GameTZ

26-May-17 7:30pm
#1

theJaw

This topic had many older posts which were moved here: http://gametz.com/Ge...

Hello, I like to rank things. @bonham2 can attest.

I update this thread with new topics so the GTZers can share their definitive rankings of said topic. It's a great time.

Current Topic: Top 10 Most Anticipated Games of 2023

Past Topics:
1. Rank the Batman films
2. Rank the X-Men films
3. Top 10 TV Shows
4. Top 10 Favorite Albums
5. Top Favorite Fictional Characters
6. Rank Your Favorite Nicktoons
7. Top 10 90s Nick Shows
8. Top 10 SNES Games
9. Top 5 Favorite Video Game Locations
10. Top 5 Video Game Frustrations
11. Top 5 Horror Movies
12. Top 5 Thanksgiving Foods
13. The Christmas Edition
14. Top 10 Superhero Movies
15. Top 10 (or 5) Movies of 2017
16. Top 10 (or 5) Comedy Movies
17. Top 10 Animated Films
19. Rank Your Favorite Action Movies
20. Top 10 PS4 Games
21. Top 10 Movies of the Past 5 Years
22. Top 5 Video Game Disappointments
23. Top 10 Favorite MCU Characters
24. Rank the Traditionally Animated Disney Movies
25. Favorite Nostalgic Children's Movies
26. Rank Tarantino's Filmography
27. Top 10 Bands/Musicians
28. Rank the Nintendo Home Consoles
29. The Halloween Edition
30. Top 5 Thanksgiving Foods Pt. II
31. The Christmas Edition Pt II
32. Top 10 Movies of 2019
33. Top 10 Movies of the 2010s
34. Rank the Harry Potter Movies
35. Rank the Disney/Pixar Movies
36. Rank the Spider-man film franchise
37. Top 10 Episodes of TV
38. Top 10 Tearjerker Movies
39. Top 5 SNL Skits
40. Rank the 3D Mario Games
41. Top 10 Film Quotes/Lines of Dialogue
42. Top 5 (or 10) Thanksgiving Specials
43. Top 10 Live Action Movies of the 1990s
44. Top 10 Music Videos
45. Rank the DCEU Movies
46. Top 10 (or 5) Movies of 2020
47. Top 10 Disney Songs
48. Top 5 Celebrity Crushes
49. Favorite & Least Favorite Movies of 2021
50. Rank the Batman films (again!)
51. Top 10 Classic Rock Songs
52. Top 10 Summer Movies
53. Top 10 Autumn Movies
54. Top 10 Movies of 2022
55. Top 10 Most Anticipated Games of 2023

OG Batman movie post:

So, for other folks who watch stupid superhero stuff, Rank! Those! Stupid! Batman movies!!! I don't expect everyone to have seen all the ones on my list but if you've seen any, share your lists in the thread. Or don't, jerk.

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GTZ's favorite is Batman Begins. This is indisputable.

1. The Dark Knight
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Classic. Iconic Joker, great adaptation of Two-Face. Batman's mythos in the Nolan trilogy took its most interesting turn with the ending with Batman's metaphorical sacrifice. It was the ultimate grounded approach at a Batman movie, finding perfect ways to integrate those comic book moments.

2. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
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The only animated Batman movie to get a theatrical release is still one of the best. I'm huge into Batman: The Animated Series, and this movie is one of the best "entires" in that series and just one of the best takes on Batman in general.

3. Batman Returns
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Completely off nostalgia alone. This was among my favorite movies as a kid and remains a favorite Christmas movie. Michael Keaton had great nuance, especially as Bruce Wayne. Danny DeVito's Penguin was as memorable as it was gross. It wasn't a particularly great movie and it hasn't aged well, but I'll always love it.

4. Batman Begins
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Really dug the subtle, grounded approach of this movie - it was easily the most grounded of the Nolan movies. I'm a big fan of Ra's Al Ghul and, while I would have liked a legitimately immortal take on the character, Liam Neeson's man-in-the-shadows-creating-a-myth version was great for this universe.

