Recently Watched Movies 2021

[nwhoopfan]

Some of the movies centered around cooking/chefs can be entertaining. I really enjoyed "100 Foot Journey" and "No Reservations" was decent. Last night watched "Burnt." Hmm...didn't really care for it. Bradley Cooper's character is just so hard to get behind, he's such a jerk. There were some big names in small roles or even throw away characters, like Emma Thompson and Uma Thurman. But it was unforgivable to me that Alicia Vikander and Lily James were on screen for probably less than 5 minutes combined. Vikander at least had some significance to the story, but James was absolutely 100% wasted in this movie.

 

[dbmill]

One Night in Miami (2020) - This film is based on a 2013 stage play by Kemp Powers, who also wrote the screenplay to this film. It is a fictionalized account of a meeting at a hotel by Malcolm X, Cassius Clay (shortly before he changed his name to Muhammed Ali), Jim Brown, and Sam Cooke on the night that Cassius Clay took the heavyweight boxing title away from Sonny Liston in 1964. Aside from a few odd scenes, this is mostly a talk (sometimes heated, especially between Malcolm X and Cooke) among the four principles on their perceived best ways to advance the cause of civil rights and to improve plight of Blacks living in America. Not a great movie, but I did find this to be an interesting discussion of the various race issues at hand, and thought the four leads all did well with their material.

 

[Mano]

Don't Look Up - While alternating between some decent laughs and some tangible frustration with the unfolding events I couldn't escape the feeling that the whole proceedings were coming off as pretty one note. I guess I don't really have any faith that any side would deal with our impending doom effectively. But putting that aside I was entertained.

Klaus - A beautifully animated and well told Santa Claus origin story. It might enter the holiday movie rotay.

Mortal - ! appreciated the use of Norse mythology and thought it a clever conceit. But the execution was clearly on the cheap, the locations were used well to tell the story but the effects were very poor. Not necessarily a deal breaker but the central romance unfortunately felt super forced which made later events fall flat.

PAW Patrol: The Movie - Chase is on the case! Dad is mostly asleep.

Darkest Hour - Something like this must be an actor's dream role, right? Just two hours of scenery chewing by Oldman and he did a great job transforming into the character. Well done if not entirely historically accurate.

Venom: Let There Be Carnage - I quite enjoyed the first one. This was more of the same. Entertaining interplay between Hardy and Venom. Wish they had gone with someone other than Woody tho, a bit old to be playing a ~40yo.

No Time to Die - Other than Casino Royale, all of Craig's other Bond movies are a blur to me so I barely remembered the love interest in this one. Probably would've helped to revisit the last couple before hand. I enjoyed it for the action and set pieces. I doubt it'll stick out in my mind the further we get away from his portrayal tho. Very curious where they go from here considering the end...

 

[Mano]

Everyone, get those last posts in for the year. I've got the Year End Review Roundup all queued up! So I'll probably be starting a new thread mañana.

 

[8893]

Power of the Dog (Netflix 2021) - Another highly-rated and highly-recommended dark, plodding drama/thriller for which I had higher expectations than were warranted.

Benedict Cumberbatch and Jesse Plemons are brothers running a ranch in Montana in 1925. Plemons‘s character marries a widow played by Kirsten Dunst, and she has a son who appears a bit “light in his loafers” as they used to say. Cumberbatch doesn’t like her or the son and is upset with Plemons for marrying her, and then things get strange for reasons we don’t fully understand—at least for a while.

Weird backstory and drama/trauma gradually (and only partly) unfold over two hours, during which I kept waiting for something—anything—to happen.

Stunning scenery and excellent acting by Cumberbatch and newcomer (to me at least) Kodi Smit-McPhee. Plemons played what I gather is his standard laconic character because it seemed the same as his manner in Game Night. It makes for an interesting presence but kind of a Johnny One-note. I’m not a huge Dunst fan and this didn’t do anything to change that.

Interesting twist but takes way too long to get there. And there are way too many things that are touched upon but barely explored, if at all.

Cumberbatch and the kid are great and I’m guessing they’ll receive some nominations, but I don’t get the raves for this one.

 

[Hey Adrien!]

Don’t Look Up -

Last night, my in-laws said everyone should see this movie.

Just finished watching it and similar to what @Mano said, I found the movie too one-noted.

I get it’s a satire but it was too literal for my taste.

