My Oscar Watch blogs took up most of November which is why I decided to take a break from them as they are monopolizing all my movie watching time. I can't keep up with what's hitting theaters because I'm too busy watching every movie released from 1978.
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Marty Feldman is a monk set loose in New York City, hilarity ensues. I have always been apprehensive to check out this film but am so glad I did. This movie starts off like a Harpo Marx fever dream and then becomes a funny and smart comedy about sex, love, religious beliefs and humanity. 👍
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I was expecting this to be very boring but really enjoyed it. Richard Harris is an old grouchy Irish rancher who thinks he is owed the field that he has taken care of all his life. When the owner wants to sell it she puts it up for public auction instead of offering it to Harris. He starts to bully everyone in the town from bidding on it and you think you're in for a fun heartwarming comedy like The Full Monty but instead there's murder and cover-up. I'll leave it there but I recommend checking this one out. 👍
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Man, it was weird watching this so quickly after the deaths of Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds. This is based on Fisher's novel, which she states was not autobiographical but it's about an actress with a drug problem whose mother is also a famous actress. The similarities are almost eerie. Streep and MacLaine are very entertaining and the movie is very fun in the scenes where they poke fun at Hollywood film-making. 👍
343.
This movie is very melodramatic almost soap opera-y film about the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. A collection of gay men live their lives while they keep hearing about a gay cancer. It's very episodic and you care about some of the characters more than the others but half of the movie is deeply emotional and, I'll admit, brought me to tears. 👍
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I either love David Lynch or find his movies unwatchable, there's very few that land in the middle, and this falls in the latter category. Laura Dern and Nicolas Cage are in love but her mother disapproves and hires hitmen to murder Cage. It's artsy for the sake of artsy and mostly dull. 👎
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Gary Busey gives a spirited performance in the title role but the movie can't rise above the standard biopic tropes, hitting the key parts of Holly's rise to stardom and flashing a title card at the end that says he died in a plane crash. 👎
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Ingmar Bergman chamber dramas are not my idea of a good time but this movie did work for me. I actually watched this film without subtitles, thinking I was going to turn it off in 20 minutes, but ended up watching the whole thing and looking up a plot synopsis to see what I missed. I was surprised that I was able to follow the story in a foreign language just based on the performances. So, did I like watching it? Sure. Would I recommend it? Not really. If you like Bergman films then you've probably already seen it, if you don't or have no interest then there is no reason to watch. 👎
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Alan Alda and Ellen Burstyn meet at an inn in the 50s, they are both married and sleep together. Instead of leaving their spouses they decide to meet at the same inn once a year and carry on their affair. They then form a relationship that lasts two decades and is more intimate than the one they have with their spouses. I loved this film, Alda and Burstyn have perfect chemistry together and age well with the characters. The script is funny and smart only hampered by a silly time passing convention over a Johnny Mathis song with pictures of what has happened in pop culture since the last time they met. 👍
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After watching an Ingmar Bergman film from 1978 I finally watched Woody Allen's first dramatic foray released the same year that apes Bergman's style. I'm sure my enjoyment of the film was influenced by just watching a 90 minute Swedish film right before it but I really hated this movie. None of the characters are likable and I wanted a bomb to drop on the house and kill them all. 👎
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Jane Fonda, James Caan, Jason Robards and Richard Farnsworth star in a western about land ownership. I gotta be honest, I was really tired when I watched this one and I was only watching it for Farnsworth's nominated performance. It was slow moving and did not engage me. 👎
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Try to watch this movie alone in your bedroom and not feel like a creep. It's about child prostitution and stars a 12 year old Brooke Shields who has a number of nude scenes. We also see Susan Sarandon breastfeeding a baby. The whole thing made me uncomfortable, which was probably the point but I definitely can't recommend this. Also, for a movie featuring so much nudity, it's really boring. 👎
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Geraldine Chaplin stars as a recently released convict who is stalking a married Anthony Perkins for unknown reasons. She seems to want to date him but then when she does we get an ambiguous ending which leaves us with many questions as to why she was doing it in the first place. Chaplin is incredible in this role, she nails a bizarre line delivery as if she's been rehearsing everything she's going to say before she says it. It's a fascinating performance in a pretty solid thriller. 👍
