#224, or #483 since I started counting, it's back to Cage with 1993's "Deadfall," which apparently has a pretty wild Cage performance. (And that's sayin' something.)
#225, or #484 since I started counting, 1937 Best Picture nominee, "The Awful Truth," which is definitely either a romcom or about a miserable divorce.
#226, or #485 since I started counting, 2009's "Year One," because you can't tell me there's a movie where Jack Black and Michael Cera play cavemen and not expect me to call your bluff.
#227, or #486 since I started counting, I got arrested and banned from IKEA for accidental shoplifting and then went to see 2021's "Jungle Cruise," which I enjoyed significantly more than the other thing.
#228, or #487 since I started counting, leaving now to go see "Luizenmoeder: De film," because I've watched and liked exactly two Dutch sitcoms this millennium, so, you know, one does a movie, I go see the movie.
#229, or #488 since I started counting, 1989's "Turner & Hooch."
#230, or #489 since I started counting, let's pick up where we left of with Mr Cage with 1994's "Guarding Tess," in which I understand Mr Cage plays a Secret Service agent tasked with protecting the American First Lady, who he finds exasperating.
#231, or #490 since I started counting, I watched 2021 HBO documentary "Woodstock '99: Peace, Love, and Rage."
the 90s, man. never again.
#232, or #491 since I started counting, 1993's "Schindler's List."
#233, or #492 since I started counting, leaving now to go see 2021's "Harley Quinn 3: This One Has Peter Capaldi and King Shark In It," or, "The Suicide Squad."
#234, or #493 since I started counting, we all made fun of it when Disney+ first went live but I never actually went and saw it, it's 1967's "The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin," which-- Hm, 1967, this is probably racist.
But what I was gonna watch didn't download, so!
#235, or #494 since I started counting, it's Cage, in 1994's "It Could Happen To You."
Not got the faintest fart's whiff what it's about.
#236, or #495 since I started counting, leaving now to go see 2021's "The Green Knight."
#237, or #496 since I started counting, Cage, Jon Lovitz, and Dana Carvey are three (possibly bumbling) small-time criminals who just can't catch a break, in 1994's "Trapped in Paradise."
#238, or #497 since I started counting, Cage in 1995's "Kiss of Death." This could be about literally anything.
#239, or #498 since I started counting, Cage in 1995's "Leaving Las Vegas," which looks: Like a bummer.
#240, or #499 since I started counting, leaving now to go see 2021's "Free Guy."
#500 since I started counting, or #241 this year, 2009's "(500) Days of Summer," because number.
Not entirely sure what it's about, but it looks like one of those romcoms certain kinds of people made their whole thing for a while.
It's Friday the 13th! And so is movie!
#242, or #501 since I started counting, 1980's "Friday the 13th."
I think this is the summer camp one? I'm pretty sure it's the summer camp one.
It's still Friday the 13th! And so is movie?
#243, or #502 since I started counting, 1981's "Friday the 13th Part 2," also known as "Saturday the 14th."
It continues to be Friday the 13th! And so does movie!
#244, or #503 since I started counting, straight on to 1982's "Friday the 13th Part III," also known as "Sunday the 15th."
#245, or #504 since I started counting, 1996's "The Rock," which does not have The Rock in it, but does have The Cage in it.
Let's fill in some Homestuck lore for myself with #246, or #505 since I started counting, 1997's "Con Air."
#247, or #506 since I started counting, leaving now to go see 2020's "Druk," which in English is called "Another Round."
It's a movie about excessive alcohol consumption, which I don't typically care for, and I probably wouldn't just put it on at home without a reason? But if it's playing at the cinema...
#248, or #507 since I started counting, 1997's "Face/Off," in which Cage and Travolta... become deepfakes of each other? Something like that.
#249, or #508 since I started counting, 1997's "Amistrad," a... historical drama...?
It's a Spielberg one, he doesn't have a great hit rate with those, and I never hear anyone talk about this one.
#250! Or #509 since I started counting! Two hours and a bit from now, people can finally stop looking at me like I've just farted out a live chicken when I say I haven't seen -- 1988's "Die Hard."
Leaving in a bit to go see #251, or #510 since I started counting, 2020's "The Father."
#252, or #511, I was gonna watch all of M Night Shyamalan's movies, but I couldn't find a watchable copy of his first one, so I'm starting with his second one, 1998's "Wide Awake."
#253, or #512, let's see what Cage is up to, it's 1998's "City of Angels."
#254, or #513, it's 1998's "Following" because I guess I've seen all but three Christopher Nolan movies.
#255, or #514, it's back to the other list with 1937 Best Picture nominee, "In Old Chicago," which I think is another one about a disaster?
Leaving now to go see #256, or #515, Hugh Jackman sci-fi noir thing "Reminiscence."
#257, or #516, it's Cage time again, in 1998's "Snake Eyes."
#258, or #517, Spielberg is at it again with 3-hour long 1998 motion picture "Saving Private Ryan."
#259, or #518, kicking off M Night Shyamalan's wild 1999 with one he goes uncredited on but did contribute significantly to the script of, it's "She's All That."
I fucking hate this premise, but I think people like this movie? Cool cast, too.
If I recall correctly I described the first one as "a truly unhinged depiction of the human baby," it's #260, or #519, 2021's "The Boss Baby: Family Business."
People whose taste generally aligns with mine seem to like this one, so why not, it's #261, or #520, 2021's "Vacation Friends."
Leaving now to go see #262, or #521, 2021's second Marvel Studios picture, "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings."
