Raiders of the Lost Ark
“Top men” will study it.
Ronin
Briefcase actually holds a [spoiler].
Sneakers
Baddies want a universal codebreaker.
Next: Even more MacGuffins!
Notorious
Hitchcock in trouble over uranium.
Star Wars
The plans, the plans, R2!
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
My Precious. That is all.
Next: movies starring (or co-starring aka “supporting”) someone who guest starred or was a regular on any incarnation of Law & Order.
The Great Gatsby
Young Sam Waterston as Nick.
Bang the Drum Slowly
Michael Moriarty as writer, ballplayer.
Batman Begins
Linus Roache plays Bruce’s dad.
Next: Best-known non-superhero films featuring actors or actresses who also played superheroes
Beetlejuice
Future Batman plays fright-wigged poltergeist.
Seabiscuit
Spiderman as jockey Red Pollard.
Gone with the Wind
TV Superman courts Scarlett O’Hara.
Next: Three same or very similarly-named, but unrelated, movies.
Lord of the Rings
Peter Jackson’s majestic movie trilogy.
Lord of the Flies
School boys misbehave when marooned.
Lord of War
Nicholas Cage hammily overacts much.
Next: Three Movies with Brand Names in the Titles
The Coca-Cola Kid
Marketing exec’s misadventures Down Under.
Tucker: The Man and His Dream
Auto wiz takes on Detroit.
Corvette Summer
A boy, girl, car - destiny!
Next: Movies about corporate scheming.
The Hudsucker Proxy
Of course he’ll screw up.
Thank You for Smoking
The title says it all.
The Light Bulb Conspiracy
Documentary of “The Producer”-like realities.
Next: Movies with seemingly unlikable protagonists who end up being likable.
The Proposal
Sandra Bullock falls in love.
The Christmas Carol
Haunted Scrooge finds Christmas cheer.
King Kong
Over-sized ape becomes pitiable corpse.
Next: Films that take place largely in a hospital.
One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
Felon in a mental hospital.
Tales from the Gimli Hospital
Bizarre, however you slice it.
Article 99
Young doctor in military hospital.
Films starring or co-starring an actor who lived to be at least 90.
Oh, God
George Burns as the deity.
My Favorite Blonde
Bob Hope in forgettable flick.
Gone With The Wind
Olivia de Havilland, also 100.
Next: Non-Clousseau films of Peter Sellers.
Next: Movies that prominently featured a fish.
Finding Nemo
Quite a few of them!
A Fish Called Wanda
Otto ate all K-K-K-Ken’s fish.
Jaws
Chief: “Need a bigger boat.”
Next: Movies that feature aquatic mammals.
Flipper
“The Lion’s Paw” with dolphin.
Orca: the Killer Whale
Blatant, terrible rip-off of Jaws.
Andre
(Supposedly) true story of seal.
Next: Surprisingly good movies with actors generally considered terrible (or, mainly limited to their looks, or a light-film type).
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Extremities
Farrah Fawcett: extreme victims’ advocate.
Milk
Sean Penn perfect Harvey Milk
GI Jane
Only watchable Demi Moore film.
Next: Can we try “awful films starring a high quality cast that just went terribly wrong somehow”?
“Awful films starring a high quality cast that just went terribly wrong somehow”
Highlander 2: The Quickening
Sword slinging immortals are aliens?
Cutthroat Island
Harlin, Davis make dull swashbuckler
*North *
Ebert hated hated hated movie
Next: Movies about crazy people
Crazy People
Ad man hires lunatic copywriters.
Loose Cannons
Crazy cops solve tough crime.
Rain Man
Dustin Hoffman acts like mad.
Next: Films with music by Rogers & Hammerstein.
Show Boat
Racism bad, river denizens learn.
The King and I
Teacher wins quirky monarch’s heart.
The Sound of Music
Whew, Liesl was smokin’ hawt.
Next: Movies set in an awful NYC.
Planet of the Apes (1968)
It was really [Spoiler Alert].
Serpico
NYPD at its most corrupt.
Escape from New York
Manhattan is high security prison.
Next: Movies that make rural life seem scary.
Deliverance
Beware the banjo playing rednecks!
The Haunting
“No one can hear you”
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre II
Ahem: “The saw is family.”
Next: Barbra Streisand movies.
Yentl
Excellent story misinterpreted on screen.
The Prince of Tides
Watched solely for Kate Nelligan.
Funny Girl
Fanny Brice biopic. Perfect title.
Next: Movies that have titles that should be porn titles, but aren’t.