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Oblivion (2013)

Rated PG-13

Directed by Joseph Kosinski (Tron: Legacy)

Budget - $120,000,000

Box Office - $286,168,572

Ok.  $120M Tom Cruise vehicle.  Summer Blockbuster.  This is way too mainstream to be a Frank movie.  Nonetheless, it is.  Here's why:

1.  The Oblivion universe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFiG0dz45mQ

The whole set-up is fantastic.  Earth has been literally wrecked, but it seems so cool.

2.  Vika...

yum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd0Ha2oU3nI

3.  The twist...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7oFtXAryD8


Not many of the critics that I like enjoyed it at all.  I still can't figure out why.


Runner-up:  Ocean's Twelve(2004)

Rated PG-13

Directed by Steven Soderbergh (Erin Brockovich, Traffic, Sex, Lies and Videotape)

Reasons that it's a Frank movie:

1.  I like all of The Oceans films.  11 is a reimaging of a damned good Sinatra flick.  It's also very much a Clooney/Pitt vehicle.  The thing that I like about 12 is that it is much more ensemble-driven, the character development of the peripheral characters is amazing.  Legendary.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YquUIdh2fsI

2.  Great villain.  Although Andy Garcia and Al Pacino are heavyweight antagonists, they are nothing to Francois Toulour.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQl1hc5Imi4

Honorable Mentions:  The Omen (1976), Office Space (1999), Old School (2003)