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one of those movies that has a lot of valid criticisms that i simply do not care about because it absolutely rocks. people say this has a weird structure but its a pretty distinguishable 3 acts imo; first act essentially ends after the airport scene, second act is everything from rome up until the train sequence and then the train sequence is the third act. it just ends on a cliffhanger (which is a valid criticism). does get a little goofy and into itself sometimes but it at least feels earned in this franchise. mcquarrie is absolutely going nuts here too, most auteur-feeling M:I entry since the original. every action sequence is absolutely electric. there are some pacing issues in the middle portion and there’s too many characters but idk. it’s just sick man what do you want me to say. tom cruise does some ELITE running in this one as well.

greatest pure action movie ever made. halo jump. bathroom fight. paris chase. helicopter chase. the entire movie is almost built around these moments, but the stuff in between is just as engaging, which is what makes it the best M:I movie, and i don’t think it’s particularly close. mcquarrie combines the espionage thriller aspects of the original entry with the balls-to-the-wall bombastic stunts of ghost protocol and rogue nation to create a perfect medley of suspense and enthralling action. not really much to say other than it’s perfect and that everyone needs to see it. masterpiece!

might be the most overlooked entry in the ghost protocol to present run and i’m not really sure why. the opera scene is one of the best in the franchise and feels almost ripped out of the original. vault scene/stunt is insane and one of the most tense moments of action in the franchise, coupled with the motorcycle chase immediately after is pulse-pounding stuff. this one also has one of the better last 30 minutes in the series, with it ending almost quietly, without a massive action scene (there’s a small chase but nothing like the end of fallout or ghost protocol). that can be attributed to the villain, solomon lane, who id say is the best in the franchise (including PSH). overall this one is just raising the bar in quality across the board. great stuff!

so so gas every time. kremlin & burj khalifa sequences are super fun and the chase through the sandstorm is super visually appealing. love how high stakes it is and the climax is one of the most intense in the series. also one of the funniest in the series. great stuff overall.

fairly solid all around. pretty engaging screenplay and of course philip seymour hoffman is incredible (him and cruise have excellent chemistry). unfortunately it is one of the most ugly movies ever made. the action in this in incomprehensible and a lot of it has that weird mid 2000s action movie sweaty-shininess to it. does not make for good looking action. the stuff in between looks decent at best in sparse moments. i respect the rabbits foot thing. pretty fun stuff overall. great tom cruise running moments!

fun action in moments but they go to waste in a worthless screenplay; somehow rushes and takes it too slow at the same time. john woos style of action in incredible but it doesn’t fit the tone of this franchise at all, as it just pushes past the realm of realism that the rest of the franchise mostly at least attempts to operate at.

de palma is a master of using the entire frame; so much detail in nearly every shot. masterclass in lighting and mood. has a perfect balance of being over the top and serious and never forgets to give the narrative enough time to make you care. implements the staple trickery of the franchise in some of the best ways; ethan’s last mask reveal in this one might be the best in the series. and of course the langley sequence is the stuff of legend.

Watched on Monday April 28, 2025.

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sam’s speech at the end man. sean astin should’ve got at least a nomination for one of these movies

Watched on Saturday April 5, 2025.

no words. cinematic masterpiece of the highest order. how does one even begin to conceptualize something like this, let alone it be semi-autobiographical? might be the best final frame-line combo i’ve seen. floored.

Watched on Sunday March 30, 2025.

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Watched on Monday March 17, 2025.

this is a movie

Watched on Sunday March 16, 2025.

definition of “having the sauce”

Watched on Sunday March 9, 2025.

Watched on Saturday March 8, 2025.

what are we doing

first rewatch in probably a decade, forgot how peak it is 🙏

Watched on Saturday March 1, 2025.

goated

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan

immaculately made, but fails to capture me emotionally. screenplay could have been much tighter-spends a lot of its 140 minute runtime meandering. needs a rewatch i think cause the last 10 minutes are so are incredible

Watched on Monday February 24, 2025.

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Watched on Friday February 21, 2025.

ennio morricone clip farming

Watched on Monday February 3, 2025.

Watched on Sunday February 2, 2025.

snoozer

Watched on Wednesday January 29, 2025.

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Watched on Sunday January 12, 2025.

idk man

Watched on Wednesday January 8, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday January 7, 2025.

