Five-Word Movie Review

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Johnny Belinda
Audist, outdated, offensive, and stupid.

Frankenstein (1931)
The monster utters very little.

The Spiral Staircase
Original mute damsel in distress.

NEXT: US film with a major character who primarily speaks something other than English

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Vulcan is spoken a lot

Beethoven
Big dog with big woof

Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
The most lines for R2D2

Next: Movies featuring A.I. roles

I think this deadended because of the lack of definition of what “AI role” means. I’m going broad.

The Mandalorian
Deepfake tech makes young Luke.

Her
Phone romance creeped me out.

2001: A Space Odyssey
Hal; cinema’s first learning computer.

NEXT: Three movies you like, and why

Casablanca
Bogart, Bergman, Rains, quotable classic.

Marty
Borgnine shows his soft side.

The Godfather
Vito? No, more about Michael.

Next: Movie musicals that were originally Broadway musicals.

My Fair Lady
Eliza changes quite a lot!

The Sound of Music
Gold-digger nun hooks posh captain.

Chicago
Pretty cynical about criminal justice.

Next up:

Three more movies you like, and why

Three more movies you like, and why

The Package
Taught thriller with Hackman, Jones

Repo Man
Punks, aliens, weirdness, and shrimp

The Empire Strikes Back
Rebels lose while relationships deepen

I like this topic.

Three more movies you like, and why

I think you mean “taut,” but yes, The Package is definitely underrated.

Breaker Morant
Excellent courtroom drama, war movie

Raiders of the Lost Ark
Practically perfect Thirties adventure film

Limitless
Clever, funny, well-acted, gripping technothriller

Let’s keep it going!

Yet another three more movies you like, and why

The African Queen
Bogart, Hepburn, in darkest Africa.

A Night to Remember
Titanic without the love story.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Do the Time Warp again!

Yet another three more movies you like, and why

La Grazia
Timely, thoughtful Italian political drama

The Hidden
Clever, ultraviolent alien-criminal chase film

Trading Places
Funny, brilliant premise, great cast

Pass.

I gotta make up my topic and answer it?

The last three movies I saw were:

One Battle After Another
Timely thriller about politics, terrorism

Big trouble in Little China
My son said it’s awesome

Eating Raoul
Square couple starts killing perverts

Next: The last three movies I saw were:

Next: The last three movies I saw were:

  1. “The Guardian” Uneven movie with Kevin Costner
  2. “One Battle at a Time” Fast-packed modern 70s throwback movie
  3. “Jay Kelly” Clooney looks back on career.

Next; More movies with George Clooney

Grizzly II: Revenge
His screen debut, in 1983

The Perfect Storm
Played tough fishing boat captain

Intolerable Cruelty
Divorce lawyer meets his match

Next:

William Shatner’s non-Star Trek movies

William Shatner’s non-Star Trek movies

White Commanche
Dual Shatners have Western showdown

Big Bad Mama
Dickinson, Shatner in sexploitation flick

Airplane II: The Sequel
Murdock talks shuttle to safety

Next: Leslie Nielen movies

Don’t know him (or her?), so let’s go with that other, similarly-named dude.

Leslie Nielsen movies

Forbidden Planet
Capt. Kirk, before his time

The Poseidon Adventure
Another captain, of doomed liner

Airplane!
Comic perfection as deadpan doc

Next up:

More Leslie Nielsen movies

More Leslie Nielsen movies

Beau Geste
Coins the hero’s nickname ‘Geste’

The Reluctant Astronaut
An early foray into comedy

Rosie
Screwball comedy with Rosalind Russell

Let’s keep this going: Even more Leslie Nielsen movies

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Even more Leslie Nielsen movies

Nuts
Nielsen gets whacked in bathtub

Mr. Magoo
Not much like the cartoon

Dudley Do-Right
Even less like the cartoon

Let’s keep this going: 70s Grindhouse movies

The Abominable Dr. Phibes
Vincent Price gets his revenge.

Vanishing Point
One big long car chase.

Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens
Russ Meyer. Need more info?

Next: More 70s Grindhouse Movies

Shaft
“Close it your self, shitty!”

Mother, Jugs, and Speed
First big hint re: Cosby.

Star Crash
Marjoe Gortner’s still active? Huh.

Next: Ralph Bakshi animation

Fritz the Cat
His debut, about countercultural feline

The Lord of the Rings
Ends at Helm’s Deep, dammit!

Cool World
Brad Pitt in semi-animated fantasy

Next up:

Early movies of actresses who later got much more famous