I did like the cast though: Leo, Chalamet, Morgan were excellent while Lawrence, Hill, Streep and Blanchett were good characters. The script itself was good, some very funny moments, but I don’t recommend.

 

[Deepster]

Don’t Look Up -

Last night, my in-laws said everyone should see this movie.

Just finished watching it and similar to what @Mano said, I found the movie too one-noted.

I get it’s a satire but it was too literal for my taste.

I did like the cast though: Leo, Chalamet, Morgan were excellent while Lawrence, Hill, Streep and Blanchett were good characters. The script itself was good, some very funny moments, but I don’t recommend.

I agree with this 100%.

 

[storrsroars]

Don't Look Up - I guess I don't really have any faith that any side would deal with our impending doom effectively.

Funny thing about that... we got a surprise yesterday.

National Weather Service says meteors are likely to blame for New Year's Day boom in Pittsburgh

The National Weather Service said the loud boom and shaking ground reported Saturday by people across a large swath of suburban Pittsburgh likely was caused by an exploding meteor. Shannon Hefferan, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Moon Township, said a flash was reported on...

triblive.com

I wonder how much bigger it would've needed to be to wipe out a town or two?

 

[storrsroars]

Don’t Look Up -

Last night, my in-laws said everyone should see this movie.

Just finished watching it and o to what @Mano said, I found the movie too one-noted.

I get it’s a satire but it was too literal for my taste.

I did like the cast though: Leo, Chalamet, Morgan were excellent while Lawrence, Hill, Streep and Blanchett were good characters. The script itself was good, some very funny moments, but I don’t recommend.

I agree with this 100%.

Funny with laughs, good cast, good characters, good script, entertaining... yet "don't recommend".

Look through the movies listed in this thread and count the hours BYers have wasted watching movies they found awful. And consider it's now Year 3 of a pandemic. And y'all don't want to encourage others to be entertained and laugh for a couple hours?

I don't get y'all sometimes.

 

[8893]

Funny with laughs, good cast, good characters, good script, entertaining... yet "don't recommend".

Look through the movies listed in this thread and count the hours BYers have wasted watching movies they found awful. And consider it's now Year 3 of a pandemic. And y'all don't want to encourage others to be entertained and laugh for a couple hours?

I don't get y'all sometimes.

I laughed out loud when I got to @Hey Adrien! 's "but I don't recommend." After sitting through the much-heralded and much-recommended The Unforgivable and Power of the Dog, it's hysterical to me that someone would not recommend a movie that--by their own description--is very funny, entertaining, well-cast and well-scripted.

I think the reactions are the function of a few interrelated things. First, given the real-life events of the past few years, satire is increasingly difficult to pull off. Many of the criticisms I've seen and read are to the effect that the movie is too "on the nose," but I don't see how you avoid that when real-life events and people are as extreme as they have been. It seems people forgot what satire is.

Second, the media has now been trained that everything must be bothsidered, and obviously many people--including many in this thread--have been trained to expect the same. They're like Kate's parents when they wouldn't let her in the house because they thought her "truthiness" was too divisive, and they were in favor of the jobs the comet would provide. We simply cannot have a lampooning of one side--unless it's the liberal-leaning side, of course. But if liberals want to bring along others, they have to make fun of themselves, too. I would have thought that the portrayal of the media would suffice for that element, but apparently that only made many in the media strive to call for more bothsidering, in a vain attempt to regain credibility from a crowd that will never believe them no matter what they publish.

Finally, high expectations are always the kiss of death. It's a good movie, not a great one. I had the benefit of seeing it without knowing much about it beforehand, and without reading any reviews to tell me how I should feel about it. If someone tells you that it's hysterical and you have to see it, you're likely going to be disappointed.

All that said, I'm surprised that Jennifer Lawrence is nominated for her role and that Cate Blanchett is not.

 

[Deepster]

Funny with laughs, good cast, good characters, good script, entertaining... yet "don't recommend".

Look through the movies listed in this thread and count the hours BYers have wasted watching movies they found awful. And consider it's now Year 3 of a pandemic. And y'all don't want to encourage others to be entertained and laugh for a couple hours?

I don't get y'all sometimes.

I think you're looking at it too black and white.

If I'm talking about a movie, I think I'd generally fall in 1 of 3 camps:

1) It's a complete waste of time, stay far away.
2) I loved it and I'd recommend it's worth making a point of seeing this.
3) Eh. It's fine if you want to be mildly entertained for a couple hours.

