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$SNE, MASSIVE DOUBLE DICK INSIDE. Poised to moon long-term (Computer vision boom, EV boom, autonomous driving tech, gaming boom, music streaming boom, cross-media IP, vertically integrated anime streaming monopoly, online medical services boom, shift to mirrorless cameras)
| Listen up retards. Do you happen to feel regret because you always think “ohhh if I yoloed my savings on TSLA/AMD/NVDA 🚀 leaps years ago I could be rich by now!!!” Well if you didn't know already, it doesn’t really matter what happened in the past. Hindsight will always be 20/20. You shouldn’t be harsh on yourself on your past self that your past self wasn’t retarded enough to yolo their savings into AMD/TSLA/.... Your past self doesn’t have the same knowledge that your current self has. It’s fine. If you judged those stocks with the best DD you could do at the time and didn’t think they were worth it, then you did a good job. If you always think about what you could/should have done in the past, then you don't have the right attitude to play the stock market casino imho. The single most important thing is to be able to look ahead. There are always plenty of opportunities around. There are thousands of rockets that are still on earth right now. Some may depart this year, others will stay a little longer on earth. The true strength lies in being able to identify those rockets with the knowledge you have right now. And if you still miss most rockets that will take-off this year that's fine, maybe you'll learn, get better and you'll do better next year. Now, what if I told you there’s a big rocket that’s parked right right here on earth and it has decent chance for take-off this year? Maybe it won't quite reach the moon this year yet, but hey leaving the exosphere should already be a cool milestone. It has rock-solid fundamentals and will see lots of growth in the following years/decade. It’s a company that has the fundamental technology to power all the computer vision tech, which is bound to boom this decade. The company we’re talking about is of course Sony, and it is extremely undervalued right now. Its P/E is only 14. They have a P/S of 1.65, a PEG of 0.92 (< 2 is already somewhat exceptional for a company/conglomerate of Sony’s size, under 1 is a steal) Much lower than all of its same-sector peers. This indicates significant undervaluation. Next up Sony has a P/CF 13.2, ROE of 20% (S&P 500 average is 14% which would already be considered pretty good. 20% ROE is excellent), PEGY of 0.89, P/B of 2.65 and finally Sony has $41.6B in cash on hand. This makes Sony one of the cheapest tech/entertainment/EV/semiconductor growth stocks you will find on the market. (ROE of 20% + PEGY of 0.89 + PEG of 0.92 means this company is a growth stock based on the numbers alone, but we’ll dig into the actual company and overall outlook in a moment) I challenge all retards to find a company with similar benchmarks in one of the mentioned sectors, seriously. Quite frankly doing this DD honestly blew my mind. I kept looking everywhere for reasons why the company could be so undervalued and why they may struggle in the future. Very important to look at all the challenges the company faces to make sure I’m not just doing confirmation bias DD. But all I could find was the opposite. After several weeks and months of working on this DD, I can only conclude that it is overall a very solid company for a bargain price. The new CEO is taking the company in a great direction imho and I'm begin to think he could be Sony's Satya Nadella. So if you want some easy tendies, maybe consider $SNE while it is still cheap, I’d say. For the autists out there who care about analyst ratings, SONY ($SNE) currently has 18 BUY ratings, 2 OVERWEIGHT, 4 HOLD and 0 SELL. ( = analyst consensus is a STRONG BUY). Very little analysts cover this stock compared to other entertainment/tech companies, so this adds to my assertion that the stock is very much under the radar. Which means you have time to get in before it gets noticed by the larger investing world and before it starts to get a more fair valuation (P/E of around 30 would be more fair for this company I think, but still cheaper than many same sector peers). But, anyway the few analysts who do happen to cover this company are basically all saying it’s an instant-buy at its current price. Most boomer investors still think big Japanese tech companies are dinosaurs that have long been surpassed by China, South Korea and Apple etc ages ago. Young boomers may think Sony = PlayStation and that it's it. But the truth is that PlayStation, while very important (about 24% of Sony's total revenue last year), is a part of a larger story. Lots of investors in general associate Sony with the passé Japanese electronics companies from the 80’s and the 90’s. Just like a lot people may think BlackBerry is a struggling phone company. While Sony may not be the powerhouse in consumer electronics it was in the 80’s and the 90’s, in a lot of ways they are more relevant than ever before. Despite being a well-known brand and being known as the company behind PlayStation, for some reason its stock still seems to be under the radar among both retail and institutional investors. And boy, are they mind-blowingly undervalued. Even if a big part of its business would collapse tomorrow, they would still be slightly undervalued. And I am about to tell you why. (& btw compared to Japanese tech/entertainment stocks $SNE is still super cheap (Canon, Nikon, Toshiba, Sharp, Panasonic, Square Enix, Capcom, Nintendo, Fujitsu all have P/E ratios ranging from 18 to 77 and none of them have the combination of global clout, fundamentals & growth prospects that Sony has)) 2021 Sony as a corparation is not the fucking Sony from 2005-2015’s, just like BlackBerry in 2021 is not the fucking Blackberry from 2012. Just like Garmin in 2021 is not Garmin from 2011. Just like AMD in 2021 is not AMD from 2012. No, in 2021, Sony is the global leader in imaging technology and people do not fucking realize it. Sony has 50% marketshare in the CMOS image sensor market. There’s a very good chance the smartphone in your pocket has Sony image sensors (unless it’s a Samsung phone). Sony image sensors are powering a big part of today's vision/camera technology. And they will power even more of tomorrow's computer vision tech. In 2021, Sony is a behemoth in video games, music, anime, movies and TV show production. Sony is present in every segment of entertainment. Sony’s entertainment branches have been doing great business over the past 5 years, especially music and PlayStation. Additionally, Sony Pictures has completely turned around. In 2021, Sony is the world’s biggest music publisher (and second biggest music company overall). Music streaming has been a boon for Sony Music and will continue to be. In 2021, Sony is among the biggest mobile gaming companies in the world (yes, you read that right). And it’s mainly thanks to one game (Fate/Grand Order) that nets them over $1B revenue each year. One of the biggest mobile gaming companies + arguably biggest gaming brand in the world (PlayStation). In 2021, Sony is an EV company. They surprised the world when they revealed their “Vision-S” at CES 2020. At the reception was fantastic. It is seriously one of the best looking EV’s. They already sell sensors to Toyota. Sony will most like sell the Vision-S's tech to other car manufacturers (sensors for driving assistence / autonomous driving, LiDAR tech, infotainment system). 40 sensors in the Sony Vision-S Considering the overwhelmingly good reception of the Vision-S so far, I suspect the Vision-S could be another catalyst that will put Sony as a company on the radar of investors and consumers. We've seen insane investment hype for anything even remotely related to EV over the past year. We've seen a company that barely had a few EV design concepts (oh wait, they had a gravity-powered truck though) even get a $30B market cap at some point lmao. But somehow a profitable company ($SNE) that has an EV that you can actually drive, doesn't even have a fair valuation? In 2020’s Sony’s brand value is at their highest point since 12 years. In 2021, it is projected to be a its highest point since 2001 assuming same growth as average yearly growth from 2015 to 2020. Keep in mind brand valuation is a bit bullshitty as there’s no standardization to compare brands from different sectors, let alone non-consumer-facing brands with consumer-facing brands. But one thing we can note is that Sony both as B2C brand and as a B2B company is on a big upwards trend. https://interbrand.com/best-global-brands/sony/ https://careers.uw.edu/blog/2020/03/17/these-are-the-10-biggest-video-game-companies-in-north-america-shared-article-from-zippia/ In 2021, Sony is an entertainment behemoth. They have grown their entertainment branches by a huge amount over the past 5 to 10 years (they made some big acquisitions in the music space especially and they’re now also all-in in anime). I don’t think people realize how big Sony is as an entertainment company. I dug up the numbers and as of Q3 2020, PlayStation is the second biggest video game company in the world (Tencent is #1) in revenue (I suspect Sony might dethrone Tencent after Sony’s FY Q3 2020 is released). But Sony already comes very close to Tencent especially if you add Fate/Grand Order (which is under Sony Music and not under PlayStation) under PlayStation. There’s no single other company that has this unique combination of a dominant/important position in all entertainment segments. (video games + music + movies + TV series + anime + TV networks). I guess Tencent maybe? In 2021, Sony has amazing momentum in the camera space. If you’re familiar with the enthusiast photography space, you should know this. Basically, the market is slowly shifting from SLR to mirrorless cameras. This is because mirrorless cameras tend to smallelighter, have faster AF, better low light performance, better battery life and better video performance. Sony is the company that has been specializing in the development for mirrorless cameras for over a decade while Canon’s bread and butter has always been SLR cameras. Sony is in the lead when it comes to mirrorless cameras and that’s where the market is shifting towards. Because the advantages of mirrorless have become more and more apparent and Sony’s cameras have become technically superior, Sony has gained quite a bit of market share over Canon and Nikon in the last few years. In 2019, Sony overtook Nikon as the #2 camera manufacturer. Sony is in an upwards trend here. (they have the ambition to become the world’s #1 camera brand) Sony also has very good marketing for their cameras. (Sony has a lot of YouTubers / influencers / brand ambassadors for their cameras despite being a smaller brand than Canon) (just search on YouTube and/or Google “switching to Sony from Canon” just to give you an idea that they do have amazing brand momentum in the camera space. You won’t get as many hits for the opposite) A huge portion of Sony’s profit comes from image sensors in addition to music and video games. This is in addition to their highly profitable financial holdings division & their more moderately profitable electronics division. Sony’s electronics division, unlike other Japanese brands, has shown great resilience against the very strong competition from China & South Korea. They have been able to maintain their position in the audio space and as of 2020 are still the global market leader in high-end TV’s (a position they have been holding for decades) and it seems they will continue to be able to maintain that. But seriously this company is dirt-cheap compared to any of its peers in any segment and there’s various huge growth prospects for Sony: - CMOS image sensors & Sony’s overall imaging prowess will boom due to increased demand from automotive sector, security & surveillance industry, manufacturing industry, medical sector and finally from the aerospace & defence industry. On the longer term, image sensors will continue to boom due to increased demand for computer vision & AI + robotics. And for consumer electronics demand will remain very high obviously.
- Sony is aiming for 60% market share in the CMOS image sensor market by 2026. Biggest threat here is Samsung here who have recently started to aggressively invest in image sensors and are challenging Sony. Sony has technological lead + higher production capacity (and Sony will soon open a new plant in Nagasaki), so Sony should be able to hold off Samsung.
- The iPhone 12 Pro has 3 cameras + a lidar sensor. Apple now buys 3 image sensors (from Sony) + LiDAR sensor (from Sony) per iPhone 12 Pro they manufacture. Remember the iPhone X and iPhone XS? That one had “only” 2 rear cameras (with image sensos from Sony of course). Basically, Sony will be selling exponentially more image sensors as more smartphones get equipped with more and more cameras.
- Now think about how many image sensors Sony can sell to Apple if the iPhone 13 will have 5 cameras + LiDAR sensor (I mean the number of cameras on smartphones certainly won’t decrease)
- Gaming (PS5 hype, PSN game sales are booming, add-on content is booming, PS+ subscribers count is booming and finally PSNow & first-party games sales are trending upwards as well). Very consistent year-on-year profit & revenue growth here. They have a history of beating earnings expectations here. The number of PS+ subscribers went from 4M to 48M in just 6-7 years. Investors love to hype up recurring revenue and subscription services such as Disney+ and Netflix. Let’s apply the same logic to PS+? PS+ already has more subscribers than HBO Max in the USA.
- PlayStation (video games in general) has not even scratched the fucking surface. Most people who play video games now are millennials and kids. Do you think those millennials will stop playing video games when they grow older? No, of course not. Boomers today also still watch movies and TV. Those millennials have kids and those kids are now also playing video games. The kids of those kids will also play video games etc. Basically the total addressable audience for video games will by HUGE by the end of the decade (and the decades after that) because video games will have penetrated all age ranges of the population. Gaming is the fastest growing segment of the whole entertainment business. By a large margin. PlayStation is obviously in a great position here as you can guess from the PS5 hype, but more importantly imho, the growth of PS+ subscribers (currently a bit under 50 million) and PSN users (>100 million MAU) over the past 5 years shows that PlayStation is primed to profit from the audience growth.
- On top of that you have huge video game growth in the China where Sony & PlayStation is already much better established than Xbox (but still super small compared to mobile games and PC gaming in China). Within the console market, Xbox only competes with PlayStation in North America. In the rest of the world, PlayStation has an enormous lead over Xbox. Xbox is simply a lesser known and lesser desirable brand in the rest of the world
- Anime streaming (basically they have a monopoly already + vertical integration, it might still be somewhat niche right now, but it will be big within 5 years. Acquiring Crunchyroll was a very good move)
- Music streaming (no, they don’t have a music streaming service, but as music streaming grows, Sony Music also gets a piece of the growing pie through licensing/royalties, and they also still have a little 2.8% stake in Spotify)
- Apple, Amazon, Netflix, AT&T and Disney are currently battling it out in the streaming wars. When there’s a war you have little chances of winning, you shouldn’t be the one waging the war. You should be the one selling the ammo. Basically Sony Pictures (tv shows + movies) is in that position. Sony Pictures can negotiate good prices for their content because Apple, Amazon, Netflix, AT&T are thirsty for content and they all want their own exclusive content. Sony Pictures does not need to prop up their own streaming service just like Sony Music doesn’t need their own music streaming service when they can just license out their content and turn a profit. There will always be demand for TV & movies content, so Sony Pictures is well positioned is as an independent content provider. And while Apple, Amazon, Netflix, AT&T and Disney are battling it out on the forefront, Sony is quietly building their anime empire in the background. Genius business move from Sony here, seriously. They now have anime production & distribution.
- Netflix has 200M subscribers and they currently have a 250M market cap. Think about what Sony will have in 5 years? >30M Crunchyroll subscribers (assuming all anime will be consolidated into Crunhyroll) & >100M PS+ & PSNow subscribers? Anime and gaming is growing faster than movies and TV shows. (9% CAGR for anime, 12% CAGR for gaming vs. 5% CAGR for the whole movies & TV show entertainment segment which includes PVOD, SVOD, box office, TV etc etc). And gaming as a whole is MUCH bigger than SVOD streaming. Netflix gets 99% of their revenue & profit through subscriptions. For the whole Sony Group Corporation, their subscription services (games + anime) it’s currently only 4.5% of their total revenue. And somehow Sony currently has a meagre $128B market cap?
- PlayStation alone is bigger than Netflix in terms of operating profit. PlayStation has a MUCH higher profit margin than Netflix. For Q3 2020 Netflix posted $790M operating profit and PlayStation posted $988M operating profit. Revenue was was $6.44B for Netflix vs. $4.77B for PlayStation. (and btw Sony’s mobile gaming revenue (~$1B / year) is under Sony Music, it is not even in those PlayStation numbers!!!)
- Think about it. PlayStation alone posts bigger operating profit than Netflix (yes revenue is bit smaller, but it’s the operating profit that matters most). And gaming is growing faster than movies. And PlayStation is about 24% of Sony’s total revenue. And yet Netflix has a market cap that is equal to the double of Sony's market cap? Basically If you apply Netflix’ valuation to PlayStation then PlayStation alone should have a bigger market cap than Netflix' market cap.
PS+ growth and software digital ratio growth - Sony Vision-S & autonomous driving tech (selling sensors + infotainment system to other car manufacturers). Sony surprised everyone when they revealed their Sony Vision-S electric vehicle last year at CES 2020 (in-house design and made in cooperation with Magna Steyr). And it’s currently being tested on public roads. Over the past year we have seen absurdly big investment hype into anything even remotely related to EV’s (including a few questionable companies). We’ve even seen an EV company with a gravity-powered truck get a $30B market cap in June last year. Meanwhile Sony, out of nowhere, revealed what is arguably (subjectively) one of the best looking EV’s. It got very positive reception at CES 2020. An EV that you can actually drive. But somehow their stock is still dirt-cheap based on their current fundamentals alone? Yet some companies that had pretty much nothing but some EV design concepts got insane valuations purely due to hype?
- LTE chips for IoT & Industry 4.0 (Altair Semiconductors)
- Cross-media IP (The Last of Us show on HBO, Uncharted movie etc). Huge unrealized potential synergy here (it’s about to change). We have seen that it can turn out super well when you look at The Witcher, Sonic the Hedgehog and Detective Pikachu. When The Witcher released on Netflix, sales of The Witcher 3 significantly increased again. Imagine the same thing, but with Sony IP’s. Sony Pictures is currently working on 7 video game IP based TV shows and 3 movies. We know The Last of Us tv series is currently in production for HBO. And then the Uncharted is currently in post-production and scheduled to be released in July this year currently. If Uncharted turns out to be successful, it will mark a big, new milestone for Sony as an entertainment company imho.
- Aniplex (Sony Music Entertainment Japan subsidiary for anime production, distribution & mobile games) had a fantastic year in 2020. (more on this later) There is a lot of room for mobile games growth with Aniplex. Thanks to Aniplex, Sony might beat their earnings forecast.
- Drones. DJI just got put on Entity List in USA and Sony started developing drones for prosumer / professional a few years ago. Big opportunity for Sony here to take a bit from DJI’s dominance. It only makes sense for Sony to enter the drone market targeting the professional & prosumer video market, considering Sony’s established position in the professional audio/video/photography space
- Currently Sony also has several ventures & investments in AI & robotics
- Over the past decade, Sony has also carefully expanded into medical equipment tech & biotechnology. Worth noting that Sony also has an important 33% stake in M3 inc (a medical services through-the-internet company with a market cap of $65.5B) (= just their stake in M3 Inc is worth $22B alone, remember Sony, with their large, diversified revenue streams & assets only has a market cap of $128B?)
- Sony Pictures has a great upcoming movie slate (MCU Spider-Man, Uncharted, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Venom 2, Morbius, Spider-Verse sequel, Hotel Transylvania 4, Peter Rabbit 2, Vivo, The Nightingale). They will profit from the theatre reopening and covid recovery. They may even become more favourable among movie theatre chains because they won’t release their movies on the same day on streaming services like Warner (and yeah movie theatres are here to stay, at least for a while imho)
- All the above comes on top of established, mature markets (Financial Holdings & Electronic Products)
- Oh yeah, btw though TV’s are a cyclical and mature market and are not that important for Sony Group Corporation’s bottomline*, Sony TV’s will continue to do well for the following successive years: o 2020: continued pandemic boost
- 2020-2021: PS5 / Xbox Series X/S
- 2021 Summer Olympics (tv sales ALWAYS spike during the olympics) (& the effect is more pronounced for high-end TV’s, = good for Sony because Sony’s market share is concentrated in the high-end range (they are market leader in the high-end range)
- 2022 FIFA world cup (exact same thing as for the olympics)
- You could say it’s already priced in, but the stock is already ridiculously undervalued so idk…
You would think this company somehow has a bad outlook, but that could not be further from the true, let me explain and go over some of the different divisions and explain why they will moon: Sony Entertainment While Netflix, Disney, AT&T, Amazon, and Apple are waging the great streaming war, Sony has been quietly building its anime streaming empire over the past years. - Sony recently acquired Crunchyroll for $1.175B (it is a great deal for Sony imho and will immediately be more valuable under Sony. Considering the growing appetite for anime I honestly do not even understand why AT&T sold it, they could have integrated it with their other streaming service (HBO Max) but ok)
- With Crunchyroll Sony now has the following anime empire:
- Aniplex (anime production & distribution, subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment Japan) F
- Funimation
- Manga Entertainment UK (production, licensing, and distribution, UK)
- Wakanam (licensing and distribution in Europe)
- AnimeLab (licensing and distribution in Australia & New Zealand)
- Crunchyroll (3 million paying subcribers, 90 million registered users and 50 million social media followers)
* Why anime matters: Anime growth “The global size is expected to reach USD 36.26 billion by 2025, registering a CAGR of 8.8% over the forecast period, according to a study conducted by Grand View Research, Inc. Growing popularity and sales of Japanese anime content across the globe apart from Japan is driving the growth” (tl;dr anime 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀, Sony is all in on anime and they have pretty much no competition) Anime is the fastest growing subsegment of movies/video entertainment worldwide. - Sony also has a partnership with Bilibili for anime distribution in China:
https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201903/26/WS5c990d93a3104842260b2737.html - Bilibili already partnered with Sony Music Entertainment Japan to bring Aniplex’s hugely successful Aniplex’s Fate/Grand Order mobile game in China.
