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Ugetsu (1953) - A tale of ambition, family, love, and war set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the sixteenth century. I was skeptical about how much I was going to like it, but it really delivered. It was really interesting. (83/100)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) - A former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion. To be completely honest, I didn’t understand the popularity of this movie. I didn’t think it was close to being great. (72/100)
Adaptation (2002) - I had high expectations for this that weren’t reached. I thought the Kaufman parts were good but the Orlean parts were boring. Then I didn’t like where it went in the last half hour at all. (73/100)
The Magician (1958) - It had a good quality to it. I really liked the way it was filmed. I thought there was more that could have been done with the story. (80/100)
Angel Heart (1987) - This had a lot of good things going for it, but for some reason I thought it never reached its potential. Maybe it should have been better structured or something like that, I don’t know. It had all the pieces and came to a good conclusion. It just left something to be desired. And damn was Lisa Bonet hot. (77/100)
Laserblast (1978) - You know, I didn’t hate watching this. It’s badly made but I just couldn’t hate it. Maybe I was feeling generous. (59/100)
Death on the Nile (1978) - I watched the first 76 minutes in February before seeing the recent readaptation. I finished it mostly knowing what would happen. There was at least one major point where it differed. (76/100)
Ride Along 2 (2016) - The first Ride Along was a really pleasant surprise (for me). This one wasn’t as good but I still enjoyed it. I didn’t like how they pushed Tika Sumpter way off to the side...again. She deserves better. (75/100)
Bed & Board (1970) - The third sequel and second feature film sequel to The 400 Blows, which not many people know exist. (72/100)
A Knight's Tale: 7/10
I also saw Minions: The Rise of Gru.
Sisters (1972) - A small-time reporter tries to convince the police she saw a murder in the apartment across from hers. It was good. (79/100)
Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962) - Cléo, a singer and hypochondriac, becomes increasingly worried that she might have cancer while awaiting test results from her doctor. Definitely didn’t like it as much as I thought. It didn’t make an impact on me. (71/100)
The Vanishing (1988) - Quite good. Certain parts were more interesting than others. There are some things that happen that make you say, “Why would you do that?” The ending was a gut punch. (80/100)
The Wolf Man (1941) - This movie just really worked for me. It was done really well and had a good atmosphere. I liked it more than I expected. (82/100)
Vivre Sa Vie (1962) - Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution. I’m not sure what it was about this movie that made me like it, but I really did. It was very good. (81/100)
Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022) - I did not see this in 3D but liked it. I like the Despicable Me movies, especially 3. Minions was a big disappointment to me. The biggest issue in that one was that the Minions weren’t good enough to carry a movie on their own. Here they didn’t have to. The story and the characters were enjoyable. (78/100)
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank (2022) - Hank, a loveable dog with a head full of dreams about becoming a samurai, sets off in search of his destiny. It got a lot of shit from people before seeing it, but it was actually good. I felt like something was holding it back from being better. (74/100)
Wolf Creek 2 (2013) - It started out decently, but as it went on I really did not like it. It became really exasperating. (56/100)
I've seen every Harry Potter movie in theaters. As far as actual trilogies with exactly 3 movies, I don't think there is one. I'll have a chance to do it with Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.
I have hopes. My top ones right now are Oppenheimer, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Fast X, Dune: Part Two, Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3, John Wick 4, Asteroid City, The Killer and Poor Things. I'm also hoping for a chance of getting How Do You Live?, but I doubt it.
The Hills Have Eyes: 7/10
The Hills Have Eyes 2: 6/10
The Protégé: 7/10
X-Men: 7/10
I also watched The Sea Beast last week.
My last two weeks.
Alpha Dog (2006) (8/10)
Crash (2004)
Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)
Curse of the Pink Panther (1983)
Mr. Malcolm's List (2022) (7/10)
Bringing Up Baby (1938) (7/10)
Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014) (7/10)
Chapter 27 (2007) (7/10)
Son of the Pink Panther (1993)
Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) (7/10)
The Name of the Rose (1986) (6/10)
The Mummy (1932) (7/10)
California Split (1974) (6/10)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) (7/10)
The Sea Beast (2022) (8/10)
Matchstick Men (2003) (7/10)
I don’t find Ana de Armas or Zoë Kravitz attractive at all.
EuroTrip (2004) - Really good and underrated. It was funny. There were some things that didn’t work that well, but most of it did. (8/10)
The Princess (2022) - Quite a disappointing movie. I watched it because I thought the trailer looked good. It sure fooled me. The plot was extremely weak. Joey King (who I do like) as a tough girl able to kill a bunch of hulking dudes is just lame. (6/10)
Spiderhead (2022) I didn’t want to like this movie. I couldn’t help it. I didn’t understand what was bad about it. (7/10)
Kiss of Death (1947) (7/10)
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) - Really good. At the beginning I didn’t love it, but then it got way better and funnier. It had lots of famous people that I had no idea were in it. The Elvis Presley and Beatles scenes I especially loved. (8/10)
Patriots Day: 8/10
The Fifth Wave: 6/10
My Friend Dahmer: 8/10
My last two weeks.
