films where the director is also one of the actors. (Doesn’t have to be the star, but cameos, like Hitchcock, don’t count; must be a character with lines.)
Ted - Seth MacFarlane
Please stop giving Seth money
Leatherheads - George Clooney
Wacky times and early pro football
Modern Times - Charlie Chaplan
Little Tramp struggles with industrialization
Next: Movies coming out this summer.
Despicable Me 3
And the franchise grinds on
Baby Driver
Young car guy protects girlfriend
The House
Ferrell, Poehler open illicit casino
Next: More movies coming out this summer
Wonder Woman
Better than expected; surprisingly good.
Cars 3
Franchise gets back on track.
Dunkirk
Historical film: British Army evacuation.
Next: Films that somehow or other, involve golf.
Caddyshack
Gopher gives the best performance.
Happy Gilmore
Hockey-golfer tries to save house.
Overboard
Husband, “wife” build miniature course.
Next: movies based on Daphne du Maurier novels or stories.
Jamaica Inn
Du Maurier didn’t like adaptation
Rebecca
Great story; remade many times
My Cousin Rachel
Second film of it coming
Next: Movies featuring a rainy scene
Blade Runner - like tears in the rain
The Shawshank Redemption - Magical Negro white honkey jailbreak
Matrix Revolutions - Bullet time rain can’t save
Last man on Earth films (open to interpretation, but films where a significant amount of time is spent by the protagonist thinking he is the only man left alive on Earth)
WALL-E
Not human-- last sentient being.*
The Last Man on Earth*
Except for the infected ones.
Planet of the Apes
Taylor last kind; realizes late.
Next: really simple movies that are still good.
Nebraska
Old coot wants his winnings
Cast Away
Man and volleyball against Pacific
Stalingrad
German troops hate Russian visit
Next: Your favorite war movies
Wings
About WWI pilots. Best Picture.
Star Wars
It has “Wars” in title.
Courage under Fire
A guilty pleasure. Sue me.
Next: movies about women in the military.
movies about women in the military.
G.I.Jane
Demi becomes SEAL, shaves head
Megan Leavy
Marine bonds with her dog
Private Valentine: Blonde & Dangerous
Jessica rips off Private Benjamin
Next:
Movies featuring Special Operations Forces
(Green Berets, SEALs, Rangers, SAS, etc.)
The Green Berets
Hey, it’s Wayne and Sulu!
The Eagle Has Landed
German paratroopers come for Churchill
Zero Dark Thirty
Bin Laden killed by SEALs
Next: Movies featuring military helicopters
Movies featuring military helicopters
Fire Birds
Apaches in Top Gun knock off
Blue Thunder
Cop in chopper investigates murder
Black Hawk Down
Chopper shot down in Somalia
Next:
Movies featuring fighter planes.
Top Gun
Homoerotic volleyball metaphor for combat
The Right Stuff
Yeager wrecks NF-104 starfighter, ejects.
Platoon
F-4 drop snake and ape.
Next up:
Movie with fictional spacecraft that aren’t not star wars/trek
The Black Hole
Disney attempts space movie genre.
Silent Running
Bruce Dern saves Earth’s plantlife.
2010: Odyssey Two
Discovery, HAL, back in service.
Next: Movies that take place in three or more countries.
Jason Bourne - Amnesia, Krav Maga, remembers!!..again
Fast and Furious 7 - Turns out didn’t need Walker
Captain America: Civil War - SHIELD employment contract dispute…FIGHT!!
Russian / Soviet war movies (not necessarily made by Russia / USSR)
Enemy at the Gates
Sniper fights Battle of Stalingrad.
The Dawns Here are Quiet
WWII Soviet commands female unit.
War and Peace (1966)
Best foreign language Oscar 1969.
Next: films starring (or featuring/co-starring) anyone who also appeared in an episode of The Twilight Zone.
Batman (1966)
Burgess Meredith: monocle; no glasses.
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
William Shatner: no gremlins outside.
Moonraker
Richard Kiel: still tall, hungry.
Next: 1960s spy movies, not including James Bond films.
All the President’s Men
Redford dominates as reporter Woodward
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan
Shatner returns as Adm. Kirk
Rocky
Meredith plays crusty old coach
Next: 1960s spy movies, not including James Bond films.
(Funny we both picked William Shatner and Burgess Meredith!)
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Spy wants more cold war.
The Ipcress File
Intelligence and counter-intelligence from Britain.
*
The Manchurian Candidate*
Brainwashing makes assassin of POW.
Next: spy movies from Hitchcock.
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Jimmy Stewart knows too much.
North By Northwest
Jimmy Stewart runs from planes.
Secret Agent
John Gielgud is a spy.
Next: Films of Dudley Moore.