Five-Word Movie Review

It wasn’t easy, but I think I found three suitable answers.

No Contest
Tweed plays an action hero

Detroit Rock City
Road trip to see KISS

Hot Dog…The Movie
Skiing, hockey, and hot tubs

Next: Movies with Playboy bunnies

Lover Come Back
Cary Grant, clients with Bunnies

Americathon
Dorothy Stratten escorts Meat Loaf

Legally Blonde
Reese dresses as a Bunny

Next up:

Movies about puritanical lifestyles

I was hoping you’d pick Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death. She plays a college professor who teaches women’s studies. But, your answer.

The Scarlet Letter (1908)
First, silent version of story.

The Scarlet Letter (1934)
The one with Colleen Moore.

The Scarlet Letter (1995)
The latest, with Demi Moore.

Movies with Martians

Movies with Martians

Mars Attacks
Earth’s only hope? Whitman’s yodeling

Spaced Invaders
Dopey Martians invade dopey town

My Favorite Martian
Remake was not audience’s favorite

Next: Movies with Aliens on Earth

The Day the Earth Stood Still
1951, 2008 versions: see 1951.

War of the Worlds
Another movie didn’t need remaking.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Please keep Richard Dreyfuss. Please.

NEXT: Australian movies

NEXT: Australian movies

Mad Max
Max, Goose versus the Toe-Cutter

The Man From Snowy River
He came back for Jess

Crocodile Dundee
Knife? Now that’s a knife!

Next: Movies set in Mexico

El Mariachi
Robert Rodriguez’s eye-catching directorial debut

Born in East LA
Mexican-American citizen renditioned to Mexico

Apocalypto
About as accurate as Braveheart

Next: Very Historically-Inaccurate Movies

Argo
Not exactly how it happened

300
Persian forces were better equipped

Inglorious Basterds
Tarantino’s World War 2 revision

Next: Movies with people walking… a lot

The Book of Eli
It’s the Bible all along

The Road
Man and boy post-apocalyptic trudge

A Boy and His Dog
Not much driving after apocalypse*

Next: Movies Without a Lot of Walking (ie, set primarily in one location)

Dave
Zany hijinks in White House

1776
“Hot as hell in Philadelphia!”

Downfall
Adolf mostly stuck in bunker

Next up:

Films that gave rise to memes

Race to Witch Mountain
The Rock glancing behind him

The Matrix
“What if I told you…”

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
“Oh please, continue your argument…”

Next: Movies with your favorite villain

The Last of the Mohicans
Wes Studi terrifying as Magua

Star Wars: Rogue One
Vader at his scariest here

Breaker Morant
Kitchener, perhaps unfairly, is baddie

Next up:

Movies centered on antiheroes

High Plains Drifter
The Man with No Name

Death Wish
Everyone cheered for Charles Bronson

Deadpool
Ryan Reynolds is finally cool

Next: Actors in blackface

Yike! don’t know about this topic; however, it is unfortunately possible to find three.

Birth of a Nation
“Black” characters are white actors.

Holiday Inn
Beloved movie, beloved actors…yikes!

Be Kind, Rewind
This movie is from 2008!

NEXT: Movies that help move forward careers of black people in Hollywood, either specifically, or in general.

I stumbled across lists of movies in this category on IMDB, Screen Rant and Mental Floss, but none mentioned Silver Streak, one of my favorite movies of the 1970s; in a memorable scene Gene Wilder wore dark brown shoe polish to “pass” as a Black person.

Or this, from freakin’ 1986: Soul Man (film) - Wikipedia

Movies that help move forward careers of black people in Hollywood, either specifically, or in general.

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Sidney Poitier as perfect boyfriend

Glory
Black soldiers’ heroism stirringly shown

Deep Impact
Of course Morgan Freeman’s presidential

Next up:

Movies with a key unnamed character

Fight Club
Edward Norton’s name isn’t Jack

A Fistful of Dollars
Eastwood famously has no name

Zombieland
Place names only will suffice

Next: Biblical Epics

The Silver Chalice
Paul Newman apologized in ad

Ben-Hur
Five movie versions so far!

The Ten Commandments
DeMille’s remake, 29 years later

Next:

Films that are unintentionally funny

Reefer Madness
The Devil weed’ll get ya!

Plan 9 From Outer Space
Not supposed to be funny…

Jaws 3-D
By now, it’s just ridiculous

Next: Terrible movie sequels