Movies with annoying sidekicks
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Annoying kid later wins Oscar
The Big Lebowski
“Shut the fuck up, Donny!”
Beauty and the Beast
LeFou: Worst Disney Sidekick Ever
Next: Live Action Disney Princesses
Live Action Disney Princesses
Beauty and the Beast
Emma Watson can’t sing. Period.
The Princess Diaries
This grown man liked it.
Enchanted
Sends up tired princess tropes.
Break a leg: movies in which a character breaks a bone.
Rear Window
Wheelchair-bound guy spies on neighbors.
Misery
We all know what happened.
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Mortensen actually broke two toes.
Movies with made-up languages.
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Tell Gort, “Klaatu barada nikto.”
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
First use of Klingon language!
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Sindarin or Quenya? Your choice.
Next up:
Movies set on the weekend
Saturday Night Fever
Tony Manero has a dream.
Black Sunday
Most thrilling Super Bowl ever!
The Osterman Weekend
Sam Peckinpah’s last feature film
Next up:
Movies built around an over-the-top sex goddess
One Million Years B.C.
Raquel Welch, your typical cavegirl
And God Created Woman
Bardot was an international sensation
The Seven Year Itch
For Marilyn, I’m itchy oftener
Next up:
Movies built around a devastatingly handsome dude
Farinelli
Handsome castrato, fire in bed.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Handsome libertine’s portrait absorbs sins.
Zoolander
Dumb model caught in caper.
More movies built around a devastatingly handsome dude
The Sheik
Rudolph Valentino became a superstar
Rebel Without a Cause
James Dean’s only top-billed role
Ocean’s Eleven
Clooney, Pitt, Damon: whatta lineup!
Next up:
Films involving pagan rituals
The Wicker Man
Bad doings up in Scotland…
Fellini Satyricon
Debauched even by Fellini standards
Apocalypto
Human sacrifice in old Mexico
Movies where a lot of police cars get destroyed
The Blues Brothers
About a hundred, I think
What’s Up, Doc?
Funny, destructive San Francisco chase
Hot Fuzz
Charming, sleepy English town… not!
Next up:
A cop… on the edge!
Lethal Weapon
Gibson: cop or third Stooge?
Dirty Harry
He fired six, not five
Bad Lieutenant
Keitel battles demons and superiors
Next: Kids acting like adults
Bugsy Malone
Gangster spoof, lots of yoots
Paper Moon
Con artist Tatum smokes, swears
Freaky Friday
Now, which is Mom again…?
Next up:
Movies with Native Americans neither reviled nor idolized
Let Him Go
Costner, Lane, helped by Native.
The Quick and the Dead
Spotted Horse? Just another competitor.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Chief Bromden? Just another inmate.
Next:
The Films of James Garner
Toward the Unknown
His screen debut, in 1956
36 Hours
Clever World War II thriller
My Fellow Americans
Garner as a former POTUS
Next up:
More James Garner movies
Marlowe
Baits Bruce Lee, who dies
The Great Escape
Con man assists blind prisoner
Victor/Victoria
A woman? He doesn’t care
Next: Cross-dressing roles
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Drag holiday in the outback
Have you got two more, @DrDeth? We do three movies that fit the topic, then when you post three and review them, you post the next topic.
Let me pinch hit for him:
Some Like It Hot
Joe E. Brown: “Nobody’s perfect.”
The Crying Game
Hey, Jaye Davidson fooled me…
Movies where women cross-dress as men
I did not know that, sorry. Next time i will do three.
Thank you!!
Movies where women cross-dress as men
Swiss Family Robinson
“Cabin boy”? Not a boy!
Downfall
Hitler’s secretary escapes while disguised
Albert Nobbs
Glenn Close as secret-keeping butler
Next up:
Movies set in Ireland