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96. All Hallows' Eve (2013) - The first Terrifier movie (is it called a prequel, or is that reserved for when it comes out after but takes place before?). I really liked this! The same low-budget but creative horror stuff as the first Terrifier. The film structure was fun, with it being 3 separate s...

Wow it's been a full month. I've watched so few movies since finishing the Bond marathon. Largely because I watched through all of Due South over the past month or so. If you don't know, it's a Canadian buddy cop comedy / police procedural from the 90s. About a Mountie who comes to Chicago on the tr...

Adam McKay is just so interesting to me, because The Other Guys and The Big Short couldn't be possibly more different from each other; yet they both deal with wall street and bing bank corruption.

Thank you for single handedly keeping this message board active and thriving.

94. They Live (1988) - Great! Just a lot of fun; didn't take itself at all seriously while avoiding being silly to the point of stupid. I really like how after a half hour of just getting to know the world, the main character gets his hands on a gun and very suddenly it's an action movie. The fight ...

Looking forward to Echoes of Wisdom; but it almost for sure won't be this year.

I watched a film over a week ago but have been lazy.

93. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011) - RIP Maggie Smith. This was pretty good. A great ensemble cast; Dev Patel managed to stand out among a bunch of greats. It was overall heartwarming and fun. Will get to the sequel soon.

90. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! (1978) - Quite funny. I'd heard of this before but really didn't know anything about it. Some standard parody-type stuff, clearly taking some queues from Monty Python and Mel Brooks. But it made me laugh plenty. It wasn't well-made by any means, but that was part o...

89. The Man with My Face (1951) - Pretty good. I haven't seen a lot of film noir, but I enjoyed the suspense/tension of this. It wasn't a masterpiece or anything, but I enjoyed the overall story; it felt like a combination of North by Northwest, True Lies, and Unknown.

87. Mr. Mom (1983) - Pretty good. John Hughes is just so good at evoking emotion in general. The story seems like it would be very cliché, but it goes in a few different interesting directions. Even though I hate the whole "lol men can't be parents" thing, I have to give it a little pass f...

R36. Fight Club (1999) - Pretty much an overall perfect movie. It just so perfectly captures the turn of the century, yet doesn't feel dated either. 86. Mixed Baggage (2022) - Typical Hallmark Channel stuff. Fairly cute, but filled with just far too many tired tropes and lack of originality. R37. Si...

85. Passengers (2016) - A good movie buried within a bad movie, or maybe a bad movie buried within a good movie, not sure which. It was kind of like 3 separate movie ideas, and although they were blended together pretty well, only one of them was handled decently; the other two were handled quite po...

Yeah I found your post on it here after I wrote mine up and agreed with all of it.

82. The Soloist (2009) - It was good, but it also felt somewhat hollow/empty. Maybe just because it could have been better, given the premise and talent behind it. Jamie Foxx really nailed it, but it wasn't Downey's best work. The overall relationship between the two was really done well. The music ...

Hey, good to hear from you and congrats on baby and job! I, like most Americans, am quite ignorant when it comes to overall foreign affairs.

We've so far avoided "Minstrel Man" from the same set, but it will probably be coming up soon.

80. Mansfield Park (1983) - Meh. As with most Jane Austen movies, it didn't particularly grab me. But what stood out for me here was the lack of actual plot points. While all her stuff has a focus on character, there are generally still actual events driving the plot. Here, it's like they couldn't f...

The "advantage in the game" thing is a very complicated question in Magic, because Magic games are all about the format you're playing. There's what's known as "kitchen table Magic", in which case you can use whatever cards you and your friends agree to use. In those cases, yeah ...

Sorry about the job, but awesome about the cards! I play Magic, but I've never collected it. I don't personally own any cards, though I sort of have "joint ownership" of a decent-sized collection of mostly crap from 10 years ago when my play group decided to start playing Magic.

Finally, new stuff. 78. Rock, Rock, Rock! (1956) - Pretty good. A bunch of good early rock-and-roll hits, even including a performance by Chuck Berry. The music was very weirdly paced throughout the movie though. Like there was one scene where the characters were watching TV, and it was just 4-5 mus...

You have a lot of names on that list that I'm not familiar with. If I made such a list, it would probably include a couple more "mainstream" names such as Zemeckis. Zemeckis would be a great choice. I should rewatch some of his films at some point. By the way, Gendo, I had been meaning to...

All I can really say is that I love Nolan and the Coen brothers pretty consistently. PTA I used to love more than I do now. I've only seen Magnolia once, but it left such an impression on me that I still name it among my favorite films. Punch-Drunk Love I wrote about just recently. But both The Mast...

I really need to get back to checking things off my list of stuff to watch though... we did also go through all of Star Trek: Picard over the past few weeks. What a weird show. It should have been easy to simply make a sequel to TNG that could also go more into the future of the federation after the...

R33. The Founder (2016) - Why not, I hadn't watched it this year yet. No notes. R34. The Rocketeer (1991) - A childhood favorite, and it pretty much holds up. Just a fun silly action adventure. Alan Arkin was great, as was Timothy Dalton's villain. Bill Campbell was not very good though. James Horne...

I ranked Django at 7 out of the 9 Tarantino films, though that's not to say it was bad; I just liked the other 6 higher ranked ones a lot. I did think the Candyland sequence dragged on a bit too long; though I did love Samuel L. Jackson in that scene.

It slowed down a bunch of the past couple months, once framing was 90% done. Suddenly it wasn't a bunch of new stuff every day; more like waiting several days until something else happens. Failed inspection a few times due to various issues but finally moved past that. Hoping it's done first week of...

