July 2021’s Movie Watch List with Juicy Stats

Oof. This is one late post. I usually get these on the site close to the beginning of the month and we are already… 20 days into August?!!?

Well, that is life for me. One month I’m on vacation, relaxing, posting every day. The next is so busy I can’t find the time. Well, I got a long and lazy Friday shift ahead of me today, so… better late than never!

The Movie Watch List–

• An asterisk (*) indicates a first time viewing.
• Strike-through means I didn’t enjoy it enough to finish it.

Date Watched	Title	Release Year	My Score
Jul01	Skyfall	2012	4
Jul02	The Celluloid Closet*	1995	4.5
Jul03	Bobcaygen*	2012	3.5
Jul03	Frankenstein*	1931	4
Jul04	Foreign Correspondent	1940	4
Jul05	Zardoz*	1974	2
Jul06	Dead End*	1937	3.5
Jul07	¡Three Amigos!	1986	5
Jul08	Spector	2015	4.5
Jul10	Suspicion	1941	4
Jul11	Smooth Talk*	1986	3.5
Jul12	Contagion*	2011	3.5
Jul13	A Quiet Place Part II*	2021	2

Date Watched	Title	Release Year	My Score
Jul15	Never Say Never Again	1983	2.5
Jul17	Notorious	1946	4
Jul18	The Tomorrow War*	2021	1.5
Jul19	Thief*	1981	4.5
Jul20	Blow Out*	1981	3
Jul22	Shanghai Noon	2000	2.5
Jul26	Shanghai Knights	2003	3
Jul27	Munich	2005	3.5
Jul27	Minority Report	2002	2.5
Jul28	The Sugarland Express*	1974	4.5
Jul28	The Post*	2017	2.5
Jul29	Bridge of Spies*	2015	3.5
Jul31	Schindler’s List	1993	5

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The Juicy Stats

Total Number of movies watched: 26
The number of first-time watches: 15
Minutes spent watching movies: 2932
Oldest movie: Frankenstein (1931)
Longest movie: Schindler’s List (194 minutes)

Movies watched by decade:
1910s – 0
‘30s – 2
‘40s – 3
‘50s – 0
‘60s – 0
‘70s – 2
‘80s – 5
‘90s – 2
‘00s – 4
2010s – 6
2020s – 2

How I watched them:
Amazon Prime – 4
Blu-ray Collection – 5
Crave – 2
Disney+ – 3
DVD – 2
Netflix – 1
PVR – 2
Pirates – 6

Genres:
Action – 3
Comedy – 3
Crime – 2
Documentaries – 2
Dramas – 3
Horror – 2
Science Fiction – 3
Thriller – 8

Baseball time!
These are the “batting stats” compiled for the FIRST TIME watches.  I give each movie a rating out of 5.  4.5 and up are home runs, 4s to 2.5s are hits, 2 and lower are field outs, an 0.5 (did not finish) is a Strike Out.  This tells me how well of a job I’m doing at picking which movies to watch.

Good Movie Average:  13/15 – .867 (Last month: .762)
Home Runs: 3
– The Sugarland Express
– Thief
– The Celluloid Closet
Strikeouts: 0.0

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Awards
Most Fun First Time Watch: Frankenstein
Movie That More People Should See: The Celluloid Closet
Most Disappointing: Blow Out
Most Fun Re-watch: ¡Three Amigos!
Most Forgettable: The Post
Better Than I Remembered: Skyfall
The movie I can finally cross off the Bucket-list: Never Say Never Again
Best performance: Sean Connery’s loin cloth (Zardoz), Tuesday Weld (Thief)
Most Pleasant Surprise: Contagion
Worst Movie: Zardoz
Best Movie: Thief

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June 2021’s Movie Watch List with Juicy Stats

2021 is already halfway gone. Time flies.

My good-movie average is a little low this month since I intentionally watched some bad films. Two of the Tremors sequels and 8 Heads in a Duffle Bag. Then I saw The Dukes of Hazzard was leaving Tubi at the end of the month. I should have left it unwatched! Still, no strikeouts as I watched all I started to completion.

The Movie Watch List–

• An asterisk (*) indicates a first time viewing.
• Strike-through means I didn’t enjoy it enough to finish it.

