What are the 100 greatest films of all-time? Opinions vary widely, but one thing is clear: if you want to be a serious cinema review outlet, you must have a ranked list of The 100 Best Movies Ever Made.
That’s why we, Fanboy and Know-It-All, are releasing our rankings for the Top 100 Greatest Cinematic Experiences.
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Unbeknownst to those who have traditionally eschewed the comic book scene, superheroes like Captain America have long been tackling some of Earth’s most complex and perplexing problems. Some viewers may have been surprised by The Falcon and the Winter Soldier tackling themes of race, displacement and immigration, radicalization, and the troubling hubris of American nationalism, but that just means they have never spent any serious time in the comic book universe prior to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The social commentary told through the perspectives of Sam Wilson, John Walker, James Barnes, and Karli Morgenthau in Disney+’s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is neither foreign to nor new in the realm of comic book superheroes, villains, and anti-heroes.
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Leave it to Netflix’s Thunder Force to tear Fanboy and Know-It-All asunder over ranking the world’s worst movie supervillains ever.
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Monster movies such as the Godzilla and King Kong anthologies have long reflected the anxieties of the culture surrounding them. Over the decades as our fears and worries about the world and ourselves have morphed in some ways and stayed the same in others, so to have the monsters we watch onscreen. As much as the concept of Godzilla vs Kong is and has long been delightfully fictional monstrous fun in the cinema, it has also served as an onscreen reminder of how the myriad monsters we face in the real world feel beyond our control and, sometimes, in conflict with one another.
Conversely, for every nerd like Know-It-All who wants to overanalyze a big bombastic monster mash there is a Fanboy or two who is content to enjoy a popcorn flick without having to try to twist it to fit the thesis of their Philosophy 101 term paper.
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Fanboys spent a lot of time and effort trying to convince Warner Media to “#ReleaseTheSnyderCut” of Justice League. Now that they have spent $70 MILLION DOLLARS on a “#SnyderCut” released via HBO Max, we can ask the most important question: was Zack Snyder’s Justice League worth it?
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