5. Batman (1989)
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Another classic, the logo to this movie is etched into my nostalgia goggles for all-time. Nicholson's Joker is a legend at this point, and again, Keaton was fun as a straight-faced Batman.

6. The LEGO Batman Movie
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Will Arnett as the voice of Batman rules. All the cameos, both voice-wise and character-wise, were great. It was a fun spoof on Batman movies in general, with things kids and adults could both like.

7. The Dark Knight Rises
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Great way to top off the Nolan trilogy, but a little lesser than the other movies. I love Tom Hardy's Bane - even the voice. He came off sinister and brutal, and it was great to see Nolan so closely adapt the Knightfall stuff from the comics. That gets points alone. It did go a little long, and the third act was a little bit of a let down, but still a fun time.

8. Batman: The Movie
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Like the LEGO Batman movie, this one is great for a few laughs. Adam West's dumbed-down "comic story" Batman was so much fun, and the colors of this movie were great. And then there's the bomb scene, which may be my single favorite Batman scene ever just for the sheer absurdity.

9. Man of Tomorrow (BvS fan edit)
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You'll see where BvS actually ends up, but I dug this fan edit as it seamlessly meshed both Man of Steel and Batman v Superman. While a lot of the problems were still there (especially in the majority BvS section), I was in awe at how well the edits to make one epic Batman/Superman movie worked out - as well as the edits that did fix plot points.

10. Batman Forever
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Underrated in my opinion, because a lot of people would rank this as far down as Batman & Robin which is an insult. This wasn't a great movie by any means, and Tommy Lee Jones' awful take on Two-Face was just a poor-man's Batman 89' Joker, but Jim Carrey as Riddler was cool and the Robin origin scene was fun. The ending was awful, Robin being a grown ass man was awful, and Kilmer's Batman was forgettable. But I still thought the movie was okay.

11. 1940's Batman serials
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I'll just count both of the serialized theater series in one spot since they're decently obscure nowadays. These episodes were on TV on Christmas day when I was a kid, and I remember watching it from my Batman: The Animated Series tent that I got that morning. Fun to re-watch every now and then for that alone, but it's real awkward seeing some of the subject matter.

14. Batman & Robin
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If this list were ranked for comedy, this may beat out both Batman '66 AND the LEGO Batman movie. But alas. Clooney was phoning it in completely, Robin was still an adult, Batgirl was cringey, Mr. Freeze was gosh darn perfect and the Poison Ivy/Bane duo were the worst.

13. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Tomorrow
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This movie was awful. Affleck's Batman was just about the only thing I dug about it. But just the performance and look itself. The writing for Batman, besides Bruce Wayne's initial hesitance toward Superman, was pretty awful. Having him climb on a ceiling the first time we see him, his whole Martha schtick, his willingness to main (even if it was fun to watch).

14. Suicide Squad
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Does this movie count? Mostly Batman villains, the Joker/Harley Quinn combo and a short Batman cameo. I'll count it, but the movie sucks so this entry pretty much just exists to reiterate that.

3-Apr-21 1:46am
#141

theJaw


NEW TOPIC: Top 10 (or 5) Movies of 2020

This topic could literally just be "new movies you bothered to watch in 2020" due to the major lack of content. My list really is almost every new movie I saw in 2020 and therefore a few of them make the cut by default. A lot of them would have been completely ignored if it weren't for the nearly complete halt of the movie business, but I've done this for every year since 2017 and I'm not about to stop now gosh darnit.

Even though 2020 was a rough year for new releases, I felt obligated. Share your list (if you bothered to watch any new movies last year).

