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69. The Great Gabbo - Not bad for a crappy old musical. The main story was pretty interesting, with some good performances. But the musical part of it was kind of dumb. All lumped together as a bunch of songs near the end that had nothing to do with the movie itself. The ventriloquism stuff was pret...

66. Upstream Color - I've been looking forward to seeing this since it came out in 2013. Been on my wish-list for years, but the blu-ray was always pretty expensive online. Finally bought it, and watched it immediately. My feelings and opinions are best summed up with this: https://c.tenor.com/BxFmI...

I watched Arlo's long and very critical review of the game. I agree with almost all his points, although I'm more forgiving in general, probably because I'm not a heavy gamer or a professional game critic. The only thing I disagree with is him not liking the boss fights much more than the regular fi...

64. Nobody - Pretty good. While the plot itself was quite basic and been done to death, it had a lot of personality and was quite entertaining. The humor was pretty great, and Odenkirk really sold it. Basically just good fun all around. 65. Julie & Julia - Also quite good. Really solid performan...

Just finished Origami King, 100%. Overall, it's fine. Fairly similar to Color Splash, I felt. Wandering around the world looking for hidden stuff was generally enjoyable, but wouldn't be for everyone. The really good part though was the boss fights. There were a fair number of bosses (10 or so), and...

63. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist - I watched this well over a week ago but that's just how lazy and busy I've been. This was ok. Kind of cute in some parts, but nothing all that special. Felt like a cross between Scott Pilgrim and Before Sunrise, and it suffers from both of those being way bet...

Weird that I never knew about the genie thing; since in order to 100% it I eventually looked up guides on all the hidden stuff.

Really looking forward to it! I 100%’d Cuphead after much grinding. I like stuff at that difficulty.

2 years later, finally started playing this. (Origami King). So far, it feels a lot like Color Splash, which isn't great but isn't bad either. As with Color Splash, the battles end up just being something to avoid whenever possible, even though the battle system itself is neat. It just feels like yo...

I loved Sonic CD growing up. In what way/platform are you playing it?

R38. The Godfather Part II - Many delays after watching part I, finally got here. This is great, but also slow and hard to follow sometimes. They really cram a lot of story into it; even if not counting the fact that it's basically 2 separate movies intercut with one another. I do really like the id...

I vaguely remember watching Europa Europa in school. Don't know any of the others.

I was wanting to see it until I found out it was Bay, lol. I’ll try to check it out. Someone else reminded me about Bad Boys; I always forget that’s him also, but I like both 1 and 2.

59. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947) - Danny Kaye was fantastic. The rest of the movie was fine. I don't remember too much about the remake, other than the fact that I liked it. But from what I remember, it's a stretch to call it a remake. The main character has the same name, and some of the ...

58. The Great Escape - Not bad. I didn't know going into this that it was based on a true story. I didn't know at all what it was about. It was a bit long, and dragged in some parts. But overall it was well done and entertaining. Sad, though. R35. Interstellar - This is really good; better than I re...

R34. Tommy Boy - Pretty good comedy that holds up. Mostly due to Chris Farley's excellence at physical comedy. It's dumb, but it works.

57. Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood - I didn't particularly care for it. Similar to Death Proof, it felt like there was a lot of uninteresting stuff happening for a while until interesting things started happening. The acting and directing were great, but it just felt like the story wasn't going an...

Yeah I've never seen Planet Terror or Grindhouse in general. R31. Inglourious Basterds - Excellent. The opening scene at the farmhouse is among the best 20 minutes of all films of all time. Granted the rest of the film isn't quite up to the standard set b that opening, but it's still all pretty grea...

I heard something about him wanting to do a part 3 some day, but I'm always more interested in seeing new stories rather than reboots or sequels to old things. R30. Death Proof - So ends the streak of each film being Tarantino's best so far. This is overall pretty bad, mostly. I get that it was mean...

R29. Kill Bill - In honor of Tarantino, I watched this as a single film and am writing it up as a single film. The only one of all his movies that I've seen multiple times before this (though never both parts all at once like this). And for good reason; this is easily one of my favorite movies. Ever...

R28. Jackie Brown - Best of the first 3. The plot itself is more interesting, and you get really invested in what will happen next. De Niro's performance is especially entertaining and memorable here, but the whole cast is great. It could have been a bit shorter; although the Chris Tucker scene was ...

R26. Reservoir Dogs - The marathon has begun. Re-watching 9 movies just to get to watching 1 for the first time. Anyway, this is good. Not sure it quite lives up to the masterpieces that he would go on to create. Really it's just all about the dialogue; it's so much fun to just listen to the charact...

Ryukahr has a great series where he plays famously difficult old games.

55. Jupiter Ascending - From what I'd heard, I was expecting it to be pretty bad. It was basically right within my expectations. Very little positive I can say about it. I liked the overall lore/history of the world that they presented. And Eddie Redmayne was so absolutely terrible that he crossed i...

54. Lady and the Tramp - Really nice animation, seems like the best from Disney in that era. Not a whole lot else to say about it, though; pretty basic story that was done better in The Aristocats.

I agree that it felt more like a play than a movie, but that didn’t stop me from really loving it. I forgot that he directed it too.

R25. Training Day - Yup, again. Still great; Denzel still shines. I don't think I could pick between this and Fences for my favorite performance by him.

