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Fun movie, even if it doesn't compare to Eleven. Despite the excellent addition of Catherin Zeta-Jones. Even my wife approved of her addition, even tho she really just watches these for Brad Pitt.

Entertaining. Completely carried by the cast, but I enjoyed it.

Entertaining enough, but it doesn't make me want to watch the actual Eurovision contest.

My wife saw this on Netflix and said, "I'd watch that again!" rather enthusiastically. I do enjoy a good heist movie. Love the cast, too.

There was a time when I was convinced I'd watched this before, but that was just because it came out around the same time as another De Niro movie, Casino, which I have seen a few times.

Finally watching the film makes up for the sub par Val Kilmer movies I've watched this month. RIP, Val.

I've always liked Val Kilmer as an actor, but this documentary had me hooked at "and less of Tom Cruise."

It's not really a bad movie. But despite the premise it's not much more than an ordinary romantic drama.

We really enjoy Bargatze's material. One of our current favorites.

This is the second time we've rewatched this without my wife ing we'd seen it before.

I really like this movie. But it kills me that all this, the corruption and the shootings, is a bigger problem than ever.

I when this came out and I it bombed. Now I know why. While the animal mutants are nicely done, the rest of this is a mess. Sorry, Val. RIP.

Even worse than I . Somehow even worse than the sum of its parts. My wife wouldn't sit through it, despite wanting to watch Nicole Kidman. I guess it wasn't the best movie to Val Kilmer by.

My wife's pick. She's been into these type of WW II movies lately. I found it to be an adequately entertaining survival drama.

My wife's pick, she'd wanted to see this in the theater.

Entertaining and well shot. Unfortunately, everything else (the story, the script, the acting, the twist) is really sub par.

My wife always sings this to the kids on long car rides. Fun short.

Spying on the neighbors just didn't do it for me.

"There are no real winners in this case."
"I don't know if execution makes anything better."

Great short film. Heartbreaking that kids have this kind of stuff weighing on them.

Oyelowo was good and grief is universal.

A little unfocused as a documentary, but interesting.

I don't know anything about English soaps, nor do I care to. I watched this solely for Helena Bonham Carter, and that's a good enough reason.

Despite being in the target demographic, I've never cared for so called Mormon cinema. But I enjoyed this story.

My wife's pick. She thought it started slow but got better.

We were watching our friends' kids and they couldn't decide on a movie to watch. So my wife told them to watch Madagascar. They put the sequel on instead to make it seem like it was their decision.

Anyway, I'd say this didn't hold up too well but I didn't really much of it.

It's no Paddington 2, but it was a fun family trip to the theater. Even if my wife fell asleep multiple times.

I always enjoy the stories within stories structure. This was great.

Another enjoyable short but I didn't like the story as much as The Rat Catcher or Poison.

Surprisingly intense story. I want to compare and contrast Hitchcock's version.

Perfectly charming. Would've liked to see a stop motion ferret/rat scuffle.

My wife realized we haven't seen a movie in the theater for a couple of months so she took the whole family to this at the spur of the moment. She does love her "based on a true story" movies. This wasn't really on my watchlist, but I still enjoyed it. Although I did wonder if I should just watch the documentary.

Also, I just realized somewhere over the decades I have become a Woody Harrelson fan. I not really liking his character on Cheers, but I always tend to enjoy him in even the most middle of the road movies these days

Cranston was great as LBJ, and Mackie was good as King. Overall not a bad cable movie, even if it didn't really cover any new ground.

I guess the reveal had some potential to be interesting, but on the whole this was just tired and cliched.

Perfectly serviceable save-the-president movie. Not much else to recommend it, despite several actors in the cast I generally enjoy.

Wallace and Gromit are always fun, and so is Feather McGraw. But I'm starting to think I like their shorts better than their feature films.

Still think anything important in this movie could have been rolled into Part 1. Even my daughter kept asking why they split this into 2 movies.

Rewatching with my daughter.

I always thought I liked how this one expanded beyond the games, but on rewatch it's really not as good as I ed.

No offense to Ray Romano or the rest of the cast, but this is what Gene Hackman decided to go out on?

My daughter's rewatch continues. I still think this is where the series peaked.

Apparently my youngest is reading the books, and she asked me to re-watch the movies with her. I think this might be an even better movie than I originally gave it credit for.

I really did think this was a made for TV movie. I'm Shatner fan (or at least a Kirk fan), but other than that there's not much to recommend this movie.

