Seventh Seal (1957) 161. The Elephant Man (1980) 162. Warrior (2011) 163. The Thing (1982) 164. The Sixth Sense (1999) 165. Trainspotting (1996) 166. Anand (1971) 167. Jurassic Park (1993) 168. The Truman Show (1998) 169. Gone with the Wind (1939) 170. Klaus (2019) 171. Finding Nemo (2003) 172. Wild Strawberries (1957) 173. Stalker (1979) 174. Blade Runner (1982) 175. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) 176. Memories of Murder (2003) 177. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) 178. Fargo (1996) 179. Room (2015) 180. The Third Man (1949) 181. Gran Torino (2008) 182. On the Waterfront (1954) 183. Wild Tales (2014) 184. Tokyo Story (1953) 185. The Deer Hunter (1978) 186. Autumn Sonata (1978) 187. In the Name of the Father (1993) 188. Mary and Max (2009) 189. The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) 190. Gone Girl (2014) 191. Before Sunrise (1995) 192. Hacksaw Ridge (2016) 193. Catch Me If You Can (2002) 194. Andhadhun (2018) 195. Persona (1966) 196. Prisoners (2013) 197. The Big Lebowski (1998) 198. To Be or Not to Be (1942) 199. Sherlock Jr. (1924) 200. The General (1926) 201. How to Train Your Dragon (2010) 202. The Bandit (1996) 203. Le Mans '66 (2019) 204. 12 Years a Slave (2013) 205. Barry Lyndon (1975) 206. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) 207. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) 208. Time of the Gypsies (1988) 209. Million Dollar Baby (2004) 210. Network (1976) 211. Dead Poets Society (1989) 212. Stand by Me (1986) 213. Ben-Hur (1959) 214. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2(2011) 215. Cool Hand Luke (1967) 216. Hachi: A Dog's Tale (2009) 217. Platoon (1986) 218. Logan (2017) 219. Into the Wild (2007) 220. The Handmaiden (2016) 221. Rush (2013) 222. The Wages of Fear (1953) 223. Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) 224. The 400 Blows (1959) 225. Spotlight (2015) 226. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) 227. Hotel Rwanda (2004) 228. La Haine (1995) 229. Andrei Rublev (1966) 230. Amores Perros (2000) 231. Vikram Vedha (2017) 232. Rocky (1976) 233. Gangs of Wasseypur (2012) 234. Monsters, Inc. (2001) 235. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) 236. Rebecca (1940) 237. Rififi (1955) 238. Rang De Basanti (2006) 239. Before Sunset (2004) 240. In the Mood for Love (2000) 241. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) 242. Paris, Texas (1984) 243. It Happened One Night (1934) 244. The Invisible Guest (2016) 245. The Help (2011) 246. Drishyam (2015) 247. The Princess Bride (1987) 248. The Battle of Algiers (1966) 249. Tangerines (2013) 250. Winter Sleep (2014)

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angels-dining-at-the-ritz · 8 years ago

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I was tagged by @omgtoomuchfandoms ages ago and finally got around to answer this thing. I won’t tag anyone else, though.

RULES: answer these 85 statements and tag people

THE LAST: Drink: A Monster Energy Drink. Not healthy, I know. Phone call: To my mum Text message: “Das klingt tatsächlich ziemlich gut...muss ich mir mal anschauen.” (That does actually sound pretty good...have to check it out some time.) My answer today to a friend who recommended a series to me I intend to have a look at after her description. Song you listened to: Addicted - Saving Abel Time you cried: Exactly one week ago. My dog recently passed away and I’m a mess about it. Dated someone twice: Never so far. Kissed someone and regretted it: Back when I was nineteen, so...about four years ago. Been cheated on: Never Lost someone special: Two and a half weeks ago, my dog was put down. Been depressed: In a somewhat on-again-off-again weird sometimes-lowkey-sometimes-highkey way ever since I’ve been eighteen. Gotten drunk and thrown up: Last year. A mate of mine made an evil alcoholic mix of hell that did not like what I drank before.