Date Watched	Title	Release Year	My Score
Jun01	The Rider*	2017	3.5
Jun02	Wonder Woman 1984*	2021	2.5
Jun03	Tremors: A Cold Day In Hell*	2018	1.5
Jun03	The World Is Not Enough	1999	4
Jun04	Tremors: Shrieker Island*	2020	2
Jun05	Red River*	1948	3
Jun06	Shadow of A Doubt*	1943	4
Jun07	Wind River*	2017	4.5
Jun08	Goon*	2011	4.5
Jun09	The Map Of Tiny Perfect Things*	2021	4
Jun10	Die Another Die	2002	2
Jun12	The Man Who Knew Too Much*	1955	3
Jun13	Brian’s Song*	1971	4
Jun14	Good Time*	2017	4
Jun15	Fubar*	2002	4

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Date Watched	Title	Year Released	My Score
Jun16	Mighty Joe Young*	1949	3
Jun17	Casino Royale	2006	4.5
Jun20	To Catch A Thief*	1955	3.5
Jun21	8 Heads in A Duffle Bag*	1997	1.5
Jun22	The Dukes of Hazzard*	2005	1.5
Jun22	The Terminal*	2004	2
Jun23	Quantum of Solace	2008	2.5
Jun26	I Am Burt Reynolds*	2020	4.5
Jun26	Topaz*	1969	3
Jun28	Malone*	1987	3.5
Jun28	Rush Hour	1997	3.5
Jun29	Rush Hour 2	2001	3
Jun30	Rush Hour 3	2007	2.5

The Juicy Stats

Total Number of movies watched: 28
The number of first-time watches: 21
Minutes spent watching movies: 2983
Oldest movie: A Shadow of A Doubt (1943)
Longest movie: Wonder Woman 1984 (151 minute)

Movies watched by decade:
1910s – 0
‘30s – 0
‘40s – 3
‘50s – 2
‘60s – 1
‘70s – 1
‘80s – 1
‘90s – 3
‘00s – 8
2010s – 5  
2020 – 4

How I watched them:
Amazon Prime – 3
Blu-ray Collection – 6
Crave – 3
Netflix – 7
PVR – 5
Tubi – 2
Pirates – 2

Genres:
Action – 8
Comedy – 5
Comic Book – 1
Crime – 1
Documentaries – 1
Dramas – 3
Horror – 2
Thriller – 6
Western – 1

Baseball time!
These are the “batting stats” compiled for the FIRST TIME watches.  I give each movie a rating out of 5.  4.5 and up are home runs, 4s to 2.5s are hits, 2 and lower are field outs, an 0.5 (did not finish) is a Strike Out.  This tells me how well of a job I’m doing at picking which movies to watch.

Good Movie Average:  16/21 – .762 (Last month: .870)
Home Runs: 3
– Wind River
– Goon
– I Am Burt Reynolds
Strikeouts: 0.0

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Awards
Most Fun First Time Watch: Goon
Movie That More People Should See: Good Time
Most Disappointing: The Terminal
Most Fun Re-watch: Rush Hour
Most Forgettable: Wonder Woman 1984
Better Than I Remembered: Casino Royale
The movie I can finally cross off the Bucket-list: Brian’s Song
Best performance: Sean William Scott, Goon
Most Pleasant Surprise: Goon
Worst Movie:  Tremors: A Cold Day In Hell
Best Movie: I highly recommend Wind River and Goon for completely different reasons.

May 2021’s Movie Watch List with Juicy Stats

May was a little closer to my usual with a total of 28 films watched. 23 were seen by me for the first time. While the stat got a little boost with Shake! Otis at Monterey only being 19 minutes long, Zack Snyder’s Justice League balanced it out with its whopping 342 minute runtime.

I decided to add a links on “My Ratings” scores to my brief reviews on Letterboxd for those who might want a little more. I have shied away from doing this in the past thinking that it would take too long, but little effort was needed. Let me know if you like this feature or not. Full reviews on the blog here are still linked in the title.

An excellent month quality wise with a solid average and ZERO strikeouts!

The Movie Watch List

• An asterisk (*) indicates a first time viewing.
• Strike-through means I didn’t enjoy it enough to finish it.

Date Watched	Title	Release Year	My Rating
May01	The Color Purple*	1985	4.5
May03	Selma*	2014	4
May04	Angry Inuk*	2016	4.5
May05	Father of The Bride*	1950	4
May06	Zack Snyder’s Justice League*	2021	2.5
May06	Framing Britney Spears*	2021	3.5
May08	Cool Runnings	1993	4
May09	Torn Curtain*	1966	4
May10	BlacKkKlansman*	2018	3.5
May11	Waves*	2019	4
May12	Gun Crazy	1950	4
May13	Jimi Plays Monterey*	1986	4
May13	Shake! Otis at Monterey*	1987	4
May15	Licence to Kill	1989	2.5