75. Terrifier (2016) - Pretty good. Maybe helped by the fact that I was super tired when watching it, but I found it actually scary, which is rare for horror movies these days. Although a pretty straight-forward slasher film (normally my least favorite horror genre), it was just really well done. Th...

I have watched some stuff; just been lazy about posting. R30. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) - Of course I would watch these right after the James Bond marathon. This really holds up, with a lot of hilarious moments. There were all sorts of little direct nods to specific James Bo...

Rax did you ever watch No Time To Die? I can't find a review from you for it.

So I watched all 25 Eon Productions Bond films in just under 6 weeks. Some rambling thoughts: As a whole, a pretty enjoyable series. It seems clear that they didn't intend them to be watched the way I did. Rax took like 4 years to watch them all; that's the smart way to go. And of course in release ...

I'm still fairly sure that The Dark Knight Rises is my least favorite Nolan film by a good bit, though there's a few of his I've only seen once so far. It has plenty of good stuff,but it also just has so many annoyingly dumb things.

74. No Time to Die (2021) - The first half was pretty good, with lots of mystery and suspense. But the second half was kind of a mess. It also seemed way too long, being the longest Bond by a good bit, and I felt the runtime. This felt more different from the rest than any of the others, with lots o...

73. Spectre (2015) - I heard most people didn't like this, but I thought it was still mostly good. The overall action and filmmaking seemed to have the same quality as Skyfall. But there were a few different things with the writing that really bugged me. The whole "adoptive brother" thing ...

Yeah I've always been a huge fan of his. 72. Skyfall (2012) - Definitely one of the best. It still is an overall different feel than what I now call "classic Bond", but as an action thriller, it was excellent. Javier Bardem always plays a great psychopath, and he made for a threatening vil...

168. Quantum of Solace (Rewatch, 2008, Dir. Marc Forster) - Honestly its not nearly as bad as I remembered it being back in theaters. Its still a bit “undercooked" in aspects (Its worth noting this is the shortest official Bond film, though I dunno if that is because of the infamous Writer's S...

71. Oppenheimer (2023) - Awesome movie. Pretty much lives up to its high reputation. I didn't know it was possible for a biopic comprised of almost nothing but dialogue could be so intense and exciting throughout. A lot of the film felt like it was the climax in the energy it had. It reminded me of ...

R28. Casino Royale (2006) - Also practically not a rewatch; may have been theaters when I last saw it. It was overall quite a good film. I'm not sure how I feel about Daniel Craig's Bond... it's very similar to Timothy Dalton's, but Dalton may have done better at "that Bond". I would have ...

R27. Die Another Day (2002) - So ends the Brosnan era, with a fairly bad movie that had a few really fun parts. The super car vs super car thing was great, and I'm surprised we hadn't already seen it in a Bond film. The fencing scene was great just for how ridiculously quickly it escalated. And Bond...

70. Of Mice and Men (1992) - Excellent. Gary Sinise and John Malkovich were both wonderful; though I admit to some bias as a fan of both of them. Also, I always love Ray Walston, but I especially loved him here. But really it was the story of friendship and hope; juxtaposed against the almost consta...

R24. Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) - I'm gonna be probably controversial and say I liked this better than GoldenEye. Jonathan Pryce gave us one of the best main villains in a long time, with the charisma and over-the-top plan. Brosnan played a more rounded Bond that felt a bit more like the Connery and...

The only thing I'm kind of iffy on is if the actual commentary on Bond as a character/franchise goes anywhere in this film. We get Bond being accused of being out of date as an agent/character in an age of electronic warfare, he's accused of sexism and misogyny by Dench, I think Bean says he only d...

R22. Punch-Drunk Love (2002) - Man I love this film. Just everything about it. There's just a crazy energy in the performances and camera work. Some beautiful long takes in there too. The story is weird, but when it's romantic, it's really romantic. R23. GoldenEye (1995) - Solid Bond entry, though a...

53. License to Kill (1989, Dir. John Glen) - It had been a while since I last saw a Bond, so I put this one on. Actually I think this movie works pretty well, particularly if you think of it as more of a sort of sequel to On Her Majesty's Secret Service (It works better than Diamonds Are Forever do...

69. Licence to Kill (1989) - Surprisingly good. A much darker film than any of the others so far (unless you count the very ending scene in OHMSS). I liked Dalton more here; a wider range of emotion and some real humanity in the performance. A bit more charming, though still far from the happy-go-lu...

Yeah in general I’m curious what happened after License that suddenly went from Bond every 2 years since 1962 to suddenly a 6 year gap.

68. The Living Daylights (1987) - Overall much better than the last film. It felt more like Bond, it had an interesting plot and good music. But Bond himself was a very different character than we've seen so far. Apparently Dalton's Bond is actually more accurate to the character from Flemming's ori...

I haven't played Super Mario Land since I was a kid, but it was definitely a childhood favorite back on the original Game Boy.

67. A View to a Kill (1985) - Not very good, but what stands out is just how not Bond it felt. It was just like any random low-budget cheesy 80s action flick. Roger Moore is ridiculously old now (as he said so himself about this film). I should have known Christopher Walken would be a Bond villain a...

Indeed; I’ve always found films more enjoyable just due to his presence.

Four Swords is one of the very few only Zelda games I've never played. Just never had a chance to. Maybe now that they're adding GBA to Switch I'll have the chance some day. Dunno if you saw this, but they finally added GBA LTTP/Four Sword to NSO the other day. I did! I was really happy about that....

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