Film Critic Ted Cruz Outraged By ‘Out of Touch’ Hollywood’s Top Movies List

[tonytins@pawb.social]

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[makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world]

What a terrible website. I couldn't even read it without it loading ads and moving my screen everywhere

[aesthelete@lemmy.world]

It means the preferences of stupid people weren't represented. Anytime they say real Americans or patriots or whatever, just substitute in stupid people and suddenly it makes a lot more sense.

[snarkopolo@lemmy.world]

Sorry Rafaelito. Not only do Christian movies suck, they do less box office than a Tommy Wiseau picture.

[snarkopolo@lemmy.world]

They started pushing a subscription model a few years ago. I quit going there.

[changer098@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

The list in question:
#30 - Lost In Translation
#29 - Arrival
#28 - The Dark Knight
#27 - Adaptation
#26 - Anatomy of a Fall
#25 - Phantom Thread
#24 - Her
#23 - Boyhood
#22 - The Grand Budapest Hotel
#21 - The Royal Tenenbaums
#20 - Wolf of Wall Street
#19 - Zodiac
#18 - Y tu mamá también
#17 - Brokeback Mountain
#16 - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
#15 - City of God
#14 - Inglorious Bastards
#13 - Children of Men
#12 - The Zone of Interest
#11 - Mad Max: Fury Road
#10 - The Social Network
#9 - Spirited Away
#8 - Get Out
#7 - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
#6 - No Country for Old Men
#5 - Moonlight
#4 - In the Mood for Love
#3 - There Will Be Blood
#2 - Mulholland Drive
#1 - Parasite
Pretty reasonable honestly.

[sarcasticman@lemmy.world]

"It's not me that's out of touch, no it is everyone else in Hollywood that's out of touch. Everyone everywhere outside of Hollywierd is a cock sucking cunt of a coward just like me but I'm the king of the cock sucking cunt cowards. King Ted Cruz the cock suckingest cunt of a caward that ever walked the earth. Hollywood is just out of touch." - Ted "I used my kids as an excuse for running away like a coward in 21" Cruz

[ericatty@infosec.pub]

Thank you for the list.

Is he mad the list isn't all "American" actors?

[chonkyowlbear@lemmy.world]

Maybe he's mad there are no Star Wars movies on the list. I hear he is a big Jar Jar fan.

[neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works]

He doesn't say. It's a dog whistle implication that this is the case, especially with Parasite being #1.

[atzanteol@sh.itjust.works]

You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons.

[almacca@aussie.zone]

And don't we all feel better informed after reading that?

[muskymelon@lemmy.world]

"Liar Liar" and "Dumb and Dumber" are Rafael's favorite true life movies.

[fenririii@lemmy.world]

Mongo just pawn in game of life.

[cocodapuf@lemmy.world]

I'm really happy to see a lot of the films on that list. I'm thrilled that Her and Adaptation made the cut. Eternal sunshine is in the top 10, right where it belongs. I'm pleasantly surprised that children of men made the cut, (I liked it a lot, but I didn't think it was groundbreaking or anything). Also great to see the dark knight made the list, it's easy to lump all superhero films together, but it really wasn't just another superhero film.

I'm also not at all surprised to see There Will Be Blood and No Country for Old Men in the top ten. But I have to be honest, I know they're critically acclaimed and much loved, but I just didn't like either of them. They were both grim and gritty, and that's part of the point I guess, but it made the films so unpleasant to watch. And with no country for old men, I truly never understood what the film was trying to say.

[mbourgon@lemmy.world]

Probably hated the ending of Inglorious Bastards.

[pastermil@sh.itjust.works]

That list is tight

[kryptoniancodemonkey@lemmy.world]

Am I the only one that thought Boyhood was overrated? Like the meta of the movie is unique and impressive, for sure. It's an incredible idea to film a movie following the development of a kid into adulthood in real time, and the perseverance to make it is laudable. But... I found the movie that resulted felt like... well like someone who had an idea for a movie 11 years ago and kept changing the plan along the way without being able to change what's already filmed. It felt messy and disjointed. Not like it is terrible, but I have no interest in watching it ever again. Certainly not in my to 30 movies of all time.

[polydoresmith@lemmy.world]

No Country is a film (novel) about how personal gain has supplanted spiritual morality as the driving force behind our greater human culture.

Josh Brolin embarks on this whole crusade just to secure his bag of money. Woody Harrelson is a self-described “day trader” while he moonlights as a hitman. Javier Bardem kills them both, but he’s terrified of Tommy Lee Jones because he’s just a sheriff who is simply committed to upholding the law as he sees it. As misguided as their respective motivations are (Anton is a psychopath with very black-and-white morals) they are the only two characters who are not driven by material gain. That’s what makes them both so formidable, in the context of the film.

I’ve rewatched this movie so many times, and this to me is the overarching theme of the story.

[thatsthespirit@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Thats cause you are a philistine, ted