- Sony acquired a 5% stake in Bilibili for $400M in March 2020 (that 5% stake is now already worth $2.33B at Bilibili’s current share price ($BILI) and imho $BILI still has lots of upside potential considering it is the de facto video creation/sharing/viewing à la YouTube/Twitch for GenZ in China)
https://ir.bilibili.com/news-releases/news-release-details/bilibili-announces-equity-investment-sony Sony Music Entertainment Japan Aniplex - Sony Music (mobile games) generated $400M revenue from its mobile games in Q2 FY2020, published through Aniplex (Sony Music Entertainment Japan, “SMEJ”) subsidiary
- They are the publisher of Fate/Grand Order, one of the most profitable mobile video games of the past 5 years (has generated $4B in revenue (!!) by the end of 2019 and is still as popular as ever). Fate/Grand order is the 7th most profitable mobile game in revenue worldwide as of 2020 (!)
Fate/Grand Order #9 game by revenue last year as of Q3 2020 - Aniplex launched Disney: Twisted Wonderland in March this year. In Q3, it was the #10 most downloaded mobile game in Japan. (Aniplex now has two top ten games in Japan)
- Fate/Grand Order was the #2 most tweeted game in 2020 and #3 was Disney: Twisted Wonderland. You can see that Aniplex has two hugely successful mobile games. (we are talking close to $1B of revenue a year here). It is the #2 game in Japan by total revenue from Q1 2016 to Q3 2020 and the #9 game in worldwide revenue from Q1 2020 to Q3 2020.
Aniplex has two very popular mobile games - SMEJ earns about > $1B from mobile games in revenue from mobile games and there is still a lot of future growth potential here considering Japan’s mobile game market grew a whopping 32% yoy from Q3 2019 to Q3 2020.
- Aniplex recently co-distrubuted the movie Demon Slayer: Mugen Train in Japan in October 2020. It became the highest grossing film of all time in Japan with a total gross box office revenue of $380M. In the middle of a pandemic. It still needs to release in South Korea, China and USA where it will most likely do great as well.
Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) (Game & Netwerk Services business unit): - We all know 2020 was a huge year for video games with the stay-at-home pandemic boost. The whole video game sector brought in $180B of revenue in 2020, a whopping 20% increase yoy.
- But 2020 will not be just a one-off temporary exceptional year for video games. The video game market has a CAGR of 13% which means it will be worth $291B in 2027. Video games is by far the segment with the highest growth rate in the whole entertainment industry.
US video game market growth (worldwide growth has a 13% CAGR) PlayStation revenue and operating profit growth - PlayStation obviously has a huge piece of this pie and over the past years has seen consistent yoy revenue and profit growth. Think about it, for every FIFA/Call of Duty/Assassin’s Creed sold on PS4/PS5, Sony gets a 30% cut. There have been sold a billion PS4 games so far.
- 5 years ago 20 to 30% of PS4 games were purchased digitally. Flashforward to 2020 and it’s 60-75% and the digital ratio looks set to still increase a bit. This means higher profit margin for game publishers and for Sony at the expense of retailers
- SIE has seen huge success in its first-party games over the past 5 years. Spider-Man, God of War, Horizon: Zero Dawn, The Last of Us Part 2, Uncharted 4, Ghost of Tsushima, Days Gone, Ratchet & Clank have all been huge successes. This is really big and represents a big change compared to the previous generations where Sony never really hit it big as a games publisher even though most of their games were considered quality games.
- SIE is now not only a powerful platform holdeprovider, but also a very successful games publisher with popular IP’s (Uncharted, God of War, The Last of Us, Horizon, Ghost of Tsushima, Ratchet & Clank). This is an enormous asset, because firstly it increases the chances of success for cross-media opportunities (Sony Pictures can make TV shows and movies out of it to expand the popularity of those IP’s even more). And secondly, it is an obvious selling point for PS5. The more popular and bigger their exclusive content, the more they can draw people to their platform/service. This should increases PS5 total marketshare over its competitor.
- The hype for God of War: Ragnarok will be absolutely through the roof. Hype for Horizon: Forbidden West is also very good already (10 million yt views, 273K likes which is very good). Gran Turismo 7 and Ratchet & Clank will also do very well in 2021. (I suspect that GoW oand Horizon might be delayed to 2022)
- PS5 reception has been extremely good. Demand is through the roof as well all know. The only problem is that they cannot quite capitalize on the demand due to lack of supply, but overall, it is a very good thing that demand is very high, and that reception has been very positive. The challenge will primarily supply and production-related for the following 6 months and to be able to maintain brand momentum. Hopefully, they won’t push disappointed/inpatient customers to competitors.
- Considering there’s backwards compatibility from PS4 to PS5, users will want all their PSN content to transition with them as well, so I expect them to lose very little marketshare to Xbox. Also, I do not know if Americans realize it, but Xbox is not nearly as big as PlayStation in the rest of the world as it is in the USA. PlayStation just has global brand power that Xbox just doesn’t have, so Xbox isn’t much of threat at all I’d say. Where I live, in Belgium, In Europe everyone is talking about the PS5, nobody really seems to care about Xbox Series S/X that much. Comparing PlayStation to Xbox in terms of mindshare is like comparing Apple to Motorola (not meant to be a diss to Motorola, I have a Motorola phone myself, just saying that Xbox has significantly less mindshare / brand power in Europe).
- SIE is likely working on PSVR 2, this could be big.
- Sony has a small stake in Epic Games (1.4%) and they have a good business relationship with them, so this might also make them open to release first-party games on Epic Games Store after exclusivity period on PS5.
- Remember the Travis Scott concert in Fortnite? I believe that was one of the reasons why Sony invested in Epic Games. It serves as an example how music can sometimes converge with video games, and this can play to Sony’s strengths.
- PlayStation also has way superior presence in Asia compared to Xbox. Have been expanding into China as well. Another great opportunity for revenue growth.
- PS+ subscribers grew from 5.7 million by the end of 2013 to 46 million by October 30th, 2020. This is an average growth rate of 28% over the past 5 years. Considering most of the growth was early on, it will slow down, but I predict that they will have about 70 million PS+ subscribers by the end of 2023. This is huge and represents a stable, recurring source of income. Investors who keep hyping Netflix/Disney+ will love this, but it seems they have yet to discover $SNE.
- There is a reason why Amazon, Google, Nvidia have been aggressively investing in video games & games streaming. They know the business is huge and is about to get even bigger. But considering the established, loyal PlayStation userbase, the established global brand of PlayStation and the exclusive games, PlayStation should be able to easily standoff competition from Amazon, Google and Nvidia (GeForce Now) in the next few years. So far, Amazon’s venture into game development, publishing & streaming has completely failed. Stadia and GeForceNow seem to have a bit more success, but still relatively niche. Therefore, I think PlayStation is well-positioned to remain one of the leaders in the industry for the following decade.
I'll get to the other divisions later, I figured this is a good first step. But so far the tl;dr Image sensors: 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀 IoT/Industry 4.0 chipsets: 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀 PS5/PSN/PS+: 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀 Online medical services (M3 inc.): 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀 Anime: 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀 Fate/Grand Order: 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀 Demon Slayer: Mugen Train 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀 Sony Music / music streaming (the performance of Sony Music’s in Sony’s business is seriously understated. The numbers speak for themselves): 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀 Sony Electronics 🚀 Sony Financial Holdings (very stable & profitable business, even managed to grow slightly during pandemic when most insurance companies performed more poorly): 🚀🚀🚀 Still have to cover Sony Pictures, but their upcoming movie slate looks pretty good honestly (Spider-Man sequel, Venom: Let There Be Darkness, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Uncharted, Morbius, Hotel Transylvania 4 so that's worth one rocket as well imho 🚀 tl;dr of tl;dr: 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀 Disclaimer: I am not a financial advisor. I am an idiot that's trying to understand why $SNE stock is so cheap. Positions: SNE 105C 21st January 22 submitted by Audacimmus to wallstreetbets [link] [comments] |
OBLIGATORY FILLER MATERIAL – Giving thanks edition: Kickin’ around Caracas, Pt. 5
Continuing… (It's Part 6 in the saga, I fucked up. Sorry.)
So, after a few re-fueling and impromptu cigar-purchasing stops in South and Central America, we wheel up to the deserted jetway at LAX.
“Thought we were going to Elmendorf?” I asked.
“This isn’t it?” the pilot replied, feigning worry.
“No.”, I replied, “Looks like California. Fruits and nuts. All around. What’s going on? One minute we’re off to Texas, then Cali, then Texas again, now we end up here at the California airport of the iconic tower.”
“Yeah, it’s confusing enough haulin’ civilians around. But when we get a call from Virginia, we tend to comply without any questions,” the pilot explains.
“Aw, shit!”, I sort of exclaim, “Rack and Ruin called?”
“Yeah”, the pilot replies, “Figures you’d know these guys. They said they were closer to LAX rather than Texas and had us divert here. In fact, you look over there, see that dark blue Chevy? That’s them; and evidently, your ride.”
I tipped the airman from earlier a couple of cigars as he helped me with my gear off the plane and into the trunk of Rack and Ruin’s plain-Jane blue late modeled Chevy. Had to move the Sidewinder Missiles off to one side, though.
“Most honorable Agents Lack and Luin!” I quipped in my faux-racist greeting. “What the hell, guys? I’ve got to get to Japan and get some newly rigidified digits.”
“Let’s see your hand”, Agent Rack asks. “Nasty.”
“Yeah”, I sigh “And with the medicos in South America and their penchant for plaster, I don’t so much have a left hand as more of an ankylosaur tail.”
“Or Thagomizer”, Agent Ruin tittered. “Anyone gives you grief, and one upside the head should set them right. Or dead.”
“You’re a riot, Ruin.” I replied, “But not entirely incorrect.”
We all agreed that I really didn’t need any extra accouterments to make myself look more dangerous. I mean with my severe haircut, stern beard clip, and perpetual ‘Go fuck yourself’ scowl.
“Yeah”, I replied, stroking the aforementioned beard, “I just can’t get that. I’m such a people person.”
After Agents Rack and Ruin finished drying their eyes from laughing what I thought was en extremis, we finally got down to business.
“So, what’s the skinny, guys”, I asked. “New marching orders?”
“No. Not as such”, Agent Ruin said, still sniggering over my ‘people person’ comment.
I see we’re moving. Agent Rack is just driving casually, like Chewbacca when they were waiting to see if the Empire went for that expensive Bothan code.
“Then, what?” I asked, getting a slight bit piqued.
“Well”, Agent Ruin noted, “When you went to South America, you took some of your artillery collection with, correct?”
“You know I did. You even made some snide comments about my personal choice of sidearms and their ‘excessive’ calibers, if memory serves”, I reiterated.
“And if you are proceeding normally, as you always do, they’re all nestled in the trunk of this very car. All cleaned, quiet, unloaded, and smelling sweetly of Hoppe’s Number 9 and WD 40, correct?” Rack inquired.
“Yes?” I cautiously venture.
“Well, ya’ big dummy, do you think they’re going to let you saunter into Tokyo armed like the Third Fleet?” Agent Ruin chuckled.
“Um…well…I do have a Diplomatic Passport.” I ventured.
“That’s not going to work this time.”, Agent Ruin said, shaking his head. “They’re tighter than Dick’s Hatband about sidearms. Want to bring in your Rigby SXS .500 Nitro Express double rifle? Not a problem. Sidearms, especially in your alien hunting calibers, nope.”
Well, that’s just….*dandy!”, I reply, semi-put out. “Now what the hell am I going to do?”
“Ever think that’s why Ruin and I are here, now?”, Rack asks.
“And here I thought it was just so you could bask in the warm glow of my fucking wonderful personality. Or that you actually cared about me as a real goddamn human”, I joshed.
“Ummm…yeah”, Rack replies, “There’s no way we can answer that without going on some Deadpool list. “
I agreed.
“OK, here’s the deal: you get your sidearms, ammunition, speed loaders, brass knuckles, Asp, laser range finders, Sap, Zeiss scopes, Kukri, Wisconsin Cheese Whittler, Buck folding skinner, Marine K-Bar, those two ultra-illegal Cheburkov Cobra titanium switchblades...”
“Three. Olga the KGB lady sent me one for Geologist’s Day.”
“Ahem. Those three ultra-illegal Cheburkov switchblades, that Wyoming Speedholer, your MASER Time-Distance Computer, garrote, pocket rail gun and whatever else lethal you carry and deposit it in the iron box in the trunk. We’ll ensure that it’s delivered to Esme post-haste. And by post-haste I mean one of our guys will deliver it personally.”
“Well…I suppose”, I conceded, “But best send someone who’s been to the house recently. I don’t know how much bigger Khan has grown since I left on this little fantasy trip. Wouldn’t want a star on the wall in Langley for someone eaten by a mastiff. Want to see a picture….Oh, bother. That’s right. My phone’s at the bottom of fucking Lake Maracaibo.”
“Good point”, Ruin interjects, “Guess we’ll do a little road trip and deliver it ourselves. Best call Esme and let her know what’s going on.”
“I have no objections to your proposals. Please give Esme this when you see her. I had some luck in the Calaveras Casino and if I don’t send her some mad money. Ouch. She’ll never forgive me for not taking her along to Japan.” I asked.
“But I thought Esme hated Japan? Too crowded and too ‘fussy’, I believe was her estimation.” Ruin asked.
“Yes, but once she saw the Ginza, all bets were off. Shopping the likes of which even Allah himself hasn’t seen.” I replied, slowly shaking my head.
“I see”, Ruin said, “Well, since you’re off to Sapporo, perhaps you can do a recon for Esme on the shopping there.”
“Not bad. Not bad at all.”, I smiled, “Now I know why I let you guys hang around with me.”
So, as advertised, I am now standing on the tarmac at LAX, basically feeling naked.
“Can’t I keep just one switchblade?” I moaned to Agent Rack.
“Go ahead, if you’re really keen on donating it to Japanese customs”, he replied.
“Fuckbuckets.” I groused.
“There, there now. That’s the usual Dr. Rocknocker of which we’re all so fond.” Agent Ruin chuckled.
“Remember, you do have that wallet-sized credit card gizmo from the Company. So you’re not entirely ‘naked’. Think of it as an emergency breechcloth.” He smiled.
“I’d like a larger model if you don’t mind. It’s chilly out here.” I joshed.
After Agents Rack and Ruin stripped me metaphorically naked as they de-weaponized me, they handed me a Business Class ticket to Tokyo, and a pass to the Japan Airlines Hospitality Suite and Lounge.
“So sorry you guys can’t hang around and have a few farewell snorts”, I chided, “But you’ve got a bit of a drive, so best be off before the weather turns to shit.”
“Who says we’re driving?” Agent Rack asked as he hooked a thumb over his shoulder at the ready and waiting C-130 cargo plane currently taxiing slowly in our direction.
“Well, in that case”, I smiled even more broadly, “Let’s invite the flight crew to join us. That’ll make the flight home all that much more interesting.”
After near tear-jerking farewell sentimentalities, i.e., “Piss on you”, “Get stuffed” and “Take a fuckin’ hike”; Agents Rack and Ruin, my weapons and the Agency’s plain-Jane Blue Chevy were all nestled snugger than buggers in ruggers in the belly of the thundering C-130.
Now truly on my own, I trudge the hundred thousand or so centisteps to my departure terminal, make a quick recon that my flight’s still slated to go in a generally westward direction, and hightail it to the nearest courtesy desk to ask for a motorized cart to take me and my remaining luggage to the JAL Hospitality Suite.
Hey. I’m old, infirm, and currently among the walking wounded.
Anyone that disagrees risks an Ankylosaur tail club swat or Thagomizer to the skull.
Finally ensconced in the JAL Hospitality Suite, Polo Lounge of course; I was drinking Tokyo Teas (3 oz. vodka, 2 oz. gin, 2 oz. rum, 1 oz. triple sec, 1 oz. Midori, good splash of lime juice, a slight splash of 7-Up (diet, of course), over ice with a lime wheel) with Pabst Blue Ribbon Extra 1844 chasers and Hangar One’s “Fog Point” vodka on the side, hiding from the brutish realities of this foul year of two thousand and twenty-something, Common Era…
I’ve already called Esme and we’ve had a good, long chat. She still managed to give me her shopping list for whenever I find myself bored on the Ginza.
She’ll be shocked when she learns that I’m not going to be in Tokyo long, but have 1st class tickets on the Bullet Train to Sapporo. Still, I’ll probably find myself in Pole Town or the Stellar Place there, trading piles of US greenbacks for locally produced Japanese curios and clothing.
I can hardly wait.
I order another round of drinks, as the wonderful attendants in the Hospitality Suite were bored out of their skulls because of the COVID-induced drop-in customers flying anywhere that requires a hospitality room stay, and I was virtually the only one around. They tried their level best to outdo each other when it comes to Japanese efficiency and friendliness.
After a couple of hours, they ask if I would like something from the grill, as the day chef had “the COVID” and the night chef just arrived. A quick perusal of the menu and I chose a 28-ounce dry-aged Porterhouse and another round of drinks.
I usually don’t like to eat too much before I fly, but JAL tells me the flight is going to be virtually empty, something like <121 pax, all told, so restroom availability shouldn’t be too much of a concern.
Plus, who am I to say no to a free, blue 28-ounce dry-aged Porterhouse?
There was a bit of difficulty conveying to the chef through the intermediaries of the hospitality just how I wanted my steak.
“Blue,” I said.
“Brue?” was the reply.
“Rare. Very, very rare.” I continued.
Look of total bewilderment.
I drag out my Personal Language Pro, speak “Steak, very, very rate” into the infernal gizmo, and hand the contraption to the attendant.
“珍しい、非常に珍しいステーキ?”[ Mezurashī, hijō ni mezurashī sutēki?]
“Raw! Nama!” I say, louder than need be.
They toddle off to find the chef.
“How is it sir, that you would like your steak cooked?” he asks.
“Very rare. Just a minute or two per side. Inside still cold.” I instructed.
All I got for the trouble was a puzzled smile.
“Give me the language gizmo…” I type in a few words…
“お尻を洗い、角をノックオフして、ここから出してください”
[O shiri o arai,-kaku o nokkuofu shite, koko kara dashite kudasai.]
“Wash its ass, knock its horns off, and walk it out here.”
“OH!” as the lightbulb pops. “Rare. Got it! Excellent!” the chef laughs and zips back to the kitchen.
Like I always say, I’m nothing if not the international ambassador of amity and goodwill.
“Crack tubes!”
Dinner was fantastic. I do wish I could have somehow mailed the Porterhouse bone back home for Khan. After that hambone incident, he might even taste it.
Finally on the plane, in an almost empty Business Class, the flight captain informs us that we’re headed to Haneda Airport Tokyo and anyone not headed in that direction better ‘haul ass off’ the flight or forever hold their peace.
Late-night international flights tend to be a bit more wooly than your average Chicago to Omaha gig.
Especially when the flight’s damn near empty and we have the next 12 hours or so to be best friends.
We taxi, turn and head into the wind. I’m doctoring up a couple of dossiers and keeping my personal cabin attendant, Luna since there were two of us in Business and two business flight attendants, busy with her trying to play ‘Stump the Geologist’.
“I’ll bet you never had this before.” She beamed and handed me a tumbler of very dangerous-looking brown liquor.
I cautiously sniff, take a modest gulp, swirl and glug the rest down.
“Ohishi Single Sherry Cask”, I say with a muffled belch. “Light. Fruity. An Englishman’s drink.”
“Oh. You knew. Let me try again.” She smiles beatifically.
“I have no objections to your proposal.” I smile as nicely as this crotchety old Komodo Dragon could.
She returns with another flagon of spirits; it smells of obsidian, leather, and earth.
I just had some of this back in LAX. I take a snort, smile, and shotgun the rest.
“Hibiki Japanese Harmony…lovely stuff.” I smile. “A little light for my jaded palate, but I’d never turn it down if it were free.”
“Oh, you win again. Wait. One more.” She smiles and skitters off to the galley.
She returns with another soupçon of some more dangerous brown liquor.
“Here, try this. It will make you very popular at social gatherings”. She smiles.
Sniff. “Splendid.” Snort. Swirl. Smile. Shotgun.
“Kanosuke New Born, if I’m not mistaken.” I smile back. “Very nice. I really do like this one.”
“You too good at this. One more!” she stands and stomps off defiantly. She returns in a trice and hands me the glass.
“Hmm…brown. Light notes of earth, leather, dating your daughter, and Kentucky…
“Beam Suntory, right?”
“You know them all!” she says, feigning irritation.
“And I thank you. Those were all excellent. Now, anything in the dangerous clear liquor category? I asked.
Luna smiled as I palmed off a 20k yen tip.
“Oh, no sir. Wait until we land.” She demurred, referring to the gratuity; which is know is not de rigueur in the Orient, but she didn’t seem to mind.
“Just in case we never make it to Tokyo”, I laughed, unknowingly presciently.
We both chuckled about that last line as she tried out various sakes and shōchūs and an actual Japanese ‘White Liquor’ (ホワイトリカー), which were all excellent as was the company.
I tell her that I need to get some work done and could she bring me a tall Rocknocker. After explain the origins and construction of the eponymous drink, she brings me one that must tip the scales at 1 or so liters.