Don't where I heard about this movie, but I'm sure it had to do with the animation. Fun movie.

I wasn't aware of this writer/director before, but this made me a fan. Great mix of absurdist and dark comedy.

Heartbreaking

I'm really not much of a video gamer. Even so I appreciate the creativity involved in a good game.

I enjoy the way this movie was told, although I think I liked the first one better. The kids liked it, too, even if they all haven't seen Searching before.

Another movie I added to my watchlist back when I first heard about it, and then promptly forgot about. I really enjoyed it, the photography and long takes more than the sometimes meandering dialogue.

Inconsistent satire, but there's some strong stuff here. That slaughterhouse scene is tough to watch.

I miss my grandma.

I added this to my watchlist when I heard the story on "This American Life" and then forgot about it. Thank goodness for the watchlist shuffle feature.

I've always liked the X-Men movies (more than the MCU as a whole if I'm being honest) but I think I was burnt out on the Wolverine movies when this came out. That's the only reason I can think of why I skipped it all these years. Far and away the best of the X-Men flicks.

Movie Chain 4

I don't generally watch comedy specials that are more than a couple of years old. But I'd heard an interview with Gulman recently about his depression so I decided to check this out. Glad I did. Funny and touching stuff.

Great history story. And an okay movie.

My wife loved it, as she generally does for "based on a true story" movies.

New comic for me. Pretty funny.

List of documentaries (mostly) from Marketplace's Econ Extra Credit.

• Capital in the Twenty-First Century

  January

• 9to5: The Story of a Movement

  February

• Hoop Dreams

  March

• Helvetica

  April

• The Last Blockbuster

  May

• The Prison in Twelve Landscapes

  June

• Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

  July

• Through the Night

  August

• Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

  September

• The Truffle Hunters

  October

...plus 42 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Personal challenge to expand my movie watching using cast and crew links.

This time with more of a fantasy bent. And probably more re-watches.

• The Dark Crystal

  Link #1: Director Jim Henson

• Labyrinth

  Link #2: Writer Terry Jones

• The Wind in the Willows

  Link #3: Actor Stephen Fry

• MirrorMask

  Link #4: Writer Neil Gaiman

• Princess Mononoke

  Link #5: Director Hayao Miyazaki

• Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

  Link #6: Actor Patrick Stewart

• Logan

  Link #7: Actor Hugh Jackman

Versions of "A Christmas Carol" I've watched.

• A Christmas Carol

  Interesting adaptation: Scrooge never leaves his bedroom during the Christmas spirit visitations.

• Scrooge

  Interesting adaptations: Scrooge physically abuses a street urchin, but then gives Cratchit a Christmas present. Marley becomes each of the Christmas ghosts. And of course it is heavy on the text.

• A Christmas Carol

  Interesting adaptation: The Spirits only take Scrooge's spirit with them. His body stays in bed. Also some interesting details like Bob donating to the charity collectors in Scrooge's office, and Scrooge actually buying the turkey himself.

• Scrooge

  Interesting adaptation: The abrupt transitions between ghosts, even if that was just a side effect of the edited version being the only surviving copy of this film. And this is another version where the spirits leave Scrooge's body behind.

• A Christmas Carol

  Interesting adaptation: no Tiny Tim.

• Scrooge

  Interesting adaptation: Most of the spirits aren't actually shown on screen.

• A Christmas Carol

  Interesting adaptation: Cratchit gets fired for throwing snowballs at Scrooge.

• The Christmas Carol

  Interesting adaptation: Vincent Price. I think I can listen to him read anything.

• Scrooge

  Interesting adaptations: Extended exploration of the past and how it corrupted Scrooge. Also, this is pretty perfectly cast.

• Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol

  Interesting adaptations: Setting it as a Broadway play. Also Razzleberry dressing.

...plus 26 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I'm trying one of these 5x5 things this year. Includes my favorite director Alfred Hitchcock and 4 other older directors.