New York, New York (1977) - First of all, there was absolutely no earthly reason for this movie to be 2 hours and 43 minutes long. Second of all, I absolutely despised Jimmy Doyle. I’m probably sounding like I hated this movie, but no, I didn’t at all. It was good. It just had too many flaws. (7/10)
Top Gun: Maverick (2022) - It was good. I didn’t think it was absolutely amazing like a lot of people. (8/10)
Ivan’s Childhood (1962) - It was good. I think the nonlinear structure made it difficult for me to get fully immersed in the movie. I think it would have been better served without it. (8/10)
House of Flying Daggers (2004) - You know, for the first half of the movie I wasn’t impressed at all. It seemed like it was barely moving. After that I felt considerably different. I was actually mesmerized by some parts. The green bamboo forest looked so cool. Then the showdown in the snow at the end was fantastic. (8/10)
Hero (2002) - I didn’t like this as much as I thought. The way it played out was pretty anticlimactic. (7/10)
Watcher (2022) - A definite disappointment. I really thought there would be more to it. A lot of it was boring. (6/10)
So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993) - Good, but I thought I would like it a little more. I was disappointed Alan Arkin was only in it for about 5 minutes. I thought he had a much bigger part. (7/10)
Gozu (2003) - A weird and often gross movie. Lots of times I like this kind of thing more than this. Let me tell you, the last 20 minutes are absolutely not for the faint of heart. (7/10)
The Roaring Twenties (1939) - Really good. Liked it considerably better than expected. (8/10)
Black Hawk Down (2001) - Very good. I was mad at myself because I didn’t understand what was happening. If I did I would have liked it even more. (8/10)
The Country Girl (1954) (7/10)
As of this moment, 244. There was a time when I had seen all of them.
1. Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
2. Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020)
3. Dirty Dancing (1987)
4. Prometheus (2012)
5. The Last American Virgin (1982)
6. Wild (2014)
7. Vera Drake (2004)
8. The Godfather Part II (1974)
9. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
The Last King of Scotland (2006) - Really good, much better than I had any expectation of it being. It was really interesting and did everything well. It did a good job of showing the brutality of certain situations. I really cared about the story. A good performance from James McAvoy as well as an Oscar-winning one from Forest Whitaker. (85/100)
Stardust Memories (1980) - There are a lot of people who hate this movie. Well, let me tell you, those people are wrong. It’s really good. There are a couple small sections that are a little bit boring, but other than that it’s really entertaining. It may be helped by the fact that I usually like movies about the film industry. The hallucination scene in the field with the people waiting for the UFOs was top notch. (84/100)
First Love (2022) - I thought this might be worse than it was. It had some redeeming qualities (primarily Sydney Park), but it couldn’t rise above being generic and cliché. The two of them getting married at the end was really dumb, and the story with the parents was tedious and unnecessary. (64/100)
Babel (2006) - Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families. The third film of Alejandro González Iñárritu and Guillermo Arriaga’s “Death Trilogy” or “Trilogy of Death.” It was really good. It was interesting all the way through. It did a good job weaving the four stories together. Chieko was a good and underrated character and I have to say my favorite of the film. (82/100)
Operation Mincemeat (2021) - I will watch damn near anything with Kelly Macdonald, who was the reason I watched this. It was good, but it should have been more interesting. It was very unmemorable. (73/100)
Parallel Mothers (2021) - I thought there was a chance that this could be really good, but it was just good. It didn’t do as much as it could have. (74/100)
Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978) - To prove that he still is strong and powerful, Philippe Douvier decides to kill Clouseau. Once news of his "death" has been announced, Clouseau tries to take advantage of it and goes undercover with Cato to find out who tried to kill him. (78/100)
Hustle (2022) - It was good. It was slightly ordinary for this kind of movie, but it was done well. Juancho Hernangómez and Anthony Edwards were better actors than I would have expected. (76/100)
I Know That Voice (2013) - I’m generally not a fan of documentaries, which is why I don’t watch many. It was pretty good. At the beginning it seemed to go by really slowly for me, but later on I guess it was more interesting. (74/100)
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989) - It was good. It sort of started out better and then the rest of the movie didn’t go as well as it could have. (71/100)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) - I really had no idea if I was going to like this or not. I liked it quite a lot. I’m not entirely sure why, but I thought it was really good and interesting. It just had something about it. There are a lot of people that hate this movie. Well, let me tell you, those people are wrong. It had me wishing I could have seen the hour longer version that Orson Welles wanted, which I did not expect at all. (82/100)
Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves (1997) - I really don’t understand the hate for this one. Oftentimes when a movie is badly received I can at least understand why even if I personally like it. In this case I didn’t. I thought it was better than the original. (75/100)