tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75973351972971140382024-03-12T19:33:34.100-07:00Iain's BlogIain's Smashing Good Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12833335717390737670noreply@blogger.comBlogger1698125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597335197297114038.post-2895454913274837192020-12-21T15:27:00.002-08:002020-12-21T15:27:20.567-08:00The Current and Coming War with China<p>There was a time where there appeared to be a lot of hope for China
and its relations with the West. However, the current Chinese
leadership has chosen a course so boldly and clearly, that, barring a
major change in policy has put it on course for war with the West.</p><p>There
was hope in the not so distant memory for China. Economic openness was
coming and the government, while essentially fascist rather than
communist, for a long while turned at least a bit of the other cheek as
Christianity exploded in that nation. Some thought the explosion of
Christianity, with economic freedom, would make a new day for
China. However, China chose another path in persecuting the church on a
level not seen since Mao, tightening their controls on their people,
and continuing their one child policy.</p><p>To embrace Christianity and
classical liberalism would be to admit the fault of the slaughter in
Tiananmen Square, a stretch for any thousands year old civilization let
alone one that has yet to embrace the ethic of self-reflection, a
prostrating nature, and forgiveness of others.</p><p>China, like many
European nations, actively embraces secular leftism…with a healthy dose
of retaining thousands of years of behavior regarding superiority and
deception. This its leaders did instead of choosing the entrepreneurial
spirit and Christian life. The one child policy of China, which mimics
the embrace of abortion but on a more public scale, has only hurt China
to where millions of naturally aggressive young men do not have the
positive outlet of creation’s beauty that tames them in marriage. When
there are tens millions of more men than women of the same age in a
nation, those men will strike out with vengeance.</p><p>It was to China’s own detriment to have made these choices for
allowing Christianity and classical liberal economic and government
policies would have not only ensured the survival of that nation but
also led it to the predominant place in the world. People in America
take note.</p><p>Regarding war, those who say, “But there is so much to
lose by a major war” are only partially correct. There is much to lose
for China in war with the West but that has seldom stopped an aggressor
in the past, especially one that displays qualities of a dying
nation. Such fears of war did not even stop the nations of Europe as
nation after nation piled into what became known as The Great
War. Human nature is quite frail and makes for a poor deity in stopping
said nature.</p><p>Many will continue to criticize President Trump
after he has left office but his contribution to the debate on China is
already enshrined. Before him, it was not much of a debate at all with
politicians of all stripes talking tough about China but embracing, or
rather cow towing, to China once in office. It was the same regarding
moving the American embassy to Jerusalem and a host of other
issues. Trump’s warnings about China were reminiscent of Churchill,
though his critics and the establishment of his own party will never
give him that credit. Having someone in such great authority telling
the truth about China and its ambitions is something we will miss sooner
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</div></div><p>In many ways we already are at war with China, the most
noticeable being cyber and economic. Time will tell whether this war
gets hotter. Barring a course-altering event, such as the Islamic
nations of the world teaming up against China to combat its persecution
of the Uyghur and other Muslims, China’s war with the West will only get
warmer. Woe to any public figure who denies the reality that it is
upon us.</p>Iain's Smashing Good Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12833335717390737670noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597335197297114038.post-32170425137777679212016-05-14T15:24:00.002-07:002016-05-14T15:24:51.768-07:00 The American middle class is losing ground in metropolitan areas<br /><br /> The American middle class is losing ground in metropolitan areas across the country, affecting communities from Boston to Seattle and from Dallas to Milwaukee. From 2000 to 2014 the share of adults living in middle-income households fell in 203 of the 229 U.S. metropolitan areas examined in a new Pew Research Center analysis of government data. The decrease in the middle-class share was often substantial, measuring 6 percentage points or more in 53 metropolitan areas, compared with a 4-point drop nationally.<br /><br /> The shrinking of the middle class at the national level, to the point where it may no longer be the economic majority in the U.S., was documented in an earlier analysis by the Pew Research Center. The changes at the metropolitan level, the subject of this in-depth look at the American middle class, demonstrate that the national trend is the result of widespread declines in localities all around the country.<br /><br /> The widespread erosion of the middle class took place against the backdrop of a decrease in household incomes in most U.S. metropolitan areas. Nationwide, the median income of U.S. households in 2014 stood at 8% less than in 1999, a reminder that the economy has yet to fully recover from the effects of the Great Recession of 2007-09. The decline was pervasive, with median incomes falling in 190 of 229 metropolitan areas examined. Goldsboro ranked near the bottom with a loss of 26% in median income. Midland bucked the prevailing trend with the median income there rising 37% from 1999 to 2014, the greatest increase among the areas examined. 4<br /><br />In other words, households may have moved from the middle- to upper-income tier simply by staying put or perhaps increasing income only a modest amount. Those households that dropped into the lower-income tier from the middle lost even more income than the median dropped, outpacing the economic downturn and losing even more ground than these comparisons suggest.<br /><br />Some of these issues relate to local economies, some to the national stagnation that has followed the Great Recession. But this study makes a good data point to explain the political environment of this cycle and the anger that has fueled it. Perhaps nothing might explain it better than the fact that the greater DC area ranks third among the percentage of metropolitan areas with the highest percentage of upper-income households (32%), behind Midland, Texas and the Bridgeport, Connecticut region. The rich get richer … and the powerful, too.<br /><br />I think it is not helpful that the country is being flooded by low-income illegals. It's undercutting wages not just of entry level positions, but of skilled contractor / construction type jobs across the board.<br /><br />According to the Pew Hispanic Trust, less than 4% of illegal aliens in the U.S. are employed in agriculture of all types. The vast majorities work in substantial jobs such as CONSTRUCTION, ROOFING, landscaping, and EVEN MASONRY and plumbing, where their low wages have driven many millions of Americans out of work.<br /><br />I blame the Federal Reserve and the Keynesian philosophy that drives it. The middle class is wealthy enough to have some savings, but generally not wealthy enough to be heavily invested in anything but their own families. This means that Keynes-inspired inflation steals from the middle class and gives that money to the investor class. Quantitative Easing did this even more directly, by deliberately inflating stock market prices (helping investors) to stop deflation (which would have helped those with savings).<br /><br />Of course minimum wage laws also contribute, by dividing the country into those with high-paying jobs, and those who can't find ANY job.<br /><br /><br /><br />So do you mean it would be better if more low-income jobs were done by Americans? Or do you mean it would be better if Americans had to pay more to have those jobs done?<br /><br />Tiffany Zhang It's true that if you flood the country with low wage illegals then consumers of services, as construction services, will pay less.<br /><br />But the costs are HUGE. The erosion of the incomes of the lower and middle classes means greater inequality and greater entitlement and welfare costs, so ultimately much of the 'savings' of higher income consumers is lost to taxes. Further, in the US we are seeing the thirdworldification and bi-lingualification of the country. That's not necessarily a welcome addition.<br /><br />Worst of all the demographic change tilting the country heavily toward the low income immigrants and their low income offspring will ... TURN THE COUNTRY SOCIALIST. So those 'savings' in service costs will ultimately be paid for in higher taxes for socialist redistribution and entitlements, and probably in direct socialist property confiscations.<br /><br />Iain's Smashing Good Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12833335717390737670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597335197297114038.post-33835351127658586122016-04-27T12:03:00.003-07:002016-04-27T12:03:53.200-07:00Megyn Kelly interview could be Trump’s greatest media triumph <div style="text-align: left;">
Megyn Kelly versus Donald Trump. It’s been the biggest media story of the 2016 GOP presidential race. And yesterday’s news
that Trump has agreed to sit for a one-on-one interview with Kelly in
May not only ushers in a new chapter in a months-long saga, it could
also represent a triumph for Kelly and Fox News, but also for Trump’s
designs on the White House.</div>
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It began in the opening minutes of the very first debate when Kelly challenged Trump on his past statements to women:</div>
<blockquote>
“Mr. Trump, one of the things people love about you is
you speak your mind and you don’t use a politician’s filter. However,
that is not without its downsides, in particular, when it comes to
women. You’ve called women you don’t like ‘fat pigs,’ ‘dogs,’ ‘slobs’
and ‘disgusting animals.’ …<br />
Your Twitter account has several disparaging comments about women’s
looks. You once told a contestant on ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ it would be a
pretty picture to see her on her knees.<br />
Does that sound to you like the temperament of a man we should elect
as president, and how will you answer the charge from Hillary Clinton,
who was likely to be the Democratic nominee, that you are part of the
war on women?”</blockquote>
Trump’s reaction after the debate was to accuse Kelly of journalistic
bias and to attack her integrity and credibility. Legions of Trump
supporters hurling misogynistic and vitriolic venom
at Kelly via social media, some of the attacks enjoying the imprimatur
of Trump himself via a re-tweet from his powerful Twitter account.<br />
Trump personally went after Kelly in a vicious, personal way:<br />
<blockquote>
“Certainly, I don’t have a lot of respect for Megyn
Kelly. She’s a lightweight and y’know, she came out there reading her
little script and trying to be tough and be sharp. And when you meet her
you realize she’s not very tough and she’s not very sharp.” Then, came
the kicker: “She gets out there and she starts asking me all sorts of
ridiculous questions, and you could see there was blood coming out of
her eyes, blood coming out of her … wherever.”</blockquote>
And it just got worse from there. Trump boycotted the Fox News debate
in Iowa after a hot exchange of tweets and press releases. They met in a
debate setting once more in March but most of the fireworks that night
came from Marco Rubio and Trump’s hand size.<br />
Now, as the primary season winds down and Trump begins to focus on
his potential nomination in Cleveland and the general election showdown
with Hillary Clinton, he’s decided it’s time to put the feud behind
him. The announcement of the exclusive, in-depth interview scheduled for
May 17th could very well be the turning point of Trump’s negative
numbers with women voters (which <a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-gop-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/04/poll-trump-women-221448">Politico </a>reports are hovering around 70%.)<br />
To see this interview with Kelly as a media triumph, we have to make a
couple of reasonable assumptions. First, let’s assume Kelly conducts
the interview in the same way she does every night on The Kelly File,
with tough, relevant and respectful questions meant to illuminate an
issue and not alienate her guest. Let’s also assume that Trump, knowing
all eyes are on him, will conduct himself in a respectful and restrained
way including a legitimate walk-back from some of the more over-the-top
comments he’s made about the Fox News superstar.<br />
I’ll even predict that Trump offers a statement of regret (if not an
actual apology) over how the feud spun out of control and how Kelly was
negatively impacted by the vitriol from Internet trolls. I suspect Trump
takes the opportunity to state that although he’s had differences with
her, he admires the classy way Kelly has conducted herself and they let
bygones be bygones from this point forward.<br />
I think it’s also a fair assumption that Kelly accepts the apology.
Why wouldn’t she? Not only has she expressed that she dislikes being
“part of the story” but it positions her as a major media player in the
run up to the general election. It also puts pressure on Hillary Clinton
to sit with her for a similar interview. After all, Clinton <a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2016/04/hillary-clinton-megyn-kelly-is-a-superb-journalist-221581">recently praised</a>
Kelly as a “superb journalist” who didn’t deserve the rough treatment
doled out by Trump. Well Mrs. Clinton, if Trump scould face Kelly, the
“superb journalist,” why can’t you? Or, is she just a “superb
journalist” when she serves your purposes as a “victim” of Trump’s
misogyny? If you really respect Kelly as a journalist, grant her the
ultimate respect and sit with her, one-on-one, like Donald did.<br />
Kelly has already laid the groundwork for a “Kumbaya” moment with this quote from the <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/04/13/trump-megyn-kelly-meet-in-new-york.html">Fox News statement</a> announcing the interview:<br />
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“Mr. Trump and I sat down together for a meeting earlier
this month at my request. He was gracious with his time and I asked him
to consider an interview. I am happy to announce he has agreed, and I
look forward to a fascinating exchange — our first sit-down interview
together in nearly a year.”</blockquote>
If this interview goes the way I’ve laid it out, and both parties
walk away with mutual respect and a “contrition sound-byte” that plays
all over social media and the media for multiple news cycles, it’s a win
for Kelly, a win for Fox News, and it reverses one of the most
unfortunate and ugly narratives of the Trump presidential campaign.<br />
If he can do that, it may be one of the greatest media triumphs of modern presidential politics.<br />
Big “ifs,” I know, but not implausible at all.
Iain's Smashing Good Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12833335717390737670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597335197297114038.post-28294221567933340062016-04-25T11:54:00.000-07:002016-04-27T11:54:51.461-07:00Brave new world: A majority of millennials reject capitalismI hate to sound too much like the old man standing on his lawn
yelling at clouds, but perhaps we have something of a parallel here in
the United States in terms of rejecting sanity. Most of our millennials
apparently have rejected capitalism, seeing it as the cause of all their
woes, and they may be turning their eyes wistfully toward a more
socialist style of living <a data-mce-href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/04/26/a-majority-of-millennials-now-reject-capitalism-poll-shows/?wpmm=1&wpisrc=nl_evening" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/04/26/a-majority-of-millennials-now-reject-capitalism-poll-shows/?wpmm=1&wpisrc=nl_evening">as the answer to their problems</a>. (Washington Post)<br />
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In
an apparent rejection of the basic principles of the U.S. economy, a
new poll shows that most young people do not support capitalism.<br />
The
Harvard University survey, which polled young adults between ages 18
and 29, found that 51 percent of respondents do not support capitalism.
Just 42 percent said they support it.<br />
It isn’t clear that the
young people in the poll would prefer some alternative system, though.
Just 33 percent said they supported socialism. The survey had a margin
of error of 2.4 percentage points.</blockquote>
Is this something
real or is it just some sort of offshoot of the Bernie effect? 33% of
the entire nation doesn’t sound like much but it probably works out to a
fair portion of the supporters that Sanders is pulling in from the
Democratic base. If that’s the case then it may tone back down once the
primary ends and Bernie sails off toward retirement. They clearly won’t
be getting a lot of support from the smaller percentage of young people
supporting Hillary since her associations with the gold mine of Wall
Street are well known.<br />
But a more disturbing possibility is that
we’ve entered a period where the population begins to fall victim to the
old maxim of forgetting history and being doomed to repeat the mistakes
of the past. The truth is that socialism has gotten something of a
makeover in the modern era, with people frequently looking to places
like Switzerland as a model. (Never mind the fact that Switzerland is
actually one of the more capitalist places on Earth.) Further to the
north, Sanders and his followers also like to point to the Scandinavian
nations as the socialist paradise of their dreams. But as <a data-mce-href="http://thefederalist.com/2015/08/11/scandinavia-isnt-a-socialist-paradise/" href="http://thefederalist.com/2015/08/11/scandinavia-isnt-a-socialist-paradise/">an excellent article in the Federalist</a> pointed out recently, it’s really no paradise at all.<br />
In
the modern era, if our unhappy millennials really want to learn
something about the true face of socialism they should look to places
like Venezuela. Under the control of Hugo Chavez, the people of that
nation didn’t actually experience any sort of boom times and are now
facing the implosion of their society, <a data-mce-href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/434591/venezuela-crisis-hugo-chavez-socialism-brought-poverty-not-success" href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/434591/venezuela-crisis-hugo-chavez-socialism-brought-poverty-not-success">as Kevin Williamson recently pointed out</a>.<br />
<blockquote>
If
you consider the most meaningful measure of a country’s economic output
— GDP per capita over time — you’ll see that the fat years under Chávez
did not actually happen. In fact, if you chart that real
(inflation-adjusted) GDP per capita by year, you’ll see that Venezuela
is significantly poorer today than it was in the 1960s, 1970s, or 1980s.
In fact, Venezuela’s per capita GDP reached its all-time low in 2003,
under Chávez. This is no surprise: Making well-off countries poor and
poor countries starving is what socialists do.</blockquote>
Things
are bad in Venezuela to be sure and the citizens there are under
constant threat from their own government as well as economic collapse.
But if these unhappy millennials truly want a lesson on social
experimentation they should look at <a data-mce-href="https://fee.org/articles/the-soviet-tragedy-a-history-of-socialism-in-russia-1917-1991-and-russia-under-the-bolshevik-regime/" href="https://fee.org/articles/the-soviet-tragedy-a-history-of-socialism-in-russia-1917-1991-and-russia-under-the-bolshevik-regime/">the Russian socialist revolution of 1917</a>
and the ensuing virtual enslavement of the citizens who surrendered all
their property and rights to the government. These are the wages of
socialism and it always ends badly. In case you missed that… <strong>It Always Ends Badly</strong>.<br />
There
is no good outcome from socialism in the long run and those who have
lived too long in a prosperous nation like America need to crack open
their history books before signing on for a new revolution. Democratic
capitalism has its own warts and flaws to be sure and not every outcome
is a happy one for every citizen, but it’s also a self-correcting
system. Gross imbalances tend to be ironed out through the political
force and will of those for whom it fails to deliver. So be careful what
you wish for, millennials. You might just get it good and hard.Iain's Smashing Good Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12833335717390737670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597335197297114038.post-73702406009923660912016-04-09T10:10:00.003-07:002016-04-09T10:10:42.153-07:00Top 100 star trek episodes<br /><div class="has-media media-large has-image">
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100) Bride of Chaotica! (Star Trek: Voyager) - A hilarious pastiche
of old-school science fiction serials, this story puts the Voyager crew
in the middle of a space-opera fantasy gone very, very wrong.</h4>
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99) Day of the Dove (Star Trek) - An alien entity wants the
Enterprise crew and some Klingons to slaughter each other, and Kirk has
nearly as much trouble with his own crew as with the "enemy."</h4>
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98) Paradise (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) - Sisko and O'Brien find
themselves in a "perfect" society where no technology functions, and the
society's matriarch tests Sisko's will with some pretty brutal
treatment. </h4>
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97) Borderland/Cold Station 12/The Augments (Enterprise) - In this
three-part episode, we delve into the past of Khan Noonien Singh's
genetically augmented crew, and also meet the ancestor of Data's
creator. And connecting those two dots allows the story to get into some
weird questions about the nature of "superior" people. </h4>
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96) Lineage (Star Trek: Voyager) - B'Elanna and Tom are expecting a
baby... but maybe they can genetically engineer it to be more human and
less Klingon? More than any episode about Khan's people, this episode
digs into the thorny ethics of eugenics. </h4>
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95) The Most Toys (Star Trek: The Next Generation) - Data is taken
prisoner by an unscrupulous collector, and the android finds out just
how far he's willing to go to win his freedom. </h4>
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<h4>
94) Disaster (Star Trek: The Next Generation) - A calamity cuts off
the different sections of the ship from each other, leaving Deanna Troi
in charge, and Worf having to deliver a baby. </h4>
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<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--fmZUuX5r--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/moas8t2hiomwf9p7uy0o.jpg" data-chomp-id="moas8t2hiomwf9p7uy0o" data-format="jpg" height="598" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--fmZUuX5r--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/moas8t2hiomwf9p7uy0o.jpg" width="800" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
<h4>
93) Future's End (Star Trek: Voyager) - An evil Bill Gates-type in
the 1990s has gotten hold of a 29th century ship, and even the Voyager
crew might not be able to keep him from changing history. </h4>
<div class="has-media media-large has-image">
<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--wq8XKpKc--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/lw2mamwoewpkr7ixdbcd.jpg" data-chomp-id="lw2mamwoewpkr7ixdbcd" data-format="jpg" height="600" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--wq8XKpKc--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/lw2mamwoewpkr7ixdbcd.jpg" width="800" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
<h4>
92) The Magnificent Ferengi (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) - Of all <em>DS9</em>'s
"Ferengi comedy" episodes, this is one of the funniest — Quark has to
rescue his mother from the Dominion, but everything goes absolutely
pear-shaped and Quark has to improvise.</h4>
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<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--xzVKqGRJ--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/fyaqkqgitrlwhhvlwvhm.jpg" data-chomp-id="fyaqkqgitrlwhhvlwvhm" data-format="jpg" height="604" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--xzVKqGRJ--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/fyaqkqgitrlwhhvlwvhm.jpg" width="800" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
<h4>
91) The Killing Game (Star Trek: Voyager) - The Hirogen love to
hunt, so what could be better than turning Voyager into a recreation of
World War II? (Lots of things. But that's what they do, anyway.)</h4>
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<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--mUD1-dD5--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/rwvwrkwfikq8b0o3q6hd.jpg" data-chomp-id="rwvwrkwfikq8b0o3q6hd" data-format="jpg" height="556" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--mUD1-dD5--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/rwvwrkwfikq8b0o3q6hd.jpg" width="800" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
<h4>
90) Booby Trap (Star Trek: The Next Generation) - The Enterprise is
trapped in a weird space trap, and Geordi can't find a solution until he
makes himself a new colleague... who's the woman of Geordi's dreams.</h4>
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<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--e7f0CICt--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/wx9qplejzdlnqlhw8ybo.png" data-chomp-id="wx9qplejzdlnqlhw8ybo" data-format="png" height="598" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--e7f0CICt--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/wx9qplejzdlnqlhw8ybo.png" width="800" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
<h4>
89) Court Martial (Star Trek) - Kirk is put on trial, and along the way he shows what it really takes to command a starship.</h4>
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<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--ZNRcHnWa--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/mfxbgg1pl1omhieb7rba.jpg" data-chomp-id="mfxbgg1pl1omhieb7rba" data-format="jpg" height="598" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--ZNRcHnWa--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/mfxbgg1pl1omhieb7rba.jpg" width="800" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
<h4>
88) Favor the Bold/Sacrifice of Angels (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) -
This episode is a turning point in the "Dominion War" arc. But more to
the point, it features a ginormous, amazing space battle, featuring
hundreds of starships. </h4>
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<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--Q2gcto9o--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/xogzvcfcwfkbdoblrkgo.jpg" data-chomp-id="xogzvcfcwfkbdoblrkgo" data-format="jpg" height="600" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--Q2gcto9o--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/xogzvcfcwfkbdoblrkgo.jpg" width="800" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
<h4>
87) Déjà Q (Star Trek: The Next Generation) - Q has lost his powers,
and now he's learning to cope with being human. If he can survive the
wrath of Guinan, that is. </h4>
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<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--_Sk_K0UX--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/mlmi7vprb3ahq4j8ii1j.jpg" data-chomp-id="mlmi7vprb3ahq4j8ii1j" data-format="jpg" height="600" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--_Sk_K0UX--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/mlmi7vprb3ahq4j8ii1j.jpg" width="800" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
<h4>
86) Memorial (Star Trek: Voyager) - Voyager was at its best when
coping with strange thought experiments, and here's a doozy: a memorial
forces you to experience a terrible war first-hand. Should it be allowed
to remain operational?</h4>
<div class="has-media media-large has-image">
<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--C0NTx6Dq--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/kuyalwqgvofb2xehlgu5.jpg" data-chomp-id="kuyalwqgvofb2xehlgu5" data-format="jpg" height="612" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--C0NTx6Dq--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/kuyalwqgvofb2xehlgu5.jpg" width="800" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
<h4>
85) Little Green Men (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) - Quark gets
stranded on mid-20th century Earth, and for once even he can't figure
out how to profit from this, in a hilariously weird episode. </h4>
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<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--rARaFFnl--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/dvwiiuvqak0rgzkkjsnp.jpg" data-chomp-id="dvwiiuvqak0rgzkkjsnp" data-format="jpg" height="615" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--rARaFFnl--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/dvwiiuvqak0rgzkkjsnp.jpg" width="800" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
<h4>
84) Parallels (Star Trek: The Next Generation) - Worf keeps jumping
to various (and highly entertaining) alternate realities, showing how
different his life could be with just a few changes.</h4>
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<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--SkqatK6_--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/ystd3nize2tbzxbqdptp.jpg" data-chomp-id="ystd3nize2tbzxbqdptp" data-format="jpg" height="496" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--SkqatK6_--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/ystd3nize2tbzxbqdptp.jpg" width="800" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
<h4>
83) Timeless (Star Trek: Voyager) - One of the many "alternate
future crewmembers averting a past tragedy" storylines, this one
features the beautiful image of Voyager crashed into an ice planet, and
Chakotay going to extremes to save his friends.</h4>
<div class="has-media media-large has-image">
<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--KGopZOn4--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/lcpjdojykbvhrv0ekzin.jpg" data-chomp-id="lcpjdojykbvhrv0ekzin" data-format="jpg" height="600" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--KGopZOn4--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/lcpjdojykbvhrv0ekzin.jpg" width="800" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
<h4>
82) Conundrum (Star Trek: The Next Generation) - The entire crew of
the Enterprise suffers memory loss, but luckily First Officer MacDuff is
here to help. When their identities are stripped away, will the
Starfleet officers still do the right thing?</h4>
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<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--2OG-D3eP--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/b80scasr6bwi550pybas.png" data-chomp-id="b80scasr6bwi550pybas" data-format="png" height="598" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--2OG-D3eP--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/b80scasr6bwi550pybas.png" width="800" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
<h4>
81) The Enemy Within (Star Trek) - The one where Kirk gets split
into good and evil versions by a transporter accident — Richard
Matheson's script manages to get into some thorny questions about the
nature of evil. </h4>
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<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--sxtjhnoi--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/fkw9thym6jbn2wmza9fs.jpg" data-chomp-id="fkw9thym6jbn2wmza9fs" data-format="jpg" height="600" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--sxtjhnoi--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/fkw9thym6jbn2wmza9fs.jpg" width="800" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
<h4>
80) The Wounded (Star Trek: The Next Generation) - The Federation is
trying really hard to have peace with the Cardassians, but some people
in Starfleet aren't quite so ready to forgive and forget... and it's up
to Picard to help out his enemies.</h4>
<div class="has-media media-large has-image">
<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--691LrEhr--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/o3mehp13igp2kvtp9dqm.png" data-chomp-id="o3mehp13igp2kvtp9dqm" data-format="png" height="594" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--691LrEhr--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/o3mehp13igp2kvtp9dqm.png" width="800" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
<h4>
79) I, Mudd (Star Trek) - The most famous rogue in <em>Star Trek</em> has landed in a great spot — surrounded by beautiful androids who cater to his every whim. Except that he can't leave.</h4>
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<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--KDRF8tlC--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/d7hgw9x1fmw0kkxf4fx7.jpg" data-chomp-id="d7hgw9x1fmw0kkxf4fx7" data-format="jpg" height="600" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--KDRF8tlC--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/d7hgw9x1fmw0kkxf4fx7.jpg" width="800" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
<h4>
78) Remember Me (Star Trek: The Next Generation) - Dr. Crusher is
faced with a mystery that gets at her fear of abandonment, but also
questions of existence, when people start vanishing around her. </h4>
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<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--IXfJZn7B--/fakkwptxuboxd7ylczws.jpg" data-chomp-id="fakkwptxuboxd7ylczws" data-format="jpg" height="600" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--IXfJZn7B--/fakkwptxuboxd7ylczws.jpg" width="800" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
<h4>
77) Our Man Bashir (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) - The goofiest of
DS9 episodes (well, one of the goofiest) sees Bashir stuck in a
holosuite program where he's a James Bond-style spy.</h4>
<div class="has-media media-large has-image">
<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--vw09I0FN--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/s9a1dp8fjth9ghejkxjh.jpg" data-chomp-id="s9a1dp8fjth9ghejkxjh" data-format="jpg" height="600" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--vw09I0FN--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/s9a1dp8fjth9ghejkxjh.jpg" width="800" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
<h4>
76) Wolf in the Fold (Star Trek) - Mr. Scott is accused of being a serial killer... but the truth is a lot more bizarre.</h4>
<div class="has-media media-medium has-image">
<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--N4A_0xWO--/eip5p1hk3ogj5ribjim5.jpg" data-chomp-id="eip5p1hk3ogj5ribjim5" data-format="jpg" height="530" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--N4A_0xWO--/eip5p1hk3ogj5ribjim5.jpg" width="705" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
<h4>
75) The Raven (Star Trek: Voyager) - One of the best "Seven of Nine
tries to become more human" episodes actually sees her coping with her
memories of being part of the Borg. </h4>
<div class="has-media media-medium has-image">
<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--26cN_mwT--/cikekolyc3irie0mzgyj.jpg" data-chomp-id="cikekolyc3irie0mzgyj" data-format="jpg" height="530" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--26cN_mwT--/cikekolyc3irie0mzgyj.jpg" width="705" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
<h4>
74) Living Witness (Star Trek: Voyager) - Hundreds of years after
Voyager visit a planet, its crew are remembered as war criminals, as
shown in a historical reenactment.</h4>
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<h4>
73) Family (Star Trek: The Next Generation) - This episode is
revolutionary, purely because it shows the consequences of a big "event"
episode — Picard is still shaken by his experiences with the Borg, when
he goes home to visit his family.</h4>
<div class="has-media media-large has-image">
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<h4>
72) Who Mourns For Morn (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) - The barfly
who hangs out in Quark's bar has apparently died, but will Quark really
inherit all his worldly goods?</h4>
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<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--9AGW0pGk--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/sesqkenjnd6wu4u7xtqt.png" data-chomp-id="sesqkenjnd6wu4u7xtqt" data-format="png" height="599" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--9AGW0pGk--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/sesqkenjnd6wu4u7xtqt.png" width="800" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
<h4>
71) A Piece of the Action (Star Trek) - One of many "visiting
Earth's past on another planet" episodes, this is the funniest and also
the most trenchant. Kirk and friends have to outwit a whole planet of
gangsters, while teaching them the arcane game of Fizzbin.</h4>
<div class="has-media media-large has-image">
<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--EWGWWJOZ--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/aludbciwjd9bt9jqfpqj.jpg" data-chomp-id="aludbciwjd9bt9jqfpqj" data-format="jpg" height="600" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--EWGWWJOZ--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/aludbciwjd9bt9jqfpqj.jpg" width="800" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
<h4>
70) Sarek (Star Trek: The Next Generation) - Peter S. Beagle wrote
this episode where Spock's father reappears, and he's not the Vulcan he
used to be — a bittersweet exploration of aging and loss.</h4>
<div class="has-media media-large has-image">
<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--8mONMauI--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/p31ckakp8nze7z92k61q.jpg" data-chomp-id="p31ckakp8nze7z92k61q" data-format="jpg" height="604" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--8mONMauI--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/p31ckakp8nze7z92k61q.jpg" width="800" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
<h4>
69) What You Leave Behind (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) - The DS9
finale packs a lot of punches, including the final showdown with the
Dominion, and Sisko embracing his destiny. </h4>
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<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--ohgY3-e_--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/trdo4uogvwfbkjbfunrt.jpg" data-chomp-id="trdo4uogvwfbkjbfunrt" data-format="jpg" height="520" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--ohgY3-e_--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/trdo4uogvwfbkjbfunrt.jpg" width="800" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
<h4>
68) Tin Man (Star Trek: The Next Generation) - a powerful Betazoid
telepath is obsessed with a giant sentient spaceship, but also develops
a friendship with Data, the only person whose thoughts he can't read. </h4>
<div class="has-media media-large has-image">
<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--pD3s-CuO--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/wkzhlcwgp3g0wjksxbgp.png" data-chomp-id="wkzhlcwgp3g0wjksxbgp" data-format="png" height="598" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--pD3s-CuO--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/wkzhlcwgp3g0wjksxbgp.png" width="800" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
<h4>
67) Errand of Mercy (Star Trek) - The first Klingon episode is also
the most daring, as Kirk is portrayed as being nearly as warlike as his
foes, in the face of godlike pacifist aliens.</h4>
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<h4>
66) Dark Frontier (Star Trek: Voyager) - Seven of Nine starts to
remember her past before she became a Borg drone, as Janeway schemes to
steal from the Borg.</h4>
<div class="has-media media-large has-image">
<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--U2n8BQi7--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/nn3rbtjmhnnlmoiwfffp.jpg" data-chomp-id="nn3rbtjmhnnlmoiwfffp" data-format="jpg" height="450" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--U2n8BQi7--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/nn3rbtjmhnnlmoiwfffp.jpg" width="800" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
<h4>
65) In Purgatory's Shadow/By Inferno's Light (Star Trek: Deep Space
Nine) - One of the most shocking of the "Dominion War" storylines, this
two-parter reveals a terrible secret about Bashir, and changes the
balance of power in the Alpha Quadrant. </h4>
<div class="has-media media-medium has-image">
<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--Ie1EYdqq--/kmluo9o0qhzx5tjcaom8.jpg" data-chomp-id="kmluo9o0qhzx5tjcaom8" data-format="jpg" height="594" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--Ie1EYdqq--/kmluo9o0qhzx5tjcaom8.jpg" width="797" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
<h4>
64) The Slaver Weapon (Star Trek: The Animated Series) - Written by
Larry Niven, this episode sees the Enterprise crew meeting the Kzinti...
and dealing with a self-aware ultimate weapon.</h4>
<div class="has-media media-large has-image">
<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--TYrpbWHZ--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/alxswbltflbmu9dzygf8.png" data-chomp-id="alxswbltflbmu9dzygf8" data-format="png" height="598" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--TYrpbWHZ--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/alxswbltflbmu9dzygf8.png" width="800" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
<h4>
63) Assignment: Earth (Star Trek) - Kirk and Spock go back to the
1960s, but they're not the only interloper. This was the "backdoor
pilot" for a spin-off show that never happened, but it's still bizarrely
entertaining in its own right. </h4>
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<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--xL1R6Pzg--/doe7tdcunvjpihf5iizy.jpg" data-chomp-id="doe7tdcunvjpihf5iizy" data-format="jpg" height="530" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--xL1R6Pzg--/doe7tdcunvjpihf5iizy.jpg" width="694" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
<h4>
62) Cause and Effect (Star Trek: The Next Generation) - The one
where the Enterprise keeps blowing up over and over. The most explosive,
bewildering time loop ever.</h4>
<div class="has-media media-medium has-image">
<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--iOcsvSDC--/hdb3xdo3edfgb8s2wmxg.jpg" data-chomp-id="hdb3xdo3edfgb8s2wmxg" data-format="jpg" height="530" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--iOcsvSDC--/hdb3xdo3edfgb8s2wmxg.jpg" width="705" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
<h4>
61) Course: Oblivion (Star Trek: Voyager) - These alternate versions
of a starship crew aren't evil — just very, very fragile. This is one
of those episodes whose nihilism makes it almost like a weird dream.</h4>
<div class="has-media media-medium has-image">
<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--SUSX4ylh--/ncwbe19y54yp525yaugp.jpg" data-chomp-id="ncwbe19y54yp525yaugp" data-format="jpg" height="530" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--SUSX4ylh--/ncwbe19y54yp525yaugp.jpg" width="700" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
<h4>
60) Shore Leave (Star Trek) - One of the goofiest original-series
episodes also has a major dark side, as the crew arrives on a planet
where anything they imagine can become real. Anything. </h4>
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<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--HGy6RtSY--/nqfqkfvoiwmdi2uclmuz.jpg" data-chomp-id="nqfqkfvoiwmdi2uclmuz" data-format="jpg" height="530" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--HGy6RtSY--/nqfqkfvoiwmdi2uclmuz.jpg" width="705" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
<h4>
59) The Quickening (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) - Dr. Bashir's
miracle-worker image faces an extra challenge when he faces a
genetically-engineered plague. </h4>
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<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--3qd6cSFi--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/y8290atvbp4ukpzxj9pe.jpg" data-chomp-id="y8290atvbp4ukpzxj9pe" data-format="jpg" height="600" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--3qd6cSFi--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/y8290atvbp4ukpzxj9pe.jpg" width="800" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
<h4>
58) Dagger of the Mind (Star Trek) - In the Federation's utopian
future, the rehabilitation of criminals is much more humane. Much, much
more humane. The psychological cruelty in this one is actually pretty
intense. </h4>
<div class="has-media media-medium has-image">
<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--ea0iJCJB--/tdji0hoebdesmwtvm67r.jpg" data-chomp-id="tdji0hoebdesmwtvm67r" data-format="jpg" height="530" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--ea0iJCJB--/tdji0hoebdesmwtvm67r.jpg" width="692" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
<h4>
57) The Sound of Her Voice (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) - Everybody
falls in love with a stranded Starfleet captain who's sent out a
distress call. But can she be saved?</h4>
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<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--dRKAy-Gc--/r8fnbe1qjmqgejovaxlx.jpg" data-chomp-id="r8fnbe1qjmqgejovaxlx" data-format="jpg" height="530" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--dRKAy-Gc--/r8fnbe1qjmqgejovaxlx.jpg" width="692" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
<h4>
56) Tuvix (Star Trek: Voyager) - The Voyager crew face another huge
ethical conundrum... and arguably, this time they choose wrong. </h4>
<div class="has-media media-large has-image">
<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--4ICNlk1A--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/ibms0tlm0qbl46ykoom9.jpg" data-chomp-id="ibms0tlm0qbl46ykoom9" data-format="jpg" height="564" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--4ICNlk1A--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/ibms0tlm0qbl46ykoom9.jpg" width="800" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
<h4>
55) The Pegasus (Star Trek: The Next Generation) - Riker's
long-buried secret comes to light, and he's forced to lie to Captain
Picard. </h4>
<div class="has-media media-medium has-image">
<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--DQi72jmJ--/uiqvvtz8dr6royzsrd7i.jpg" data-chomp-id="uiqvvtz8dr6royzsrd7i" data-format="jpg" height="530" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--DQi72jmJ--/uiqvvtz8dr6royzsrd7i.jpg" width="692" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
<h4>
54) Caretaker (Star Trek: Voyager) - Greg Cox argued (in our
comments) this is the best first episode of any Trek, and he has a
point: it shows Captain Janeway making two tough choices: stranding her
crew, and adopting a crew of rebels. </h4>
<div class="has-media media-large has-image">
<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--BOTTP50V--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/lm2vre1urhf9bxnoyvfd.jpg" data-chomp-id="lm2vre1urhf9bxnoyvfd" data-format="jpg" height="600" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--BOTTP50V--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/lm2vre1urhf9bxnoyvfd.jpg" width="800" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
<h4>
53) The Conscience of the King (Star Trek) - This episode about a
Shakespearean actor who may be a legendary mass murderer is also our
first glimpse of the flaws in <em>Trek</em>'s perfect future.</h4>
<div class="has-media media-large has-image">
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<h4>
52) Relics (Star Trek: The Next Generation) - Old Starfleet
engineers never die — they just come back decades later, eager to tinker
with another warp engine.</h4>
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51) Necessary Evil (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) - The best of the
episodes about the shapeshifting Odo doing detective work, because his
digging turns out to reveal some dark secrets.</h4>
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<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--c_-QIGX2--/mvtktemyvynzm3arasgb.jpg" data-chomp-id="mvtktemyvynzm3arasgb" data-format="jpg" height="555" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--c_-QIGX2--/mvtktemyvynzm3arasgb.jpg" width="715" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
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50) I Borg (Star Trek: The Next Generation) - Another episode with a
guest star who poses a huge ethical question — the Enterprise finds a
disconnected Borg drone, and tries to turn him into a weapon.</h4>
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49) The Wire (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) - The mysterious Garak
finally has to reveal a little bit about his past to his friend Dr.
