UPDATED Ranking of Coen Brother's Movies

My UPDATED list of Coen Brother's movies ranked as of this moment:

1. Miller's Crossing
2. Fargo
3. Raising Arizona 
4. Inside Llewyn Davis
5. Barton Fink
6. A Serious Man
7. The Hudsucker Proxy
8. The Big Lebowski
9. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
10. Hail Caesar!
11. Blood Simple 
12. True Grit
13. O Brother Where Art Thou 
14. No Country For Old Men 
15. The Man Who Wasn't There
16. Burn After Reading

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17. Intolerable Cruelty*
18. Ladykillers*

*I've only seen the bottom two once, years ago

Top 20 Tom Petty Songs

People of the Internet: Top 20 Tom Petty Songs

1.  Breakdown
2. American Girl 
3. Refugee
4. Free Fallin’
5. The Waiting                    
6. Don’t Do Me Like That
7. Runnin Down a Dream
8. Stop Draggin My Heart Around
9. I Won’t Back Down
10. Even The Losers
11. Tom Petty and Prince smiling at each other while performing “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” at the Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame Performance
12. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers being Johnny Cash’s backup band for “Unchained”
13. Yer So Bad
14. You Wreck Me
15. Tom Petty Cameo in “The Postman”
16. Into The Great Wide Open
17. Tom Petty sending a cease and desist letter to Michelle Bachmann
18. Full Moon Fever CD interstitial narration between side one and side 2 “Hello CD Listeners” 
19. Apartment Song
20. Don’t Come Around Here No More (Video)  

Top 10 List of Best Sibling Bands

People of the Internet: here is the definitive list of the best sibling bands in, uh, rock and roll music:

1. Sly and the Family Stone

2. The Beach Boys
3. The Kinks
4. CCR
5. The Allman Brothers
6. Van Halen
7. Jesus & Mary Chain
8. AC/DC
9. Heart
10. Breeders

Honorable mentions: Cowboy Junkies, The National, Isley Brothers, Everly Brothers, Tegan and Sara, The Staples Singer, The Louvin Brothers

Top 10 Movies of the 2010s

In honor of the late Sam Ike, here’s the undisputed Top 10 movies of the 2010s (that I saw), the 10 next, and some honorable mentions. If a movie is on this list that means I thought it was great, something that really struck me as different or new, left me thinking about it for days after, or was just really friggin entertaining. If it’s not on this list, that means I either forgot it or it wasn’t great; hard to tell, really

1. Inside Llewyn Davis
2. Paterson
3. Mother!
4. Florida Project
5. Get Out
6. Margaret
7. Moonlight
8. Killing of a Sacred Deer
9. Inherent Vice
10. Ida

The Next 10: Annihilation!, Boyhood, Edge of Tomorrow, I am not Your Negro, Manchester by the Sea, The Master, Melancholia, Parasite, Roma, Stories We Tell

Honourable Mentions: A Marriage Story, Before Midnight, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Cold War, Death of Stalin, Dogtooth, Ex Machina, The Favourite, First Reformed, Go For Sisters, Grand Budapest Hotel, Her, If Beale Street Could Talk, Inception, The Irishman, The Lobster, Mad Max: Fury Road, Midsommar, OJ Made in America (not really a movie, if it was it would be in my top 10), Phantom Thread, Sorry to Bother You, Into the Spiderverse, The Trip, True Grit, Twin Peaks - The Return (also not really a movie) Under the Skin, Us, Winter’s Bone, Widows

UNDISPUTED Ranking of Star Wars Films

People of the Internet: I just saw the hopefully last (but probably not) Star Wars. It's a perfectly fine popcorn movie, a decent sequel to the first new star wars rehash, but completely contemptuous of the improvements in the narrative the Last Jedi attempted. The lack of ambition in these corporate Disneyfied sequels is depressing. Instead of exploring the complex world Lucas built, JJ Abarms chose to simply recycle all the same storylines and villians from the original series. More Death Stars! More Empires and Emperors and dudes that look like Darth Vader! More Skywalkers! Carrie Fisher is dead? Too bad, lets exhume her edited syllable by syllable for a "performance" almost as distracting as CGI Leia. Abrams also completely dropped the ball on the few interesting changes from the first new movie: what if a stormtrooper escaped, what would that character be like? Finn ended up as a complete bore, not to mention his super close relationship with Rose was completely ignored (apparently because it made the Star Wars man-children angry) so they gave him an unnecessary new girlfriend who rides horses in space. To be fair, 10 year old me would've loved it, but that kid is dead.

In sum, the only good new movie was still Rogue One. Here's my FINAL ranking of Star Wars movies:

1. Empire Strikes Back
2. Star Wars
3. Rogue One
4. The Last Jedi
5. Revenge of the Jedi

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Equally good/bad: JJ Abrams Star Wars: The Rehash Vols 1 & 2

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Just bad: Prequel Star Wars: We discovered CGI but not human dialogue Vols 1-3 ( But the Darth Maul light sabre fight is amazing)