She settles down to an empty seat and I get after the work that I need to finish before we land. I’m about ½ way through my drink when it felt as if the plane hit a brick wall. She quivered and quaked and clutched at herself while I made some comments about the pilot’s mental health.
We dropped like a paralyzed falcon, then just as suddenly, felt like it was an express elevator to Angel’s 11. The plane bucked and shimmied, wickedly. Then we slam-danced right and fell a few more stories. It was like we were in a Mixmaster and the owner was trying out every speed.
The emergency lights in the 777-300ER popped on, and the fasten seat belt sign barked loudly so even sleeping travelers could enjoy the show.
Rinse. Spin. Shudder. Repeat.
Finally, the ride smooths out and we hear the captain on the blower.
“This is your captain speaking…ah, we seem to have hit some uncharted turbulence back there.”
“Thanks, Captain Obvious”, I muttered.
“Everything’s A-OK. “ he reports.
“That’s good”, I note.
“But…”
“There’s always the but…” I groan.
“…we have a couple of warning lights for which we can’t quite account. So to just be safe and certain, we’re going to divert to Hawaii, get a clean bill of health and resume this flight once we make sure everything here is hunky-dory.”
There were scattered groans and applause. Add them together and divide by two and the average response on the flight was “Meh. Whatever.”
Except for the other guy in Business, with whom I hadn’t shared two words. He began to absolutely lose his shit.
“Oh, man! We’re so screwed! Mechanical malfunction? What does that mean?” he positively fizzed with fear.
The flight attendants tried to calm him down, to no avail. They basically gave up and said they’d report his misgivings to the Captain.
I motioned over to my personal flight attendant, Luna, and asked if I could be of service.
“Oh, Doctor Rock”, she smiled at me, “If you could speak with him. You are so calm, and he is…”
“Losing his bloody mind”, I chuckled as I finished her sentence for her. “Of course, I’ll take a stab at it.”
So, I grab my drink and ease over to my Business Class partner and introduce myself.
“Hey, pal. How’s it going? I’m Dr. Rock, gentleman, scholar, and connoisseur of cigars and things alcoholic. You doing OK?”
He looks at me with an ashen face and his eyes the size of bloodshot dinner plates.
“Yeah. I’m Todd Schotts. I’m flying to Japan for business.” He mumbles
“No surprise there,” I reply calmly and take a slug of my drink.
“But now we’re all going to die. The plane is busted and we’ll crash…” he started off again.
“So, Todd is it? Good. You drink?” I asked.
“Yeah?”, he stammered back.
I asked Luna to make us a fresh batch of my eponymous cocktails.
“OK, Todd, listen up”, I began after the drinks were served, “I have flown literally millions of miles over the last 4 decades. On Aeroflot when it was still the USSR. On TACA (Take A Chance Airways), on Chalk’s in the Caribbean, on Bob’s Verrifast Plane Company in Rhodesia, on regional carriers that don’t even exist anymore. All over the world. Had some bad experiences flying, and me ol’ mugger, this ain’t one of them. This is nothing more than the glitch for this mission.”
I chuckled lightly and complimented Luna on a fantastic drink.
“Yeah…yeah…yeah…but we have to land and check out some lights…” Todd squealed.
“Well now, Todd. It would be rather difficult to do any external assessment while in flight, don’t you agree?” I asked.
“But we’re diverting. We have to land and that adds more risk. We’re going to crash and die!” he was coming more and more unglued.
“I will bet you every cent you have on your person and home bank accounts that that will not happen”, I chuckled.
That took him by surprise. At least it shut him up for a while.
“Look, Todd. This is Boeing’s latest model. They have the most incredible safety record. And if a little clear air turbulence were to be knocking planes out of the sky, don’t you think we’d hear about it as the press went berserk?” I asked.
“But they don’t know what the lights mean! What if one of the engines’s out? How far can we fly on one engine?” Todd stuttered.
Having my fill of a supposedly grown man with inane childlike fears, I calmly replied,
“All the way to the crash site.”
He went white.
“...hope we hit something hard. I don’t want to limp away from this.”
He went limp.
Then I went to my seat and motioned for Luna to prepare a reload.
Of course, 45 minutes later, we land without incident at Daniel K. Inouye International Airport, Honolulu Hawaii.
We were told to just wait around until they figure out what the problem if any, was.
They had officials waiting at the end of the jetway to check our COVID status and passports before they let us loose in the terminal.
I asked Luna if she knew this airport. She noted that she did.
“Is there a JAL hospitality room here at this airport? I asked.
“Yes, Doctor. It’s the Sakura Lounge. It is located on the third level above The Local, Terminal 2.” She replied.
“Please notify whoever needs to know that that’s where I’ll be for the duration”, I smiled and handed her my business card. “See you soon, I hope.”
“Oh, Dr. Rock”, she replied, “I am sure it is nothing much. We’ll be back in the air within mere hours.”
“Well then”, I smiled, “Guess I’d better get ready to hoof it to the lounge.”
“Oh, Doctor Rock”, she smiled, “No rush. I will call for you a courtesy cart. You are injured, you are Business, you are priority.”
“I love that Asian efficiency.” I smiled back and toddled down the jetway.
At the terminus of the jetway, I show my COVID-clear papers, dates and times of my Anti-Virus vaccine administrations, the letter from Virginia clearing me of all detention, and my red Russian diplomatic passport.
While in the cart, whizzing our way to the JAL lounge, the driver said “Man! You must be some kind of VIP. You were through that welcoming committee in less than two minutes!”
“Me? Nah!”, I chuckled, “Just an old phart of a geologist that they didn’t want to mess with. Not on such a bright, sunny day as this.”
“I see you’re not wearing a mask.” The driver quipped.
“Very observant. There are reasons for that.” I replied.
He careens around a corner and if this were a normal pre-Covid day, I’m certain we’d have killed hundreds. However, the airport, as I’ve come to grow accustomed to, was virtually deserted.
“Yeah? Like what?” he asks.
“Well, Scooter, 1. I have an active and hardworking immune system that I let off the chain every once in a while for exercise. Got to let it know what it’s up against, right? 2. I’ve had all my shots and some that were experimental. They seem to have worked. And 3. I find it difficult to drink and smoke cigars while wearing a mask. However, if you’d prefer, I will mask up. No problem, though it still is optional.”
“Nah, man”, he said, “I was just wondering if you were one of those religious idiots or conspiracy nuts.”
Nope”, I smiled back, “Just another geologist out in the world plying his trade for cash. Y’know, whorin’ around for money.”
He laughs aloud as we skid to a stop right in front of Lounge.
I slip the guy a $20 and ask if he’d listen for the JAL flight I was just on. If we’re going on ahead today, I’d need him to scoot by and putt-putt me back to the plane.
He laughs and pockets the $20 as quick as a mink ruts.
“No worries. I’ll just hang around this area. I hear anything about the flight, I’ll come and let you know.” He grins.
“Good man”, I say, as I hand him my card. “I’m Dr. Rocknocker. Call me Rock”.
“And I’m Kapula Mano, call me Kap” he replies.
“Good man”, I say again, “Hope to see you in a while.”
He grins, floors his electric cart, and peels out at speeds approaching 4.5 MPH.
I wander into the lounge, show my credentials, and am escorted to a post up on Mahogany Ridge.
The bar is very quiet. Besides the bartender, I can’t see anyone else in the darkened and Smooth Jazz-infused drinking emporium.
I order a local drink, a Mai Tai, just for the experience and something a bit different.
It’s served in a goldfish bowl on a stem, bedecked with a slice of lime, a sprig of mint, a stick of sugar cane, a polychromatic orchid, and the obligate paper umbrella.
“Ah. Mai Tai. I will enjoy it.” I said to no one in particular.
One was enough, and I decided to go back to the old standard. Once I explained to the bartender what that was, he made them heroic and enthusiastically.
I’m reading up on a random dossier, making notes in a new file, and puffing away on a Fuentes Onyx double Maduro Churchill cigar.
I hear a slight cough coming from my right, and this here lovely lady, she sat to my immediate starboard and looked at me semi-quizzically.
Not in the mood for shenanigans of any stripe, I give her the obligate Baja Canada nod and tilt of the drink. I return to my dossiers and continue to read and take notes.
“Excuse me!” I hear.
Fearing the worst, either the woman is Karen-oid anti-smoking or a religious fruit-and-nutburger, I slowly turn to face her and reply, somewhat glacially, I have to admit.
“What?”
“That cigar…”
“Here we go…” I mutter, eyes rolling northward.
“Smells exquisite. Could you tell me the brand? My husband would enjoy some like that.” She notes.
Instantly my demeanor switches 1800.
“Yes, ma’am. It’s an Arturo Fuentes Onyx. Churchill size, or 60 ring x 7” length, double Maduro. Here, take one for your husband. I have an ample supply.” I smile.
“Oh, no. I couldn’t. Could I?” she asks.
“Please. I insist.” I smile the best I could given the circumstances.
“Thank you. You’re too kind…umm…Mr….?”
“Doctor. Doctor Rocknocker. World traveler, oilman, and international ambassador of amity, good drinks, and fine cigars. Call me Rock” I said.
“Oh! A Doctor?” she brightens.
“Yes, of Petroleum Geology and Engineering. Not medicine.” I chuckle.
She chuckles back.
“And I am Hella Aaberg”, as she offers her hand for a quick shake.
“Interesting name, Hella. Scandinavian or Old German heritage?” I ask.
“On my father’s side. He’s Finnish.” She replies.
“But I’ll wager your mother is not Scandinavian, correct?” I ask.
“She was from Truk, an island…”
“In the South Pacific, Micronesia. Was she from Weno city?” I asked.
“Why yes. How could you possibly know that?” she asked.
“Oh, I’ve been there. Great diving amongst the WWII wrecks. I think it’s actually called ‘Chuuk Lagoon’ or something like that now.” I said.
“That’s right! Amazing. Where else have you been?” she asked.
“Anywhere there’s oil, strife, booze, cigars, heavy explosives and typically long distances from whatever most normal people call civilization,” I replied with a chuckle.
Suddenly, I hear a voice booming out behind me.
“Why don’t you save that rapier-like wit for those musky-fuckers back home, Rocko?”
My expression changes. My eyes pop fully wide open.
“Hella?” I asked.
“Yes?”
“May I ask you a favor?”
“You can ask…”
“Thank you. Now, looking over my shoulder, is there a hulking goon of a person, thin up top, paunchy halfway down with the most ridiculously tiny sized shoes you’ve ever seen for a so-called grown man?” I ask.
“Yes. Yes, there is.” She replies.
“I thought so. Many thanks.”
I spin and launch off my barstool and grab Toivo by the hand. He hadn’t seen my left-hand Thagomizer yet.
“Toivo! You old sumbitch. What the flying fennec fox fuck are you, of all people, doing in Hawaii?” I laughed.
“Just keeping an eye on you, Rock!” he laughed equally as loud.
“No, fucking-A, seriously. What the actual fuck? What are you doing in this actual nice place?” I asked.
“Just headed to Tokyo to conduct a bit of service company business. I walked into the lounge and smelled a foul cigar. I figured it can’t be the venerable Dr. Rocknocker. He’s back at some school up north terrorizing geology and engineering grads and undergrads.” Toivo laughed.
“But there I was. Surprise!”, I laughed and pumped his hand.
“What the fuck, Rock. Now what did you do?” he asks, referring to my Ankylosaur tail club left hand.
“Ah, fuck. Long story. Oh, pardon me. Toivo, this is Hella. We were just talking about the South Seas Islands.” I said.
“Planning on running off together?” Toivo laughs, to the amusement of neither party.
“Oh, and this idiot is Toivo, a man with a congenital foot-in-mouth disorder. He’s mostly harmless.” I noted to Hella.
Greetings were shared all around. Hella made some small excuses and said she needed to depart. I gave her another cigar for her husband, shook her hand, and wished her well.
“Here’s my business card. If your husband has any questions, have him drop me a line.” I noted.
Hella smiled beautifully. She said she would. Then she thanked me shook our hands, and like that, there she was, gone.
“Well Toivo, you old bastard. Don't just stand there in the doorway like some lonesome goddamn mouse shit sheepherder, get your ass over here and have a drink.” I motioned over to my perch on Mahogany Ridge.
“Don’t mind if I do”, he says as he deftly winds his way to a seat to my left, snagging a cigar out of my pocket on the way over.
“You might want these”, I say in an exasperated tone, and hand him my gold Dunhill Hobnail lighter and V-cutter gizmo.
He cuts and fires up his heater.
“What you drinkin’, Rock”, he asks.
“Anything with alcohol, as usual. You know that Toiv.” I reply.
“No. I mean right now.” He clarifies.
“Well, I had a Mai Tai. Very nice if you like fruity, flowery drinks. It’s the locals’ favorite.” I reply.
“Sounds good. I’ll have several. And you?” Toivo asks.
“My usual. The bartender is already apprised of the situation.” I reply.
Toivo smiles the smile of one knowing his sobriety is going to be taken out for a swim. Hell, taken out and tossed into the deep end.
Toivo and I sit there, swapping lies, smoking cigars and sipping at our toddies.
Hell, Toivo was slurping them like a sump-pump during an extra-wet summer.
We chattered about family, work, whether or not Tokyo was going to host the Olympics or if the COVID-boogie man scared everyone off.
Toivo, always one afflicted with TB (“Tiny Bladder”) got up to go to the loo for the third time that hour. He left his pocket organizer on the bar and I swear on a stack of Origins of Species, I didn’t touch it.
I reached over to his vacated seat to retrieve my cigar lighter when I looked down and saw in his organizer a tab that reads “Rack & Ruin”.
“Oh. No. Fucking. Way.” I recoiled as I’d just reached out and petted a 6-foot hungover scorpion.
“One of my best friends? Secretly allied with the Agency? No. Not possible.” I drained my drink and called for another.
“No. No. No. It can’t be. No. No fucking way…” as doubt began to dissolve when I thought back to all those times I had just ‘run into’ Toivo.
“But he’s oil patch as well. That could be chalked up to coincidence.” I ruminated quizzically in my brain.
I quickly reflected back on J.M. Darhower: “Yes, you see, there’s no such thing as coincidence. There are no accidents in life. Everything that happens is the result of a calculated move that leads us to where we are.”
She may be the author of the execrable New Adult Sempre series, which Esme likes and I loathe, but she might just be right on this occasion.
Toivo return, lighter in the bladder and good sense. He never even noticed he’d left his organizer out in broad bar light for all to see.
“So, Toivo, when’s your flight?” I ask.
“Oh, man. Was I lucky. The JAL flight to Tokyo from Los Angeles had mechanical trouble and had to divert here. I got a ticket on the plane for that flight, when it continues.
“You mean ‘if it continues’,” I replied.
“Yeah. Yeah. That’s what I meant. Hey! Was that your flight?” he asks innocently. He’s really innocent of fieldcraft.
I decide to have some fun at my old friend’s expense.
“Yep. Hit some CAT (Clear Air Turbulence) and the JAL pilots reported some lighting problem. No apparent ruin to any of the systems. They relay racked their brains to figure it out, but they couldn’t that’s why I here.” I said, waiting for the words to swim upstream in Toivo’s coconut and make some sort of connection.
“Yeah. Double lucky. No problem with the plane and I get to go to Japan early.” Toivo crookedly grins.
“So, no trouble with the plane? Then why haven’t I heard that the flight’s going to resume?” I asked as I pushed a fresh, seriously strong drink to Toivo.
“Oh, must have heard it in the john.” Toivo countered and tried to cover his tracks by taking a huge gulp of his drink and damn near dying coughing.
I pound on Toivo’s back.
“Heimlich time?” I ask.
Toivo signals ‘no’.
“Jesus Christ, Rock. What was that?” he asks.
“Just my usual”, I innocently replied.
“Holy fuck. No wonder you have the reputation of…” Toivo realizes too late that he’s said too much.
“Yeah. They can rack you out. Really ruin a person if they’re not careful.” I reply icily.
“Why, Rock. Whatever do you mean?” Toivo slurred as he realized he’s been caught out.
“The jig is up, you turncoat. You know Agents Rack and Ruin from the agency. Right? You keeping tabs on me for them? You Quisling! You Benedict Arnold!” I almost was on the verge of losing my cool.
“It was nothing. They approached me years ago as I kept being mentioned in your reports. They asked me for some information. One thing leads to another…” Toivo was ready for an Ankylosaur tail club swat to the bean.
“Oh, put your fucking hands down, you asshole.” I smiled and chuckled.
“You’re not mad?” Toivo slurred badly. I had the bartender make him another special drink.
“No, Toivo. Not mad. Just disappointed.” I said, smiling like a Komodo Dragon just finishing up a fortnight-old wildebeest.
Toivo sat there and puzzled and puzzled until his puzzler was sore.
“You’re not going to kill me or anything rude like that?” Toivo asked, half-assedly trying to inject humor into the proceedings.
“Nah. The paperwork’s too ridiculous for me to do another liberation. But, Jesus Fucking Christwagons, Toivo; you could have mentioned it to me. Fuck, I thought we were friends to the end?” I said, dejectedly.
I was really getting through to Toivo. I could tell he was loaded; feeling like shit and massively deplorable.
Great fieldcraft, indeed.
I told him things “are what they are” and that I won’t blow his cover nor his honorarium.
He began to feel better. I often wonder if he was serious about the sanctioning thing.
Then I delivered the strategic missile strike.
“Just remember, Toivo. I wrote your dossier for the Company…”
He swivels to look at me.
“And one for the KGB. Olga says ‘howdy’.” I grin evilly.
Toivo short-circuited at that. Russia is his company’s bread and butter. Now he has the KGB as well as his best buddy looking over his shoulder at every move.
I bought him a few more drinks and continued to needle him about his ’leading a double life’. He was well and truly fuckered when the electric tap-tap driver from before came looking for me to whisk me back to the plane.
Seems it was simply some knocked-out wires on the plane, or slammed bulbs that were generating a false positive, indicating something other than the system that alerts one to something haywire went haywire.
Toivo was pretty much down for the count. I got him sober enough to hand them his ticket and ensure that he was really supposed to be on this flight. Thing was; h e was in Economy, and I was, as always, in Business.
I spoke to Luna, and the plane was going to be even less crowded than previously because some folks could or wouldn’t wait, or didn’t want to go on with the rest of the trip on a ‘damaged’ aircraft, or were just stupid and superstitious.
“Luna, could I pay for the difference between Business and Economy for my less than 100% conscious friend here? He’s had a rough day.” I asked.
“Dr. Rock. Just put him into Business. No one will be the wiser. Luna says so.” As she gave us a grand smile.
“Luna, I owe you. Thanks so much.” I said.
“Now get on board. Your friend looks like he needs all the downtime he can get.”
“Yes, ma’am!” I said and saluted here be best I could which dragging a schnozzled Toivo down the jetway.
I dumped Toivo in a window seat well away from my seat. I know Toivo. He snores like a semi-load of live hogs rocketing downhill locking up the brakes at 88 MPH.
Surprise! There was no one else in Business. Luna looked at me, at Toivo, and gave me a thumbs up.
Whatever I can write to further her career at JAL, she’ll have it before I deplane.
We finally get everyone settled, and with Captain Kangaroo at the helm, we bounced gracelessly off the tarmac, into the warm, tropical Hawaiian air, finally headed for the Land of the Rising Sun.
Toivo was snoring like a chainsaw hitting rusty nails as I worked on the various letters, communiques, and dossiers which needed updating before we reached touchdown. I gave Luna a thick letter with instructions not to open it until we were on the ground and Toivo and I were well off and away into the terminal.
We left Hawaii at 1300 hours, so we should arrive at Tokyo Nareda around 4:00 pm, the previous day. I was so bereft of time and time zones, I couldn’t figure out what time it really was, as judged by my biometric rhythms, so I asked Luna for a stiff drink as I was kicking off my boots and going to attempt to get some kip.
She brought me another liter or so eponymous drink. I was sawing logs by the time I slurped the last swig of that nifty drink.
Suddenly, or later, I have no idea really, some loudmouth drunk asshole from way-the-fuck-back in economy-land toward the ass end of the plane staggered into Business demanding free drinks.
Luna was nothing but civil, and asked him to both shut up and return to his seat. His air cabin hostess, or whatever the fuck they’re calling them these days, will attend to his needs.
“Naw they won’t! They want me to pay for more drinks! I’m broke but I demand more booze! You fucking owe me.” railed the asshole. “I sat at the bar in Hawaii for four hours. Them fuckers charged me an arm and a leg!”
“No, they don’t owe you shit”, I said in a voice that unmistakably loud and clear.
“Fuck you, old man! You stay the fuck out of this!” he bellowed. “Shut up or I’ll do ya’!”
“’Old man’? ‘Do me’? Excuse me. Luna, may I have a word alone with this individual?” I asked sweetly.
Luna shook her head in the affirmative, and I stood up to confront this flagrant asshole.