Bashir, to save his life — but which stories are lies, and which ones
are true? Or is there really any difference?</h4>
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48) The Enterprise Incident (Star Trek) - Kirk and Spock pull an
elaborate hustle on the Romulans, in an episode that shows just how
unethical our heroes are prepared to be.</h4>
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47) Perfect Mate (Star Trek: The Next Generation) - Picard falls for
a woman (Famke Janssen!) who is destined to marry a warlord in an
arranged marriage, and he has to put his feelings aside for the sake of
peace.</h4>
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46) Blink of an Eye (Star Trek: Voyager) - In yet another high-concept <em>Voyager</em>
outing, the starship appears in the sky over a planet for a relatively
brief time, but that's long enough for it to loom over the life and
death of an entire civilization.</h4>
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<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--yRGxQ6q6--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/lu4s3ipvxwzlmjpdhrl2.jpg" data-chomp-id="lu4s3ipvxwzlmjpdhrl2" data-format="jpg" height="523" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--yRGxQ6q6--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/lu4s3ipvxwzlmjpdhrl2.jpg" width="800" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
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45) Dear Doctor (Enterprise) - Doctor Phlox relates his experience
dealing with a plague affecting a relatively primitive planet, which
turns out to pose an impossible dilemma.</h4>
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44) It's Only a Paper Moon (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) - Like
"Family," this is an episode that takes a hard look at the process of
recovering from trauma... and doesn't sugar-coat the truth.</h4>
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<h4>
43) Obsession (Star Trek) - Kirk's judgment is called into question
when he becomes fixated on revenge, showing once again just how
dangerous an out-of-control captain can be.</h4>
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<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--bC2T2Z_c--/oertxvr5maurntokha2i.jpg" data-chomp-id="oertxvr5maurntokha2i" data-format="jpg" height="480" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--bC2T2Z_c--/oertxvr5maurntokha2i.jpg" width="640" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
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42) Hard Time (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) - The best of the many
"Let's torture O'Brien" episodes, in which he receives false memories of
20 years of imprisonment.</h4>
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<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--8kE4BWX3--/poqor5tqr9ndnhgz8qel.jpg" data-chomp-id="poqor5tqr9ndnhgz8qel" data-format="jpg" height="480" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--8kE4BWX3--/poqor5tqr9ndnhgz8qel.jpg" width="640" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
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41) Rocks and Shoals (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) - Sisko's crew are
stranded on a planet with some of the enemy Jem'Hadar... and the
Jem'Hadar's unquestioning drug-induced loyalty is put to the test,
horribly. </h4>
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40) In A Mirror Darkly, Parts 1 & 2 (Enterprise) - The best of
the "Mirror Universe" sequels, this episode shows us a more unscrupulous
version of Jonathan Archer... who's just inherited a Federation ship
from the future.</h4>
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<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--jvr1qX6K--/oxakdb7csmxp9tvkdxv8.jpg" data-chomp-id="oxakdb7csmxp9tvkdxv8" data-format="jpg" height="530" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--jvr1qX6K--/oxakdb7csmxp9tvkdxv8.jpg" width="700" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
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39) Journey to Babel (Star Trek) - Most notable for introducing us
to Spock's parents, this episode also shows a Federation diplomatic
mission gone horribly wrong. </h4>
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38) The Way of the Warrior (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) - With the
Federation facing war with the Dominion, it's a good thing the Klingons
are here to help. Except sometimes your allies can be more dangerous
than your enemies.</h4>
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<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--inmAcdXw--/xtb8xnfhdhgul7z3c7e4.jpg" data-chomp-id="xtb8xnfhdhgul7z3c7e4" data-format="jpg" height="521" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--inmAcdXw--/xtb8xnfhdhgul7z3c7e4.jpg" width="700" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
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37) Lower Decks (Star Trek: The Next Generation) - This episode
follows four junior officers aboard the Enterprise, and lets us see the
command staff through the eyes of their underlings. </h4>
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<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--QmmzXAIM--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/zrjwo5zzcmm5wkpst412.jpg" data-chomp-id="zrjwo5zzcmm5wkpst412" data-format="jpg" height="586" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--QmmzXAIM--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/zrjwo5zzcmm5wkpst412.jpg" width="800" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
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36) Galileo Seven (Star Trek) - A shuttlecraft full of people is
stranded on a planet, and it appears that not all of them can survive.
Good thing Spock is in charge, and he has zero hesitation about making
the tough call... Right?</h4>
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<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--n0hnTcjK--/bjatkpivf0wnihux3d2j.jpg" data-chomp-id="bjatkpivf0wnihux3d2j" data-format="jpg" height="530" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--n0hnTcjK--/bjatkpivf0wnihux3d2j.jpg" width="692" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
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35) Inter Arma Silent Leges (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) - Bashir
has always wanted to play at being a spy... so how does he like doing it
in real life? One of the episodes that exposes the terrible underbelly
of the Federation. </h4>
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<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--m_vF3n4D--/aduz4vuhvwa4rtgj4fpj.jpg" data-chomp-id="aduz4vuhvwa4rtgj4fpj" data-format="jpg" height="530" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--m_vF3n4D--/aduz4vuhvwa4rtgj4fpj.jpg" width="694" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
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34) The Drumhead (Star Trek: The Next Generation) - An Admiral
subjects the Enterprise to an inquisition, and starts finding
conspiracies behind every bulkhead, providing an object lesson in the
dangers of paranoia.</h4>
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<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--G8F8jSJw--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/my7bxiwep5rffamaggl5.jpg" data-chomp-id="my7bxiwep5rffamaggl5" data-format="jpg" height="449" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--G8F8jSJw--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/my7bxiwep5rffamaggl5.jpg" width="800" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
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33) Twilight (Enterprise) - In the future, Archer has dementia, and
the human race has lost a devastating war. And both things are equally
terrible to behold.</h4>
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<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--QquCSFT_--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/bmsyferbnkcvjcvh6uuj.jpg" data-chomp-id="bmsyferbnkcvjcvh6uuj" data-format="jpg" height="596" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--QquCSFT_--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/bmsyferbnkcvjcvh6uuj.jpg" width="800" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
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32) Trials and Tribble-ations (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) - One of several <a href="http://io9.com/5238315/6-theories-of-time-travel-in-star-trek" target="_blank">time-travel</a>
episodes, this one sends Sisko's officers back to the original series
episode "The Trouble With Tribbles," and provides a great love letter to
<em>Trek</em>'s history.</h4>
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<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--4aByZQr6--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/eqb2xdizanll3hbd5zga.jpg" data-chomp-id="eqb2xdizanll3hbd5zga" data-format="jpg" height="600" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--4aByZQr6--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/eqb2xdizanll3hbd5zga.jpg" width="800" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
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31) Call to Arms (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) - This is the one
where Sisko makes the tough choices, and a highly symbolic baseball is
the only hint of Sisko's endgame.</h4>
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30) Yesteryear (Star Trek: The Animated Series) - Spock travels back
in time and saves himself as a young boy on Vulcan, in an episode that
reveals a lot about Spock's life.</h4>
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<strong>29) The Void (Star Trek: Voyager) - When Voyager gets
trapped in a pocket space with a bunch of other ships that prey on each
other, Janeway has to convince everybody to work together to escape.
Janeway's finest hour.</strong></h4>
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28) Homefront/Paradise Lost (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) - Nowadays,
everybody trots out the "security versus freedom" question, but <em>DS9</em> asked it first, and best, with this story of paranoia about shapeshifters in Starfleet.</h4>
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<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--WMDuDDJX--/minbrctn4vwdfep4sebz.jpg" data-chomp-id="minbrctn4vwdfep4sebz" data-format="jpg" height="530" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--WMDuDDJX--/minbrctn4vwdfep4sebz.jpg" width="694" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
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27) Where No Man Has Gone Before (Star Trek) - The second <em>Star Trek</em> pilot is the best, facing Kirk with an impossible choice: condemn his friend to death, or risk his entire ship.</h4>
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<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--HxTZFBnm--/q4tm7zlipp79rnktn3ba.jpg" data-chomp-id="q4tm7zlipp79rnktn3ba" data-format="jpg" height="600" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--HxTZFBnm--/q4tm7zlipp79rnktn3ba.jpg" width="800" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
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26) The Year of Hell Parts 1 &2 (Star Trek: Voyager) - The
luckiest ship in the Delta Quadrant finally has really, really bad luck.
</h4>
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<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--UOlvaqAa--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/artzsxj5qvknw4ybhfn0.jpg" data-chomp-id="artzsxj5qvknw4ybhfn0" data-format="jpg" height="600" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--UOlvaqAa--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/artzsxj5qvknw4ybhfn0.jpg" width="800" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
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25) The Offspring (Star Trek: The Next Generation) - Data creates an
android daughter for himself, but some miracles are too great to last. </h4>
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24) Duet (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) - Kira suspects that a
visiting Cardassian is actually a notorious war criminal, and she's
willing to go to insane lengths to prove it.</h4>
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<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--Lf1lbgRZ--/cjqbhnmjljl3bcqiq8na.jpg" data-chomp-id="cjqbhnmjljl3bcqiq8na" data-format="jpg" height="530" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--Lf1lbgRZ--/cjqbhnmjljl3bcqiq8na.jpg" width="705" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
<h4>
23) The Equinox (Star Trek: Voyager) - Captain Janeway's
determination to uphold Federation principles far from home looks a lot
more impressive when you meet another Starfleet crew that compromised,
really badly.</h4>
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<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--ldDplEAn--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/kqtfr1zm9wopdva4wvd7.jpg" data-chomp-id="kqtfr1zm9wopdva4wvd7" data-format="jpg" height="450" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--ldDplEAn--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/kqtfr1zm9wopdva4wvd7.jpg" width="800" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
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22) Tapestry (Star Trek: The Next Generation) - Picard is dying of
an old wound caused by his recklessness, so Q shows him what his life
would be like if he'd played it safe. </h4>
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<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--ofvA1VBL--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/e9h6ziqaovs5jnwno6uo.png" data-chomp-id="e9h6ziqaovs5jnwno6uo" data-format="png" height="600" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--ofvA1VBL--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/e9h6ziqaovs5jnwno6uo.png" width="800" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
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<strong>21) Arena (Star Trek) - Kirk faces two impossible
challenges: making a weapon from scratch, and upholding his values in
the face of a murderous Gorn.</strong></h4>
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<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--cG7zH61U--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/jmfxrxqwwhkvvnsvay0c.jpg" data-chomp-id="jmfxrxqwwhkvvnsvay0c" data-format="jpg" height="593" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--cG7zH61U--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/jmfxrxqwwhkvvnsvay0c.jpg" width="800" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
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20) Measure of a Man (Star Trek: The Next Generation) - Putting Data
on "trial" to see if he's a person raises fascinating questions, but
the best part is Riker's total ruthlessness as prosecutor.</h4>
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<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--TXEg9LHM--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/o7gvbgd8wmgtbo8h3wm2.jpg" data-chomp-id="o7gvbgd8wmgtbo8h3wm2" data-format="jpg" height="600" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--TXEg9LHM--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/o7gvbgd8wmgtbo8h3wm2.jpg" width="800" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
<h4>
19) Yesterday's Enterprise (Star Trek: The Next Generation) - The
Enterprise finds itself in an alternate universe, and restoring the
original timeline will come at a high cost.</h4>
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<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--V4mBL9My--/jfcvqyjx2ei234t0ulwk.jpg" data-chomp-id="jfcvqyjx2ei234t0ulwk" data-format="jpg" height="558" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--V4mBL9My--/jfcvqyjx2ei234t0ulwk.jpg" width="792" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
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18) The Doomsday Machine (Star Trek) - Kirk faces the ultimate
weapon, but his real nightmare is an unhinged superior officer taking
command of the Enterprise.</h4>
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<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--PrQc8e6t--/dxfqv664jb9wuqtslorl.jpg" data-chomp-id="dxfqv664jb9wuqtslorl" data-format="jpg" height="530" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--PrQc8e6t--/dxfqv664jb9wuqtslorl.jpg" width="709" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
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17) The Siege of AR-558 (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) - Lots of <em>DS9</em> episodes explored the notion that war is Hell, but this one made it visceral and unforgettable.</h4>
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<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--RH3P2mcw--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/yspdeswr5y4elcxehlot.jpg" data-chomp-id="yspdeswr5y4elcxehlot" data-format="jpg" height="600" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--RH3P2mcw--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/yspdeswr5y4elcxehlot.jpg" width="800" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
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16) Devil in the Dark (Star Trek) - The classic <em>Star Trek</em> scenario: a story in which the "monster" is misunderstood, and ignorant humans are the real danger. </h4>
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<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--9IhcOgmY--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/h5uoe6xuzbzxwch7k8mj.jpg" data-chomp-id="h5uoe6xuzbzxwch7k8mj" data-format="jpg" height="600" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--9IhcOgmY--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/h5uoe6xuzbzxwch7k8mj.jpg" width="800" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
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15) Space Seed (Star Trek) - The only <em>Trek</em> episode to get a movie sequel, this story introduces a suave former dictator who's a perfect foil for Kirk. </h4>
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14) The Corbomite Maneuver (Star Trek) - This episode isn't named
after the villain or the McGuffin, but after Kirk's cunning gambit —
with good reason. Never play poker with Kirk.</h4>
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<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--y2GACbc0--/easj5th2rgegss9uyf8c.jpg" data-chomp-id="easj5th2rgegss9uyf8c" data-format="jpg" height="530" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--y2GACbc0--/easj5th2rgegss9uyf8c.jpg" width="694" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
<h4>
13) Far Beyond The Stars (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) - Sisko
hallucinates he's a pulp science fiction author writing about the
impossible: a black captain named Ben Sisko.</h4>
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<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--sqCaV7SQ--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/humu8dmsqof35bmcrnss.jpg" data-chomp-id="humu8dmsqof35bmcrnss" data-format="jpg" height="600" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--sqCaV7SQ--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/humu8dmsqof35bmcrnss.jpg" width="800" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
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12) Amok Time (Star Trek) - Our first visit to Spock's homeworld
also shows how friendship and cunning are more powerful than mating
rituals and ancient traditions.</h4>
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<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--sci0p5i5--/y9iyjn6fs0fxwicfjtd3.jpg" data-chomp-id="y9iyjn6fs0fxwicfjtd3" data-format="jpg" height="530" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--sci0p5i5--/y9iyjn6fs0fxwicfjtd3.jpg" width="694" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
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11) Chain of Command (Star Trek: The Next Generation) - Picard is
captured by a ruthless Cardassian torturer — and gets pushed to his
limits.</h4>
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<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--q3GLnIdh--/nmbq7ypclktpzznrn56j.jpg" data-chomp-id="nmbq7ypclktpzznrn56j" data-format="jpg" height="468" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--q3GLnIdh--/nmbq7ypclktpzznrn56j.jpg" width="636" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
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<strong>10) Mirror, Mirror (Star Trek) - Meeting alternate
crewmembers, including Bearded Spock, is cool — but the fascinating part
is seeing our heroes try to pretend to be barbarians.</strong></h4>
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<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--6ufZCzTF--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/llflk2bvtuod8dk9onfa.jpg" data-chomp-id="llflk2bvtuod8dk9onfa" data-format="jpg" height="527" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--6ufZCzTF--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/llflk2bvtuod8dk9onfa.jpg" width="800" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
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<strong>9) All Good Things (Star Trek: The Next Generation) - The
best Q story sees Picard tested at three points in his life, with the
whole universe in the balance. </strong></h4>
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<strong>8) The Inner Light (Star Trek: The Next Generation) - Picard
lives a whole life on a doomed planet, and becomes a living memorial,
with just a flute as souvenir.</strong></h4>
<div class="has-media media-medium has-image">
<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--DcoiEBkc--/ndoufckpy0olkaaxlzdy.jpg" data-chomp-id="ndoufckpy0olkaaxlzdy" data-format="jpg" height="486" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--DcoiEBkc--/ndoufckpy0olkaaxlzdy.jpg" width="636" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
<h4>
<strong>7) In the Pale Moonlight (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) - How far will Sisko go to get the Romulans to join the war? All the way.</strong></h4>
<div class="has-media media-medium has-image">
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<strong>6) The Trouble with Tribbles (Star Trek) - The funniest <em>Trek</em>, it also faces Kirk with the most insidious threat: an organism that's born pregnant. </strong></h4>
<div class="has-media media-large has-image">
<span class="js_lightbox-wrapper lightbox-wrapper"><span class="img-border"><img alt="The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!" class="cursor-pointer" data-asset-url="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--f7ajCF3f--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/l3yrc5v59tgdragclojm.jpg" data-chomp-id="l3yrc5v59tgdragclojm" data-format="jpg" height="600" src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--f7ajCF3f--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/l3yrc5v59tgdragclojm.jpg" width="800" /></span><span class="magnifier js_lightbox lightbox"><svg class="svg-icon svg-zoom-in"><use xlink:href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-top-100-star-trek-episodes-of-all-time-1641565699#iconset-zoom-in"></use></svg></span></span></div>
<h4>
<strong>5) Darmok (Star Trek: The Next Generation) - Quibble about
the alien language all you want, this parable of learning to communicate
remains powerful. </strong></h4>
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<h4>
<strong>4) The Visitor (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) - Jake Sisko has
grown old as a famous writer, but he's willing to give it all up to
save his father in the past. Absolutely beautiful.</strong></h4>
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<strong>3) City on the Edge of Forever (Star Trek) - Kirk, Spock and
McCoy visit the 1930s, and Kirk faces an impossible choice that proves
time travel is heart-breaking.</strong></h4>
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<h4>
<strong>2) The Best of Both Worlds (Star Trek: The Next Generation) -
The Borg turn Picard into their mouthpiece, and our heroes nearly lose.</strong></h4>
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<h4>
<strong>1) Balance of Terror (Star Trek) - Kirk's battle of wits
with a Romulan is spellbinding, but so is the exploration of prejudice,
and the idea that noble people fight on both sides.</strong></h4>
Iain's Smashing Good Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12833335717390737670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597335197297114038.post-60248902314286279652016-03-19T21:56:00.002-07:002016-03-19T21:56:19.163-07:00design games for older gamersThe young gamers of today will become the old gamers of tomorrow, and this could be a very real opportunity for the business, says Prof. Bob De Schutter
"There is a need for creating games that can be played by a more physically challenged, aging segment of the population. I have no doubt that the creative designers will respond in time."
That's a quote from the father of video games and Magnavox Odyssey creator Ralph Baer. He understood what many developers in the modern industry have thus far mostly ignored: older people enjoy playing games too. At a GDC talk today, Miami University professor Bob De Schutter discussed the implications of an aging player crowd.
"I'm going to talk about the 65-year-old version of me. He is seriously frustrated with the games that are being marketed," he began. De Schutter explained that older adults will become one of the largest groups among players in the future. As it stands now, the average age of a person playing games is around 35 (according to the ESA) and 27 percent of gamers in the US are currently over 50. Pew Research has found that 40 percent of 50-64 year olds play games, and the ISFE (Interactive Software Federation of Europe) found 27 percent of people between 55-64 play games in Europe. The IGEA (Interactive Games & Entertainment Association) found 51 percent of people between ages 55-64 play games across Australia and New Zealand, and 41 percent of 65-74 year olds. "I would estimate right now about 26 million gamers in the US between 50-64 and 11 million are older than 65," said De Schutter.
Those are already some fairly large numbers and the games industry largely does not cater to their needs. The older people today did not grow up with games, but what happens when the younger people today who did live with games their whole lives enter their golden years? De Schutter said there could be 105 million US gamers over age 50 in the near future. And not all of these people will have the complete abilities to play games the way they used to.
Looking at current data 36 percent of 65-year-olds and up have a disability, any disability. 23 percent have an ambulatory disability, 15 percent have hearing difficulty and 9 percent have vision difficulty. De Schutter pointed to Gameaccessibilityguidelines.com from the IGDA, as a great resource for developers. There's a very real possibility that some older players will want to play but won't be able to use a controller fully or might not even be able to turn on a console without a caregiver's help.
De Schutter stressed the importance of accessibility and content. Far too often today, there's been a focus on brain games or things that are supposed to help seniors, but not only is there no evidence of it helping to prevent cognitive decline, but the games are not that interesting, he said. Ultimately, these games are being sold based on fear of decline, and they're not drawing on older players' other motivations to play. He referenced one 70-year-old who got really, really good at Trackmania and beat De Schutter regularly because he just practiced and practiced. De Schutter said that developers should not get the idea that older players don't like challenge because many do. It's more about accessibility and adjusting interface design (see list of tips below).
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"How would you feel if every game out there stereotyped you. I guess every female gamer in the audience knows what I'm talking about," he said.
De Schutter pointed to research from Quantic Foundry, which examined gamer motivation. The research pointed to people over 50 enjoying games that offer adventure, role playing and intellectual challenge. Baby Boomers like online games as well because they seem to enjoy games that let them escape into another world (which could make VR potentially appealing as well).
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There are actually adult playgrounds for seniors being built around the world. It's human nature for anyone to want to play, and so game developers need to figure out how to keep older players engaged. De Schutter's big focus is looking at Geronto-Aesthetics, which involves six key areas: cultivation (playing games for personal growth), contribution (playing games that give something back to society), connectedness (playing games as a shared experience with cherished people, people you can bond with like grandchildren), compensation (games to replace unavailable activities, e.g. playing Madden to compensate for lack of sports), contemporaneity (games keeping up with the times), and nostalgia (games as a conduit to the past). Adding any or all of these components to games could result in a product that's far more appealing to older adults.
De Schutter broke down the types of older gamers that exist and the reasons that they play, but generally speaking the biggest things he's seen with older gamers is that they enjoy games that are designed for a rich life history, games that utilize crystalized intelligence (not fluid intelligence, which is what most games require), and games that let a person use his/her imagination (graphics are much less important than drawing on personal fantasy).
Importantly, the industry needs to be better with mature content and themes (not mature as in violence rated by the ESRB, but serious subject matter). De Schutter acknowledged that many indies are doing this today, but the industry needs much more and it's the kind of content that should appeal to older people; he cited Papers, Please as a great example.
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Another pro-tip: design for intergenerational play. "Really go for it," he said, "because it's so often that the younger players get the older ones to play in families."
And finally, he noted that there need to be older developers, too. As developers age, if they keep designing games, they'll want to make content for older individuals.Iain's Smashing Good Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12833335717390737670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597335197297114038.post-46138687870525370222016-02-24T19:38:00.002-08:002016-02-24T19:38:41.888-08:00Democrats matrixLast Saturday morning, I went for a nice long run in South Florida and pondered the presidential primary contests. It appears that the GOP is down to three fellas. But it was the Democrat duel that made me think the most. I wondered how Vermont’s Senator Bernie Sanders was causing such an uproar in the Democratic primary. After all, what he is proposing with this “Democratic Socialism” has never found lasting success anywhere in the world, unless you appreciate equality of outcomes.<br /><br />Then it hit me: the message Sanders is delivering reminded me of the 90’s movie “The Matrix.” The basic premise of the film correlates to the governing philosophy of which Sanders promotes. In the film, humans have been overtaken by the “machines” and are being used as energy sources since their prior energy source – the sun – has been lost. The machines create a perfect, computer-generated world for their human batteries to reside in – the Matrix.<br /><br />However, there are humans who have escaped the Matrix and live in the “real world,” where life is imperfect and tough. It is a world all about survival, where they are constantly hunted by the machines. Even within the Matrix, there are agents who police the computer generated world making sure there are no disruptions – they can take on any form.<br /><br />My favorite scene was when the character Morpheus asks the lead character Neo, played by Keanu Reeves, to take a red pill or a blue pill. "You take the blue pill, the story ends,” says Morpheus. “You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes."<br /><br />The idea of progressive socialism is our world’s Matrix. It is a utopian world that promises all that one would desire. It is based upon a belief that one can have as many “free” things as they wish. These “free” things are guaranteed by the “machines” of progressive socialism, who believe they can create this world that does not exist. Just as the Matrix’s machines needed humans plugged in as their energy source, progressive socialists need to collectively drain the energy of individuals to make their schemes work.<br /><br />When one is plugged into the matrix of progressive socialism, you do not exist for yourself. Your energy is usurped for the collective existence of the machines, and in exchange you are rewarded with the fantasy life of the Matrix.<br /><br />Then come along those who have been “unplugged” from the matrix; conservatives who seek to, as Morpheus stated, free other minds. Conservatives come along and confront those plugged in with the seminal question, blue pill or red pill. How very interesting that in American politics that blue is associated with the Democrat party and red with the Republican party. If you take the blue pill you can stay in the fantasy world of the Matrix…but the red pill will free your mind, and you will see how deep the rabbit hole goes. The red pill represents freedom and liberty, allowing the individual to separate from the collective. However, the real world is not one of fantasy and pleasure; it is about survival, working hard, and evading the sentinels – the hunter machines, the liberal progressive media.<br /><br />That is what it is like as the conservative today, and especially a minority conservative. The agents seek to prevent you from freeing more minds from the Matrix. They cannot allow you to educate and inform and have people taking the red pill and escaping their grip.<b><br /></b>Iain's Smashing Good Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12833335717390737670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597335197297114038.post-23056120425057191272016-02-12T06:49:00.000-08:002016-02-28T06:49:19.869-08:00Sony Computer Entertainment headquarters in California now "If it ain't broke, don't fix
it" is a mantra that seemingly holds little meaning at Sony; it's just
decided to undertake the most dramatic reshuffle of its videogame business
since the 1990s right in the midst of stellar sales of its most
successful home console yet. Business units will be rearranged and
merged, organisation trees pruned and spliced, and most dramatically of
all, the PlayStation business' headquarters will shift from Tokyo to
California. News of the changes has, understandably, been mostly
shrouded in that special version of the English language spoken only by
corporate PR people (a dialect uniquely horrible and utterly
meaningless), which has left many of the company's customers and even
its partners wondering exactly what it all means.<br />
In some senses,
this is just tidying up. The separation between Sony Network
Entertainment and Sony Computer Entertainment was a well-intentioned one
at the outset; there was a future vision which imagined that network
services, like the PlayStation Store and PlayStation Now, would
eventually be something much, much larger than the PlayStation console
itself. The idea was that Sony Network Entertainment would end up being a
business unit that worked not only with SCE but with every other aspect
of Sony's business, underwriting the future success of the company as a
whole. That future might still come to pass, but things haven't played
out as originally anticipated, partially because the company's grand
plans for network services have been undermined by the success of rivals
and partially because PlayStation has done far better than expected. As
a consequence, Sony Network Entertainment presently mostly provides
services for PlayStation consoles; it makes perfect sense for it to be
brought together with the PlayStation itself. Optimistically, one can
hope that removing this paper screen in the corporate structure will
also help to fix some of the lingering problems with Sony's network
systems, which are all-too-often an unreliable negative counterpoint to
its otherwise impressive hardware and software.<br />
<br />
<div class="pull-quote left ">
"one
can hope that removing this paper screen in the corporate structure
will also help to fix some of the lingering problems with Sony's network
systems" <br />
</div>
Rather more dramatic is the move from Tokyo to
California - and the rather less widely reported change to the company's
global management structure, which will seemingly see the European, US
and Asian divisions of Sony Interactive Entertainment (the new merged
entity) sharing a single top-level management team. It's not clear
whether this will have any impact on the actual independence of the
regional teams - SCEE and SCEA always had quite a surprising degree of
autonomy - but a structural change like this is usually designed to
reflect an intended outcome, and in this case it's not unreasonable to
expect that the regions will be working more closely together after the
changes take effect.<br />
What of that move to California, though?
Isn't PlayStation, like Sony itself, quite intrinsically a Japanese
brand? Aren't many of the values and qualities of the console and its
software that actually appeal to consumers down to the fact that it's a
Japanese creation? I've seen those arguments and plenty of others shoot
back and forth over the Internet in the days since the announcement; and
I have to confess, I have a little sympathy. In the eras of the
PlayStation and PS2 in particular, the Japanese roots of the consoles
were a major selling point; the systems became a window on to a world
that was fascinatingly different, culturally and creatively, and I don't
think it's unfair to say that much of the subsequent success of
Japanese pop culture overseas owes a debt to the gateway drug of
PlayStation. If the whole thing is now going to be based in California,
is it going to lose that cultural value somehow?<br />
<div class="pull-quote right ">
"
In the eras of the PlayStation and PS2 in particular, the Japanese
roots of the consoles were a major selling point; the systems became a
window on to a world that was fascinatingly different" <br />
</div>
Well,
no; I think fearing that PlayStation's identity will be lost in this
move is a consequence of misunderstanding what PlayStation's identity
has actually been all along. Sure, the Japanese origins of the console
were a big and important part of its DNA, but if anything, the appeal of
PlayStation since the early years has been founded in Sony's
willingness to entrust the keys to the kingdom to its overseas offices.
That exhibited itself in software development - WipEout being a key
title for the first PlayStation is an early example of a tradition that
went on to deliver pillars of support to the platform from overseas
developers, from God of War to Uncharted to Killzone and plenty of
others besides. It went further than that, though; Sony Computer
Entertainment divisions outside Japan were trusted to develop key
technologies and services that would come to define the future of the
platform, and key staff from those overseas divisions became a part of
decision-making processes at Sony in a way that has very rarely, if
ever, been the case at PlayStation's rivals.<br />
That's what leaves
PlayStation in the situation it's in today - with one of the most
impressively multi-national core teams you could hope to put together to
run a platform business. From Sony boss Kaz Hirai on down, top
executives on the PlayStation side of Sony speak fluent English and have
extensive overseas experience; while people like SCE (soon to be SIE)
boss Andrew House and PlayStation architect Mark Cerny have come to the
company from overseas divisions, risen to enormously important positions
and work seemingly seamlessly with the Japanese organisation. That
might not seem like any great shakes in some regards, but in the context
of a Japanese business, it's a big deal; it's indicative of a
willingness on Sony's part to really embrace the idea of being an
international business, not just a Japanese company that does some
business overseas. That's the DNA of PlayStation, more than anything
else, and it seems eminently unlikely that that's going to change with
the move of headquarters to California. It's not like Japan Studio, the
actual source of most of Sony's interesting Japanese titles, is going
anywhere, and if Sony's commitment to Japanese game development wasn't
clear, consider the enormous amount of cash rustled up, upsetting every
damn budget in the company in the process, to ensure Hideo Kojima was on
board after leaving Konami.<br />
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"at the moment only about one in every 18 PS4 units sold is being sold in Japan" <br />
</div>
There
will, of course, be changes; an organisational shift like this is
expensive and messy, and Sony wouldn't be bothering to do it if it
didn't want to see some changes. One can easily guess at one of the
catalysts for the move; the Japanese market is less and less relevant to
the home console business with every passing year, and at the moment
only about one in every 18 PS4 units sold is being sold in Japan. In
contrast, Vita does reasonably well in Japan, but is an irrelevance
everywhere else in the world. It's not hard to see the argument that
putting so much of the decision-making capacity for PlayStation in the
heart of a market that no longer buys home consoles has the potential to
warp perceptions and force errors. The creativity and imagination of
Japanese developers is essential to PlayStation; the country's business
environment and consumer market, by contrast, seems like an active
impediment to Sony's success. Far better to put Sony's videogame
business overseas, where it'll be in the same environment as Sony
Pictures and Sony Music - the media arms of the company with which it
arguably has far more in common than the remaining Japan-based
divisions.<br />
Plenty of analysts are spending plenty of time teasing
out Sony's new structure and organisational chart to try to understand
what will happen to PlayStation in future; the bottom line of what I'm
trying to say here i that we shouldn't expect very much change in the
short to medium term, at least not of the kind that will be remotely
apparent to consumers. The firm may, to some degree, be ignoring
exhortations not to fix what isn't broken; but it will also be keenly
aware that PS4 is a goose that keeps laying golden eggs, and won't be
waving any knives in its vicinity where possible (unlike the ones
presently being brandished at me by the Metaphor Mixing Police). We can
expect no major changes of course for Sony's console strategy in the
next year or two; if there's to be real fall-out from this change, it
will be in planning for the longer term, as the new management team
tackle the question of what PS4's success means for the future of the
once-presumed-dead console business.Iain's Smashing Good Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12833335717390737670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597335197297114038.post-89280086379130784022016-02-09T06:47:00.000-08:002016-02-28T06:47:38.979-08:00anime has a R rating I think people in Japan (and in many other countries including in
Europe, other parts of Asia and even in Central/South America, etc) are
far more open about animation and media.<br />
<br />
Many of the problems seem to be aimed at America and in some ways,
British culture. Where there seems to be these concepts that when you
reach a certain age, you 'throw away childish things' and 'become a
man'. Which can be seen all over, including being perpetuated in many
'cartoons' aimed right at kids as well. The typical story of a boy who
'wants to be a man'. So what does he do? He goes out and throws away all
his toys, straps on some token of 'manhood' (from a sword to a three
piece suit) and goes out and acts like what he thinks a man is.<br />
<br />
We can all remember this stereotype in shows like Hey Arnold!, Rocco's
Modern Life, Fairly OddParents, Spongebob Squarepants, Chowder, Gumball
and heck, even Disney movies. The problem is, while those shows and
movies are obviously parodying the message and pointing out that these
things AREN'T what being a man is all about....many kids actually get
the opposite message. And watch all these cartoons thinking that being a
man IS about throwing away all your toys, going to work, getting
married and ignoring everything about your past.<br />
<br />
Western media as a whole doesn't help. Hollywood is pushing this concept
all the time with commercials, prime time dramas/sit comes, sports,
even political commentaries on CNN and MSNBC are constantly talking
about 'getting our kids off the cartoons and games and into the adult
world', as if these things are evil and we should have never even had
contact with them in the first place. American media is pretty much
assaulting adults with an image that if you want to be an adult, there's
only one option. Throw away everything 'childish' and watch all the
CSI, Survivor and CNN like everyone else. The irony of these types of
things being 'for adults' while something like Spongebob or Batman: TAS
should be obvious, but many don't see it.<br />
<br />
Even things like comic books are still looked down upon. The fact that
they aren't even considered 'acceptable' until they have a live action
remake speaks volumes about how American (and some other western)
audiences view animation and comics vs live action works. A terrible
live action version of Deadpool starring Keanu Reeves would still sell
better in the box office than the absolute best animated Deadpool movie
that could be made. Not based on any objective quality, but simply
because it was live action. And that's the sad state of America's bias
against animation....<br />
<br />
The only exception is 3D animation. But that's honestly because the
studios put hundreds of millions of dollars in advertising behind each
movie. And make the money back in DVD/BD sales. The instant those movies
stop making that money (like 2D did with Pocahontas, Mulan and Titan
AE), studios will stop supporting 3D animation as well.<br />
<br />
I know this sounds like a rant, but I'm seriously feeling like the
American media industry is stagnating and has been getting worse the
last 15 years or so. Endless crime drama clones, reality shows, copying
British concepts and remakes of old movie concepts. And they've even
resorted to copying anime (The Matrix, Speed Racer, Astro Boy, Speed,
Almost Human, etc) while claiming animation and anime is an inferior
medium. I honestly feel like there needs to be a major barrier of
ignorance taken down so the American audience can just know more than
what Hollywood is allowing to be shown to them.