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The Poseidon Adventure was my favorite movie as a kid. Little did I know that they kept trying to repeat the formula of getting a bunch of movie stars together and having them get killed off one by one. This movie is a huge pile of turds with laughable special effects, horrible performances and absolutely no character development so when your favorite movie star gets killed by bees you feel absolutely nothing. 👎
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Sam Waterston, Josh Brolin and OJ Simpson fake a Mars landing and Elliot Gould is the reporter trying to sniff out the real story. This is a pretty cool 70s movie, it's a little long but holds your interest with the style and pacing. 👍
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Robert Mitchum portrays Detective Philip Marlowe in this remake of the Humphrey Bogart classic film noir. It updates the locale to London and includes a lot more nudity and pornography than the original but the original is still better. Watch it if you're a Mitchum fan because he is cool as always but other than that you can probably pass. 👎
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Peter Falk and a band of crumb bums stage a robbery in this fun if forgettable comedy. 👍
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If you're looking for plot, go somewhere else. If you're looking for a collection of gags in different settings then you'll get some enjoyment from this pointless sequel. I tried to keep an open mind going into it but it was a little too early for me to laugh with Mel Gibson. He's playing the heavy but every time he threatened violence on someone I felt a little icky. 👎
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After watching Baby Driver this year and enjoying Drive a few years ago, it was fun to watch this 70s film with the same concept. It actually has way more in common with Drive than you might expect, a nameless getaway driver is chased by bad guys. It's so cool and 70s that I enjoyed it. 👍
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Dustin Hoffman plays a recently released convict trying to put his life back together but keeps getting into more trouble. 👍
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This movie is indescribably convoluted. Martin Short plays a fairy godfather who is established as not being good at his job but for some reason gets assigned to a young girl. She wishes that her father would get a job on Broadway but he instead turns him into a statue. Then they have to save the league of fairy godmothers from an evil witch, played by Kathleen Turner. None of it makes sense and Short tries to save this but is outmatched by a bad script. 👎
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I first became aware of this movie a few years ago when I binge watched Boy Meets World then discovered that Will Friedle and Jennifer Love Hewitt made a movie in 1997 that grossed less than $400 at the box office during its run. Friedle is a high school student who gets a date with the girl of his dreams but is in need of a condom. He also doesn't realize that the real girl of his dreams is his best friend. Who is this movie for? Certainly anyone who has actually had sex would find it dull. An Anthony Michael Hall cameo brings quick life into the movie but he departs very quickly. 👎
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This is a sketch film with no through line, so it's hard to care for any of the sketches. Some work, some don't but the bad ones are over quickly and more forgettable than awful. My favorite sketches were Ed Begley, Jr. as the son of the invisible man who only thinks he's invisible and walks around a bar naked and an old man who gets sucked into the TV. There's also a wake done in the style of a celebrity roast with Steve Allen, Rip Taylor and Slappy White. It's nothing great but there are definitely worse ways to spend an hour and 20 minutes. 👍
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Man, it was weird watching this so quickly after the deaths of Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds. This is based on Fisher's novel, which she states was not autobiographical but it's about an actress with a drug problem whose mother is also a famous actress. The similarities are almost eerie. Streep and MacLaine are very entertaining and the movie is very fun in the scenes where they poke fun at Hollywood film-making. 👍
343.
This movie is very melodramatic almost soap opera-y film about the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. A collection of gay men live their lives while they keep hearing about a gay cancer. It's very episodic and you care about some of the characters more than the others but half of the movie is deeply emotional and, I'll admit, brought me to tears. 👍
344.
I either love David Lynch or find his movies unwatchable, there's very few that land in the middle, and this falls in the latter category. Laura Dern and Nicolas Cage are in love but her mother disapproves and hires hitmen to murder Cage. It's artsy for the sake of artsy and mostly dull. 👎
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Gary Busey gives a spirited performance in the title role but the movie can't rise above the standard biopic tropes, hitting the key parts of Holly's rise to stardom and flashing a title card at the end that says he died in a plane crash. 👎
346.
Ingmar Bergman chamber dramas are not my idea of a good time but this movie did work for me. I actually watched this film without subtitles, thinking I was going to turn it off in 20 minutes, but ended up watching the whole thing and looking up a plot synopsis to see what I missed. I was surprised that I was able to follow the story in a foreign language just based on the performances. So, did I like watching it? Sure. Would I recommend it? Not really. If you like Bergman films then you've probably already seen it, if you don't or have no interest then there is no reason to watch. 👎
347.
