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Johnbobb posted...

also I forgot how much of that list was awful. I forgot Sing placed so high. Almost all of the bottom 20 is worth skipping

Yeah, speaking personally it looks like it would've been a little rough to get through and I'm a lot happier with the movie lists for these last two iterations. They have included a lot more of the weirder movies I gravitate more toward. I'm not sure how high I'd put even the top 10 on one of the other two lists. I love Nick Wilde as a character but not so much Zootopia as a film. Sing's placement also made me double take for a second there lol, though it made more sense when I read the rest of the list. I do question it being above Persepolis and Une vie de chat though.

Oh incidentally I was reading earlier in the topic when someone asked about the previous iterations of this project. I managed to dig up the full rankings for the second Gauntlet Crew animated movie ranking, since there are sites out there that archive B8, and the full list is as follows:

1. Zootopia
2. Kubo and the Two Strings
3. Coco
4. Inside Out
5. How to Train Your Dragon 2
6. The Breadwinner
7. Big Hero 6
8. The LEGO Batman Movie
9. Moana
10. Kung Fu Panda 3
11. Finding Dory
12. Mary and Max
13. Sing!
14. Arthur Christmas
15. The Pirates! Band of Misfits
16. Penguins of Madagascar
17. Persepolis
18. A Cat in Paris
19. 9
20. Chico and Rita
21. Cars 3
22. Hotel Transylvania 2
23. The Secret Life of Pets
24. Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
25. Robots
26. Despicable Me 2
27. An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
28. The Boss Baby
29. Trolls
30. The Good Dinosaur
31. Sausage Party
32. The Lorax
33. The Swan Princess
34. Hoodwinked!
35. Ice Age: The Meltdown
36. Rio 2
37. Home
38. Minions
39. The Nut Job
40. The Emoji Movie

Unfortunately the first list looks to be in a blind spot and I couldn't find it. I'd be curious to see how certain films did (Cats Don't Dance has a special place in my heart), but I'm at a loss as to how to find that one.

Sent my list and writeups, let me know if you got it and it looks good.

Yeah I figured I would need to go on an epic movie marathon over the long weekend to have a chance of making the deadline.

Which ends at 21/30

15/30

I like the movies with either funny cartoon animals or people speaking French

6/30 :)

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There are a lot of really great ones since the average anime is like 13-26 episodes. Along with the obligatory Paranoia Agent and FLCL, Some of my personal favorites are:

Mobile Suit Gundam: the 08th MS Team - A surprisingly emotional anti-war type anime seen from the perspective of would-be heroes who can do nothing about the war except survive. Gundam varies a lot in quality from series to series but this is probably the best one, though War in the Pocket is good too and only 6 episodes

Mononoke - Anthology folkloric horror series tied together by a mysterious demon-slaying protagonist. There are some subtly beautiful stories here but the biggest stand out feature is the jaw-dropping visual style which draws heavily from traditional Japanese art.

The Tatami Galaxy, Ping Pong the Animation, and Kaiba - Auteur director Masaaki Yuasa's holy trinity. I feel the creativity of his animation is their best quality, but the narratives hold up too, especially Ping Pong's which I found totally engrossing even as someone who hates sports.

Kino's Journey - A traveler and her talking motorcycle roam a strange, cynical world visiting different countries and learning about their odd, philosophically evocative traditions. I've only seen the 2003 series so I can't speak for the remake.

Gosenzo-sama Banbanzai! - A strange, forgotten masterpiece from the director of Angel's Egg. The series is framed as a stage play in which the actors are sometimes human and sometimes puppets, time travel may or may not be involved, and there is a coca cola man who hunts the main characters and is either the an agent of the time police or their petty relative. All the main cast are either deeply flawed, unlikable people or have entirely unclear motives, and it can be kind of boring with long scenes of characters facing the camera soliloquizing about their feelings, but if nothing else it's stuck in my head ever since I watched it.

Odd Taxi - In my opinion probably the best anime to come out in a good five years, sharply written, fun, and original.

Haibane Renmei - Sort of a cross between a cute girl slice of life anime and a philosophical musing on the nature of life and death. I wasn't super hooked on the slice of life parts but it won me over with a deeply personal and impactful ending.

If I had to pick just one of these to call the best though I would say Mononoke.

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Another word from French, where it's definitely the "sheesh" pronunciation.

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I think in French you pronounce the t a little bit if the following word starts with a vowel sound.

French is even worse than English for spelling not matching pronunciation though

Yeah it comes from French, where the second T is silent.

Yes I love him, the combination of completely emotionless voice acting and cheesy one-liners makes for a hilarious character.

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