1. The Thing
2. The Shining
3. Pulse
4. Hereditary
5. Possession
6. Tetsuo: The Iron Man
7. The Substance
8. Rosemary's Baby
9. Night of the Living Dead
10. Midsommar

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1. Mission: Impossible
2. Blow Out
3. Carrie
4. Dressed to Kill

• Cairo Station
• Compensation
• A Confucian Confusion
• Saving Face
• Shoeshine
• Fires on the Plain
• The Burmese Harp

• Star Wars
• The Empire Strikes Back
• Raiders of the Lost Ark
• Blade Runner
• Return of the Jedi
• The Terminator
• Back to the Future
• Die Hard
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
• Back to the Future Part II

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1. Catch Me If You Can
2. Jurassic Park
3. Raiders of the Lost Ark
4. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
5. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
6. The Fabelmans
7. War of the Worlds
8. Schindler's List
9. Hook
10. Jaws

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1. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
2. Mission: Impossible
3. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning
4. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
5. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
6. Mission: Impossible III
7. Mission: Impossible II

1. Oppenheimer
2. Anora
3. Poor Things
4. Dune: Part Two
5. Sinners
6. Anatomy of a Fall
7. Aftersun
8. The Boy and the Heron
9. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
10. Past Lives

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• Beau Travail
• Apocalypse Now
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Chungking Express
• The Master
• Barry Lyndon
• Blade Runner 2049
• Children of Men
• Ran
• Seconds

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in no order but kinda in order

• The Thing
• La Haine
• Gone Girl
• High and Low
• No Country for Old Men
• Memories of Murder
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
• GoodFellas

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1. Princess Mononoke
2. The Boy and the Heron
3. Howl's Moving Castle
4. Spirited Away
5. Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro
6. Ponyo
7. My Neighbor Totoro
8. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

1. No Country for Old Men
2. The Man Who Wasn't There
3. The Big Lebowski
4. Fargo
5. Barton Fink
6. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
7. A Serious Man
8. Blood Simple
9. Raising Arizona
10. Burn After Reading

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• The Substance
• Poor Things
• Challengers
• Ratatouille
• Past Lives
• Aftersun
• Superbad
• The Incredibles
• The Boy and the Heron
• Princess Mononoke

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if i think a different movie should’ve won, i’ll put it in the notes

1. No Country for Old Men

   
   

2. Parasite
3. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

   Memories of Murder

4. Oppenheimer
5. The Godfather
6. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

   Barry Lyndon

7. Anora
8. Amadeus
9. The Silence of the Lambs

   A Brighter Summer Day

10. The Apartment

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1. Gone Girl
2. Zodiac
3. The Social Network
4. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
5. Se7en
6. Fight Club
7. The Game
8. Mank
9. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

1. Inglourious Basterds
2. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
3. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
4. Django Unchained
5. Reservoir Dogs
6. Pulp Fiction
7. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
8. The Hateful Eight
9. Death Proof
10. Jackie Brown

• Seven Samurai
• The Silence of the Lambs
• Andrei Rublev
• Do the Right Thing
• Videodrome
• Ugetsu
• Dazed and Confused
• Sansho the Bailiff
• On the Waterfront
• Fantastic Mr. Fox

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1. The Lighthouse
2. The Witch
3. The Northman
4. Nosferatu

1. Challengers
2. Bones and All
3. Call Me by Your Name
4. Suspiria

best director of all time btw

1. There Will Be Blood
2. Phantom Thread
3. Punch-Drunk Love
4. The Master
5. Boogie Nights
6. Inherent Vice
7. Licorice Pizza
8. Hard Eight
9. Magnolia

1. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
2. Titanic
3. Aliens
4. Avatar: The Way of Water
5. Avatar
6. The Terminator

1. Incendies
2. Dune: Part Two
3. Blade Runner 2049
4. Dune
5. Prisoners
6. Arrival
7. Sicario
8. Enemy
9. Polytechnique

1. Do the Right Thing
2. Malcolm X
3. BlacKkKlansman
4. 25th Hour
5. Inside Man

1. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
2. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
3. Twelve Monkeys
4. Brazil

1. Blade Runner
2. Alien
3. Thelma & Louise
4. American Gangster
5. Prometheus
6. The Last Duel
7. The Martian
8. Matchstick Men
9. Gladiator
10. Napoleon

• Titanic
• Parasite
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Aftersun
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
• Before Sunrise
• The Royal Tenenbaums
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• Chungking Express
• Before Sunset

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1. 12 Angry Men
2. Fail Safe
3. Dog Day Afternoon
4. Serpico
5. Network

1. Buffalo '66
2. The Celebration
3. Le Trou
4. Mulan
5. Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro
6. Dogtooth
7. Code Unknown
8. Snowpiercer
9. Songs from the Second Floor
10. The Wailing