This falls clearly into camp 3 for me. Personally speaking, I liked Tick, Tick....Boom a lot more based on my tastes and recommended it as such.

 

[Ewekon]

Binged both seasons of Good Behavior past Thursday, Friday. Had never heard of it. ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Of 5. Sucked me right in.

 

[Ewekon]

Did I miss a West Side Story review here?
From first frame it screams Spielberg and DP Kaminsky. $17 in IMAX. Pay the extra.
What an amazing score. Probably my favorite Bernstein work.

Somewhat re-imagined. Fleshes out the actual west side ",story". Rita Mareno only "name" star....before release. Riff and Maria are scene stealers IMHO. True enough to the original. Shot too bright for my idea of the period/neighborhood, until the last 30 minutes.

Worth the 2.5 hours

 

[Mano]

Its that time again!!

Year End Movie Review Roundup!!! (for postings in 2021 only)

Mano:

Total movies watched: 101

The Croods: A New Age, Underwater, Happiest Season, Extra Ordinary, Logan Lucky, The Command, Wolf Walkers, Greyhound, Austenland, The Little Things, Cowboys & Aliens, I Tonya, The Art of Self-Defense, Source Code, The Gentleman, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, 21 Bridges, I Care a Lot, Richard Jewell, Coming 2 America, mid90s, Fighting with My Family, Possessor, Bad Trip, Godzilla vs. Kong, A Most Violent Year, High-Rise, The Big Sick, Zathura: A Space Adventure, The Girl with All the Gifts, Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar, Astro Boy, Raya and the Last Dragon, Polar, Limitless, Velvet Buzzsaw, Mortal Kombat, Ponyo, Emma., Tom Clancy's Without Remorse, The Mitchell's vs. the Machines, Greenland, Those Who Wish Me Dead, El Camino, I Used to Go Here, Cruella, Don't Think Twice, Luca, Jungle Cruise, Space Jam: A New Legacy, Freaky, Timeline, Vivo, The Suicide Squad, A Quiet Place Part II, Reminiscence, Terminator: Genisys, Love and Monsters, Vacation Friends, Dinosaur, Playing With Fire, Kate, Malignant, The Ritual, Hereditary, Apostle, Promising Young Woman, The Many Saints of Newark, Black Widow, Event Horizon, Free Guy, Dune, F9: The Fast Saga, Old, The Addams Family 2, A Knight's Tale, Nobody, The Green Knight, Finch, Bumblebee, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Home Sweet Home Alone, Love Hard, 8-Bit Christmas, Console Wars, Dragged Across Concrete, Encanto, Riders of Justice, Another Round, The Matrix Resurrections, Back to the Outback, Ron's Gone Wrong, Rumble, Clifford the Big Red Dog, Don't Look Up, Klaus, Mortal, PAW Patrol: The Movie, Darkest Hour, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, No Time To Die

2021 Top 5:

1. Dune
2. Greyhound
3. Hereditary
4. I, Tonya
5. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Just Missed:

Logan Lucky, The Gentleman, Cruella, Encanto, Luca, Darkest Hour


@nwhoopfan

Total movies watched: 95

Fierce, The New Mutants, Outside the Wire, Bill & Ted Face the Music, The Foreigner, Firefox, Space Sweepers, Freaky, Tenet, Moxie, Sentinelle, The Informer, The Kid Detective, The Broken Hearts Gallery, Promising Young Woman, Mayhem, Journey to the West, The Map of Tiny Perfect Things, Lady Bloodfight, Lifeforce, Interstate 60, The Student and Mr. Henri, The Sweetest Thing, Barbarella, The Darkest Hour, Dirt Music, Her Best Move, Mary Goes Round, Tainted, The Transporter Refueled, Chaos Walking, Welcome Home Roxy Carmichael, Sea Fever, Very Good Girls, Summer Eleven, Wild Child, Army of the Dead, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Echo in the Canyon, The Broken Circle Breakdown, 10 Years, The Tomorrow War, Snow Day, Jolt, Black Widow, Our Friend, Suck, Little Black Book, Standby, Fanny's Journey, Wrath of Man, Finding You, Stardom, Pixie, As Cool As I Am, The Moth Diaries, Afterlife of the Party, Beckett, Nightbooks, Kate, The High Note, Mortal Kombat, Opening Night, F9: The Fast Saga, Broken Diamonds, French Exit, Triple 9, Letters to Juliet, Destination Wedding, Walk of Shame, A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas, Dear John, Lying and Stealing, Night Teeth, The Protege, Love Spreads, Cruella, The Suicide Squad, Boss Level, We Broke Up, Palm Springs, Riders of Justice, Free Guy, Happiest Season, Red Notice, Playing God, Crazy About You, Spoiled Brats, Naked Singularity, The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard, Little Fish, Don't Look Up, The Alpinist, 14 Peaks, Burnt