52. Dave Made a Maze - Ever wondered what it would be like if Charlie Kaufman had made Cube? Wonder no more! This movie was great. Aside from getting lots of extra points for being something new, it was just a lot of fun and overall well made. My only complaint is that the metaphors were a bit thin ...

R23. The Machinist - Tied with Field of dreams for my all-time favorite film. It never gets old, though I do wish it were possible to make myself forget the ending and then watch it again. The atmosphere is so great throughout; really presenting a world in which something is clearly off. Even the fe...

51. The Intruder - Mixed feelings here. As a whole, I liked it even though it wasn't actually very good. But Dennis Quaid just really, really sold it. His performance was the perfect combination of offputtingly creepy and over-the-top entertaining. Despite the numerous thriller clichés, he managed t...

I’ve seen 7 out of 8 of those! Agree with most of your opinions; I really like Lucky Number Slevin and The Green Mile in particular. Corpse Bride actually didn’t interest me all that much; I prefer the new Frankenweenie as a similar style Burton animation; and 9, Coraline, and Nightmare Before Chris...

50. Austenland - Pretty bland chick flick. It wasn't particularly bad, just uninteresting. Though it would have been better without Jennifer Coolidge; she's just the worst part about every movie she's in. So in the first 4 months of the year I managed to watched 50 first-time movies. Good pace so fa...

47. This Is the End - Awful, horrible, dumb. Not quite sure what I was expecting, but I think I had heard some good stuff about it. I thought maybe it would be clever satire about Hollywood culture or something. But it was just a bunch of very unfunny and excessively crass dialogue that tried to pas...

I haven't played anything in a while now; focusing more free time on watching movies these days. I still have a pretty significant backlog of Switch games that I own and haven't yet played.

45. The Last Unicorn - Interesting. An animation style quite different from most other things. Pretty to look at overall. Apparently the team that animated it also was behind Rankin/Bass's The Hobbit... and they went on to form a little-known animation house called... Studio Ghibli. The story was pr...

R22. A Walk to Remember - Why do I love this movie so much? Maybe a lot of it's nostalgia, but it still holds up very well for me. 44. Searching - A surprise hit! I wasn't expecting too much here, though I was interested in seeing it John Cho and the previews looked interesting. It was amazingly wel...

43. The Ten Commandments (1956) - Pretty good. I think I prefer The Prince of Egypt for that same story, though. I enjoyed the first half more; the characters and dialogue were very interesting. Given how long the movie is, I was quite surprised when the second half glossed over most of the plagues....

R17. The Prince of Egypt - Wow this is better than I remembered. Not that I remembered anything bad about it. But the music, animation, art direction, story... all fantastic. The plague montage was especially well done. And I was overall impressed at how they don't shy away from the intense adult na...

42. The Artist - Fantastic! Near the beginning, I was thinking "sure they're doing a good job without having sound, but it doesn't feel like there's any real reason for doing so; they could have just used sound". But by the end, it really felt like being a silent film was important to the ...

41. The Bourne Legacy - Pretty good. Not nearly as action-filled as the previous films; more of an actual spy thriller., It did re-hash a lot of ground already covered, especially by The Bourne Supremacy, so it didn't feel like it had anything new to offer, really. But I appreciate seeing the perspe...

40. Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb - Not as good. Not that I was expected much from a third movie in a series like this. It wasn't terrible, just overall not that interesting. I would have loved to see Jonah Hill come back in place of the Rebel Wilson character. The best part was easily Hug...

Looking forward to Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood. But every time I think about watching it; I get this idea that I should do a full marathon of all Tarantino’s films. Most of them I’ve only seen once; and I liked them all. But then I’m watching a whole lot of movies just to cross 1 off my need-to...

R13. Titanic - I feel like it's become common to hate on this movie in more recent times, but I think it was great when it came out and still great now. Sure the love story may be a bit forced, but that doesn't matter all that much. Aside from the amazing sets and overall scale of what was created, ...

38. Calendar Girl - Pretty typical old musical. At least this one felt like an old musical more than the last couple. Maybe it's just the quality of the footage itself, but I have trouble following these movies sometimes. R12. Die Hard: With a Vengeance - My personal favorite Die Hard, even if the o...

35. The Bourne Supremacy - About as good as the first one. I like the way the antagonist, Landy, isn't actually a bad guy, but still an antagonist. Pretty good action, and some good twists and turns in the story itself. 36. The Bourne Ultimatum - Not quite as good. There were several good scenes of ...

R11. A Few Good Men - What can I say, it's excellent. One of the all-time best all-around movies.

Gendo wrote: ↑Mon Mar 14, 2022 8:03 pm I supposed I need to see Trainspotting.

And I just bought Trainspotting so we’ll see. I have such a weird thing with Danny Boyle. I like a lot of his movies; but don’t like his general style.

R10. Zoolander - Haven't seen this in about 20 years. Still great. Most of the jokes work, and overall it's just fun. Owen Wilson is pretty good here; maybe the only thing I've seen him in where I thought that. So many cameos also. I didn't know or remember that Trump was in it.

34. The Batman - This was pretty great. A very different feel from any other Batman movie. Felt more like a comic book movie than Nolan's trilogy, but still more grounded and realistic compared to Burton. As pretty much everyone who reviews this has said, it's a detective movie much more so than a s...

R9. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - One of my favorites. Still really holds up overall. One complaint I have is that the relationship itself didn't seem that great. I know the whole point is that even bad relationships have good stuff and might be worth fighting for, but they could have show...

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