Date Watched	Film Title	Release Year	My Score
May16	The Fog*	1980	2
May17	Leave No Trace*	2018	4
May18	99 Homes*	2014	2
May19	My Man and I*	1952	2.5
May20	GoldenEye	1995	5
May22	Running On Empty*	1988	4
May23	Rush*	2013	4
May24	Yesterday*	2019	4
May25	Sorry To Bother You*	2018	2
May26	The Wackness*	2008	3.5
May27	Tomorrow Never Dies	1997	4.5
May29	The Tragically Hip – That Night in Toronto*	2005	4
May30	Attack of the 50 Foot Woman*	1958	2
May31	Upgrade*	2018	4.5

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The Juicy Stats

Total Number of movies watched: 28
The number of first-time watches: 23
Minutes spent watching movies: 3163
Oldest movie: Tie: Father of the Bride and Gun Crazy (1950)
Longest movie: Zack Snyder’s Justice League (342 minutes )

Movies watched by decade:
1910s – 0
‘30s – 0
‘40s – 0
‘50s – 4
‘60s – 1
‘70s – 0
‘80s – 6
‘90s – 3
‘00s – 2
2010s –  10
2020 – 2

How I watched them:
PVR/DVR – 11
DVD Collection – 1
Blu-ray Collection – 5
4K Blu-ray collection – 0
Public Library DVD – 0
Netflix – 5
Amazon Prime – 4
Tubi – 0
YouTube – 0
Legit Stream – 0
Disney+ – 1
Crave – 1
Pirates – 0

Genres:
Action – 3
Animated – 0
Comedy – 4
Comic Book – 1
Concert – 3
Crime – 0
Documentaries – 2
Dramas – 10
Fantasy – 0
Film Noir – 1
Horror – 1
Holiday – 0
Kung Fu – 0
Musical – 0
Science Fiction – 1
Thriller – 1
War – 0
Western – 0

Baseball time!
These are the “batting stats” compiled for the FIRST TIME watches.  I give each movie a rating out of 5.  4.5 and up are home runs, 4s to 2.5s are hits, 2 and lower are field outs, an 0.5 (did not finish) is a Strike Out.  This tells me how well of a job I’m doing at picking which movies to watch.

Good Movie Average:  20/23 – .870 (Last month: .882)
Home Runs: 3
– Angry Inuk
– The Color Purple
– Upgrade
Strikeouts: 0.0

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Awards
Most Fun First Time Watch: Upgrade
Movie That More People Should See: Angry Inuk
Most Fun Re-watch: GoldenEye
Most Forgettable: 99 Homes
Better Than I Remembered: Tomorrow Never Dies
The movie I can finally cross off the Bucket-list: The Color Purple
Best performance: Woopie Goldberg, The Color Purple
Most Pleasant Surprise: Upgrade
Worst Movie:  Meh, nothing was really that bad this month, but I never want to see 99 Homes again.
Best Movie: Upgrade

April 2021’s Movie Watch List with Juicy Stats

Well, April was a really slow month for movies. This is mostly due to me getting sick (besides the odd allergy symptom) for the first time since this pandemic started. Last Monday I got my first shot of the Covid-19 vaccine and its side effects put me out of commission for almost a week. I couldn’t even move on Tuesday without major effort. But, I’m all good now and the experience was still way better than getting Covid!

Anyway, I only managed to get 23 films in me, 17 of which I had not seen before. BUT… I enjoyed most of them! I got to see some great films with Sarah as we wrapped up our march towards The Oscars. There were only two stinkers out of the lot and I even managed to cross a movie off of the ol’ bucket list. Not bad for an “off” month!

The Movie Watch List

• An asterisk (*) indicates a first time viewing.
• Strike-through means I didn’t enjoy it enough to finish it.

Date Watched	Movie Title	Release Year	My Rating
Apr02	Robocop	1987	5
Apr03	Octopussy	1983	3.5
Apr04	Time*	2020	4
Apr05	My Octopus Teacher*	2020	4
Apr06	Over The Moon*	2020	???
Apr06	Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution*	2020	4
Apr07	The Mole Agent*	2020	4
Apr08	Wolfwalkers*	2020	4
Apr10	Better Days*	2019	3
Apr11	One Night In Miami…*	2020	3
Apr12	News of the World*	2020	3
Apr13	A Shaun of the Sheep Movie: Farmaggedon*	2019	4.5
Apr14	Quo Vadis, Aida? (Where are you, Aida?)*	2020	4.5
Apr15	The United States vs. Billie Holiday*	2021	3

Date Watched	Movie Title	Release Year	My Rating
Apr16	The Last Cruise*	2021	3
Apr17	A View To A Kill	1985	4
Apr18	Field of Dreams	1989	3
Apr19	The Cable Guy	1996	4
Apr21	What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?*	1962	4.5
Apr22	The Living Daylights	1987	2.5
Apr24	Dead Reckoning*	1947	4
Apr25	Chef*	2014	4
Apr26	Detachment*	2011	2

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The Juicy Stats

Total Number of movies watched: 23
The number of first-time watches: 17
Minutes spent watching movies: 2236
Oldest movie: Dead Reckoning (1947)
Longest movie: Tie: 135 minutes What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?, Better Days.

