88 MOVIES FOR 2019!!!!! WHO NEEDS A LIFE LET'S WATCH MOVIES!!!!!!!!

[Deku Tree]

I watched John Wick 3 on the plane back from vacation and loved it. The action and the characters are as cool as ever, and some of the shots stuck me as being especially beautifully put together.

[Booyakasha]

Took everybody out to 'Addams Family' on sunday.

You know, it was pretty good.

Dunno but I prefer it to the live-action flicks. That's a hard act to follow. We'll see.

[CaptHayfever]

77) The Shining - B+
78) 48 Christmas Wishes - F. My wife couldn't even stomach it, & she'll watch literally anything set at Christmas.

And remember, "I'm-a Luigi, number one!"

[mushroom]

12. The Evil Dead - 4 out of 5

Genuinely unsettling but also fun

13. Sleepaway Camp - 3 out of 5

What the ****

[Booyakasha]

I watched Disney's 'Tarzan' for the first time the other day. I liked it lots.

Brian Blessed voiced Clayton. Brian Blessed is the man.

[smol Kat]

I forgot he was part of that cast tbh

[Booyakasha]

...Brian Blessed is super cool. I truly hope he lives forever.

[I REALLY HATE POKEMON!]

I think I saw that in theaters as a kid. All I remember is that it kinda bothered me that his bare feet were okay sliding around on trees.

[Calamity Panfan]

Tarzan rules Phil Collins went HARD on that soundtrack

[Booyakasha]

...Jane gets the panting hots for Tarzan, doesn't she. I mean, they sanitise it a little, but she was quite clearly smouldering. Even her dad (a pure imbecile) noticed it. Like, she goes from 'starched Victorian demoiselle with a passion for science' to 'gross unhygienic loinclout-wearing ape-woman' pretty fast.

Clayton's cool. I mean, he's transparently evil, and somehow he manages to outfox everybody. Are Jane and her dad literally retarded? How did they not notice?

...wait. Wait! It's the thin moustache! We see Clayton shave in the movie----------he doesn't let his moustache grow long enough that he can twirl it! Moustache-twirling is such an obvious villain tell! What cunning. No wonder he wrong-footed them all.

[mushroom]

14. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark - 2 out of 5

Story is an absolute wreck. The book, even when separated from its existence in real life, is an awkward plot device. Having the framing story be the center of attention works to the detriment of the ability of the stories' content to have any real weight. They're just accessories to something else and the whole enterprise comes off as very gimmicky. Would have worked better as a straightforward anthology imo.

[CaptHayfever]

79) Head - A+
80) UHF - A+
81) A Miser Brothers' Christmas - C-. Points for the Misers' theme song & a couple legitimately good jokes. That's it.
82) Noelle - B+. Fun fluff. It was weird seeing Billy Eichner not just being a shrill irritant.
83) Santa Girl - C-. This is literally a promo film for Shenandoah University that they somehow managed to get Barry Bostwick in.
84) Legends of the Hidden Temple - B-. I hated every time the 3rd kid talked.

And remember, "I'm-a Luigi, number one!"

[Deku Tree]

10. Took the family and saw Frozen II today. I liked it a lot, actually. It's very pretty, some of the songs are really good (though others struck me as tedious), and the emotional parts landed with me.

11. I watched The Hitman's Bodyguard in Hulu for the first time tonight. It was pretty good. The banter is what you might expect from Reynolds and Jackson, and the action is not bad except for some shaky cam stuff.

[Deku Tree]

12. I watched The Spy Who Dumped Me. Hadn't heard of it before I saw it while surfing Hulu movie selections, but I gave it a chance for having Mila Kunis & Kate McKinnon. Not bad. Not likely to end up especially memorable.