Iain's Smashing Good Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12833335717390737670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597335197297114038.post-13875133252414379652016-02-05T06:57:00.000-08:002016-02-28T06:57:28.622-08:00Voting Many Christians are convinced that being “political,” or even voting, somehow violates their religious faith. They think Christians should be ”in the world, but not of it” abstaining from earthly messes like government and instead keep their eyes on the sky, patiently awaiting Christ’s return that will fix everything. Lucky for us, the Founders, virtually all of whom were Christians steeped in the Bible since school days, never bought that view, or they wouldn’t have started the revolution against King George that gave us our great nation. And we would all be British.
Four times in the Declaration of Independence the Christian God is credited as author of the values and rights on which America was founded and his protection invoked. It is way past time to rise up and revive those values. This election, Christians who are sick and tired of government’s chokehold, sick and tired of God’s man-woman marriage being mocked and branded homophobic, sick and tired of the moral rot in which our society is wallowing, must come out and vote against it.
The only way to stop the relentless zombie march of the God-challenged secularists against believers is by voting for leaders from school board to president who pledge to tirelessly defend the original Christian morals of this country and have actually done so, not merely waved their mom’s Bible from a staged rally.
Everywhere, an all-powerful “culture” and arrogant government are shredding the Bible as well as the Constitution. The immorality that God warns us against rampages across the society from a young woman seen by millions mimicking sex onstage, to the vile woman-hating lyrics of the songs our kids constantly have plugged into their ears, to the celebration of aberrant “marriage” that the Supreme Court declares normal, overturning the will of millions in 30-plus states. After the Supreme Court justices trashed God’s law, the White House--in gleeful party mode--lit up the rainbow colors of the same-sex marriage lobby, deliberately insulting the faithful in this Christian-majority nation.
Humans created by God in his own image are reduced to body parts and a non-profit that pretends to be a woman’s health provider dismembers babies in the womb for profit. And this outrage is funded by we the taxpayers. Television is a slaughterhouse of rape, mutilation, murder and dissection of human beings as if they were so much hamburger. The victims are nearly all women. The most-searched topic on the Internet is pornography which horrifically abuses women, men, and even young children while destroying marriages and families.
“Sex education” starting in grade school is convincing our kids that the same-sex affection so typical in the pre-teen years means they will be homosexuals for life, while gays are really only 3 or 4 percent of the population.
Our citizens are increasingly addicted to drugs and other peoples’ money. Fully half of the population takes government support in the form of housing, food stamps, or other types of welfare. Half of the population also pays no federal income tax. The socialist worldview – taking from those who earn their income by working, and giving to those who don’t – is a page ripped from the fevered Communist brain of Karl Marx who in 1875 decreed, “from each according to his ability; to each according to his need.” Now, after over 140 years of disastrous failures that have killed about 120 million of their own people (Hitler, Stalin, Mao, etc.) this lethal atrocity is being resuscitated like the living dead.
Our nation has always provided the truly needy a generous safety net as it should, but in the last seven years the safety net has morphed into a feather bed. The “social gospel” preached by liberals actually contradicts the real Gospel. The Apostle Paul warned, “… if anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat. For we hear that some among you walk in idleness, not busy at work…such persons we command and encourage in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work quietly and to earn their own living.” 2 Thess. 3:10-12. God knew what great human satisfaction comes from work, and so he gifted us each with talents and abilities so we would find fulfillment using our God-given skills.
But the idea of “income redistribution” in the name of “equality” defies God’s plan for earning our own way. Taking from others is really a government-driven form of stealing, forbidden by the Bible’s Eighth Commandment. Its evil twin, coveting whatever your neighbor has, is banned by the Tenth Commandment yet promoted by this government as class warfare. Our 20 trillion dollar debt is an even more deeply troubling form of theft, stealing from our own children and grandchildren.
This is why the big-government juggernaut is a hugely destructive immoral force that must be defeated. It steals our children’s futures, and even takes possession of our bodies, erasing our freedom to make our own medical decisions. It hunts down Christian dissenters from its perverse orthodoxy, compassionate groups like Little Sisters of the poor, or a Christian cake baker who declines to participate in a same-sex wedding; even pastors who refuse to marry “couples” of identical gender. In these and hundreds of other ways, it denies us as Christians the “free exercise “of our religion promised in the First Amendment.
When evangelical Christians vote, they overwhelmingly vote Republican because the GOP’s freedom ideology is more aligned with their belief system than the Democrats. And those who don’t vote are, by their absence, unwittingly voting for the other side.
It’s been estimated that about four million Christians who had voted for George Bush stayed home in 2014 rather than support Romney. Significantly, according to the Census Bureau, of the 220 million eligible voters (registered and not registered) nearly 60 percent didn’t vote. If even half of those 132 million voted for leaders with Christian values (and 70 to 75 percent of citizens proclaim they’re Christians) that would mean 66 million new Christian voters!
Such an outpouring would dramatically change our wayward nation into one that again reveres and practices the moral principles that God has set for us. Evangelist Franklin Graham, who leads Samaritan’s Purse, the charity helping desperate Christians and non-Christians alike world-wide, says, “If we turn our nation back to God, I believe that God will help us fix the problems that we face.”
Accordingly he is visiting each state with his Decision America prayer rally. “I’m going to every state to challenge Christians to live out their faith at home, in public and at the ballot box – and I will share the Gospel,” he says. “I want the evangelical Christians, the Bible-believing Christians to stand up and vote.”
Although as Christians we know God is in control, our faith can’t be an excuse not to vote. Would our God want us to idly watch as the nation he so favored is demolished, or would he want us to choose leaders who uphold the standards he has put so lovingly in place for us? Iain's Smashing Good Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12833335717390737670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597335197297114038.post-42644235751541017312016-02-04T06:58:00.000-08:002016-02-28T06:58:50.805-08:00Disneyland for adultsMany people of mature years are amazed at how many young people have voted for Senator Bernie Sanders, and are enthusiastic about the socialism he preaches.
Many of those older people have lived long enough to have seen socialism fail, time and again, in countries around the world. Venezuela, with all its rich oil resources, is currently on the verge of economic collapse, after its heady fling with socialism.
But, most of the young have missed all that, and their dumbed-down education is far more likely to present the inspiring rhetoric of socialism than to present its dismal track record.
Socialism is in fact a wonderful vision -- a world of the imagination far better than any place anywhere in the real world, at any time over the thousands of years of recorded history. Even many conservatives would probably prefer to live in such a world, if they thought it was possible.
Who would not want to live in a world where college was free, along with many other things, and where government protected us from the shocks of life and guaranteed our happiness? It would be Disneyland for adults!
Free college of course has an appeal to the young, especially those who have never studied economics. But college cannot possibly be free. It would not be free even if there was no such thing as money.
Consider the costs of just one professor teaching just one course. He or she has probably spent more than 20 years being educated, from kindergarten to the Ph.D., before ending up standing in front of a class and trying to convey some of the knowledge picked up in all those years. That means being fed, clothed and housed all those years, along with other expenses.
All the people who grew the food, manufactured the clothing and built the housing used by this one professor, for at least two decades, had to be compensated for their efforts, or those efforts would not continue. And of course someone has to produce food, clothing and shelter for all the students in this one course, as well as books, computers and other requirements or amenities.
Add up all these costs -- and multiply by a hundred or so -- and you have a rough idea of what going to college costs. Whether these costs are paid by using money in a capitalist economy or by some other mechanism in a feudal economy, a socialist economy, or whatever, there are heavy costs to pay.
Moreover, under any economic system, those costs are either going to be paid or there are not going to be any colleges. Money is just an artificial device for getting real things done.
Those young people who understand this, whether clearly or vaguely, are not likely to be deterred from wanting socialism. Because what they really want is for somebody else to pay for their decision to go to college.
A market economy is one in which whoever makes a decision is the one who pays for that decision. It forces people to be sure that what they want to do is really worth what it is going to cost.
Even the existing subsidies of college have led many people to go to college who have very little interest in, or benefit from, going to college, except for enjoying the social scene while postponing adult responsibilities for a few years.
Whether judging by test results, by number of hours per week devoted to studying or by on-campus interviews, it is clear that today's college students learn a lot less than college students once did. If college becomes "free," even more people can attend college without bothering to become educated and without acquiring re any economically meaningful skills.
More fundamentally, making all sorts of other things "free" means more of those things being wasted as well. Even worse, it means putting more and more of the decisions that shape our lives into the hands of politicians and bureaucrats who control the purse strings.
Obamacare has given us a foretaste of what that means in reality, despite how wonderful it may sound in political rhetoric.
Worst of all, government giveaways polarize society into segments, each trying to get what it wants at somebody else's expense, creating mutual bitterness that can tear a society apart. Some seem to blithely assume that "the rich" can be taxed to pay for what they want -- as if "the rich" don't see what is coming and take their wealth elsewhere. Iain's Smashing Good Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12833335717390737670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597335197297114038.post-80711453646381979622016-01-19T15:52:00.000-08:002016-01-20T15:52:59.993-08:00Voters really like Donald Trump Most Republicans running for president have only one idea: Be like Reagan!
Unfortunately, they seem to remember nothing about Reagan apart from the media-created caricature of a slightly addled old man who somehow mesmerized an imbecilic public with his sunny optimism.
Jeb! goes around saying, "I believe we're on the verge of the greatest time to be alive."
Marco Rubio answered a question in the first debate about God and veterans, saying: "Well, first, let me say I think God has blessed us. He has blessed the Republican Party with some very good candidates. ... And I believe God has blessed our country. This country has been extraordinarily blessed. And we have honored that blessing. And that's why God has continued to bless us."
John Kasich responded to a question at the New Hampshire presidential forum about why he was running, saying: "Well, Jack, look, we're all -- we -- I've received blessings. Most of us here have been very, very blessed, and when you get that way, you have to figure out what your purpose is in life to make the world a little better place."
They all sound like Barney, the purple dinosaur, singing, "I love you, you love me!"
The other problem with the Be Reagan strategy is: It's not 1980 anymore. Reagan's election is as far away today as the defeat of Hitler was then.
Gov. Scott Walker's answer to whether he'd invade Iraq, knowing "what you know today," was: "I'd point out that in the overall issue of foreign policy, I'd say in my lifetime, the most impressive president when it came to foreign policy was a governor from California."
What does that even mean? Is he going to invade Grenada, fund the Contras and put missiles in Western Europe? Back in 1996, when Bob Dole said, "I'm willing to be another Ronald Reagan, if that's what you want," at least people laughed.
When Moammar Gadhafi was under siege in 2011, Rick Santorum said: "Ronald Reagan bombed Libya. If you want to be Reaganesque, the path is clear."
On the other hand, in the quarter century since Reagan bombed Libya, Bush invaded Iraq, prompting Gadhafi to end his WMD program, invite in U.N. weapons inspectors, and pay the families of the Lockerbie bombing victims $8 million apiece.
Nonetheless, "bomb Libya" is exactly what our feckless commander in chief did. Obama sent American troops to participate in the NATO bombing of Libya -- which helped oust Gadhafi, which led to Islamic lunatics running the country, which led to the murder of four Americans, including our ambassador, in 2012, and the refugees flooding Europe today.
Formulaic applications of Reagan's policies from the 1980s don't always work the same way they did in the 1980s. (Similarly, Duran Duran's new single was kind of a dud.) I used "What Would Reagan Do?" as a joke back in 2005; these guys think it's an actual governing philosophy.
When Reagan was running (three and a half decades ago), there was a real fight in the Republican Party over abortion, the Equal Rights Amendment, guns and foreign policy. Reagan had to face down elements in his own party to be pro-life, anti-ERA, pro-gun and to pursue an aggressive anti-Soviet foreign policy.
Reagan won. It's over. The ERA is gone. The Soviet Union is gone. The GOP is unquestionably the party of life and the Second Amendment. (If only fetuses could get their hands on a gun!)
Ever since the hero of 9/11, Rudy Giuliani, couldn't get out of the starting gate in his presidential bid because he was pro-abortion and anti-gun, no serious Republican candidate is ever going to waver on those two issues again.
So why did Marco Rubio find it necessary to stress that he opposed abortion even in cases of rape and incest at the first GOP presidential debate? Did he not live through that whole Todd Akin thing, like the rest of us?
Today, the fight in the Republican Party isn't over abortion, guns or the Sandinistas; the dividing line is immigration. Will we continue to be the United States, or will we become another failed Latin American state?
On this, it's Donald Trump (and the people) vs. everyone else.
Trump announced his presidential campaign by talking about Mexican rapists. Immigration is the only policy paper he's put out so far -- and he's been crushing the polls. He got his one sustained standing ovation from 20,000 cheering fans in Dallas Monday night when he talked about stopping illegal immigration.
But James B. Stewart gasses on in The New York Times about Trump's "namecalling, personal attacks and one-liners that have vaulted him to the top of the polls." In the entire article, Stewart never mentions immigration.
Perhaps some minority of people will vote for Trump because of his personality. But I notice that it's his position on immigration that gets thousands of people leaping to their feet.
The media will talk about anything but Trump's specific, detailed policies on immigration -- all while claiming he doesn't have any "policy details." The very fact that the entire media -- including most of the conservative commentariat -- obdurately refuse to acknowledge the popularity of Trump's immigration plans is exactly why Trump is exploding in the polls.
Trump isn't trying to imitate anyone. He's leading on the seminal issue of our time while the rest of the field practices looking optimistic in front of the mirror. Iain's Smashing Good Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12833335717390737670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597335197297114038.post-78045754729581127262016-01-16T15:53:00.000-08:002016-01-20T15:53:51.559-08:00The establishment is scared of Donald Trump To Republicans who are livid, fearful, anxious and/or unhappy about the prospect of a Donald Trump nomination and a Donald Trump presidency, consider this.
He claims his wealth allows him to self-fund, putting him in a position to downsize and de-corporatize crony government in a way unrivaled in political history. It takes about $1 billion to run -- and win -- the presidency, and fundraising normally occupies much of the candidates' time. To get that kind of money, the average candidate spends time courting and currying favor with "special interests." This means unions, environmentalists, corporate welfare-ists and others give money and, in exchange, expect their interests to be at the very least listened to, if not carried out once in office.
For example, rich, profitable corporations such as Boeing and Royal Dutch Shell have, over the years, received billions of dollars in tax subsidies. Some of the money comes straight from federal grants, with most of the money coming from state and local governments in the form of tax credits or abatements, or for "training" their employees -- something they can and should do with their own darn money. Money-losing boondoggles like Amtrak defy logic, common sense, and Economics 101 by still receiving billions from taxpayers. Government unions and government agencies, just like private corporate interests, grease the palms of politicians.
One of the prime reasons for the housing meltdown was the power and influence of government-sponsored entities like Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, both of which, over the years, gave millions of dollars to the very politicians who supposedly were overseeing them.
Dairy producers are guaranteed a profit through taxpayer giveaways to mostly wealthy producers. A program that began during the Great Depression persisted and grew bigger, disproportionally benefiting wealthy producers and artificially jacking up the price of milk. Same with sugar. We subsidize a handful of wealthy sugar producers, guaranteeing them a profit -- while artificially boosting the wholesale price of sugar in the U.S., making it more than double the average price in the rest of the world.
Ethanol is a completely unnecessary product produced by manufacturers who get taxpayer incentives to continue making the stuff. Because ethanol produced in the U.S. is made from corn, it crowds out land that would otherwise be used for other crops, artificially jacking up their prices, too. And it reduces the corn available for sale as animal feed, increasing the production costs for meat, poultry, dairy and eggs.
Right now, billionaire Sheldon Adelson is reportedly deciding whether to back Marco Rubio or Ted Cruz. In the last election cycle, he gave $15 million to the candidacy of Newt Gingrich. In exchange for his millions, do you think Adelson would expect a President Rubio or a President Cruz to return his calls? Years ago during the so-called Keating Five scandal, a reporter asked banker Charles Keating, a man at the center of the controversy, whether he thought the money he gave politicians bought influence. He replied, "I certainly hope so."
Because of Trump something may finally get done about our borders, "catch and release," sanctuary cities and so-called birthright citizenship. A lot of influential Republican-supporting big businesses -- whose money Trump doesn't need -- want cheap labor. That alone makes his candidacy important.
As to minority voters, one poll -- and it may be an outlier -- last September found that in a hypothetical head-to-head against Hillary Clinton, Trump would get the support of 25 percent of the 100 voters who identified themselves as black -- four times the amount Mitt Romney received. And, despite his "hostility" to Hispanics, the same poll found Trump getting about as much of their support -- 31 percent -- as did Romney.
Yes, Trump takes a lot of dumb, populist positions. His attack on free trade is Bernie Sanders-like. His support for the Supreme Court's Kelo decision, which allows government to take land from a private owner to be used by a different private owner for private, for-profit purposes, is also flat-out wrong. But he spent his career making money, not analyzing policy positions. Advice to Trump's Republican detractors: If he becomes the guy, make him better on substance.
Urge him to hire the best and the brightest. Imagine a Secretary of State John Bolton. Or a Secretary of Defense David Petraeus. Or a secretary of treasury like the American Enterprise Institute economist Stephen Moore.Americans pay $2 trillion a year on regulations, according to Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla. Many of these regulations are completely unnecessary but persist because large corporations want them and make contributions to shape and perpetuate them. While regulations cost money, they also create a barrier to entry by new competitors.
Trump could do something about this merry-go-round. He doesn't need their money to run -- and win.
Republicans should make him a better candidate -- not change his style, which voters find refreshing, entertaining, even endearing, but change his policy positions. Urge him to take more of a policy-principled, low-tax, light-regulation, free-trade stance. Ronald Reagan evolved from a left-wing Hollywood unionist into, well, Ronald Reagan.
So could Trump. Iain's Smashing Good Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12833335717390737670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597335197297114038.post-29053727107756266292016-01-12T15:55:00.000-08:002016-01-20T15:55:48.110-08:00First day-only sales limiting single player videogames The used games market is always a hot topic amongst developers and publishers who don't get a cut of any pre-owned sales. Frontier Development's David Braben argues that the used games business has effectively killed off the single-player focused endeavor, and he believes that not only are used games pushing more games to focus on a multiplayer setting, but he thinks those used games are helping to inflate prices on titles as studios seek ways to recoup lost revenues.
"The real problem when you think about it brutally, if you look at just core gamer games, pre-owned has really killed core games," reflected Braben. "In some cases, it's killed them dead. I know publishers who have stopped games in development because most shops won't reorder stock after initial release, because they rely on the churn from the re-sales."
"It's killing single player games in particular, because they will get pre-owned, and it means your day one sales are it, making them super high risk. I mean, the idea of a game selling out used to be a good thing, but nowadays, those people who buy it on day one may well finish it and return it."
"People will say 'Oh well, I paid all this money and it's mine to do with as I will', but the problem is that's what's keeping the retail price up -- prices would have come down long ago if the industry was getting a share of the resells."
Braben, who has worked on titles like Elite and Kinectimals, is currently facing a crisis on his current title, The Outsider. The game is heavily invested in single player story mechanics, but Braben remains somewhat skeptical of the current development landscape.
"Developers and publishers need that revenue to be able to keep doing high production value games, and so we keep seeing fewer and fewer of them."
If anything, there appear to be signs that some studios are simply, if not begrudgingly, moving to the mobile gaming space, where used-game sales simply do not exist. Braben has acknowledged that his studio is working on new IP specifically for mobile.
Iain's Smashing Good Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12833335717390737670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597335197297114038.post-30749694864380598482016-01-09T19:26:00.002-08:002016-01-09T19:26:18.370-08:00what if Ted cruz may beat donald trumpThese days, people on the Right seem to be polarized: Either they think Donald Trump is a brilliant, unstoppable ball of winning or they believe he’s the classiest, most luxurious demagogue to come along in decades. I have a bit of a different take.
I’ve read and enjoyed Donald Trump’s books, he was nothing but gracious to me when we met, I have friends I like and respect a great deal who work for him and I even used a picture of the two of us together on the Christmas cards I sent out this year.
Moreover, Trump’s willingness to take on issues ignored by the Republican Party, his lack of political correctness and the real genius he has for identifying important issues other candidates aren’t talking about and bringing them to the forefront are nothing short of amazing. Additionally, no one should underestimate a strong leader whose name has been synonymous with business success for over a decade, especially when he’d beat the whole rest of the Democrat and Republican fields combined in the famous, “Who would you want to have a beer with?” test. As I’ve said before, other Republicans can learn a lot from Trump and anyone who can’t see that is a fool.
However, even though I would certainly vote for Trump if he’s the nominee and would also work hard to get him elected, I have two major qualms about him. The first is that I question how conservative he’d be if he gets into office. Given his mixed track record on conservative issues, I doubt if even the most diehard Trump fans would hold that against me, but the bigger problem is that I just don’t think he can win a general election.
There are a number of reasons for that, but the largest one is that Trump couldn’t be financially competitive. That may seem bizarre since we’re talking about a man whose name is synonymous with wealth, but even Donald Trump doesn’t have enough money to self-finance a general election run at the presidency. Keep in mind that Hillary Clinton and the Super Pacs supporting her will spend north of 3 BILLION DOLLARS. On the other hand, if you take away the value of his name, Trump’s net worth is probably somewhere in the 3-4 billion dollar range and most of it is tied up in assets. Ask yourself if Donald Trump is really going to sell Trump Tower, the Trump International Hotel, his golf courses and his other properties at cut rate prices to pour the money into his political campaign. It may not even be possible, but even if it is, do you really think Trump would liquidate most of his fortune to run for President? When you consider that Trump has been so tight-fisted during the primary that he might run the first Presidential campaign ever to turn a profit, it seems very unlikely.
On top of that, keep in mind that Donald Trump has made the fact that he’s self-funding a central part of his messaging. If Trump were to win and change his mind, not only would it hurt him with his core supporters, it probably wouldn’t be all that effective. Trump’s fund raising operation so far has understandably been mediocre and the Super Pacs that were gearing up to support him were asked to stand down. Those Super Pacs were particularly important because there are hard limits on what rich supporters can give to campaigns, but not on what they can give to a Super Pac. Without major help from Super PACs, it’s highly unlikely that Donald Trump could win a general election.
Imagine a campaign where Hillary and her Super Pacs spend more than 3 billion dollars and Trump barely manages to stockpile 500 million in his war chest. In every swing state, Hillary would have a better get out the vote operation, better staffing and she would be able to blanket the airwaves with her ads while Trump couldn’t compete. In a race like that, Hillary could win in a walk EVEN IF she goes to prison over her email server.
Getting beyond the money issue, most people would agree that Trump has done so well because he’s been dominant when it comes to attracting earned media. However, a big part of Trump’s success in that area has been as a result of relatively friendly blanket coverage from conservative radio hosts and online media. In a general election, those outlets will be much smaller factors and they definitely wouldn’t be capable of delivering the election to Trump.
Of course, Trump has also gotten plenty of attention from the mainstream media as well, but do you really think the MSM liberals will allow themselves to be used to beat Hillary in 2016? Sure, they’re happy to run “Can you believe he said this?” stories about Trump now when they think he’s causing problems for Republicans, but if he becomes the nominee, every story about Trump will be a straight-up hit piece. If even that doesn’t work, they’ll just find some excuse to stop covering him altogether if that’s what it takes to beat him. This is why it’s so important for a Republican to have a huge war chest because you NEVER get a fair shake from the MSM. Even the Left’s favorite Republican, John McCain, was savaged by the press when he ran for President. In fact, any Republican who hopes to win a general election by getting his message out to the voters through ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, the Washington Post, New York Times, etc. isdoomed before he starts. Unfortunately, that’s the difficult position Donald Trump would be in during a general election campaign.
On top of all that, you have to look at Trump’s demographic strengths and weaknesses. Trump does extremely well with blue collar workers and men with high school degrees. There are also some indications that he is particularly attractive to people who normally don’t vote, but those voters are by their very nature tough to count on in an election. Trump might also do better than Republicans generally do with black men. However, beyond that, almost every indicator is negative. Trump does poorly with women, he will guarantee a huge Hispanic turnout for the Democrats and given the rabid hatred for him in some quarters of the Republican Party, it seems likely he’ll bleed even more GOP support than he would bring in from the Democrats.
Furthermore, although approval numbers don’t generally mean a lot this early in the game, they are relevant when someone is as well-known as Trump. Right now, Trump has a 34% favorable rating and a 57% unfavorable rating. Candidates don’t win races with numbers that bad and since Trump is already a known quantity, it’s going to be EXTREMELY difficult to get his numbers up. Fairly or unfairly, when people know enough about you to form an opinion and have already decided they don’t like you, it’s very hard to change their minds.
Last but not least, Trump may be the single most gaffe-prone candidate in history, primarily because no other candidate could survive saying even a fraction of the off-the-wall things that he does. It just goes on and on. McCain’s not a war hero because he was captured, blood coming out of her “whatever,” “schlonged,” saying we should shut down part of the Internet, calling for killing the relatives of terrorists, "How stupid are the people of Iowa?,” incorrectly claiming a group of black pastors was showing up to endorse him when it wasn’t, having his spokesman express a desire to use nukes on TV, a gazillion tweets calling people “losers” for saying something he didn’t like – and probably a half dozen other now forgotten mistakes or goofs with a larger point (No, “thousands” of Muslims in New Jersey didn’t cheer 911 and, yes, Trump could have discussed Mexican criminals coming over the border without offending people if he’d used better language). As someone who writes about politics for a living, Trump is extremely entertaining, but most Americans want a sober and serious President, not someone who’s “fun” because he might say the Pope got “schlonged” or Angela Merkel has blood coming out of her “whatever.” I do think Donald Trump is qualified to be President, but he’s not “presidential” and you can be certain that if he’s the nominee, there would be many, many more gaffes before the election in November.