Movies watched by decade:
1910s – 0
‘30s – 0
‘40s – 1
‘50s – 0
‘60s – 1
‘70s – 5
‘80s – 5
‘90s – 1
‘00s – 0
2010s – 4
2020 – 11

How I watched them:
PVR/DVR – 3
DVD Collection – 0
Blu-ray Collection – 5
4K Blu-ray collection – 0
Public Library DVD – 0
Netflix – 5
Amazon Prime – 3
Tubi – 0
YouTube – 0
Legit Stream – 0
Disney+ – 0
Pirates – 7

Genres:
Action – 3
Animated – 3
Comedy – 2
Comic Book – 0
Concert – 0
Crime – 0
Documentaries – 5
Dramas – 5
Fantasy – 1
Film Noir – 1
Horror – 1
Holiday – 0
Kung Fu – 0
Musical – 0
Science Fiction – 1
Thriller – 1
War – 0
Western – 1

Baseball time!
These are the “batting stats” compiled for the FIRST TIME watches.  I give each movie a rating out of 5.  4.5 and up are home runs, 4s to 2.5s are hits, 2 and lower are field outs, an 0.5 (did not finish) is a Strike Out.  This tells me how well of a job I’m doing at picking which movies to watch.

Good Movie Average:  15/17 – .882 (Last month: .777)
Home Runs: 3
– A Shaun of the Sheep Movie: Farmaggedon
– Quo Vadis, Aida? (Where are you, Aida?)
– What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Strikeouts: 2
– Detachment
– Over The Moon (To be fair to Over The Moon, I’m sure it is a fine movie for kids. Just not for me.)

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Awards
Most Fun First Time Watch: Shaun of the Sheep Movie: Farmaggedon
Movie That More People Should See: TIE: Quo Vadis, Aida? (Where are you, Aida?), The Mole Agent
Most Fun Re-watch: Robocop
Most Forgettable: NA -Nothing fits this category this month
Better Than I Remembered: The Cable Guy
Not As Good As I Remembered: Field of Dreams
The movie I can finally cross off the Bucket-list: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Best performance: Bette Davis, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Most Pleasant Surprise: Shaun of the Sheep Movie: Farmaggedon
Most Disappointing Movie:  Detachment
Best Movie: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

March 2021’s Movie Watch List with Juicy Stats

2021 continues to move a light speed for me. Here we are in April already! As for March, the Oscar nominees were announced making it heavy on the contemporary dramas. As I’ve said in the past, I enjoy the nomination process since it puts plenty of great films on my radar that I would not have watched otherwise. As for what wins, it is a total crap shoot!

Which of the noms did I like? Great question! A lot of homeruns this month! The answers are below…

The Movie Watch List

• An asterisk (*) indicates a first time viewing.
• Strike-through means I didn’t enjoy it enough to finish it.

Date Watched	Film Title	Year Released	My Rating
Mar01	The Never Ending Story	1984	3
Mar02	Away From Her*	2006	4
Mar03	Captain Fantastic*	2016	4.5
Mar04	The Man With The Golden Gun	1974	3
Mar05	An American Tail	1986	4
Mar06	Coming 2 America*	2021	2
Mar07	20,000 Leagues Under The Sea	1954	4
Mar08	Unhinged*	2020	1
Mar10	Sideways	2004	4
Mar11	The Spy Who Loved Me	1977	4.5
Mar12	UHF	1989	5
Mar13	City On Fire*	1987	4.5
Mar14	Man On Wire	2008	4

Date Watched	Film Title	Year Released	My Rating
Mar16	Mank*	2020	0.5
Mar17	Hillbilly Elegy*	2020	4
Mar18	Moonraker	1979	4
Mar19	Onward*	2020	5
Mar20	Sound of Metal*	2019	5
Mar21	Judas and the Black Messiah*	2021	4
Mar22	Promising Young Woman*	2020	2
Mar23	Minari*	2020	4
Mar24	Another Round (Druk)*	2020	4
Mar25	For Your Eyes Only	1981	4.5
Mar28	The Mechanic*	1972	3.5
Mar29	The Father*	2020	5
Mar30	Collectiv*	2019	4

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The Juicy Stats

Total Number of movies watched: 26
The number of first-time watches: 18
Minutes spent watching movies: 2773
Oldest movie: The Mechanic (1972)
Longest movie: Tie: 127 minutes Sideways, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. Mank is 133 minutes but I only watched a hour of it.