Alfred Hitchcock
John Ford
John Huston
Billy Wilder
Howard Hawks

It took me 3 years, but I finally finished this on 1/31/24

• The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
• Downhill
• Suspicion
• Strangers on a Train
• The Wrong Man
• The Iron Horse
• Drums Along the Mohawk
• The Long Voyage Home
• How Green Was My Valley
• Fort Apache

...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Ferris Bueller's Day Off
• Wayne's World
• Spaceballs
• High Fidelity
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• Airplane!
• Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
• Young Frankenstein
• Top Secret!
• A Christmas Story

• The Lorax
• WALL·E
• Soylent Green
• The Day the Earth Stood Still
• Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
• Interstellar
• Twister
• Princess Mononoke
• Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
• Mad Max

• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• Toy Story 2
• Young Frankenstein
• Tangled
• City Slickers
• Dances with Wolves
• Seabiscuit
• Hercules
• Clash of the Titans
• Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron

First 10 film families I thought of

• The Incredibles
• Meet the Robinsons
• Home for the Holidays
• Tombstone
• Raising Arizona
• Father of the Bride
• Pieces of April
• Finding Nemo
• Dan in Real Life
• The Addams Family

• Bell, Book and Candle
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• Kiki's Delivery Service
• Howl's Moving Castle
• Coraline
• The Wizard of Oz
• Hocus Pocus
• Sleeping Beauty
• Bedknobs and Broomsticks
• Stardust

• Mad Max 2
• The Cannonball Run
• Smokey and the Bandit
• Easy Rider
• Paris, Texas
• Rain Man
• O Brother, Where Art Thou?
• Tommy Boy
• National Lampoon's Vacation
• The Great Race

Personal challenge to expand my movie watching using cast and crew links.

1. Ghost

   Link #1: Actor Demi Moore

2. One Crazy Summer

   Link #2: Actor John Cusack

3. Eight Men Out

   Link #3: Director John Sayles

4. Matewan

   Link #4: Actor James Earl Jones

5. The Lion King II: Simba's Pride

   Link # 5: Actor Matthew Broderick

6. Biloxi Blues

   Link #6: Writer Neil Simon

7. Murder by Death

   Link #7: Actor Alec Guinness

8. The Bridge on the River Kwai

   Link #8: Director David Lean

9. Lawrence of Arabia

   Link #9: Actor Peter O'Toole

10. One Night with the King

    Link #10: Actor Omar Sharif

...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Plants and animals run amok.

• Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!
• Planet of the Apes
• The Birds
• Little Shop of Horrors
• Watership Down
• Bee Movie
• Jaws
• Deep Blue Sea
• Jumanji
• Frankenweenie

Top Gun not included.

• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
• Skyjacked
• Porco Rosso
• Air Force One
• Twelve O'Clock High
• Dunkirk
• Con Air
• Sully
• Twilight Zone: The Movie
• Airplane!

Personal challenge to expand my movie watching using cast and crew links.

1. The Searchers

   Link #1: Actor John Wayne

2. Rooster Cogburn

   Link #2: Actor Katharine Hepburn

3. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

   Link #3: Actor Sidney Poitier

4. In the Heat of the Night

   Link #4: Writer Stirling Silliphant

5. Village of the Damned

   Link #5: Actor George Sanders

6. All About Eve

   Link #6: Writer Joseph L. Mankiewicz

7. Guys and Dolls

   Link #7: Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz

8. Sleuth

   Link #8: Actor Laurence Olivier

9. Spartacus

   Link #9: Director Stanley Kubrick

10. Paths of Glory

    Link #10: Actor Kirk Douglas

...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Rope
• Dead Poets Society
• The Odd Couple
• Monsters, Inc.
• School Ties
• Notting Hill
• A Beautiful Mind
• Soylent Green
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
• Real Genius

Personal challenge to expand my movie watching using cast and crew links.

1. Thor: Ragnarok

   Link #1: Director Taika Waititi

2. Hunt for the Wilderpeople

   Link #2: Actor Sam Neill

3. The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box

   Link #3: Actor Michael Sheen

4. Far from the Madding Crowd

   Link #4: Director Thomas Vinterberg

5. Dear Wendy

   Link #5: Actor Bill Pullman

6. Wyatt Earp

   Link #6: Writer/Director Lawrence Kasdan

7. Silverado

   Link #7: Actor Kevin Kline

8. The Pink Panther

   Link #8: Actor Steve Martin

9. Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

   Link #9: Director Carl Reiner

10. The Man with Two Brains

    Link #10: Actor Kathleen Turner

...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• Good Will Hunting
• Young Frankenstein
• Contagion
• Virus
• Seconds
• Rear Window
• The Fugitive
• Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
• Spellbound

Some good movie dads.

