Movie #70: Peggy Sue Got Married
Movie #71: Nimona
Movie #72: Clue

Movie #73: The Meg

It’s possible the Jurassic World trilogy has lowered my standards, but at least this was a bit of fun.

Movie #74: My Cousin Vinny
Movie #75: John Wick: Chapter 2

Movie #76: Clue

Rewatched already and enjoyed a ton again 😁

Movie #77: John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum

I’m not sure I’ve seen so much breakaway glass used in a single film before 😨

Movie #78: They Cloned Tyrone

Movie #79: John Wick: Chapter 4

And that's the John Wick franchise (so far, of course)! Amazingly, all 4 of these fell into my "good" category, which is remarkably consistent.

Also noting that last year on Aug 20 I watched my 51st movie of the year, so I'm *flying* past my 100 movies goal this year 😱

Movie #80: The Mummy
Movie #81: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Movie #82: The Blackening
Movie #83: Prom Night
Movie #84: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Movie #85: Re-Animator

From ‘85 as well…nice 

Movie #86: Hocus Pocus
Movie #87: No One Will Save You
Movie #88: Theater Camp

Movie #89: Out of Sight

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And I’m on Letterboxd as well https://letterboxd.com/mattbirchler/

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Movie #90: Elemental

Underrated 💪

Movie #91: Talk to Me
Movie #92: Barbie
Movie #93: Mars Attacks!
Movie #94: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

Movie #95: Shin Godzilla

Highly recommend not watching the dubbed version of this. I toggled over a few times and the English acting is…rough. Subs FTW.

Movie #96: Taylor Siwft: The Eras Tour

Movie #97: Kill Bill: Vol. 1

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Movie #98: Totally Killer

Movie #99: A Nightmare on Elm Street

1 more for my 100 movie goal for 2023 

Movie #100: Shutter Island

Figured I could do a spooky movie and a Scorsese flick at at once 😉

Movie #101: After Hours

Not technically spooky, but this is also a bit of a nightmare for the protagonist.

Movie #102: A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge

Woof!

Movie #103: Halloween (2018)
Movie #104: A Haunting in Venice

Movie #105: A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

Also a young Laurence Fishburne who proves he’s always been cool as hell.

Movie #106: The Dog Who Saved Christmas

Movie #107: Quiz Girl

Wife is sick, so chilling out with movies all day.

Movie #108: The Killer
Movie #109: The Descent
Movie #110: Sunshine

Movie #111: A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)

I knew it wouldn't be great, but I hoped for more than this 😕

Movie #112: The Conversation

Movie #113: Drag Me to Hell

2 movies by lunchtime? Yes, I am enjoying my week off 😜

Movie #114: True Lies

Also acknowledging that parts of this have not aged great.

Movie #115: [REC]

The biggest bummer here is despite the Apple TV version of this supposedly having the original Spanish audio, the player only let me use the English dub.

Movie #116: All the President’s Men
Movie #117: Hone Alone
Movie #118: Cape Fear
Movie #119: Killers of the Flower Moon
Movie #120: Past Lives

Movie #121: The Nun

It feels more like a bad theme park ride than a film with an actual story to tell.

I might, honestly 😂 People seem to generally like the second one more, so might give it a shot. It's on the very of being a fun movie, but this one fell on the wrong side of that line.

Movie #122: The Nun II

Oof.

Movie #123: Clear and Present Danger

Not that it’s super important, but this movie might have the most obviously ADR’d lines in a movie I’ve ever seen.

Movie #124: Oppenheimer

Uh, use the alt text to read this one 😂

Movie #125: The Fugitive

Movie #126: Fatal Attraction

A boring bummer of a film 😭

Movie #127: When Evil Lurks
Movie #128: Suitable Flesh
Movie #129: Leave the World Behind
Movie #130: May December
@matt how do you pick what to watch? I mostly give up on picking something after an hour and do something else. 😥

@stevenodb haha, well one thing that helped was deciding I wanted to watch a lot of stuff, so that got me in the habit of just picking something and going.

Also Letterboxd is a great resource for seeing what other people are excited about right now, and I can always find something on the front page there if I'm not sure what to watch.

@matt

Interesting. This was a smash blockbuster hit when it came out in 1987 ($320 million worldwide). Audiences loved it. Farthest thing from boring. I guess mileage varies.

@brianstorms Yeah, I hoped for more, but I don’t think it’s aged well. More recent audience reviews seem a lot more middling, but I definitely seem to find it worse than the average person.
@matt Would love to hear more about the characters under and over served.
@lance For me, I think the women in the movie were pretty inconsequential in ways that are pretty typical of "great man" movies, which was a shame. Maybe there's more that I missed, but that was my impression on first viewing.
@matt Could it be the women being underserved in a Nolan movie? Shocking! 🤦
@matt Going to watch the sequel now? 👹
@matt I was terrified of the Nun after watching The Conjuring 2, but this movie completely ruined the horror for me. It was good when it was mysterious, then it got "monster-scary” and bleh
@matt See you then.
@keenan So freaking good!
@matt I know. I’d been dying to watch it, and I’m so glad I finally did.
@keenan Hell yeah! It was your review that made me go “just watch it, Matt, you’re going to love it”
@matt what a perfectly devastating movie. So glad you liked it!
@matt Saw it in the cinema, because I love Scorsese, but, man, I didn’t get it: Important topic, but super boring implementation. (2/5★)
@eay Oh man, I was engrossed! I’ll give you it could have been trimmed a bit, but it really clicked for me.
@matt I like violent movies, but this movie was too realistically violent for me.

@matt Nice, I haven’t watched this in years. One of the only horror films where I had to turn on all my lights after watching it the first time!

Did you buy/rent it from Apple? I can’t find it when searching in the AppleTV app (Rec 2 and 4 are there through).

@alextm huh, weird, maybe an issue with rights in different countries? I was using the US store.

It was a lot of fun, though 😁

@matt I would give this one a rating of Great. The last 3 minutes are genuinely terrifying!

Also, the sequels are pretty good too.

@Granneman Closer to great than okay on my scale for sure! Really good stuff.
@matt I know it is nostalgia talking, but this movie never fails to make me smile. :)
@matt one of my all time faves. So fun to watch in a crowded theater
@matt one of the best 2/3rds of a sci-fi movie ever made!

@matt this movie is so close to amazing. Every time I watch it for the first half I’m like omg this is a classic.

And then.