Movies watched by decade:
1910s – 0
‘30s – 0
‘40s – 0
‘50s – 0
‘60s – 0
‘70s – 4
‘80s – 5
‘90s – 0
‘00s – 2
2010s – 3
2020 – 10

How I watched them:
PVR/DVR – 2
DVD Collection – 5
Blu-ray Collection – 5
4K Blu-ray collection – 0
Public Library DVD – 0
Netflix – 5
Amazon Prime –
Tubi – 0
YouTube – 0
Legit Stream – 0
Disney+ – 2
Pirates – 6

Genres:
Action – 5
Animated – 2
Comedy – 3
Comic Book – 0
Concert – 0
Crime – 0
Documentaries – 2
Dramas – 10
Fantasy – 1
Film Noir – 0
Horror – 0
Holiday – 0
Kung Fu – 0
Musical – 0
Science Fiction – 1
Thriller – 1
War – 0
Western – 0

Baseball time!
These are the “batting stats” compiled for the FIRST TIME watches.  I give each movie a rating out of 5.  4.5 and up are home runs, 4s to 2.5s are hits, 2 and lower are field outs, an 0.5 (did not finish) is a Strike Out.  This tells me how well of a job I’m doing at picking which movies to watch.

Good Movie Average:  14/18 – .777 (Last month: .765)
Home Runs: 5 –City On Fire, Onward, Captain Fantastic, Sound of Metal, The Father
Strikeouts: 1 – Mank

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Awards
Most Fun First Time Watch: City On Fire
Movie That More People Should See: Away From Her
Most Fun Re-watch: UHF
Most Forgettable: Unhinged
Better Than I Remembered: The Spy Who Loved Me
Not As Good As I Remembered: The Never Ending Story
The movie I can finally cross off the Bucket-list: Man on Wire
Best performance: Anthony Hopkins, The Father
Most Pleasant Surprise: Onward
Most Disappointing Movie:  Coming 2 America
Best Movie: The Father

February 2021’s Movie Watch List with Juicy Stats

I know that February is a short month, but that was REALLY short! Lightening fast! Still, I managed to get some movies in me! A few new favourites and three I hope to never see again!

The Movie Watch List

• An asterisk (*) indicates a first time viewing.
• Strike-through means I didn’t enjoy it enough to finish it.

Date Watched	Movie Title	Year Released	My Score
Feb01	The White Tiger*	2021	3.5
Feb02	Booksmart*	2019	4
Feb02	AC/DC: Live at the Circus Krone*	2003	5
Feb03	The Hospital*	1971	4
Feb04	You Only Live Twice	1967	2.5
Feb06	Nomadland*	2020	4
Feb07	Tron*	1982	2.5
Feb08	The Dig*	2021	3
Feb09	Women at War*	2018	4.5
Feb10	Sneakers	1992	2.5
Feb11	On Her Majesty’s Secret Service	1969	3.5
Feb12	Hard Core Logo*	1996	1.5
Feb13	Submerged*	2005	0.5
Feb14	The Godfather	1972	5
Feb15	The Godfather: Part II	1974	4.5

Date Watched	Movie Title	Year Released	My Score
Feb16	The Godfather: Part III	1990	2
Feb17	The Forty-Year-Old Version*	2020	4
Feb18	Diamonds Are Forever	1971	3
Feb20	What Maisie Knew*	2012	4
Feb21	The Front Page*	1974	3.5
Feb22	The Rescuers*	1977	3
Feb23	Hunt for the Wilderpeople*	2016	5
Feb24	The Last Boy Scout*	1991	1
Feb25	Live and Let Die	1973	4
Feb28	A Warm December*	1973	3.5

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The Juicy Stats

Total Number of movies watched: 25
The number of first-time watches: 17
Hours spent watching movies: 48.78
Oldest movie: You Only Live Twice (1967)
Longest movie: The Godfather: Part II (3hrs 22m – 202m)

Movies watched by decade:
1910s – 0
‘30s – 0
‘40s – 0
‘50s – 0
‘60s – 2
‘70s – 8
‘80s – 1
‘90s – 4
‘00s – 2
2010s – 4
2020 – 4

How I watched them:
PVR/DVR – 5
DVD Collection – 3
Blu-ray Collection – 7
4K Blu-ray collection – 0
Public Library DVD – 0
Netflix – 4
Amazon Prime – 3
Tubi – 0
YouTube – 0
Legit Stream – 0
Disney+ – 2
Pirates – 1