@HuskyHawk

Total movies watched: 60

Ava, Greyhound, Enola Holmes, Extraction, Sylvie's Love, Greenland, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, One Night in Miami, Wander, The November Man, The Little Things, Radium Girls, Batman vs Superman Ultimate Edition, I Care a Lot, Night Watch, Coming 2 America, Zack Snyder's Justice League, SAS: Red Notice, Godzilla vs. Kong, Seaspiracy, The Courier, Mortal Kombat, Blithe Spirit, Things Heard and Seen, Boys From County Hell, Cruella, The Good Traitor, The Mortuary Collection, The Last Vermeer, No Sudden Move, The Tomorrow War, Monster Hunter, Gunpowder Milkshake, Six Minutes to Midnight, Jungle Cruise, Free Guy, Reminiscence, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, Malignant, No Time to Die, Dune, The Inheritance, The Green Knight, Last Night in Soho, The Harder They Fall, News of the World, Finch, Prometheus, A Boy Called Christmas, The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard, Oblivion, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Belfast, Army of the Dead, CBGB, Arthur Christmas, Being the Ricardos, The Matrix Resurrections, Don't Look Up


@Dove

Total movies watched: 48

The Trial of the Chicago 7, Overlord, Dark Was the Night, Goin' South, Polar, Outside the Wire, The Longest Yard, Point Blank, The Sound of Metal, The First Texan, Sicario, Wander, Up in Smoke, The Silencing, Ava, The Dig, Mortal, Let Him Go, I Care a Lot, Nomadland, 12 Hour Shift, Greenland, Walkaway Joe, Best in Show, Unhinged, Godzilla vs. Kong, Instant Family, Blue Miracle, Riders of Justice, Human Capital, Minari, Paydirt, Concrete Cowboy, Pig, Nobody, Malignant, Hell Fest, Ant-Man, The Bar, A Quiet Place Part II, The Deep House, Real Steel, Chaos Walking, Shadow in the Clouds, Four Christmases, Sideways, Don't Look Up, The Unforgivable


@storrsroars

Total movies watched: 26

Easy A, One Night in Miami, War on Everyone, Below Zero, American Assassin, The Bank Job, Homefront, Redemption, Ava, 6 Underground, Acts of Violence, First Kill, Marauders, I Am Wrath, The Debt Collector, The Debt Collector 2, I Care a Lot, Seaspiracy, Tom Clancy's Without Remorse, Angel Heart, The Fisher King, All Nighter, The Guilty, The Forgotten Battle, Don't Look Up, Being the Ricardos


@dbmill

Total movies watched: 20

First Cow, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Kajillionaire, Coraline, A Lady Takes a Chance, Tesla, My Favorite Year, About a Boy, Heaven Help Us, Soul, The Secret Garden, The Lady in the Van, Cadillac Records, The Trip to Italy, Matinee, The Water Man, The Wolf of Snow Hollow, Legend of Hell House, On the Rocks, The Informant!, One Night In Miami


@nelsonmuntz

Total movies watched: 18

The Foreigner, The Midnight Sky, Greyhound, Being There, Barbarians at the Gate, Lady Bird, The King of Staten Island, I Care a Lot, Timeline, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, The Gentleman, The Laundromat, Rules of Attraction, Dune, King Richard, The Two Popes, The Meyerowitz Stories. Don't Look Up


@Kolumbo

Total movies watched: 17

The Frozen Ground, Mile 22, Dangerous Lies, Hangman, Unknown, The Midnight Sky, Spencer Confidential, Self/less, Mission: Impossible - Fallout, Outside the Wire, Last Train from Gun Hill, Crazy Stupid Love, Skyfall, The Circle, Knives Out, Fire With Fire, Destination Wedding


