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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.

19. Millions (2004) - The last unseen Danny Boyle movie in my collection. Not quite sure how to feel about this one. There's a lot of neat visuals; and the "Boyle style" is really dialed up here. But it's weird to see him doing what's basically a children's fairy tale. It starts of super l...

17. Dressed to Kill (1946) - My favorite Rathbone Sherlock Holmes film so far. An interesting mystery that felt more like a classic detective story. It did sort of feel like in the end Holmes just made a random lucky guess and happened to be right. But still overall entertaining. 18. Eloise at the P...

Stardust is excellent; though it only has a bit of De Niro.

I remember finding out several years ago that William Sadler was Death. He was also in a few great episodes of DS9.

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. On Twitch/YouTube, BarberousKing has started a Zelda marathon; I just finished watching his playthrough of Zelda 1 second ques...

I always liked Die Hard 2 more than most people. The twist is pretty good, and I love William Sadler in anything. Die Hard with a Vengeance is my personal favorite, even if it’s not as technically good as the first one. Always been a big fan of Paycheck also. Even though the central sci-fi premise i...

15. Dixiana (1930) - Some good music, some funny routines, and some uncomfortable 1930's racism. About what I expected. Nothing too memorable, but not bad. 16. Stripes (1981) - Very stereotypical 80s comedy. Bill Murray is great like always, and it has a lot of great cast members in addition to him....

14. Machete Kills (2013) - Ugh, I can't believe how far it fell from the first one. I don't know exactly what Rodriguez was thinking; all he had to do was more of what made the first one so good. Instead it just felt like a half-assed parody of itself. I'm not opposed to the concept of things gettin...

Although the action in John Wick 2 was excellent, I think my biggest problem with it was just the main plot; the action wasn't driven by anything personal, he was just doing his job. R3. Machete (2010) - Still a whole lot of fun. There's so much going on in this film, and it all just worked together...

Just finished watching a De Niro film that’s not on that list. Write-up to come soon. Also, although I don’t remember it well because it was almost 20 years ago; I really liked City by the Sea with him.

Quite late on my writeups here; these weren't all that recent: 11. The Harvey Girls (1946) - Good music and excellent set design and costuming. I could just sit and watch Ray Bolger dancing forever; I have no idea how he does it. Young Angela Lansbury always looks weird to me; only because I'm so us...

Always loved that ad for Zelda 3. Never seen a video of it with English subtitles before though! Anyway, I've always loved A Link to the Past. I remember going through and 100%ing it as a kid, and then working to beat it with 0 deaths (it shows your total death count at the end of the credits). Seve...

10. About Time (2013) - Excellent! A really heartwarming story, with some great performances. The music was particularly great; both the theme music and the various songs used. Despite being a movie featuring time travel, everything felt so genuine and realistic. I hate when romantic comedies have p...

R2. Speed (1994) - Definitely holds up as great example of fun 90s action. A fairly unique premise, a great villain, and some intense but over-the-top ridiculous action. 8. Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997) - I knew this would be terrible, and yeah it was just what I expected. Shame that Willem Dafoe's...

7. John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (2019) - Yeah I added the year because the title already has a dash in it and it looked weird. This was the best of the 3! The most in-depth story, with loads and loads of world-building. It had a handful of hilarious lines, and overall took itself less seriously...

3. Circle (2015) - Not "The Circle". I watched this a week ago and am finally writing about it. Someone here recommended this I'm pretty sure. Anyway, it's pretty good. At the very least it gets extra points for being unique, and it has some really interesting visuals and such. The story i...

You liked Mr. Right more than I did, and I’m a huge Rockwell fan.

For some reason I’ve always wanted to see Vacancy even though it’s normally a genre I don’t care for.

I haven't seen any Soderbergh he made after Logan Lucky. I haven't seen much in general; I vaguely remember Traffic being good and Solaris being bad. And I had a lot to say about Side Effects when I saw that a couple years ago. 2. The Northman (2022) - Robert Eggers is a pretty amazing filmmaker, th...

So my goal at the start of the year was to get below 200 movies that I own but haven't watched. Sadly, the same goal I had for 2021. And again, didn't quite make it, thanks to having added 83 movies to my collection in 2022 (maybe about half already seen and half not). I did get down to 229. So my g...

Getting desperate for thread titles, in my 8th straight year of tracking every movie I watch. Still, I really like that these threads exist, even if they're barely seen by anyone. 1. Logan Lucky (2007) - Great! An interesting spin on the comedy/heist genre, with likeable characters and really good h...

In 2022, I watched a total of 184 movies; 127 for the first time, plus 57 rewatches. Of the new films I watched for the year, too many were great to narrow down to a top 10. I had 24 in consideration, and narrowed it down to a top 15. In the order I watched them: 1. Love & Mercy (2014) 2. Fences...

R57. Avengers: Endgame - Timed this so that Tony's snap was exactly at midnight on New Year's Eve. Excellent movie.

Quite a year for movies! We both saw close to the same amount this year. Glad you were able to get to the Evangelion rebuilds.

Although I'm watching 1-2 more movies today; started the process of going over this thread.

24 candidates for consideration for top 10. That's going to be tough to weed down. Probably will end up with a top 15 again instead.

124. Wild Guitar - Pretty good; near the top of the "old musicals" set I've been going through. Funny story about a naive musician and a music manager taking advantage of him. Played by father and son. Good music, good story, and some hilarious gags. 125. The Right Stuff - Excellent; some ...

Been watching; just haven't been writing. R54. Die Hard - Great. The writing is really impressive; tight script that avoids the usual annoying exposition. Good fun all around. 120. A Muppet Family Christmas - Fun stuff. Never watched a lot of muppets, but this has some great music, is really funny, ...

R53. Home Alone 2: Lost in New York - Almost as good as the first one. Catherine O'Hara absolutely kills it again, but doesn't get as much screen time. The slapstick is way worse. They added dumb sound effects that make it seem more like a Saturday morning cartoon, and the violence is enhanced to a ...

119. Clueless - I think I technically saw this before, but I didn't remember anything about it or remember for sure when I watched it, so it counts as new. Not bad, but not amazing. A very 90s movie, with a really great cast. Brittany Murphy was great, as was Breckin Meyer. But as far as 90s films b...

DeHaan is always great, but yeah I remember liking almost nothing about that one. I did like the first one a lot, and I’m a big fan of Garfield, but I wouldn’t say I like him as Spider-Man more than the other 2 options. Each provides their own charm.

118. Vampire's Kiss - See, a week ago if you had told me that Nicolas Cage was actually holding back and giving a subtle performance in all of his movies, I wouldn't have believed you. But compared to this, it's definitely true. This was just 103 minutes of non-stop fun insanity, as could have only ...

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