Genres:
Action – 6
Animated – 1
Comedy – 4
Comic Book – 0
Concert – 1
Crime – 4
Documentaries – 0
Dramas – 7
Fantasy – 0
Film Noir – 0
Horror – 0
Holiday – 0
Kung Fu – 0
Musical – 0
Science Fiction – 1
Thriller – 1
War – 0
Western – 0

Baseball time!
These are the “batting stats” compiled for the FIRST TIME watches.  I give each movie a rating out of 5.  4.5 and up are home runs, 4s to 2.5s are hits, 2 and lower are field outs, an 0.5 (did not finish) is a Strike Out.  This tells me how well of a job I’m doing at picking which movies to watch.

Good Movie Average:  13/17 – .765 (Last month: .940)
Home Runs: 3 – Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Women at War, AC/DC: Live at the Circus Krone
Strikeouts: 0

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Awards
The Movie More People Should See: Woman At War
Most Fun First Time Watch: Booksmart
Most Fun Re-watch: Live And Let Die
Most Forgettable: Sneakers
Better Than I Remembered: NA
Not As Good As I Remembered: Diamonds Are Forever
The movie I can finally cross off the Bucket-list: Tron
Best performance: I was impressed by the ladies this month. Francis McDormand is quite good in Nomadland, The two young ladies in Booksmart had me in stiches, Diana Rigg was great in both The Hospital and On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, and finally Esther Anderson in A Warm December had some solid scenes. But I gotta say, Radha Blank in The 40 Year Old Version is probably set to win some awards.
Most Pleasant Surprise: The 40 Year Old Version
Most Disappointing Movie:  Tron
Three Movies I hope to never see again: The Last Boy Scout, Submerged , Hard Core Logo
Best Movie: Hunt for the Wilderpeople

Bonus Coverage!

I was taking a look at my all time stats since I started keeping track on letterbxd and there is an alarming trend!

Where is the diversity at? Only 3 POC and one lady! I got to get on that. Don’t even look at the directors… or do…

Jackie Chan is sticking out like a sore thumb here!

Anyway, I hope I don’t loose my Canadian Citizen ship for not enjoying Hard Core Logo!

January 2021’s Movie Watch List with Juicy Stats

Remember when it felt like it was taking forever for 2021 to arrive? And here we are already one month in!

There are a couple of changes I wanted to make from last year. One, is for the Juicy Stats. I’ll be keeping tabs the progress of a some yearly stats. So, there are some (hopefully) fun additions.

The second is how I watch films. I want to spend more time with the DVDs and Blu-rays in my collection and make better use of the streaming services. So, I made peace with the fact that my PVR will always be loaded with movies.

I think this worked out for the best as the following stats will show how I had a pretty good time…

The List

• An asterisk (*) indicates a first time viewing.
• Strike-through means I didn’t enjoy it enough to finish it.

Date Watched	Movie Title	Year Released	My Score
Jan03	The Go Go’s*	2020	4
Jan04	Dazed and Confused	1993	1
Jan07	Dr. No	1962	4
Jan09	To Sir, with Love*	1967	3.5
Jan09	AC/DC Live at Donington	1992	5
Jan10	Kramer vs. Kramer*	1979	4
Jan10	Stiff Upper Lip Live	2001	5
Jan11	Soul*	2020	4
Jan12	Ma Rainy’s Black Bottom*	2020	4
Jan13	Palm Springs*	2010	4.5
Jan14	From Russia with Love	1963	4
Jan16	Waitress*	2007	5
Jan16	AC/DC: Family Jewels	2005	4
Jan16	The Butcher Boy*	1917	3

 

Date Watched	Movie Title	Year Released	My Score
Jan17	Clueless*	1995	3
Jan18	The Trial of the Chicago 7*	2020	4.5
Jan19	David Crosby: Remember My Name*	2019	4
Jan20	Wreck It Ralph*	2012	3
Jan20	AC/DC: Plug Me In	2007	5
Jan21	Goldfinger	1965	4
Jan23	Longshot Kids*	1981	1.5
Jan23	Micky & Nicky*	1976	3
Jan24	AC/DC: No Bull – The Director’s Cut	1996	3
Jan24	Clash of the Titans*	1981	2.5
Jan25	Shattered Glass*	2003	4
Jan26	The Founder*	2016	4
Jan27	The Muppet Movie	1979	3
Jan28	Thunderball	1965	4
Jan30	Outland	1981	3
Jan31	In & Of Itself*	2021	4

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The Juicy Stats

Total Number of movies watched: 30
The number of first-time watches: 18
Hours spent watching movies: 57.9
Oldest movie: The Butcher Boy (1917)
Longest movie: AC/DC: Plug Me In (380m)

Most watched actors of 2021: 

Most Watched Directors of 2021:

Highest Rated Actors of 2021:

Look at my boys in AC/DC blowing the competition out of the water! Chris Slade’s “performances” earned the top spot with his appearances in Live at Donington, Plug Me In, and Family Jewels. OK, seriously, this is a fun stat but it only uses the rating of the film, and not the performance as a the determining factor.