FAVOURITE COLOURS: Velvet red Midnight blue Aubergine Terracotta

IN THE LAST YEAR HAVE YOU: Made new friends: Yes Fallen out of love: No Laughed until you cried: Luckily, several times Found out someone was talking about you: Not that I can recall, so I don’t think so Met someone who changed you: No Found out who your friends are: Sort of. In a positive way, luckily. Kissed someone on your facebook list: No

GENERAL: How many of your facebook friends do you know in real life: I knew all of them once, but since I practically haven’t used fb since I left school, it’s not exactly up to date and I lost contact with a lot of those on the list Do you have any pets: Not any more Do you want to change your name: Not really. I kinda like it What did you do for your last birthday: I went bowling with friends. That was fun. What were you doing at midnight last night: Playing The Witcher 3, the Blood And Wine expansion, fullfilling sidequests so I have none left before proceeding with the main story line and finishing it before starting the main game in deathmarch difficulty. Name something you can’t wait for: Tea to cool down, my wonky internet connection to work, a nice meal to finish cooking... What are you listening to right now: A German youtube channel’s pen and paper session - the two-shot adventure “Jailhouse Boogie” by Rocketbeans TV, in case anyone of you guys knows them. And those who don’t and understand German - check the guys out, they are awesome. They’ve got something for every kind of nerd in their program. Have you ever talked to a person named tom: Not that I can recall. Something that is getting on your nerves: Right now? Nothing. Generally speaking? High-pitched wailing of children, tbh. Sirens. Having to explain the same thing over and over again. Waiting for someone who made me hurry up. Most visited website: Youtube, hands down. Hair colour: Brown. Usually it lightens up in the summer, but I did not spend much time in the sun this year. Long or short hair: Long, but I want to have it cut soon. Not too short, though. Do you have a crush on someone: Not currently. What do you like about yourself: My creativity. Want any piercings: No. I got earrings as a teen, that was enough. I don’t even wear any of those anymore. Blood type: 0+ Nickname: Leo, love, Miko Relationship status: Single Zodiac: Capricorn Pronouns: she/her Favorite tv show: Hannibal, Daredevil, Preacher, Buffy, Westworld, Game of Thrones, Supernatural, Breaking Bad, House of Cards....... Tattoos: I don’t have any, but I fancy the idea of getting some. I even have several designs in mind. Right or left handed: I prefer my right hand, but I’m ambidextrous. Surgery: Never had any. Piercing: I think that was already asked? Still no. Sport: Riding. Sword-fighting. Judo. I also used to do athletics as a kid/teen. Vacation: Scotland, Ireland, Italy, Spain. I’ll travel to Israel next year, I’m pretty pumped for that. Also, I want to see practically everything of the world some time, so... Pair of trainers: Black and blue asics.

MORE GENERAL: Eating: Right now? Nothing. Drinking: I have a bottle of water next to me I try to remind myself to keep drinking from. I’m about to: Dunno. Keep procrastinating? Maybe take a nap. Or read something. Or write a bit. As I said, dunno. Waiting for: Six p.m. to arrive when I have an appointment with a fellow tenant who has internet issues I am supposed to solve. Want: My group’s next Cthulhu session to happen soon, watch Kingsman 2 next week, and a lot of things that are unobtainable in the foreseeable future Get married: If I ever meet the right person, maybe. Why not. Career: I’m studying molecular medicine. I’ll become a researcher in a lab if everything goes according to plan.

WHICH IS BETTER: Hugs or kisses: Hugs Lips or eyes: Eyes Shorter or taller: Taller Older or younger: Older Nice arms or nice stomach: Nice arms Hook up or relationship: Relationship Troublemaker or hesitant: Hesitant

HAVE YOU EVER: Kissed a stranger: Yes Drank hard liquor: Yes Lost glasses/contact lenses: Nope, don’t wear either Turned someone down: Yes Sex on the first date: No Broken someone’s heart: Not sure about this, maybe Had your heart broken: Oh yes. Been arrested: No Cried when someone died: Yes Fallen for a friend: Sadly.

DO YOU BELIEVE IN Yourself: Not often enough. Miracles: I’m not sure. Perhaps. Love at first sight: Not really. Santa Claus: Errrrr, nope. Kiss on the first date: Depends on various things, so it changes from case to case, but it can happen, sure. Angels: I’m not sure if I believe in angels as in the biblical concept of them, as much as I like stories with supernatural beings and hierarchies. But my belief is something I still have to fully work out, so most of my answers in that area are pretty vague

OTHER: Current best friends name: Franziska, René, Atia Eyecolour: Hazel. With a dash of green around the pupil, and brown specks on the iris. Favorite movie: Too many to name them all. The LotR trilogy, In Bruges, Iron Man, Kingsman, The Lion King, Silence of the Lambs, Star Wars, Deadpool, Logan, A Beautiful Mind, The Dark Knight, Les Mis, Seven Psycopaths, Monty Python And The Holy Grail, Chicago, West Side Story, Death on the Nile (the one with Peter Ustinov), Mary Poppins, Dead Poet’s Society, Hidden Figures, The Ninth Gate, Catch Me If You Can...........do you want me to continue?

#tag game #waaaayyy too long #wtf what a rant #i feel like this is highly personal #i feel like this tells so much about me ugh

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