Just to reiterate, not only do I like and respect Donald Trump, but if he does turn out to be our nominee, I will support him all the way and hope he proves this column wrong. That being said, Hillary is VERY beatable, she’s essentially promising to go EVEN FURTHER than Obama and I fear for the future of this country if we throw away this opportunity. I think Cruz would beat her handily, Christie could probably pull it off and, God help us all, maybe even Rubio would defeat Hillary Clinton. Since I don’t think Donald Trump can get the job done, regrettably I cannot support him in the primary. Iain's Smashing Good Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12833335717390737670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597335197297114038.post-63718946087245124872015-12-25T10:13:00.000-08:002015-12-27T10:14:01.758-08:00merry christmas<a href="http://s1090.photobucket.com/user/fb22strikeraptor/media/12079262_10153794840762481_5518153709523968470_n.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img alt=" photo 12079262_10153794840762481_5518153709523968470_n.jpg" border="0" src="http://i1090.photobucket.com/albums/i377/fb22strikeraptor/12079262_10153794840762481_5518153709523968470_n.jpg" /></a><br />
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I believe that the ELCA churches are out of touch with multiculturalism.Iain's Smashing Good Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12833335717390737670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597335197297114038.post-9848603719191580352015-12-12T16:09:00.001-08:002015-12-12T16:13:53.771-08:00600 movies you should see before you die1 The Godfather 9.2 1972 <br />2 The Godfather: Part II 9 1974 <br />3 The Godfather: Part III 7.6 1990 <br />4 Scarface 8.3 1983 <br />5 Carlito's Way 7.9 1993 <br />6 The Shawshank Redemption 9.3 1994 <br />7 Se7en 8.6 1995 <br />8 A Clockwork Orange 8.4 1971 <br />9 Mr. Nobody 7.9 2009 <br />10 12 Angry Men 8.9 1957 <br />11 Casablanca 8.6 1942 <br />12 Dog Day Afternoon 8.1 1975 <br />13 Jaws 8.1 1975 <br />14 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 8.7 1975 <br />15 Network 8.1 1976 <br />16 Taxi Driver 8.4 1976 <br />17 Rocky 8.1 1976 <br />18 Star Wars 8.7 1977 <br />19 Apocalypse Now 8.5 1979 <br />20 Manhattan 8 1979 <br />21 Mad Max 7 1979 <br />22 Kramer vs. Kramer 7.8 1979 <br />23 Alien 8.5 1979 <br />24 Raging Bull 8.3 1980 <br />25 Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back 8.8 1980 <br />26 The Shining 8.4 1980 <br />27 Raiders of the Lost Ark 8.5 1981 <br />28 Gandhi 8.1 1982 <br />29 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 7.9 1982 <br />30 The Thing 8.2 1982 <br />31 Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi 8.4 1983 <br />32 The Terminator 8.1 1984 <br />33 Amadeus 8.3 1984 <br />34 The Quiet Earth 6.9 1985 <br />35 The Color Purple 7.8 1985 <br />36 Brazil 8 1985 <br />37 City of God 8.7 2002 <br />38 The Untouchables 8 1987 <br />39 Die Hard 8.2 1988 <br />40 Rain Man 8 1988 <br />41 The Vanishing 7.8 1988 <br />42 Batman 7.6 1989 <br />43 Edward Scissorhands 8 1990 <br />44 Goodfellas 8.7 1990 <br />45 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 8.5 1991 <br />46 The Silence of the Lambs 8.6 1991 <br />47 Unforgiven 8.3 1992 <br />48 Reservoir Dogs 8.4 1992 <br />49 Schindler's List 8.9 1993 <br />50 Jurassic Park 8.1 1993 <br />51 Philadelphia 7.7 1993 <br />52 Satantango 8.6 1994 <br />53 Pulp Fiction 8.9 1994 <br />54 Forrest Gump 8.8 1994 <br />55 The Lion King 8.5 1994 <br />56 Four Weddings and a Funeral 7.1 1994 <br />57 Natural Born Killers 7.3 1994 <br />58 Casino 8.2 1995 <br />59 Toy Story 8.3 1995 <br />60 Heat 8.3 1995 <br />61 Scream 7.2 1996 <br />62 Trainspotting 8.2 1996 <br />63 Independence Day 6.9 1996 <br />64 Buffalo '66 7.5 1998 <br />65 Saving Private Ryan 8.6 1998 <br />66 American Beauty 8.4 1999 <br />67 The Matrix 8.7 1999 <br />68 The Sixth Sense 8.2 1999 <br />69 Fight Club 8.9 1999 <br />70 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 7.9 2000 <br />71 Memento 8.5 2000 <br />72 Requiem for a Dream 8.4 2000 <br />73 Gladiator 8.5 2000 <br />74 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 8.8 2001 <br />75 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 8.7 2002 <br />76 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 8.9 2003 <br />77 The Pianist 8.5 2002 <br />78 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 8.1 2003 <br />79 Kill Bill: Vol. 2 8 2004 <br />80 Pan's Labyrinth 8.2 2006 <br />81 The Departed 8.5 2006 <br />82 Little Miss Sunshine 7.9 2006 <br />83 No Country for Old Men 8.1 2007 <br />84 The Dark Knight 9 2008 <br />85 Slumdog Millionaire 8 2008 <br />86 The Hangover 7.8 2009 <br />87 The Hangover Part II 6.5 2011 <br />88 Due Date 6.6 2010 <br />89 Avatar 7.9 2009 <br />90 Inglourious Basterds 8.3 2009 <br />91 Black Swan 8 2010 <br />92 The Social Network 7.8 2010 <br />93 Inception 8.8 2010 <br />94 The King's Speech 8.1 2010 <br />95 The Artist 8 2011 <br />96 Hugo 7.6 2011 <br />97 The Descendants 7.3 2011 <br />98 The Help 8.1 2011 <br />99 Machine Gun Preacher 6.8 2011 <br />100 The Flowers of War 7.6 2011 <br />101 Men in Black 7.3 1997 <br />102 Men in Black II 6.1 2002 <br />103 Yes Man 6.8 2008 <br />104 Cinderella Man 8 2005 <br />105 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 7.7 1998 <br />106 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 7.4 2007 <br />107 The Rum Diary 6.2 2011 <br />108 Alice in Wonderland 6.5 2010 <br />109 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 8.1 2003 <br />110 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest 7.3 2006 <br />111 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End 7.1 2007 <br />112 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides 6.7 2011 <br />113 Rango 7.3 2011 <br />114 Monsters, Inc. 8.1 2001 <br />115 The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus 6.9 2009 <br />116 Corpse Bride 7.4 2005 <br />117 Once Upon a Time in Mexico 6.4 2003 <br />118 Blow 7.6 2001 <br />119 The Ninth Gate 6.7 1999 <br />120 Arizona Dream 7.4 1992 <br />121 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 6.7 2005 <br />122 Anonymous 6.9 2011 <br />123 About Schmidt 7.2 2002 <br />124 The Way Back 7.3 2010 <br />125 The Good Shepherd 6.7 2006 <br />126 Curse of the Golden Flower 7 2006 <br />127 Ip Man 8.1 2008 <br />128 Insidious 6.8 2010 <br />129 The Woman in Black 6.4 2012 <br />130 Tilt 7.6 2011 <br />131 The Milk of Sorrow 6.7 2009 <br />132 RRRrrrr!!! 5.7 2004 <br />133 Game of Thrones 9.5 2011 <br />134 High Plains Drifter 7.6 1973 <br />135 RRRrrrr!!! 5.7 2004 <br />136 Ice Age 7.6 2002 <br />137 Ice Age: The Meltdown 6.9 2006 <br />138 Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs 7 2009 <br />139 Cars 7.2 2006 <br />140 Happy Feet 6.5 2006 <br />141 WALL·E 8.4 2008 <br />142 Kung Fu Panda 7.6 2008 <br />143 Julia's Eyes 6.6 2010 <br />144 Hellboy 6.8 2004 <br />145 Hellboy II: The Golden Army 7 2008 <br />146 The Devil's Backbone 7.5 2001 <br />147 Biutiful 7.5 2010 <br />148 Puss in Boots 6.7 2011 <br />149 Megamind 7.3 2010 <br />150 Monster's Ball 7.1 2001 <br />151 The Green Mile 8.5 1999 <br />152 Life Is Beautiful 8.6 1997 <br />153 The Skin I Live In 7.6 2011 <br />154 Starry Starry Night 6.9 2011 <br />155 A Beautiful Mind 8.2 2001 <br />156 Training Day 7.7 2001 <br />157 I Am Sam 7.6 2001 <br />158 I Am Legend 7.2 2007 <br />159 Ali 6.8 2001 <br />160 Ray 7.8 2004 <br />161 No Man's Land 8 2001 <br />162 Amélie 8.4 2001 <br />163 Gangs of New York 7.5 2002 <br />164 Chicago 7.2 2002 <br />165 Adaptation. 7.7 2002 <br />166 Talk to Her 8 2002 <br />167 The Mask of Zorro 6.7 1998 <br />168 Machete 6.7 2010 <br />169 The Aviator 7.5 2004 <br />170 Million Dollar Baby 8.1 2004 <br />171 Finding Neverland 7.8 2004 <br />172 3:10 to Yuma 7.8 2007 <br />173 Sideways 7.6 2004 <br />174 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 7.4 2003 <br />175 Hotel Rwanda 8.1 2004 <br />176 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 8.4 2004 <br />177 The Passion of the Christ 7.1 2004 <br />178 The Incredibles 8 2004 <br />179 Shrek 7.9 2001 <br />180 The Sea Inside 8.1 2004 <br />181 8 Mile 7 2002 <br />182 Shrek 2 7.2 2004 <br />183 Shrek the Third 6.1 2007 <br />184 Shrek Forever After 6.4 2010 <br />185 Munich 7.6 2005 <br />186 Hustle & Flow 7.4 2005 <br />187 Capote 7.4 2005 <br />188 Crash 7.9 2004 <br />189 American History X 8.6 1998 <br />190 Syriana 7 2005 <br />191 Babel 7.5 2006 <br />192 Letters from Iwo Jima 7.9 2006 <br />193 The Last King of Scotland 7.7 2006 <br />194 Blood Diamond 8 2006 <br />195 The Pursuit of Happyness 7.9 2006 <br />196 Seven Pounds 7.7 2008 <br />197 The Lives of Others 8.5 2006 <br />198 Children of Men 7.9 2006 <br />199 The Tree of Life 6.7 2011 <br />200 The Bodyguard 6.1 1992 <br />201 Deja Vu 7 2006 <br />202 Pathfinder 5.4 2007 <br />203 The 13th Warrior 6.6 1999 <br />204 Letter to America 7.4 2001 <br />205 Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close 6.9 2011 <br />206 Beauty and the Beast 8 1991 <br />207 The Transporter 6.8 2002 <br />208 Léon: The Professional 8.6 1994 <br />209 We Need to Talk About Kevin 7.5 2011 <br />210 Three... Extremes 7.1 2004 <br />211 J. Edgar 6.6 2011 <br />212 Shutter Island 8.1 2010 <br />213 Superbad 7.6 2007 <br />214 Forgetting Sarah Marshall 7.2 2008 <br />215 Despicable Me 7.7 2010 <br />216 Up 8.3 2009 <br />217 Any Given Sunday 6.8 1999 <br />218 Mirrors 6.2 2008 <br />219 The Adventures of Tintin 7.4 2011 <br />220 Lord of War 7.6 2005 <br />221 Knowing 6.2 2009 <br />222 National Treasure 6.9 2004 <br />223 Grindhouse 7.6 2007 <br />224 Death Proof 7.1 2007 <br />225 Planet Terror 7.2 2007 <br />226 8MM 6.5 1999 <br />227 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 7.5 2001 <br />228 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 7.4 2002 <br />229 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 7.8 2004 <br />230 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 7.6 2005 <br />231 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 7.5 2007 <br />232 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 7.5 2009 <br />233 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 7.7 2010 <br />234 American Psycho 7.6 2000 <br />235 The Prestige 8.5 2006 <br />236 Batman Begins 8.3 2005 <br />237 The Fighter 7.9 2010 <br />238 The Machinist 7.7 2004 <br />239 It's Kind of a Funny Story 7.2 2010 <br />240 Where the Wild Things Are 6.8 2009 <br />241 Eastern Plays 7.3 2009 <br />242 In Bruges 8 2008 <br />243 Sherlock Holmes 7.6 2009 <br />244 Ratatouille 8 2007 <br />245 How to Train Your Dragon 8.2 2010 <br />246 The Wrestler 7.9 2008 <br />247 Moneyball 7.6 2011 <br />248 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 7.6 2007 <br />249 Ocean's Eleven 7.8 2001 <br />250 Snatch. 8.3 2000 <br />251 Seven Years in Tibet 7 1997 <br />252 Sleepers 7.5 1996 <br />253 Legends of the Fall 7.5 1994 <br />254 You Don't Mess with the Zohan 5.5 2008 <br />255 Big Daddy 6.4 1999 <br />256 Click 6.4 2006 <br />257 Johnny English 6.1 2003 <br />258 The Number 23 6.4 2007 <br />259 The Truman Show 8.1 1998 <br />260 Ace Ventura: Pet Detective 6.9 1994 <br />261 Horton Hears a Who! 6.9 2008 <br />262 Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events 6.8 2004 <br />263 Me, Myself & Irene 6.5 2000 <br />264 How the Grinch Stole Christmas 6 2000 <br />265 Transformers 7.1 2007 <br />266 Above the Rim 6.6 1994 <br />267 He Got Game 6.9 1998 <br />268 Coach Carter 7.2 2005 <br />269 Remember the Titans 7.8 2000 <br />270 Glory Road 7.2 2006 <br />271 American Gangster 7.8 2007 <br />272 American Pie 7 1999 <br />273 American Pie 2 6.4 2001 <br />274 Analyze This 6.7 1999 <br />275 American Wedding 6.3 2003 <br />276 Old School 7.2 2003 <br />277 Analyze That 5.9 2002 <br />278 Stranger Than Fiction 7.6 2006 <br />279 Blades of Glory 6.3 2007 <br />280 Semi-Pro 5.8 2008 <br />281 Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy 7.2 2004 <br />282 The Other Guys 6.6 2010 <br />283 Everything Must Go 6.4 2010 <br />284 Angel Heart 7.3 1987 <br />285 The Da Vinci Code 6.5 2006 <br />286 ...And Justice for All. 7.4 1979 <br />287 Angels & Demons 6.7 2009 <br />288 Catch Me If You Can 8 2002 <br />289 The Terminal 7.3 2004 <br />290 Charlie Wilson's War 7.1 2007 <br />291 Cast Away 7.7 2000 <br />292 Road to Perdition 7.7 2002 <br />293 You've Got Mail 6.5 1998 <br />294 The Ladykillers 6.2 2004 <br />295 Get Him to the Greek 6.4 2010 <br />296 The Road 7.3 2009 <br />297 Arthur 5.8 2011 <br />298 As Good as It Gets 7.8 1997 <br />299 The Bucket List 7.4 2007 <br />300 The Pledge 6.9 2001 <br />301 Mars Attacks! 6.3 1996 <br />302 A Few Good Men 7.6 1992 <br />303 Ironweed 6.8 1987 <br />304 Broadcast News 7.2 1987 <br />305 Reds 7.5 1981 <br />306 The Postman Always Rings Twice 6.6 1981 <br />307 Bad Boys II 6.5 2003 <br />308 Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me 6.6 1999 <br />309 Austin Powers in Goldmember 6.2 2002 <br />310 Bad Company 5.6 2002 <br />311 The Basketball Diaries 7.3 1995 <br />312 The Beach 6.6 2000 <br />313 Being John Malkovich 7.8 1999 <br />314 Beowulf 6.3 2007 <br />315 A.I. Artificial Intelligence 7.1 2001 <br />316 Hot Fuzz 7.9 2007 <br />317 Blade 7.1 1998 <br />318 Blade II 6.7 2002 <br />319 Blade: Trinity 5.9 2004 <br />320 Body of Lies 7.1 2008 <br />321 Braveheart 8.4 1995 <br />322 A Bronx Tale 7.8 1993 <br />323 Cashback 7.2 2006 <br />324 The Cell 6.3 2000 <br />325 Changeling 7.8 2008 <br />326 Inside Man 7.6 2006 <br />327 The Bank Job 7.3 2008 <br />328 Burn After Reading 7 2008 <br />329 Pitch Black 7.1 2000 <br />330 The Chronicles of Riddick 6.7 2004 <br />331 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 6.9 2005 <br />332 King of California 6.7 2007 <br />333 The City of Lost Children 7.7 1995 <br />334 The City of Lost Children 7.7 1995 <br />335 Constantine 6.9 2005 <br />336 The Core 5.4 2003 <br />337 P.S. I Love You 7.1 2007 <br />338 The Crow 7.6 1994 <br />339 Cube 7.3 1997 <br />340 Dawn of the Dead 7.4 2004 <br />341 Resident Evil 6.7 2002 <br />342 Resident Evil: Apocalypse 6.2 2004 <br />343 Resident Evil: Extinction 6.3 2007 <br />344 The Day After Tomorrow 6.4 2004 <br />345 Demolition Man 6.6 1993 <br />346 Desperado 7.2 1995 <br />347 The Devil's Advocate 7.5 1997 <br />348 Die Hard 2 7.1 1990 <br />349 Die Hard: With a Vengeance 7.6 1995 <br />350 First Blood 7.7 1982 <br />351 Rambo: First Blood Part II 6.4 1985 <br />352 Rambo III 5.7 1988 <br />353 Rambo 7.1 2008 <br />354 Dogville 8.1 2003 <br />355 Donnie Darko 8.1 2001 <br />356 Downfall 8.3 2004 <br />357 Dracula 7.5 1992 <br />358 Drive 7.8 2011 <br />359 The Experiment 6.4 2010 <br />360 Eyes Wide Shut 7.3 1999 <br />361 The Fifth Element 7.7 1997 <br />362 Finding Forrester 7.3 2000 <br />363 Gattaca 7.8 1997 <br />364 The Fountain 7.3 2006 <br />365 The Gods Must Be Crazy 7.3 1980 <br />366 Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles 7.6 1994 <br />367 The Invasion 5.9 2007 <br />368 Kung Fu Hustle 7.8 2004 <br />369 The Longest Yard 6.4 2005 <br />370 Paranormal Activity 6.3 2007 <br />371 Paranormal Activity 2 5.7 2010 <br />372 Paranormal Activity 3 5.9 2011 <br />373 Saw 7.7 2004 <br />374 Saw II 6.6 2005 <br />375 Saw III 6.2 2006 <br />376 Saw IV 5.9 2007 <br />377 Saw V 5.8 2008 <br />378 Saw 3D: The Final Chapter 5.6 2010 <br />379 Scary Movie 6.2 2000 <br />380 Scary Movie 2 5.2 2001 <br />381 Scary Movie 3 5.4 2003 <br />382 Scary Movie 4 5.1 2006 <br />383 Red Dragon 7.2 2002 <br />384 Hannibal 6.7 2001 <br />385 Hannibal Rising 6.2 2007 <br />386 X-Men 7.4 2000 <br />387 X2 7.5 2003 <br />388 X-Men: The Last Stand 6.8 2006 <br />389 X-Men: First Class 7.8 2011 <br />390 From Hell 6.8 2001 <br />391 In Time 6.7 2011 <br />392 The Game 7.8 1997 <br />393 Ghost Rider 5.2 2007 <br />394 Good Will Hunting 8.3 1997 <br />395 Ju-on: The Grudge 6.7 2002 <br />396 Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle 7.2 2004 <br />397 Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay 6.7 2008 <br />398 A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas 6.3 2011 <br />399 Hide and Seek 5.9 2005 <br />400 Home Alone 7.4 1990 <br />401 Home Alone 2: Lost in New York 6.6 1992 <br />402 House of Wax 5.3 2005 <br />403 Repo Men 6.3 2010 <br />404 Street Kings 6.8 2008 <br />405 Vantage Point 6.6 2008 <br />406 A Little Trip to Heaven 6 2005 <br />407 Panic Room 6.8 2002 <br />408 The Illusionist 7.6 2006 <br />409 Into the Wild 8.2 2007 <br />410 Invictus 7.4 2009 <br />411 RED 7.1 2010 <br />412 Wanted 6.7 2008 <br />413 Lucky Number Slevin 7.8 2006 <br />414 The Island 6.9 2005 <br />415 Jumanji 6.9 1995 <br />416 King Kong 7.3 2005 <br />417 Knocked Up 7 2007 <br />418 Law Abiding Citizen 7.4 2009 <br />419 Limitless 7.4 2011 <br />420 Man on Fire 7.7 2004 <br />421 The Book of Eli 6.9 2010 <br />422 The Great Debaters 7.6 2007 <br />423 Mystic River 8 2003 <br />424 The Next Three Days 7.4 2010 <br />425 The Others 7.6 2001 <br />426 Paul 7 2011 <br />427 Phone Booth 7.1 2002 <br />428 Psycho 8.5 1960 <br />429 Psycho 4.6 1998 <br />430 Sphere 6 1998 <br />431 Ruby & Quentin 7.1 2003 <br />432 Signs 6.7 2002 <br />433 Sin City 8.1 2005 <br />434 Thank You for Smoking 7.6 2005 <br />435 Troy 7.2 2004 <br />436 V for Vendetta 8.2 2005 <br />437 Watchmen 7.6 2009 <br />438 War of the Worlds 6.5 2005 <br />439 Dorian Gray 6.3 2009 <br />440 Memoirs of a Geisha 7.3 2005 <br />441 Hitch 6.7 2005 <br />442 I, Robot 7.1 2004 <br />443 Enemy of the State 7.3 1998 <br />444 Anna and the King 6.7 1999 <br />445 The Golden Compass 6.1 2007 <br />446 War Horse 7.2 2011 <br />447 Unbreakable 7.2 2000 <br />448 Home Alone 2: Lost in New York 6.6 1992 <br />449 Good Will Hunting 8.3 1997 <br />450 Hide and Seek 5.9 2005 <br />451 Repo Men 6.3 2010 <br />452 Street Kings 6.8 2008 <br />453 Vantage Point 6.6 2008 <br />454 A Little Trip to Heaven 6 2005 <br />455 Panic Room 6.8 2002 <br />456 The Illusionist 7.6 2006 <br />457 Into the Wild 8.2 2007 <br />458 Invictus 7.4 2009 <br />459 RED 7.1 2010 <br />460 Wanted 6.7 2008 <br />461 The Island 6.9 2005 <br />462 King Kong 7.3 2005 <br />463 Knocked Up 7 2007 <br />464 Law Abiding Citizen 7.4 2009 <br />465 Limitless 7.4 2011 <br />466 Man on Fire 7.7 2004 <br />467 The Book of Eli 6.9 2010 <br />468 The Great Debaters 7.6 2007 <br />469 Mystic River 8 2003 <br />470 The Next Three Days 7.4 2010 <br />471 The Others 7.6 2001 <br />472 Paul 7 2011 <br />473 Phone Booth 7.1 2002 <br />474 Psycho 8.5 1960 <br />475 Melancholia 7.1 2011 <br />476 Perfume: The Story of a Murderer 7.5 2006 <br />477 The Mist 7.2 2007 <br />478 Blade Runner 8.2 1982 <br />479 Dark Shadows 6.2 2012 <br />480 West Side Story 7.6 1961 <br />481 A Time to Kill 7.4 1996 <br />482 The Good German 6.1 2006 <br />483 The Usual Suspects 8.6 1995 <br />484 Green Street Hooligans 7.5 2005 <br />485 Tango & Cash 6.3 1989 <br />486 Stargate 7 1994 <br />487 Tombstone 7.8 1993 <br />488 Detachment 7.7 2011 <br />489 Ocean's Twelve 6.4 2004 <br />490 Ocean's Thirteen 6.9 2007 <br />491 Meet Joe Black 7.1 1998 <br />492 The Butterfly Effect 7.7 2004 <br />493 Titanic 7.7 1997 <br />494 Gridiron Gang 6.9 2006 <br />495 Platoon 8.1 1986 <br />496 Armageddon 6.6 1998 <br />497 The Greatest Game Ever Played 7.5 2005 <br />498 To End All Wars 7.1 2001 <br />499 Goin' South 6.3 1978 <br />500 Bullet 6.5 1996 <br />501 Gridlock'd 7 1997 <br />502 Poetic Justice 5.8 1993 <br />503 How High 6.2 2001 <br />504 Black Irish 7.1 2007 <br />505 Grizzly Man 7.8 2005 <br />506 California Dreamin' 7.9 2007 <br />507 Big 7.3 1988 <br />508 Open Range 7.5 2003 <br />509 The Count of Monte Cristo 7.7 2002 <br />510 Les Misérables 7.5 1998 <br />511 Midnight Express 7.7 1978 <br />512 Madame Butterfly 6.9 1995 <br />513 The Golden Child 5.9 1986 <br />514 Even the Rain 7.4 2010 <br />515 Toys in the Attic 6.2 2009 <br />516 The Last Tycoon 6.4 1976 <br />517 Grumpier Old Men 6.6 1995 <br />518 Prince of the City 7.7 1981 <br />519 When Father Was Away on Business 7.9 1985 <br />520 Instinct 6.5 1999 <br />521 The Kid with a Bike 7.4 2011 <br />522 The Great Dictator 8.5 1940 <br />523 Hair 7.6 1979 <br />524 White Chicks 5.4 2004 <br />525 Good Morning, Vietnam 7.3 1987 <br />526 Dreamcatcher 5.5 2003 <br />527 Devils on the Doorstep 8.3 2000 <br />528 Money Talks 6.1 1997 <br />529 The Money Pit 6.2 1986 <br />530 The Raid: Redemption 7.6 2011 <br />531 Neds 7 2010 <br />532 Tyrannosaur 7.6 2011 <br />533 The Ides of March 7.1 2011 <br />534 Incendies 8.2 2010 <br />535 Precious 7.4 2009 <br />536 You, the Living 7.5 2007 <br />537 The Day of the Jackal 7.8 1973 <br />538 October Sky 7.8 1999 <br />539 A Dangerous Method 6.5 2011 <br />540 The Lorax 6.5 2012 <br />541 Ink 7 2009 <br />542 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead 7.3 2007 <br />543 There Will Be Blood 8.1 2007 <br />544 Matchstick Men 7.3 2003 <br />545 Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels 8.2 1998 <br />546 Fantastic Mr. Fox 7.8 2009 <br />547 Big Fish 8 2003 <br />548 Coraline 7.7 2009 <br />549 The Nightmare Before Christmas 8 1993 <br />550 Take Shelter 7.4 2011 <br />551 Total Recall 7.5 1990 <br />552 Headhunters 7.6 2011 <br />553 Le Havre 7.2 2011 <br />554 Live Flesh 7.5 1997 <br />555 Polytechnique 7.2 2009 <br />556 Songs from the Second Floor 7.7 2000 <br />557 Water for Elephants 6.9 2011 <br />558 National Lampoon's Vacation 7.4 1983 <br />559 My Joy 6.9 2010 <br />560 A Separation 8.4 2011 <br />561 Trick 'r Treat 6.8 2007 <br />562 La Haine 8.1 1995 <br />563 The Frighteners 7.2 1996 <br />564 The Raven 6.4 2012 <br />565 Death Sentence 6.8 2007 <br />566 Confessions 7.9 2010 <br />567 The Sacrifice 8.2 1986 <br />568 A City of Sadness 8.1 1989 <br />569 Agora 7.2 2009 <br />570 The Sunset Limited 7.4 2011 <br />571 Venus 7.1 2006 <br />572 Stalker 8.2 1979 <br />573 2001: A Space Odyssey 8.3 1968 <br />574 Planet of the Apes 8 1968 <br />575 Madagascar 6.9 2005 <br />576 Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa 6.7 2008 <br />577 Bee Movie 6.2 2007 <br />578 Over the Hedge 6.8 2006 <br />579 The Curse of the Were-Rabbit 7.5 2005 <br />580 The Dark Knight Rises 8.5 2012 <br />581 Monsieur Lazhar 7.5 2011 <br />582 Dream House 5.9 2011 <br />583 The Orphanage 7.5 2007 <br />584 Cross of Iron 7.5 1977 <br />585 Dark City 7.7 1998 <br />586 The Sweet Hereafter 7.7 1997 <br />587 The Necessities of Life 7.5 2008 <br />588 Twin Falls Idaho 7.3 1999 <br />589 The Brave 6.5 1997 <br />590 Jeff, Who Lives at Home 6.5 2011 <br />591 The Dictator 6.4 2012 <br />592 Café de Flore 7.4 2011 <br />593 American Reunion 6.8 2012 <br />594 Thirteen Conversations About One Thing 7.1 2001 <br />595 O Brother, Where Art Thou? 7.8 2000 <br />596 The Dinner Game 7.7 1998 <br />597 Orphan 7 2009 <br />598 Hachi: A Dog's Tale 8.2 2009 <br />599 Barry Lyndon 8.1 1975 <br />600 The Thin Red Line 7.6 1998 <br />601 Sleepy Hollow 7.4 1999 <br />602 Frankenweenie 7 2012 <br />603 Beetlejuice 7.5 1988 <br />604 Eureka 7.9 2000 <br />605 A Cry in the Dark 6.9 1988 <br />606 A Dry White Season 7 1989 <br />607 A Fish Called Wanda 7.6 1988 <br />608 A Midsummer Night's Dream 6.5 1999 <br />609 A Mighty Wind 7.3 2003 <br />610 A Room with a View 7.4 1985 <br />611 In the Line of Fire 7.2 1993 <br />612 Almost Famous 7.9 2000 <br />613 Apollo 13 7.6 1995 <br />614 Arlington Road 7.2 1999 <br />615 Backdraft 6.7 1991 <br />616 Before Sunrise 8.1 1995 <br />617 Benny & Joon 7.2 1993 <br />618 Zoolander 6.6 2001 <br />619 With Honors 6.7 1994 <br />620 The Witches of Eastwick 6.5 1987 <br />621 Willow 7.2 1988 <br />622 Wilde 6.9 1997 <br />623 The Madness of King George 7.3 1994 <br />624 Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps 6.3 2010 <br />625 Wall Street 7.4 1987 <br />626 Walkabout 7.7 1971 <br />627 Wag the Dog 7.1 1997 <br />Iain's Smashing Good Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12833335717390737670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597335197297114038.post-23291594619505809652015-12-11T16:14:00.000-08:002015-12-12T16:14:22.126-08:00Best Actors1 John Wayne 1907-05-26<br /> <br />2 James Stewart 1908-05-20<br /> <br />3 Tom Hanks 1956-07-09<br /> <br />4 Harrison Ford 1942-07-13<br /> <br />5 Clint Eastwood 1930-05-31<br /> <br />6 Cary Grant 1904-01-18<br /> <br />7 Leonardo DiCaprio 1974-11-11<br /> <br />8 Jeff Bridges 1949-12-04<br /> <br />9 Humphrey Bogart 1899-12-25<br /> <br />10 Matt Damon 1970-10-08<br /> <br />11 Brad Pitt 1963-12-18<br /> <br />12 Robert De Niro 1943-08-17<br /> <br />13 Johnny Depp 1963-06-09<br /> <br />14 Tom Cruise 1962-07-03<br /> <br />15 Robert Duvall 1931-01-05<br /> <br />16 Paul Newman 1925-01-26<br /> <br />17 George Clooney 1961-05-06<br /> <br />18 Anthony Hopkins 1937-12-31<br /> <br />19 Bill Murray 1950-09-21<br /> <br />20 Denzel Washington 1954-12-28<br /> <br />21 Tommy Lee Jones 1946-09-15<br /> <br />22 Michael Caine 1933-03-14<br /> <br />23 Gene Hackman 1930-01-30<br /> <br />24 Mel Gibson 1956-01-03<br /> <br />25 Al Pacino 1940-04-25<br /> <br />26 Christian Bale 1974-01-30<br /> <br />27 Bruce Willis 1955-03-19<br /> <br />28 Viggo Mortensen 1958-10-20<br /> <br />29 Morgan Freeman 1937-06-01<br /> <br />30 Robin Williams 1951-07-21<br /> <br />31 Spencer Tracy 1900-04-05<br /> <br />32 Gary Oldman 1958-03-21<br /> <br />33 Heath Ledger 1979-04-04<br /> <br />34 Liam Neeson 1952-06-07<br /> <br />35 Michael Fassbender 1977-04-02<br /> <br />36 Woody Harrelson 1961-07-23<br /> <br />37 Alan Alda 1936-01-28<br /> <br />38 Will Smith 1968-09-25<br /> <br />39 Kevin Costner 1955-01-18<br /> <br />40 Jack Lemmon 1925-02-08<br /> <br />41 Charles Chaplin 1889-04-16<br /> <br />42 Jack Nicholson 1937-04-22<br /> <br />43 Russell Crowe 1964-04-07<br /> <br />44 Philip Seymour Hoffman 1967-07-23<br /> <br />45 Gary Cooper 1901-05-07<br /> <br />46 Kevin Spacey 1959-07-26<br /> <br />47 Ed Harris 1950-11-28<br /> <br />48 Henry Fonda 1905-05-16<br /> <br />49 Burt Lancaster 1913-11-02<br /> <br />50 Kirk Douglas 1916-12-09<br /> <br />51 Javier Bardem 1969-03-01<br /> <br />52 Chris Cooper 1951-07-09<br /> <br />53 Samuel L. Jackson 1948-12-21<br /> <br />54 Tom Wilkinson 1948-02-05<br /> <br />55 Geoffrey Rush 1951-07-06<br /> <br />56 Dustin Hoffman 1937-08-08<br /> <br />57 Steve Carell 1962-08-16<br /> <br />58 Donald Sutherland 1935-07-17<br /> <br />59 Christopher Plummer 1929-12-13<br /> <br />60 Marlon Brando 1924-04-03<br /> <br />61 Gregory Peck 1916-04-05<br /> <br />62 Don Cheadle 1964-11-29<br /> <br />63 Lionel Barrymore 1878-04-28<br /> <br />64 John Candy 1950-10-31<br /> <br />65 Colin Firth 1960-09-10<br /> <br />66 Christopher Walken 1943-03-31<br /> <br />67 John C. Reilly 1965-05-24<br /> <br />68 Nick Nolte 1941-02-08<br /> <br />69 Sean Penn 1960-08-17<br /> <br />70 Edward Norton 1969-08-18<br /> <br />71 William H. Macy 1950-03-13<br /> <br />72 Patrick Stewart 1940-07-13<br /> <br />73 James Cromwell 1940-01-27<br /> <br />74 Joaquin Phoenix 1974-10-28<br /> <br />75 Kevin Kline 1947-10-24<br /> <br />76 Robert Downey Jr. 1965-04-04<br /> <br />77 Jeremy Irons 1948-09-19<br /> <br />78 John Goodman 1952-06-20<br /> <br />79 William Powell 1892-07-29<br /> <br />80 Will Ferrell 1967-07-16Iain's Smashing Good Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12833335717390737670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597335197297114038.post-55764793652571121422015-12-10T11:56:00.001-08:002015-12-10T11:56:41.125-08:00Black lives Matter is controlled by Freedom RoadBlack lives Matter is controlled by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Road_Socialist_Organization" target="_blank">Freedom Road </a> and that's badIain's Smashing Good Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12833335717390737670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597335197297114038.post-52661488583504909802015-11-29T13:23:00.001-08:002015-11-29T13:23:56.358-08:00Videogame videos more popular than playing videogames ~ youtube ahead of its timeAN FRANCISCO — More people watch football on TV than play it. The same may be true for video games one day.
<br />
That may sound ludicrous to people who believe that playing a game is
a lot more fun than watching somebody else do it, but that’s the
prediction from a panel of esports advocates in a session at <a href="http://usa.casualconnect.org/content.html?speaker=peterwarmanpanel">Casual Connect</a>, a large conference on gaming in San Francisco.<br />
Matt Patrick, the president of Theorist and creator of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/MatthewPatrick13" target="_blank">The Game Theorists</a>
channel on YouTube, has more than 45 million viewers a month on his
channels. The size of his audience already sort of proves the point.
Based on a poll he took of viewers, he noted that the Five Nights at
Freddy’s, a horror title set in a Chuck E. Cheese’s-like setting, is a
case where he believes more people are watching funny viral videos about
the game."You are already there, and you should not be scare of this,” Patrick
said. “Look at basketball. Some enjoy watching and engaging as a fan. A
small subset played Five Nights at Freddy’s, but a huge number are
engaging and buying things. They are sharing and talking about it. There
are ways to monetize people who aren’t playing your games.”<br />
“I believe the industry will accelerate in growth because there will
be a lot more viewers than gamers,” said Peter Warman, the chief
executive of market researcher Newzoo and moderator of the panel
discussion.<br />
Valve’s finals for the Dota 2 International Championships, which
awarded $18 million for its top winners, drew tens of millions of
viewers. But esports do have a long way to go before spectators
obviously outnumber the players. And much of the time, it’s hard for
newcomers to understand what is happening in a fast-paced game at first.<br />
“It happens when games become understandable enough,” said Super Evil
Megacorp chief operating officer Kristian Segerstrale, whose studio
made the Vainglory mobile multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game.
“Everyone has bounced a basketball. If you get to a game that is
understandable after you watch it once, then we will get there. ”<br />
He noted that in the course of a few months, Vainglory’s viewership
on gameplay livestreaming site Twitch tripled in a few months.<br />
“Our dream is to make the world’s first truly mass market esport,” Segerstrale said.
