Came here to see THE PRESTIGE at #1.

“Hey, look—a water planet! Let’s land in the aforementioned water and walk around for a bit. We’ll probably find that lady, the one whose distress beacon is coming from beneath the water! I wonder what she’s doing down there.”

Batman Begins above Dark Knight — a bold move.

This list is shockingly accurate. Especially this bit:

That was immensely disappointing, the movie immediately became silly at that exact moment. Audible groans in the theater. Visually Interstellar is beautiful and striking, but my god, that love thing really ruined the plot.

David Bowie playing Tesla. Later, a Tesla would play David Bowie. In space.

Huh...does this make Inception a comic-book movie?

I actually thought it deserved to be ranked higher on this list, but yeah, the ending was a total let-down. “Oh, I’ll just go into this blackhole, which I don’t know what’s inside it. Oh, it’s a collection of every moment of my entire life! I’ll just dootie-dootie-dooh...oh, here it is! I’ll just send a message to my…

Interstellar should be last because it was so good till he threw in the love goes across time and space crap.

I think Rises kinda suffers less from lack of quality, but rather “narrative frustration,” a term I’ve coined just now. Bruce is barely Batman (which is baked into his arc for the movie), Bane is a mysterious cipher with not much depth (also baked into the story, considering he’s basically a catspaw), the city is…

I’d go the other way. I think The Dark Knight was great, but it ended up shooting its bolt (so to speak) too early. The film should have ended, imo, with the Joker trumphantly crowing about how he won, as Harvey Dent finally BECOMES Two Face. Who is then the main baddie for the third movie.

I agree with a lot of this, but my personal ranking is:

Almost nothing about Inception is like anything you’ve seen before.

I don’t typically like Zack Snyder’s movies, but Watchmen wasn’t bad. I don’t blame him for the flop. I blame the studio for getting the promotion of it wrong. I think the vast majority of the audience was not familiar with the subject matter was confused that they didn’t get a superhero movie plot a la Spiderman…

I remember watching The Prestige with my parents, and at the end my dad turning to me and saying “I thought David Bowie was supposed to be in that.” He’s just so incredible in that role in that film and just vanished into it.

Batman Begins at #2? Yuck, honestly The Dark Knight is the only one of that trilogy I actually like.

Dunkirk is an amazing film, eschewing CGI for practical film making on an immense scale.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the ‘90s-est TV montage ever:

Luck—in which the unluckiest girl alive discovers “the world of good luck”—may hit theaters February 18, 2022.