“Now look, Scooter. You have gone way, way over the fucking line. You are loud. You are abusive. You are obnoxious. And you stink. Plus you insulted a person who is just barely containing his righteous wrath right now. So, I’m giving you one and one only chance to shut up, sit back down before your body spontaneously develops all sort of bruises, contusions, broken bones, and unconsciousness.” I said calmly, evenly, and threateningly.
“What da’ fuck you think you’re going to do…old man?” he screeched, trying to inflate himself into full mammalian threat posture, all 5’ 9” of it.
He didn’t notice Toivo walking up quietly behind him, as Toivo was returning from the head, quiet as a moose.
“Well, Scooter, I am an Air Marshall. Duly appointed, fully trained, and properly pissed off. Right now, I can arrest you, physically detain you, turn this flight around and take you to the Hawaiian police, at your cost for the inconvenience of the entire flight. Or I could arrest you, physically detain you, and turn you over to the Japanese authorities when we land. It’s really your choice. Choose wisely.”
To be continued…⇝
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“The Canadian Epstein” — Disgraced fashion mogul Peter Nygard's own SON is helping police investigate his alleged sex crimes
Disgraced fashion mogul Peter Nygard's own SON is helping police investigate his alleged sex crimes By Guy Adams Investigates For The Daily Mail
15 Jan 2021
Link to article 'He has become my arch-nemesis. I no longer regard him as my father . . . He is a monster. I am now here to serve in any way I can, to support survivors and the justice process and also to help expose the people who covered up his crimes.'
Kai Bickle's world came tumbling down one night in May 2019, when he attended a dinner party at a lavishly decorated mansion overlooking the golden sands of Venice Beach in Los Angeles.
The host was his father, Peter Nygard, a Canadian fashion tycoon famed for the hedonistic lifestyle he pursued at a global portfolio of high-end properties, including vast residences in Winnipeg, Toronto and Montreal, as well as New York, and, most notoriously, a Mayan-themed 'private luxury resort' in the Bahamas.
Modelling himself on Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, the flamboyant Nygard, now 79, kept a revolving harem of girlfriends. Those caught up (often completely unwittingly) in this web had included actresses Susan Anton and Jennifer O'Neill, stripper-turned-reality star Anna Nicole Smith, and a former Wheel Of Fortune card turner by the name of Vanna White.
His Caribbean parties, meanwhile, tended to attract a better class of A-lister. Past visitors to the island property had ranged from Jane Seymour and Bo Derek to Robert De Niro, , Michael Jackson and Joan Collins, not to mention and , who were photographed there in the early 2000s on an innocuous family holiday.
The 2019 bash, during one of Peter's occasional business trips to LA, was to be a more down-to-earth affair. Roughly 20 guests, including Kai, 38, and his younger brother Jessar (one of roughly ten offspring Nygard has fathered via more than seven women) had been invited for food and drinks, followed by a late-night poker game.
That was the plan, at least. But Kai never made it to the card- table. Instead, he fled the lavish premises in a state of distress, shortly after dinner, believing that he had just witnessed his father attempting to sexually assault an eight-year-old girl.
Details of this ugly development are (it should be stressed) strongly disputed, and we shall examine them later. But the incident would kick-start an extraordinary chain of events that culminated just before Christmas, with the arrest of Peter Nygard on nine charges of sex trafficking and racketeering.
Currently behind bars, with his $900 million (£660 million) business empire in tatters and the FBI poring over his computer hard-drives, the fallen tycoon has now been accused of rape or sexual assault by at least 57 women. Several of Nygard's accusers were children when the alleged crimes took place, and many claim they were drugged.
At least 57 women have accused him.
He will appear in court in Canada next week, seeking bail as he fights extradition to the USA.
It is, perhaps, the most high-profile and shocking sex case since handcuffs were slapped on Jeffrey Epstein. And in a remarkable twist, it turns out that a leading figure in the increasingly public campaign to prosecute Mr Nygard is his aforementioned son, Kai.
Upcoming documentary: ‘Unseamly’ Canadian Designer Peter Nygård
True Crime Documentary Behind the scenes, I can reveal that Kai has spent the past 18 months secretly helping both the U.S. and Canadian authorities investigate his own father's alleged crimes. Keeping his role hidden from Nygard and his associates for several months, he has worked tirelessly to assist victims, and their legal teams.
On the personal front, he has changed his name (taking up his mother's surname to become Kai Zen Bickle) and used his influence over various Nygard companies to block efforts to move his assets offshore, fearing that would allow him to flee. 'We have been engaged in a brutal battle against my father and his enablers,' is how Kai summed things up when we spoke this week.
'He has become my arch-nemesis. I no longer regard him as my father . . . He is a monster. I am now here to serve in any way I can, to support survivors and the justice process and also to help expose the people who covered up his crimes.'
Perhaps most remarkably of all, Kai recently helped two of his younger siblings, one of whom remains a minor, to sue Peter Nygard over claims he 'engineered' the rape of his own sons. In an extraordinary lawsuit filed in August, the boys claimed that their leathery, multi-millionaire father instructed one of his long-standing girlfriends (who was also a sex worker) to 'make a man' out of them.
The first of these alleged attacks (which, again, are vehemently denied by Nygard) took place in the Bahamas 2004, when the son was 15 and the woman was in her mid-20s. The second occurred in Winnipeg in 2018, when the younger child was 14 and the woman was in her 40s. Court papers filed by the boys stated that the unnamed girlfriend was instructed to seduce Nygard's son by showering in his bathroom so that he 'could see her naked'. Then she raped him.
Afterwards, she allegedly told the boy he 'wasn't bad' for a 'baby.' The next morning, Nygard's girlfriend brought him breakfast in bed, kissing him on the lips and announcing: 'Mommy's got you.' Kai says he first became aware of this appalling incident last spring, and was 'sickened' to hear his brothers' claims.
He would often yell and scream at his staff.
'We all spoke and decided the best course of action was to file a lawsuit publicly in the hope that other survivors would feel safe to come forward and also file criminally against Nygard,' he says. 'We were originally going to have me in the suit as my young brother's guardian, but in the end decided not to because it would reveal to Nygard that I was working against him . . . At the time I was [secretly] doing everything I could to improve the odds that he would get arrested.'
To appreciate the extraordinary journey taken by Kai, we must wind the clock back to the mid-1980s, when his father was one of Canada's most talked-about self-made millionaires.
The son of penniless immigrants from Finland, Peter Nygard had launched his empire in the late 1960s, with an $8,000 (£6,000) investment in a struggling fashion firm. By the time he was 30, the company had become one of North America's most successful suppliers of leisure and sportswear, while his flamboyant eccentricities, which included keeping parrots in his office and filling the lobby of Nygard HQ with bronze busts of himself, turned him into an object of public fascination.
In 1987, the party-loving entrepreneur purchased a 4.5-acre patch of the island of New Providence in the Bahamas and set about turning it into a 'dream home' where he could indulge his champagne lifestyle. Over the ensuing years, he built 150,000 sq ft of Mayan-themed buildings, stretching over a dozen 'cabana-style' residences. The buildings at Nygard Cay eventually included a casino, a disco hut (with cameras beneath the dance floor, reportedly to shoot images of revellers from below), and the world's largest sauna, a 6,000 sq ft lodge made from 2ft-thick Canadian pine logs.
In the grounds were fake volcanoes that belched dry ice, a flock of peacocks, stone cobras which hissed steam at sunset, 60 ft towers festooned with hundreds of flaming torches (lit nightly by staff) and giant statues of nude women, purportedly modelled on some of Nygard's favourite girlfriends.
At weekends, he would host lavish parties, which appeared on various TV documentaries, including Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous.
The place became a magnet for freeloading celebrities and, while Kai believes they generally had the most fleeting and brief relationship with Nygard, photos of their visits were then plastered across company literature and websites.
Prince Andrew, to cite one example, was recorded for posterity wandering with the long-haired fashion magnate on the beach, wearing blue shorts and boat shoes.
Born in the 1980s, Kai spent the first three years of his life in the Bahamas until his mother, Patricia, left Nygard, with whom she'd had three children but never married.
They moved first to California and then to the Pacific Northwest in the U.S. Over subsequent years, he had almost no regular contact with the fashion tycoon aside from occasional visits during school holidays, where he met various half-siblings.
'He would have one family weekend per year at his lake cottage, and a few days set aside for Christmas,' says Kai of the somewhat unorthodox arrangement. 'During those times, the days were filled with activities like horseback riding or mini golf.
'He could be a very charismatic person when he wanted to be and the family weekends were very light and brief.'
In the very limited time he spent with his father during childhood, Kai saw nothing that gave him reason to suspect that Peter Nygard was guilty of criminality, though he did have a highly volatile personality.
'He would yell and scream at his staff often, and that always was upsetting to everyone around it, but he would describe his yelling as 'passion' because of his 'high standards',' Kai says.
Nygard's children were further told that he 'lived a consensual, non-monogamous lifestyle,' Kai says. 'He made speeches at dinner to family when we were together to talk about how he hoped everyone got a wonderful partner and wished that he could find that special someone, but that it wasn't the life for him.
'He also had girlfriends that were persistently with him, always two or three, and often they were around for years. He wasn't embarrassed about it. He flaunted it on TV, it was part of his brand, something he showed the whole world. He was proud of it.'
Be that as it may, rumours of predatory behaviour by Nygard —and worse — had occasionally reared their ugly head, only to be quickly suppressed: a relatively easy task before the internet.
In 1980, for example, he was charged with the rape of an 18-year-old, but the charge was dropped when the complainant refused to testify. In 1996, three female employees meanwhile filed sexual harassment complaints in the Canadian province of Manitoba.
It looked like his hand was on her thigh, rubbing.
One, a 39-year-old communications manager, said that, when called into Nygard's office, she would 'find him in a state of undress . . . with his hands down the front of his pants, fondling himself.' He settled by giving the women $18,500 (£13,600) and denied any wrongdoing.
Then, in 2010, a Canadian TV network put out a Panorama-style documentary about Nygard, focusing on alleged sex abuse and harassment of former employees.
It quoted a former stewardess on his private plane who alleged that on one journey — during which Nygard was accompanied by a troupe of topless women — he lost his temper with staff, shouting: 'You are nothing! You are garbage! I am God!'
The programme also alleged that Nygard had engaged in 'inappropriate sexual contact' with a young woman who had been brought to his home in 2003 from the Dominican Republic. Nygard denied that either incident had happened, and sued to stop the documentary being broadcast.
Fast forward to May 2019, however, and those ugly incidents were largely forgotten. Kai, who was by then in his late 30s, had worked for his father's companies for just over two years after leaving college, but quit to pursue a career in activism and health science.
Nygard's trip to Los Angeles afforded them a rare opportunity to catch up, so he attended the aforementioned dinner party in Venice Beach.
As the night wore on, he recalls becoming uncomfortable about his father's behaviour towards an eight-year-old girl, who was attending with her mother, one of Nygard's old girlfriends.
'He's got her sitting right next to him at dinner, which is usually his girlfriend chair. And he's a creature of routine. So I'm already thinking this is weird.
'He's trying to act like the Papa. It was just weird . . . I'm noticing things. I'm noticing that he's telling her little secrets at dinner. Putting his hand close to her ear and going all hush-hush.' At the end of dinner, most of the other 20-odd guests got up to adjourn to the card table. However, Kai adds: 'I'm still watching him. Her chair gets pushed back. He brings her round to him.
'She was on his right side. He brings her to his left side, with his arm around her waist, and I see his elbow change and start moving as if — it looked to me, I couldn't see, but it looked like his hand was on her upper thigh, and rubbing. That's what it looked like to me . . . Everything in my body told me he was doing something terrible.'
'I had a huge adrenaline rush and I immediately told the mother to get her daughter away from him,' he adds. 'I stood up next to him and looked in his eyes. At that moment, for me, it was like all the walls were crashing down around him . . . And I realised that, yeah, he's probably trying to groom that girl.'
Nygard vigorously denied wrongdoing, and even called Kai 'sick' for thinking as much. But Kai was unconvinced.
Then, in February last year, ten women filed a bombshell lawsuit in New York claiming that the fashion magnate had used wealth and status to 'entice underage girls' from 'young, impressionable and often impoverished backgrounds' into his home, where they would be 'plied with alcohol' and (some allege) date-rape drugs, before being taken to Nygard's private quarters, where he would 'assault, rape and sodomise' them. Court papers claimed they were then coerced into joining a globe-trotting harem of sex workers paid thousands of dollars from Nygard's company funds and trafficked around the world on his company's private jet, which reportedly boasts a stripper pole.
One alleged victim, who was just 14 at the time, claimed Nygard raped her and paid her $5,000 (£3,700).
Another said her encounter with Nygard began with him showing her pornography after which he raped her, 'causing her extraordinary trauma and pain', the suit states.
Three of his existing ten accusers were 14 at the time. Three more were 15.
Within days, dozens more alleged victims had come forward. By the summer, some 57 survivors were pursuing legal action — and the number of alleged victims had reached 100.
Kai again confronted his father, only to be told it was all 'lies' and asked to speak out publicly in his father's support. But days later a friend texted Kai to complain about a recent visit to Nygard's house in Los Angeles.
'He said he'd brought a female friend with him, who had one or two drinks and had started to feel very high. Nygard took her up to his room and aggressively had sex with her, not using a condom.
'When I heard that, I knew he was not only as bad as people said he was, but was a dangerous criminal and had to be stopped.' He duly alerted the authorities about the friend's message. In a podcast called Live To Walk Again, released this week, he revealed that he began helping both the police and the alleged victims' lawyers, who he regards as 'heroes'.
Over the summer, Kai also used official positions held in Nygard firms to block two apparent efforts to move assets overseas, amid concerns that the tycoon might flee to evade justice.
PODCAST EPISODE: Peter Nygard Discusses His Father 'Through the course of ten months I also helped several survivors to file criminally against him, and spent countless hours on the phone with survivors, lawyers and authorities,' he says. Last month Nygard was arrested on U.S. charges at a home in the Royalwood area of Winnipeg. He spent Christmas behind bars and has consistently denied any wrongdoing, saying he 'expects to be vindicated' in court.
Kai has renounced his inheritance and is working on 'making the world a better place' by campaigning to close legal loopholes exploited by sex offenders.
'I'm very happy earning my own money, as I have all my life. We've never had a trust fund or an allowance, and since his money has been made through pain and suffering, I won't accept a potential inheritance,' he says.
His father's cash, he says, should instead go towards compensating victims. 'My focus now is to help the healing process.'
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NBA Owners' net worth (Dan Gilbert's net worth rose from $7.5 billion to $45.3 billion this year)
...
After his company went public. I had to include that in the title. Maybe now he won't be such a cheap bastard with his GMs. I had no idea Gilbert was now the second richest owner in the league.
Which made me wonder what other owners are worth (the title of this post was almost "why is Tilman Fertitta such a cheap bastard while
Joe Lacob spends money like he thinks the shit's gonna rot?").
Which brings us to
this handy Forbes list from March:
1. Steve Ballmer (Los Angeles Clippers): $51.4 billion
Ballmer scored a huge win this week for his dream of building a new arena. He bought the Forum for $400 million from the Madison Square Garden Company, which tried to block a new Clippers arena near the Forum in Inglewood, California.
2. Philip Anschutz (Los Angeles Lakers): $11.2 billion
Anschutz owns one-third of the Lakers, plus the arena in which they play, the Staples Center, in addition to the NHL’s Kings.
\For those wondering, it's hard to find a reliable source on Jeanie's net worth but according to unreliable sources it's in the ballpark of $500 million*
3. Stanley Kroenke (Denver Nuggets): $10 billion
The real estate and sports mogul owns teams in the NBA, the NHL, the NFL, MLS and the Premier League.
4. Joseph Tsai (Brooklyn Nets): $9.9 billion
The cofounder of Alibaba Group completed his purchase of the Nets last year for $2.3 billion and bought the Barclays Center for an additional $1 billion.
5. Robert Pera (Memphis Grizzlies): $7.1 billion
Pera owns nearly three-quarters of wireless equipment maker Ubiquiti Networks. He was the lead investor in the Grizzlies purchase in 2012.
6. Daniel Gilbert (Cleveland Cavaliers): $6.2 billion
Gilbert made his first fortune from Quicken Loans, the largest online mortgage lender, which he cofounded in 1985 at 22 years old.
*List is from March, before the IPO 7. Tom Gores (Detroit Pistons): $5.7 billion
Gores and his brother Alec are both private equity billionaires. The Pistons opened a new $90 million headquarters and training facility in September.
8. Micky Arison (Miami Heat): $5.3 billion
Arison’s net worth plummeted 33% over the past six weeks with the collapse in the stock price of Carnival Corp. The world’s largest cruise ship operator was founded by Arison’s father in 1972.
9. Tilman Fertitta (Houston Rockets): $4.4 billion
Fertitta furloughed roughly 40,000 employees at his casino and restaurant empire to curb the economic impact caused by coronavirus-induced shutdowns. His fortune is derived from his ownership of the Golden Nugget Casinos and Landry’s, a Texas-based restaurant and entertainment company.
10. Mark Cuban (Dallas Mavericks): $4.3 billion
Cuban was one of the first sports team owners to commit to paying hourly arena workers for games missed during the coronavirus crisis. He’s invested more than $20 million as a “shark” on ABC’s popular
Shark Tank show.
11. Joshua Harris (Philadelphia 76ers): $3.7 billion
Harris cofounded private equity powerhouse Apollo Global Management in 1990 with fellow billionaires Leon Black and Marc Rowan. He remains a managing director there.
12. Gayle Benson (New Orleans Pelicans): $3.2 billion
Benson inherited the Pelicans and the NFL’s Saints when her husband, Tom, died in 2018.
13. Glen Taylor (Minnesota Timberwolves): $2.8 billion
His printing firm, Taylor Corp., generates more than $2 billion in revenue annually. Taylor also owns stakes in Minnesota’s MLS and WNBA teams.
14. Herb Simon (Indiana Pacers): $2.6 billion
The real estate mogul bought the Pacers with his since-deceased brother, Melvin, in 1983, for $10.5 million. Simon Property Group is one of the world’s largest real estate investment trusts, with 206 properties in the U.S.
15. Antony Ressler (Atlanta Hawks): $2.4 billion
Ressler cofounded private equity firm Ares Management in 1997. He owns a small piece of the Milwaukee Brewers, in addition to his controlling stake in the Hawks.
16. Michael Jordan (Charlotte Hornets): $2.1 billion
The NBA’s GOAT sold a minority stake in the Hornets in September in a deal that valued the team at $1.5 billion. Nike pays Jordan more than $100 million annuallybased on growing sales for the company’s Jordan Brand.
17. Marc Lasry (Milwaukee Bucks): $1.8 billion
Lasry, a hedge fund titan, joined Wes Edens to buy the Bucks in 2014 for $550 million. He was born in Morocco and moved to the U.S. at age 7 with his family.
18. Gail Miller (Utah Jazz): $1.7 billion
Miller transferred ownership of the Jazz in 2017 to a family legacy trust to deter her heirs from selling or moving the team. Gail and her since-deceased husband, Larry, bought the team for $22 million in 1986.
19. Jerry Reinsdorf (Chicago Bulls): $1.5 billion
Reinsdorf led a group of investors who bought a controlling stake in the Bulls for $9.2 million in 1985. Good timing. It was one year after the team drafted Michael Jordan, who led the Bulls to six NBA titles. The team is now worth $3.2 billion.
20. Theodore Leonsis (Washington Wizards): $1.4 billion
Leonsis initially built his fortune as a senior executive at AOL, before investing in sports teams like the Wizards and the NHL’s Capitals.
*Not included on the list but googled for your edification: DeVos Family (Magic): $5.4 billion
James Dolan (Knicks): $2 billion
Joe Lacob (Warriors): $1.2 billion
Vivek Randive (Kings): $700 million
Robert Sarver (Suns): $400 million
Jody Allen (Trail Blazers): The sister of Microsoft cofounder, Paul G. Allen, took control of the team after his death. At the time her brother was worth $20 billion though he intended to give most of his fortune away...
Boston Basketball Partners LLC (Celtics): An American local private investment group formed to purchase the Boston Celtics
Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment (Raptors): The Raptors are a subsidiary of MLSE
The Professional Basketball Club, LLC (Thunder): A group of OKC businessmen "who represent a wide variety of local and national business interests" owns the Thunder
Spurs Sports & Entertainment LLC (Spurs): An American sports & entertainment organization, based in San Antonio, Texas owns the San Antonio Spurs
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MCAC and Playboy (PLBY) merger. Why I think Playboy has a bigger future.