Alan Alda and Ellen Burstyn meet at an inn in the 50s, they are both married and sleep together. Instead of leaving their spouses they decide to meet at the same inn once a year and carry on their affair. They then form a relationship that lasts two decades and is more intimate than the one they have with their spouses. I loved this film, Alda and Burstyn have perfect chemistry together and age well with the characters. The script is funny and smart only hampered by a silly time passing convention over a Johnny Mathis song with pictures of what has happened in pop culture since the last time they met. 👍
348.
After watching an Ingmar Bergman film from 1978 I finally watched Woody Allen's first dramatic foray released the same year that apes Bergman's style. I'm sure my enjoyment of the film was influenced by just watching a 90 minute Swedish film right before it but I really hated this movie. None of the characters are likable and I wanted a bomb to drop on the house and kill them all. 👎
349.
Jane Fonda, James Caan, Jason Robards and Richard Farnsworth star in a western about land ownership. I gotta be honest, I was really tired when I watched this one and I was only watching it for Farnsworth's nominated performance. It was slow moving and did not engage me. 👎
350.
Try to watch this movie alone in your bedroom and not feel like a creep. It's about child prostitution and stars a 12 year old Brooke Shields who has a number of nude scenes. We also see Susan Sarandon breastfeeding a baby. The whole thing made me uncomfortable, which was probably the point but I definitely can't recommend this. Also, for a movie featuring so much nudity, it's really boring. 👎
351.
Geraldine Chaplin stars as a recently released convict who is stalking a married Anthony Perkins for unknown reasons. She seems to want to date him but then when she does we get an ambiguous ending which leaves us with many questions as to why she was doing it in the first place. Chaplin is incredible in this role, she nails a bizarre line delivery as if she's been rehearsing everything she's going to say before she says it. It's a fascinating performance in a pretty solid thriller. 👍
352.
The Poseidon Adventure was my favorite movie as a kid. Little did I know that they kept trying to repeat the formula of getting a bunch of movie stars together and having them get killed off one by one. This movie is a huge pile of turds with laughable special effects, horrible performances and absolutely no character development so when your favorite movie star gets killed by bees you feel absolutely nothing. 👎
353.
Sam Waterston, Josh Brolin and OJ Simpson fake a Mars landing and Elliot Gould is the reporter trying to sniff out the real story. This is a pretty cool 70s movie, it's a little long but holds your interest with the style and pacing. 👍
354.
Robert Mitchum portrays Detective Philip Marlowe in this remake of the Humphrey Bogart classic film noir. It updates the locale to London and includes a lot more nudity and pornography than the original but the original is still better. Watch it if you're a Mitchum fan because he is cool as always but other than that you can probably pass. 👎
355.
Peter Falk and a band of crumb bums stage a robbery in this fun if forgettable comedy. 👍
356.
If you're looking for plot, go somewhere else. If you're looking for a collection of gags in different settings then you'll get some enjoyment from this pointless sequel. I tried to keep an open mind going into it but it was a little too early for me to laugh with Mel Gibson. He's playing the heavy but every time he threatened violence on someone I felt a little icky. 👎
357.
After watching Baby Driver this year and enjoying Drive a few years ago, it was fun to watch this 70s film with the same concept. It actually has way more in common with Drive than you might expect, a nameless getaway driver is chased by bad guys. It's so cool and 70s that I enjoyed it. 👍
358.
Dustin Hoffman plays a recently released convict trying to put his life back together but keeps getting into more trouble. 👍
359.
This movie is indescribably convoluted. Martin Short plays a fairy godfather who is established as not being good at his job but for some reason gets assigned to a young girl. She wishes that her father would get a job on Broadway but he instead turns him into a statue. Then they have to save the league of fairy godmothers from an evil witch, played by Kathleen Turner. None of it makes sense and Short tries to save this but is outmatched by a bad script. 👎
360.
I first became aware of this movie a few years ago when I binge watched Boy Meets World then discovered that Will Friedle and Jennifer Love Hewitt made a movie in 1997 that grossed less than $400 at the box office during its run. Friedle is a high school student who gets a date with the girl of his dreams but is in need of a condom. He also doesn't realize that the real girl of his dreams is his best friend. Who is this movie for? Certainly anyone who has actually had sex would find it dull. An Anthony Michael Hall cameo brings quick life into the movie but he departs very quickly. 👎
361.
