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Film Critic Ted Cruz Outraged By ‘Out of Touch’ Hollywood’s Top Movies List
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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.
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.
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.
Anton is terrified of the sheriff? I don't think the two characters ever encountered each other. Anton might not have known that the sheriff was following him, except in the general sense that the police would be looking for him because of the messes that he left.