@Deepster

Total movies watched: 12

Inside Man, That Thing You Do, The Gift, Seabiscuit, John Wick, Cherry, Perks of Being a Wallflower, Tom Clancy's Without Remorse, The Tomorrow War, Death Proof, Coda, tick, tick...BOOM


@CL82

Total movies watched: 12

Knuckleball, Boss Level, Greyhound, Alien Origin, Nomadland, Fear of Rain, Finch, The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard, Gods and Monsters, Doctor Sleep, Out of Death, Leave No Trace


@ZooCougar

Total movies watched: 9

The Hunt, Greenland, The King of Staten Island, Chronicle, Nomadland, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, No Time to Die, Dune, Eternals


@8893

Total movies watched: 8

Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, Nomadland, Muscle Shoals, Summer of Soul, Don't Look Up, The Unforgivable, Power of the Dog


@Waquoit

Total movies watched: 7

On the Rocks, Set It Up, Dream Horse, Summer of Soul, Roadrunner, Shazam!, The French Dispatch


@Letsgohuskies11

Total movies watched: 6

Calibre, The Forgotten Battle, Dune, Creep, The Alpinist, 14 Peaks


@Palatine

Total movies watched: 5

Kajillionaire, Rapture-Palooza, Nobody, Free Guy, The French Dispatch


@Rugger36

Total movies watched: 5

Cherry, Greyhound, The Courier, Nobody, Don't Look Up


@Deadrody

Total movies watched: 4

Chaos Walking, Jungle Cruise, Cruella, The Green Knight


@Hey Adrien!

Total movies watched: 3

In the Heights, Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar, Don't Look Up


@Jay-Bone

Total movies watched: 3

The Nightengale, Pig, The Last Duel


@Bliss

Total movies watched: 1

Unfaithful


@zymurg

Total movies watched: 1

Legend


@LIuconn

Total movies watched: 1

Operation Odessa


@Chin Diesel

Total movies watched: 1

I Care a Lot


@Tommyboy

Total movies watched: 1

Love and Monsters


@Magruber

Total movies watched: 1

Human Capital


@Kaizen

Total movies watched: 1

Jungle Cruise


@Sonofabeach

Total movies watched: 1

Don't Breathe 2


@Duncan Idaho

Total movies watched: 1

Dune


@billybud

Total movies watched: 1

House of Gucci


@Ewekon

Total movies watched: 1

West Side Story​

 

[8893]

Tick, Tick...Boom. Watched this last night and loved it. It's a musical based on Jonathan Larson's life prior to writing "Rent". Rent is my favorite musical and the music and vibe of the movie have Rent's fingerprints all over it. And Andrew Garfield really impressed me with his singing and theatric abilities.

It's a musical. It's based off Rent. If you don't like or know much about either? Don't bother. If you do? I think you'd really enjoy it.

Tick, Tick…Boom was great. Thanks for this recommendation. I loved it also, and I don’t love musicals and didn’t know a ton about Rent, except that my oldest daughter was in an abbreviated version of it as part of a revue in high school.

Definitely the most award-worthy performance and movie I’ve seen this year. Garfield was outstanding and it’s a great story, told very effectively. The actor who played Michael was also excellent, as was Susan. I was moved.

 

[Hey Adrien!]

I think you're looking at it too black and white.

If I'm talking about a movie, I think I'd generally fall in 1 of 3 camps:

1) It's a complete waste of time, stay far away.
2) I loved it and I'd recommend it's worth making a point of seeing this.
3) Eh. It's fine if you want to be mildly entertained for a couple hours.

This falls clearly into camp 3 for me

Thanks for speaking on my behalf and you’re summing up my sentiments better than I would.

All other people on here made great points, ones I would have loved to discuss in person over a drink, but I don’t have the energy to do so on an online forum.

Super specific objective critique, I have trouble with any comedy (my favorite type of movie) much longer than 90 minutes. If we somehow cut 30 minutes from Don’t Look Now, I might have loved it.

 

[dbmill]

Its that time again!!

