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R15. Equilibrium (2002) - This mostly holds up, but not completely. It's commentary is laughably over-the-top, and it would benefit from some subtlety. The performances don't really sell the world; I don't believe that any characters aren't feeling. But it's a cool movie, and a lot of fun. The actio...

R15. Equilibrium (2002) - This mostly holds up, but not completely. It's commentary is laughably over-the-top, and it would benefit from some subtlety. The performances don't really sell the world; I don't believe that any characters aren't feeling. But it's a cool movie, and a lot of fun. The actio...

44. Love Is News (1937) - A bunch of amusing hijinks; nothing too special. 45. Brigadoon (1954) - Great sets and interesting shot compositions. Apparently they were using a new CinemaScope technology which forced their hand in certain ways. It was also weirdly noticeable when the camera would pan ar...

After having spend 280 hours playing TOTK (which could have been literally 100 movies instead...), I watched a movie! 43. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023) - This was good, maybe even really good. But I don't think it quite lived up to the first 2. But that was a really high bar. This had a lot ...

Ok so time for my potentially long and rambling review of Tears of the Kingdom. No spoiler tags here because mostly the whole thing could be a spoiler; so don't read unless you're ok with spoilers. As a whole, good game. I mean, I'd like to think I wouldn't spend 280 hours beating a game that I didn...

Assuming it’s similar to botw, getting all the koroks will not be the hardest / most grindy part. All map locations or all armor will be.

So a little over 3 months later, after 280 hours of playtime, we finished all main quests and beat the game. Also completed all shrines and lightroots. Not done with the game; now begins the hunt for 100%. Looks like we're missing over 35 sidequests, about 550 koroks, and who knows what else. Review...

Well we've finished all 4 temples now. 5 if you count Spirit. Getting close to completing all shrines. Clothing upgrades feel like they're going to be worse / more tedious compared to BOTW. So many things that we need a lot more of even though we've been playing for so long already. Not sure when we...

Comparing it to mine from last year:
1. Kill Bill
2. Inglourious Basterds
3. The Hateful Eight
4. Jackie Brown
5. Pulp Fiction
6. Reservoir Dogs
7. Django Unchained
8. Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood
9. Death Proof

Quite different; other than agreeing on Death Proof and Hollywood.

42. Bells Are Ringing (1960) - Another Vincente Minnelli musical. Loved it. Very catchy music, and lots of great characters.

39. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) - Pretty good. Fun music; including a couple songs I'd heard before but didn't know where they were from. Obviously Judy Garland is great. The overall story was interesting. 40. Knock at the Cabin (2023) - Good, though could have been better. Excellent performances, e...

37. Fifth Avenue Girl (1939) - Kind of weird, in a mostly good way. The weirdness made for some humorous moments, but a sort of awkward humor. Ginger Rogers never reacts to anything like a normal person, and it's not clear what they were even going for with her character. And then you had lots of we...

Watched some old comedies. 34. Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949) - Hilarious. I really haven't seen Lucille Ball in much outside of a couple I Love Lucy episodes. Not much to say about it; it has a lot of tropes I've seen a bunch before, but does them well. 35. The Gazebo (1959) - A dark comedy remin...

This game had no staying power. That is to say, only 1 year later and I barely even remember playing it. You could point to various things that you did in the game, and I wouldn't be able to tell you if I did those last year in Origami King or a few years before that in Color Splash.

Yeah, Red is the one that I've heard the most about, I think. Haven't seen anything by Wong Kar-wai, though like I said not too long ago, my foreign film experience is generally greatly lacking. I did also pick up Jean de Florette + Manon des Sources to add to my foreign film collection, though. We ...

I have still yet to watch any movies in the past several months, except the couple random rewatches mentioned. I did however purchase a huge amount of stuff for my collection a couple days ago. Among them were included a couple films that I know nothing about other than have heard them repeatedly re...

Also, we've gotten the master sword and done all the tears/memories, so we've "found Zelda". It's kind of weird, because one of the main quests is to find Zelda, and we've done that as much as it makes sense to do so with the story we know, but that quest is still not complete. Also did al...

Not even close! Well, maybe close, haven't decided how much we'll do before beating it vs after beating it. But we've done all temples except for the Goron temple; haven't even visited Death Mountain or the Gorons yet. Have been doing a lot of the "bigger" sidequests such as saving Lurelin...

If you're talking about starting at Thunderhead Island (where it's foggy and always raining), then that's how we started. We had previously come across the construct factories underground but couldn't figure out anything to do with them (maybe you can't activate them until you've gotten the mask fro...

Well the crazy part of the spirit temple is that we didn’t know we were doing a temple until it was over. And we found it randomly before doing any of the 4 main areas; so we didn’t even know there were ____ temples in the game.

Rax finished the game over 2 weeks ago, but I'm here a month after release, with over 120 hours in the game, and have barely scratched the surface. 2 temples finished, or 3 if you count the spirit temple.

The sad fact is that I'm going to be watching almost nothing for a while due to Tears of the Kingdom. But still re-watching some stuff just while trying to fall asleep at night. R13. It Follows (2014) - A horror movie that works better than it should. The premise is really stupid. But it has some de...

