Doesn't have it have a shoot out while two people are repelling down the side of a skyscraper? That film was bananas.

The third film, Riddick, is my favorite. Took the best elements of the first two films and streamlined them into a tight, bad ass little film.

MI 2 is the absolute worst film in that series and Woo's worst film by a country mile.
I can't believe that series rebounded so beautifully with the amazing Ghost Protocol in 2010 and Rogue Nation in 2015.

The next few years for this series are going to be brutal. The fact that the first Fast & Furious, a film that made Point Break look like Chinatown, is the consensus choice for 2001 is a harbinger for rough times ahead. Save for the Bourne films, 2000-2009 was not a great time to be an action fan.

Any chance we can right history and give this to John Carpenter who got booted off the original after The Thing flopped in 1982?

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Up in the Air
District 9

Top 5 Mann: Heat, Thief, Insider (also 1999!!!), Manhunter, Collateral

I implore you to rewatch Manhunter. Lambs is excellent but Manhunter is a thing of beauty. Top 5 Michael Mann.

I mentioned the same thing two weeks ago for the Blade 2 article. The CGI effects in 2002 were abysmal. See also Spider Man.

Back to School? River's Edge? Something Wild? 1986 was amazing. Manhunter = Best Thomas Harris/Lechter adaptation.

Ahhh. Yes, we are using it differently. Its definitively not anyone's commercial peak. Artistic peak? I would argue yes.

It's one of all the time great years for cinema in general. Easily the best of the past 30 years.

Ok. I'm using it in the athletic sense. That they performed to the absolute best of their abilities.

It's worth a rewatch. I was puzzled by my first viewing of it. Rewatches will reveal the film's demented genius.

What is your choice for peak Clooney performance? Or peak Wahlberg? Or Russell's best film? Three Kings runs the table for me.

Just rewatched it on Netflix again a few weeks ago and the cast is uniformly excellent. Each of the actors in that film have limitations, but Russell got the best out of them. Only Wahlberg's supporting work in The Departed might beat Three Kings. It's definitely peak David O. Russell.

Can we get some love for the best film of 1999: Three Kings?

Beverly Hills Cop 3. My friends are I were so depressed that not a word was uttered on the drive home.

The world would have been a better place had his True Hollywood Stories became its own show. They are arguably the two greatest comedy sketches of the past 20 years. Endlessly re-watchable. He was an incredible storyteller and clearly had a brilliant comedic mind.

Morrissey has indeed become an insufferable asshole. But how can you not induct the band that gave us "The Queen is Dead?"