Year End Movie Review Roundup!!! (for postings in 2021 only)

Mano:

Total movies watched: 101

The Croods: A New Age, Underwater, Happiest Season, Extra Ordinary, Logan Lucky, The Command, Wolf Walkers, Greyhound, Austenland, The Little Things, Cowboys & Aliens, I Tonya, The Art of Self-Defense, Source Code, The Gentleman, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, 21 Bridges, I Care a Lot, Richard Jewell, Coming 2 America, mid90s, Fighting with My Family, Possessor, Bad Trip, Godzilla vs. Kong, A Most Violent Year, High-Rise, The Big Sick, Zathura: A Space Adventure, The Girl with All the Gifts, Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar, Astro Boy, Raya and the Last Dragon, Polar, Limitless, Velvet Buzzsaw, Mortal Kombat, Ponyo, Emma., Tom Clancy's Without Remorse, The Mitchell's vs. the Machines, Greenland, Those Who Wish Me Dead, El Camino, I Used to Go Here, Cruella, Don't Think Twice, Luca, Jungle Cruise, Space Jam: A New Legacy, Freaky, Timeline, Vivo, The Suicide Squad, A Quiet Place Part II, Reminiscence, Terminator: Genisys, Love and Monsters, Vacation Friends, Dinosaur, Playing With Fire, Kate, Malignant, The Ritual, Hereditary, Apostle, Promising Young Woman, The Many Saints of Newark, Black Widow, Event Horizon, Free Guy, Dune, F9: The Fast Saga, Old, The Addams Family 2, A Knight's Tale, Nobody, The Green Knight, Finch, Bumblebee, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Home Sweet Home Alone, Love Hard, 8-Bit Christmas, Console Wars, Dragged Across Concrete, Encanto, Riders of Justice, Another Round, The Matrix Resurrections, Back to the Outback, Ron's Gone Wrong, Rumble, Clifford the Big Red Dog, Don't Look Up, Klaus, Mortal, PAW Patrol: The Movie, Darkest Hour, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, No Time To Die

2021 Top 5:

1. Dune
2. Greyhound
3. Hereditary
4. I, Tonya
5. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Just Missed:

Logan Lucky, The Gentleman, Cruella, Encanto, Luca, Darkest Hour


@nwhoopfan

Total movies watched: 95

Fierce, The New Mutants, Outside the Wire, Bill & Ted Face the Music, The Foreigner, Firefox, Space Sweepers, Freaky, Tenet, Moxie, Sentinelle, The Informer, The Kid Detective, The Broken Hearts Gallery, Promising Young Woman, Mayhem, Journey to the West, The Map of Tiny Perfect Things, Lady Bloodfight, Lifeforce, Interstate 60, The Student and Mr. Henri, The Sweetest Thing, Barbarella, The Darkest Hour, Dirt Music, Her Best Move, Mary Goes Round, Tainted, The Transporter Refueled, Chaos Walking, Welcome Home Roxy Carmichael, Sea Fever, Very Good Girls, Summer Eleven, Wild Child, Army of the Dead, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Echo in the Canyon, The Broken Circle Breakdown, 10 Years, The Tomorrow War, Snow Day, Jolt, Black Widow, Our Friend, Suck, Little Black Book, Standby, Fanny's Journey, Wrath of Man, Finding You, Stardom, Pixie, As Cool As I Am, The Moth Diaries, Afterlife of the Party, Beckett, Nightbooks, Kate, The High Note, Mortal Kombat, Opening Night, F9: The Fast Saga, Broken Diamonds, French Exit, Triple 9, Letters to Juliet, Destination Wedding, Walk of Shame, A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas, Dear John, Lying and Stealing, Night Teeth, The Protege, Love Spreads, Cruella, The Suicide Squad, Boss Level, We Broke Up, Palm Springs, Riders of Justice, Free Guy, Happiest Season, Red Notice, Playing God, Crazy About You, Spoiled Brats, Naked Singularity, The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard, Little Fish, Don't Look Up, The Alpinist, 14 Peaks, Burnt


@HuskyHawk

Total movies watched: 60

Ava, Greyhound, Enola Holmes, Extraction, Sylvie's Love, Greenland, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, One Night in Miami, Wander, The November Man, The Little Things, Radium Girls, Batman vs Superman Ultimate Edition, I Care a Lot, Night Watch, Coming 2 America, Zack Snyder's Justice League, SAS: Red Notice, Godzilla vs. Kong, Seaspiracy, The Courier, Mortal Kombat, Blithe Spirit, Things Heard and Seen, Boys From County Hell, Cruella, The Good Traitor, The Mortuary Collection, The Last Vermeer, No Sudden Move, The Tomorrow War, Monster Hunter, Gunpowder Milkshake, Six Minutes to Midnight, Jungle Cruise, Free Guy, Reminiscence, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, Malignant, No Time to Die, Dune, The Inheritance, The Green Knight, Last Night in Soho, The Harder They Fall, News of the World, Finch, Prometheus, A Boy Called Christmas, The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard, Oblivion, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Belfast, Army of the Dead, CBGB, Arthur Christmas, Being the Ricardos, The Matrix Resurrections, Don't Look Up