I’ve only seen one of those, and I saw it for the first time a couple months ago.

Early game spoilers, only (like 12 hours in). Um, only read if you've talked to Purah and stuff. So having plenty of fun so far, and the size of the new world to explore is a bit mind-boggling and intimidating. As long as it took us to explore BOTW, it feels like this is just going to be 3 times as ...

Boy has it been a bad month for movie watching. A bad year, really. Free time had all been spent binging That '70s Show. At least it still counts as an unwatched thing I've gotten off my list. And now the next long amount of time will be spent on all Zelda. Anyway, I did rewatch a few things, though...

Assuming that we spend nearly as many hours on TotK as we did on BotW, thinking about anything “after” that is far too way distant future planning for me!

This video fully explains to my satisfaction my complaints about how Charlie died and why Claire didn't get rescued on the helicopter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N6Tx_sAX7E.

Well I’ve only seen 8 of them. But it’s always been clear that I’m lacking in a lot of experience with a lot of foreign films.

Hey, approaching 2 years later, and right on track I have the urge to watch this again. Here we go!

Miyazaki is largely lacking in my collection. Just picked up Spirited Away a couple weeks ago. I either didn’t know or completely forgot that he did Castle of Cagliostro!

Yeah I really liked that final boss; definitely one of the best in the game. The cycle reward is great IF you rush to do the quest as early as you can in a play-through which I did last time I played it. But if you save it for the very last thing, then I guess no reward would actually be worth it.

Carrie is a masterpiece.

So I sort of watched a movie. Had a long drive home last night and no audio book, so I thought "what movie do I have that's more dialog than action, and I've seen enough times that I can just listen to it and not need to watch it?" The answer, of course, is The Founder. Listened to the who...

Every once in a while, I remember that he directed Jack; and it’s like “wut?”

Well for sure he was outshone by Keke Palmer; but I didn’t think it was bad.

30. Aloha (2015) - It wasn't bad, but felt a bit weird and awkward as a whole. First off, Emma Stone seemed all wrong for that part. Then, there seemed to be much more chemistry between Cooper and McAdams than Cooper and Stone. By the end of the film, it felt kind of like a standard romcom between C...

28. Top Hat (1935) - Some really funny moments, and some great dancing. Not as much dancing as I’d have liked to see from Fred Astaire, however. And some of the plot points and jokes just felt old. I know that’s a weird complaint from a movie almost 90 years old; it’s not the movie's fault that a hu...

I just suddenly remembered that I rewatched xXx a few months ago. And I have no idea if it was this year or last year. Oh well.

27. The Monuments Men (2014) - An interesting story worth learning about, and a great cast. But other than that, just an ok movie. Not a lot of great stuff that stands out among the many other great WWII movies out there.

R7. My Cousin Vinny (1992) - Seen this many, many times. It very much holds up. The acting is superb. 26. The Parent Trap II (1986) - Nothing like a made-for-TV sequel 25 years after the original. This had some cute ideas, and even cute execution, but the overall heart and quality of the original ju...

With Fiddler, I reached my milestone of under 200 movies owned that I've never seen. That milestone lasted about 16 hours, until I bought a couple Scorsese films I haven't seen; Hugo and New York, New York.

R4. Being John Malkovich (1999) - This one is out of order, because I forgot to write about it after I saw it a couple weeks ago. I've always loved this film, just for it's pure strangeness. I think some other Kaufman movies probably have more to offer in terms of really saying something, but that's...

I watched and reviewed all The Thin Man movies a couple years ago. Overall pretty good; especially the chemistry between the leads. Duck Soup is one of 3 Marx Brothers films I've seen (with 2 left to go in my collection)... I can't remember any specifics about it to separate it from the other ones I...

24. Pendragon: Sword of His Father (2008) - Given the right context, this was pretty good. That context being that it was made by a family of non-professional filmmakers. Written by, directed by, edited by, and staring all members of this family. They did have some actual funding; it wasn't filmed i...

22. Terror by Night (1946) - Another Rathbone Holmes mystery. This one was more fun, with a lighter tone and some amusing farce. The mystery was fairly straightforward, without a bunch of examining of clues and such. The setting itself was great; being confined to a single location with a very limit...

I literally called the Nintendo hotline to help find one secret exit for Kirby's Adventure in order to get 100%.

I fondly remember playing both Kirby’s Dream Land and Kirby’s Adventure as a child, but never played Dream Land 2; hadn’t heard of it until a few years ago.

21. Stage Door Canteen (1943) - As I've said before, Ray Bolger makes everything great. He wasn't in it very much, though. But had a lot of good musical numbers, and something of a story to tie them together. Also learned some interesting history about the real-life Stage Door Canteen and the Americ...

Man March has not been good for movie watching. So far behind. 20. Glorifying the American Girl (1929) - The film itself wasn't all that interesting, but I did learn some neat Hollywood history stuff from watching it, about the Ziegfeld Follies and "pre-code" Hollywood. The version I have ...

I'm not; he has done lots of movies I don't own. This was just the last one I owned but hadn't seen yet. I've mentioned before I have a very love/hate thing going on with his films. Yesterday is the only one that I think was truly great.

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