As I am sure a lot of you know,
Mountain Crest Acquisitions (MCAC) are in late-stage talks with playboy to take them public currently at a valuation of
~$425M meaning we should see the MCAC ticket convert to Playboys ticker, PLBY, within a matter of days, if not weeks. A lot of the people I have seen talking about the Playboy acquisition have argued that Playboy is a dying brand and are far beyond their prime, which is no doubt true, in terms of selling sexy magazines that have all but been made redundant by online pornography. However, this company and its newish CEO (of 2017), Ben Kohn, have given it a new lease of life and
are changing the globally recognized brand's direction to be more of a lifestyle and sexual wellness brand. They have been seeing huge year on year growth since Kohn's appointment in 2017 across almost all revenue streams, Kohn has been a part of Playboy for many years and initially helped privatize them in the early 2010s. He is highly regarded for his marketing and sales abilities.
WHY PLAYBOY? First of all let me offer you CEO Ben Kohn the chance to convince you:
Here is his investor presentation. The numbers are extremely impressive. If you would rather hear it from me, for whatever reason, my take is below:
For me, one of the most notable things about this deal is its the extremely rare opportunity to buy into
one of the world's most known brands at such a low valuation. How many SPACs currently on the market would you be able to ask your typical man or woman on the street about the company they plan on buying and almost everytime get an answer about who they are and what they do?
Playboy had a WHOPPING $3bn annual spend on thier brand across 180 countries worldwide last year! Playboy are taking huge strides moving away from the sex negative and very 20th century ideals they built their original empire off, and closing in on an increasingly empowered and sexually liberated young demographic.
The sexual wellness market is seeing massive growth among people both young and old and is expected to reach $125 billion by 2026 with an expected anual growth of 12.1% YoY, now think about the size of this market in context of how many brands do you know that are key players in this sector? It should be somewhat obvious that
Playboy is in an extremely unique position to capitalize on its massive recognition in a growing market otherwise lacking recognized leaders, they plan on doing this with a strategy of M&A which are outlined below.
First, I will talk about what they are doing now to fit themselves into the market we see today.
Playboy has begun a plan to increase growth via acquisitions, and started by buying leading sexual wellness reatiler Yandy at the end of 2019, and have
driven direct sales up from $3.7M in 1H 2019 to $29.7M in 1H 2020. On top of this, they are working to make their own
playboy.com website into a retail destination, and across Yandy and their own store they were seeing 70,000 orders a month with a AOV of $72.
During the stock redemption period Stockholders requested redemption of a total of 8,842 shares, less than 0.2% of Mountain Crest’s issued shares. As a result, Mountain Crest anticipates that approximately $58.7 million will be released to PLBY Group immediately following the closing of the transactions, with further PIPE investments of $50 million.
Ben Kohn, CEO of Playboy, said, “We are delighted with the overwhelming support for this transaction, which at closing is expected to inject more than $100 million of gross proceeds into PLBY Group, so that we can aggressively capitalize on our well-defined and exciting organic and acquisition-led growth plan.”. On top of direct sales increases,
Playboy continued to capitalize on their brand recognition by increasing licensing revenues YoY, with ~$400M currently in forward-booked cash flow. Note licensing is one of the most cost-effective way brands can earn revenue,
with 80% cost margins and being able to create such licensing demand is a rare feature only attributed to truly globally recognized brands. I read somewhere which I now cannot find that Kohn has said (I am sure somewhat jokingly) that he believes the Playboy
Bunny Logo alone is worth a billion dollars, and I can see some truth in it, the Playboy bunny is close to the levels of recognition of the Nike swoosh or the McDonalds M, even among young people who have probably never seen a playboy mag before, myself included (i have never seen it sold in the UK).
As breifly mentioned above, playboy Revenues are growing rapidly.
2020 Projected Revenues is expected to be up 75% year over year, and Projected Adjusted EBITDA is expected to be up 112% year over year, they have projected 2021E revenue and adjusted EBITDA of $166.8M and $40.3M, respectively, with an goal of $100M EBITDA by 2026.
They already have a number of
CBD-based products and have plans in place to grow into the legal marijuana industry when it is eventually legalized at the federal level.
They are looking to
increase their positions in the gaming industry and have recently opened a poker house in Houston, on top of their London Casino, with further plans to add more casinos in the US, and
looking for sports betting partnership opportunities. Playboy are already an established producer of apparel and maintain a realtively large presence within the market, particularly
in China, where their items are sold in over 2,500 brick and mortar stores, and 1,000 online stores across the nation. In the western World
they are stocked at household retailers such as urban outfitters, and have done many collabs with well regarded and in fashion millenial brands such as
Supreme, Anti Social Social Club, and Alpha industries (all 3 of which have seen extraordinary growth among young people all within very short time).
For me this stands out massively and shows promise on both sides of the table; These trendy and modern brands want to associate with the Playboy logo and lifestyle, showing a level of interest from consumers, but more importantly it shows that Playboy is tapped in and aware of the youth culture, an area in which they have the potential to capitalise massively on through all of their revenue streams. One of the things i think people are most underestimating about this merger is that
the current trajectory Kohn is taking Playboy along is very 2021, and is extremely focused on growth. I believe the brand to be undervalued already, and when taking into consideration the trends in Millenial and Gen Z society, I think this brand is ready to once again become a market leader in its new sectors.
A comment I saw on another DD put it well:
"If Kylie Jenner thinks its cool, it probably is". It sounds stupid, but the power of social media in conjunction with its recognized logo and brand mean you cannot underestimate this companies value and
potential for both short term and long term growth. Coupled with the large cash injection of over $100M and a new focus on M&A, the upside really is potentially enormous. Personally i think it is somewhat criminal this company does not have a current valuation of close to a billion USD considering its recognition, and i think Kohn is the man to enable playboy to capitalise on their extremely unique position in a rapidly growing market.
The above stats are all taken from the Playboy investor presentation given by Ben Kohn
here, (as said above I would encourage you all to look at this, it is very impressive), and from MCAC press releases that can be found
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1.03 beta now available on Steam
Welcome Bosses, Chicagoans and all! Today we bring you great news, crew. See here, we have decided to let the public in on the operation: we are now doing public betas of new patches!
This means that if you play Empire of Sin on Steam, you can now choose to opt into playing the latest stable beta build of the game. Here is how to do it:
- Open Steam.
- Go to the Library and right-click on Empire of Sin > Manage > Betas.
- Choose the beta branch available in the drop down menu.
- You should then be able to download the beta build. No password needed!
And that’s it, you’re good to go, boss! Of course, we would love to hear your feedback on the beta patch. Feel free to let us know in the comments below, in the Empire of Sin Discord or in the Empire of Sin Beta sub-forum.
Discord:
https://discord.gg/qX2PTYK Forum:
http://pdxint.at/3tflvQ6 See below for a full list of Patch Notes for Beta Branch 1.03.
Update Notes - Beta Branch 1.03
Please Remember:
- Back up your game save folder to ensure any issues during this test do not affect your main game saves
- When reporting issues, please include the build version number in the report. You can find the version number on the main menu, or by dropping down the developer console.
- You may be asked to attach a game save or log to a report. You can find your save games at C:Users[username]AppDataLocalLowRomeroGamesEmpireOfSinGameSaves
- Player logs can be found at C:Users[username]AppDataLocalLowRomeroGamesEmpireOfSin.... Look for the folder that matches the time the game crashed
- If a build update happens while you are playing the game you will need to restart Steam to get the update
Known Issues:
- We're aware of an issue where you can receive notifications & loot regarding Big Jims Stash incorrectly. The team is working on a fix for this.
- We're aware of some stability issues around the tutorial. The team is working on a fix.
- We're aware of rare issue where buildings in the world can occasionally disappear. If you encounter this issue any additional Information you can provide would be very helpful.
Changelog
The Highlights
- Safehouses are now hidden
- Combat AI has been improved and provides more challenge
- An option to avoid nuisance combat demands has been added, a new system will be implemented in the next update (1.04)
- Fast travel has been limited
- You can no longer attack an Enemy Faction you’re not at War with
General Changes
- AI ignores temporary alliances when deciding to break an alliance
- Loot crates are now rebalanced
- Adjusted racket income filter list to take the prosperity modifier into account
- Added separate notoriety gains for raze, ransack, and smash up
- Prevented Personality Traits from reapplying every time you save/load
- Removed time-free teleporting
- Fix disappearing gangsters
- UI polish
- Locale polish
- Prevented alcohol resource errors when ransacking that could lead to inventory corruption
- Fixed instances of disappearing actors when upgrading ambience
- Fixed severe issues when a game is loaded where "master hotelier" is in effect
- Fixed an issue where actors could be sent to the void if two buildings changed their racket type at the same time
- Added more building and colour variety in the neighbourhoods
- Player cannot scroll the claim list without using virtual cursor mode when using a controller
- Gangster Talents need to be unlocked
- Fix boss ability items inheriting incorrect modifiers through weapon stats
- Add a wait to the flee action so players can see the characters leave the area
- Character model improvements
- When editing a building name, if player adds a space or lowercase letters, the building name will not be displayed correctly
- Adding more building variety throughout the neighbourhoods
- Better telegraphing and delay for Hotels Disbanding
- Better notifications for players when hotels are disbanded
- Fixed a softlock when assigning Lieutenants
- Fixed issue where if a character has more than 9 Status Effects on them, the UI will start to overlap. If they receive 28 or more, the icons will start to go off screen
- Empire screen filter lists scroll resets on repopulating
- The missing synergy icon has been found and returned to its rightful slot
- The Crew screen and Black Market now have no whitespace issues when viewed in 4:3
- The issue when switching to Asian languages and switching back would cause text to disappear in the tutorial is now resolved
- We have updated the hiring costs for the starting gangsters
- An issue with Safehouse discovery resetting on load has now been laid to rest
- The awkward silences in sitdowns have now been filled with conversation. We Cleared the truce/end war sitdowns when war is removed
- Missing translations in the Settings window from the Title screen have been replaced
- Increased the difficulty of the difficulty levels
- Change Threaten Option in sitdown pop up
- Fixed alcohol resource being released twice
- Save upgrader to fix older saves not loading from alcohol issue
- Saltis issue with rackets being locked fixed
- DMJ issue for Thompson not on map in Blues fixed
- Capone softlock when talking to Guard fixed
- When skipping to Ronnie’s phone call in the tutorial, we didn't have a valid reference to the brewery
- Increased the tiers for racket guards for all major factions
- The issue with gangster talents not needed to be unlocked has been whacked
- Multiple tooltips were missing in the Empire Overview, Finances and Alcohol info screen. We found them
- The name of the neighborhood is now added to the surrender dialog options
- Various UI fixes
- Fixed an issue where sitdown and mission icons stayed fixed on screen if the player pressed 'f' to transition to another neighbourhood
- Made sure that the tutorial safehouse doesn't spawn exterior guards while the tutorial is active
- Addednew advertisements, see if you can spot them all
- Fixed Safehouse Discovered Softlock in Tutorial
- Friend In Need mission fix for not completing after killing lodge members
- Jaqcues Attacks mission fix for not completing if you upgrade all rackets at once
- Fixed crate positions
- Increased the sitdown timeout from 5 minutes to 15 minutes
- Unknown characters will no longer reveal the faction name if we start pre-combat near them
- Mark Target will now work in pre-combat and start combat immediately when activated
- Resolved an issue where the AI could initiate combat while a sitdown was beginning. This would result in a soft lock in some cases
- Added recruiting time to AI squads
- Removed war-free attacks, you want a fight, start a war
- Raul is placed so close to a building that his arm was in it
- Genna fix for Round The World mission not completing
- When the player refuses the police request for cash, their rating with the police is reduced depending on their notoriety. If they pay up, their rating with the police is increased
- Fixed a cursor issue when cancelling a load game request
- Nicknames should display how you got them in pop up
- Fixed issue where all tutorial attacks by player were asking for confirmation
- Fixed Issue with safehouse storages being nil
- Prevented Moles from being added to selection
- Non-tutorial AI Factions now start with a safehouse security level of 2 instead of 1
- Fixed bookshelf collisions in bars
- Created a Sal's Tips update for 1.03 to advise players in-game as to what the updates are
- Updated Large Casino interiors
- Different colors for the Explore and the Exterminate Agenda icon outline on the minimap and street view. This change also fixes colors of agenda icons not updating when you encounter a squad from an unknown faction
- Fixed Status bar icons overlap with combat status UI
- Police now resume patrolling correctly after TurningABlindEye is over in a location
- Made all loot in crates uncommon
- OBanion's mission POI not updating if racket becomes invalid is now fixed
- Duarte's mission racket showing 0 cost for buildings after takeover, CMA mission not continuing
- Injured Gangsters are now correctly disappearing after taking over a racket when they become injured
- Fix for Word on The Street mission not continuing because combat was starting during a conversation
- Various save game fixes
- Made prosperity only update on weekly events
- Fixed issue where character entered into a t-pose if they travel while paused
- Fixed issue where players could end up not being able to move long distances
Combat Fixes/Changes
- Issues with the AI not using grenades if they have to step out from cover have been fixed.
- Dead combatants can no longer panic during combat
- Allowed the boss to gain notoriety if anyone in their faction performs an execution
- Ensure AI squads that are about to attack a building are not used by other tactics before they have attacked
- Reduce the OW Angle for Dart Gun from 180 to 130 degrees and reduced the OW Angle for LP08 Pistol from 180 to 150 degrees
- Suppressed Fire shot does not deal damage to targets
- Ensured combat can't start during conversations
- Fixed issue where player is able to equip regular rounds on dart gun
- Tweaked Last Rites as it can deal more damage than it is supposed to: All attacks with more than one shot would always deal crit damage after the first crit shot
- Fixed issue where certain conversations couldn't start combat
- Stop heal over time effects being applied when their item is equipped
- Fixed a softlock in combat when moving characters who had been revived from bleeding out as the result of an overwatch shot
- Fixed Ability & Melee descriptions being truncated during combat
- Fixed issue where Gun panel would stay up with no gun icon
- Fixed an issue where entering combat during the war tutorial softlocks the game
- Remove the drunk animation while in combat to fix characters teleporting across the map
- Ensured errors in AI tactics don't block AI behaviour
- Fixed softlock related to a primary faction being eliminated in a war
- Fixed softlock when a revenge reaction turn was triggered after shooting
- Fixed softlock when using batter up on a character that doesn't die
- Weapon Balance: Reduced the effectiveness of a number of weapons. Critical hit damage has been reduced across the board. Removed the instant kill modifier from the Funeral Arranger Shotgun and the Deceiver Rifle. Added Knockback and Bleed to the Deceiver
- Fixed for knife attack anim freezing
- Fixed save games with broken melee weapons after using a batter up reaction attack
- Fixed an issue where Knocking Out a character with an overwatch shot would softlock the game
- Fixed issue where character can be stuck in the knocked out pose after combat ends
- Last Rites ability has limited range, which was not implied by the game in any way
- Fixed issue with Remedy not appearing on action bar
- Fixed issue with Hair Trigger ability activation popup showing even when character is knocked down
- Fixed an issue where certain combat reactions were using stale position / vision data. Could cause an issue where a character would "step out" to an old position several meters away
- Time Bomb will disrupt overwatch when thrown
- Characters no longer get up after they have been executed if they were put in the BleedingOut state by a critical hit
- Fixed issue where Last Rites doesn't indicate that DMJ's Mauser has 10 shots leading people to believe it is bugged
- Characters no longer get stuck in the overwatch pose at the end of combat
- Characters rotate back to their overwatch direction after getting attacked
- Run Away option is displayed in surrender dialogue if gangster is under attack outside
- If a gangster or boss will be affected by the exterior combat, the dialogue offering surrender now shows their name
- The camera will no longer move after the player abandons exterior combat when the attackers are attacking the outside of a building
- AI attacking building exteriors will now attack between 8-15 metres from the building door instead of between 0 - 5 meters
- Fixed issue where corpses would block player moving to tiles
- Vicekings boss Donovan leaned on us for getting his name wrong in German
- The camera will no longer move after the player abandons exterior combat when the attackers are attacking the outside of a building
- If a gangster or boss will be affected by the exterior combat, the dialogue offering surrender now shows their name
- We have ensured the Run Away option is displayed in surrender dialogue if the character is under attack outside
- Added even more variety in the buildings
- Made sure characters cant get stuck in the overwatch pose at the end of combat
- Characters now rotate back to their overwatch direction after getting attacked
- Increased the duration before an AI will declare war without an antagonizing incident
- Adjusted weapon ranges and stats
- Smooth out the curves for weapon ranges to reduce a number of sharp drop offs.
- Lowered a number of critical damage multiplier values for numerous weapon types.
- Removed critical hit chance from a number of explosives weapons.
- Removed armor damage from rifles
- Fixed an issue where the AI would get close to the player
- Added new movement parameters that allow the AI to want to move towards the effective range of their weapon
- Improved the performance for moving towards enemies and grouping with allies
- Fixed an issue with all tiers of Saltis melee racket guard being equipped with Brass Knuckles. Now each tier of Salltis melee racket guard is equipped with appropriate tiers of melee weapon
- Wandering thugs and thugs near loot crates will no longer attack the player on sight. They will attack if the player opens a loot crate near them
- Guards of major and minor factions will now only attack the player faction characters on sight if they are at war
- Melee attacks now trigger the correct animation if the target bleeds out
- That combatant who started a battle while in sitting pose, will no longer stay in that pose for the whole fight
- Guards in rackets will no longer sit in chairs
- Resolved a UI Overlap in combat with large text settings
- Further updates to the combat AI to help them move when no targets are visible and stay put when they can do actions from their current position
- Made sure bleeding out targets are prioritised correctly in the chance to hit order
- Friendly fire no longer removes non-aggression types of pacts (ceasefires/defense agreements..etc)
- Fixed issue where Unleash Fury could fail to activate
- Reduce the movement debuff from exhaustion from -2 to -1
- Fixed an issue where clicking the "Exit Ambush" button did nothing in combat
- Character speed returns to normal if Drunk status wears off during combat
- Only play Gut Shot sfx when someone
Mission Fixes/Changes
- Auto focusing missions that come from quest givers and boss missions
- Fixed failing Ryley mission when Alfred dies
- Fixed Helen being placed in Dyer mission when placement invalidated
- Removed repeated objectives failing missions
- Fixed alcohol production being stopped forever in CMA mission and Burned Bozze and Ruined Barley event
- Fixed unclickable option for DMJ's mission
- Added placement invalidated to RPC missions so they stop failing when a building is upgraded
- Moved Kicking the Habit mission to mid game to stop both maria missions spawning together
- CMA fixes - Stopping All Good Things on Alt time auto-completing, fix for Jaques Attack and They're on to Us
- Boss mission fixes - Stopping NPCs from spawning on band stand, buildings taken over by killing boss now count as conquering and progress mission, fix for DMJ mission Down Hearted Blues
- Fixed missions not completing in groups
- CMA fixes, Auto accepting mission rewards instead of relying on resolution pop up
- Persisting mission npcs that are going to be resurrected to stop them from disappearing, misc boss mission fixes
- CMA fixes, body bag removal fix, removing persistent POI over Maria's head, adding do not revive tag to mission npcs to stop them getting up after combat
- Moved any mission npcs standing on stages in bars off them
- Fixed an issue where interior guards could duplicate themselves after winning a defensive fight
- Union mission, family business mission and npc approaching player to talk fixed
Thug Variants
- You should now see 13 different thugs
- The appearance is randomly selected
Racket Guard Changes
Any old saves that were made before these changes were introduced will keep their previous racket guards until that racket is upgraded or sold and purchased again. Once upgraded or purchased the racket will start using the new guard configs.
- With each level of security upgrade the guards will now become much tougher
- A new tier of racket guard has been introduced at security upgrade levels 4 and 5
- These changes only attribute based. The number of guards has not changed and there has been no changes made to the guard inventories
- Fixed issue with racket guards not being replenished
Faction Changes
- Allowing the boss to gain notoriety if anyone in their faction performs an execution
- Fixing Spiffing Brit minor faction exploit
- Faction AI no longer attacks buildings outside of war. Existing attacks outside of war in older saves are cancelled.
- The diplomacy option for retribution demands has been removed
Safehouse Changes
Gameplay change to safehouses hiding has been pushed.
- Safehouses start out as hidden (white buildings you can't interact with)
- Discovery chance increases by 1% a week from meeting a faction
- Once a month a safehouse discovery chance checked and the safehouse is revealed if the check passes
- Diplomacy screen shows your current discovery chance
- Taking over that faction's rackets further increases the discovery chance and checks (dynamic percentage based on faction rackets remaining)
- Event fires on safehouse being discovered
- Guards don't show up outside the safehouse until the safehouse is discovered by the player
- Ensuring taking over safehouses correctly assigns lieutenants
- Fixed issue with gangsters flagged as “away” being able to be assigned to a safehouse
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These are the statistical top 500 movies of all time, according to 23 different websites
Hey everyone, great to be back again. Some of you might remember a similar title from a post I made back in April, where I made a
list of the top 250 movies with 13 sources, or a
preview of this list I made last month.