@Dove

Total movies watched: 48

The Trial of the Chicago 7, Overlord, Dark Was the Night, Goin' South, Polar, Outside the Wire, The Longest Yard, Point Blank, The Sound of Metal, The First Texan, Sicario, Wander, Up in Smoke, The Silencing, Ava, The Dig, Mortal, Let Him Go, I Care a Lot, Nomadland, 12 Hour Shift, Greenland, Walkaway Joe, Best in Show, Unhinged, Godzilla vs. Kong, Instant Family, Blue Miracle, Riders of Justice, Human Capital, Minari, Paydirt, Concrete Cowboy, Pig, Nobody, Malignant, Hell Fest, Ant-Man, The Bar, A Quiet Place Part II, The Deep House, Real Steel, Chaos Walking, Shadow in the Clouds, Four Christmases, Sideways, Don't Look Up, The Unforgivable


@storrsroars

Total movies watched: 26

Easy A, One Night in Miami, War on Everyone, Below Zero, American Assassin, The Bank Job, Homefront, Redemption, Ava, 6 Underground, Acts of Violence, First Kill, Marauders, I Am Wrath, The Debt Collector, The Debt Collector 2, I Care a Lot, Seaspiracy, Tom Clancy's Without Remorse, Angel Heart, The Fisher King, All Nighter, The Guilty, The Forgotten Battle, Don't Look Up, Being the Ricardos


@dbmill

Total movies watched: 20

First Cow, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Kajillionaire, Coraline, A Lady Takes a Chance, Tesla, My Favorite Year, About a Boy, Heaven Help Us, Soul, The Secret Garden, The Lady in the Van, Cadillac Records, The Trip to Italy, Matinee, The Water Man, The Wolf of Snow Hollow, Legend of Hell House, On the Rocks, The Informant!, One Night In Miami


@nelsonmuntz

Total movies watched: 18

The Foreigner, The Midnight Sky, Greyhound, Being There, Barbarians at the Gate, Lady Bird, The King of Staten Island, I Care a Lot, Timeline, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, The Gentleman, The Laundromat, Rules of Attraction, Dune, King Richard, The Two Popes, The Meyerowitz Stories. Don't Look Up


@Kolumbo

Total movies watched: 17

The Frozen Ground, Mile 22, Dangerous Lies, Hangman, Unknown, The Midnight Sky, Spencer Confidential, Self/less, Mission: Impossible - Fallout, Outside the Wire, Last Train from Gun Hill, Crazy Stupid Love, Skyfall, The Circle, Knives Out, Fire With Fire, Destination Wedding


@Deepster

Total movies watched: 12

Inside Man, That Thing You Do, The Gift, Seabiscuit, John Wick, Cherry, Perks of Being a Wallflower, Tom Clancy's Without Remorse, The Tomorrow War, Death Proof, Coda, tick, tick...BOOM


@CL82

Total movies watched: 12

Knuckleball, Boss Level, Greyhound, Alien Origin, Nomadland, Fear of Rain, Finch, The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard, Gods and Monsters, Doctor Sleep, Out of Death, Leave No Trace


@ZooCougar

Total movies watched: 9

The Hunt, Greenland, The King of Staten Island, Chronicle, Nomadland, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, No Time to Die, Dune, Eternals


@8893

Total movies watched: 8

Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, Nomadland, Muscle Shoals, Summer of Soul, Don't Look Up, The Unforgivable, Power of the Dog


@Waquoit

Total movies watched: 7

On the Rocks, Set It Up, Dream Horse, Summer of Soul, Roadrunner, Shazam!, The French Dispatch


@Letsgohuskies11

Total movies watched: 6

Calibre, The Forgotten Battle, Dune, Creep, The Alpinist, 14 Peaks


@Palatine

Total movies watched: 5

Kajillionaire, Rapture-Palooza, Nobody, Free Guy, The French Dispatch


@Rugger36

Total movies watched: 5

Cherry, Greyhound, The Courier, Nobody, Don't Look Up


@Deadrody

Total movies watched: 4

Chaos Walking, Jungle Cruise, Cruella, The Green Knight


@Hey Adrien!