• The Incredibles
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• Finding Nemo
• Raising Arizona
• National Lampoon's Vacation
• Mr. Mom
• Father of the Bride
• Commando
• The Lego Movie

• Galaxy Quest
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
• Spaceballs
• Young Frankenstein
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• The Lego Batman Movie
• The Truman Show
• Brazil
• A Mighty Wind
• This Is Spinal Tap

I'm allergic to cats, but I guess these are some that didn't make me sneeze.

• The Lego Movie
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• My Neighbor Totoro
• Alice in Wonderland
• Cinderella
• Batman Returns
• Toy Story 4
• The Cat from Outer Space
• Men in Black
• Coraline

Endings I didn't see coming.

• The Usual Suspects
• Planet of the Apes
• The Sixth Sense
• Brazil
• Avengers: Infinity War
• Se7en
• Psycho
• The Prestige
• Twelve Monkeys
• Casablanca

• The Big Lebowski
• Fletch
• A Christmas Story
• Inception
• Raising Arizona
• Pee-wee's Big Adventure
• Wayne's World 2
• Dumbo
• Inside Out
• A Nightmare on Elm Street

• The Muppet Movie
• ¡Three Amigos!
• The Purple Rose of Cairo
• Strange Brew
• Bowfinger
• Last Action Hero
• Spaceballs
• Matinee
• Ed Wood
• Get Shorty

• The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
• Tapeheads
• This Is Spinal Tap
• The Muppet Movie
• Back to the Future
• Top Secret!
• That Thing You Do!
• O Brother, Where Art Thou?
• Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
• Eddie and the Cruisers

• The Empire Strikes Back
• Mad Max 2
• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
• Superman II
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
• Aliens
• Paddington 2
• National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
• Back to the Future Part III
• Incredibles 2

Picked with the help of my family.

• A Christmas Story

  Never saw my own father relate more to a movie character than when the Bumpus dogs got to the turkey.

• National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

  One of my favorites

• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

  Who didn't want Sean Connery as their father?

• Finding Nemo

  A father my wife says she can relate to.

• Taken

  "What about Taken?" "Now that was a good dad!"

• The Croods

  My wife's pick - not sure what that says about her vision of fatherhood

• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

  Arthur Weasley - my daughter's pick

• Mr. Mom

  Not always easy to be the stay at home parent...

• Incredibles 2

  ...even if you're a superhero

• To Kill a Mockingbird

  A movie dad I actually ire.

• The Empire Strikes Back
• Spider-Man
• Lady and the Tramp
• The Wedding Singer
• Better Off Dead...
• Pretty Woman
• Moonrise Kingdom
• Raiders of the Lost Ark
• Mr. & Mrs. Smith
• Some Kind of Wonderful

Christmas movies aren't always about Christmas

• Die Hard
• Gremlins
• The Nightmare Before Christmas
• Batman Returns
• Brazil
• Lethal Weapon
• Edward Scissorhands
• Mixed Nuts
• Die Hard 2
• Rocky IV

Movies with kids I didn't hate

• Moonrise Kingdom
• Hunt for the Wilderpeople
• Time Bandits
• The Goonies
• A Christmas Story
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• The Sandlot
• Hope and Glory
• Stand by Me
• True Grit

Memorable long takes

• Rope
• Young and Innocent
• The Shining
• Halloween
• The Untouchables
• Gravity
• The Thin Red Line
• Apocalypse Now
• Snake Eyes
• Jaws

Only reason 2001 is not on here is because I never watched the whole movie.

• WarGames
• Tron
• The Matrix
• Weird Science
• Electric Dreams
• WALL·E
• Sneakers
• The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
• The Social Network
• The Lego Batman Movie

I do enjoy a good fantasy setting. I had a hard time deciding on a top 10 for this one.

• The Dark Crystal
• Labyrinth
• Spirited Away
• Dark City
• Time Bandits
• MirrorMask
• The Nightmare Before Christmas
• The Wizard of Oz
• Coco
• Coraline

I rarely sit down to watch a movie with the intent to watch something about war, but I've managed to see some good war movies over the years.

• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
• The Thin Red Line
• The Dirty Dozen
• Hope and Glory
• Kelly's Heroes
• The Monuments Men
• Dunkirk
• Glory
• Casablanca
• The Great Escape

My wife told me not to forget Far and Away. The rest are my picks. Even Top Gun, the Crusiest Cruise movie of them all.

