#MovieThread, 2022 edition!
In 2020 I watched 239 movies.
In 2021 I watched another 391,
for a total of 650 movies since very early into first lockdown.
That's probably all the movies, right?
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In 2020 I watched 239 movies.
In 2021 I watched another 391,
for a total of 650 movies since very early into first lockdown.
That's probably all the movies, right?
https://beepboop.one/@Alexis/105481230404786362
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#MovieThread, 2021 edition! In 2020 I watched 101 movies from very early into first lockdown until August 11, and the another 138 between then and last night.Beep Boop One
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It's the year 2022...
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •This is before the 80s, when Hollywood perfected the "two schmucks with a bad idea" formula, so they've overshot to "four daughters."
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •An unwieldy title like that doesn't... traditionally... mean... good things.
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Saw it when it came out, but I can't imagine it's aged... particularly gracefully.
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •I'm two seconds in and this might be the most MTV thing I've ever seen.
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •I've gone too far forward in time! These characters have seen "Saw 4," and I haven't.
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •I don't think I've actually seen a Macbeth? Read some Donald Duck adaptations, seen the Blackadder episode, but not a full Macbeth.
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •50/50 on "Justice" being the name of a character.
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •I liked "Mr Deeds Goes to Town," I liked "It Happened One Night," a Frank Capra picture is the closest thing to a sure shot in the Best Picture nominees so far.
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Not actually entirely sure what this one's about? Girl, high school, blood, gym, maybe she's psychic?
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#30, or #680, we Spielberg ever onwards with 2011's "War Horse."
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Leaving now to go see 2021's "The Matrix Resurrections" again.
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •#34, or #684, 2022's "Line Goes Up: The Problem With [N*F*T]s."
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •I have not heard good things.
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •This kind of biopic doesn't usually hold up, and Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney are in it, so I'm giving this: Bad odds.
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •#44, or #694, I sigh and put on 2013's "Kick-Ass 2."
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •this had better be about ghosts unionising
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Not one of the better known Spielbergs, no idea what it's about besides, presumably, bridge (singular) and spies (plural).
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Never was much of an MTV kid, but I'll watch people get cannonballed in the nuts for an hour and a half or whatever, sure.
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Be nice to see this crew again, it's been a while since I finished TOS.
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Which I don't think has anything to do with the soccer team, but does apparently feature Cage reprising his ridiculous character from 1993's "Deadfall."
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Which, movie's gonna be bad, for sure, but that's a great title.
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Not a clue what this is about, but the average Letterboxd rating of 1.2 ⭐ does not inspire great confidence.
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •#74, or #274, 2004's "Garfield."
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •I assume Cage plays the dad, but I think it'd be very funny if he played, like, somebody called John Mom.
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •This is either about mail or newspapers.
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •No idea what it's about, but I know it gets held up as Good Cage.
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •This looks like some cop shit, so, you know, not expecting high engagement on this one.
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Absolutely no way this doesn't suck absolute eggs.
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •If I recall correctly, I called the first one "a perfectly fine movie for 9-year olds."
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •#92, #742, 2021's "Prisoners of the Ghostland."
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Which, if I recall correctly, is about a Scottish doctor moving to Wales, and then to London? Maybe the Irish get involved somewhere.
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •I assume that's a western, so presumably it's cool but racist. (They might not have invented cool yet.)
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •This is the classic of English-language literature everyone I've ever seen talk about fucking hates, I think.
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •You know, not a hard translation, that title.
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •No idea what it's about, I think Ronald Reagan might be in it?
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •I understand this had some substantial real-world impact, and Frank Capra is generally pretty good, but does a political drama from 1939 hold up, like, at all?
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Which leaves me with just three I haven't seen, two of which I don't think ever played here ("CODA," "Drive My Car") and one of which filled me with apathy every time I looked at the poster. ("Nightmare Alley")
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Gay European road trip thing I think? Let's find out.
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •Which I'm pretty sure was primarily marketed with the tag line "Garbo Laughs !", so that's probably not a great sign.
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#776.
Leaving now to finally go see 2022's "The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent."
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •From 2004, Zack Snyder's "Dawn of the Dead."
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •we watched it at school, no idea what the context was, when I was like 15 or 16, and I found it deeply unpleasant
but I liked "Army of the Dead," so
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •It's probably 2022's "Morbius." But it could be anything.
(But it's "Morbius.")
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in reply to Alex Daily! • • •bet they find one at the end
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#139, or #789, 2022's "Deep Water," which I don't know anything about, except that there was Discourse that I've definitely already missed the window on.