This is a sketch film with no through line, so it's hard to care for any of the sketches. Some work, some don't but the bad ones are over quickly and more forgettable than awful. My favorite sketches were Ed Begley, Jr. as the son of the invisible man who only thinks he's invisible and walks around a bar naked and an old man who gets sucked into the TV. There's also a wake done in the style of a celebrity roast with Steve Allen, Rip Taylor and Slappy White. It's nothing great but there are definitely worse ways to spend an hour and 20 minutes. 👍
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I know you're making a cheap rip off of Gremlins, but did you have to make it look so cheap? You can still make a movie look like a movie even when you have a limited budget. 👎
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I've probably seen roughly 500 movies so far this year but I tried to only include movies on this list that I have either never seen or haven't seen in a long, long time. It's fitting that this is the last movie for this blog. Why do some movies make me feel stupid for not liking them? This movie made me realize that I don't like reviewing movies, what does my thumbs up or thumbs down rating even mean? Does it mean I liked it or if I would recommend it? I see every movie so why would I not watch a movie? If someone says Moonlight is a great movie you think, I should see it. If I say that The Emoji Movie is the worst thing I've ever seen, you would probably also want to check it out just to see how bad it is. I hated this movie but it got an Oscar nomination and some critics liked it, so I must be missing something, right? On the other hand, I've had 20 years to watch Afterglow and I never did, there must be a reason for that. I had little to no interest in it. How could I ever enjoy this movie? It feels like homework at this point. Nick Nolte and Julie Christie are married, Nolte cheats on Christie with Lara Flynn Boyle, Christie sleeps with Boyle's husband, they get into a fight and that's the movie. Lara Flynn Boyle may be one of the worst actresses ever, I not only had trouble believing her as this character, I was having trouble believing her as a human being. Jonny Lee Miller is almost worse. 👎
I started this as a reason to document the movies I had seen in the calendar year. I think next year I will only include movies released in 2018 and just give a quick thumbs up or thumbs down based on my enjoyment. This taught me that there is really no reason for film criticism. You either like something or you don't. Art is subjective. If Munchie is your favorite movie, then you should watch Munchie whenever you want to watch it and enjoy it.
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I was looking up movies made in 1997 for my Oscar Watch blog and came across Mr. Magoo, which I have never seen. I watched the trailer and felt bad for laughing, so I thought that maybe, just maybe, I have missed a diamond in the rough. So, I decide to smoke some weed and watch Leslie Nielsen walk around blind and bump into things for 90 minutes. Thing about pot is, it makes good stuff better but it makes bad stuff worse. This is one of the saddest movie watching experiences I ever endured. After a lame comedy the movie had the audacity to include a text saying that the blind are nothing to be laughed at and hold a valuable place in our society. As if I did chuckle at Magoo's antics, I was somehow in the wrong. 👎
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This was more interesting than enjoyable. The whole movie is free on YouTube and Annette O'Toole gets naked for a long stretch of time, so if you have any interest in that, check it out. Martin Short and O'Toole are going out on their 3rd date, which will probably result in sex, and they have both been keeping a secret from the other. Short recently got fired and O'Toole has a daughter. They talk a lot and the whole thing feels like an off-Broadway play. 👎365.
I've probably seen roughly 500 movies so far this year but I tried to only include movies on this list that I have either never seen or haven't seen in a long, long time. It's fitting that this is the last movie for this blog. Why do some movies make me feel stupid for not liking them? This movie made me realize that I don't like reviewing movies, what does my thumbs up or thumbs down rating even mean? Does it mean I liked it or if I would recommend it? I see every movie so why would I not watch a movie? If someone says Moonlight is a great movie you think, I should see it. If I say that The Emoji Movie is the worst thing I've ever seen, you would probably also want to check it out just to see how bad it is. I hated this movie but it got an Oscar nomination and some critics liked it, so I must be missing something, right? On the other hand, I've had 20 years to watch Afterglow and I never did, there must be a reason for that. I had little to no interest in it. How could I ever enjoy this movie? It feels like homework at this point. Nick Nolte and Julie Christie are married, Nolte cheats on Christie with Lara Flynn Boyle, Christie sleeps with Boyle's husband, they get into a fight and that's the movie. Lara Flynn Boyle may be one of the worst actresses ever, I not only had trouble believing her as this character, I was having trouble believing her as a human being. Jonny Lee Miller is almost worse. 👎
I started this as a reason to document the movies I had seen in the calendar year. I think next year I will only include movies released in 2018 and just give a quick thumbs up or thumbs down based on my enjoyment. This taught me that there is really no reason for film criticism. You either like something or you don't. Art is subjective. If Munchie is your favorite movie, then you should watch Munchie whenever you want to watch it and enjoy it.
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