Five-Word Movie Review

Hook
Peter Pan returns to Neverland

Captain Blood
Errol Flynn! Yo ho ho!

Captain Phillips
I am the Captain now!

Next: More movies with pirates

Pirates of Penzace

Contains quite the memorable song!

Cuthroat Island

Ruined pirate movies for decades.

Muppets Treasure Island

“Don’t cry for me, Benjamina.”

Movies that take place on a train.

Throw Momma from the Train
“Wanna see my coin collection?”

Silver Streak
“Dammit! Son of a bitch!”

Planes Trains & Automobiles
“Brrr! How about those bears?”

Next: Movies with memorable lines

Casablanca
So damn many of 'em!

Monty Python and the Holy Grail
“A newt?” “I got better.”

Breaker Morant
“Shoot straight, you bastards!” etc.

Let’s keep going!

More movies with memorable lines

Blazing Saddles
“The new sheriff is a …!”

The Big Lebowski
“Yeah, well, The Dude abides.”

Back to the Future
Something about time machine, DeLorean.

Evem more movies with memorable lines

Star Wars
“May the Force something something.”

The Big Lebowski
“Yeah, well - the Dude abides.”

Repo Man
“People just explode. Natural causes.”

Still more movies with memorable lines

You copied “the Dude abides,” the only difference being your punctuation choices :grinning_face:

Whoops!

Star Wars
“May the Force something something.”

Sudden Impact
“Go ahead, make my day.”

Repo Man
“People just explode. Natural causes.”

Still more movies with memorable lines

The Godfather
I’d never leave the cannoli

The Breakfast Club
He knows about Barry Manilow

Sunset Boulevard
“I’m ready for my close-up”

Next: And yet even more movies with memorable lines

Casablanca
“Here’s looking at you, kid.”

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
“His was the most - human.”

Who Framed Roger Rabbit
"Oh, my God, it’s DIP!"

Next category:

Surprise hits

We already had Casablanca in this run, so I’ll substitute:

Raiders of the Lost Ark
“Very dangerous. You go first.”

And on to:

Surprise hits

The Blair Witch Project
Creepy found-footage flick took off

The Sheep Detectives
To err, human; [to] sleuth, ovine

Ghost
Erotic ceramics? OK, sure, whatever

Next up:

Oscar winners that underwhelmed you

American Beauty
Boy, that one aged badly!

Shakespeare in Love
Forsooth! I find no greatness.

The Silence of the Lambs
Splatter porn usually doesn’t win.

Oscar snubs that surprised you

Star Wars
Better than Annie Hall, IMHO

Glory
Easily earned Best Picture nomination

Limitless
Bradley Cooper played five roles!

More disappointed than surprised, but still.

Encore!:

More Oscar snubs that surprised you

2001: A Space Odyssey
Egregiously omitted from 1968’s list

Wild
It’s “wild” Oscars snubbed this

Moon
10 nominees, but not this?

Next: Actors/actresses who were snubbed

Psycho/Anthony Perkins
“Well, a boy’s best friend…”

Jackie Brown/Pam Grier
Tarantino not always Midas Touch

Goodfellas/Ray Liotta
Legendary Scorses epic, no trophy.

Your favorite found-footage films

Late Night with the Devil
TV host interviews possessed girl

Hell House LLC
Sneakily good, despite overused premise

Quarantined
TV crew gets locked in

Next: More found footage films

Zelig
Woody was everywhere back then!

Gimme Shelter
Just that one little bit

Home Movie
A good case for childlessness

Adaptation of a book you’ve read

Catch-22
“Help him! Help the bombardier!”

The Hunt for Red October
“Careful what you shoot at.”

The Shining
“I had to corrrrect them.”
(Alternately: “Come play with us, Danny.”)

Next: Movie remakes

A Star Is Born
Addiction ruins careers and relationships.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Wilder’s classic didn’t need remaking.

True Grit
The Dude saves teen girl.

The films of Gene Wilder

Bonnie and Clyde
Played the criminals’ young hostage

Young Frankenstein
Roll in ze hay? Sure!

Blazing Saddles
Screw or chess? Uh… chess.

Next up:

Movies in which a main character must choose between two options