Idris Elba movies:
Prom Night:
Slasher pic, screaming teens, blood.
Thor:
Inspired by a comic superhero.
Thor: The Dark World:
Yet another superhero movie. Yawn.
Next: Movies with a color in the title.
Three Colors: Blue (Trois couleurs: Bleu):
First of the “colors” trilogy.
The Green Ray (Le Rayon vert):
By the great Éric Rohmer.
The White Rose:
DW Griffith’s seminarian on rumspringa.
Next: Popular movies you personally hate.
Popular movies [that I] personally hate:
Glengarry Glen Ross:
Best minute? Baldwin’s coffee speech.
Gone with the Wind:
Chick flick; Civil War setting.
Office Space:
Too real, had that boss.
Next: More popular movies that you personally hate.
More popular movies that you personally hate.
The Boondock Saints
Pulp Fiction + paint chips = this
Skyfall
Someone please reboot Bond again.
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Glurge email hits silver screen!
Next: unpopular or critically panned movies you love
Ishtar
I found it really funny.
Xanadu
Madame Pepperwinkle loves it more.
Popeye
Except for the bailout ending.
Next: Dennis Quaid movies
Breaking Away:
I know that town well.
Yours, Mine and Ours:
Who greenlighted this remake. Oy.
Footloose:
Quaid is king of remakes.
Next: movies with cross-racial casting (ie, those offensive racial impersonations)
Movies with cross-racial casting (ie, those offensive racial impersonations)
Robbie Benson Chicano?! SNL better.
The Searchers
“Indian” Chief was a German!
Sayonara
Montablan not bad as Japanese?
Thare a so many options, let’s continue with More Movies with cross-racial casting (ie, those offensive racial impersonations)
Movies with cross-racial casting (ie, those offensive racial impersonations)
For the sake of variety, I will limit myself to one Iron Eyes Cody film.
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Mickey Rooney dons the buckteeth. :smack:
White Girls
Wrong, unfunny…quintessential Wayans Brothers.
Ernest Goes To Camp
Iron Eyes Cody was Italian!
Next: Movies with famous car chases.
Birth of a Nation:
King of the racial impersonations.
Breakfast at Tiffany’s:
What the hell, Mickey Rooney?
The Far Horizons:
Donna Reed embarrasses as Sacajawea.
Next: Ninja’d! Films with famous car chases.
Films with famous car chases.
Bullitt
McQueen, Mustang - vroom! Bissette - vaVOOM!
The Great Race
Edwards lampooned many film styles.
- The Blues Brothers*
Wrecked mall, beaucoup cop cars
Next: Films with “Mister” or “Mr.” in the title.
Mr. Roberts
Life in Navy not fun.
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Beloved teacher changes young lives.
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Saw it; really hated it.
Next: Andy Kaufman films
Heartbeeps
He’s a robot in love.
In God We Tru$t
Overly pointed satire flopped badly.
God Told Me To
Andy is a police officer.
Next: Goldie Hawn movies
Goldie Hawn movies:
Butterflies Are Free:
Film adaptation of stage play.
Private Benjamin:
She’s a private in Army.
The Out-of-Towners:
Remake of 1970 comedy; funnier.
Next: Movies that take place all or mostly on a train.
Movies that take place all or mostly on a train.
Under Siege 2: Dark Territory
Seagal breaks rules, limbs, cover.
The Darjeeling Limited
Wes Anderson’s “road trip” film.
Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
Possibly the finest Christie film.
Next: Movies about substance addiction.
Movies about substance addiction:
Liquid Sky:
Drugs, aliens, sex, fashion–confusing!
The Man with the Golden Arm:
Staying drug-free is not easy.
Reefer Madness:
Cult film; it’s laughable today.
Next: Owen Wilson movies.
Night At The Museum
Tiny role, but big performance.
Cars
Stars in animated Doc Hollywood.
Shanghai Noon
Worked well with Jackie Chan.
Next: Movies about Invisibility.
The Entity (1982)
Barbara Hershey and invisible rapist.
The Invisible Man (1933)
The original and the best.
Hollow Man (2000)
Mediocre when it was good.
Next: movies about kidnapping
Movies about kidnapping
Ransom
Mel Gibson before his craziness.
Alpha Dog
Kid enjoyed it, at first.
Raising Arizona
Quints? They’ll never miss one.
Next: Movies about terrorism.
United 93
Fourth planes misses White House.
Day of the Jackal
Assassination attempt on de Gaulle.
Black Sunday
Mossad! Super Bowl! Robert Shaw!
Next: Films that offer solutions to historical mysteries (criminal or otherwise).
**Films that offer solutions to historical mysteries (criminal or otherwise).
**
(Limiting myself to one Indiana Jones film.)
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Don’t look, Marion! Special effects!
Fahrenheit 9/11
Bogus. Dubya isn’t that smart.
The DaVinci Code
I’d sip from that grail!
Next: Movies that feature a duck.