Total movies watched: 3

In the Heights, Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar, Don't Look Up


@Jay-Bone

Total movies watched: 3

The Nightengale, Pig, The Last Duel


@Bliss

Total movies watched: 1

Unfaithful


@zymurg

Total movies watched: 1

Legend


@LIuconn

Total movies watched: 1

Operation Odessa


@Chin Diesel

Total movies watched: 1

I Care a Lot


@Tommyboy

Total movies watched: 1

Love and Monsters


@Magruber

Total movies watched: 1

Human Capital


@Kaizen

Total movies watched: 1

Jungle Cruise


@Sonofabeach

Total movies watched: 1

Don't Breathe 2


@Duncan Idaho

Total movies watched: 1

Dune


@billybud

Total movies watched: 1

House of Gucci


@Ewekon

Total movies watched: 1

West Side Story​

As always, appreciate the tabulation efforts, as it no doubt is a time consuming process. Did notice there was a mistake on my tabulation, as there are 21 movies on my list, not 20. Of course, the first time I counted the movies for myself in the above posting, I came up with 22 for myself, which just goes to show you how easy it is to make a mistake in counting. And I was just counting for myself, not everyone who posted during the course of the year. Whatever the case, 20 or 21 movies watched, it is all still in the same neighborhood. Anyway, whatever the number that winds up next to me, thanks for your efforts in doing this.

 

[Mano]

As always, appreciate the tabulation efforts, as it no doubt is a time consuming process. Did notice there was a mistake on my tabulation, as there are 21 movies on my list, not 20. Of course, the first time I counted the movies for myself in the above posting, I came up with 22 for myself, which just goes to show you how easy it is to make a mistake in counting. And I was just counting for myself, not everyone who posted during the course of the year. Whatever the case, 20 or 21 movies watched, it is all still in the same neighborhood. Anyway, whatever the number that winds up next to me, thanks for your efforts in doing this.

I will be alerting Price Waterhouse that we will no longer be in need of their services post haste.

 

[8893]

Being the Ricardos. 2021 Prime. So, the story of Lucile Ball and Desi Arnez, starting Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem as the leads. This is an interesting film and I quite like the use of three real people to provide commentary at the start and key moments. People who were actually there and are played by actors in the film. The focus is on on critical week in the making of I Love Lucy. But there are flashbacks that fill out the story of how they met and how the show came to exist. It's quite interesting. One early comment from the real folks involved was certainly interesting: 60 million weekly viewers. In the early 50s. There is no modern equivalent, even in total numbers, let alone as a % population. Both lead actors do a good job, and JK Simmons is great as William Frawley (Fred Mertz). I found it quite an enjoyable film that delves into the story people we also know and remember at some level.

Watched this last night and thought it was very good as well.

 

[Deadrody]

Did I miss a West Side Story review here?
From first frame it screams Spielberg and DP Kaminsky. $17 in IMAX. Pay the extra.
What an amazing score. Probably my favorite Bernstein work.

Somewhat re-imagined. Fleshes out the actual west side ",story". Rita Mareno only "name" star....before release. Riff and Maria are scene stealers IMHO. True enough to the original. Shot too bright for my idea of the period/neighborhood, until the last 30 minutes.

Worth the 2.5 hours

Thoughts on no subtitles for the Spanish only part of the movie ? Or do you speak Spanish ?

 

[Ewekon]

Thoughts on no subtitles for the Spanish only part of the movie ? Or do you speak Spanish ?

Good point. Yo hablo Espanol un poquito. It was annoying.

 

[8893]

Watched "The Alpinist" yesterday and "14 Peaks" today. Both interesting seeing climbers pushing the limits of what is humanly possible. Very different in how they went about their pursuits.

14 peaks should have been a series, it felt too rushed at times. Like a 3 minute segment explaining climbing K2. Enjoyed the alpinist, guy almost had a death wish given the extremes he went

Watched The Alpinist last night. Amazing. Great watch. Visually stunning and emotionally compelling. And terrifying (especially for Mrs. 8893, who has vertigo).

 

[HuskyHawk]

So. We need a 2022 thread.

 

[dbmill]

So. We need a 2022 thread.

Funny, I'm about to post on that thread.

 

[storrsroars]

So. We need a 2022 thread.

You don't like this one?