• Legend
• Rain Man
• Far and Away
• Minority Report
• Edge of Tomorrow
• Mission: Impossible
• Taps
• A Few Good Men
• War of the Worlds
• Top Gun

List heavily influenced by my wife (except for Better Off Dead, that one's all me).

• Better Off Dead...
• The Cutting Edge
• Roxanne
• Say Anything...
• Grosse Pointe Blank
• Sleepless in Seattle
• When Harry Met Sally...
• The Wedding Singer
• Groundhog Day
• Fever Pitch

ittedly, not my favorite genre, but here's some I enjoyed.

• Twister
• The Perfect Storm
• Airplane!
• 10 Cloverfield Lane
• The Birds
• Contagion
• Outbreak
• Deepwater Horizon
• Dante's Peak
• Volcano

I haven't seen enough submarine films so general underwater films, or films with underwater scenes, are included as well.

• Crimson Tide
• The Hunt for Red October
• Ponyo
• Finding Nemo
• Operation Petticoat
• The Abyss
• The Spy Who Loved Me
• Deep Blue Sea
• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
• Bedknobs and Broomsticks

• Ratatouille
• Pulp Fiction
• Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
• Stand by Me
• Alice in Wonderland
• Paddington 2
• When Harry Met Sally...
• The Breakfast Club
• Big
• Fast Times at Ridgemont High

I love these movies, but I think I need to watch more of the classics, like Keaton.

• The Pink Panther
• National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
• ¡Three Amigos!
• Mr. Bean's Holiday
• Tommy Boy
• Liar Liar
• Top Secret!
• Noises Off...
• Airplane!
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail

• The 39 Steps
• The Fugitive
• Hunt for the Wilderpeople
• Reservoir Dogs
• Catch Me If You Can
• Moonrise Kingdom
• O Brother, Where Art Thou?
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
• Minority Report
• North by Northwest

I really need to watch more Australian films.

• Mad Max 2
• Finding Nemo
• Lion
• Crocodile Dundee
• The Rescuers Down Under
• Mad Max
• Mad Max: Fury Road
• Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
• Happy Feet
• Saving Mr. Banks

• Reservoir Dogs
• The Usual Suspects
• Ocean's Eleven
• Kelly's Heroes
• A Fish Called Wanda
• Inception
• The Pink Panther
• Sneakers
• Three Kings
• Jackie Brown

• Enter the Dragon
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• Eraserhead
• Napoleon Dynamite
• Dark Star
• Hellraiser
• Clerks
• Halloween
• Mad Max
• The Evil Dead

List influenced heavily by what the family or I sing/listen to around the house.

• The Rocky Horror Picture Show
• The Nightmare Before Christmas
• Grease
• The Wizard of Oz
• Muppets Most Wanted
• Beauty and the Beast
• Chicago
• The Greatest Showman
• The Phantom of the Opera
• Little Shop of Horrors

• The Empire Strikes Back
• The Princess Bride
• Rocky IV
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• Raiders of the Lost Ark
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
• Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
• Lethal Weapon
• The Karate Kid
• Commando

• Carrie
• Throw Momma from the Train
• Coraline
• Psycho
• Cinderella
• Tangled
• Mommie Dearest
• The Ring
• Eraserhead
• Hellraiser

Basically the first ten films my family could think of set in New York.

• Elf
• Brooklyn
• King Kong
• 12 Angry Men
• Ghostbusters
• Madagascar
• Sleepless in Seattle
• The Muppets Take Manhattan
• Crocodile Dundee
• Enchanted

Films I've described as "Nice to look at" or something similar.

• The Thin Red Line
• Dunkirk
• Seconds
• The Searchers
• Brazil
• Hamlet
• Rear Window
• Lion
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
• O Brother, Where Art Thou?

I left out Jurassic Park movies (despite the clear manipulation of genetics) and Spiderman (even though several villains fit the parameters, even if Spidey doesn't) since they were explicitly called out in the showdown description.

• Young Frankenstein
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show
• Deep Blue Sea
• Rise of the Planet of the Apes
• I Am Legend
• Weird Science
• Captain America: The First Avenger
• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
• Frankenweenie
• Edward Scissorhands

Apparently, I haven't watched a lot of vampire films.

• The Last Man on Earth
• Hotel Transylvania
• Transylvania 6-5000
• Love at First Bite
• Saturday the 14th
• From Dusk Till Dawn
• Salem's Lot
• I Am Legend
• Interview with the Vampire
• Hotel Transylvania 2