Iain's Smashing Good Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12833335717390737670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597335197297114038.post-67679229873593777772015-11-18T08:24:00.000-08:002016-01-26T12:54:01.785-08:00Movies seenposition const created modified description Title Title type Directors You rated IMDb Rating Runtime (mins) Year Genres Num. Votes Release Date (month/day/year) URL<br />1 21 6.8 2008 <br />2 42 7.5 2013 <br />3 300 7.7 2006 <br />4 1776 7.6 1972 <br />5 1984 7 1956 <br />6 1984 7.2 1984 <br />7 2010 6.8 1984 <br />8 2012 5.8 2009 <br />9 'I Know Where I'm Going!' 7.7 1945 <br />10 (500) Days of Summer 7.8 2009 <br />11 10 to Midnight 6.2 1983 <br />12 101 Dalmatians 7.2 1961 <br />13 101 Dalmatians 5.6 1996 <br />14 102 Dalmatians 4.8 2000 <br />15 12 Angry Men 8.9 1957 <br />16 13 Ghosts 6 1960 <br />17 13 Rue Madeleine 7 1947 <br />18 1989 World Series 7.1 1989 <br />19 1995 World Series 8.3 1995 <br />20 1996 World Series 6.2 1996 <br />21 1997 World Series 6.9 1997 <br />22 2 Fast 2 Furious 5.8 2003 <br />23 20 Million Miles to Earth 6.4 1957 <br />24 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 7.2 1954 <br />25 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 7.2 1954 <br />26 2000 Official World Series 7.5 2000 <br />27 2001 World Series 8.3 2001 <br />28 2001: A Space Odyssey 8.3 1968 <br />29 2002 World Series 8 2002 <br />30 2003 World Series 2003 <br />31 2004 World Series 6.8 2004 <br />32 2005 World Series 2005 <br />33 2008 World Series 2008 <br />34 2009 World Series 2009 <br />35 2010 World Series 6.8 2010 <br />36 2011 World Series 8.1 2011 <br />37 2012 World Series 5.9 2012 <br />38 2013 World Series 7.3 2013 <br />39 2014 World Series 7.9 2014 <br />40 21 Jump Street 7.2 2012 <br />41 22 Jump Street 7.1 2014 <br />42 28 Days Later... 7.6 2002 <br />43 3 Godfathers 7.2 1948 <br />44 3:10 to Yuma 7.8 2007 <br />45 3:10 to Yuma 7.6 1957 <br />46 36 Hours 7.3 1964 <br />47 42nd Street 7.7 1933 <br />48 5th Ave Girl 6.9 1939 <br />49 A Beautiful Mind 8.2 2001 <br />50 A Better Tomorrow 7.6 1986 <br />51 A Better Tomorrow II 7.4 1987 <br />52 A Bridge Too Far 7.4 1977 <br />53 A Bug's Life 7.2 1998 <br />54 A Christmas Carol 7.9 1984 <br />55 A Christmas Carol 6.2 1982 <br />56 A Christmas Carol 7.2 1950 <br />57 A Christmas Carol 7.5 1938 <br />58 A Christmas Carol 8.1 1951 <br />59 A Clockwork Orange 8.4 1971 <br />60 A Cry in the Dark 6.9 1988 <br />61 A Day at the Races 7.7 1937 <br />62 A Far Off Place 6.6 1993 <br />63 A Few Good Men 7.6 1992 <br />64 A Fish Called Wanda 7.6 1988 <br />65 A Fistful of Dollars 8 1964 <br />66 A Girl in Every Port 5.3 1952 <br />67 A Good Day to Die Hard 5.3 2013 <br />68 A Goofy Movie 6.8 1995 <br />69 A League of Their Own 7.2 1992 <br />70 A Little Princess 7.7 1995 <br />71 A Midsummer Night's Dream 7.1 1935 <br />72 A Night at the Opera 8.1 1935 <br />73 A Night at the Roxbury 6.2 1998 <br />74 A Night in Casablanca 7.1 1946 <br />75 A Nightmare on Elm Street 7.5 1984 <br />76 A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge 5.4 1985 <br />77 A Passage to India 7.4 1984 <br />78 A Perfect World 7.5 1993 <br />79 A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Grimacing Governor 6.8 1994 <br />80 A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Jealous Jokester 6.4 1995 <br />81 A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle 6.9 1994 <br />82 A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Wicked Wives 6.4 1993 <br />83 A Song Is Born 7.1 1948 <br />84 A Star Is Born 7.8 1954 <br />85 A Streetcar Named Desire 8.1 1951 <br />86 A Summer Place 7 1959 <br />87 A Tale of Two Cities 7.8 1935 <br />88 A Thousand and One Nights 6.1 1945 <br />89 A Time to Kill 7.4 1996 <br />90 A View to a Kill 6.3 1985 <br />91 A Walk in the Sun 7.3 1945 <br />92 A Yank in the R.A.F. 6.5 1941 <br />93 Abbott and Costello Go to Mars 6.5 1953 <br />94 Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion 6.8 1950 <br />95 Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 6.7 1953 <br />96 Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein 7.6 1948 <br />97 Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man 7 1951 <br />98 Abe Lincoln in Illinois 7.4 1940 <br />99 About Schmidt 7.2 2002 <br />100 Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter 5.9 2012 <br />101 Absolute Power 6.7 1997 <br />102 Ace Ventura: Pet Detective 6.9 1994 <br />103 Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls 6.3 1995 <br />104 Action in the North Atlantic 7 1943 <br />105 Adam's Rib 7.6 1949 <br />106 Africa Screams 6.5 1949 <br />107 After the Fox 6.5 1966 <br />108 After the Thin Man 7.7 1936 <br />109 Air Force One 6.4 1997 <br />110 Airplane II: The Sequel 6.1 1982 <br />111 Airplane! 7.8 1980 <br />112 Airport '77 5.5 1977 <br />113 Airport 1975 5.5 1974 <br />114 Akira 8.1 1988 <br />115 Akira 8.1 1988 <br />116 Aladdin 8 1992 <br />117 Aladdin and the King of Thieves 6.4 1996 <br />118 Alex Cross 5.1 2012 <br />119 Alfie 7.1 1966 <br />120 Alice in Wonderland 6.5 2010 <br />121 Alice in Wonderland 7.4 1951 <br />122 Alice in Wonderland 6.6 1933 <br />123 Alien 8.5 1979 <br />124 Alien³ 6.4 1992 <br />125 Aliens 8.4 1986 <br />126 All Good Things 6.3 2010 <br />127 All Quiet on the Western Front 8.1 1930 <br />128 All Quiet on the Western Front 7.1 1979 <br />129 All That 7.5 1994 <br />130 All That Heaven Allows 7.7 1955 <br />131 All the President's Men 8 1976 <br />132 All the President's Men 8 1976 <br />133 All Together 5.2 1942 <br />134 Along Came a Spider 6.3 2001 <br />135 Alphaville 7.2 1965 <br />136 Always 6.4 1989 <br />137 American Beauty 8.4 1999 <br />138 American Gangster 7.8 2007 <br />139 American Graffiti 7.5 1973 <br />140 American Heart 6.8 1992 <br />141 American History X 8.6 1998 <br />142 American Pie 7 1999 <br />143 American Pie 2 6.4 2001 <br />144 American Psycho 7.6 2000 <br />145 American Reunion 6.8 2012 <br />146 American Sniper 7.3 2014 <br />147 American Wedding 6.3 2003 <br />148 An Affair to Remember 7.6 1957 <br />149 An American Carol 4.3 2008 <br />150 An American in Paris 7.3 1951 <br />151 An American Werewolf in London 7.6 1981 <br />152 An Officer and a Gentleman 7 1982 <br />153 Anastasia 7.1 1997 <br />154 Anastasia 7.2 1956 <br />155 Anatomy of a Murder 8.1 1959 <br />156 Ancient Aliens 7.4 2009 <br />157 And Now for Something Completely Different 7.7 1971 <br />158 And Then There Were None 7.6 1945 <br />159 Angel Beats! 8 2010 <br />160 Angel on My Shoulder 6.9 1946 <br />161 Angels & Demons 6.7 2009 <br />162 Angels in the Outfield 6 1994 <br />163 Angels with Dirty Faces 8 1938 <br />164 Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie 5.9 2014 <br />165 Animal Crackers 7.7 1930 <br />166 Animal House 7.6 1978 <br />167 Animal Kingdom 7.3 2010 <br />168 Annie Hall 8.1 1977 <br />169 Another Thin Man 7.5 1939 <br />170 Antwone Fisher 7.3 2002 <br />171 Antz 6.6 1998 <br />172 Apocalypse Now 8.5 1979 <br />173 Apollo 13 7.6 1995 <br />174 Arachnophobia 6.3 1990 <br />175 Arbitrage 6.6 2012 <br />176 Are You Afraid of the Dark? 8.3 1990 <br />177 Argo 7.8 2012 <br />178 Armageddon 6.6 1998 <br />179 Army of Darkness 7.6 1992 <br />180 Arsenic and Old Lace 8.1 1944 <br />181 As Good as It Gets 7.7 1997 <br />182 At the Circus 6.9 1939 <br />183 Atlantic City 7.5 1980 <br />184 Atlas Shrugged: Part I 5.8 2011 <br />185 Attack the Block 6.6 2011 <br />186 Auntie Mame 8 1958 <br />187 Austin Powers in Goldmember 6.2 2002 <br />188 Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery 7 1997 <br />189 Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me 6.6 1999 <br />190 Australia 6.6 2008 <br />191 Autumn in New York 5.5 2000 <br />192 Avatar 7.9 2009 <br />193 Avengers: Age of Ultron 7.6 2015 <br />194 AVP: Alien vs. Predator 5.6 2004 <br />195 Baby Face 7.6 1933 <br />196 Babylon A.D. 5.6 2008 <br />197 Baccano! 8.5 2007 <br />198 Back from Eternity 6.5 1956 <br />199 Back to the Future 8.5 1985 <br />200 Back to the Future Part II 7.8 1989 <br />201 Back to the Future Part III 7.4 1990 <br />202 Backdraft 6.7 1991 <br />203 Bad Boy Bubby 7.5 1993 <br />204 Bad Boys 6.8 1995 <br />205 Bad Boys II 6.6 2003 <br />206 Bad Day at Black Rock 7.8 1955 <br />207 Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans 6.7 2009 <br />208 Bad Moon 5.6 1996 <br />209 Ball of Fire 7.8 1941 <br />210 Bambi 7.4 1942 <br />211 Band of Brothers 9.6 2001 <br />212 Barabbas 7 1961 <br />213 Basic 6.5 2003 <br />214 Basic Instinct 6.9 1992 <br />215 Bat*21 6.4 1988 <br />216 Bataan 7 1943 <br />217 Batman 7.6 1989 <br />218 Batman & Robin 3.7 1997 <br />219 Batman Begins 8.3 2005 <br />220 Batman Forever 5.4 1995 <br />221 Batman Returns 7 1992 <br />222 Battle for the Planet of the Apes 5.5 1973 <br />223 Battle Los Angeles 5.8 2011 <br />224 Battle of Britain 7 1969 <br />225 Battle of the Bulge 6.8 1965 <br />226 Battle of the Coral Sea 5.7 1959 <br />227 Battlefield Earth 2.4 2000 <br />228 Battleground 7.6 1949 <br />229 Battleship 5.9 2012 <br />230 Battlestar Galactica 8.7 2003 <br />231 Battlestar Galactica 8.8 2004 <br />232 Beau Brummell 6.4 1954 <br />233 Beauty and the Beast 8 1991 <br />234 Bedlam 6.9 1946 <br />235 Beethoven 5.5 1992 <br />236 Beetlejuice 7.5 1988 <br />237 Before Winter Comes 5.9 1969 <br />238 Behind Enemy Lines 6.4 2001 <br />239 Being John Malkovich 7.8 1999 <br />240 Bells Are Ringing 7.1 1960 <br />241 Ben-Hur 8.1 1959 <br />242 Ben-Hur 8.1 1959 <br />243 Bend of the River 7.4 1952 <br />244 Beneath the Planet of the Apes 6.1 1970 <br />245 Berkeley Square 6.6 1933 <br />246 Berserk 8.7 1997 <br />247 Betrayed 6.1 1954 <br />248 Between Heaven and Hell 6.6 1956 <br />249 Beyond a Reasonable Doubt 7 1956 <br />250 Beyond Tomorrow 6.7 1940 <br />251 Bicentennial Man 6.8 1999 <br />252 Big Fish 8 2003 <br />253 Big Jake 7.2 1971 <br />254 Big Trouble in Little China 7.3 1986 <br />255 Bigger Than Life 7.6 1956 <br />256 Billion Dollar Brain 6.1 1967 <br />257 Black Lagoon 8.1 2006 <br />258 Black Mask 6.1 1996 <br />259 Black Rain 6.6 1989 <br />260 Black Sabbath 7.2 1963 <br />261 Black Swan 8 2010 <br />262 Blade 7.1 1998 <br />263 Blade II 6.7 2002 <br />264 Blade Runner 8.2 1982 <br />265 Blade: Trinity 5.9 2004 <br />266 Blades of Glory 6.3 2007 <br />267 Blank Check 5.1 1994 <br />268 Blood and Sand 7 1941 <br />269 Blood Diamond 8 2006 <br />270 Blood on the Moon 6.9 1948 <br />271 Blood on the Sun 6.2 1945 <br />272 Blood Work 6.4 2002 <br />273 Blood+ 7.8 2005 <br />274 Blue Jasmine 7.3 2013 <br />275 Blue Skies 6.6 1946 <br />276 Blues Brothers 2000 4.8 1998 <br />277 Boogeyman 4.1 2005 <br />278 Boom Town 7.1 1940 <br />279 Born on the Fourth of July 7.2 1989 <br />280 Born to Dance 6.8 1936 <br />281 Boyhood 8 2014 <br />282 Brannigan 6.1 1975 <br />283 Braveheart 8.4 1995 <br />284 Breakfast at Tiffany's 7.8 1961 <br />285 Breaking Away 7.7 1979 <br />286 Breakthrough 4.9 1979 <br />287 Bride of Frankenstein 7.9 1935 <br />288 Bridge of Dragons 4.6 1999 <br />289 Bridge to Terabithia 7.2 2007 <br />290 Bridget Jones's Diary 6.7 2001 <br />291 Bringing Up Baby 8 1938 <br />292 Broadway Melody of 1940 7.4 1940 <br />293 Brokeback Mountain 7.7 2005 <br />294 Broken Arrow 6 1996 <br />295 Broken City 6.2 2013 <br />296 Broken Lance 7 1954 <br />297 Bruce Almighty 6.7 2003 <br />298 Brute Force 7.7 1947 <br />299 Buffalo Soldiers 6.3 1997 <br />300 Bull Durham 7.1 1988 <br />301 Bullet to the Head 5.7 2012 <br />302 Bullitt 7.5 1968 <br />303 Bus Stop 6.7 1956 <br />304 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 8.1 1969 <br />305 Byzantium 6.5 2012 <br />306 Cahill U.S. Marshal 6.5 1973 <br />307 Call of the Wild 5.7 1993 <br />308 Cape Fear 7.8 1962 <br />309 Captain America: The Winter Soldier 7.8 2014 <br />310 Captain Blood 7.8 1935 <br />311 Carlito's Way 7.9 1993 <br />312 Carnal Knowledge 7 1971 <br />313 Cars 7.2 2006 <br />314 Casablanca 8.6 1942 <br />315 Casanova's Big Night 6.8 1954 <br />316 Casino 8.2 1995 <br />317 Casino Royale 8 2006 <br />318 Casper 6 1995 <br />319 Cast Away 7.7 2000 <br />320 Castle in the Desert 7.6 1942 <br />321 Castle in the Sky 8.1 1986 <br />322 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 8.1 1958 <br />323 Cat People 7.4 1942 <br />324 Cat's Eye 6.2 1985 <br />325 Catch Me If You Can 8 2002 <br />326 Catch-22 7.2 1970 <br />327 Cats & Dogs 5.2 2001 <br />328 Cedar Rapids 6.3 2011 <br />329 Ceiling Zero 6.9 1936 <br />330 Centennial 8.6 1978 <br />331 Chain Reaction 5.6 1996 <br />332 Challenge to Lassie 6.2 1949 <br />333 Changeling 7.8 2008 <br />334 Charade 8 1963 <br />335 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 6.7 2005 <br />336 Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum 7.6 1940 <br />337 Charlie Chan at Treasure Island 7.7 1939 <br />338 Charlie Chan in Panama 7.7 1940 <br />339 Charlie Chan in Rio 7.5 1941 <br />340 Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat 7.1 1944 <br />341 Charlie Chan in the Secret Service 6.9 1944 <br />342 Charlie, the Lonesome Cougar 6.7 1967 <br />343 Chasing Amy 7.4 1997 <br />344 Cheyenne Autumn 6.9 1964 <br />345 Chicken Little 5.8 2005 <br />346 Child's Play 2 5.7 1990 <br />347 Children of Men 7.9 2006 <br />348 Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice 4.2 1992 <br />349 Children of the Damned 6.2 1964 <br />350 Chimes at Midnight 8 1965 <br />351 China Seas 7 1935 <br />352 Chinatown 8.3 1974 <br />353 Chinatown 8.3 1974 <br />354 Chisum 6.9 1970 <br />355 Christmas in Connecticut 7.5 1945 <br />356 Christmas Vacation 7.6 1989 <br />357 Chronicle 7.1 2012 <br />358 Cinderella 7.3 1950 <br />359 Cinderella 7 2015 <br />360 Circus World 6.2 1964 <br />361 Citizen Kane 8.4 1941 <br />362 Clannad: After Story 8.9 2008 <br />363 Clarissa Explains It All 7.3 1991 <br />364 Clash by Night 7.2 1952 <br />365 Claymore 8.1 2007 <br />366 Clear and Present Danger 6.9 1994 <br />367 Cleopatra 6.9 1934 <br />368 Clerks 7.8 1994 <br />369 Clerks II 7.4 2006 <br />370 Cliffhanger 6.4 1993 <br />371 Cliffhanger 6.4 1993 <br />372 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 7.7 1977 <br />373 Cloud Atlas 7.5 2012 <br />374 Cocoon 6.6 1985 <br />375 Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion 8.8 2006 <br />376 Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion 9.1 2008 <br />377 Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 8.9 2008 <br />378 Collateral 7.6 2004 <br />379 Collateral Damage 5.5 2002 <br />380 Come and See 8.3 1985 <br />381 Command Performance 5.7 2009 <br />382 Commando 6.7 1985 <br />383 Comrade X 6.5 1940 <br />384 Con Air 6.8 1997 <br />385 Conan the Barbarian 6.9 1982 <br />386 Conan the Destroyer 5.8 1984 <br />387 Congo 5 1995 <br />388 Conquest of the Planet of the Apes 6.1 1972 <br />389 Constantine 6.9 2005 <br />390 Contagion 6.7 2011 <br />391 Contraband 6.5 2012 <br />392 Cool Hand Luke 8.2 1967 <br />393 Cop Land 6.9 1997 <br />394 Corridors of Blood 6.4 1958 <br />395 Count Dracula 5.8 1970 <br />396 Count Dracula 7.8 1977 <br />397 Courage of Lassie 6.3 1946 <br />398 Courage Under Fire 6.6 1996 <br />399 Cover Girl 6.9 1944 <br />400 Cowboy Bebop 9 1998 <br />401 Cowboy Bebop: The Movie 7.9 2001 <br />402 Crazy Heart 7.3 2009 <br />403 Crazy Heart 7.3 2009 <br />404 Crazy Heart 7.3 2009 <br />405 Creature from the Black Lagoon 7 1954 <br />406 Criminals of the Air 5.9 1937 <br />407 Crimson Tide 7.3 1995 <br />408 Criss Cross 7.5 1949 <br />409 Crocodile Dundee 6.5 1986 <br />410 Crocodile Dundee II 5.5 1988 <br />411 Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles 4.8 2001 <br />412 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 7.9 2000 <br />413 Curse of the Demon 7.6 1957 <br />414 D-Day the Sixth of June 6.1 1956 <br />415 D.O.A. 7.4 1950 <br />416 D2: The Mighty Ducks 5.9 1994 <br />417 Daddy Long Legs 6.8 1955 <br />418 Damien: Omen II 6.3 1978 <br />419 Dance with Me, Henry 6.2 1956 <br />420 Dances with Wolves 8 1990 <br />421 Darby O'Gill and the Little People 7.1 1959 <br />422 Dark Alibi 7.2 1946 <br />423 Dark City 7.7 1998 <br />424 Dark Passage 7.6 1947 <br />425 Dark Shadows 6.2 2012 <br />426 Dark Victory 7.6 1939 <br />427 Darker Than Black 8.1 2007 <br />428 Das Boot 8.4 1981 <br />429 Das Boot 8.4 1981 <br />430 David Copperfield 7.8 1999 <br />431 David Copperfield 7.6 1935 <br />432 Day of the Dead 7.2 1985 <br />433 Day the World Ended 5.4 1955 <br />434 Daybreakers 6.5 2009 <br />435 Days of Thunder 5.9 1990 <br />436 Days of Wine and Roses 7.9 1962 <br />437 Dead End 7.5 1937 <br />438 Dead of Night 7.7 1945 <br />439 Death at a Funeral 7.4 2007 <br />440 Death Hunt 7 1981 <br />441 Death Note 9 2006 <br />442 Death Wish 3 5.9 1985 <br />443 Death Wish 4: The Crackdown 5.3 1987 <br />444 Death Wish II 6 1982 <br />445 Death Wish V: The Face of Death 4.7 1994 <br />446 Deathtrap 7 1982 <br />447 Deep Impact 6.1 1998 <br />448 Defiance 7.2 2008 <br />449 Deliverance 7.8 1972 <br />450 Demolition Man 6.6 1993 <br />451 Demon Seed 6.3 1977 <br />452 Desk Set 7.3 1957 <br />453 Despicable Me 7.7 2010 <br />454 Destination Moon 6.4 1950 <br />455 Destination Tokyo 7.3 1943 <br />456 Detroit Rock City 6.8 1999 <br />457 Dial M for Murder 8.2 1954 <br />458 Diamonds Are Forever 6.7 1971 <br />459 Diary of a Madman 6.4 1963 <br />460 Die Another Day 6.1 2002 <br />461 Die Hard 8.2 1988 <br />462 Die Hard 2 7.1 1990 <br />463 Die Hard: With a Vengeance 7.6 1995 <br />464 Direct Contact 4.3 2009 <br />465 Dirty Dancing 6.9 1987 <br />466 Dirty Harry 7.8 1971 <br />467 District 9 8 2009 <br />468 Divergent 6.8 2014 <br />469 Django Unchained 8.5 2012 <br />470 Doctor X 6.5 1932 <br />471 Doctor Zhivago 8 1965 <br />472 Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story 6.7 2004 <br />473 Dodsworth 8.1 1936 <br />474 Dog Soldiers 6.9 2002 <br />475 Dogma 7.4 1999 <br />476 Don't Look Now 7.4 1973 <br />477 Donnie Brasco 7.8 1997 <br />478 Donnie Darko 8.1 2001 <br />479 Donovan's Reef 6.9 1963 <br />480 Doom 5.2 2005 <br />481 Dorian Gray 6.3 2009 <br />482 Double Indemnity 8.4 1944 <br />483 Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet 7.5 1940 <br />484 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 7.7 1931 <br />485 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 5.1 1973 <br />486 Dr. No 7.3 1962 <br />487 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 8.5 1964 <br />488 Dr. Terror's House of Horrors 6.7 1965 <br />489 Dracula 7.5 1992 <br />490 Dracula 6.4 1979 <br />491 Dracula 7.6 1931 <br />492 Dracula 7.5 1992 <br />493 Dracula 2000 4.9 2000 <br />494 Dracula A.D. 1972 5.9 1972 <br />495 Dracula Has Risen from the Grave 6.6 1968 <br />496 Dracula: Prince of Darkness 6.7 1966 <br />497 Dracula's Daughter 6.4 1936 <br />498 Drag Me to Hell 6.6 2009 <br />499 Dragon Ball 8.6 1995 <br />500 Dragon Ball GT 7 1996 <br />501 Dragon Ball Z 8.8 1996 <br />502 Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods 7.3 2013 <br />503 Dragon Ball Z: Bojack Unbound 7.4 1993 <br />504 Dragon Ball Z: Broly - The Legendary Super Saiyan 7.5 1993 <br />505 Dragon Ball Z: Cooler's Revenge 7.3 1991 <br />506 Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn 7.8 1995 <br />507 Dragon Ball Z: Lord Slug 6.8 1991 <br />508 Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F' 7.6 2015 <br />509 Dragon Ball Z: Super Android 13 7.3 1992 <br />510 Dragon Ball Z: The Return of Cooler 7.2 1992 <br />511 Dragon Ball Z: The World's Strongest 6.9 1990 <br />512 Dragon Ball Z: Tree of Might 7.1 1990 <br />513 Dragon Ball Z: Wrath of the Dragon 7.7 1995 <br />514 Dragonball: Evolution 2.7 2009 <br />515 Dream Wife 6 1953 <br />516 Dredd 7 2012 <br />517 Drive 7.8 2011 <br />518 Driven 4.5 2001 <br />519 Driving Miss Daisy 7.4 1989 <br />520 Drunken Master 7.6 1978 <br />521 Duck Soup 8 1933 <br />522 DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp 6.9 1990 <br />523 Dumb & Dumber 7.3 1994 <br />524 Dumbo 7.3 1941 <br />525 Dune 6.6 1984 <br />526 Dutch 6.4 1991 <br />527 Earth vs. the Flying Saucers 6.4 1956 <br />528 East of Eden 8 1955 <br />529 East Side, West Side 6.9 1949 <br />530 Easter Parade 7.5 1948 <br />531 Easy Rider 7.4 1969 <br />532 Eden of the East 7.8 2009 <br />533 Edge of Darkness 6.6 2010 <br />534 Edge of Darkness 7.2 1943 <br />535 Edge of Tomorrow 7.9 2014 <br />536 Edward Scissorhands 8 1990 <br />537 Ef: A Tale of Melodies. 7.6 2008 <br />538 Ef: A Tale of Memories. 7.7 2007 <br />539 Eight Below 7.3 2006 <br />540 Eight Crazy Nights 5.4 2002 <br />541 El Dorado 7.7 1966 <br />542 Elephant Walk 6.3 1954 <br />543 Elysium 6.6 2013 <br />544 Emperor 6.5 2012 <br />545 End of Days 5.7 1999 <br />546 Ender's Game 6.7 2013 <br />547 Enemy at the Gates 7.6 2001 <br />548 Enemy Mine 6.9 1985 <br />549 Enemy of the State 7.3 1998 <br />550 Entrapment 6.2 1999 <br />551 Equilibrium 7.5 2002 <br />552 Ergo Proxy 8.1 2006 <br />553 Erin Brockovich 7.3 2000 <br />554 Erufen rîto 8.2 2004 <br />555 Escaflowne 7.9 1996 <br />556 Escape from Alcatraz 7.6 1979 <br />557 Escape from L.A. 5.7 1996 <br />558 Escape from New York 7.2 1981 <br />559 Escape from the Planet of the Apes 6.3 1971 <br />560 Escape to Witch Mountain 6.3 1975 <br />561 Escape to Witch Mountain 6.5 1995 <br />562 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 8.4 2004 <br />563 Eureka Seven: Ao 7 2012 <br />564 Evangelion: 1.0: You Are (Not) Alone 7.8 2007 <br />565 Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance 8.1 2009 <br />566 Event Horizon 6.7 1997 <br />567 Event Horizon 6.7 1997 <br />568 Evil Dead 6.5 2013 <br />569 Ex-Lady 7 1933 <br />570 Executive Suite 7.4 1954 <br />571 Eyes Wide Shut 7.3 1999 <br />572 Eyes Without a Face 7.8 1960 <br />573 Face/Off 7.3 1997 <br />574 Fahrenheit 451 7.3 1966 <br />575 Fail-Safe 8 1964 <br />576 Fantasia 7.8 1940 <br />577 Far and Away 6.5 1992 <br />578 Fargo 8.2 1996 <br />579 Fast & Furious 6.6 2009 <br />580 Fast & Furious 6 7.2 2013 <br />581 Fast Five 7.3 2011 <br />582 Fast Times at Ridgemont High 7.2 1982 <br />583 Father Goose 7.4 1964 <br />584 Father of the Bride 7.2 1950 <br />585 Father's Little Dividend 6.6 1951 <br />586 Fatso 6.2 1980 <br />587 FernGully: The Last Rainforest 6.4 1992 <br />588 Fierce Creatures 6.3 1997 <br />589 Final Analysis 5.8 1992 <br />590 Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children 7.4 2005 <br />591 Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within 6.4 2001 <br />592 Finding Neverland 7.8 2004 <br />593 Finian's Rainbow 6.2 1968 <br />594 Firefox 5.9 1982 <br />595 Firewall 5.8 2006 <br />596 First Blood 7.7 1982 <br />597 First Knight 5.9 1995 <br />598 First Men in the Moon 6.7 1964 <br />599 Fist of Legend 7.6 1994 <br />600 Five Came Back 7.1 1939 <br />601 Five Easy Pieces 7.5 1970 <br />602 Five Million Years to Earth 7.1 1967 <br />603 Flirting with Disaster 6.8 1996 <br />604 Flying Disc Man from Mars 5.7 1950 <br />605 Flying Down to Rio 6.7 1933 <br />606 Flying Leathernecks 6.4 1951 <br />607 For a Few Dollars More 8.3 1965 <br />608 For Your Eyes Only 6.8 1981 <br />609 Forbidden Planet 7.7 1956 <br />610 Foreign Correspondent 7.6 1940 <br />611 Forrest Gump 8.8 1994 <br />612 Fracture 7.2 2007 <br />613 Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell 6.3 1974 <br />614 Frankenstein Created Woman 6.6 1967 <br />615 Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man 6.5 1943 <br />616 Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed 6.9 1969 <br />617 Frankie and Johnny 6.7 1991 <br />618 Freaky Friday 6.1 2003 <br />619 Friday 7.3 1995 <br />620 Friday Night Lights 7.3 2004 <br />621 Friday the 13th 6.5 1980 <br />622 Friday the 13th Part 2 6.1 1981 <br />623 Friday the 13th Part III 5.7 1982 <br />624 Friday the 13th: A New Beginning 4.7 1985 <br />625 Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter 5.9 1984 <br />626 Friends 9 1994 <br />627 Fright Night 7.1 1985 <br />628 Fright Night 6.4 2011 <br />629 From Beyond the Grave 6.8 1974 <br />630 From Here to Eternity 7.8 1953 <br />631 From Russia with Love 7.5 1963 <br />632 From the Earth to the Moon 8.9 1998 <br />633 Frozen 7.6 2013 <br />634 Fruits Basket 8.2 2001 <br />635 Full Eclipse 5.5 1993 <br />636 Full Metal Jacket 8.3 1987 <br />637 Full Metal Panic! 7.8 2002 <br />638 Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid 8 2005 <br />639 Fullmetal Alchemist 8.7 2003 <br />640 Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood 9.1 2009 <br />641 Fun in Acapulco 5.8 1963 <br />642 Funny Face 7.1 1957 <br />643 Funny Farm 6.1 1988 <br />644 Fury 7.9 1936 <br />645 Futureworld 5.9 1976 <br />646 Gallipoli 7.5 1981 <br />647 Game of Thrones 9.5 2011 <br />648 Garfield 4.9 2004 <br />649 Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet 7.5 2013 <br />650 Gaslight 7.9 1944 <br />651 Gattaca 7.8 1997 <br />652 Gekijouban Kidou senshi Gandamu 00: A wakening of the trailblazer 6.7 2010 <br />653 Gentleman's Agreement 7.4 1947 <br />654 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 7.3 1953 <br />655 Georgy Girl 6.9 1966 <br />656 Get Carter 7.5 1971 <br />657 Get Shorty 6.9 1995 <br />658 Gettysburg 7.7 1993 <br />659 Ghost 7 1990 <br />660 Ghost Hunt 8 2005 <br />661 Ghost in the Shell 8 1995 <br />662 Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence 7.6 2004 <br />663 Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 8.6 2002 <br />664 Ghost Rider 5.2 2007 <br />665 Ghostbusters 7.8 1984 <br />666 Ghostbusters II 6.5 1989 <br />667 Ghosts of Mars 4.9 2001 <br />668 Giant 7.7 1956 <br />669 Gidget 6.7 1959 <br />670 Gigi 6.9 1958 <br />671 Gilda 7.8 1946 <br />672 Girl Revolution Utena 8.3 1997 <br />673 Gladiator 8.5 2000 <br />674 Glengarry Glen Ross 7.8 1992 <br />675 Go West 6.9 1940 <br />676 Gods and Generals 6.3 2003 <br />677 Godzilla 6.5 2014 <br />678 Godzilla Raids Again 6 1955 <br />679 Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster 5.1 1966 <br />680 Going My Way 7.3 1944 <br />681 GoldenEye 7.2 1995 <br />682 Goldfinger 7.8 1964 <br />683 Gone Girl 8.1 2014 <br />684 Gone in Sixty Seconds 6.5 2000 <br />685 Gone with the Wind 8.2 1939 <br />686 Good Morning, Vietnam 7.3 1987 <br />687 Good Will Hunting 8.3 1997 <br />688 Good-bye, My Lady 7.3 1956 <br />689 Goodfellas 8.7 1990 <br />690 Gran Torino 8.2 2008 <br />691 Grease 7.2 1978 <br />692 Great Expectations 8 1946 <br />693 Great Expectations 7.3 1999 <br />694 Green Lantern 5.6 2011 <br />695 Green Street Hooligans 7.5 2005 <br />696 Green Zone 6.9 2010 <br />697 Greyfriars Bobby: The True Story of a Dog 7.4 1961 <br />698 Groundhog Day 8.1 1993 <br />699 Grumpier Old Men 6.6 1995 <br />700 Guardian of the Sacred Spirit 8.4 2007 <br />701 Guardians of the Galaxy 8.1 2014 <br />702 Gundam Wing: The Movie - Endless Waltz 8 1998 <br />703 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral 7.2 1957 <br />704 Gung Ho 6.2 1986 <br />705 Gunga Din 7.5 1939 <br />706 Gungrave 8.1 2003 <br />707 Gunman's Walk 7 1958 <br />708 Guys and Dolls 7.3 1955 <br />709 H.M. Pulham, Esq. 7.1 1941 <br />710 Haibane renmei 8.3 2002 <br />711 Halloween 7.9 1978 <br />712 Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers 5.9 1988 <br />713 Halloween 5 5.2 1989 <br />714 Halloween H20: 20 Years Later 5.6 1998 <br />715 Halloween II 6.5 1981 <br />716 Halloween III: Season of the Witch 4.5 1982 <br />717 Halloween: Resurrection 4.1 2002 <br />718 Hamburger Hill 6.7 1987 <br />719 Hamlet 6.8 1990 <br />720 Hancock 6.4 2008 <br />721 Hang 'Em High 7 1968 <br />722 Hannibal 6.7 2001 <br />723 Hans Christian Andersen 6.9 1952 <br />724 Happiness Ahead 6.7 1934 <br />725 Hard Boiled 7.9 1992 <br />726 Hard Eight 7.3 1996 <br />727 Harper 7 1966 <br />728 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 7.4 2002 <br />729 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 7.7 2010 <br />730 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 8.1 2011 <br />731 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 7.6 2005 <br />732 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 7.5 2009 <br />733 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 7.5 2007 <br />734 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 7.8 2004 <br />735 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 7.5 2001 <br />736 Heartbreak Ridge 6.8 1986 <br />737 Hearts in Atlantis 6.9 2001 <br />738 Heat 8.3 1995 <br />739 Heathers 7.3 1988 <br />740 Hellboy 6.8 2004 <br />741 Hellboy II: The Golden Army 7 2008 <br />742 Hellfighters 6.5 1968 <br />743 Hellsing 8 2001 <br />744 Hercules 7.2 1997 <br />745 Here Come the Girls 6 1953 <br />746 Here Comes Mr. Jordan 7.7 1941 <br />747 Here Comes the Navy 6.5 1934 <br />748 Hero 7.9 2002 <br />749 Heroes for Sale 7.7 1933 <br />750 Hidalgo 6.7 2004 <br />751 Hide and Seek 5.9 2005 <br />752 High Noon 8.1 1952 <br />753 High Plains Drifter 7.6 1973 <br />754 High Sierra 7.6 1941 <br />755 High Society 7 1956 <br />756 High Time 6.2 1960 <br />757 Highlander 7.2 1986 <br />758 Highlander II: The Quickening 4 1991 <br />759 Highschool of the Dead 7.6 2010 <br />760 Hills of Home 6.7 1948 <br />761 His Girl Friday 8 1940 <br />762 Hit Parade of 1941 6.5 1940 <br />763 Hocus Pocus 6.7 1993 <br />764 Hoffa 6.6 1992 <br />765 Hold Back the Dawn 7.6 1941 <br />766 Holiday 7.9 1938 <br />767 Holiday Inn 7.6 1942 <br />768 Hollywood Homicide 5.3 2003 <br />769 Hollywood Party 6.3 1934 <br />770 Hombre 7.4 1967 <br />771 Home Alone 7.5 1990 <br />772 Home Alone 2: Lost in New York 6.6 1992 <br />773 Home from the Hill 7.5 1960 <br />774 Home Improvement 7.2 1991 <br />775 Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey 6.9 1993 <br />776 Honey I Blew Up the Kid 4.7 1992 <br />777 Honeymoon for Three 6.1 1941 <br />778 Hook 6.7 1991 <br />779 Horatio Hornblower 3 8.2 2003 <br />780 Horatio Hornblower: Retribution 8.4 2001 <br />781 Horatio Hornblower: The Duchess and the Devil 8 1999 <br />782 Horatio Hornblower: The Duel 8.2 1998 <br />783 Horatio Hornblower: The Fire Ship 8.2 1998 <br />784 Horatio Hornblower: The Wrong War 8.1 1999 <br />785 Horizons West 6.2 1952 <br />786 Hornblower: Duty 8.1 2003 <br />787 Hornblower: Mutiny 8.2 2001 <br />788 Horrible Bosses 6.9 2011 <br />789 Horror Express 6.5 1972 <br />790 Horror of Dracula 7.5 1958 <br />791 Horse Feathers 7.7 1932 <br />792 Hot Shots! 