Erik Bates
Reviews
Erik has written these movie reviews:
more: All Quiet on the Western Front, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Elvis, Jurassic World: Dominion, Top Gun: Maverick, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Bullet Train, Top Gun, The Tomorrow War, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Encanto, No Time to Die, tick, tick...BOOM!, Don't Look Up, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Black Widow, Red Notice, In the Heights, Happiest Season, Frozen II, The Old Guard, Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, WW84, Soul, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend, Palm Springs, The Prom, Ava, Enola Holmes, Tickled, Midsommar, Hamilton, Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics, Knives Out, Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker, Downton Abbey, Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood, Men in Black: International, El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, The Lion King, The Kitchen, Captain Marvel, Avengers: Endgame, Spider-Man: Far from Home, John Wick: Chapter 2, John Wick, John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum, Dark Phoenix, Aladdin, Aquaman, Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi, The Mummy, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Logan, Split, Wonder Woman, Silence, Moana, Assassin's Creed, Sing, Kung Fu Panda 3, Ben-Hur, Arrival, Rogue One, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, The Divergent Series: Allegiant, London Has Fallen, La La Land, Now You See Me 2, X-Men: Apocalypse, The Jungle Book, Captain America: Civil War, Star Trek Beyond, Ghostbusters, Doctor Strange, Suicide Squad, Spy, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2, Pitch Perfect 2, Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens, Mad Max: Fury Road, Kingsman: The Secret Service, Jurassic World, Jupiter Ascending, Inside Out, Avengers: Age of Ultron, American Sniper, The Men Who Stare at Goats, The Hangover, X-Men: First Class, Tucker and Dale vs. Evil, High Fidelity, Garden State, Big Eyes, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Theory of Everything, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), Boyhood, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1, Gone Girl, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, The Monuments Men, The Family, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Noah, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Shaun of the Dead, Frozen, The Conjuring, American Hustle, Annie Hall, Blue Jasmine, Nebraska, The Wolverine, Lee Daniels' The Butler, Prisoners, The World's End, Red 2, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Pacific Rim, Man of Steel, The Host, The Purge, The Heat, The Great Gatsby, Oblivion, Elysium, 42, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, White House Down, World War Z, Warm Bodies, Star Trek Into Darkness, Oz the Great and Powerful, Olympus Has Fallen, Now You See Me, Iron Man Three, Evil Dead, Prometheus, Beautiful Creatures, The Master, Ted, Les Misérables, Premium Rush, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, War Horse, The Avengers, Rock of Ages, Brave, John Carter, The Vow, Step Up Revolution, The Cabin in the Woods, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Dark Knight Rises, Snow White and the Huntsman, 21 Jump Street, The Hunger Games, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, The Music Never Stopped, Legion, Zombieland, and The Last House on the Left
Replies
Erik has replied to reviews of these movies:
more: The Monuments Men, Frozen, Lee Daniels' The Butler, Now You See Me, Evil Dead, Zero Dark Thirty, Trainspotting, The Master, Les Misérables, Ted, Deep Impact, Life of Pi, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, Beverly Hills Cop, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, The Room, Tucker and Dale vs. Evil, Extract, Thor, Clash of the Titans, The Hangover, The Men Who Stare at Goats, He's Just Not That Into You, Sunshine Cleaning, and C.S.A.: Confederate States of America
Movie Discussions
Erik has commented in these Movie Discussions discussions:
Best Movies of the Year
Erik voted for these titles as the Best Movies of 2023:
1) Wonka
2) The Holdovers
3) Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
4) Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour
5) The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
6) The Killer
7) Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
8) The Machine
9) Pain Hustlers
10) Cocaine Bear
Erik voted for these titles as the Best Movies of 2021:
1) In the Heights
2) tick, tick...BOOM!
3) Encanto
4) Spider-Man: No Way Home
5) No Time to Die
6) Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
7) Don't Look Up
8) Black Widow
9) Red Notice
10) The Tomorrow War
Erik voted for these titles as the Best Movies of 2020:
1) Hamilton
2) Palm Springs
3) Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
4) Soul
5) Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend
6) The Old Guard
7) Enola Holmes
8) WW84
9) The Prom
10) Ava
Erik voted for these titles as the Best Movies of 2019:
1) Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
2) Avengers: Endgame
3) Aladdin
4) Captain Marvel
5) The Kitchen
6) The Lion King
7) Downton Abbey
8) John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
9) Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker
10) Spider-Man: Far from Home
Erik voted for these titles as the Best Movies of 2017:
1) Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi
2) Wonder Woman
3) La La Land
4) Spider-Man: Homecoming
5) Logan
6) Silence
7) Split
8) The Mummy
Erik voted for these titles as the Best Movies of 2016:
1) Doctor Strange
2) X-Men: Apocalypse
3) The Jungle Book
4) Star Trek Beyond
5) Suicide Squad
6) Captain America: Civil War
7) Ghostbusters
8) Now You See Me 2
Erik voted for these titles as the Best Movies of 2015:
1) Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens
2) The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
3) Inside Out
4) Kingsman: The Secret Service
5) Jurassic World
6) Avengers: Age of Ultron
7) Pitch Perfect 2
8) Jupiter Ascending
9) Spy
10) American Sniper
Erik voted for these titles as the Best Movies of 2013:
1) The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
2) The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
3) Star Trek Into Darkness
4) 42
5) Man of Steel
6) World War Z
7) Iron Man Three
8) Now You See Me
9) The Heat
10) Red 2
Erik voted for these titles as the Best Movies of 2012:
1) The Dark Knight Rises
2) The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
3) The Amazing Spider-Man
4) The Hunger Games
5) Brave
6) The Cabin in the Woods
7) The Avengers
8) 21 Jump Street
9) Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
10) Snow White and the Huntsman
Three Clues
Erik has added 7 movies to Three Clues for other players to guess, and correctly guessed 104 movies by other members.
Predict the Oscars
Erik has earned these scores in Predict the Oscars:
- 2004: 70 points
- 2005: 41 points
- 2006: 26 points
- 2007: 32 points
- 2008: 61 points
- 2009: 34 points
- 2010: 39 points
- 2013: 49 points
- 2014: 48 points
- 2015: 65 points
- 2016: 45 points
- 2017: 61 points
- 2018: 65 points
- 2019: 19 points
- 2020: 22 points
- 2021: 48 points
- 2023: 83 points
- 2024: 72 points