13. I watched It: Chapter 1. Back when this came out I thought I'd hate it. I hadn't liked the Pennywise design at all. I like it a lot better in action, and with Bill Skarsgård's performance. I like the Losers Club cast too. It reminds me a lot more of Stranger Things (I liked this better) than the Tim Curry adaptation. And I didn't find it frightening like I remember the Tim Curry adaptation. It's probably a lot to do with my age, but I suspect not entirely. It always really unsettled my how the adults were either turning a blind eye or actively being harmful when those kids could have used their help most. That's not absent from this version, but it didn't hit me the same way.

[CaptHayfever]

Just realized I actually counted a couple films twice along the way this year, so this post's numbers are now correct:

83) Klaus - A-. Best new Xmas film of the year, calling it now.
84) The Santa Clause - B+
85) Frozen - B
86) Frozen II - B+. A little bit Fifth Element, a little bit Ragnarok. Definite improvement on its predecessor, wife & I (both musicians) busted up during Kristoff's solo while the rest of the theater (parents & children alike) was dead silent.
87) Triple Frontier - B-. Not especially memorable; in fact, I actually watched it a few months ago & straight-up forgot to list it until now.

And remember, "I'm-a Luigi, number one!"

[CaptHayfever]

And finally:

88) Every Day - B+. Not bad. Strong first act. A's portrayal suffers slightly as a couple of their hosts are weaker actors than others.

The whole bloody affair:

1) Aquaman* - B+
2) Tag - A-
3) Won't You Be My Neighbor - A
4) Catch & Release - C+
5) Moana - A-
6) Finding Dory - B+
7) Definitely Maybe - B
8) The Mummy (1999) - A-
9) Glass* - B+
10) Godzilla (1998) - C
11) Breakfast at Tiffany's - B+
12) Hidden Figures - B+
13) Barely Lethal - C+
14) Captain Marvel* - A-
15) What a Girl Wants - B
16) Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle - B+
17) Rush Hour - B+
18) Rush Hour 2 - B-
19) Jurassic Park 3 - C-
20) The Grinch (2018) - D+
21) Crazy Rich Asians - A-
22) Dumplin' - B-
23) Watchmen - B+
24) Avengers: Infinity War - A-
25) Avengers: Endgame* - A
26) Nutcracker & the Four Realms - C-
27) A Star is Born (2018) - A-
28) Christopher Robin - A-
29) Unicorn Store - B+
30) Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2 - A
31) Ant-Man - B+
32) The Secret of NIMH - A+
33) Ant-Man & the Wasp - A-
34) The Worst Witch - Mostly B-, but "Anything Can Happen on Halloween" gets an A++.
35) The Princess Bride - A+
36) The Westing Game - C+
37) The Sixth Sense - B+
38) To Kill a Mockingbird - A-
39) Operation Condor - A-
40) Splash - B+
41) WALL-E - A
42) She's the Man - A-
43) Spider-Man: Far From Home* - A-
44) Bell, Book, & Candle - B-
45) Big Fat Liar - B+
46) Monty Python & the Holy Grail - A
47) Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse - A
48) Batman (1989) - A-
49) Hercules (1997) - B-
50) Hocus Pocus - A-
51) Arthur Christmas - B+
52) Elf - A
53) Rocko's Modern Life: Static Cling - B+
54) Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus - A
55) Us - B
56) Five Feet Apart - B+
57) Bumblebee - B+
58) What We Do in the Shadows - A-
59) No Place Like Home - B-
60) The Fantastic Four (1994) - C
61) The Beatniks** - D+
62) The Sinister Urge** - D-
63) Hobgoblins** - D
64) Iron Man - A
65) Iron Man 2 - B-
66) Iron Man 3 - B+
67) Captain America: The First Avenger - B+
68) Captain America: The Winter Soldier - A
69) Thor - B+
70) Thor: The Dark World - B-
71) The Incredible Hulk - B
72) The Avengers - A-
73) Avengers: Age of Ultron - B
74) Thor: Ragnarok - A
75) The Shining - B+
76) 48 Christmas Wishes - F
77) Head - A+
78) UHF - A+
79) A Miser Brothers' Christmas - C-
80) Noelle - B+
81) Santa Girl - C-
82) Legends of the Hidden Temple - B-
83) Klaus - A-
84) The Santa Clause - B+
85) Frozen - B
86) Frozen II* - B+
87) Triple Frontier - B-
88) Every Day - B+

Bold = first watch
* = saw in theaters
** = MST3K fodder

And remember, "I'm-a Luigi, number one!"