Movies watched by decade:
1910s – 1
‘30s – 0
‘40s – 0
‘50s – 0
‘60s – 5
‘70s – 3
‘80s – 3 – all were from ’81 for some reason
‘90s – 4
‘00s – 5
2010s – 4
2020 – 5

How I watched them:
PVR/DVR – 7
DVD Collection – 6
Blu-ray Collection – 7
4K Blu-ray collection – 0
Public Library DVD – 0
Netflix – 3
Amazon Prime – 2
Tubi – 1
YouTube – 0
Legit Stream – 0
Disney+ – 3
Pirates – 1

Genres:
Action – 4
Animated – 2
Comedy – 6
Comic Book – 0
Concert – 5
Crime – 0
Documentaries – 3
Dramas – 8
Fantasy – 1
Film Noir – 0
Horror – 0
Holiday – 0
Kung Fu – 0
Musical – 0
Science Fiction – 1
Thriller – 0
War – 0
Western – 0

Baseball time!
These are the “batting stats” compiled for the FIRST TIME watches.  I give each movie a rating out of 5.  4.5 and up are home runs, 4s to 2.5s are hits, 2 and lower are field outs, an 0.5 (did not finish) is a Strike Out.  This tells me how well of a job I’m doing at picking which movies to watch.

Good Movie Average:  17/18 – .940 (Last month: .800)
Home Runs: 3 – Waitress, The Trial of the Chicago 7, Palm Springs
Strikeouts: 1, Dazed and Confused – I know this is a popular one, but it isn’t for me.

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Awards
The Movie More People Should See: Shattered Glass
Most Fun First Time Watch: The Butcher Boy
Most Fun Re-watch: All of the Bond and AC/DC concert films
Most Forgettable: Outland – I actually forgot that I had watched this movie before.
Better Than I Remembered: Dr. No
Not As Good As I Remembered: The Muppet Movie
The movie I can finally cross off the Bucket-list: Kramer vs Kramer
Best performance: Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainy’s Bottom – Oscar nom, guaranteed. You heard it here first. But I’ll also give a strong shout out to John Carol Lynch who had a couple of great roles in The Trial of The Chicago 7 and The Founder.
Most Pleasant Surprise: Waitress
Most Disappointing Movie:  Wreck It Ralph

Worst Movie: Nothing deserves this award this month. Dazed and Confused, I couldn’t get into. Longshot Kids was watched with the intention of watching a bad movie, so I did its job.

Best Movie: Waitress

Feel free to tell me how terrible my opinion(s) are in the comments!

Top 6 Tips for Watching More Movies

After revealing in my post yesterday how I watched 445 movies in 2020… of course the questions “how” and “when” began.  “How did you do this?” and “When do you find the time?”  

As Geoff Stevens would say: Verbalize the positive! 

No one asked, “Why?”  I guess we all want to watch more movies!

I should also mention before I begin, a passion for movies is something that I share with my wife, Sarah.  Watching a flick has become our regular activity together.  I probably would watch as many as I do if I didn’t have someone to share them with. 

So, I have some “pro-tips”.  Let me help you see more films…

#1. Make a list and SORT OF follow it.

How many evenings have you spent 30 minutes or more looking through Netflix trying to pick one?  If you chose one from the start you’d be 30 minutes in already.

This is my most important tip: Make a list. 

Make it as long or short as you want.  10, 30, 50 movies.  Make the list random or specific.  Write them down, start a cue on Netflix, or get fancy with a spreadsheet.  Whatever works for you. 

As long as you SORT OF follow it.  Following a list you made weeks or months ago when you are in the mood for something else is “un-fun”.  We are only here for fun.  Sometimes Sarah or I would want to see a horror flick or a black and white with Bogart.  We would not follow the list because it would conflict.   The list is ONLY there for when you can’t decided what to watch.  If we couldn’t decide within 5 minutes, I’d play the next movie on the list.  Indecisiveness, eliminated.

#2. Get out of the two hour mind set.