6.7 1991 <br />793 House of Dracula 5.8 1945 <br />794 House of Flying Daggers 7.6 2004 <br />795 House of Games 7.3 1987 <br />796 House of Usher 7 1960 <br />797 House of Wax 7.1 1953 <br />798 House on Haunted Hill 6.9 1959 <br />799 House on Haunted Hill 5.6 1999 <br />800 How Green Was My Valley 7.8 1941 <br />801 How Sweet It Is! 5.9 1968 <br />802 How the Grinch Stole Christmas 6 2000 <br />803 How the West Was Won 7.1 1962 <br />804 How to Marry a Millionaire 7 1953 <br />805 How to Steal a Million 7.6 1966 <br />806 How to Train Your Dragon 8.2 2010 <br />807 How to Train Your Dragon 2 7.9 2014 <br />808 Howl's Moving Castle 8.2 2004 <br />809 Hud 7.9 1963 <br />810 Hugo 7.6 2011 <br />811 Hunter Prey 5.8 2010 <br />812 Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte 7.7 1964 <br />813 I Am Legend 7.2 2007 <br />814 I Married a Monster from Outer Space 6.4 1958 <br />815 I Married a Witch 7.2 1942 <br />816 I See a Dark Stranger 7.1 1946 <br />817 I Spit on Your Grave 6.3 2010 <br />818 I Was an American Spy 6.6 1951 <br />819 I'm No Angel 7 1933 <br />820 Icarus 5.2 2010 <br />821 Ice Age 7.6 2002 <br />822 Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs 7 2009 <br />823 Ice Age: The Meltdown 6.9 2006 <br />824 Ice Station Zebra 6.6 1968 <br />825 Identity 7.3 2003 <br />826 Idiocracy 6.5 2006 <br />827 Ike: Countdown to D-Day 7.2 2004 <br />828 Illusion 6.1 2005 <br />829 Imitation of Life 7.9 1959 <br />830 In a Lonely Place 8 1950 <br />831 In Enemy Hands 6 2004 <br />832 In Harm's Way 7.3 1965 <br />833 In Old Chicago 6.9 1937 <br />834 In Order of Disappearance 7.2 2014 <br />835 In the Good Old Summertime 7.2 1949 <br />836 In the Mouth of Madness 7.2 1994 <br />837 In Time 6.7 2011 <br />838 In Which We Serve 7.3 1942 <br />839 Inception 8.8 2010 <br />840 Independence Day 6.9 1996 <br />841 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 6.2 2008 <br />842 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 8.3 1989 <br />843 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 7.6 1984 <br />844 Indiscreet 6.8 1958 <br />845 Infamous 7.1 2006 <br />846 Infernal Affairs 8.1 2002 <br />847 Infernal Affairs 2 7.4 2003 <br />848 Inglourious Basterds 8.3 2009 <br />849 Inherit the Wind 8.2 1960 <br />850 Inkheart 6.1 2008 <br />851 Inside Man 7.6 2006 <br />852 Insidious 6.8 2010 <br />853 Insidious: Chapter 2 6.6 2013 <br />854 Insidious: Chapter 3 6.1 2015 <br />855 Insomnia 7.2 2002 <br />856 Inspector Lewis 7.9 2007 <br />857 Instinct 6.5 1999 <br />858 Internal Affairs 6.5 1990 <br />859 Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles 7.6 1994 <br />860 Into the Storm 5.8 2014 <br />861 Into the Woods 6 2014 <br />862 Invaders from Mars 6.5 1953 <br />863 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 7.4 1978 <br />864 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 7.8 1956 <br />865 Invasion of the Saucer Men 5.5 1957 <br />866 Invictus 7.4 2009 <br />867 Ip Man 8.1 2008 <br />868 Iron Eagle 5.3 1986 <br />869 Iron Man 7.9 2008 <br />870 Iron Man 2 7 2010 <br />871 Iron Man 3 7.3 2013 <br />872 Iron Will 6.5 1994 <br />873 Island in the Sky 7 1953 <br />874 Isle of the Dead 6.6 1945 <br />875 It 6.9 1990 <br />876 It Came from Outer Space 6.6 1953 <br />877 It Could Happen to You 6.3 1994 <br />878 It Should Happen to You 7.3 1954 <br />879 It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World 7.6 1963 <br />880 It's a Wonderful Life 8.6 1946 <br />881 Ivanhoe 6.9 1952 <br />882 J. Edgar 6.6 2011 <br />883 Jack and the Beanstalk 6.1 1952 <br />884 Jailhouse Rock 6.5 1957 <br />885 Jam Session 6.3 1944 <br />886 James and the Giant Peach 6.7 1996 <br />887 Jarhead 7.1 2005 <br />888 Jason and the Argonauts 7.4 1963 <br />889 Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI 5.9 1986 <br />890 Jaws 8.1 1975 <br />891 Jaws 2 5.7 1978 <br />892 Jaws: The Revenge 2.8 1987 <br />893 Jennifer 8 6.2 1992 <br />894 Jeopardy 6.8 1953 <br />895 Jerry Maguire 7.3 1996 <br />896 Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise 7.2 2006 <br />897 Jesse Stone: Night Passage 7.3 2006 <br />898 Jesse Stone: Sea Change 7.2 2007 <br />899 Jesse Stone: Stone Cold 7.2 2005 <br />900 Jesse Stone: Thin Ice 7.2 2009 <br />901 Jezebel 7.6 1938 <br />902 JFK 8 1991 <br />903 Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade 7.6 1999 <br />904 Jingle All the Way 5.4 1996 <br />905 Jitterbugs 6.4 1943 <br />906 Joe Kidd 6.5 1972 <br />907 John Carter 6.6 2012 <br />908 Johnny Mnemonic 5.5 1995 <br />909 Journey 2: The Mysterious Island 5.8 2012 <br />910 Journey to the Center of the Earth 5.8 2008 <br />911 Journey to the Center of the Earth 7.1 1959 <br />912 Journey to the Far Side of the Sun 6.4 1969 <br />913 Joyeux Noel 7.8 2005 <br />914 Joyful Noise 5.6 2012 <br />915 Juarez 7.3 1939 <br />916 Judge Dredd 5.4 1995 <br />917 Juggernaut 6.6 1974 <br />918 Julie & Julia 7 2009 <br />919 Julius Caesar 7.4 1953 <br />920 Julius Caesar 6.1 1970 <br />921 Jumanji 6.9 1995 <br />922 Juno 7.5 2007 <br />923 Jurassic Park 8.1 1993 <br />924 Jurassic Park III 5.9 2001 <br />925 Jurassic World 7.1 2015 <br />926 K-19: The Widowmaker 6.6 2002 <br />927 K-PAX 7.4 2001 <br />928 Kaleido Star 7.9 2003 <br />929 Kansas City Confidential 7.4 1952 <br />930 Keeper of the Flame 6.9 1942 <br />931 Kelly's Heroes 7.7 1970 <br />932 Key Largo 7.9 1948 <br />933 Kick-Ass 7.7 2010 <br />934 Kidnapped 6.1 1971 <br />935 Kidô butôden G Gundam 7.6 1994 <br />936 Kidô senshi Gundam: Dai 08 MS shôtai 7.8 1996 <br />937 Kiki's Delivery Service 7.9 1989 <br />938 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 8.1 2003 <br />939 Kill Bill: Vol. 2 8 2004 <br />940 Kill Your Darlings 6.5 2013 <br />941 Killer Reality 5.1 2013 <br />942 Killing Kennedy 6 2013 <br />943 Kim 6.6 1950 <br />944 King Kong 7.3 2005 <br />945 King Kong 5.8 1976 <br />946 King of Kings 7.1 1961 <br />947 Kingsman: The Secret Service 7.8 2014 <br />948 Kino's Journey 8.5 2003 <br />949 Kiss Me Deadly 7.7 1955 <br />950 Kiss of Death 7.5 1947 <br />951 Kiss of the Dragon 6.6 2001 <br />952 Kiss the Girls 6.6 1997 <br />953 Kitty Foyle 7.1 1940 <br />954 Klute 7.2 1971 <br />955 Knights of the Round Table 6.3 1953 <br />956 Kôkaku kidôtai: Stand Alone Complex Solid State Society 8 2006 <br />957 Kôkyô shihen Eureka Sebun 8.2 2005 <br />958 Kull the Conqueror 4.8 1997 <br />959 Kung Fu Hustle 7.8 2004 <br />960 Kung Fu Panda 7.6 2008 <br />961 Kung Fu Panda 2 7.3 2011 <br />962 L.A. Confidential 8.3 1997 <br />963 Lady and the Tramp 7.4 1955 <br />964 Lady Be Good 6.5 1941 <br />965 Land of the Lost 5.3 2009 <br />966 Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life 5.5 2003 <br />967 Lara Croft: Tomb Raider 5.7 2001 <br />968 Lassie 6.7 2005 <br />969 Lassie 5.8 1994 <br />970 Lassie Come Home 7.2 1943 <br />971 Last Exile 8 2003 <br />972 Last Tango in Paris 7.2 1972 <br />973 Law Abiding Citizen 7.4 2009 <br />974 Lawrence of Arabia 8.4 1962 <br />975 Layer Cake 7.4 2004 <br />976 Le Mans 6.7 1971 <br />977 Leatherheads 6 2008 <br />978 Leatherheads 6 2008 <br />979 Legends of the Fall 7.5 1994 <br />980 Lend a Paw 7.1 1941 <br />981 Léon: The Professional 8.6 1994 <br />982 Les Misérables 7.6 2012 <br />983 Let Me In 7.2 2010 <br />984 Lethal Weapon 7.6 1987 <br />985 Lethal Weapon 2 7.2 1989 <br />986 Lethal Weapon 3 6.7 1992 <br />987 Lethal Weapon 4 6.6 1998 <br />988 Liar Liar 6.8 1997 <br />989 Licence to Kill 6.6 1989 <br />990 Life Begins with Love 4.3 1937 <br />991 Life of Brian 8.1 1979 <br />992 Life with Father 7.3 1947 <br />993 Lifeforce 6.1 1985 <br />994 Lilo & Stitch 7.2 2002 <br />995 Limelight 8.1 1952 <br />996 Lincoln 7.4 2012 <br />997 Little Fockers 5.5 2010 <br />998 Little Lord Fauntleroy 7.3 1936 <br />999 Little Nicky 5.3 2000 <br />1000 Little Women 7.3 1949 <br />1001 Little Women 7.3 1994 <br />1002 Live a Little, Love a Little 5.8 1968 <br />1003 Live Free or Die Hard 7.2 2007 <br />1004 Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels 8.2 1998 <br />1005 Lone Survivor 7.6 2013 <br />1006 Lone Survivor 7.6 2013 <br />1007 Lonely Are the Brave 7.7 1962 <br />1008 Lonesome Dove 8.8 1989 <br />1009 Lonesome Ghosts 7.8 1937 <br />1010 Long Day's Journey Into Night 7.8 1962 <br />1011 Looper 7.4 2012 <br />1012 Lord of War 7.6 2005 <br />1013 Love Affair 7.4 1939 <br />1014 Love Happy 5.8 1949 <br />1015 Love in the Afternoon 7.3 1957 <br />1016 Love Me or Leave Me 7.3 1955 <br />1017 Love Me Tender 6.2 1956 <br />1018 Lover Come Back 7.3 1961 <br />1019 Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro 7.8 1979 <br />1020 Lust for Life 7.4 1956 <br />1021 MacArthur 6.6 1977 <br />1022 Macbeth 7.6 1948 <br />1023 Macbeth 7.5 1971 <br />1024 Macross Plus 7.9 1994 <br />1025 Mad Max 7 1979 <br />1026 Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior 7.6 1981 <br />1027 Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome 6.2 1985 <br />1028 Mad Max: Fury Road 8.2 2015 <br />1029 Madagascar 6.9 2005 <br />1030 Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa 6.7 2008 <br />1031 Magnum Force 7.2 1973 <br />1032 Malcolm X 7.7 1992 <br />1033 Mallrats 7.2 1995 <br />1034 Mama 6.2 2013 <br />1035 Man of a Thousand Faces 7.2 1957 <br />1036 Man of Steel 7.2 2013 <br />1037 Man on the Moon 7.4 1999 <br />1038 Man with the Gun 6.7 1955 <br />1039 Manhunter 7.2 1986 <br />1040 Margin Call 7.1 2011 <br />1041 Mark of the Vampire 6.3 1935 <br />1042 Marley & Me 7.1 2008 <br />1043 Marley & Me 7.1 2008 <br />1044 Married to the Mob 6.1 1988 <br />1045 Martin 7.2 1977 <br />1046 Mary and Max 8.2 2009 <br />1047 Mary Poppins 7.8 1964 <br />1048 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 7.4 2003 <br />1049 Matlock 7 1986 <br />1050 Maverick 7 1994 <br />1051 Max Payne 5.4 2008 <br />1052 McQ 6.2 1974 <br />1053 Mean Streets 7.4 1973 <br />1054 Medicine Man 5.9 1992 <br />1055 Meet Joe Black 7.1 1998 <br />1056 Meet Me in St. Louis 7.7 1944 <br />1057 Meet the Fockers 6.3 2004 <br />1058 Meet the Parents 7 2000 <br />1059 Megamind 7.3 2010 <br />1060 Memento 8.5 2000 <br />1061 Memphis Belle 6.9 1990 <br />1062 Men in Black 7.3 1997 <br />1063 Men in Black 3 6.8 2012 <br />1064 Men in Black II 6.1 2002 <br />1065 Men in War 7.4 1957 <br />1066 Men of Honor 7.2 2000 <br />1067 Mercury Rising 6.1 1998 <br />1068 Messenger of Death 5.5 1988 <br />1069 Metropolis 8.3 1927 <br />1070 Michael 5.6 1996 <br />1071 Michael Clayton 7.3 2007 <br />1072 Michael Clayton 7.3 2007 <br />1073 Michael Collins 7.1 1996 <br />1074 Mickey and the Beanstalk 7.7 1947 <br />1075 Mickey's Birthday Party 6.7 1942 <br />1076 Mickey's Christmas Carol 8 1983 <br />1077 Mickey's Elephant 6.8 1936 <br />1078 Mickey's Parrot 7 1938 <br />1079 Mickey's Rival 6.9 1936 <br />1080 Mickey's Steam Roller 6.8 1934 <br />1081 Mickey's Surprise Party 6.6 1939 <br />1082 Midnight in Paris 7.7 2011 <br />1083 Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil 6.6 1997 <br />1084 Midnight Run 7.6 1988 <br />1085 Midway 6.8 1976 <br />1086 Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie 5 1995 <br />1087 Minority Report 7.7 2002 <br />1088 Miracle on 34th Street 7.9 1947 <br />1089 Mirage 7.5 1965 <br />1090 Mirrors 6.2 2008 <br />1091 Miss Sadie Thompson 6 1953 <br />1092 Missing in Action 5.3 1984 <br />1093 Missing in Action 2: The Beginning 5.1 1985 <br />1094 Mission to Mars 5.5 2000 <br />1095 Mission to Moscow 5.4 1943 <br />1096 Mission: Impossible 7.1 1996 <br />1097 Mission: Impossible II 6 2000 <br />1098 Mission: Impossible III 6.9 2006 <br />1099 Missionary Man 5.1 2007 <br />1100 Mississippi Burning 7.8 1988 <br />1101 Mister Roberts 7.8 1955 <br />1102 Mobile Suit Gundam 00 8.1 2007 <br />1103 Mobile Suit Gundam Seed 7.8 2002 <br />1104 Mobile Suit Gundam UC 8.1 2010 <br />1105 Mobile Suit Gundam Wing 8.3 1995 <br />1106 Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam 8.4 1985 <br />1107 Modern Times 8.6 1936 <br />1108 Mona Lisa 7.4 1986 <br />1109 Moneyball 7.6 2011 <br />1110 Monkey Business 7.6 1931 <br />1111 Monkey Business 7 1952 <br />1112 Monsters University 7.4 2013 <br />1113 Monsters, Inc. 8.1 2001 <br />1114 Monte Walsh 7.1 1970 <br />1115 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 8.3 1975 <br />1116 Monty Python's Flying Circus 8.9 1969 <br />1117 Moon Over Miami 7 1941 <br />1118 Moonraker 6.3 1979 <br />1119 Mortal Kombat 5.8 1995 <br />1120 Motel Hell 6 1980 <br />1121 Mothra vs. Godzilla 6.5 1964 <br />1122 Move Over, Darling 7 1963 <br />1123 Move Over, Darling 7 1963 <br />1124 Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House 7.4 1948 <br />1125 Mr. Deeds 5.8 2002 <br />1126 Mr. Lucky 7.2 1943 <br />1127 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 8.3 1939 <br />1128 Mrs. Miniver 7.6 1942 <br />1129 Much Ado About Nothing 7.4 1993 <br />1130 Mulholland Dr. 8 2001 <br />1131 Murder by Decree 7 1979 <br />1132 Murder Over New York 7.5 1940 <br />1133 Murder, My Sweet 7.6 1944 <br />1134 Murder, She Wrote 6.9 1984 <br />1135 Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For 7 2000 <br />1136 Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest 7 1997 <br />1137 Mushi-Shi 8.6 2005 <br />1138 Mutiny on the Bounty 7.8 1935 <br />1139 Mutiny on the Bounty 7.2 1962 <br />1140 My Blue Heaven 6.2 1990 <br />1141 My Blueberry Nights 6.7 2007 <br />1142 My Brilliant Career 7.4 1979 <br />1143 My Cousin Vinny 7.5 1992 <br />1144 My Darling Clementine 7.8 1946 <br />1145 My Fair Lady 7.9 1964 <br />1146 My Favorite Blonde 7.2 1942 <br />1147 My Favorite Brunette 6.9 1947 <br />1148 My Favorite Wife 7.4 1940 <br />1149 My Man Godfrey 8.1 1936 <br />1150 My Neighbor Totoro 8.3 1988 <br />1151 My Sister Eileen 7.1 1942 <br />1152 My Week with Marilyn 7 2011 <br />1153 Mystery of the Wax Museum 6.9 1933 <br />1154 Mystic Pizza 6.2 1988 <br />1155 Mystic River 8 2003 <br />1156 N.H.K ni yôkoso! 8.5 2006 <br />1157 National Treasure 6.9 2004 <br />1158 National Treasure: Book of Secrets 6.5 2007 <br />1159 National Velvet 7.4 1944 <br />1160 Need for Speed 6.6 2014 <br />1161 Needful Things 6.2 1993 <br />1162 Neon Genesis Evangelion 8.6 1995 <br />1163 Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion 8.2 1997 <br />1164 Never Say Die 6.9 1939 <br />1165 Never Say Never Again 6.2 1983 <br />1166 Never So Few 5.9 1959 <br />1167 Night at the Museum 6.4 2006 <br />1168 Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian 5.9 2009 <br />1169 Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb 6.3 2014 <br />1170 Night of the Lepus 4 1972 <br />1171 Night of the Living Dead 8 1968 <br />1172 Night Passage 6.7 1957 <br />1173 Night Skies 4.7 2007 <br />1174 Ninja Scroll 7.9 1993 <br />1175 Nixon 7.1 1995 <br />1176 No Country for Old Men 8.1 2007 <br />1177 No Time for Comedy 6.4 1940 <br />1178 Nobody Lives Forever 7 1946 <br />1179 None But the Brave 6.5 1965 <br />1180 North and South 8.1 1985 <br />1181 North by Northwest 8.4 1959 <br />1182 North to Alaska 7 1960 <br />1183 Not as a Stranger 6.8 1955 <br />1184 Nothing Left to Fear 4.4 2013 <br />1185 Notorious 8.1 1946 <br />1186 Now Is Good 7.2 2012 <br />1187 Now You See Me 7.3 2013 <br />1188 Now, Voyager 8.1 1942 <br />1189 O Brother, Where Art Thou? 7.8 2000 <br />1190 Oblivion 7 2013 <br />1191 Ocean's 11 6.6 1960 <br />1192 Ocean's Eleven 7.8 2001 <br />1193 Ocean's Thirteen 6.9 2007 <br />1194 Ocean's Twelve 6.4 2004 <br />1195 Octopussy 6.6 1983 <br />1196 Off Limits 6.2 1952 <br />1197 Oh, Men! Oh, Women! 5.2 1957 <br />1198 Old Dogs 5.4 2009 <br />1199 Old Yeller 7.3 1957 <br />1200 Oliver Twist 7.8 1948 <br />1201 Oliver Twist 7.9 1999 <br />1202 Olympus Has Fallen 6.5 2013 <br />1203 Omen IV: The Awakening 3.9 1991 <br />1204 On Moonlight Bay 7.1 1951 <br />1205 On the Beach 7.3 1959 <br />1206 On the Town 7.7 1949 <br />1207 On the Waterfront 8.3 1954 <br />1208 Once a Thief 6.8 1991 <br />1209 Once an Eagle 8.1 1976 <br />1210 Once Upon a Time in the West 8.6 1968 <br />1211 Once Upon a Time in the West 8.6 1968 <br />1212 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 8.7 1975 <br />1213 One Foot in Heaven 7.1 1941 <br />1214 One Special Night 7.4 1999 <br />1215 Open Range 7.5 2003 <br />1216 Operation Dumbo Drop 4.9 1995 <br />1217 Operation Petticoat 7.3 1959 <br />1218 Othello 7.8 1952 <br />1219 Our Mutual Friend 8.3 1998 <br />1220 Out of Sight 7.1 1998 <br />1221 Out of the Past 8.1 1947 <br />1222 Outlaw Star 7.9 1998 <br />1223 Outrageous Fortune 6 1987 <br />1224 Pacific Rendezvous 5.5 1942 <br />1225 Pale Rider 7.3 1985 <br />1226 Pan's Labyrinth 8.2 2006 <br />1227 Pandora and the Flying Dutchman 7.1 1951 <br />1228 Papillon 8 1973 <br />1229 Park Row 7.4 1952 <br />1230 Pat and Mike 7 1952 <br />1231 Paths of Glory 8.5 1957 <br />1232 Patlabor 2: The Movie 7.6 1993 <br />1233 Patlabor: The Movie 7.2 1989 <br />1234 Patriot Games 6.9 1992 <br />1235 Patton 8 1970 <br />1236 Paul 7 2011 <br />1237 Pearl 6.7 1978 <br />1238 Peeping Tom 7.8 1960 <br />1239 People Will Talk 7.5 1951 <br />1240 Perry Mason Returns 7.1 1985 <br />1241 Perry Mason: The Case of the All-Star Assassin 6.5 1989 <br />1242 Perry Mason: The Case of the Avenging Ace 6.9 1988 <br />1243 Perry Mason: The Case of the Defiant Daughter 7.1 1990 <br />1244 Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception 7.6 1990 <br />1245 Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Fashion 7 1991 <br />1246 Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Framing 6.9 1992 <br />1247 Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Framing 6.9 1992 <br />1248 Perry Mason: The Case of the Glass Coffin 7 1991 <br />1249 Perry Mason: The Case of the Heartbroken Bride 6.6 1992 <br />1250 Perry Mason: The Case of the Killer Kiss 7.2 1993 <br />1251 Perry Mason: The Case of the Lady in the Lake 6.7 1988 <br />1252 Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lesson 7.3 1989 <br />1253 Perry Mason: The Case of the Lost Love 6.8 1987 <br />1254 Perry Mason: The Case of the Maligned Mobster 7 1991 <br />1255 Perry Mason: The Case of the Murdered Madam 7 1987 <br />1256 Perry Mason: The Case of the Musical Murder 7 1989 <br />1257 Perry Mason: The Case of the Poisoned Pen 7 1990 <br />1258 Perry Mason: The Case of the Reckless Romeo 6.9 1992 <br />1259 Perry Mason: The Case of the Ruthless Reporter 7.2 1991 <br />1260 Perry Mason: The Case of the Scandalous Scoundrel 6.9 1987 <br />1261 Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer 7.1 1990 <br />1262 Perry Mason: The Case of the Sinister Spirit 7 1987 <br />1263 Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal 6.7 1993 <br />1264 Perry Mason: The Case of the Telltale Talk Show Host 7 1993 <br />1265 Pet Sematary 6.6 1989 <br />1266 Pet Sematary II 4.7 1992 <br />1267 Peter Pan 7.4 1953 <br />1268 Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom 7.9 2009 <br />1269 Phenomenon 6.4 1996 <br />1270 Picnic at Hanging Rock 7.6 1975 <br />1271 Pink Cadillac 5.2 1989 <br />1272 Pinocchio 7.5 1940 <br />1273 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End 7.1 2007 <br />1274 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest 7.3 2006 <br />1275 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides 6.7 2011 <br />1276 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 8.1 2003 <br />1277 Pit and the Pendulum 7.1 1961 <br />1278 Pitch Black 7.1 2000 <br />1279 Planes, Trains & Automobiles 7.6 1987 <br />1280 Planet of the Apes 8 1968 <br />1281 Planet of the Apes 5.7 2001 <br />1282 Platoon 8.1 1986 <br />1283 Pluto's Judgement Day 7.3 1935 <br />1284 Pluto's Party 6.5 1952 <br />1285 Pocahontas 6.6 1995 <br />1286 Pocketful of Miracles 7.3 1961 <br />1287 Point Blank 7.4 1967 <br />1288 Point Break 7.2 1991 <br />1289 Police Story 7.6 1985 <br />1290 Police Story 3: Supercop 6.9 1992 <br />1291 Police Story 4: First Strike 6.6 1996 <br />1292 Poltergeist 7.4 1982 <br />1293 Poltergeist II: The Other Side 5.6 1986 <br />1294 Poltergeist III 4.5 1988 <br />1295 Pork Chop Hill 7.1 1959 <br />1296 Portrait of Jennie 7.8 1948 <br />1297 Possessed 7.2 1947 <br />1298 Predator 7.8 1987 <br />1299 Predator 2 6.2 1990 <br />1300 Predators 6.4 2010 <br />1301 Premonition 5.9 2007 <br />1302 Pretty Woman 6.9 1990 <br />1303 Pride & Prejudice 7.8 2005 <br />1304 Pride and Prejudice 9.1 1995 <br />1305 Pride and Prejudice 7.5 1940 <br />1306 Primal Fear 7.7 1996 <br />1307 Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time 6.6 2010 <br />1308 Princess Mononoke 8.4 1997 <br />1309 Problem Child 5.2 1990 <br />1310 Problem Child 2 4.5 1991 <br />1311 Prohibition 8.2 2011 <br />1312 Prometheus 7 2012 <br />1313 Psalms of Planets Eureka Seven: Good Night, Sleep Tight, Young Lovers 6.5 2009 <br />1314 Psycho 8.5 1960 <br />1315 Psycho II 6.4 1983 <br />1316 Psycho-Pass 8.3 2012 <br />1317 Public Enemies 7 2009 <br />1318 Pulp 6.1 1972 <br />1319 Pulp Fiction 8.9 1994 <br />1320 Pumping Iron 7.5 1977 <br />1321 Purple Noon 7.8 1960 <br />1322 Puss in Boots 6.7 2011 <br />1323 Quantum of Solace 6.7 2008 <br />1324 Queen Christina 7.9 1933 <br />1325 Quentin Durward 6.4 1955 <br />1326 Quigley Down Under 6.8 1990 <br />1327 Race to Witch Mountain 5.7 2009 <br />1328 Raging Bull 8.3 1980 <br />1329 RahXephon 7.4 2002 <br />1330 Raiders of the Lost Ark 8.5 1981 <br />1331 Rain Man 8 1988 <br />1332 Rambo 7.1 2008 <br />1333 Rambo III 5.7 1988 <br />1334 Rambo: First Blood Part II 6.4 1985 <br />1335 Ransom 6.6 1996 <br />1336 Rat Race 6.4 2001 <br />1337 Ratatouille 8 2007 <br />1338 Re-Animator 7.3 1985 <br />1339 Real Genius 7 1985 <br />1340 Real Men 6.2 1987 <br />1341 Real Steel 7.1 2011 <br />1342 Rear Window 8.5 1954 <br />1343 Rebel Without a Cause 7.8 1955 <br />1344 Red Dawn 6.3 1984 <br />1345 Red Dragon 7.2 2002 <br />1346 Red Heat 6 1988 <br />1347 Red Planet 5.6 2000 <br />1348 Red River 7.8 1948 <br />1349 Red vs Blue: Recollection Trilogy 9.1 2008 <br />1350 Red vs. Blue Season 9 8.1 2011 <br />1351 Red vs. Blue: Recreation 8.8 2009 <br />1352 Red vs. Blue: Revelation 9.1 2010 <br />1353 Red vs. Blue: Season 10 9 2012 <br />1354 Red vs. Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles 8.6 2003 <br />1355 Reds 7.5 1981 <br />1356 Reflections in a Golden Eye 7 1967 <br />1357 Reign Over Me 7.5 2007 <br />1358 Reservoir Dogs 8.4 1992 <br />1359 Resident Evil 6.7 2002 <br />1360 Resident Evil: Afterlife 5.9 2010 <br />1361 Resident Evil: Apocalypse 6.2 2004 <br />1362 Resident Evil: Extinction 6.3 2007 <br />1363 Return from the Sea 6.3 1954 <br />1364 Return from Witch Mountain 5.9 1978 <br />1365 Return of the Gunfighter 6.4 1967 <br />1366 Return to Nim's Island 4.9 2013 <br />1367 Revenge of the Drunken Master 4.6 1984 <br />1368 Revenge of the Nerds 6.6 1984 <br />1369 Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise 4.9 1987 <br />1370 Revenge of the Nerds III: The Next Generation 3.7 1992 <br />1371 Revolutionary Road 7.3 2008 <br />1372 Riddick 6.4 2013 <br />1373 Ring of Bright Water 7.2 1969 <br />1374 Rio Bravo 8.1 1959 <br />1375 Rio Grande 7.3 1950 <br />1376 Rio Lobo 6.8 1970 <br />1377 Road House 6.4 1989 <br />1378 Road to Bali 6.8 1952 <br />1379 Road to Perdition 7.7 2002 <br />1380 Road to Rio 7.3 1947 <br />1381 Road to Singapore 7.1 1940 <br />1382 Road to Utopia 7.6 1945 <br />1383 Road to Zanzibar 7.2 1941 <br />1384 Robin Hood 6.7 2010 <br />1385 Robin Hood 7.6 1973 <br />1386 RoboCop 7.5 1987 <br />1387 RoboCop 2 5.7 1990 <br />1388 RoboCop 3 3.9 1993 <br />1389 Rocky 8.1 1976 <br />1390 Rocky Balboa 7.2 2006 <br />1391 Rocky II 7.1 1979 <br />1392 Rocky III 6.7 1982 <br />1393 Rocky IV 6.7 1985 <br />1394 Rocky V 5.1 1990 <br />1395 Roman Holiday 8.1 1953 <br />1396 Rome Adventure 6.5 1962 <br />1397 Romeo + Juliet 6.8 1996 <br />1398 Romeo and Juliet 7.7 1968 <br />1399 Room for One More 7.2 1952 <br />1400 Room Service 6.8 1938 <br />1401 Rooster Cogburn 6.9 1975 <br />1402 Rope 8 1948 <br />1403 Rose Red 6.7 2002 <br />1404 Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles 7.6 1999 <br />1405 Roustabout 5.9 1964 <br />1406 Royal Wedding 6.7 1951 <br />1407 Ruggles of Red Gap 7.8 1935 <br />1408 Rules of Engagement 6.4 2000 <br />1409 Run Silent Run Deep 7.4 1958 <br />1410 Runaway Bride 5.4 1999 <br />1411 Runner Runner 5.6 2013 <br />1412 Rush Hour 6.9 1998 <br />1413 Rush Hour 2 6.6 2001 <br />1414 Rush Hour 3 6.2 2007 <br />1415 Saboteur 7.2 1942 <br />1416 Sabrina 7.7 1954 <br />1417 Safe House 6.8 2012 <br />1418 Sahara 7.6 1943 <br />1419 Sailor Moon 7.7 1995 <br />1420 Sailor Moon S 7.9 1994 <br />1421 Sailor Moon Super S 8.2 1995 <br />1422 Salem's Lot 6.2 2004 <br />1423 Samurai 7 7.8 2004 <br />1424 Samurai chanpurû 8.7 2004 <br />1425 San Andreas 6.1 2015 <br />1426 San Francisco 7.3 1936 <br />1427 Sands of Iwo Jima 7.2 1949 <br />1428 Saratoga 6.5 1937 <br />1429 Saturday Night Fever 6.8 1977 <br />1430 Saving Private Ryan 8.6 1998 <br />1431 Say Anything... 7.4 1989 <br />1432 Scanners 6.8 1981 <br />1433 Scaramouche 7.6 1952 <br />1434 Scarface 8.3 1983 <br />1435 Scars of Dracula 6.2 1970 <br />1436 Scent of a Woman 8 1992 <br />1437 Schindler's List 8.9 1993 <br />1438 School of Rock 7.1 2003 <br />1439 Scream 7.2 1996 <br />1440 Scream 2 6.1 1997 <br />1441 Scream 3 5.5 2000 <br />1442 Scream 4 6.2 2011 <br />1443 Se7en 8.6 1995 <br />1444 Sea of Love 6.8 1989 <br />1445 Seabiscuit 7.3 2003 <br />1446 Seabiscuit 7.3 2003 <br />1447 Secret Window 6.6 2004 <br />1448 Seinfeld 8.9 1989 <br />1449 Semi-Pro 5.8 2008 <br />1450 Sense and Sensibility 7.7 1995 <br />1451 Serial Experiments Lain 8.2 1998 <br />1452 Sex and the Single Girl 6.5 1964 <br />1453 Sex, Lies, and Videotape 7.2 1989 <br />1454 Shadow of a Doubt 8 1943 <br />1455 Shadow of the Thin Man 7.3 1941 <br />1456 Shadow of the Vampire 6.9 2000 <br />1457 Shall We Dance 6.1 2004 <br />1458 Shall We Dance 7.6 1937 <br />1459 Shanghai Chest 6.5 1948 <br />1460 Shanghai Knights 6.2 2003 <br />1461 Shanghai Noon 6.6 2000 <br />1462 Shark Tale 6 2004 <br />1463 Shaun of the Dead 8 2004 <br />1464 She 5.8 1965 <br />1465 She Wore a Yellow Ribbon 7.4 1949 <br />1466 Shenandoah 7.4 1965 <br />1467 Sherlock 9.3 2010 <br />1468 Sherlock Holmes 7.6 2009 <br />1469 Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon 6.8 1942 <br />1470 Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror 6.8 1942 <br />1471 Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows 7.5 2011 <br />1472 Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows 7.5 2011 <br />1473 Shooter 7.2 2007 <br />1474 Showdown 5.9 1973 <br />1475 Shrek 7.9 2001 <br />1476 Shutter Island 8.1 2010 <br />1477 Signs 6.7 2002 <br />1478 Silent Hill 6.6 2006 <br />1479 Silk Stockings 6.9 1957 <br />1480 Silver Bullet 6.3 1985 <br />1481 Silver Linings Playbook 7.8 2012 <br />1482 Silverado 7.2 1985 <br />1483 Sin City 8.1 2005 <br />1484 Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger 6.3 1977 <br />1485 Since You Went Away 7.6 1944 <br />1486 Singapore 6.5 1947 <br />1487 Singin' in the Rain 8.3 1952 <br />1488 Sister Act 6.2 1992 <br />1489 Six Days Seven Nights 5.7 1998 <br />1490 Skyfall 7.8 2012 <br />1491 Sleeping Beauty 7.3 1959 <br />1492 Sleepy Hollow 7.4 1999 <br />1493 Sleuth 8.1 1972 <br />1494 Sling Blade 8 1996 <br />1495 Slither 6.5 2006 <br />1496 Snatch. 8.3 2000 <br />1497 Snow White and the Huntsman 6.1 2012 <br />1498 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 7.7 1937 <br />1499 So Proudly We Hail! 7.6 1943 <br />1500 Solaris 6.2 2002 <br />1501 Solaris 6.2 2002 <br />1502 Somebody Up There Likes Me 7.5 1956 <br />1503 Sommersby 6.1 1993 <br />1504 Son of Dracula 6.2 1943 <br />1505 Son of Frankenstein 7.2 1939 <br />1506 Song of the Thin Man 7 1947 <br />1507 Sons of the Desert 7.8 1933 <br />1508 Soul Eater 8 2008 <br />1509 Source Code 7.5 2011 <br />1510 South Pacific 7 1958 <br />1511 Soylent Green 7.1 1973 <br />1512 Space Cowboys 6.4 2000 <br />1513 Speed 7.2 1994 <br />1514 Spellbound 7.7 1945 <br />1515 Spice and Wolf 8.1 2008 <br />1516 Spider-Man 7.3 2002 <br />1517 Spider-Man 2 7.3 2004 <br />1518 Spider-Man 3 6.2 2007 <br />1519 Spirited Away 8.6 2001 <br />1520 Spring Reunion 5.7 1957 <br />1521 Spy Game 7 2001 <br />1522 Stage Door 7.9 1937 <br />1523 Stage Fright 7.1 1950 <br />1524 Stairway to Heaven 8.1 1946 <br />1525 Stake Land 6.5 2010 <br />1526 Stalag 17 8.1 1953 <br />1527 Stand by Me 8.1 1986 <br />1528 Star Spangled Rhythm 6.8 1942 <br />1529 Star Trek 8 2009 <br />1530 Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan 7.7 1982 <br />1531 Star Trek III: The Search for Spock 6.6 1984 <br />1532 Star Trek Into Darkness 7.8 2013 <br />1533 Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home 7.3 1986 <br />1534 Star Trek V: The Final Frontier 5.4 1989 <br />1535 Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country 7.2 1991 <br />1536 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 7.9 1993 <br />1537 Star Trek: First Contact 7.6 1996 <br />1538 Star Trek: Generations 6.6 1994 <br />1539 Star Trek: Insurrection 6.4 1998 <br />1540 Star Trek: Nemesis 6.4 2002 <br />1541 Star Trek: The Motion Picture 6.4 1979 <br />1542 Star Trek: The Next Generation 8.7 1987 <br />1543 Star Trek: Voyager 7.7 1995 <br />1544 Star Wars 8.7 1977 <br />1545 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace 6.5 1999 <br />1546 Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones 6.7 2002 <br />1547 Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith 7.6 2005 <br />1548 Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back 8.8 1980 <br />1549 Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi 8.4 1983 <br />1550 Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens 8.4 2015 <br />1551 Stargate 7 1994 <br />1552 Starship Troopers 7.2 1997 <br />1553 Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation 3.5 2004 <br />1554 Starship Troopers 3: Marauder 4.3 2008 <br />1555 Starsky & Hutch 6.1 2004 <br />1556 State of Play 7.1 2009 <br />1557 State of the Union 7.4 1948 <br />1558 Steamboat Willie 7.7 1928 <br />1559 Steel Magnolias 7.2 1989 <br />1560 Steins;Gate 8.9 2011 <br />1561 Stella Dallas 7.5 1937 <br />1562 Step Brothers 6.9 2008 <br />1563 Stir of Echoes 7 1999 <br />1564 Storm Warning 7.2 1951 <br />1565 Strait-Jacket 6.8 1964 <br />1566 Strange Bedfellows 6 1965 <br />1567 Stranger Than Fiction 7.6 2006 <br />1568 Strangers on a Train 8.1 1951 <br />1569 Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie 7.3 1994 <br />1570 Sudden Impact 6.6 1983 <br />1571 Suddenly, Last Summer 7.7 1959 <br />1572 Suicide Kings 7 1997 <br />1573 Sullivan's Travels 8.1 1941 <br />1574 Summertime 7.5 1955 <br />1575 Sunday Punch 5.9 1942 <br />1576 Sunrise at Campobello 7.1 1960 <br />1577 Sunset Blvd. 8.5 1950 <br />1578 Super 8 7.1 2011 <br />1579 Super Bowl XL 6.8 2006 <br />1580 Super Bowl XLI 7.3 2007 <br />1581 Super Bowl XLII 8.2 2008 <br />1582 Super Bowl XLIII 8 2009 <br />1583 Super Bowl XLIV 7.7 2010 <br />1584 Super Bowl XLIX 8.1 2015 <br />1585 Super Bowl XLV 7.3 2011 <br />1586 Super Bowl XLVI 7.7 2012 <br />1587 Super Bowl XLVII 7.1 2013 <br />1588 Super Bowl XLVIII 5.9 2014 <br />1589 Super Bowl XXVII 6.7 1993 <br />1590 Super Bowl XXVIII 6.9 1994 <br />1591 Super Bowl XXX 7.1 1996 <br />1592 Super Bowl XXXI 7.4 1997 <br />1593 Super Bowl XXXII 7.7 1998 <br />1594 Super Bowl XXXIII 6.9 1999 <br />1595 Super Bowl XXXIV 7.5 2000 <br />1596 Super Bowl XXXIX 5.9 2005 <br />1597 Super Bowl XXXV 6.1 2001 <br />1598 Super Bowl XXXVI 7.8 2002 <br />1599 Super Bowl XXXVII 6.7 2003 <br />1600 Super Bowl XXXVIII 7.2 2004 <br />1601 Super Mario Bros. 4 1993 <br />1602 Super Space Fortress Macross 7.9 1984 <br />1603 Superbad 7.6 2007 <br />1604 Supercop 2 6.1 1993 <br />1605 Superman 7.3 1978 <br />1606 Superman II 6.8 1980 <br />1607 Superman III 4.9 1983 <br />1608 Superman IV: The Quest for Peace 3.7 1987 <br />1609 Superman Returns 6.1 2006 <br />1610 Supernova 4.7 2000 <br />1611 Surrogates 6.3 2009 <br />1612 Suspicion 7.5 1941 <br />1613 Sweet Bird of Youth 7.5 1962 <br />1614 Sweet Home Alabama 6.1 2002 <br />1615 Sweet Smell of Success 8.2 1957 <br />1616 Swing Time 7.7 1936 <br />1617 Swingers 7.4 1996 <br />1618 Swiss Family Robinson 7.2 1960 <br />1619 Swordfish 6.5 2001 <br />1620 Sylvia 6.3 2003 <br />1621 Symphony Hour 7.7 1942 <br />1622 Take the High Ground! 