I want to emphasize that this is
NOT an official ranking nor my personal ranking; it is just a statistical and, personally, interesting look at 500 amazing movies. These rankings reflect the opinions of thousands of critics and millions of people around the world. And I am glad that this list is able to cover a wide range of genres, decades, and countries. So before I get bombarded with "Why isn't X on here?" or "How is X above Y?" comments, I wanted to clear that up.
I sourced my data from Sight & Sound (both critic and director lists), TSPDT, iCheckMovies,
11 domestic websites (Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, IMDb, Letterboxd, TMDb, Trakt, Blu-Ray, MovieLens, RateYourMusic, Criticker, and Critics Choice), and
9 international audience sites (FilmAffinity, Douban, Naver, MUBI, Filmweb, Kinopoisk, CSFD, Moviemeter, and Senscritique). This balance of domestic/international ratings made the list more well-rounded and internationally representative (sites from Spain, China, Korea, Poland, Russia, Czech Republic, Netherlands, and France).
As for my algorithm, I weighted websites according to both their Alexa ranking and their number of votes compared to other sites. For example, since
The Godfather has hundreds of thousands of votes on Letterboxd but only a couple thousand on Metacritic, Letterboxd would be weighted more heavily. After obtaining the weighted averages, I then added the movie's iCheckMovies' favs/checks ratio and TSPDT ranking, if applicable. Regarding TSPDT, I included the top 2000 movies; as an example of my calculations,
Rear Window's ranking of #41 would add (2000-41)/2000=0.9795 points to its weighted average. I removed movies that had <7-8K votes on IMDb, as these mostly had low ratings and numbers of votes across different sites as well. For both Sight & Sound lists, I added between 0.5 and 1 point to a movie's score based on its ranking, which I thought was an adequate reflection of how difficult it is to be included on these lists. As examples, a #21 movie would have 0.9 points added while a #63 would have 0.69 points.
So without further ado, the statistical top 500 movies ever made. I separated the scores into overall, critics, domestic, and international columns to make comparisons easier. This list on
Letterboxd.
Ranking | Title | Overall Score | Critics | Domestic | International | Year | Director |
1 | The Godfather | 93.89 | 97.73 | 90.50 | 89.36 | 1972 | Francis Ford Coppola |
2 | The Godfather: Part II | 91.93 | 93.30 | 89.04 | 88.06 | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola |
3 | Seven Samurai | 91.05 | 97.38 | 87.63 | 85.90 | 1954 | Akira Kurosawa |
4 | 12 Angry Men | 90.45 | 95.45 | 88.74 | 88.62 | 1957 | Sidney Lumet |
5 | City Lights | 89.94 | 96.75 | 85.67 | 85.93 | 1931 | Charlie Chaplin |
6 | The Good, the Bad and the Ugly | 89.45 | 91.20 | 87.81 | 86.59 | 1966 | Sergio Leone |
7 | The Shawshank Redemption | 89.41 | 82.95 | 89.49 | 89.18 | 1994 | Frank Darabont |
8 | Psycho | 89.29 | 95.23 | 85.70 | 85.01 | 1960 | Alfred Hitchcock |
9 | Modern Times | 89.28 | 95.55 | 85.21 | 85.37 | 1936 | Charlie Chaplin |
10 | Schindler's List | 89.08 | 93.80 | 87.22 | 87.29 | 1993 | Steven Spielberg |
11 | Pulp Fiction | 88.85 | 92.60 | 87.69 | 86.42 | 1994 | Quentin Tarantino |
12 | Rear Window | 88.63 | 97.65 | 85.40 | 83.33 | 1954 | Alfred Hitchcock |
13 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | 88.55 | 87.38 | 86.28 | 86.97 | 1975 | Miloš Forman |
14 | Apocalypse Now | 88.54 | 93.85 | 85.24 | 83.48 | 1979 | Francis Ford Coppola |
15 | Tokyo Story | 88.49 | 98.30 | 85.16 | 83.76 | 1953 | Yasujirō Ozu |
16 | Spirited Away | 88.34 | 93.78 | 86.80 | 85.91 | 2001 | Hayao Miyazaki |
17 | GoodFellas | 88.03 | 91.48 | 87.00 | 84.03 | 1990 | Martin Scorsese |
18 | Vertigo | 88.02 | 95.60 | 84.05 | 82.76 | 1958 | Alfred Hitchcock |
19 | Singin' in the Rain | 88.01 | 97.65 | 83.95 | 83.13 | 1952 | Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen |
20 | Sunset Boulevard | 88.00 | 95.45 | 85.44 | 84.22 | 1950 | Billy Wilder |
21 | Citizen Kane | 87.83 | 99.03 | 83.06 | 82.22 | 1941 | Orson Welles |
22 | Harakiri | 87.79 | 85.83 | 88.00 | 86.29 | 1962 | Masaki Kobayashi |
23 | Rashomon | 87.74 | 96.55 | 83.52 | 82.73 | 1950 | Akira Kurosawa |
24 | Once Upon a Time in the West | 87.71 | 86.65 | 85.48 | 84.62 | 1968 | Sergio Leone |
25 | Fanny and Alexander | 87.54 | 97.30 | 83.15 | 83.00 | 1982 | Ingmar Bergman |
26 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | 87.40 | 92.59 | 86.06 | 85.38 | 2003 | Peter Jackson |
27 | Andrei Rublev | 87.39 | 91.90 | 83.80 | 83.94 | 1966 | Andrei Tarkovsky |
28 | The Passion of Joan of Arc | 87.39 | 94.65 | 83.88 | 83.57 | 1928 | Carl Theodor Dreyer |
29 | Sherlock Jr. | 87.36 | 96.45 | 83.64 | 85.60 | 1924 | Buster Keaton |
30 | Bicycle Thieves | 87.35 | 94.70 | 83.91 | 83.46 | 1948 | Vittorio De Sica |
31 | Casablanca | 87.35 | 98.00 | 85.25 | 82.62 | 1942 | Michael Curtiz |
32 | Some Like It Hot | 87.28 | 95.30 | 82.11 | 83.73 | 1959 | Billy Wilder |
33 | Persona | 87.22 | 88.20 | 84.28 | 83.07 | 1966 | Ingmar Bergman |
34 | Children of Paradise | 87.21 | 95.33 | 84.81 | 83.27 | 1945 | Marcel Carné |
35 | Taxi Driver | 87.14 | 93.88 | 83.60 | 82.06 | 1976 | Martin Scorsese |
36 | The Dark Knight | 87.08 | 88.81 | 86.96 | 84.80 | 2008 | Christopher Nolan |
37 | Metropolis | 87.03 | 96.00 | 82.92 | 84.01 | 1927 | Fritz Lang |
38 | Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans | 87.02 | 93.95 | 82.23 | 84.02 | 1927 | F. W. Murnau |
39 | Stalker | 87.02 | 92.30 | 83.86 | 83.29 | 1979 | Andrei Tarkovsky |
40 | Pather Panchali | 86.96 | 94.35 | 84.40 | 82.80 | 1955 | Satyajit Ray |
41 | Lawrence of Arabia | 86.95 | 97.65 | 83.76 | 81.49 | 1962 | David Lean |
42 | M | 86.91 | 96.20 | 84.34 | 82.92 | 1931 | Fritz Lang |
43 | Ordet | 86.82 | 98.10 | 83.08 | 82.55 | 1955 | Carl Theodor Dreyer |
44 | It's a Wonderful Life | 86.77 | 90.45 | 85.17 | 84.90 | 1946 | Frank Capra |
45 | Satantango | 86.76 | 90.45 | 84.58 | 84.21 | 1994 | Béla Tarr |
46 | Parasite | 86.72 | 96.34 | 86.55 | 83.15 | 2019 | Bong Joon-ho |
47 | The 400 Blows | 86.70 | 96.70 | 83.14 | 82.60 | 1959 | François Truffaut |
48 | Ikiru | 86.56 | 93.80 | 85.48 | 84.29 | 1952 | Akira Kurosawa |
49 | Mirror | 86.50 | 95.60 | 82.75 | 82.34 | 1975 | Andrei Tarkovsky |
50 | Come and See | 86.50 | 90.50 | 85.22 | 83.13 | 1985 | Elem Klimov |
51 | The Apartment | 86.48 | 92.00 | 84.09 | 82.99 | 1960 | Billy Wilder |
52 | The General | 86.45 | 91.45 | 82.59 | 83.87 | 1926 | Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman |
53 | Grave of the Fireflies | 86.43 | 95.13 | 85.85 | 82.97 | 1988 | Isao Takahata |
54 | Le Trou | 86.41 | 89.95 | 85.46 | 85.14 | 1960 | Jacques Becker |
55 | The Battle of Algiers | 86.37 | 95.40 | 82.64 | 81.24 | 1966 | Gillo Pontecorvo |
56 | A Man Escaped | 86.34 | 96.50 | 83.67 | 82.03 | 1956 | Robert Bresson |
57 | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | 86.34 | 95.85 | 84.37 | 83.03 | 1964 | Stanley Kubrick |
58 | Paths of Glory | 86.25 | 92.30 | 84.97 | 84.48 | 1957 | Stanley Kubrick |
59 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | 86.24 | 88.75 | 85.61 | 84.31 | 2001 | Peter Jackson |
60 | All About Eve | 86.23 | 96.95 | 83.69 | 83.20 | 1950 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
61 | Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back | 86.21 | 86.93 | 87.05 | 83.29 | 1980 | Irvin Kershner |
62 | High and Low | 86.16 | 86.55 | 86.08 | 84.26 | 1963 | Akira Kurosawa |
63 | The Great Dictator | 86.15 | 91.10 | 84.25 | 85.03 | 1940 | Charlie Chaplin |
64 | The Silence of the Lambs | 86.12 | 88.68 | 85.29 | 84.17 | 1991 | Jonathan Demme |
65 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | 86.06 | 88.35 | 82.93 | 81.54 | 1968 | Stanley Kubrick |
66 | North by Northwest | 86.03 | 96.38 | 83.17 | 81.74 | 1959 | Alfred Hitchcock |
67 | Double Indemnity | 85.91 | 94.38 | 83.84 | 83.12 | 1944 | Billy Wilder |
68 | Ugetsu | 85.91 | 97.25 | 82.69 | 81.91 | 1953 | Kenji Mizoguchi |
69 | Woman in the Dunes | 85.91 | 93.95 | 84.71 | 83.77 | 1964 | Hiroshi Teshigahara |
70 | Sansho the Bailiff | 85.88 | 95.50 | 84.24 | 82.21 | 1954 | Kenji Mizoguchi |
71 | Once Upon a Time in America | 85.87 | 86.10 | 83.84 | 85.53 | 1984 | Sergio Leone |
72 | City of God | 85.86 | 84.08 | 86.39 | 84.00 | 2002 | Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund |
73 | Late Spring | 85.81 | 94.75 | 83.74 | 82.27 | 1949 | Yasujirō Ozu |
74 | Barry Lyndon | 85.80 | 87.95 | 82.44 | 82.30 | 1975 | Stanley Kubrick |
75 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | 85.78 | 88.78 | 85.00 | 84.29 | 2002 | Peter Jackson |
76 | Raging Bull | 85.77 | 90.48 | 82.01 | 81.80 | 1980 | Martin Scorsese |
77 | Chinatown | 85.72 | 94.08 | 83.32 | 80.69 | 1974 | Roman Polanski |
78 | Alien | 85.69 | 91.73 | 84.76 | 82.62 | 1979 | Ridley Scott |
79 | Ran | 85.68 | 94.70 | 83.93 | 82.52 | 1985 | Akira Kurosawa |
80 | The Seventh Seal | 85.67 | 92.10 | 83.52 | 82.13 | 1957 | Ingmar Bergman |
81 | The Kid | 85.61 | 92.85 | 82.91 | 84.94 | 1921 | Charlie Chaplin |
82 | Wild Strawberries | 85.51 | 90.05 | 83.38 | 82.24 | 1957 | Ingmar Bergman |
83 | A Brighter Summer Day | 85.50 | 93.38 | 84.07 | 81.01 | 1991 | Edward Yang |
84 | 8½ | 85.48 | 91.20 | 82.59 | 81.09 | 1963 | Federico Fellini |
85 | The Pianist | 85.38 | 88.69 | 83.31 | 84.80 | 2002 | Roman Polanski |
86 | The World of Apu | 85.38 | 93.20 | 84.38 | 83.09 | 1959 | Satyajit Ray |
87 | La Dolce Vita | 85.37 | 94.38 | 81.40 | 80.48 | 1960 | Federico Fellini |
88 | Star Wars | 85.33 | 90.03 | 85.22 | 81.92 | 1977 | George Lucas |
89 | The Best of Youth | 85.31 | 88.78 | 85.31 | 83.64 | 2003 | Marco Tullio Giordana |
90 | The Gold Rush | 85.29 | 94.55 | 81.93 | 83.59 | 1925 | Charlie Chaplin |
91 | The Third Man | 85.26 | 96.50 | 82.91 | 80.21 | 1949 | Carol Reed |
92 | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | 85.20 | 96.68 | 82.77 | 81.81 | 1948 | John Huston |
93 | I Am Cuba | 85.18 | 93.60 | 82.00 | 83.44 | 1964 | Mikhail Kalatozov |
94 | The Lives of Others | 85.14 | 89.03 | 84.12 | 82.73 | 2006 | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck |
95 | Witness for the Prosecution | 85.13 | 92.65 | 83.67 | 84.99 | 1957 | Billy Wilder |
96 | Touch of Evil | 85.11 | 95.70 | 81.36 | 79.65 | 1958 | Orson Welles |
97 | WALL-E | 85.10 | 92.09 | 82.82 | 82.64 | 2008 | Andrew Stanton |
98 | Scenes from a Marriage | 85.02 | 86.85 | 84.80 | 83.06 | 1974 | Ingmar Bergman |
99 | To Be or Not to Be | 84.99 | 89.58 | 82.52 | 83.39 | 1942 | Ernst Lubitsch |
100 | A Separation | 84.92 | 94.24 | 83.34 | 80.90 | 2011 | Asghar Farhadi |
101 | The Night of the Hunter | 84.91 | 96.93 | 81.17 | 79.06 | 1955 | Charles Laughton |
102 | Three Colors: Red | 84.87 | 96.78 | 83.32 | 80.78 | 1994 | Krzysztof Kieślowski |
103 | Yojimbo | 84.87 | 91.55 | 83.85 | 82.99 | 1961 | Akira Kurosawa |
104 | Back to the Future | 84.85 | 89.38 | 84.47 | 81.94 | 1985 | Robert Zemeckis |
105 | My Neighbor Totoro | 84.84 | 87.53 | 83.44 | 83.17 | 1988 | Hayao Miyazaki |
106 | In the Mood for Love | 84.84 | 83.87 | 82.55 | 81.20 | 2000 | Wong Kar-wai |
107 | Princess Mononoke | 84.83 | 81.18 | 85.02 | 84.24 | 1999 | Hayao Miyazaki |
108 | Saving Private Ryan | 84.82 | 90.35 | 83.94 | 82.50 | 1998 | Steven Spielberg |
109 | Cinema Paradiso | 84.78 | 82.30 | 84.73 | 83.43 | 1988 | Giuseppe Tornatore |
110 | La Jetée | 84.75 | 89.25 | 83.27 | 81.80 | 1962 | Chris Marker |
111 | The Wages of Fear | 84.71 | 94.60 | 82.99 | 82.80 | 1953 | Henri-Georges Clouzot |
112 | Das Boot | 84.68 | 90.13 | 83.62 | 82.71 | 1981 | Wolfgang Petersen |
113 | Fight Club | 84.65 | 71.18 | 86.39 | 84.95 | 1999 | David Fincher |
114 | Nights of Cabiria | 84.64 | 92.25 | 82.72 | 83.13 | 1957 | Federico Fellini |
115 | La Strada | 84.61 | 92.60 | 80.79 | 82.78 | 1954 | Federico Fellini |
116 | Amadeus | 84.53 | 89.55 | 82.88 | 82.59 | 1984 | Miloš Forman |
117 | Forrest Gump | 84.50 | 76.90 | 83.06 | 86.12 | 1994 | Robert Zemeckis |
118 | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse | 84.49 | 90.41 | 85.03 | 81.69 | 2018 | Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, Bob Persichetti |
119 | The Lion King | 84.45 | 88.28 | 77.22 | 84.09 | 1994 | Rob Minkoff, Roger Allers |
120 | Inception | 84.43 | 82.07 | 84.18 | 84.17 | 2010 | Christopher Nolan |
121 | Whiplash | 84.42 | 89.53 | 84.87 | 81.96 | 2014 | Damien Chazelle |
122 | The Shop Around the Corner | 84.40 | 94.43 | 80.85 | 82.37 | 1940 | Ernst Lubitsch |
123 | Rififi | 84.38 | 92.00 | 83.03 | 81.58 | 1955 | Jules Dassin |
124 | Umberto D. | 84.38 | 92.63 | 82.20 | 81.75 | 1952 | Vittorio De Sica |
125 | Army of Shadows | 84.37 | 95.30 | 82.98 | 80.50 | 1969 | Jean-Pierre Melville |
126 | Blade Runner | 84.34 | 85.85 | 82.57 | 80.29 | 1982 | Ridley Scott |
127 | Samurai Rebellion | 84.33 | 89.05 | 82.85 | 83.84 | 1967 | Masaki Kobayashi |
128 | Close-Up | 84.31 | 85.70 | 81.99 | 80.69 | 1990 | Abbas Kiarostami |
129 | The Circus | 84.29 | 90.35 | 81.69 | 83.14 | 1928 | Charlie Chaplin |
130 | Raiders of the Lost Ark | 84.19 | 89.33 | 84.31 | 80.57 | 1981 | Steven Spielberg |
131 | Grand Illusion | 84.18 | 95.35 | 81.85 | 79.78 | 1937 | Jean Renoir |
132 | A Clockwork Orange | 84.18 | 82.78 | 82.37 | 82.51 | 1971 | Stanley Kubrick |
133 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | 84.07 | 89.37 | 83.36 | 80.57 | 2004 | Michel Gondry |
134 | A Woman Under the Influence | 84.01 | 87.40 | 82.51 | 80.40 | 1974 | John Cassavetes |
135 | The Cranes Are Flying | 84.00 | 89.30 | 82.76 | 82.40 | 1957 | Mikhail Kalatozov |
136 | Yi Yi | 83.91 | 91.25 | 82.48 | 79.64 | 2000 | Edward Yang |
137 | To Kill a Mockingbird | 83.91 | 89.13 | 81.98 | 82.20 | 1962 | Robert Mulligan |
138 | The Matrix | 83.90 | 77.78 | 84.54 | 83.06 | 1999 | Wachowski Sisters |
139 | The Sting | 83.90 | 85.73 | 82.71 | 83.36 | 1973 | George Roy Hill |
140 | The Mother and the Whore | 83.87 | 94.55 | 81.24 | 79.82 | 1973 | Jean Eustache |
141 | Se7en | 83.86 | 72.15 | 84.91 | 84.48 | 1995 | David Fincher |
142 | Early Summer | 83.85 | 94.45 | 82.19 | 82.01 | 1951 | Yasujirō Ozu |
143 | Werckmeister Harmonies | 83.80 | 91.73 | 80.89 | 81.93 | 2000 | Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky |
144 | Coco | 83.80 | 86.21 | 82.73 | 83.66 | 2017 | Adrian Molina, Lee Unkrich |
145 | Toy Story | 83.76 | 95.03 | 82.30 | 80.15 | 1995 | John Lasseter |
146 | It Happened One Night | 83.76 | 90.83 | 81.46 | 81.76 | 1934 | Frank Capra |
147 | Reservoir Dogs | 83.74 | 84.68 | 83.12 | 81.99 | 1992 | Quentin Tarantino |
148 | Unforgiven | 83.73 | 88.55 | 82.24 | 81.59 | 1992 | Clint Eastwood |