1. Hamilton - I've re-watched this so many times, I've lost count. I know it's not technically a "movie", but it is the "filmed" version of the stage play with camera angles reserved for film so there ya have it. I was somewhat interested in this when it released, but it took my girlfriend forcing me to watch it to finally get me to, and I've been unable to stop since. Just a masterpiece for modern musicals, with a strong (if not entirely historically accurate) story and great performances all around. Some of the catchiest tunes of the past few years easy. For me, it's very easy to listen to an album I enjoy consistently for a few months after discovering it... and Hamilton is no different, there's just an incredibly well put-together play to go along with it. 2. Onward - Easily among my favorite Pixar movies. Maybe not as well-animated as others, but the story and characters make up for that in my opinion. As a major sucker for father/son stories, this one hit me in every single feeling that resides in my body and it has one of the stronger, more meaningful endings out of any Pixar movie. 3. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm - I love that this movie came out of absolutely nowhere, with little to no reports of it filming until it was released. While not consistently as funny as the first Borat, I do feel like there are a few moments in this sequel that made me laugh harder than anything in that first one. If this is the last we see of this style movie from Sacha Baron Cohen, he went out on top. 4. Happiest Season - I really dug this Christmas movie. Loved the characters, especially how they avoided normal tropes of the genre and of the subject material itself. Kristen Stewart impressed, Daniel Levy rules in everything, and I'll never complain about seeing Allison Brie in anything. 5. You Cannot Kill David Arquette - David Arquette, staple of the 90s thanks to Scream, enters the world of independent wrestling in an attempt to give back to an industry and its fans that shunned him for like 2 decades, ever since WCW booked him to win their world championship. Real interesting and wacky story. It's not as surreal as a documentary like "The Devil and Daniel Johnston", but there is that element of "I can't believe this guy is real and doing this crap" like that movie. 6. The Old Guard - I remember I was up all night one summer night this past year and decided to start watching this at like 5AM. I couldn't turn it off once I started. Not the best action movie out there but it hit the spot at the time. 7. Da 5 Bloods - Came for one of Chadwick Boseman's final performances, stayed for everything else. Really well directed, had a very unique vibe to it, and while the story sort of jumped around in strange ways, it was definitely entertaining. 8. The Lodge - Super depressing movie but also super atmospheric. I enjoyed the sheer terror the movie conjured without any real supernatural elements or anything of the sort, just a horrifying situation and fear of the unknown. 9. Enola Holmes - Was pleasantly surprised by this, Millie Bobby Brown was great in it. Threw it on with no real knowledge of what it was randomly while I was working one day during lockdown, and couldn't stop watching at times. 10. Wonder Woman 1984 - I thought it was fun if very unbalanced and not too great. Still had a good enough time with it. Can't blame people who disliked it, it was too long and there were a ton of pretty poor story elements involved, but the performances, characters themselves and "classic Christopher Reeves Superman" vibe did enough to keep me hooked. 11. The Last Blockbuster - Eff it... it was 2020, I'm doing 11 movies. This is the only one I didn't watch IN 2020 (just saw it a few weeks ago) but it WAS released in 2020 and to be honest, I like this as much as most movies on this list so there's no reason to leave it off. Still need to see/finish: Sonic the Hedgehog, Soul, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Mulan - Saw most of Sonic but still haven't finished, enjoyed what I saw for the most part. The other 3 are movies up my alley that I need to watch, that I have a feeling could have ranked in my "top" list if I had watched them.

All in all, 2020 was definitely the year of "this movie isn't as good as the delayed blockbusters but will at least help pass the time". While I enjoyed them all and think they're all generally at least "good", I wouldn't say I'm in much of a rush to watch most of these again. I've already watched Borat and Onward twice, and have watched Hamilton like 75 times, so 1-3 are safe. And I'll probably watch 4 again around Christmas time, but that's about it. 5 was admittedly pretty great, but it's not really "necessary re-watch" material to me. 6-11 were fun to watch once, but I'd be comfortable if I never sat down with them again (though I'm sure I will with a few eventually).