6.2 1953 <br />1623 Taken 7.9 2008 <br />1624 Taken 3 6 2014 <br />1625 Taking Chance 7.5 2009 <br />1626 Tales of Terror 6.9 1962 <br />1627 Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby 6.6 2006 <br />1628 Tangled 7.8 2010 <br />1629 Tango & Cash 6.3 1989 <br />1630 Taste the Blood of Dracula 6.4 1970 <br />1631 Ted 2 6.4 2015 <br />1632 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 6.7 1990 <br />1633 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze 6 1991 <br />1634 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III 4.8 1993 <br />1635 TekWar 6.1 1994 <br />1636 TekWar: TekJustice 6.3 1994 <br />1637 TekWar: TekLab 6 1994 <br />1638 TekWar: TekLords 6.2 1994 <br />1639 Tenderness 5.5 2009 <br />1640 Tengen toppa gurren lagann 8.4 2007 <br />1641 Tequila Sunrise 6 1988 <br />1642 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 8.5 1991 <br />1643 Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines 6.4 2003 <br />1644 Terminator Salvation 6.6 2009 <br />1645 Test Pilot 6.9 1938 <br />1646 Texhnolyze 7.8 2003 <br />1647 Thank You for Smoking 7.6 2005 <br />1648 Thank Your Lucky Stars 7.3 1943 <br />1649 That Certain Woman 7 1937 <br />1650 That Darn Cat! 6.7 1965 <br />1651 That Touch of Mink 6.7 1962 <br />1652 The 40-Year-Old Virgin 7.2 2005 <br />1653 The 6th Day 5.9 2000 <br />1654 The 7th Voyage of Sinbad 7.2 1958 <br />1655 The Actress 6.7 1953 <br />1656 The Adjustment Bureau 7.1 2011 <br />1657 The Adventures of Huck Finn 6.1 1993 <br />1658 The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad 7.2 1949 <br />1659 The Adventures of Pete & Pete 8.4 1992 <br />1660 The Adventures of Robin Hood 8 1938 <br />1661 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 7.6 1939 <br />1662 The African Queen 7.9 1951 <br />1663 The Alamo 6.9 1960 <br />1664 The Alamo 6.9 1960 <br />1665 The Amazing Spider-Man 7.1 2012 <br />1666 The American President 6.8 1995 <br />1667 The Amityville Horror 6.2 1979 <br />1668 The Amityville Horror 6 2005 <br />1669 The Anderson Tapes 6.4 1971 <br />1670 The Andromeda Strain 7.2 1971 <br />1671 The Andromeda Strain 6.2 2008 <br />1672 The Andromeda Strain 7.2 1971 <br />1673 The Andromeda Strain 6.2 2008 <br />1674 The Angriest Man in Brooklyn 5.7 2014 <br />1675 The Apartment 8.3 1960 <br />1676 The Appaloosa 6.3 1966 <br />1677 The AristoCats 7.1 1970 <br />1678 The Arrangement 6.6 1969 <br />1679 The Arrival 6.3 1996 <br />1680 The Artist 8 2011 <br />1681 The Avengers 8.1 2012 <br />1682 The Aviator 7.5 2004 <br />1683 The Awful Truth 8 1937 <br />1684 The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer 7.3 1947 <br />1685 The Bank Job 7.3 2008 <br />1686 The Barkleys of Broadway 7 1949 <br />1687 The Beach 6.6 2000 <br />1688 The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms 6.7 1953 <br />1689 The Bells of St. Mary's 7.5 1945 <br />1690 The Best Years of Our Lives 8.2 1946 <br />1691 The Bible 7.4 2013 <br />1692 The Big Heat 8 1953 <br />1693 The Big House 7.2 1930 <br />1694 The Big Kahuna 6.7 1999 <br />1695 The Big Lebowski 8.2 1998 <br />1696 The Big O 7.6 1999 <br />1697 The Big Short 8 2015 <br />1698 The Big Sleep 8.1 1946 <br />1699 The Big Sleep 5.7 1978 <br />1700 The Big Store 6.6 1941 <br />1701 The Big Year 6.2 2011 <br />1702 The Birds 7.7 1963 <br />1703 The Bishop's Wife 7.6 1947 <br />1704 The Black Cat 7.2 1934 <br />1705 The Black Room 7 1935 <br />1706 The Blob 6.4 1958 <br />1707 The Blue and the Gray 7.7 1982 <br />1708 The Blues Brothers 7.9 1980 <br />1709 The Body Snatcher 7.4 1945 <br />1710 The Bone Collector 6.6 1999 <br />1711 The Bounty 7 1984 <br />1712 The Bourne Identity 7.9 2002 <br />1713 The Bourne Legacy 6.7 2012 <br />1714 The Bourne Supremacy 7.8 2004 <br />1715 The Bourne Supremacy 7.8 2004 <br />1716 The Bourne Ultimatum 8.1 2007 <br />1717 The Brave 6.5 1997 <br />1718 The Breakfast Club 7.9 1985 <br />1719 The Bribe 6.7 1949 <br />1720 The Bride Came C.O.D. 7.1 1941 <br />1721 The Brides of Dracula 6.8 1960 <br />1722 The Bridge at Remagen 6.7 1969 <br />1723 The Bridge on the River Kwai 8.2 1957 <br />1724 The Bridges of Madison County 7.5 1995 <br />1725 The Brotherhood 6 1968 <br />1726 The Butterfly Effect 7.7 2004 <br />1727 The Cabin in the Woods 7 2012 <br />1728 The Cable Guy 6 1996 <br />1729 The Caine Mutiny 7.9 1954 <br />1730 The Canterville Ghost 7 1944 <br />1731 The Cat Returns 7.3 2002 <br />1732 The Changeling 7.3 1980 <br />1733 The Changeling 6.7 2006 <br />1734 The Charge of the Light Brigade 7.1 1936 <br />1735 The Chase 7.3 1966 <br />1736 The Chicken Chronicles 5.2 1977 <br />1737 The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian 6.6 2008 <br />1738 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 6.9 2005 <br />1739 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader 6.3 2010 <br />1740 The Chronicles of Riddick 6.7 2004 <br />1741 The Cincinnati Kid 7.3 1965 <br />1742 The Civil War 9.5 1990 <br />1743 The Cocoanuts 7.2 1929 <br />1744 The Color of Money 7 1986 <br />1745 The Comancheros 6.9 1961 <br />1746 The Conjuring 7.5 2013 <br />1747 The Conqueror Worm 6.9 1968 <br />1748 The Corruptor 6 1999 <br />1749 The Cotton Club 6.5 1984 <br />1750 The Count of Monte Cristo 8.2 2004 <br />1751 The Count of Monte Cristo 7.7 1934 <br />1752 The Count of Monte Cristo 7.7 2002 <br />1753 The Court Jester 8 1955 <br />1754 The Cowboys 7.4 1972 <br />1755 The Creeping Flesh 6.3 1973 <br />1756 The Crossing Guard 6.4 1995 <br />1757 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 7.8 2008 <br />1758 The Curse of Frankenstein 7.2 1957 <br />1759 The Curse of Frankenstein 7.2 1957 <br />1760 The Curse of the Cat People 7 1944 <br />1761 The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb 5.5 1964 <br />1762 The Curse of the Were-Rabbit 7.5 2005 <br />1763 The Da Vinci Code 6.5 2006 <br />1764 The Damned United 7.6 2009 <br />1765 The Dark Half 5.9 1993 <br />1766 The Dark Knight 9 2008 <br />1767 The Dark Knight Rises 8.5 2012 <br />1768 The Dawn Patrol 7.6 1938 <br />1769 The Day of the Triffids 6.1 1963 <br />1770 The Day the Earth Stood Still 5.5 2008 <br />1771 The Day the Earth Stood Still 7.8 1951 <br />1772 The Day the Earth Stood Still 5.5 2008 <br />1773 The Dead Pool 6.3 1988 <br />1774 The Dead Zone 7.2 1983 <br />1775 The Deer Hunter 8.2 1978 <br />1776 The Departed 8.5 2006 <br />1777 The Devil and Daniel Webster 7.8 1941 <br />1778 The Devil at 4 O'Clock 6.5 1961 <br />1779 The Devil Rides Out 7.1 1968 <br />1780 The Devil-Doll 7 1936 <br />1781 The Devil's Advocate 7.5 1997 <br />1782 The Devil's Brigade 6.8 1968 <br />1783 The Devil's Brother 7.1 1933 <br />1784 The Devil's Daughter 6.2 1973 <br />1785 The Devil's Disciple 7.4 1959 <br />1786 The Devils 7.8 1971 <br />1787 The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer 5.5 2003 <br />1788 The Dirty Dozen 7.8 1967 <br />1789 The Dogs of War 6.3 1980 <br />1790 The Doors 7.2 1991 <br />1791 The Double 5.9 2011 <br />1792 The Dust Bowl 8.2 2012 <br />1793 The Eagle Has Landed 6.9 1976 <br />1794 The Eiger Sanction 6.4 1975 <br />1795 The Emperor Waltz 6.2 1948 <br />1796 The Enemy Below 7.6 1957 <br />1797 The Enforcer 6.6 1995 <br />1798 The English Patient 7.4 1996 <br />1799 The Evil of Frankenstein 6 1964 <br />1800 The Evil That Men Do 5.9 1984 <br />1801 The Exorcist 8 1973 <br />1802 The Exorcist III 6.3 1990 <br />1803 The Expendables 6.5 2010 <br />1804 The Expendables 2 6.7 2012 <br />1805 The Facts of Life 6.6 1960 <br />1806 The Falcon and the Snowman 6.8 1985 <br />1807 The Far Country 7.2 1954 <br />1808 The Farmer's Daughter 7.4 1947 <br />1809 The Fast and the Furious 6.7 2001 <br />1810 The Fatal Hour 5.4 1940 <br />1811 The Fifth Element 7.7 1997 <br />1812 The Fighter 7.9 2010 <br />1813 The Fighting Seabees 6.5 1944 <br />1814 The Final Conflict 5.5 1981 <br />1815 The Final Countdown 6.7 1980 <br />1816 The Final Destination 5.2 2009 <br />1817 The Firm 6.8 1993 <br />1818 The Flight of the Phoenix 7.6 1965 <br />1819 The Fly 7.5 1986 <br />1820 The Fly 7.5 1986 <br />1821 The Flying Deuces 6.9 1939 <br />1822 The Fog 6.8 1980 <br />1823 The Forbidden Kingdom 6.6 2008 <br />1824 The Four Musketeers: Milady's Revenge 7.1 1974 <br />1825 The Fourth Protocol 6.5 1987 <br />1826 The Fox and the Hound 7.3 1981 <br />1827 The Fox Hunt 6.7 1938 <br />1828 The French Connection 7.8 1971 <br />1829 The Freshman 6.5 1990 <br />1830 The Friends of Eddie Coyle 7.6 1973 <br />1831 The Frighteners 7.2 1996 <br />1832 The Frog Prince 6.9 1986 <br />1833 The Frozen Ground 6.4 2013 <br />1834 The Fugitive 7.8 1993 <br />1835 The Fugitive Kind 7.2 1960 <br />1836 The Full Monty 7.2 1997 <br />1837 The Fury 6.4 1978 <br />1838 The Game 7.8 1997 <br />1839 The Gate 5.9 1987 <br />1840 The Gay Divorcee 7.6 1934 <br />1841 The General 7.3 1998 <br />1842 The General's Daughter 6.2 1999 <br />1843 The Getaway 7.5 1972 <br />1844 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir 7.9 1947 <br />1845 The Ghost Breakers 7.3 1940 <br />1846 The Ghost Goes West 6.9 1935 <br />1847 The Ghost of Frankenstein 6.1 1942 <br />1848 The Ghost Writer 7.2 2010 <br />1849 The Girl Who Leapt Through Time 7.9 2006 <br />1850 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 7.8 2009 <br />1851 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 7.8 2011 <br />1852 The Giver 6.5 2014 <br />1853 The Glass Slipper 6.5 1955 <br />1854 The Godfather 9.2 1972 <br />1855 The Godfather: Part II 9 1974 <br />1856 The Godfather: Part III 7.6 1990 <br />1857 The Good Earth 7.8 1937 <br />1858 The Good German 6.1 2006 <br />1859 The Good Guys and the Bad Guys 6.2 1969 <br />1860 The Good Shepherd 6.7 2006 <br />1861 The Good Witch 7.1 2008 <br />1862 The Good Witch's Charm 7.1 2012 <br />1863 The Good Witch's Destiny 7.3 2013 <br />1864 The Good Witch's Family 7.1 2011 <br />1865 The Good Witch's Garden 7.2 2009 <br />1866 The Good Witch's Gift 7.3 2010 <br />1867 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 8.9 1966 <br />1868 The Gorgon 6.5 1964 <br />1869 The Grand Budapest Hotel 8.1 2014 <br />1870 The Grass Is Greener 6.6 1960 <br />1871 The Great Escape 8.3 1963 <br />1872 The Great Gatsby 6.4 1974 <br />1873 The Great Gatsby 7.3 2013 <br />1874 The Great Lie 7.3 1941 <br />1875 The Great Mouse Detective 7.2 1986 <br />1876 The Great Outdoors 6.6 1988 <br />1877 The Great Race 7.2 1965 <br />1878 The Great Raid 6.7 2005 <br />1879 The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery 6 1959 <br />1880 The Great Train Robbery 7 1979 <br />1881 The Greatest Game Ever Played 7.5 2005 <br />1882 The Green Berets 5.6 1968 <br />1883 The Green Mile 8.5 1999 <br />1884 The Grudge 5.9 2004 <br />1885 The Grudge 2 5 2006 <br />1886 The Grudge 2 5 2006 <br />1887 The Guard 7.3 2011 <br />1888 The Gunfighter 7.7 1950 <br />1889 The Guns of Navarone 7.6 1961 <br />1890 The Hangover 7.8 2009 <br />1891 The Hangover Part II 6.5 2011 <br />1892 The Haunted 6.5 1991 <br />1893 The Haunted House 7.2 1929 <br />1894 The Haunted Palace 6.8 1963 <br />1895 The Haunting 7.6 1963 <br />1896 The Heiress 8.3 1949 <br />1897 The High and the Mighty 6.9 1954 <br />1898 The Hills Have Eyes 6.4 2006 <br />1899 The Hills Have Eyes II 5.1 2007 <br />1900 The Hindenburg 6.2 1975 <br />1901 The Hoax 6.7 2006 <br />1902 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 7.9 2012 <br />1903 The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies 7.5 2014 <br />1904 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 7.9 2013 <br />1905 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 7.9 2013 <br />1906 The Homesman 6.6 2014 <br />1907 The Hoodlum Saint 6.1 1946 <br />1908 The Hook 6.6 1963 <br />1909 The Horse Soldiers 7.2 1959 <br />1910 The Horse Whisperer 6.5 1998 <br />1911 The Host 5.9 2013 <br />1912 The Hound of the Baskervilles 7.6 1939 <br />1913 The Hound of the Baskervilles 7 1959 <br />1914 The Hound of the Baskervilles 6.6 2002 <br />1915 The House of the Devil 6.4 2009 <br />1916 The House That Dripped Blood 6.6 1971 <br />1917 The Hucksters 6.7 1947 <br />1918 The Hunchback of Notre Dame 6.9 1996 <br />1919 The Hunger Games 7.3 2012 <br />1920 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire 7.6 2013 <br />1921 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 6.7 2014 <br />1922 The Hunt for Red October 7.6 1990 <br />1923 The Hunter 6.8 2011 <br />1924 The Hurt Locker 7.6 2008 <br />1925 The Hustler 8.1 1961 <br />1926 The Ides of March 7.1 2011 <br />1927 The Illusionist 7.6 2006 <br />1928 The Imitation Game 8.1 2014 <br />1929 The Incredibles 8 2004 <br />1930 The Innocents 7.9 1961 <br />1931 The Insider 7.9 1999 <br />1932 The Interview 6.7 2014 <br />1933 The Invisible Woman 6.1 1940 <br />1934 The Italian Job 7.4 1969 <br />1935 The Jackal 6.3 1997 <br />1936 The Jade Mask 6.9 1945 <br />1937 The Jewel of the Nile 6.1 1985 <br />1938 The Joker Is Wild 7.1 1957 <br />1939 The Journey 7 1959 <br />1940 The Judge 7.4 2014 <br />1941 The Jungle Book 7.6 1967 <br />1942 The Jungle Book 6 1994 <br />1943 The Karate Kid 7.2 1984 <br />1944 The Kid from Brooklyn 6.8 1946 <br />1945 The Killer 7.9 1989 <br />1946 The Killers 7.9 1946 <br />1947 The Killers 7.1 1964 <br />1948 The King and I 7.5 1956 <br />1949 The King's Speech 8 2010 <br />1950 The Lady Eve 8 1941 <br />1951 The Lady from Shanghai 7.7 1947 <br />1952 The Lair of the White Worm 5.8 1988 <br />1953 The Last Days of Disco 6.6 1998 <br />1954 The Last Days of Patton 6.4 1986 <br />1955 The Last Hurrah 7.5 1958 <br />1956 The Last Legion 5.4 2007 <br />1957 The Last Man on Earth 7 1964 <br />1958 The Last of Sheila 7.4 1973 <br />1959 The Last Picture Show 8.1 1971 <br />1960 The Last Samurai 7.7 2003 <br />1961 The Last Stand 6.4 2013 <br />1962 The Last Sunset 6.8 1961 <br />1963 The Last Tycoon 6.4 1976 <br />1964 The Last Winter 5.6 2006 <br />1965 The Late Show 7.1 1977 <br />1966 The Lawless Breed 6.3 1953 <br />1967 The Lawnmower Man 5.4 1992 <br />1968 The Legend 7.2 1993 <br />1969 The Legend 7.2 1993 <br />1970 The Legend II 7 1993 <br />1971 The Legend of Drunken Master 7.6 1994 <br />1972 The Legend of Hell House 6.9 1973 <br />1973 The Legend of Zorro 5.9 2005 <br />1974 The Letter 7.7 1940 <br />1975 The Life of Brian 5.2 2002 <br />1976 The Lion in Winter 8.2 1968 <br />1977 The Lion King 8.5 1994 <br />1978 The Lion King 2: Simba's Pride 6.5 1998 <br />1979 The Little Mermaid 7.6 1989 <br />1980 The Living Daylights 6.7 1987 <br />1981 The Long, Hot Summer 7.5 1958 <br />1982 The Longest Day 7.8 1962 <br />1983 The Longest Day 7.8 1962 <br />1984 The Longest Nite 7.5 1998 <br />1985 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 8.8 2001 <br />1986 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 8.9 2003 <br />1987 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 8.7 2002 <br />1988 The Lost World: Jurassic Park 6.5 1997 <br />1989 The Lusty Men 7.6 1952 <br />1990 The Mad Magician 6.4 1954 <br />1991 The Madness of King George 7.3 1994 <br />1992 The Magnificent Seven 7.8 1960 <br />1993 The Maltese Falcon 8.2 1941 <br />1994 The Man from Laramie 7.4 1955 <br />1995 The Man Who Came to Dinner 7.7 1942 <br />1996 The Man Who Knew Too Much 7.5 1956 <br />1997 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 8.1 1962 <br />1998 The Man Who Would Be King 7.9 1975 <br />1999 The Man with the Golden Gun 6.8 1974 <br />2000 The Man Without a Face 6.7 1993 <br />2001 The Manchurian Candidate 8 1962 <br />2002 The Manchurian Candidate 6.6 2004 <br />2003 The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh 7.6 1977 <br />2004 The Marrying Kind 7 1952 <br />2005 The Mask 6.9 1994 <br />2006 The Mask of Dimitrios 7.2 1944 <br />2007 The Mask of Zorro 6.7 1998 <br />2008 The Masque of the Red Death 7.1 1964 <br />2009 The Matrix 8.7 1999 <br />2010 The Matrix Reloaded 7.2 2003 <br />2011 The Matrix Revolutions 6.7 2003 <br />2012 The Maze Runner 6.8 2014 <br />2013 The Medallion 5.1 2003 <br />2014 The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya 8.1 2006 <br />2015 The Men Who Stare at Goats 6.2 2009 <br />2016 The Mighty Ducks 6.4 1992 <br />2017 The Mission 7.5 1986 <br />2018 The Missouri Breaks 6.6 1976 <br />2019 The Money Pit 6.3 1986 <br />2020 The More the Merrier 8 1943 <br />2021 The Mothman Prophecies 6.5 2002 <br />2022 The Mouse That Roared 7 1959 <br />2023 The Mummy 7 1999 <br />2024 The Mummy 6.8 1959 <br />2025 The Mummy Returns 6.3 2001 <br />2026 The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor 5.2 2008 <br />2027 The Muppets 7.2 2011 <br />2028 The Music Box 8.1 1932 <br />2029 The Naked Spur 7.5 1953 <br />2030 The Negotiator 7.3 1998 <br />2031 The NeverEnding Story 7.4 1984 <br />2032 The Neverending Story II: The Next Chapter 5 1990 <br />2033 The Neverending Story III 3.1 1994 <br />2034 The New Legend of Shaolin 6.3 1994 <br />2035 The New World 6.7 2005 <br />2036 The Next Three Days 7.4 2010 <br />2037 The Nifty Nineties 6.9 1941 <br />2038 The Night of the Following Day 6.2 1968 <br />2039 The Night of the Generals 7.4 1967 <br />2040 The Night of the Hunter 8.1 1955 <br />2041 The Nightcomers 6.1 1971 <br />2042 The Nightmare Before Christmas 8 1993 <br />2043 The Ninth Gate 6.7 1999 <br />2044 The Notebook 7.9 2004 <br />2045 The Odd Couple 7.7 1968 <br />2046 The Odd Couple II 6.4 1998 <br />2047 The Odessa File 7 1974 <br />2048 The Omega Man 6.6 1971 <br />2049 The Omen 5.5 2006 <br />2050 The Omen 7.6 1976 <br />2051 The One 5.9 2001 <br />2052 The Others 7.6 2001 <br />2053 The Outlaw Josey Wales 7.9 1976 <br />2054 The Pacific 8.3 2010 <br />2055 The Palm Beach Story 7.7 1942 <br />2056 The Passenger 7.7 1975 <br />2057 The Patriot 7.1 2000 <br />2058 The Peacemaker 5.9 1997 <br />2059 The Pearl of Death 7.5 1944 <br />2060 The Pee-Wee Herman Show on Broadway 7.6 2011 <br />2061 The Pelican Brief 6.5 1993 <br />2062 The Perfect Storm 6.4 2000 <br />2063 The Perks of Being a Wallflower 8 2012 <br />2064 The Phantom of the Opera 7.4 2004 <br />2065 The Philadelphia Story 8.1 1940 <br />2066 The Pianist 8.5 2002 <br />2067 The Picture of Dorian Gray 7.6 1945 <br />2068 The Pink Panther 5.6 2006 <br />2069 The Place Beyond the Pines 7.3 2012 <br />2070 The Place Promised in Our Early Days 7.3 2004 <br />2071 The Poseidon Adventure 7.1 1972 <br />2072 The Prestige 8.5 2006 <br />2073 The Pride and the Passion 5.8 1957 <br />2074 The Prince and the Showgirl 6.7 1957 <br />2075 The Princess and the Pirate 7 1944 <br />2076 The Princess Bride 8.1 1987 <br />2077 The Princess Bride 8.1 1987 <br />2078 The Prisoner of Zenda 7.8 1937 <br />2079 The Private Life of Don Juan 6.4 1934 <br />2080 The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes 7.2 1970 <br />2081 The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell 5.7 1968 <br />2082 The Prize 6.8 1963 <br />2083 The Pursuit of Happyness 7.9 2006 <br />2084 The Quatermass Xperiment 6.8 1955 <br />2085 The Quick and the Dead 6.4 1995 <br />2086 The Quiet American 7.1 2002 <br />2087 The Quiet Man 7.9 1952 <br />2088 The Railway Man 7.1 2013 <br />2089 The Rainmaker 7.1 1997 <br />2090 The Rainmaker 7.1 1956 <br />2091 The Rare Breed 6.4 1966 <br />2092 The Raven 6.4 2012 <br />2093 The Raven 6.7 1963 <br />2094 The Real St. Nick 6 2012 <br />2095 The Red Baron 6.3 2008 <br />2096 The Relic 5.7 1997 <br />2097 The Remains of the Day 7.9 1993 <br />2098 The Reptile 6.2 1966 <br />2099 The Rescuers 6.9 1977 <br />2100 The Rescuers Down Under 6.9 1990 <br />2101 The Return of Jafar 5.9 1994 <br />2102 The Return of the Musketeers 6 1989 <br />2103 The Revenge of Frankenstein 6.9 1958 <br />2104 The Ring 7.1 2002 <br />2105 The Road to Hong Kong 6.6 1962 <br />2106 The Roaring Twenties 7.9 1939 <br />2107 The Rookie 5.8 1990 <br />2108 The Running Man 6.6 1987 <br />2109 The Russia House 6.1 1990 <br />2110 The Sand Pebbles 7.7 1966 <br />2111 The Santa Clause 6.4 1994 <br />2112 The Santa Clause 2 5.5 2002 <br />2113 The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause 4.6 2006 <br />2114 The Satanic Rites of Dracula 5.5 1973 <br />2115 The Scarlet Pimpernel 7.7 1982 <br />2116 The Sea Wolves 6.3 1980 <br />2117 The Searchers 8 1956 <br />2118 The Secret Garden 7.5 1949 <br />2119 The Secret of NIMH 7.6 1982 <br />2120 The Secret World of Alex Mack 7.8 1994 <br />2121 The Seventh Cross 7.4 1944 <br />2122 The Seventh Seal 8.2 1957 <br />2123 The Seventh Victim 6.9 1943 <br />2124 The Shawshank Redemption 9.3 1994 <br />2125 The Shield 8.7 2002 <br />2126 The Shining 8.4 1980 <br />2127 The Shootist 7.7 1976 <br />2128 The Shop Around the Corner 8.1 1940 <br />2129 The Siege 6.3 1998 <br />2130 The Siege 6.3 1998 <br />2131 The Silence of the Lambs 8.6 1991 <br />2132 The Sixth Sense 8.1 1999 <br />2133 The Sky Dragon 7.1 1949 <br />2134 The Snows of Kilimanjaro 6.3 1952 <br />2135 The Social Network 7.8 2010 <br />2136 The Solid Gold Cadillac 7.6 1956 <br />2137 The Soloist 6.7 2009 <br />2138 The Song of Bernadette 7.7 1943 <br />2139 The Sons of Katie Elder 7.2 1965 <br />2140 The Sorcerers 6.4 1967 <br />2141 The Spanish Main 6.4 1945 <br />2142 The Spider 4 1958 <br />2143 The Spiral Staircase 7.6 1945 <br />2144 The Spirit of St. Louis 7.2 1957 <br />2145 The Spy Who Loved Me 7.1 1977 <br />2146 The Stand 7.3 1994 <br />2147 The Sting 8.3 1973 <br />2148 The Story of Temple Drake 7.2 1933 <br />2149 The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle 7 1939 <br />2150 The Stranger 7.4 1946 <br />2151 The Strawberry Blonde 7.4 1941 <br />2152 The Sundowners 7.3 1960 <br />2153 The Sword and the Rose 6.6 1953 <br />2154 The Sword in the Stone 7.2 1963 <br />2155 The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 6.4 2009 <br />2156 The Tale of Despereaux 6.1 2008 <br />2157 The Talented Mr. Ripley 7.3 1999 <br />2158 The Taming of the Shrew 7.2 1967 <br />2159 The Tarnished Angels 7.3 1957 <br />2160 The Ten Commandments 7.9 1956 <br />2161 The Terminal 7.3 2004 <br />2162 The Terminator 8.1 1984 <br />2163 The Testament of Dr. Mabuse 7.9 1933 <br />2164 The Theory of Everything 7.7 2014 <br />2165 The Thief of Bagdad 7.6 1940 <br />2166 The Thin Man 8.2 1934 <br />2167 The Thin Man Goes Home 7.4 1945 <br />2168 The Thin Red Line 7.6 1998 <br />2169 The Thing 8.2 1982 <br />2170 The Thing 6.2 2011 <br />2171 The Thing from Another World 7.3 1951 <br />2172 The Third Man 8.3 1949 <br />2173 The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada 7.5 2005 <br />2174 The Three Musketeers 6.3 1993 <br />2175 The Three Musketeers 5.8 2011 <br />2176 The Three Musketeers 7.3 1973 <br />2177 The Time Machine 7.6 1960 <br />2178 The Time Machine 5.9 2002 <br />2179 The Time of Their Lives 8 1946 <br />2180 The Tomb of Ligeia 6.6 1964 <br />2181 The Towering Inferno 6.9 1974 <br />2182 The Train 7.9 1964 <br />2183 The Train Robbers 6.4 1973 <br />2184 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 8.3 1948 <br />2185 The Trial 7.9 1962 <br />2186 The Tuxedo 5.3 2002 <br />2187 The Twelve Kingdoms 8.2 2002 <br />2188 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 4.9 2011 <br />2189 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 5.5 2012 <br />2190 The Twilight Saga: Eclipse 4.9 2010 <br />2191 The Twilight Saga: New Moon 4.6 2009 <br />2192 The Two Jakes 6.1 1990 <br />2193 The Undefeated 6.6 1969 <br />2194 The Uninvited 7.4 1944 <br />2195 The Usual Suspects 8.6 1995 <br />2196 The Verdict 7.8 1982 <br />2197 The Verdict 7.2 1946 <br />2198 The Visitor 4.7 1979 <br />2199 The Wages of Fear 8.2 1953 <br />2200 The War 9 2007 <br />2201 The War Lover 6.7 1962 <br />2202 The War of the Worlds 7.2 1953 <br />2203 The Watcher 5.3 2000 <br />2204 The West 8.4 1996 <br />2205 The Whalers 7.3 1938 <br />2206 The White Cliffs of Dover 7.1 1944 <br />2207 The Wicker Man 7.6 1973 <br />2208 The Wild Bunch 8 1969 <br />2209 The Wild Life 6 1984 <br />2210 The Winds of War 8.2 1983 <br />2211 The Wings of Eagles 6.8 1957 <br />2212 The Winston Affair 6.6 1964 <br />2213 The Wizard of Oz 8.1 1939 <br />2214 The Wolf Man 7.4 1941 <br />2215 The Wolf of Wall Street 8.2 2013 <br />2216 The Wolfman 5.8 2010 <br />2217 The Wolverine 6.7 2013 <br />2218 The Woman in Black 6.4 2012 <br />2219 The Woman in the Window 7.8 1944 <br />2220 The Woman on Pier 13 5.9 1949 <br />2221 The World Is Not Enough 6.4 1999 <br />2222 The World's End 7 2013 <br />2223 The Wrong Man 7.5 1956 <br />2224 The X-Files 8.7 1993 <br />2225 The X-Files 8.7 1993 <br />2226 The Year of Living Dangerously 7.2 1982 <br />2227 The Young Lions 7.3 1958 <br />2228 Them! 7.3 1954 <br />2229 There's Something About Mary 7.1 1998 <br />2230 These Wilder Years 6.7 1956 <br />2231 They Died with Their Boots On 7.3 1941 <br />2232 They Met in Bombay 6.5 1941 <br />2233 They Were Expendable 7.3 1945 <br />2234 They Were Expendable 7.3 1945 <br />2235 Thir13en Ghosts 5.5 2001 <br />2236 Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo 7.5 1944 <br />2237 This Happy Breed 7.3 1944 <br />2238 This Is It 7.3 2009 <br />2239 This Is the End 6.7 2013 <br />2240 Thor: The Dark World 7.1 2013 <br />2241 Thoroughly Modern Millie 7 1967 <br />2242 Thousands Cheer 6.4 1943 <br />2243 Three Days of the Condor 7.5 1975 <br />2244 Thunderball 7 1965 <br />2245 Thunderbird 6 6.3 1968 <br />2246 Thunderbolt 6.3 1995 <br />2247 Thunderbolt and Lightfoot 7.1 1974 <br />2248 Thunderheart 6.8 1992 <br />2249 Time After Time 7.2 1979 <br />2250 Time Out for Rhythm 6.7 1941 <br />2251 Tin Man 7.2 2007 <br />2252 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 7.1 2011 <br />2253 Titan A.E. 6.6 2000 <br />2254 Titanic 7.7 1997 <br />2255 TMNT 6.3 2007 <br />2256 To Catch a Thief 7.5 1955 <br />2257 To End All Wars 7.1 2001 <br />2258 To Have and Have Not 8 1944 <br />2259 To Hell and Back 7.5 1955 <br />2260 To Kill a Mockingbird 8.4 1962 <br />2261 To the Shores of Tripoli 6.1 1942 <br />2262 Tombstone 7.8 1993 <br />2263 Tommy Boy 7 1995 <br />2264 Tomorrow Is Forever 7.5 1946 <br />2265 Tomorrow Never Dies 6.5 1997 <br />2266 Top Gun 6.9 1986 <br />2267 Top Hat 7.8 1935 <br />2268 Topper 7.4 1937 <br />2269 Tora! Tora! Tora! 7.5 1970 <br />2270 Torn Curtain 6.7 1966 <br />2271 Total Recall 7.5 1990 <br />2272 Total Recall 6.3 2012 <br />2273 Touch of Evil 8.1 1958 <br />2274 Tower Heist 6.2 2011 <br />2275 Tower of London 6.7 1939 <br />2276 Tower of London 6.3 1962 <br />2277 Toy Story 8.3 1995 <br />2278 Toy Story 2 7.9 1999 <br />2279 Toy Story 3 8.4 2010 <br />2280 Traffic 7.6 2000 <br />2281 Trailer Park Boys 8.5 2001 <br />2282 Trainspotting 8.2 1996 <br />2283 Transformers 7.1 2007 <br />2284 Transformers: Dark of the Moon 6.3 2011 <br />2285 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen 6 2009 <br />2286 Treasure Island 7 1950 <br />2287 Treasure Island 7 1950 <br />2288 Trick or Treat 7.2 1952 <br />2289 Trigun 8.4 1998 <br />2290 TRON 6.8 1982 <br />2291 TRON: Legacy 6.8 2010 <br />2292 Tropic Thunder 7 2008 <br />2293 True Crime 6.6 1999 <br />2294 True Grit 7.4 1969 <br />2295 True Grit 7.7 2010 <br />2296 True Lies 7.2 1994 <br />2297 Tucker: The Man and His Dream 6.9 1988 <br />2298 Tugboat Mickey 7.3 1940 <br />2299 Turner & Hooch 6 1989 <br />2300 Twelve Monkeys 8.1 1995 <br />2301 Twelve O'Clock High 7.8 1949 <br />2302 Twice-Told Tales 6.7 1963 <br />2303 Twilight 5.2 2008 <br />2304 Twister 6.3 1996 <br />2305 Two Girls and a Sailor 6.7 1944 <br />2306 U-571 6.6 2000 <br />2307 UHF 7 1989 <br />2308 Ulysses 6.6 1967 <br />2309 Uncommon Valor 6.3 1983 <br />2310 Under the Mountain 4.9 2009 <br />2311 Underworld 7 2003 <br />2312 Underworld: Evolution 6.8 2006 <br />2313 Unforgiven 8.3 1992 <br />2314 Universal Soldier 5.9 1992 <br />2315 Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning 5 2012 <br />2316 Universal Soldier: Regeneration 5.2 2009 <br />2317 Unsolved Mysteries 8.3 1987 <br />2318 Unstoppable 6.8 2010 <br />2319 Up 8.3 2009 <br />2320 Up in the Air 7.5 2009 <br />2321 Up in the Air 7.5 2009 <br />2322 V for Vendetta 8.2 2005 <br />2323 Valkyrie 7.1 2008 <br />2324 Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust 7.8 2000 <br />2325 Van Helsing 6 2004 <br />2326 Vanilla Sky 6.9 2001 <br />2327 Vanishing on 7th Street 4.9 2010 <br />2328 Vengeance Valley 5.9 1951 <br />2329 Vertigo 8.4 1958 <br />2330 Village of the Damned 7.3 1960 <br />2331 Virus 4.8 1999 <br />2332 Viva Las Vegas 6.3 1964 <br />2333 Volcano 5.4 1997 <br />2334 Von Ryan's Express 7.2 1965 <br />2335 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea 6.1 1961 <br />2336 W. 6.4 2008 <br />2337 Wag the Dog 7.1 1997 <br />2338 Wake of the Red Witch 6.7 1948 <br />2339 Walk Don't Run 6.7 1966 <br />2340 Walk on the Wild Side 6.8 1962 <br />2341 Walk the Line 7.9 2005 <br />2342 Wall Street 7.4 1987 <br />2343 Wall Street 7.4 1987 <br />2344 Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps 6.3 2010 <br />2345 WALL·E 8.4 2008 <br />2346 War & Peace 8.3 1972 <br />2347 War and Peace 6.8 1956 <br />2348 War and Remembrance 8.4 1988 <br />2349 War of the Worlds 6.5 2005 <br />2350 Warm Bodies 6.9 2013 <br />2351 Warrior 8.2 2011 <br />2352 Watch on the Rhine 7.4 1943 <br />2353 Watchers 5.2 1988 <br />2354 Waterloo Bridge 7.8 1940 <br />2355 Way Down East 8 1920 <br />2356 Way Out West 7.8 1937 <br />2357 Wayne's World 7 1992 <br />2358 Wayne's World 2 6.1 1993 <br />2359 We Were Soldiers 7.1 2002 <br />2360 We're Not Married! 6.4 1952 <br />2361 Weekend at Bernie's 6.3 1989 <br />2362 West Point 8 1927 <br />2363 Westward Passage 5.6 1932 <br />2364 Westworld 7.1 1973 <br />2365 What's the Matter with Helen? 6.4 1971 <br />2366 When They Cry 8.2 2006 <br />2367 When Trumpets Fade 7.3 1998 <br />2368 When Worlds Collide 6.7 1951 <br />2369 Where Eagles Dare 7.7 1968 <br />2370 Where the Sidewalk Ends 7.7 1950 <br />2371 While the City Sleeps 7 1956 <br />2372 White Christmas 7.6 1954 <br />2373 White Heat 8.2 1949 <br />2374 White House Down 6.4 2013 <br />2375 Who Framed Roger Rabbit 7.7 1988 <br />2376 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 8.1 1966 <br />2377 Wild and Wonderful 6.4 1964 <br />2378 Wild Hogs 5.9 2007 <br />2379 Wilson 7 1944 <br />2380 Winchester '73 7.7 1950 <br />2381 Windtalkers 6 2002 <br />2382 With a Song in My Heart 7 1952 <br />2383 Without a Clue 7 1988 <br />2384 Without Love 6.8 1945 <br />2385 Without Reservations 6.6 1946 <br />2386 Wolf 6.2 1994 <br />2387 Wolf's Rain 8.1 2003 <br />2388 Woman of the Year 7.3 1942 <br />2389 Working Girl 6.7 1988 <br />2390 World Without End 6 1956 <br />2391 Wrath of the Titans 5.8 2012 <br />2392 Wuthering Heights 7.7 1939 <br />2393 Wuthering Heights 7.7 2009 <br />2394 WWII in HD 8.8 2009 <br />2395 Wyatt Earp 6.6 1994 <br />2396 X-Men 7.4 2000 <br />2397 X-Men Origins: Wolverine 6.7 2009 <br />2398 X-Men: Days of Future Past 8 2014 <br />2399 X-Men: The Last Stand 6.8 2006 <br />2400 X2 7.5 2003 <br />2401 xXx 5.8 2002 <br />2402 Yankee Doodle Dandy 7.8 1942 <br />2403 You Can't Take It With You 8 1938 <br />2404 You Don't Mess with the Zohan 5.5 2008 <br />2405 You Only Live Twice 6.9 1967 <br />2406 You've Got Mail 6.5 1998 <br />2407 Young Bride 6.4 1932 <br />2408 Young Frankenstein 8.1 1974 <br />2409 Young Man with a Horn 7.2 1950 <br />2410 Young Mr. Lincoln 7.7 1939 <br />2411 Zathura: A Space Adventure 6.1 2005 <br />2412 Zero Dark Thirty 7.4 2012 <br />2413 Zodiac 7.7 2007 <br />2414 Zombieland 7.7 2009 <br />2415 Zoolander 6.6 2001 <br />2416 Zulu 7.8 1964 <br />Iain's Smashing Good Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12833335717390737670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597335197297114038.post-42776529300182749472015-11-18T08:21:00.000-08:002015-11-18T08:21:08.531-08:005 reasons the videogame industry is about to crash#5. We Put People Who Don't Know Gaming in Charge<br /><br /><br />Not to stereotype here, but the type of person who knows how to make an awesome video game about fighting dragons with a giant chainsaw tends not to be the same type of person who is an expert in business and finance. So if you look at the CEOs and executives of game studios today, you won't find many that actually have professional experience working as game designers. And that would be fine, except for the fact that, due to the way games are made, these guys wind up making the creative decisions. It's similar to the problem with big movie studios, only much worse.<br /><br />The result is that the gaming industry is driven by aphorisms. For example, it's an entrenched belief that the only truly successful games are branded titles, sequels, and reboots -- that's what the reports tell them. So what I found was that there was kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy at work. I was once told point-blank by a non-gamer CEO that "there's no market for sci-fi games" in a certain genre -- at the time, fantasy games dominated that market. And who's to say he was wrong? When has switching from fantasy to sci-fi ever worked out?<br /><br /><br /><br />It's not that they know nothing about games; it's that they know just enough to be wrong. Ever go to a game forum and notice how every player thinks he's better than the designers? That combat would be perfectly balanced if the developers would just change that +2 to a +3 for his class? Now imagine that those people are running the business, and you have a pretty good idea of what the problem is -- creating a perfect game looks easy from the outside, in the same way that from the outside it seems like it'd be really easy to make a snake. And those outsiders are in charge.<br /><br />So why not just have the money folks focus on the business end of game design and let the actual designers do the designing? Well, it turns out "the business end" includes deciding how many hours of content are in the game, whether you have linear progression with lots of levels, how the DLC is going to work, whether powerful items get sold in the cash shop, whether the game is a first-person gritty realistic shooter with RPG elements or an action RPG with gritty realism and lots of guns ... basically, everything that matters. The people who have the most experience and actually know what they're doing are basically just polishing the ideas that the execs come up with.<br /><br /><br /><br />We don't like it any more than you do. I can tell you that professional game developers are some of the most hardcore gamers you'll find, but for the most part, they're just not allowed to work on the kind of games that interest them (I consider myself lucky to have dodged the bullet and gotten to work on a licensed property that I deeply loved). And while a professional developer will instinctively know -- and I'm just pulling stuff out of my ass here -- that it's awful to require an online connection to play a single-player game or it's asinine to have pre-order DLC before the game's console is even out, the execs will think those are great for the bottom line, and they make the rules.<br /><br /><br />"Historically, the best thing about SimCity games is the Internet."<br /><br />And it's only getting worse, because ...<br />#4. Budgets Have Gone Insane, and That's Making Innovation Almost Impossible<br /><br /><br />Nobody feels sorry for corporations, so when you hear EA or Activision groaning about how games cost too much to make, it feels like the consumers won. "That's right, now put it on a gold-plated disc and do a little dance while you're handing it to us, Mr. Blizzard!" But these budgets are, unquestionably, making games worse.<br /><br />Let's say you've been put in charge of planning a child's birthday party, for some reason -- maybe you lost a bet or something. You've got one day to plan, a $50 budget, and five people to help you. Not a big deal, right? Put some balloons in the yard and hire a clown. Done. But what if that party was for a rich kid and your budget was $50 million? Do you think that makes it easier or harder? Let's put it this way: Instead of five friends helping you, it's 500 strangers, and all of them have different ideas about what a party should look like. How long until you see your first fistfight break out? How far into the party before you hear yourself scream, "OK, who hired the stripper?!?"