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6. Once Upon a Time in America (1984) - Pretty much the masterpiece I'd heard it would be. 4 hours long but did not at all feel like it. The music was fantastic; Morricone never disappoints but this might actually be my favorite of his. De Niro was good, but James Woods really stood out. Even so I p...

So glad you were able to contact me! Great to hear all the news of the past few years. This forum may be 90% abandoned; but a few are still here to discuss movies.

5. Dream Scenario (2023) - Super weird, I really liked it. People need to make more weird movies. A fun and unique performance from Cage, though not necessarily his best work. It's a little hard to say if the film had anything deep or meaningful to say, but it certainly felt like it wanted to be dee...

I heard. Really haven’t seen his stuff at all, but have always wanted too. I think Blue Velvet is the only one I’ve seen. I have a friend whose favorite movie of all time is Mulholland Drive.

aels and thesalmonofdoubt are active on Facebook and I interact with them (and a lot of other former members) there. I think BruceSmith also but I'm only about 50% sure that the person I'm thinking of on Facebook is him. I'm actually FB friends with about 30 former Pitters, though not all are actual...

4. Shenandoah (1965) - Quite good. James Stewart excellently plays a great character. I only bought this because I grew up in the Shenandoah Valley; it's neat to hear an unknown town like Winchester mentioned by name in a movie. It's a fairly depressing wartime drama; but it also has themes of hope ...

Scanned in all the new stuff. That 165 just went all the way back to 200 again. Will I ever break out of this 200 cycle?

3. West Side Story (2021) - That's how you do a remake. Actually keep all the things that were great about the original, but still change just enough to justify its existence. I'm not completely sure it fully reached that second requirement; in general one could still just choose to watch the origin...

Slow start this year. I think it's unlikely I'm going to surpass last year's total... my unwatched collection list is shifting towards having more TV than movies on it. Recently started Lois and Clark. Starting the year with 165 on the list; although I haven't yet added in the stuff I got since Chri...

It's a weird byproduct of modern gaming that video games can now just stop existing, at least in their original form. Sure there's hundreds of NES games that practically no one plays anymore, but you could still theoretically find a cartridge and play it exactly as it would have been played 30 years...

R51. Forrest Gump (1994) - Ending the year by timing midnight to happen along with Forrest and Dan counting down the new year. Man this movie is great. Been a very long time since I've seen it; at least as good as I remembered. It might not be the deepest thing out there, but it's a really good stor...

Planning to watch Forrest Gump tonight for New Years Eve; first time in a long time. But that's it for new movies for 2024. So looking back through my thread here and noting what I remember fondly, I have just too many to get it down to my usual top 10. So, my top 15 films that I saw for the first t...

124. Don't Worry Darling (2022) - I really liked it, despite agreeing with all the issues people seem to have with it. I guess it's just really in my preferred genre, so it only has to avoid being terrible for me to enjoy it. Chris Pine gave a great performance, and Florence Pugh is always good. I e...

R49. The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special (2022) - Great stuff; I think I liked it more this time. Maybe just because I knew what to expect. It's both funny and heartwarming; and very Christmassy. R50. Hereditary (2018) - Good film to watch on Christmas day lol. This was still quite good, but...

120. Second Chorus (1940) - Despite a couple entertaining dance numbers from Fred Astaire, not a good movie. The characters were quite unlikeable, and the plot wasn't all that interesting. R47. The Family Man (2000) - I've always liked this movie, and think it holds up as a nice Christmas movie. I d...

Hail, Caesar! is the only one of those I've seen. I don't remember it at all, having only seen it once 6 years ago, but according to myself back then, I liked it: Pretty good. I'd rank in "Good" in my 4 Coen Brothers categories. The meeting with the various religious leaders was by far the...

118. The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1957) - Pretty good. The Edvard Grieg soundtrack was quite enjoyable, and the rhyming dialogue just added some fun. R46. The Quick and the Dead (1995) - I've seen this a bunch, and it never really gets old. I'm still not quite sure if it's meant to be an actual wester...

117. Sitting on the Moon (1936) - Yet another old musical about breaking into the music industry. A convoluted plot that struggled to hold my interest. Not terrible, but not worth even the short runtime.

