Birth of a Nation (1916)
Everybody. Well, everybody who’s black.
The Far Horizons
Donna Reed as Sacajawea. :smack:
Walk Proud
Robby Benson as Hispanic youth.
Next: More racial impersonations-- they’re so fun.
The Conqueror
John Wayne as Genghis Khan because of course
Scarface
Al Pacino as a Cuban drug lord
Any movie with Iron Eyes Cody (the crying Indian from the “Keep America Beautiful” PSA.) He’s Sicilian.
VC? The idea is to post three movies with five-word reviews, then post a topic for the next set of three.
Here, I’ll do some more bad racial impersonations:
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Mickey Rooney ruins potential classic.
Teahouse of the August Moon
Medved called Brando “Most Ludicrous.”
Everybody Sing
Judy Garland’s almost unrecognizable blackface.
Next: Universal multi-monster movies.
Oops.
Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man
Monsters fight after Frankenstein’s defrosting.
House of Frankenstein
The Big Three get revenge.
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
Bungling comic duo unleashes monsters.
Next:
Movies where secret agents are hunted by their own agency.
Movies where secret agents are hunted by their own agency.
Mission Impossible
New franchise wrecks beloved show.
The Bourne Supremacy
Why would you kill Franka?
The Bourne Legacy
Jason Bourne movie without Borne
Next: Movies about protests or protesting
Z
Politician killed in street protest.
Milk
San Francisco gays speak out.
Get On The Bus
MMM guys go to Washington.
Next: Movies set in very cold places.
Fargo
Woodchipper does bloody good job.
Everest
Many die testing Mother Nature.
The Martian
Astronaut survives using questionable science.
Next: Movies featuring a famous spaceship.
Apollo 13
The title says it all.
Star Wars
First appearance of Millennium Falcon.
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
The Enterprise on big screen.
Next: Lesser known films of Alfred Hitchcock.
The Farmer’s Wife
Widower can’t get a date.
Juno and the Paycock
Multiple family catastrophes in Dublin
Waltzes from Vienna
“Lowest ebb” of Hitch’s career
Next: More lesser-known Hitchcock films.
Rich and Strange
Inheritance not all it promises.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Weird attempt at screwball comedy.
Family Plot
Last film more a whimper.
Next: inauspicious beginnings of eventually great stars.
Leprechaun
Jennifer Aniston before the nose-job.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation
McConaughey as Leatherface’s brother. Weird.
Don’s Plum
So bad, DiCaprio, Maguire sued.
Next:
Movies featuring extremely stupid contest or competition.
You Got Served
South Park parody less stupid.
Cannonball Run
TransAmerican auto race. All-star weirdness.
Sisters
Opens with stupid game show.
Next: movies that actually improved on their source material.
The Shining
Possession much scarier than alcoholism.
Girl on the Train
Overrated book improved by Blunt.
The Godfather
Coppola redefines mob movie genre.
Next:
Non-Star Wars movie where robots come to the rescue.
Non-Star Wars movie where robots come to the rescue.
Transformers
Optimus saves by tearing heads
Wall-E
Scrappy droid saves Earth
Terminator 2
Arnoldbot saves us from Armageddon
Next:
More non-Star Wars movies featuring robots.
Metropolis
Fake Maria inspired Threepio design
Silent Running
Cute robots help disgruntled loner
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Last ten minutes are heartbreaking
Next: Movies set all or mostly underwater
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
SpongeBob, Patrick save Bikini Bottom.
Das Boot
German sub life not fun.
The Abyss
Really, really sexist undersea movie.
Next: movies about real earth people that take place mostly in space.
Gravity
Sandra Bullock survives orbital disaster.
Interstellar
Matt Damon is stranded astronaut.
The Martian
Matt Damon… wait a minute!
Next: Three other Matt Damon movies.
Mystic Pizza*
Had minor role as “Steamer.”
Saving Private Ryan
Plays the MacGuffin-- star rising.
Dogma
Annnnnd…Matt Damon has arrived.
Next: Great foreign films remade as terrible Hollywood films.
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
Tom Hanks remake not great.
The Ladykillers
Coen Bros. miss the mark.
The Vanishing
Franco-Dutch original beloved; remake hated.
Next: Movies where the bad guy wins in the end.