[Calamity Panfan]

accidentally edited it into my last post but updated list

1. Blockers (Kay Cannon, 2018) - 1/11 - A
2. Ready Player One (Steven Spielberg, 2018) - 1/11 - C-?
3. The Big Lebowski (Joel & Ethan Coen, 1998) - 1/30 - A-
4. First Reformed (Paul Schrader, 2018) - 1/30 - A
5. Minding the Gap (Bing Liu, 2018) - 1/30 - A
6. The Commuter (Jaume Collet-Serra, 2018) - 1/30 B
7. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2018) - 1/31 - A-
8. Annihilation (Alex Garland, 2018) - 1/31 - A-
9. You Were Never Really Here (Lynne Ramsay, 2018) - 1/31 - B
10. Eighth Grade (Bo Burnham, 2018) - 1/31 - A+
11. Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened (Chris Smith, 2019) - 1/31 - B
12. Fyre Fraud (Jenner Furst & Julia Willoughby Nason, 2019) - 2/1 B+
13. The Lord of the Ring: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson, 2001) - 2/5 - A+
14. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones, 1975) - 2/6 - A+
15. The Emperor's New Groove (Mark Dindal, 2000) - 2/6 - B
16. Casino Royale (Martin Campbell, 2006) - 2/10 - A
17. Captain Marvel (Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck, 2019) - 3/8 - B
18. How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (Dean DeBlois, 2019) - 3/19 - A-
19. Skyscraper (Rawson Marshall, 2018) - 3/27 - C
20. Shazam! (David F. Sandberg 2019) - 4/9 - B-
21. Homecoming (Beyonce, 2019) - 4/17 - A++
22. The Mask (Chuck Russell, 1994) - 4/27 - B
23. Avengers: Endgame (Anthony Russo & Joe Russo, 2019) - 4/29 - A-
24. Get Smart (Peter Segal, 2008) - 5/1 - C+
25. Anthony Jeselnik: Fire in the Maternity Ward (Marcus Raboy, 2019) - 5/1 - D
26. Nate Bargatze: The Tennessee Kid (Ryan Polito, 2019) - 5/1 - B+
27. John Wick (Chad Stahelski, 2014) - 5/4 - A
28. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (Jay Roach, 1997) - 5/4 - B+
29. Someone Great (Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, 2019) - 5/8 - B+
30. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (Jay Roach, 1999) - 5/9 - B
31. Gamer (Neveldine/Taylor, 2009) - 5/12 - B
32. The Dirt (Jeff Tremaine, 2019) - 5/13 - D-
33. Season of the Witch (Dominic Sena, 2011) - 5/13 - C-
34. ReMastered: Devil at the Crossroads (Brian Oakes, 2019) - 5/13 - C
35. Blade (Stephen Norrington, 1998) - 5/15 - B+
36. Pokemon: Detective Pikachu (Rob Letterman, 2019) - 5/15 - B-
37. Triple Frontier (J.C. Chandor, 2019) - 5/15 - B+
38. High Flying Bird (Steven Soderbergh, 2019) - 5/15 - A-
39. Polar (Jonas Akerlund, 2019) - 5/16 - C+
40. Olympus Has Fallen (Antoinee Fuqua, 2013) - 5/19 - D+
41. ReMastered: Lion's Share (Sam Cullman, 2019) - 5/20 - C
42. Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels (Guy Ritchie, 1998) - 5/22 - B
43. John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (Chad Stahelski, 2019) - 5/23 - A-
