Quite so. Well, I’ll give the category a try…
Movies about architects
The Lake House
Keanu Reeves, an architect? Hah!
The Towering Inferno
Paul Newman’s masterpiece burns up.
Love Actually
Liam Neeson has precocious son.
Next: Movies with bear attacks
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Which I should know since I’ve only posted in this thread like 3 times. Let me fix that up…
My Super Ex Girlfriend
Luke Wilson dates crazy superhero
Click
Adam Sandler finds magic remote
The Fountainhead
Less shitty Ayn Rand adaptation
sigh shit’s all fucked up now.
The Revenant
Bleak Leo bear-rape picture
The Edge
Bear stalks cast typed CEOs
The Great Outdoors
Big bear chase John Candy
Next: Non-Matrix and non-Terminator movies that contemplate the implications of artificial intelligence.
Short Circuit
“Johnny Five is Alive.” Regrettably.
Saturn V
Even robots lust after Farrah.
The Avengers: Age of Ultron
Good android vs. bad android.
Next: Movies set at Christmas time but arguably not about Christmas per se.
A Christmas Story
About childhood and BB guns.
Home Alone
About childhood and booby traps.
8 Crazy Nights
About Hanukkah; oblique Christmas references.
Next: Versions of A Christmas Carol with 1) Least Nauseating Tiny Tim 2) Scariest Marley 3) Your Overall Favorite. TV versions count too.
Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol
Tim wants some razzleberry dressing.
Scrooge (1984)
Frank Finlay does fine acting.
Scrooged
Murray’s very successfully updated version.
Next: Christmas musicals
White Christmas
Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye croon
Babes in Toyland
Laurel and Hardy clown around
Nutcracker: The Motion Picture
Pacific Northwest Ballet, Tchaikovsky classic
Next: Downbeat movies set at Christmas time.
It’s a Wonderful Life
Suicidal bummer until last minute.
Edward Scissorhands
Bittersweet; set at Christmas time.
Die hard
Unquestionably set at Christmas Time.
Next: Movies set at three different Jewish holidays, or that depict celebrations of three different Jewish holidays. (Shabbes counts as a holiday.)
The Big Lebowski
Walter don’t roll on Shabbos!
For Your Consideration
Purim film within a film
A Message of Life
Yom Kippur War’s hardship, solidarity
Next: Movies about or set in springtime
It Happens Every Spring
Ray Milland takes up baseball.
Where The Boys Are
An early Spring Break film.
Easter Parade
Singing! Dancing! Astaire! Garland! Technicolor!
Next: Movies arriving at theaters later this year
The Fate of the Furious
Cars, 'splosions, babes, stunts, etc.
The Mummy
Reboot makes her a princess
Dunkirk
Christopher Nolan directs WWII epic
Next: Movies coming in 2017 that you wouldn’t see even if wild horses dragged you
Smurfs: The Lost Village
I always root for Gargamel.
The Void
I don’t watch gory horror.
Alien: Covenant
Series has lasted too long.
Next: Unexpected remakes.
All the King’s Men
Moved from Depression to Fifties
The Vanishing
Eyyyccch - Hollywood remake ruined it
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Hollywood remake was actually better!
Next: Movies with a bird prominently featured
Follow That Bird
AKA “The Big Bird” Movie.
The Angry Birds Movie
Features Red, but birds abound.
The Birds
No prominent bird; must mention.
Next: movies prominently featuring a real brand-name product.
Risky Business
Ray-Ban sunglasses sales soon soared
Dirty Harry
Cop loves Remington .44 Magnum
Office Space
Red Swingline stapler later available
Next: Movies with more than one actor playing multiple roles
Sleuth
5-character mystery with two actors.
Cloud Atlas
Multiple stories with same cast.
Grease
Unusual move: principles appear in choruses.
Next Horror movies with a death transformation scene at the end (ie, the villain dies, and transforms back to his old self before the camera).
Dracula
Bloodsucker staked, ages rapidly, dies
The Hidden
Alien criminal revealed and slain
Incubus
Supernatural sex criminal identity’s surprising
Next: Movies with good, helpful angels
A Guy Named Joe
Downed WWII pilot helps fiancee.
It’s a Wonderful Life
Clarence shows George George-less world.
Michael
Shmaltz: chicken population in danger.
Next: films with really effective anamatronic animals.
Jurassic Park
It wasn’t all CGI effects.
Jaws
Bruce scared lots of beachgoers.
King Kong
1976 version, with Jessica Lange.
Next: Comedies set in the Wild West.
Blazing Saddles
Exuberantly un-P.C. and very funny
A Million Ways to Die in the West
Seth MacFarlane’s comedy got mixed reviews
Back to the Future Part III
Marty McFly goes 'way back
Next: Dramatic Westerns released since 1995