115. Jack and the Beanstalk (1952) - When it was funny it was pretty funny, but it had too much time between it being funny. Abbott and Costello are always great together, and it was at least interesting to see them do an actual story rather than just the comedy routines I've seen them in before. Th...

Finally bought Dune Part Two, which means I can finally watch both of them. Going to wait until I'm in the new house with the upgraded theater, though.

I quite enjoyed Once Upon a Time in the West when I saw it (earlier this year I think).

114. Delightfully Dangerous (1945) - Overall interesting. A somewhat unique story, at least for the time. And various entertaining dance numbers. Apparently it got destroyed in the reviews back then, but I'm guessing those people weren't watching it as part of a boxset of 50 old bad musicals. Not sa...

113. Gremlins (1984) - I wasn't sure if I'd put this as a rewatch or not, because I'm sure I saw it as a kid. But I didn't remember any given scene or specific plot point (just the general concepts), so I'm counting it as new here. It was quite interesting. Such a weird mix of tones, more so than mo...

R45. The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) - What a great version of this, easily in the top 3. It so well combines humor with seriousness and a fairly faithful adaptation of the book. Michael Caine does such an amazing performance here. In the scene where he finds out that he's the butt of the joke at ...

R43. The Skulls (2000) - Pretty sure I watched this before West Side Story, but oh well. Quite a good movie; I never seem to hear people talking about it. I love the overall atmosphere and concepts that it deals with. 109. Dave (1993) - I really liked this. I didn't know anything about it though I r...

107. Somewhere in Time (1980) - Pretty good, but I wish there was more to it. More character development, more backstory, more discussion of the ramifications of time travel. Of course it's easy for films to have too much exposition, and far more common of a problem than not enough, so I do apprecia...

106. Philomena (2013) - Really interesting story and well done movie. The humorous moments were really well done, being quite funny and greatly timed to break up the somewhat depressing nature of the bulk of the film. Judi Dench was fantastic of course. One thing I thought was a bit odd was how Stev...

105. The Magnificent Seven (1960) - Quite good, especially the music. Yul Brynner did a great job, as did the whole cast in general. The pacing was a bit weird, feeling like it was dragging sometimes but also rushed sometimes. It sure didn't feel like it was over an hour shorter than Seven Samurai. ...

104. Eighth Grade (2018) - A very well done and realistic-feeling movie. Maybe "too" realistic feeling; it kind of just had the feeling of following a real kid around rather than being a scripted film. Even though I haven't seen it in many years, reminds me of Gus Van Sant's "Elephant...

103. Sing, Cowboy, Sing (1937) - An interesting blend of music and action. I hadn't heard of Tex Ritter before, but he's John Ritter's father, and the resemblance is quite obvious. R40. Coach Carter (2005) - I've seen this several times, but been a long time. Not the greatest sports film out there, ...

102. Breakfast in Hollywood (1946) - Overall pretty good. I hadn't heard of Tom Breneman before, but he was quite charming, and the radio show seems like a lot of fun. The "main" romantic plot was kind of weird, but the various characters made it a fun watch. 103. Minstrel Man (1944) - Ben...

101. Moonfall (2022) - Everyone said this was terrible. I wonder though if those people just don't like most Roland Emmerich movies (which could be understandable)... because to me this was about as good as most of them. Nothing great or amazing, but plenty of over-the-top fun. This felt a little mo...

I finally picked up Brazil recently after years on my wish list. Looking forward to it!

How did I not realize that Zemeckis did The Witches remake!? I remember enjoying the book and the 1990 film as a kid. Will have to add this to my wish list.

Random house update. lol my last post said hopefully done first week of September. Here we are, 2 months past that, hoping now that it's done by Christmas. And not feeling too confident about that. We had a lot of little delays. And one giant delay, where the drywallers were just terrible. Several w...

R38. Catch Me If You Can (2002) - Always been a pretty big fan of this. Great music, and it might be my favorite Christopher Walken performance. 97. The Invisible Man (2020) - Pretty solid thriller. I thought it was neat that they went with technology over biology in terms of the suit giving invisib...

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.

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