44. The Lonely Island Presents: The Unauthorized Bash Brothers Experience (Akiva Schaffer & Mike Diva, 2019) - 5/23 - A
45. Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (Joe Berlinger, 2019) - 5/23 - C+
46. Burn After Reading (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2008) - 5/23 - A
47. Kingdom of Heaven (Ridley Scott, 2005) - 5/26 - C-
48. A Knight's Tale (Brian Helgeland, 2001) - 5/26 - A
49. Repo Men (Miguel Sapochnik, 2010) - 5/28 - D-
50. The Blues Brothers (John Landis, 1980) - 5/28 - A-
51. The Meg (Jon Turteltaub, 2018) - 5/29 - C-
52. Jupiter Ascending (Lana & Lilly Wachowski, 2015) - 5/29 - B-
53. Major Payne (Nick Castle, 1995) - 5/29 - D
54. Road House (Rowdy Herrington, 1989) - 5/30 - A+
55. Bruno (Larry Charles, 2009) - 6/2 - C
56. Godzilla: King of the Monsters (Michael Dougherty, 2019) - 6/3 - C
57. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1981) - 6/4 - A
58. Next (Lee Tamahori, 2007) - 6/14 - D+
59. Evolution (Ivan Reitman, 2001) - 6/19 C-
60. Legend (Brian Helgeland, 2015) - 6/18 - C+
61. Wanted (Timur Bekmambetov, 2008) - 6/20 - C+
62. The Terminator (James Cameron, 1984) - 6/23 - A+
63. Geostorm (Dean Devlin, 2017) - 6/26 - B-
64. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (Akiva Schaffer & Jorma Taccone, 2016) - 6/28 - B+
65. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey & Rodney Rothman, 2018) - 6/29 - A
66. ANIMA (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2019) - 7/1 - A-
67. Hellboy (Guillermo del Toro, 2004) - 7/2 - B
68. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976) - 7/3 - A
69. Ex Machina (Alex Garland, 2014) - 7/3 - A-
70. MacGruber (Jorma Taccone, 2010) - 7/3 - B-
71. Rush Hour 2 (Brett Ratner, 2001) - 7/4 - B+
72. Spider-Man: Far from Home (Jon Watts, 2019) - 7/5 - B+
73. Observe and Report (Jody Hill, 2009) - 7/11 - C-
74. Murder Mystery (Kyle Newacheck, 2019) - 7/25 - C
75. Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (David Leitch, 2019) - 8/3 - C+
76. Hellboy (Neil Marshall, 2019) - 8/6 - D
77. Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino, 2019) - 8/6 - A-
78. The Wicker Man (Neil LaBute, 2006) - 8/6 - A++ A PERFECT FILM
79. Widows (Steve McQueen, 2018) - 8/7 - B+
80. Tag (Jeff Tomsic, 2018) - 8/7 - C+
81. Hackers (Iain Softley, 1995) - 8/26 - B+
82. The Transporter (Corey Yuen, 2002) - 8/28 - B
83. Robin Hood: Men in Tights (Mel Brooks, 1993) - 8/29 - C+
84. Swordfish (Dominic Sena, 2001) - 8/29 - C+
85. True Grit (Ethan Coen & Joel Coen, 2010) - 8/30 - A-
86. Deadly Prey (David A. Prior, 1987) - 9/1 - B+
87. Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki, 1997) - 9/2 - A+
88. The Fanatic (Fred Durst, 2019) - 9/9 - A++ A PERFECT PERFECT FILM
89. Speed Kills (Jodi Scurfield & John Luessenhop, 2018) - 9/10 - D
90. Arsenal (Steven C. Miller, 2017) - 9/10 - D+
91. The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner, 1980) - 9/11 - A+