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1. The Royal Tenenbaums
2. Fantastic Mr. Fox
3. The Grand Budapest Hotel
4. Rushmore
5. The Darjeeling Limited
6. Asteroid City
7. Bottle Rocket
8. Moonrise Kingdom
9. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
10. Isle of Dogs

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1. GoodFellas
2. After Hours
3. The Wolf of Wall Street
4. The Irishman
5. Raging Bull
6. Taxi Driver
7. The Departed
8. Killers of the Flower Moon
9. The King of Comedy
10. Casino

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1. Oppenheimer
2. Interstellar
3. The Dark Knight
4. Inception
5. Dunkirk
6. Memento
7. Batman Begins
8. The Prestige
9. Tenet
10. Following

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1. High and Low
2. Seven Samurai
3. Ran
4. Dreams
5. Throne of Blood
6. Ikiru
7. Red Beard
8. Rashomon
9. Sanjuro
10. Stray Dog

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no order

• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Parasite
• Death by Hanging
• No Country for Old Men
• There Will Be Blood
• Do the Right Thing
• Oldboy
• Taxi Driver
• The Godfather
• Incendies

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1. Poor Things
2. The Favourite
3. Dogtooth
4. The Killing of a Sacred Deer
5. The Lobster

Original list letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/benvsthemovies/list/the-criterion-challenge-2024/

1. Woman in the Dunes
2. A Man Escaped
3. City Lights
4. The Favourite
5. Last Days
6. War and Peace
7. Barbie
8. Pixote
9. Dersu Uzala
10. Breaking the Waves

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1. The Incredibles
2. Ratatouille
3. Monsters, Inc.
4. Finding Nemo
5. WALL·E
6. Toy Story 2
7. Toy Story 3
8. Toy Story
9. Up
10. Inside Out

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1. Avengers: Infinity War
2. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
3. Guardians of the Galaxy
4. Spider-Man: Homecoming
5. Black Panther
6. Ant-Man
7. Thor: Ragnarok
8. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
9. Spider-Man: No Way Home
10. Avengers: Endgame

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(we watch maybe half of these)

• El Conde
• City Lights
• Night Is Short, Walk On Girl
• A Man Escaped
• War and Peace
• Hyenas
• Chimes at Midnight
• An American Werewolf in London
• Woman in the Dunes
• The Decameron

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1. L'Argent
2. Mouchette
3. Au Hasard Balthazar
4. Pickpocket
5. A Man Escaped

1. Autumn Sonata
2. Persona
3. Fanny and Alexander
4. Wild Strawberries
5. Winter Light
6. Cries and Whispers
7. The Seventh Seal
8. Smiles of a Summer Night
9. Crisis

1. Shoplifters
2. Still Walking
3. After Life
4. Nobody Knows

1. The Shining
2. Barry Lyndon
3. Paths of Glory
4. Eyes Wide Shut
5. 2001: A Space Odyssey
6. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
7. A Clockwork Orange
8. Full Metal Jacket
9. The Killing
10. Fear and Desire

• Grave of the Fireflies
• Martyrs
• Threads
• Oppenheimer
• Mysterious Skin
• Shoplifters
• Amour
• Autumn Sonata
• Incendies
• Angst

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1. Viridiana
2. Man Bites Dog
3. Dragon Inn
4. Crash
5. In Vanda's Room
6. Okja
7. Old Joy
8. Babylon
9. Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
10. Scenes from a Marriage

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movies enhanced by being intoxicated

• Face/Off
• The Fast and the Furious
• 2 Fast 2 Furious
• The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
• Fast & Furious
• Fast Five
• Fast & Furious 6
• Furious 7
• The Fate of the Furious
• F9

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1. Amour
2. The Piano Teacher
3. Funny Games
4. The Seventh Continent
5. Code Unknown
6. Caché
7. Benny's Video

1. Ratcatcher
2. We Need to Talk About Kevin
3. Morvern Callar
4. You Were Never Really Here

1. Pain & Gain
2. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
3. Transformers: The Last Knight
4. 6 Underground
5. Ambulance
6. Transformers: Dark of the Moon
7. Transformers
8. Armageddon
9. The Rock
10. Pearl Harbor

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1. Taste of Cherry
2. Close-Up
3. Certified Copy
4. Where Is the Friend's House?
5. Life, and Nothing More…

1. Parasite
2. 12 Years a Slave
3. Moonlight
4. The Shape of Water
5. The King's Speech
6. Spotlight
7. Argo
8. Green Book
9. The Artist
10. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

1. Her
2. Adaptation.
3. Where the Wild Things Are
4. Being John Malkovich