5-Apr-21 11:50pm
#142

Scott


Had to check Wikipedia to see which movies even came out in 2020, only one I could remember was Onward.

Onward
Impractical Jokers: The Movie
Trolls: World Tour
Soul
Sonic the Hedgehog
The Croods: A New Age

6-Apr-21 10:34am
#143

lpeters82


I'm going to have to try to create a list of movies I've seen first. Okay, I've got that done. I've only seen nine movies from 2020.

1) The Trial of the Chicago Seven
2) Hamilton - It's a great play.
3) Judas and the Black Massiah
4) The Sound of Metal
5) The Father
6) Minari
7) The Croods: A New Age - This was a surprise for me. I really enjoyed it.
8) Tenent - I liked it.
9) Borat Subsequent Moviefilm - Good, but I'm just not a huge Broat fan.
10) Mulan - It was fine.

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9) Class Action Park - I've already read about the story, so not much new.
10) The Social Dilemma
11) Trolls World Tour - I just didn't like this film all that much.
12) Wonder Woman 1984 - Such a letdown.
13) Nomadland - It's not a documentary, but I enjoyed documentaries on the subject more.
14) Bill & Ted Face the Music - Meh.

On my watchlist: The Father, Nomadland, The Trial of the Chicago Seven, Judas The Black Messiah, Minari, The Social Dilemma, One Night In Miami, Impractical Jokers: The Movie, and Soul. Man, I really wish I could go back in time and swap this list for my list of watched movies. After I complete this list, I'd be shocked if more then three of my watched movies remain in my top-ten.

EDIT: I'll try to edit my list as I cross items off my watchlist.

6-Apr-21 11:17am
#144

Scott


lpeters82 wrote:
8) Trolls World Tour - I just didn't like this film all that much.
Did you like the first one? I love the first one, it's one of my favorite non-Disney/Pixar movies. This one definitely wasn't as good as the first, but going into it I thought it as a musical or something, so I was pleased to find out that wasn't the case.

6-Apr-21 11:22am
#145

lpeters82


Scott wrote:
lpeters82 wrote:> > 8) Trolls World Tour - I just didn't like this film all that much. Did you like the first one? I love the first one, it's one of my favorite non-Disney/Pixar movies. This one definitely wasn't as good as the first, but going into it I thought it as a musical or something, so I was pleased to find out that wasn't the case.
Yeah, I liked the first Trolls movie a lot. Not my favorite, but it was really good. I just really don't see the second as a movie I'd ever need to rewatch. In contrast, I hadn't seen the first Croods movie but was really surprised by the second film. I did see the later in the theater as we rented it out for my nephews birthday party. Maybe that made a difference, but a lot had to do with my expectations going into each. All three of my bottom movies where films where the sequel lowered my opinion of the franchise. The more I think about it it's probably better then Wonder Woman 1984. I just want to force myself to not let 1984 completely ruin that franchise.

7-Apr-21 8:41am
#146

lpeters82


I watched the first movie on my 2020 backlog, Judas and the Black Massiah. I really like Hamilton, but as expected this would be right up there for number one.

7-Apr-21 9:32am
#147

KCPenguins


I don't believe I've seen a 2020 movie, but I did get to watch The Empire Strikes Back in an empty theater with my two oldest boys. That was pretty awesome.

8-Apr-21 11:48pm
#148

lpeters82


Crossed another movie off the list, The Trial of the Chicago Seven. Really good. I'm moving that to the top of my list. I'm not proud of this, but the movie could have been made better by my ignorance of the topic. I knew almost nothing about the trial, so I really didn't know what was going to happen.

10-Apr-21 12:21am
#149

lpeters82


The Sound of Metal - My friend really liked it. I thought it was just okay. He thought it was super deep. I just didn't see that. I thought is just a normal story of a former attic trying to cope with silence.

11-Apr-21 5:06pm
#150

bonham2


In the list of theJaw's best lists, this top 10 is at the bottom. 2020 was the worst year ever for movies due to COVID.