92. American Psycho (Mary Harron, 2000) - 9/11 - B+
93. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (George Lucas, 1999) - 9/11 - D
94. Between Two Ferns: The Movie (Scott Aukerman, 2019) - 9/24 - C+
95. Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio, 1982) - 9/25 - A
96. Belly (Hype Williams, 1998) - 9/25 - B
97. I Am Wrath (Chuck Russell, 2016) - 9/30 - D+
98. Miami Connection (Richard Park, 1987) - 9/30 - A
99. Joker (Todd Phillips, 2019) - 10/3 - B-
100. Troll (John Carl Buechler, 1986) - 10/3 - B
101. Troll 2 (Claudio Fragasso, 1990) - 10/7 - perfect baby
102. Hot Rod (Akiva Schaffer, 2007) - 10/7 - A-
103. El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (Vince Gilligan, 2019) - 10/13 - C
104. Gemini Man (Ang Lee, 2019) - 10/15 - C+
105. The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (Mike Mitchell, 2019) - 10/21 - B-
106. Cold Pursuit (Hans Peter Moland, 2019) - 10/30 - D+
107. The Mighty Ducks (Stephen Herek, 1992) - 10/31 - B-
108. D2: The Mighty Ducks (Sam Weisman, 1994) - 11/4 - B
109. D3: The Mighty Ducks (Robert Lieberman, 1996) - 11/5 - C
110. Bohemian Rhapsody (Bryan Singer, 2018) - 11/6 - D+
111. The Beach Bum (Harmony Korine, 2019) - 11/6 - A-
112. No Holds Barred (Thomas J. Wright, 1989) - 11/6 - C-
113. The Rundown (Peter Berg, 2003) - 11/6 - C+
114. Step Brothers (Adam McKay, 2008) - 11/6 - B+
115. George of the Jungle (Sam Weisman, 1997) - 11/7 - D+
116. The Sisters Brothers (Jacques Audiard, 2018) - 11/13 - B+
117. Blindspotting (Carlos Lopez Estrada, 2018) - 11/13 - A-
118. Darkman (Sam Raimi, 1990) - 11/13 - B+
119. Glass (M. Night Shyamalan, 2019) - 11/13 - C+
120. Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky, 2004) - 11/14 - B+
121. Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story (Martin Scorsese, 2019) - 11/14 - A
122. Rocky IV (Sylvester Stallone, 1985) - 11/14 - A-
123. First Man (Damien Chazelle, 2018) - 11/15 - B+
124. The Informant! (Steven Soderbergh, 2009) - 11/17 - B+
125. A Serious Man (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2009) - 11/18 - A
126. The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2018) - 11/18 - A
127. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980) - 11/18 - A+
128. The Hudsucker Proxy (Joel Coen, 1994) - 11/19 - B
129. 2 Fast 2 Furious (John Singleton, 2003) - 11/28 - A
130. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (Justin Lin, 2006) - 11/28 - A-
131. The Untouchables (Brian De Palma, 1987) - 12/3 - B+
132-133. Fast Five (Justin Lin, 2011) - 12/6 & 12/7 - A+
134. The Other Guys (Adam McKay, 2010) - 12/9 - B+
135. Knives Out (Rian Johnson, 2019) - 12/10 - B+
136. The Irishman (Martin Scorsese, 2019) - 12/10 - A+

[I REALLY HATE POKEMON!]

I watched Blade Runner for the first time. Not sure which of the versions, just basic one I guess, no narration. It was good, sure, but not something I understand people liking so much. The atmosphere and world building is nice, but the characters aren't particularly good and it has story a bafflingly basic story. I certainly enjoyed it but the pace is a little slow for me, I'll probably enjoy the narration filling in the down time when I rewatch it.

[Deku Tree]

14. I watched Kingsman: The Secret Service. It was fun, but it's kind of a collection of things other films do better. And the most enjoyable character to watch doesn't get much screen time after that church fight (which was a great scene).

[Booyakasha]

Saw 'Jim Gaffigan------Noble Ape' earlier. It was really funny.