[When we can, we do. We we can’t, there’s Google.]
Horsefeathers
Groucho wears a college mortarboard.
Modern Times
Charlie wears his trademark bowler.
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Jack to Will: “Nice hat.”
Next: Movies you wish you had never seen.
Forrest Gump
Want to skip it twice.
Cheech and Chong’s Nice Dreams
Walked out halfway through it.
To Be Or Not To Be (the 1983 remake)
Sullies memory of great original.
Next: movies you saw more than twice in a theater (or, paid to see more than twice).
The Usual Suspects
Arguing, walked right back in.
The Empire Strikes Back
Saw thrice, 18 years apart.
The Emperor’s New Groove
My friend managed the theater.
Next: Movies that butchered the source material (book, play, or historical event).
The Scarlet Letter (1995 – Demi Moore version)
Hawthorne barfed in his grave.
Richard III
Shakespeare relies on Tudor history.
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
No. Just, no. And, no.
Next: sound films without a music score.
Cast Away
Wilson does all the music.
The Birds
Hitchcock knew how to scare.
No Country For Old Men
Have it cued on DVR.
Next: films that are guilty pleasures for you.
Actually (and assuming I’m not being whooshed) Alan Silvestri wrote a beautiful theme for the movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIAcN3qRAV8
Films that are guilty pleasures for you.
The Hidden
Alien criminal uses different bodies.
The Puppet Master
Untrue to Heinlein, but fun.
Blazing Saddles
Western spoof is defiantly un-P.C.
Next: Movies you love - and are supposed to.
The Awful Truth
Very, very funny Irene Dunne.
Casablanca
I like it. It’s Casablanca.
Apollo 13
True story; somehow still suspenseful.
Next: movies with appearances by a cast member of One Day at a Time.
A Summer Place
Bonnie Franklin in 1959 romance.
American Graffiti
Mackenzie Phillips slouched in car.
Number One with a Bullet
Valerie Bertinelli in bad mystery.
Next: Films of Anne Archer.
I miss this game, and decided to bring it back to life. I don’t know much about Anne Archer, though, so forgive the joke.
Clear and Present Danger
Can’t be shown in Germany.
Fatal Attraction
Can’t be shown in Germany.
Hero at Large
Can’t be shown in Germany.
NEXT: Films of Alan Smithee
Thanks for reviving the thread.
There’s this crazy thing the kids these days are all calling “IMDb.com.”
Films of Alan Smithee
Dune
David Lynch eschews TV cut.
Twilight Zone: The Movie
Deaths on set not bragworthy.
An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn
Just 'way too damn meta.
Next: Movies about winter.
My pleasure.
A Midwinter’s Tale (aka, In the Bleak Midwinter)
Scrappy, amateur Hamlet saves church. *
The Donner Party
Meat’s meat; ya gotta eat.
Frozen
Eternal winter good for snowman.
Next: movies where the main characters attend a high school reunion (does not have to be entire focus of film; can be side plot).
Grosse Pointe Blank
Cusack whacks rival, rekindles romance.
Romy & Michelle’s High School Reunion
Brainy actresses playing utter airheads!
Peggy Sue Got Married
Closest thing to a do-over?
Next: Movies where a well-known actor is cast against type
After The Thin Man
Jimmy Stewart is the villain!
Death Becomes Her
Bruce Willis is a wimp!
Rhinestone
Stallone sings C&W.
Next: 21st Century Romantic Comedies
Wow. Three that I have seen? Hmmm:
The 40-year-old Virgin
Will he or won’t he?
13 Going on 30
Girl learns popular = bitch.
Hot Tub Time Machine
Better than you would think.
Next: WWI movies.
My Boy Jack
Kipling encourages, mourns brave son.
War Horse
Boy, horse endure awful trenches.
Paths of Glory
French officer defends his men.
Next: Movies about presidential campaigns.
One Bright Shining Moment
Underdog McGovern takes on Nixon.
The War Room
Clinton’s first primary; gratuitous Stephanopoulos.
The Manchurian Candidate
What the hell did happen?
Next: films with an appearance by someone (voice performances count) from The Big Bang Theory.
The Muppets
Sheldon is hero’s alter ego.
Hancock
Hey, Leonard is a douche!
I Love You, Man
Bernadette shouts at a guy.
Next: Movies set in L.A. but not about showbiz.
Saboteur
Screenwriter Dorothy Parker has cameo.
A Bucket of Blood
The best beatnik movie ever.
Chinatown
Best utility company movie ever.
Next: movies with some kind of complicated contraption or Rube Goldberg machine.
Pee Wee’s Big Adventure
Get up and have breakfastotron.
Modern Times
Chaplin’s automatically fed his lunch.
Barbarella
Ultimate Machine cannot keep up.
Next: Current Oscar nominees
The Hateful Eight
Jennifer Jason Leigh. About Time.
Shaun the Sheep
“I’d like to thank Wallace…”
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
The usual: editing, special effects…
Next: TBA (having editing trouble)