11-Apr-21 5:25pm
#151

theJaw


Yaaah but I had to do it. Still saw enough to rank and I didn’t wanna skip a year damnitall

11-Apr-21 6:51pm
#152

nonamesleft


KCPenguins wrote:
I don't believe I've seen a 2020 movie, but I did get to watch The Empire Strikes Back in an empty theater with my two oldest boys. That was pretty awesome.
Nice! Sounds amazing.

Haven't seen any 2020 movies either. Though I do want to eventually watch Sonic. Curious to see how that one is, such a well known videogame character being in it and all.

14-Apr-21 12:24pm
#153

lpeters82


Nomadland - Hmm...I really don't get the hype for this film. There were some nice shots, but I've previously seen some documentaries on this nomad lifestyle that I thought were much more interesting. This docudrama just fell pretty flat for me.

13-Jul-21 9:50pm
#154

theJaw


Okay, fellow adults, it’s time to rank the next topic...

Top 10 Disney Songs!

Big fan of music and appreciate when tunes are integrated into movies well. This is for songs from the animated movies, traditional or CG. I’m gonna try limiting my list to one per movie.

1. “Go the Distance” - Hercules
2. “Remembe Me” - Coco
3. “How Far I’ll Go” - Moana
4. “Strangers Like Me” - Tarzan
5. “Hakuna Matata” - The Lion King
6. “You’ve Got a Friend In Me” - Toy Story
7. “Friend Like Me” - Aladdin
8. “Almost There” - The Princess and the Frog
9. “I’ll Make a Man Out of You” - Mulan
10. “Down to Earth” - Wall-E

13-Jul-21 10:03pm
#155

shadyfozzie


Not in any order, but:
Into the Unknown/ Some Things Never Change (Frozen 2)
Ever Ever After/That's How you Know (Enchanted)
I've Got a Dream/I See the Light (Tangled)
You've Got a Friend in Me (Toy Story Quadrilogy)
Zero/When Can I see you Again (Wreck It Ralph 1/2)
Immortals (Big Hero 6)
Touch the Sky (Brave)
Remember Me (Coco)

Some of the songs from the Decendants, High School Musical and Zombies movies are catchy too

Not a big fan of Tarzan, Lion King, Mulan, Hercules movies (I don't think I've ever seen any of them from start to finish to be honest, don't really have an interest in them)disnet

13-Jul-21 10:15pm
#156

Prime


The fact that a whole new world isn’t on this list is blasphemy.

13-Jul-21 10:42pm
#157

theJaw


Prime wrote:
The fact that a whole new world isn’t on this list is blasphemy.
lol it was, but I tried to stick to a song per movie and I love the musicianship of "Friend Like Me". Such a wild tune.

13-Jul-21 10:49pm
#158

Prime


You should do a top ten best looking men in their prime list in honor or phil.

13-Jul-21 10:53pm
#159

bonham2


There is a serious lack of classic Disney tunes on here.

11. That's How You Know (Enchanted)
10. The ENTIRE Princess and the Frog soundtrack, especially When We're Human and Down in New Orleans
9. One Jump Ahead
8. Let It Go
7. I Just Can't Wait to be King
6. Be Our Guest
5. Part of Your World
4. Under the Sea
3. Friend Like Me
2. Circle of Life
1. A Whole New World

(I LOVE Aladdin)

Also, I obviously didn't include Pixar at all, but the Soul soundtrack is fantastic.

14-Jul-21 9:34am
#160

Best1989


This must be the most difficult list ever, lol

14-Jul-21 4:31pm
#161

Frank


Since Fox is owned by Disney, and just to be that guy. List is in no particular order:

10. Bird is The Word
9. A Bag of Weed
8. Mr. Booze
7. Give Up The Toad
6. I Need A Jew
5. You Have AIDS
4. FCC
3. This House is Freakin Sweet
2. Shipoopi
1. Can't Touch Me