<br /><br />Well, in the world of game development, this change from small-scale projects to massive productions happened overnight -- the average game costs freaking 30 times as much as it did in the days of the original Sony PlayStation. Back then, the average game could be made for $800,000 on the low end, but by the PlayStation 3 era, the number had ballooned to $28 million. With the new consoles, that's going to go up again. At this point, it'd be cheaper to just create real zombies to chase people around.<br /><br />In the older, simpler days (way back in the 1990s), you probably had a core team of a dozen developers and one or two vision holders who could keep the entire design in their heads. The producer had about nine months of planning until launch. Fast forward to today: Star Wars: The Old Republic cost upward of $500 million. Games require massive teams (some of them in another country) and years of development, and that's not including the umpteen false starts during preproduction. And this change happened too fast for studios to adapt -- they've refused to change with the times and are still operating with the same basic structure.<br /><br />Not that it's any easier on their end. Remember, it not just the development that's changing so fast, it's distribution as well -- today, studios are competing in a market that's permanently saturated by $3 indie games on Steam and the nostalgia-driven GoG.com. Time-honored marketing strategies don't work anymore, and the industry is struggling to find a replacement. Even though it feels like prices have gone up, if you take inflation into account, right now games are the cheapest they've ever been. Add it all up, and most studios are one failed game away from bankruptcy.<br /><br /><br />So from the gamers' end, it's easy to complain that the market is saturated with first-person shooters (the new consoles are picking up that banner with Killzone: Shadow Fall, Titanfall, and Destiny, in addition to the uninterrupted stream of Call of Duty and Battlefield games), but the fact is that the market is utterly reliant on those games' sales. The consistent success of go-to franchises like Madden NFL is probably the only thing separating the current industry from a 1983-style crash right now. It's not that they're playing it safe by going back to the same well again and again -- they're doing the only thing that will let them survive.<br />#3. Publishers Are Gaming the Review System<br /><br /><br />Raise your hand if you've paid $60 for a heavily promoted game that got near-perfect review scores, only to find it to be a frustrating, cookie-cutter mess that had you doing a mental inventory of all of the things you could have bought with the cash instead ("three remote control flying sharks!). Do the critics, like, get a different version or something?<br /><br /><br /><br />This is a huge problem from the consumer end -- games are a much bigger time and money investment than movies, books, or any other media, so having honest reviewers you can rely on is crucial. You're trying to get an opinion on what might be the only game you buy for the next couple of months, but it's becoming increasingly apparent that critic scores and user scores just don't sync up. Call of Duty: Ghosts currently has a score of 74 on Metacritic -- not a fantastic score for a AAA game with that kind of budget, but check out the average user score: 2.3.*<br /><br />Is that just a bunch of young gamers throwing a tantrum because they thought the game would have actual ghosts in it? Well, read the reviews -- the critics' write-ups boil down to "It's a recycled version of the old games, but still good," while the users' consensus is "$60 is a lot to pay for recycled material, guys." You can see that same divide with lots of games -- Total War: Rome II had a respectable 83.5 score at launch (currently down to 76), but the user reviews? 3.9/10. Mass Effect 3 is at 89 for critics vs. 5.0 for users, the latter group being way less forgiving of an ending that rendered every previous choice in the franchise meaningless.<br /><br />So why do the critic scores skew so much higher? Well, behind the scenes, studios are doing everything they can to obtain the highest Metacritic score possible at launch -- some teams even get bonuses for hitting Metacritic targets. From the publication's standpoint, those reviews exist to bring website traffic. That traffic turns into revenue from advertisements ... that were purchased by the studios whose games are getting reviewed.<br /><br /><br /><br />If you give the game an award or especially high praise, the publication could appear on that game's box -- the reviewers aren't paid, but they get valuable exposure. Basically, the publishing companies are paying the review site's bills by buying ads and handing out free publicity, so from the struggling writer's perspective, it's bad business to give bad reviews.<br /><br /><br />Journalists are invited to the studio or a rented room at a convention. They play the most polished level and/or segment of the game for a couple hours, maybe over the course of a few days. Drinks and meals are on the house. Keep in mind that they're getting dropped into the middle of the game somewhere, because complicated gameplay that builds on lessons learned in previous levels would be extremely frustrating, whereas you want the journalists to experience fun and excitement. So we're talking graphics, simple combat, flashy cinematics, and controlled linear environments that look really good -- as long as the journalists never stray from the path, which is why there are marketing execs looking right over their shoulders and telling them where to go. And it's amazing how intuitive level design becomes when the guy who designed the level is there to explain it.<br /><br /><br /><br />But that disparity between user scores and critic scores is going to catch up with us, and it won't just be the critics who get bitten in the ass. If the gamers don't have any critics to trust, they're going to stop buying games the day they come out. And since the industry puts so much emphasis on launch day box sales, that's going to look an awful lot like a crash to the people in charge.<br />Every gamer has had the experience of seeing some amazing preview trailer for a game set to come out a year or so later, only to have the game arrive and look nothing like that preview (although some are worse than others):<br /><br /><br />Well, think about your hypothetical child's birthday party earlier. Imagine going through that hectic process, only to find that the guest list changes about once an hour. Suddenly you have to accommodate more kids. The backyard you planned to use isn't big enough. The one clown you hired won't be enough to terrify all of them. So you rethink your plans, some of which means re-doing work you've already done. Then, an hour later, it changes again -- this time it's not just more kids, but different kids. Some of them have peanut allergies. Each little change means you have to completely re-think what you're doing.<br /><br /><br />Well, in the world of video games, it's the hardware that's changing under our feet -- beyond having new consoles every few years, new video cards for PCs are arriving constantly. To use each feature on a given video card, you write render code, and sometimes you're writing render code for hardware that isn't even out yet. Remember, it can take several years to make a game, and in that time the available hardware is going to change multiple times. You can be pretty far along in the process and still be unsure of how the graphics are going to look ... in an industry where the main selling point is graphics.<br /><br />So, once the coders figure out how to implement the features, the artists have to make assets, and then designers are given all of those beautiful set pieces and told to "add gameplay." Put it all together, and 80 percent of the work on a game generally gets done in the last 20 percent of the schedule. Up until then, it's all promises: hardware developers promising that their shit will be able to do what they say, level designers promising they'll be able to use it, programmers promising they won't have too much stuff to fix, and the whole time the company is releasing promotional material that they totally promise is what the final game will look like.<br /><br /><br />Right now we're in the middle of a new console launch -- these periods are the worst of all. Remember, all of the games available at launch started development long before Sony, Microsoft, or Nintendo even knew what their consoles were going to look like. It takes so long for developers to catch up and figure out the hardware that by the time the true power of a console is discovered, it's time to start all over -- an unfortunate reality that is apparently deliberate.<br /><br /><br /><br />I'm not exaggerating when I say that, for the vast majority of studios in the game industry, working conditions are awful, and the burnout rate is pandemic. The frantic period before a game releases is called crunch time, and it's marked by 60- to 80-hour weeks. And "crunch time" can last up to a year. No, it's not as bad a job as that guy who has to crawl up the constipated elephant's butt at the zoo, but it's bad enough that it's hurting the games. The best and brightest veterans get driven away.<br /><br /><br />It's easy to see why. Around your late 20s and early 30s, most people are looking to settle down and start a family. This means a stable, secure job that doesn't demand 12-hour days plus weekends, with no overtime and the looming threat of layoffs after the project ships. Producers and programmers can easily work on commercial software for banks or oil companies, and designers can easily transition into anything related to front-end user experience -- and in both cases, they'll be making way more money for way less work.<br /><br />So the game industry is exporting experienced game developers while importing businessmen with no game industry experience to oversee the starry-eyed inexperienced juniors who remain. The only ones who tend to stay behind are the artists, because they're stuck with highly specialized skills (like animating boobs), which skews the industry's expertise in that direction.<br /><br />The result of all of this isn't that games are going away -- it's just that the industry may look very different a few years from now. That might not be a bad thing.Iain's Smashing Good Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12833335717390737670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597335197297114038.post-74908545015136283282015-11-14T08:23:00.000-08:002015-11-18T08:23:33.415-08:00Early adult life is best if you are lost .It used to be that the smart kids went to graduate school. But today,
the workplace is different, and it might be that only the desperate
kids go to graduate school. Today there are new rules, and new standards
for success. And for most people, graduate school is the path to
nowhere. Here are seven reasons why:<br />
1. Graduate school is an extreme investment for a fluid workplace. If
you are graduating from college today, you will change careers about
five times over the course of your life. So going to graduate school for
four years—investing maybe $80,000—is probably over-investing in one of
those careers. If you stayed in one career for your whole life, the
idea is more reasonable. But we don’t do that anymore, so graduate
school needs to change before it is reasonable again.<br />
2. Graduate school is no longer a ticket to play. It used to be that
you couldn’t go into business without an MBA. But recently, the only
reason you need an MBA is to climb a corporate ladder. And, as Paul
Graham says, “corporate ladders are obsolete.” That’s because if you try
to climb one, you are likely to lose your footing due to downsizing,
layoffs, de-equitization, or lack of respect for your personal life. So
imagine where you want to go, and notice all the people who got there
already without having an MBA. Because you can do that, too, in a wide
range of fields, including finance.<br />
3. Graduate school requires you to know what will make you happy
before you try it. But we are notoriously bad at knowing what will make
us happy. The positive psychology movement has shown us that our brains
are actually fine-tuned to trick us into thinking we know about our own
happiness. And then we make mistakes. So the best route to happiness is
one of trial and error. Otherwise, you could over-commit to a terrible
path. For example, today most lawyers do not like being lawyers: more
than 55% of members of the American Bar Association say they would not
recommend getting a law degree today.<br />
4. Graduate degrees shut doors rather than open them. You better be
really certain you know what you’re going to do with that degree because
you’re going to need to earn a lot of money to pay it back. Law school
opens doors only to careers that pay enough to repay your loans.
Likewise, your loan payments from an MBA program mean that you cannot
have a scrappy start-up without starving. Medical school opens doors to
careers with such bad work-life balance that the most popular specialty
right now is ophthalmology because it has good hours.<br />
5. If you don’t actually use your graduate degree, you look
unemployable. Let’s say you spend years in graduate school (and maybe
boatloads of money), but then you don’t work in that field. Instead, you
start applying for jobs that are, at best, only tangentially related.
What it looks like is that you are asking people to give you a job even
though you didn’t really want to be doing that job. You wanted another
job but you couldn’t get it. No employer likes to hire from the reject
pile, and no employer wants to be second choice.<br />
6. Graduate school is an extension of childhood. Thomas Benton,
columnist at the Chronicle of Higher Education, says that some students
are addicted to the immediate feedback and constant praise teachers
give, but the work world doesn’t provide that. Also, kids know how to do
what teachers assign. But they have little idea of how to create their
own assignments—which is what adult life is, really. So Benton says
students go back to school more for comfort than because they have a
clear idea of what they want to do with their life.<br />
7. Early adult life is best if you are lost. It used to be that you
graduated from college and got on a path. The smart kids got themselves
on a safe path fast. Today there are no more safe paths, there is only
emerging adulthood, where you have to figure out who you are and where
you fit, and the quarter-life crisis, which is a premature midlife
crisis that comes when people try to skip over the being lost part of
early adult life. Being lost is a great path for today’s graduates. And
for most people, graduate school undermines that process with very
little reward at the end.<br />
Dan Ariely, economist at MIT, found that when people have a
complicated choice to make—and there is a default choice—they pick the
default nearly every time. So if your parents or friends went to
graduate school, you are likely to do the same, not because it’s good
for you personally, but because choosing the alternatives seem more
difficult. But making exactly that kind of difficult choice is what your
early adult life is all about. So don’t skip it.Iain's Smashing Good Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12833335717390737670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597335197297114038.post-7023749341114482462015-11-11T08:22:00.000-08:002015-11-18T08:22:40.804-08:00the new American dream<h3 class="post-title entry-title">
<span style="font-weight: normal;">American dream has changed. It used
to be a college education, a steady job, a nice house (and a family to
fill it), and a better financial picture than your parents. There is a
new American Dream that is still about “doing better than your parents”
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Boston-based artist, Ariel Freiberg, just got engaged, and she and her
fiancé are gearing up for this new dream. “We were brought up to think
it’s important to own a piece of property. It’s how you build your life
in this country. But buying a house is not a major goal for us. It is
not what will make our lives secure and it will not help us define
ourselves.”
“The idea of the American dream is taken out from under us,” explains
Anya Kamenetz, blogger and author of the book Generation Debt. “There
used to be a contract with employers — healthcare, pensions, predicable
employment,” but today there are none of those guarantees.<br />
Additionally, the cost of a college education is far outpacing
inflation, making it more difficult to make this first steps toward the
American Dream, according to Tamara Draut, author of Strapped: Why
America’s 20- and 30-somethings Can’t Get Ahead. The average student
loans come to around $20,000, which means $200 a month out of an
entry-level paycheck. On top of that between 1995 and 2002 median rents
in almost all major cities have increased more than 50%.<br />
Hillary Clinton recently gave a speech about how “a lot of kids don’t
know what work is” and young people “think work is a four-letter word.”
These were not renegade words, but rather an expression of the
prevailing attitude among her fellow baby boomers.<br />
The boomers mistake a rejection of their American Dream as a
rejection of reality. But here’s some news: Young people know that work
is a reality for everyone. It’s just that everyone needs to work toward
something; so young people have a new American Dream.<br />
“The new American Dream is much more entrepreneurial,” says Kamenetz.
“And it’s about shaping ones own destiny: mobility, flexibility to do
your own work and the ability to have a career as an expression of who
you are as a person.<br />
Here are some things to keep in mind as you craft your own version of the new American Dream:<br />
1. Cushion an entry-level salary with a move back home.<br />
The first step in restructuring the American Dream is to save money to
ensure flexibility. Moving back with your parents is smart if you can do
it. Most jobs are in big cities, and starting salaries simply cannot
pay the rent in those cities. People who are not able to get subsidized
housing from parents are much more limited in terms of their early
career choices.<br />
2. Get comfortable with risk taking.<br />
The new American Dream is for risk takers. This is actually not
groundbreaking in terms of the American Dream. For immigrants, the
American Dream has always meant risk-taking. But today young people are
taking risks that parents would have never dreamed of, like playing
contact sports without any health insurance and signing up for a
mortgage with a freelance career.<br />
3. Protect your time.<br />
The American Dream of Baby Boomers came at the expense of personal time
and family time. Success is not having more things than your parents.
It’s having more time. More time for hobbies, for travel, for kids.
“It’s not about how much money you have, it’s about living your life on
your own terms,” says Barbara Stanny, financial coach and author of
Overcoming Underearning.<br />
4. Don’t assume personal fulfillment requires a small career.<br />
Sure, the new American Dream has nothing to do with financial
studliness. But don’t sell yourself short in the name of personal time.
“Higher earners with balanced lives don’t work more hours, they are just
more focused,” says Stanny. “To make more money you don’t have to work
more hours. There is a difference between settling for a low income and
taking a job to feed your soul.”<br />
5. Buy as small a home as you can.<br />
You preserve the most options for your future if you can buy a home on
one income. “The advice used to be: always buy the most expensive house
you can afford because it’s an investment. Today it’s different. Buy
only the amount of house that you need so it doesn’t become an albatross
around your neck.” says Phyllis Moen, author of Career Mystique: Cracks
in the American Dream.<br />
6. Make decisions by looking inside yourself.<br />
Be aware of the tradeoffs you’re making. For example, big cities are
exciting and filled with career opportunity, but you pay a high premium
for living there.<br />
When talking about her decision to stay in Boston, Freiberg says,
“There’s a certain vibration living in the city that feeds me and my
fiancé — this inspiration is something that we can’t get in the
suburbs.”<br />
Choices are difficult today because the new American Dream is not as
measurable as the old one. You cannot look at your bank statement or
count your bedrooms to assess your success. The new American dream is
about fulfillment, which is a murky, slippery goal, but young people
like Freiberg know it when they feel it, and you will, too.</div>
Iain's Smashing Good Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12833335717390737670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7597335197297114038.post-35577472210123433792015-10-18T13:37:00.002-07:002015-10-18T13:43:12.329-07:00Nintendo NX in 2016There have been rumours concerning a new Nintendo console on the
internet for quite some time. That’s mainly thanks to a December 2014
Associated Press interview with Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of Mario and
other iconic Nintendo games, who stated “While we’re busy working on
software for the Wii U, we have production lines that are working on
ideas for what the next system might be.”<br />
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There wasn’t much else mentioned about the next gen console until
Nintendo’s press conference on 17 March 2015, where the company
announced that they were going to be creating mobile games for <a href="http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/reviews/smartphones/18/" title="Latest smartphone reviews">smartphones</a> and <a href="http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/reviews/tablet-pcs/191/" title="Latest tablet reviews">tablets</a>.<br />
As well as announcing the venture into mobile gaming, Nintendo’s late
Chief Executive Santoru Iwata said "As proof that Nintendo maintains
strong enthusiasm for the dedicated game system business, let me confirm
that Nintendo is currently developing a dedicated game platform with a
brand-new concept under the development codename 'NX'."<br />
Before anyone could ask for further information on the new console,
Iwata continued "It is too early to elaborate on the details of this
project, but we hope to share more information with you next year."<br />
This sentiment of keeping quiet was later re-iterated by Nintendo President of America Reggie Fils-Aime while on stage at <a href="http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/how-to/game/nintendo-e3-2015-digital-event-press-conference-live-video-stream-replay-3615641/" title="Nintendo E3 2015 conference recap">Nintendo’s E3 conference</a>. He remarked “We'll talk more about our next system, code named Nintendo NX, more in 2016”<br />
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It makes sense for the company to start teasing a new console, as the
Wii U seems to be Nintendo’s worst performing console ever, selling
only 10 million units in the two and a half years that its been on sale.
Lets compare that to the <a href="http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/reviews/game/3491573/sony-ps4-review-2014-playstation-console/" title="PlayStation 4 review">PlayStation 4</a>, which has been out for around a year and a half but has sold over 18.5 million units worldwide.<br />
So, what do we know about the next generation Nintendo console dubbed “NX”? Read on and find out.<br />
<h2>
Nintendo NX console rumours: Design</h2>
There isn’t much to go on, in the way of design. When the upcoming
console was teased it was referred to as a ‘new concept’, which could
mean an entirely new design. Opposing that are rumours that it’ll have a
similar design to the Wii U, but with enhanced capabilities. We cover
that in more detail below.<br />
<h2>
Nintendo NX console rumours: Unique features</h2>
Nintendo has always done extremely well with not competing with the
likes of Sony and Microsoft, and instead breaking away from what other
gaming manufacturers are producing. Think back to the Nintendo Wii –
when the Wii was first announced, it was welcomed by excited consumers
because they hadn’t seen anything quite like it before, and its
technology that both Microsoft and Sony are still trying to perfect.<br />
Nintendo described the NX as a “brand new concept” which could mean
anything given Nintendo’s track record. Talking about the NX, the late
Iwata said “if you only expand upon existing hardware, it's dull”. He
followed up the comment with “In some shape or form, we're always
thinking about how we want to surprise players as well as our desire to
change each person's video gaming life.”<br />
With that being said, there are rumours that the new Nintendo console
will come with a completely new control method. This is mainly because
the screen-controller hybrid that shipped with the Wii U hasn’t taken
off like the company had planned, with many developers not using the
hybrid controller to its full potential.<br />
There are also counter rumours that suggest the next generation
Nintendo device will have a similar design to the current Wii U, but
with improved capabilities. Nintendo introduced a way for gamers to play
games directly from the controller without the need for a TV, using the
inbuilt touchscreen display. It’s a popular feature, especially with
homes that share a TV because it allows gamers to carry gaming when
somebody else wants to watch TV.<br />
But what about if you could leave home and carry on playing? As it
stands, you have to be within proximity to the Wii U to play your game
via the controller screen. Rumours suggest that Nintendo could be upping
the anti, so to speak, working on a way to allow gamers to carry on
playing even if they’re not at home.<br />
If Nintendo manufactures a console that has gameplay that rivals the
Xbox One and PlayStation 4 and also allows you to play directly on the
controller when you’re away from home, that could be a winning
combination. Sony offers Remote Play on the PS4 via a <a href="http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/buying-advice/game/3499701/sony-ps-vita-slim-release-date-price-specs/" title="PS Vita review">PS Vita</a>
but there’s a split second of lag, which in some games makes the
difference between life and death. Microsoft also recently released a
similar feature for Windows 10 and Xbox One, though you have to be on
the same network to be able to stream gameplay.<br />
<h2>
Nintendo NX console rumours: Processor</h2>
When it comes to the internal mechanics of the new console, there’s
not much online. There is some speculation that the NX will use an AMD
SoC, namely the x86 APU, just like the <a href="http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/reviews/game/3490605/microsoft-xbox-one-review/" title="Xbox One review">Xbox One</a> and PS4. If it were true, it’d make it the first time that all main manufacturers would use the same chipset.<br />
Could AMD’s CFO Devinder Kumar have been referencing to the NX when
discussing upcoming AMD products? “I will say that one is x86 and the
other is ARM, and at least one will be beyond gaming … They [the
customers] are going to announce it and then … you will find out that it
is AMD’s APU that is being used in those products” he said.<br />
However, with this being said, another report <a href="http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2015/07/rumour_nintendo_nx_wont_be_as_powerful_as_playstation_4" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">claims</a> that the Nintendo NX <i>wont</i> be as powerful as the PS4 (which means we can wave bye-bye to <a href="http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2015/06/if-nintendo-nx-looks-as-good-as-mario-in-unreal-engine-im-buying-one/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">this</a>).
The report is based on tweets from Liam Robertson of Unseen64, a man
with a great track record when it comes to insider info. He claims that
the NX is “definitely not aiming to compete with the likes of PS4 on a
power level”. You can see his tweet below:<br />
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When asked by @RunJumpStomp “What makes you say that?” he simply
replied “Talking to the right people :)”. Until Nintendo officially
announces the NX, no one can be completely sure of its spec, but judging
by Robertson’s track record and past Nintendo consoles, we think he’s
on the right track.<br />
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<h2>
Nintendo NX console rumours: Games</h2>
So, what kind of games can we expect on the next-generation Nintendo NX console? According to one <a href="https://fortune.com/2015/06/23/shigeru-miyamoto-wii-u/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">report</a>,
Nintendo is said to have started talking to third-party developers
about the system at this years E3 event. Apparently the developers
reacted positively to the concept shown to them at E3, but no details
about the concept device have been leaked.<br />
The only games to have been officially confirmed for the Nintendo NX
thus far are Dragon Quest X and Dragon Quest XI, courtesy of Square
Enix. DQX was originally released for Wii U, 3DS and PC whereas the
newer DQXI will be headed to not only the Nintendo NX, but also the PS4
and 3DS.<br />
Nintendo on the other hand, has kept tight lipped regarding its
upcoming Nintendo NX titles (as promised) but with a less-than-amazing
E3 announcement, many gamers are starting to wander whether the company
has given up developing for the Wii U, and is instead turning its
efforts towards making games for the NX.<br />
<h2>
Nintendo NX console rumours: Price</h2>
While there are no real rumours surrounding the price of the new
Nintendo console, we can speculate about its price by looking back at
previous console launches. Nintendo aims for its consoles to be cheaper
than the competition – look at the DS and Wii. The Nintendo DS was only
£99.99 when it came out and the Wii, even with the breakthrough motion
technology it offered, was only £179.99.<br />
Nintendo knows where the sweet spot lays with regards to pricing its
consoles, whether it’s handheld or tethered to your TV. Based on this,
we can only assume that the next Nintendo console will be cheaper than
Xbox One and PlayStation 4, possibly around the £200 mark.<br />
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<h2>
Nintendo NX console rumours: Release date</h2>
With Iwata stating that more information about the new console
wouldn’t be released until next year, we’re assuming that the NX will
have a 2016 launch. Why? Simply because it looks like the Wii U isn’t
doing as well as Nintendo had hoped, and it gives the company a chance
to generate some interest around the new console before launch, without
waiting so long that the hype dies down again.<br />
However, since this announcement, Iwata has sadly died, and it
remains to be seen whether the executive shake-up will impact the
console’s release date plans.<br />
Interestingly, Nintendo has announced that the upcoming Zelda game
for the Wii U isn’t coming out until 2016. Zelda developer Eiji Aonuma
said that the development team has “discovered several new possibilities
for the game” and would like extra time to “bring all these ideas to
live”. Could the company be waiting to announce Zelda so that both the
game and the NX can be released at the same time? Nintendo has a habit
of releasing a Zelda or Mario game alongside a new console, with the
only exception being the launch of the Nintendo DS (in Europe, anyway).<br />
More recently, an <a href="http://www.digitimes.com/newregister/join.asp?view=Article&DATEPUBLISH=2015/07/02&PAGES=PD&SEQ=204" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">article</a>
by DigiTimes claimed that Nintendo is starting production of the
next-generation Nintendo NX console as soon as October 2015 with a July
2016 launch date, and is looking to ship 20 million units in its first
year of production. However, an analyst at Forbes <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2015/07/05/report-that-the-nintendo-nx-launches-july-2016-seems-unlikely/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">disagrees</a>
with the report, claiming that the schedule is “insanely fast” and he
coins a later release date, possibly Christmas 2016 or even 2017
depending on how much work has been done on the console thus far.Iain's Smashing Good Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12833335717390737670noreply@blogger.com0