#263, or #522, 2021 algorithm-generated Netflix movie "He's All That," which-- Yes, it looks insufferable, but I have to know.
the added layer here is she's gone viral In The Bad Way and she's doing the premise because she reckons it'll get her the followers and sponsors she's lost back
at least the bet from the original is clean, kind of stupid, the motivation here is just influencer capitalism
📱 "He's All That" (2021)
the Freddie Prinze Jr character in the original was a dumb boy in the 90s doing dumb boy in the 90s shit who over the course of the picture is a pretty consistent, not-terrible dude when he's not letting worse boys drag him down with them
but the craven, desperate capitalism here -- "I want my sponsorship back," "how will I pay for college" -- corrupts totally any chance that I'll feel that way about this one 40 minutes from now
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obviously the premise doesn't fly to begin with, and I think probably the way to do a She's All That/My Fair Lady thing in 2021 that's not totally suspect is to just not do it uncritically
you gotta show it as the gross, manipulative thing it is
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outside of the capitalist stink on it, this really isn't any better or worse than the original, it's just that the 90s camp and cast is a lot more palatable to me than this cast of nobodies doing instagram nonsense
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it's nice to get to see Matthew Lillard be a funny principal for a few scenes, I guess
#264, or #523, I should finish these before the school year starts, it's 2003's "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King."
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if it were me i would simply neither kill nor be killed over a shiny trinket
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i would simply not be hypnotised or enchanted by one of the most powerful objects in existence
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obviously sam is the real hero of this story but merry and pippin are the ones keeping it realest
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rip to Saruman but also why have such a sharp-ass fucking water wheel
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is the wheel meant to be fighting the water, what is this
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i mean what good is sleeping with your eyes open if people can still steal your magic bowling ball
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"Perhaps you have come to explain why my son is dead."
well sir twas Sean Bean what played him wasn't it
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"The king has got a crown again."
look mr frodo, nature is healing
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"Horse-Men. Hrmph."
they're a silly lot, Men
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"This is no place for a Hobbit!"
this isn't a place for most anyone, I reckon
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Not a lot to say about long battle scenes.
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"End? No, the journey doesn't end here..."
gandalf's like, there's like an hour and forty left of this motion picture, merry, my dude
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"Now come the days of the king."
oh that guy
guess he's returned
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"My friends... you bow to no one."
;__;
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the end
worth it, but it'll be Un While before I go back for The Hobbit
Leaving in a bit to go see #265, or #524 since I started counting, 1979's "Apocalypse Now." Or "Apocalypse in a bit," I guess.
incredible picture
just the lighting elevates it to one of the best ever made, and then there's the rest of it
don't ever wanna see it again
I need to get back to these, cuz I keep saying, "well, you know, I'll get around to it eventually" about Best Picture nominated movies from the 70s and 80s when I've not even finished the 1930s.
#266, or #525, 1938's "Jezebel."
Not a title that inspires a great deal of enthusiasm, I must say.
reckon this is just prepping my patience for Gone with the Wind
tiresome.
#267, or #526, 2015's "The Man from U.N.C.L.E."
All I remember ever thinking about this one at the time is "what, another spy movie?" but now I also think "I can't remember if that's the guy who's a cannibal."
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I don't trust this Henry Cavill character, he says "Nazi" weird
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Don't think I've seen a car chase that synchronised before. *ticks the something-I-haven't-seen-before box*
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"His name is Napoleon Solo."
he used to be called just Napoleon but then he went through an Empire checkpoint and didn't have a surname to give them
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"I think you should look out the window."
"You can't be serious."
a jogger? at this time of day? ludicrous.
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boy these two men sure do love to measure
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"I wonder what they do to people /without/ invitations."
heehee
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"The thing is. I work better alone."
"I work better alone, too."
great y'all can work alone together
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if one of these two goobers jumped off a bridge the other absolutely would, too
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i said this before the bit where they both jumped out of the window
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hate when a movie bad guy is just "a dude who fucking loves doin' torture"
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it has only just now occurred to me that neither of these Man are from anything called U.N.C.L.E.
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"Oh, and you have a new code name."
oh there you go
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Classy, stylish, cool action bits, a neat car chase or two, what more could you want. The Twists do feel a bit silly, though.
#268, or #527, 2021 Netflix Original "Afterlife of the Party," which definitely feels like it exists only because the Algorithm stumbled onto the title.
the vibe here is, "American remake of a German movie adaptation of The Good Place."
No. American remake of a *French* adaptation.
👼🍸 "Afterlife of the Party" (2021)
the redemption offered here really isn't as genuine as it needs to be when it's happening under constant threat of her being sent to the basement afterlife
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you better do your redemption arc, or else
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Eh. It sure was a movie.
#269, or #528, from the director of those Batman movies people largely dislike, 1999 Cage picture "8MM," which I think is about Cage as a detective investigating the veracity of a snuff film?
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"Do you want to tell me what you found [in your dead husband's private safe], Mrs Christian?"
a full, pristine copy of The Day the Clown Cried
and she wants it destroyed immediately
@Alexis I really wish that, when I read the words "hav[e] a bad time" that the first few notes of Megalovania didn't play in my head automatically.
@The_T I can't even picture Megalovania.
@Alexis doot doot do doot
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@Alexis You mean Rankin/Bass' The Hobbit followed by Bakshi's Lord of the Rings and Rankin/Bass' Return of the King?
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@Alexis That's kind of how I felt about the book, too.
@Alexis apocalypse then
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@Alexis this movie came out in the same year as both a Bond movie and a Mission Impossible movie so a lot of people, including me, missed it, but I actually really like it
though I saw it before the whole 'cannibal' thing so maybe that would color my opinion now 🤷
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@balrogboogie "Bridge of Spies," and "Spy," too. "Furious 7" was pretty spy-y, too. And yeah, it's good fun!
It's hard not to think about the cannibal thing, but still, I liked the movie.
rest assured that i am having a bad time