149 | The Deer Hunter | 83.73 | 87.68 | 80.57 | 82.06 | 1978 | Michael Cimino |
150 | The Young and the Damned | 83.72 | 87.10 | 82.58 | 80.82 | 1950 | Luis Buñuel |
151 | The Best Years of Our Lives | 83.68 | 92.63 | 81.19 | 81.20 | 1946 | William Wyler |
152 | The Leopard | 83.66 | 97.30 | 79.56 | 79.57 | 1963 | Luchino Visconti |
153 | Time of the Gypsies | 83.65 | 86.05 | 83.31 | 82.29 | 1988 | Emir Kusturica |
154 | Ali: Fear Eats the Soul | 83.61 | 96.70 | 80.51 | 79.97 | 1974 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
155 | Raise the Red Lantern | 83.57 | 90.25 | 82.37 | 81.81 | 1991 | Zhang Yimou |
156 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | 83.57 | 82.00 | 84.11 | 81.83 | 1991 | James Cameron |
157 | The Shining | 83.55 | 75.35 | 84.08 | 81.80 | 1980 | Stanley Kubrick |
158 | Viridiana | 83.54 | 92.95 | 80.68 | 80.81 | 1961 | Luis Buñuel |
159 | Portrait of a Lady on Fire | 83.52 | 93.59 | 83.08 | 80.02 | 2019 | Céline Sciamma |
160 | Greed | 83.51 | 97.05 | 80.65 | 80.64 | 1924 | Erich von Stroheim |
161 | Gone with the Wind | 83.48 | 92.90 | 80.01 | 81.68 | 1939 | Victor Fleming |
162 | There Will Be Blood | 83.48 | 89.65 | 81.91 | 79.02 | 2007 | Paul Thomas Anderson |
163 | L.A. Confidential | 83.46 | 91.63 | 82.08 | 80.81 | 1997 | Curtis Hanson |
164 | Paris, Texas | 83.46 | 83.95 | 82.89 | 81.66 | 1984 | Wim Wenders |
165 | Throne of Blood | 83.45 | 91.30 | 82.18 | 81.49 | 1957 | Akira Kurosawa |
166 | Toy Story 3 | 83.43 | 93.55 | 81.61 | 80.32 | 2010 | Lee Unkrich |
167 | Memento | 83.43 | 85.20 | 83.78 | 80.76 | 2000 | Christopher Nolan |
168 | On the Waterfront | 83.37 | 93.00 | 82.23 | 79.52 | 1954 | Elia Kazan |
169 | Trip to the Moon | 83.37 | 94.70 | 79.96 | 82.83 | 1902 | Georges Méliès |
170 | The Rules of the Game | 83.33 | 96.55 | 80.45 | 78.02 | 1939 | Jean Renoir |
171 | Red Beard | 83.32 | 74.15 | 83.41 | 83.27 | 1965 | Akira Kurosawa |
172 | The Grapes of Wrath | 83.32 | 95.45 | 80.42 | 80.34 | 1940 | John Ford |
173 | Au Hasard Balthazar | 83.29 | 98.08 | 77.93 | 77.54 | 1966 | Robert Bresson |
174 | Autumn Sonata | 83.29 | 84.85 | 83.09 | 82.66 | 1978 | Ingmar Bergman |
175 | Annie Hall | 83.28 | 93.18 | 80.58 | 80.58 | 1977 | Woody Allen |
176 | The Conformist | 83.27 | 96.68 | 79.92 | 78.58 | 1970 | Bernardo Bertolucci |
177 | Rocco and His Brothers | 83.24 | 84.73 | 81.95 | 81.68 | 1960 | Luchino Visconti |
178 | Dersu Uzala | 83.23 | 74.75 | 82.35 | 83.37 | 1975 | Akira Kurosawa |
179 | Cool Hand Luke | 83.21 | 93.05 | 82.22 | 79.83 | 1967 | Stuart Rosenberg |
180 | Monty Python and the Holy Grail | 83.18 | 91.98 | 82.96 | 79.30 | 1975 | Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones |
181 | Le Samouraï | 83.18 | 92.35 | 82.45 | 79.40 | 1967 | Jean-Pierre Melville |
182 | Aliens | 83.18 | 88.73 | 83.29 | 79.61 | 1986 | James Cameron |
183 | PlayTime | 83.16 | 93.50 | 80.22 | 78.80 | 1967 | Jacques Tati |
184 | The Bridge on the River Kwai | 83.14 | 90.58 | 81.93 | 80.24 | 1957 | David Lean |
185 | The Red Shoes | 83.13 | 93.15 | 82.82 | 79.96 | 1948 | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger |
186 | American Beauty | 83.10 | 87.15 | 81.93 | 81.13 | 1999 | Sam Mendes |
187 | To Live | 83.10 | 84.00 | 82.16 | 82.46 | 1994 | Zhang Yimou |
188 | Battleship Potemkin | 83.10 | 95.85 | 77.81 | 80.41 | 1925 | Sergei Eisenstein |
189 | Day of Wrath | 83.09 | 93.40 | 81.07 | 81.29 | 1943 | Carl Theodor Dreyer |
190 | All Quiet on the Western Front | 83.07 | 92.85 | 80.05 | 81.48 | 1930 | Lewis Milestone |
191 | It's Such a Beautiful Day | 83.07 | 91.25 | 83.62 | 79.77 | 2012 | Don Hertzfeldt |
192 | Full Metal Jacket | 83.06 | 81.53 | 82.21 | 82.54 | 1987 | Stanley Kubrick |
193 | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari | 83.05 | 96.40 | 79.84 | 81.83 | 1920 | Robert Wiene |
194 | Kes | 83.03 | 97.80 | 79.59 | 80.55 | 1969 | Ken Loach |
195 | The Usual Suspects | 83.02 | 80.23 | 84.08 | 81.48 | 1995 | Bryan Singer |
196 | The Cameraman | 83.00 | 93.90 | 80.77 | 81.57 | 1928 | Edward Segdwick, Buster Keaton |
197 | Aparajito | 83.00 | 90.90 | 81.81 | 81.20 | 1956 | Satyajit Ray |
198 | The Elephant Man | 83.00 | 83.00 | 82.10 | 81.87 | 1980 | David Lynch |
199 | Rebecca | 82.98 | 90.08 | 81.08 | 80.93 | 1940 | Alfred Hitchcock |
200 | Make Way for Tomorrow | 82.97 | 95.80 | 81.72 | 80.14 | 1937 | Leo McCarey |
201 | The Great Escape | 82.97 | 87.68 | 82.29 | 80.66 | 1963 | John Sturges |
202 | Your Name | 82.97 | 84.55 | 84.07 | 81.29 | 2016 | Makoto Shinkai |
203 | Limelight | 82.92 | 88.00 | 79.85 | 83.02 | 1952 | Charlie Chaplin |
204 | Breathless | 82.92 | 91.95 | 78.88 | 79.10 | 1960 | Jean-Luc Godard |
205 | Underground | 82.91 | 80.75 | 81.26 | 82.64 | 1995 | Emir Kusturica |
206 | The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | 82.88 | 91.90 | 81.08 | 79.53 | 1962 | John Ford |
207 | Aguirre: The Wrath of God | 82.87 | 94.55 | 80.46 | 78.62 | 1972 | Werner Herzog |
208 | Oldboy | 82.86 | 78.98 | 84.00 | 81.27 | 2003 | Park Chan-wook |
209 | Up | 82.84 | 90.28 | 81.32 | 80.86 | 2009 | Pete Docter |
210 | Anatomy of a Murder | 82.84 | 94.00 | 80.57 | 80.02 | 1959 | Otto Preminger |
211 | The Wild Bunch | 82.84 | 90.35 | 79.45 | 80.12 | 1969 | Sam Peckinpah |
212 | The Hunt | 82.75 | 82.08 | 82.79 | 82.62 | 2012 | Thomas Vinterberg |
213 | Il Sorpasso | 82.74 | 95.75 | 82.84 | 79.57 | 1962 | Dino Risi |
214 | The Last Laugh | 82.74 | 95.25 | 79.47 | 81.61 | 1924 | F. W. Murnau |
215 | A Streetcar Named Desire | 82.73 | 94.60 | 79.89 | 80.26 | 1951 | Elia Kazan |
216 | Life Is Beautiful | 82.73 | 68.45 | 83.60 | 85.57 | 1997 | Roberto Benigni |
217 | A Short Film About Love | 82.71 | 87.10 | 81.90 | 81.89 | 1988 | Krzysztof Kieślowski |
218 | The Shop on Main Street | 82.71 | 94.45 | 82.15 | 80.43 | 1965 | Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos |
219 | Rio Bravo | 82.71 | 92.10 | 80.46 | 79.80 | 1959 | Howard Hawks |
220 | Roman Holiday | 82.70 | 84.55 | 80.74 | 82.42 | 1953 | William Wyler |
221 | Ivan's Childhood | 82.69 | 94.80 | 81.25 | 80.37 | 1962 | Andrei Tarkovsky |
222 | The Exterminating Angel | 82.68 | 91.10 | 81.66 | 80.17 | 1962 | Luis Buñuel |
223 | Trainspotting | 82.68 | 85.20 | 81.57 | 81.21 | 1996 | Danny Boyle |
224 | The Last Picture Show | 82.67 | 94.15 | 79.90 | 79.56 | 1971 | Peter Bogdanovich |
225 | The Truman Show | 82.64 | 89.63 | 79.70 | 82.15 | 1998 | Peter Weir |
226 | Memories of Murder | 82.64 | 82.88 | 82.68 | 80.94 | 2003 | Bong Joon-ho |
227 | Faust | 82.62 | 89.70 | 80.23 | 81.94 | 1926 | F. W. Murnau |
228 | Sans Soleil | 82.62 | 83.90 | 79.45 | 80.51 | 1983 | Chris Marker |
229 | Song of the Sea | 82.57 | 87.63 | 80.59 | 82.23 | 2014 | Tomm Moore |
230 | Léon: The Professional | 82.55 | 67.38 | 84.05 | 84.07 | 1994 | Luc Besson |
231 | Fargo | 82.54 | 87.45 | 82.36 | 79.19 | 1996 | Coen Brothers |
232 | Solaris | 82.54 | 89.95 | 80.91 | 79.69 | 1972 | Andrei Tarkovsky |
233 | Sweet Smell of Success | 82.52 | 96.53 | 80.81 | 77.62 | 1957 | Alexander Mackendrick |
234 | For a Few Dollars More | 82.52 | 79.28 | 82.38 | 83.15 | 1965 | Sergio Leone |
235 | White Heat | 82.51 | 90.65 | 80.77 | 81.24 | 1949 | Raoul Walsh |
236 | Brief Encounter | 82.50 | 88.35 | 80.81 | 81.03 | 1945 | David Lean |
237 | Wings of Desire | 82.49 | 85.70 | 81.30 | 80.42 | 1987 | Wim Wenders |
238 | Diabolique | 82.47 | 90.70 | 81.27 | 80.73 | 1955 | Henri-Georges Clouzot |
239 | An Autumn Afternoon | 82.45 | 91.95 | 81.68 | 79.85 | 1962 | Yasujirō Ozu |
240 | The Tale of the Princess Kaguya | 82.44 | 90.63 | 81.16 | 80.43 | 2013 | Isao Takahata |
241 | Amarcord | 82.41 | 85.95 | 79.26 | 80.73 | 1973 | Federico Fellini |
242 | Heat | 82.40 | 79.08 | 82.03 | 81.73 | 1995 | Michael Mann |
243 | L'Atalante | 82.40 | 95.60 | 78.32 | 78.10 | 1934 | Jean Vigo |
244 | Django Unchained | 82.39 | 83.44 | 82.23 | 81.94 | 2012 | Quentin Tarantino |
245 | Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels | 82.38 | 95.50 | 78.73 | 79.69 | 1975 | Chantal Akerman |
246 | Kind Hearts and Coronets | 82.38 | 95.60 | 80.80 | 79.72 | 1949 | Robert Hamer |
247 | Dog Day Afternoon | 82.37 | 88.40 | 81.11 | 79.80 | 1975 | Sidney Lumet |
248 | Forbidden Games | 82.37 | 93.75 | 80.36 | 80.99 | 1952 | René Clément |
249 | The Crowd | 82.35 | 93.35 | 79.21 | 81.23 | 1928 | King Vidor |
250 | Notorious | 82.35 | 96.78 | 79.96 | 78.21 | 1946 | Alfred Hitchcock |
251 | Mary and Max | 82.35 | 88.05 | 80.95 | 82.42 | 2009 | Adam Elliot |
252 | Persepolis | 82.34 | 88.95 | 80.09 | 80.77 | 2007 | Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud |
253 | Howl's Moving Castle | 82.33 | 78.71 | 82.63 | 83.10 | 2004 | Hayao Miyazaki |
254 | Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind | 82.33 | 85.10 | 81.54 | 82.03 | 1984 | Hayao Miyazaki |
255 | Safety Last! | 82.33 | 92.25 | 80.95 | 81.10 | 1923 | Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor |
256 | Rosemary's Baby | 82.32 | 94.78 | 79.99 | 78.69 | 1968 | Roman Polanski |
257 | L'Avventura | 82.32 | 92.10 | 79.08 | 78.03 | 1960 | Michelangelo Antonioni |
258 | The Searchers | 82.32 | 93.90 | 78.16 | 76.66 | 1956 | John Ford |
259 | La Haine | 82.30 | 90.60 | 82.38 | 79.56 | 1995 | Mathieu Kassovitz |
260 | Three Colors: Blue | 82.30 | 88.28 | 81.55 | 79.23 | 1993 | Krzysztof Kieślowski |
261 | Chungking Express | 82.30 | 79.95 | 82.29 | 80.73 | 1994 | Wong Kar-wai |
262 | Inside Out | 82.29 | 93.66 | 80.27 | 79.85 | 2015 | Pete Docter |
263 | Where is the Friend's Home? | 82.28 | 89.25 | 81.22 | 80.21 | 1987 | Abbas Kiarostami |
264 | Cries and Whispers | 82.27 | 85.45 | 81.02 | 80.80 | 1972 | Ingmar Bergman |
265 | Napoleon | 82.22 | 93.25 | 81.89 | 78.99 | 1927 | Abel Gance |
266 | Paper Moon | 82.19 | 83.08 | 81.37 | 81.29 | 1973 | Peter Bogdanovich |
267 | The Spirit of the Beehive | 82.17 | 89.83 | 79.31 | 78.91 | 1973 | Víctor Erice |
268 | A Special Day | 82.16 | 90.20 | 81.11 | 81.25 | 1977 | Ettore Scola |
269 | Nostalghia | 82.15 | 83.00 | 80.91 | 81.23 | 1983 | Andrei Tarkovsky |
270 | Network | 82.13 | 85.45 | 82.36 | 79.08 | 1976 | Sidney Lumet |
271 | L'Eclisse | 82.11 | 84.70 | 79.78 | 78.81 | 1962 | Michelangelo Antonioni |
272 | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | 82.09 | 80.83 | 81.78 | 81.15 | 1939 | Frank Capra |
273 | Sanjuro | 82.09 | 91.90 | 81.67 | 80.85 | 1962 | Akira Kurosawa |
274 | Badlands | 82.06 | 93.38 | 79.77 | 77.21 | 1973 | Terrence Malick |
275 | Vivre Sa Vie | 82.06 | 85.20 | 80.12 | 79.83 | 1962 | Jean-Luc Godard |
276 | Nobody Knows | 82.06 | 87.18 | 81.12 | 81.15 | 2004 | Hirokazu Koreeda |
277 | No Country for Old Men | 82.05 | 90.68 | 80.56 | 78.47 | 2007 | Coen Brothers |
278 | Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring | 82.05 | 86.05 | 80.76 | 80.62 | 2003 | Kim Ki-duk |
279 | La Notte | 82.04 | 78.35 | 81.45 | 81.11 | 1961 | Michelangelo Antonioni |
280 | The Celebration | 82.04 | 84.23 | 81.34 | 80.08 | 1998 | Thomas Vinterberg |
281 | In the Name of the Father | 82.04 | 84.90 | 81.14 | 81.85 | 1993 | Jim Sheridan |
282 | I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang | 82.02 | 89.55 | 80.18 | 81.56 | 1932 | Mervyn LeRoy |
283 | Shoplifters | 82.01 | 92.39 | 80.60 | 79.31 | 2018 | Hirokazu Koreeda |
284 | Finding Nemo | 82.01 | 92.60 | 80.13 | 78.76 | 2003 | Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich |
285 | Z | 81.98 | 87.55 | 82.21 | 79.59 | 1969 | Costa-Gavras |
286 | The Phantom Carriage | 81.96 | 95.00 | 80.01 | 80.32 | 1921 | Victor Sjöström |
287 | Manhattan | 81.95 | 86.23 | 80.50 | 79.81 | 1979 | Woody Allen |
288 | Rome, Open City | 81.94 | 95.40 | 80.45 | 79.27 | 1945 | Robert Rossellini |
289 | Children of Heaven | 81.93 | 80.15 | 81.24 | 82.01 | 1997 | Majid Majidi |
290 | The Green Mile | 81.92 | 71.93 | 82.95 | 84.38 | 1999 | Frank Darabont |
291 | The Iron Giant | 81.91 | 86.61 | 80.88 | 79.95 | 1999 | Brad Bird |
292 | The Sacrifice | 81.90 | 80.30 | 80.47 | 81.37 | 1986 | Andrei Tarkovsky |
293 | The Philadelphia Story | 81.90 | 94.95 | 79.79 | 77.86 | 1940 | George Cukor |
294 | The Twilight Samurai | 81.90 | 86.10 | 81.07 | 81.13 | 2002 | Yôji Yamada |
295 | Before Sunset | 81.88 | 87.79 | 81.42 | 78.41 | 2004 | Richard Linklater |
296 | Before Sunrise | 81.86 | 84.40 | 82.24 | 79.44 | 1995 | Richard Linklater |
297 | Castle in the Sky | 81.85 | 81.63 | 81.49 | 82.06 | 1986 | Hayao Miyazaki |
298 | The Departed | 81.84 | 86.92 | 82.82 | 79.04 | 2006 | Martin Scorsese |
299 | Brazil | 81.83 | 90.23 | 80.61 | 78.37 | 1985 | Terry Gilliam |
300 | Incendies | 81.81 | 83.85 | 81.88 | 80.74 | 2011 | Denis Villenueve |
301 | The Maltese Falcon | 81.81 | 95.65 | 80.24 | 77.28 | 1941 | John Huston |
302 | The Wizard of Oz | 81.77 | 98.03 | 79.38 | 77.17 | 1939 | Victor Fleming |
303 | Le Cercle Rouge | 81.76 | 90.03 | 80.81 | 78.54 | 1970 | Jean-Pierre Melville |
304 | Monsieur Verdoux | 81.76 | 89.80 | 78.55 | 81.34 | 1947 | Charlie Chaplin |
305 | The Return | 81.72 | 84.85 | 80.02 | 80.96 | 2003 | Andrey Zvyagintsev |
306 | Secrets & Lies | 81.71 | 90.73 | 80.29 | 78.66 | 1996 | Mike Leigh |
307 | The Hidden Fortress | 81.70 | 91.25 | 80.79 | 80.72 | 1958 | Akira Kurosawa |
308 | Pan's Labyrinth | 81.69 | 92.59 | 81.60 | 76.08 | 2006 | Guillermo del Toro |
309 | Amélie | 81.69 | 79.64 | 81.96 | 80.27 | 2004 | Jean-Pierre Jeunet |
310 | Ben-Hur | 81.67 | 86.93 | 79.86 | 80.22 | 1959 | William Wyler |
311 | Fitzcarraldo | 81.67 | 75.80 | 81.06 | 81.21 | 1982 | Werner Herzog |
312 | American History X | 81.63 | 70.13 | 83.58 | 83.00 | 1998 | Tony Kaye |
313 | Ace in the Hole | 81.62 | 79.10 | 80.88 | 81.36 | 1951 | Billy Wilder |
314 | Capernaum | 81.62 | 81.83 | 80.52 | 82.18 | 2018 | Nadine Labaki |
315 | Still Walking | 81.61 | 90.30 | 80.92 | 79.48 | 2008 | Hirokazu Koreeda |
316 | All About My Mother | 81.61 | 88.77 | 79.56 | 78.80 | 1999 | Pedro Almodóvar |
317 | The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie | 81.60 | 92.28 | 78.82 | 78.83 | 1972 | Luis Buñuel |
318 | Platoon | 81.60 | 88.70 | 79.52 | 80.45 | 1986 | Oliver Stone |
319 | Farewell My Concubine | 81.60 | 80.50 | 80.49 | 81.04 | 1993 | Chen Kaige |
320 | Letter from an Unknown Woman | 81.59 | 93.10 | 79.84 | 79.31 | 1948 | Max Ophüls |
321 | The Grand Budapest Hotel | 81.58 | 87.64 | 80.72 | 79.19 | 2014 | Wes Anderson |
322 | The Virgin Spring | 81.58 | 82.45 | 80.70 | 80.66 | 1960 | Ingmar Bergman |
323 | The Red Balloon | 81.57 | 90.20 | 79.93 | 80.30 | 1956 | Albert Lamorisse |
324 | Stagecoach | 81.57 | 94.58 | 77.69 | 78.94 | 1939 | John Ford |
325 | Mulholland Drive | 81.56 | 80.61 | 79.60 | 77.87 | 2001 | David Lynch |
