Non-violent death scenes
The Godfather
Vito suffers natural heart attack.
Love Story
Terminally ill girl succumbs quietly.
A Walk to Remember
Love Story updated for 2000s.
Next:
Very violent death scenes
Doctor Strange
Dormammu kills Strange many times
Saving Private Ryan
Jackson in the bell tower
Watchmen
Dr. Manhattan blows up Rorschach
Next: Hero dies… or do they?
The Iron Giant
Robot ultimately on the mend
The Hidden
Sacrifice, melding; little girl understands?
The Dark Knight Rises
Bruce Wayne glimpsed in Florence
Next:
Other films of Christopher Nolan
Memento
Having trouble remembering this movie
Tenet
“Magic bullets”? Come on, now
Inception
Surprisingly, I could follow this
Next: Wes Anderson movies
The French Dispatch
Alas, put me to sleep
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Simply a masterpiece, I think
Rushmore
Great cast; funny and charming
Next up:
Three more Wes Anderson movies
The Royal Tenenbaums
Very good; Hackman was great
Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Murray as a broken Cousteau
The Darjeeling Express
Three brothers on a journey
Next: Three more Wes Anderson movies
Nitpicks: it’s The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and The Darjeeling Limited.
Bottle Rocket
His first, about Arizona slackers
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Stop-motion movie; stellar voice cast
Moonrise Kingdom
Nerdy kids run away together
Next up:
Movies with a really badass villain
Movies with a really badass villain
Goldfinger
Kills all his rivals simultaneously.
The Sting
Lonnegan is Chicago rackets’ Godfather.
Die Hard
Gruber is a criminal mastermind.
Next, in honour of the B-movie thread over in CS, let’s try …
B-Movies
C.H.U.D.
Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers? L.A.M.E.
Pink Flamingos
Small budget but big laughs
Dolemite
Parody of 1970’s Blaxpoloitation films
Films featuring Michael Caine
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Superior remake of Bedtime Story
The Muppet Christmas Carol
Superb job as Ebenezer Scrooge
Austin Powers in Goldmember
He’s Austin’s dad! Who knew?
Next: Films of Jeff Goldblum
Death Wish
Screen debut as “Freak #1”
The Big Chill
Played annoying People magazine writer
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
Very good as “New Jersey”
Next:
More Films of Jeff Goldblum
Jurassic Park
Death by dinosaur? No more!
Independence Day
Alien code stack? Mac hack!
The Fly
Teleportation? More like, insect integration!
(not sure why I did the question / answer rhyming thing; just felt right)
Next: Big Summer blockbuster implausible effects-laden sci-fi / adventure films
Independence Day
Must build new White House
Wild Wild West
Giant robospider? Sure, why not?
Edge of Tomorrow
This time we’ll beat aliens
Next:
Pretty good romcoms since 1990
Two Weeks Notice
Trumpish Grant meets his match
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Grant watches his friends marry
You’ve Got Mail
Massive bookseller chases perky competitor
Next: Meg Ryan movies
Rich and Famous
Her screen debut, in 1981
Sleepless in Seattle
Rosie O’Donnell as her galpal
City of Angels
Plays doomed Los Angeles doctor
Next:
Nic Cage movies that are actually good
(Assuming you don’t mean ones I liked, but others liked as well)
Moonstruck
Sliced off hand for love
Con Air
Put the bunny down. Now.
Face/Off
Cage v. Travolta in thriller
Next: Zany comedies
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Just don’t say “Ni! Ni!”
Dave
Kline, Weaver: terrific political comedy
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Steve Martin at his best
Next:
More zany comedies
Bringing up Baby
Not one, but two leopards.
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Spain gains freedom: hilarity ensues.
The Awful Truth
They are still in love.
Movies based on works of Agatha Christie
Murder on the Orient Express
1974: Albert Finney is great
Witness for the Prosecution
2016 TV miniseries is better
Death on the Nile
Ustinov or Branagh as Poirot?
Next:
Best pre-2009 Sherlock Holmes movies
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
Basil Rathbone’s first as Holmes
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
Peter Cushing does excellent work
The Seven Percent Solution (1974)
An addicted and unstable Holmes
Next: Hammer Studio films