326 | A Matter of Life and Death | 81.49 | 92.60 | 81.91 | 76.27 | 1946 | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger |
327 | High Noon | 81.48 | 90.58 | 79.27 | 78.94 | 1952 | Fred Zinnemann |
328 | Orpheus | 81.48 | 96.20 | 79.88 | 78.90 | 1950 | Jean Cocteau |
329 | Life of Brian | 81.47 | 82.98 | 80.78 | 79.81 | 1979 | Terry Jones |
330 | Casino | 81.46 | 74.23 | 81.54 | 81.75 | 1995 | Martin Scorsese |
331 | Kagemusha | 81.44 | 82.93 | 80.01 | 80.43 | 1980 | Akira Kurosawa |
332 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | 81.43 | 76.08 | 80.53 | 81.85 | 1969 | George Roy Hill |
333 | In a Lonely Place | 81.43 | 92.45 | 80.42 | 78.77 | 1950 | Nicholas Ray |
334 | Scarface | 81.43 | 71.30 | 81.97 | 82.18 | 1983 | Brian De Palma |
335 | A Short Film About Killing | 81.42 | 87.35 | 79.89 | 80.38 | 1988 | Krzysztof Kieślowski |
336 | Beauty and the Beast | 81.41 | 92.05 | 79.28 | 78.32 | 1946 | Jean Cocteau |
337 | The Hustler | 81.39 | 92.45 | 80.43 | 78.97 | 1961 | Robert Rossen |
338 | Cléo from 5 to 7 | 81.38 | 91.65 | 80.03 | 79.11 | 1962 | Agnès Varda |
339 | Fireworks | 81.37 | 90.15 | 80.01 | 79.63 | 1997 | Takeshi Kitano |
340 | Room | 81.36 | 88.41 | 80.43 | 79.48 | 2015 | Lenny Abrahamson |
341 | Mad Max: Fury Road | 81.35 | 90.39 | 79.76 | 77.80 | 2015 | George Miller |
342 | Steamboat Bill, Jr. | 81.32 | 95.75 | 79.30 | 79.23 | 1928 | Charles Reisner, Buster Keaton |
343 | Judgment at Nuremberg | 81.31 | 71.58 | 82.24 | 83.03 | 1961 | Stanley Kramer |
344 | The Straight Story | 81.30 | 87.15 | 79.64 | 79.88 | 1999 | David Lynch |
345 | Meshes of the Afternoon | 81.29 | 96.25 | 77.91 | 79.99 | 1943 | Maya Deren, Alexandr Hackenschmied |
346 | Alice in the Cities | 81.28 | 86.70 | 79.60 | 80.20 | 1974 | Wim Wenders |
347 | Akira | 81.28 | 80.90 | 81.12 | 79.98 | 1988 | Katsuhiro Otomo |
348 | Good Will Hunting | 81.27 | 79.38 | 81.97 | 81.05 | 1997 | Gus Van Sant |
349 | The Miracle Worker | 81.25 | 85.15 | 78.88 | 81.55 | 1962 | Arthur Penn |
350 | Talk to Her | 81.25 | 87.48 | 79.33 | 78.71 | 2002 | Pedro Almodóvar |
351 | The Graduate | 81.24 | 85.58 | 78.91 | 79.97 | 1967 | Mike Nichols |
352 | Beauty and the Beast | 81.22 | 92.28 | 79.20 | 78.77 | 1991 | Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise |
353 | The Heiress | 81.19 | 94.45 | 80.20 | 79.76 | 1949 | William Wyler |
354 | Fantasia | 81.18 | 93.03 | 76.76 | 79.95 | 1940 | Samuel Armstrong, James Algar |
355 | Au Revoir les Enfants | 81.18 | 94.25 | 80.14 | 78.92 | 1987 | Louis Malle |
356 | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | 81.18 | 88.62 | 79.36 | 79.90 | 2017 | Martin McDonagh |
357 | Inglourious Basterds | 81.17 | 79.05 | 81.06 | 80.51 | 2009 | Quentin Tarantino |
358 | Elevator to the Gallows | 81.16 | 90.45 | 79.31 | 78.56 | 1958 | Louis Malle |
359 | Gladiator | 81.16 | 75.39 | 81.69 | 81.52 | 2000 | Ridley Scott |
360 | Through a Glass Darkly | 81.15 | 93.60 | 81.11 | 78.86 | 1961 | Ingmar Bergman |
361 | Million Dollar Baby | 81.15 | 87.41 | 77.43 | 80.72 | 2004 | Clint Eastwood |
362 | Days of Heaven | 81.15 | 90.75 | 80.19 | 77.08 | 1978 | Terrence Malick |
363 | Do the Right Thing | 81.15 | 90.78 | 80.26 | 77.04 | 1989 | Spike Lee |
364 | Out of the Past | 81.14 | 91.40 | 80.73 | 77.92 | 1947 | Jacques Tourneur |
365 | Strangers on a Train | 81.11 | 93.30 | 80.01 | 78.68 | 1951 | Alfred Hitchcock |
366 | Blue Velvet | 81.11 | 83.48 | 78.98 | 77.09 | 1986 | David Lynch |
367 | That Obscure Object of Desire | 81.09 | 89.40 | 79.59 | 78.11 | 1977 | Luis Buñuel |
368 | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? | 81.08 | 80.23 | 80.74 | 80.75 | 1962 | Robert Aldrich |
369 | My Night at Maud's | 81.07 | 88.15 | 79.51 | 79.42 | 1969 | Éric Rohmer |
370 | The Earrings of Madame de… | 81.07 | 92.15 | 80.36 | 77.05 | 1953 | Max Ophüls |
371 | The Conversation | 81.04 | 89.23 | 80.03 | 77.44 | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola |
372 | The Killing | 81.03 | 91.50 | 79.51 | 79.21 | 1956 | Stanley Kubrick |
373 | The Servant | 81.03 | 87.83 | 79.45 | 78.57 | 1963 | Joseph Losey |
374 | The Intouchables | 81.03 | 67.15 | 82.13 | 84.70 | 2011 | Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano |
375 | The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | 81.01 | 94.15 | 81.57 | 75.44 | 1943 | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger |
376 | Jaws | 81.01 | 90.98 | 79.91 | 75.70 | 1975 | Steven Spielberg |
377 | Winter Light | 81.01 | 73.55 | 81.51 | 79.95 | 1963 | Ingmar Bergman |
378 | Love Exposure | 81.01 | 80.88 | 82.23 | 79.55 | 2008 | Sion Sono |
379 | Hiroshima Mon Amour | 81.00 | 92.95 | 80.13 | 77.99 | 1959 | Alain Resnais |
380 | Day for Night | 80.98 | 92.55 | 80.21 | 78.27 | 1973 | François Truffaut |
381 | Ratatouille | 80.97 | 92.73 | 78.72 | 78.68 | 2007 | Brad Bird |
382 | Ghost in the Shell | 80.97 | 81.43 | 79.98 | 81.15 | 1995 | Mamoru Oshii |
383 | Germany Year Zero | 80.95 | 92.00 | 77.80 | 80.03 | 1948 | Roberto Rossellini |
384 | Spotlight | 80.93 | 93.00 | 79.75 | 77.55 | 2015 | Tom McCarthy |
385 | Die Hard | 80.93 | 79.58 | 81.11 | 79.43 | 1988 | John McTiernan |
386 | Laura | 80.93 | 93.80 | 79.70 | 78.47 | 1944 | Otto Preminger |
387 | Sleuth | 80.93 | 89.95 | 79.16 | 80.87 | 1972 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
388 | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | 80.92 | 88.64 | 79.69 | 77.84 | 2007 | Julian Schnabel |
389 | The Handmaiden | 80.92 | 85.99 | 82.55 | 77.41 | 2016 | Park Chan-wook |
390 | Stand by Me | 80.90 | 80.20 | 81.28 | 79.54 | 1986 | Rob Reiner |
391 | Wolf Children | 80.90 | 80.15 | 80.40 | 81.27 | 2012 | Mamoru Hosoda |
392 | Marriage Story | 80.88 | 92.86 | 79.40 | 77.75 | 2019 | Noam Baumbach |
393 | Shoeshine | 80.87 | 93.75 | 79.02 | 79.38 | 1946 | Vittorio De Sica |
394 | Freaks | 80.85 | 84.70 | 77.66 | 80.31 | 1932 | Tod Browning |
395 | Nosferatu | 80.85 | 93.75 | 78.29 | 79.14 | 1922 | F. W. Murnau |
396 | Dial M for Murder | 80.84 | 77.60 | 81.17 | 81.31 | 1954 | Alfred Hitchcock |
397 | Amour | 80.81 | 90.90 | 77.74 | 78.19 | 2012 | Michael Haneke |
398 | 12 Years a Slave | 80.80 | 94.00 | 79.74 | 76.94 | 2013 | Steve McQueen |
399 | The Nightmare Before Christmas | 80.77 | 85.38 | 79.26 | 79.69 | 1993 | Henry Selick |
400 | Cabaret | 80.77 | 84.68 | 77.34 | 80.69 | 1972 | Bob Fosse |
401 | Central Station | 80.77 | 83.28 | 80.91 | 78.52 | 1998 | Walter Salles |
402 | Landscape in the Mist | 80.74 | 71.35 | 80.76 | 80.28 | 1988 | Theo Angelopoulos |
403 | 1917 | 80.73 | 84.37 | 80.65 | 79.33 | 2019 | Sam Mendes |
404 | Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages | 80.71 | 93.98 | 75.69 | 78.01 | 1916 | D. W. Griffith |
405 | Call Me by Your Name | 80.71 | 91.25 | 79.43 | 77.87 | 2017 | Luca Guadagnino |
406 | Midnight Cowboy | 80.71 | 82.98 | 79.10 | 79.50 | 1969 | John Schlesinger |
407 | Shadow of a Doubt | 80.70 | 94.38 | 79.31 | 76.04 | 1943 | Alfred Hitchcock |
408 | Interstellar | 80.70 | 74.16 | 81.30 | 82.25 | 2014 | Christopher Nolan |
409 | Hannah and Her Sisters | 80.69 | 88.95 | 79.15 | 77.98 | 1986 | Woody Allen |
410 | Monsters, Inc. | 80.68 | 85.29 | 79.37 | 80.08 | 2001 | Pete Docter, David Silverman |
411 | The Testament of Dr. Mabuse | 80.65 | 85.85 | 79.40 | 79.38 | 1933 | Fritz Lang |
412 | Downfall | 80.64 | 83.53 | 81.54 | 78.55 | 2004 | Oliver Hirschbiegel |
413 | Being There | 80.64 | 87.30 | 79.42 | 78.06 | 1979 | Hal Ashby |
414 | The Killer | 80.63 | 92.60 | 79.27 | 78.66 | 1989 | John Woo |
415 | My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown | 80.63 | 93.23 | 78.13 | 79.15 | 1989 | Jim Sheridan |
416 | Jean de Florette | 80.60 | 88.40 | 80.18 | 79.69 | 1986 | Claude Berri |
417 | The Big Lebowski | 80.57 | 74.80 | 82.28 | 78.57 | 1998 | Coen Brothers |
418 | The King's Speech | 80.57 | 90.86 | 78.50 | 78.59 | 2010 | Tom Hooper |
419 | Whisper of the Heart | 80.55 | 79.98 | 80.80 | 80.31 | 1995 | Yoshifumi Kondō |
420 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | 80.54 | 93.08 | 77.22 | 77.82 | 1982 | Steven Spielberg |
421 | Infernal Affairs | 80.54 | 79.83 | 79.92 | 80.22 | 2002 | Andrew Lau, Alan Mak |
422 | The Prestige | 80.54 | 72.22 | 82.71 | 81.38 | 2006 | Christopher Nolan |
423 | Our Hospitality | 80.54 | 92.85 | 77.72 | 79.58 | 1923 | Buster Keaton, John G. Blystone |
424 | Zootopia | 80.53 | 85.22 | 78.84 | 80.18 | 2016 | Byron Howard, Rich Moore |
425 | Toy Story 2 | 80.49 | 92.59 | 78.51 | 77.05 | 1999 | John Lasseter, Ash Brannon, Lee Unkrich |
426 | Klaus | 80.48 | 75.00 | 81.07 | 81.41 | 2019 | Sergio Pablos |
427 | The Big Sleep | 80.45 | 92.10 | 79.74 | 77.58 | 1946 | Howard Hawks |
428 | Ford v Ferrari | 80.45 | 83.94 | 79.37 | 80.01 | 2019 | James Mangold |
429 | Dead Poets Society | 80.44 | 78.70 | 79.43 | 80.75 | 1989 | Peter Weir |
430 | The Terminator | 80.43 | 89.08 | 78.26 | 78.13 | 1984 | James Cameron |
431 | Naked | 80.43 | 84.48 | 80.39 | 77.34 | 1993 | Mike Leigh |
432 | Dangal | 80.41 | 83.00 | 79.68 | 80.56 | 2016 | Nitesh Tiwari |
433 | Kwaidan | 80.40 | 81.80 | 79.75 | 79.42 | 1964 | Masaki Kobayashi |
434 | The Man Who Would Be King | 80.40 | 90.55 | 78.24 | 77.79 | 1975 | John Huston |
435 | Wild Tales | 80.38 | 82.57 | 80.48 | 79.22 | 2014 | Damián Szifron |
436 | Groundhog Day | 80.38 | 80.08 | 79.31 | 79.35 | 1993 | Harold Ramis |
437 | Catch Me If You Can | 80.38 | 83.44 | 78.74 | 80.57 | 2002 | Steven Spielberg |
438 | I Vitelloni | 80.36 | 90.28 | 77.64 | 78.06 | 1953 | Federico Fellini |
439 | The Big Heat | 80.35 | 92.90 | 79.27 | 77.87 | 1953 | Fritz Lang |
440 | The Double Life of Véronique | 80.35 | 82.63 | 80.19 | 77.87 | 1991 | Krzysztof Kieślowski |
441 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | 80.35 | 82.58 | 80.19 | 78.43 | 1966 | Mike Nichols |
442 | Requiem for a Dream | 80.33 | 71.39 | 81.39 | 80.93 | 2000 | Darren Aronofsky |
443 | Rope | 80.33 | 79.20 | 80.31 | 79.30 | 1948 | Alfred Hitchcock |
444 | Love and Death | 80.33 | 89.83 | 77.55 | 78.50 | 1975 | Woody Allen |
445 | The Remains of the Day | 80.29 | 86.88 | 78.75 | 78.80 | 1993 | James Ivory |
446 | Jules and Jim | 80.28 | 93.70 | 78.30 | 77.94 | 1962 | François Truffaut |
447 | The Gospel According to Matthew | 80.28 | 88.30 | 76.50 | 78.52 | 1964 | Pier Paolo Pasolini |
448 | How to Train Your Dragon | 80.27 | 81.97 | 79.45 | 80.24 | 2010 | Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois |
449 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 | 80.27 | 88.50 | 78.81 | 78.53 | 2011 | David Yates |
450 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | 80.26 | 87.05 | 79.46 | 79.79 | 1958 | Richard Brooks |
451 | The French Connection | 80.26 | 93.35 | 78.04 | 76.89 | 1971 | William Friedkin |
452 | Opening Night | 80.25 | 78.05 | 80.50 | 79.25 | 1977 | John Cassavetes |
453 | Hotel Rwanda | 80.24 | 84.54 | 79.34 | 79.40 | 2004 | Terry George |
454 | 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days | 80.22 | 92.51 | 77.76 | 76.22 | 2007 | Cristian Mungiu |
455 | Tampopo | 80.22 | 92.40 | 81.20 | 77.01 | 1985 | Juzo Itami |
456 | Scarface | 80.22 | 93.50 | 76.43 | 79.55 | 1932 | Howard Hawks, Howard Hughes |
457 | The Face of Another | 80.21 | 87.50 | 79.61 | 79.34 | 1966 | Hiroshi Teshigahara |
458 | The Roaring Twenties | 80.21 | 86.20 | 77.79 | 80.68 | 1939 | Raoul Walsh |
459 | Pickpocket | 80.20 | 93.80 | 76.41 | 76.47 | 1959 | Robert Bresson |
460 | Kiki's Delivery Service | 80.20 | 85.45 | 79.87 | 78.84 | 1989 | Hayao Miyazaki |
461 | A Prophet | 80.19 | 89.61 | 79.53 | 76.14 | 2009 | Jacques Audiard |
462 | Zelig | 80.19 | 90.00 | 76.50 | 80.29 | 1983 | Woody Allen |
463 | Trouble in Paradise | 80.18 | 88.20 | 79.35 | 77.62 | 1932 | Ernst Lubitsch |
464 | Gran Torino | 80.17 | 76.27 | 78.57 | 82.36 | 2008 | Clint Eastwood |
465 | Last Year at Marienbad | 80.16 | 88.25 | 78.29 | 77.37 | 1961 | Alain Resnais |
466 | All the President's Men | 80.15 | 85.95 | 80.48 | 76.46 | 1976 | Alan J. Pakula |
467 | Breaking the Waves | 80.15 | 79.85 | 78.46 | 79.55 | 1996 | Lars von Trier |
468 | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | 80.14 | 74.28 | 81.44 | 80.57 | 1989 | Steven Spielberg |
469 | Divorce Italian Style | 80.12 | 91.00 | 79.28 | 78.26 | 1961 | Pietro Germi |
470 | Edward Scissorhands | 80.12 | 78.65 | 78.09 | 80.73 | 1990 | Tim Burton |
471 | The Thing | 80.12 | 67.98 | 82.60 | 79.34 | 1982 | John Carpenter |
472 | Perfect Blue | 80.11 | 74.05 | 80.91 | 80.09 | 1997 | Satoshi Kon |
473 | Down by Law | 80.10 | 79.03 | 78.98 | 79.61 | 1986 | Jim Jarmusch |
474 | Bringing Up Baby | 80.10 | 90.75 | 78.25 | 76.45 | 1938 | Howard Hawks |
475 | The Phantom of Liberty | 80.09 | 85.10 | 78.89 | 78.66 | 1974 | Luis Buñuel |
476 | Bonnie and Clyde | 80.07 | 85.38 | 78.16 | 78.23 | 1967 | Arthur Penn |
477 | The Incredibles | 80.07 | 89.69 | 79.77 | 75.78 | 2004 | Brad Bird |
478 | Rocky | 80.04 | 79.73 | 79.17 | 79.29 | 1976 | John G. Avildsen |
479 | His Girl Friday | 80.03 | 94.15 | 79.24 | 76.72 | 1940 | Howard Hawks |
480 | Mommy | 80.03 | 80.79 | 80.39 | 79.13 | 2014 | Xavier Dolan |
481 | Mon Oncle | 80.03 | 88.00 | 78.03 | 78.76 | 1958 | Jacques Tati |
482 | My Fair Lady | 79.99 | 91.85 | 77.53 | 78.00 | 1964 | George Cukor |
483 | Charade | 79.98 | 85.55 | 79.37 | 78.72 | 1963 | Stanley Donen |
484 | Stalag 17 | 79.95 | 87.13 | 79.62 | 77.79 | 1953 | Billy Wilder |
485 | Boyhood | 79.95 | 97.08 | 76.08 | 75.95 | 2014 | Richard Linklater |
486 | The Secret in Their Eyes | 79.95 | 82.49 | 81.27 | 77.67 | 2009 | Juan José Campanella |
487 | Ninotchka | 79.95 | 90.15 | 77.99 | 78.50 | 1939 | Ernst Lubitsch |
488 | Pierrot le Fou | 79.94 | 81.75 | 77.84 | 76.65 | 1965 | Jean-Luc Godard |
489 | The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser | 79.94 | 89.10 | 78.30 | 78.27 | 1974 | Werner Herzog |
490 | Stroszek | 79.94 | 88.40 | 79.50 | 77.77 | 1977 | Werner Herzog |
491 | A Hard Day's Night | 79.93 | 93.73 | 76.82 | 77.08 | 1964 | Richard Lester |
492 | Onibaba | 79.90 | 74.75 | 79.42 | 79.96 | 1964 | Kaneto Shindo |
493 | Repulsion | 79.85 | 92.68 | 77.29 | 76.57 | 1965 | Roman Polanski |
494 | Like Stars on Earth | 79.85 | 80.50 | 79.54 | 79.86 | 2007 | Aamir Khan, Amole Gupte |
495 | Duck Soup | 79.84 | 92.33 | 79.01 | 74.92 | 1933 | Leo McCarey |
496 | Carlito's Way | 79.83 | 70.28 | 79.16 | 82.01 | 1993 | Brian De Palma |
497 | Nashville | 79.82 | 93.23 | 76.89 | 74.92 | 1975 | Robert Altman |
498 | The Triplets of Belleville | 79.82 | 88.97 | 76.57 | 78.66 | 2003 | Sylvain Chomet |
499 | Dr. Mabuse the Gambler | 79.81 | 85.10 | 76.88 | 79.98 | 1922 | Fritz Lang |
500 | Gone Girl | 79.79 | 83.03 | 79.32 | 78.87 | 2014 | David Fincher |
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