Another way I squeezed more movies in is by not waiting until I had two consecutive hours of spare time to watch one.  If I had 30 minutes to an hour, I’d press play.  I’ll watch the rest when I have another chunk of free time.  Plus, most movies are shorter than two hours.  1hr 40min seems to be the average.  That’s shorter than two episodes of Game of Thrones or a hockey game… speaking of which…

#3. Watch less sports. Unless you really care about them…

While you spent Feb 2nd, 2020 watching the Superbowl, I watched Renee Zellweger in Judy.  It was pretty good.  Rene nailed it.  Did we miss the halftime show and fancy commercials?  Nope, they were all available online on Feb 3rd.

Stanley Cup playoffs? Tampa won the Cup on Sept 17th.  Sarah and I re-watched Election staring Mathew Broderick and Reese With Her Spoon.  It was way better than I remembered. 

But I haven’t given up on sports entirely.  The Blue Jays are still important to me.  I mostly watch the Jays in 30 the day after the game that condenses it into a 30 minute show.  When The Jays made the playoffs this year, their run was short with many of the games in the afternoon.  So it hardly made a dent in movie watching.

If you can’t stay away from the games, cutting out the sports talk programs can free up some time.  Speaking of programs…

#4. Watch only the TV Programs you really care about.

Don’t cut anything you love, but perhaps you can trim a few things here and there.

• Stay away from those 24 hour news channels that are designed to keep you watching.  Want to keep up to date with the world?  Pick a news program that will give you everything you need to know in 30 minutes or less and move on. 
• Are you “hate watching” a show?  You like the first few seasons, but the show took a turn and you are not into it anymore.  Free yourself from it.  You can read about or watch the finale whenever it comes if you need closure. 
• Maybe you don’t NEED to re-watch The Office again?  Seinfeld, yes.  Maybe not The Office.
• Maybe pick one or two “Real Housewives” shows to watch instead of all 23.

#5.  Get accomplices who will force help you to watch movies.

I record a podcast once a month called Retro Filmdango with my friend Richard.  We watch three movies and talk about them.  Three movies a month added up to 36 in 2020 that I had to set some time aside to watch if I wanted to be part of the conversation.  Joining or starting a movie club is a great way to ensure you will make time for some film.

#6. Don’t wait to watch a movie with someone else.

You’ll rarely get to a movie if you keep doing this.  Just watch it already.  If you like it, watch it again with your friend.  If you don’t, tell them how bad it is and you saved them from a crappy movie.  They’ll thank you for it.  

So, those are my tips.  With this said, 445 movies was most likely a fluke for me.  2020 was a “perfect storm”, if you will.  With there being only Sarah and I here, the onus is always on us to do the traveling to visit of family and friends.  Both of our summer and holiday vacations were “Staycations” (Sorry, The Good Place!).  We are not busy parents.  We did no socializing in person.  No video game or vinyl conventions, no concerts, no restaurants.

Deke in the comments said it best:

we are in lockdown so WTF are we supposed to do! lol.

100%

So, you might not get to hundreds of movies in 2021 but maybe one or two of my tips will get you to more than less!  Happy watching!

2020’s Movie Watch List with Juicy Stats and The 2020 Marsy Movie Awards

Here is the BIG ONE!  The year end stats, then the awards show follows!   What is the best movie I have seen all year?  The question no one has been asking will be answered below! 

A Couple of things to note before we dive in:

• My rating’s system adjusted during the year.  So there are more 5s in the first half but I’m not going to adjust scores based on memory.  
• I decided to add movies I didn’t finish at the end of January.  So It looks like there is a rough patch to start, but that is just me adding them at the end of the month because I couldn’t remember which day I tried to watch them.

OK, Let’s see how much time I wasted enjoyed watching movies in 2020!

The List

• An asterisk (*) indicates a first time viewing.
• Strike-through means I didn’t enjoy it enough to finish it.

Date Watched	Movie Title	Year Released	My Rating
Jan 01	Ryan’s Daughter*	1970	3
Jan	Sucker Punch*	2011	0
Jan	Machete*	2010	0
Jan	The Adventures of Baron Munchausen*	1988	0
Jan2	Blade Runner 2049*	2017	3
Jan2	Blade Runner: The Final Cut*	1982	3
Jan3	Easy Money*	1983	4
Jan3	The Ox-Bow Incident*	1943	4
Jan4	Escape Plan*	2013	2
Jan4	Lock Up*	1989	3
Jan4	Mr. Majestyk*	1974	4
Jan5	Chopping Mall*	1986	2
Jan5	The Postman Always Rings Twice*	1946	3
Jan7	Spiderman: Far From Home*	2019	3
Jan7	The Cannonball Run*	1981	4
Jan8	Cop and a Half*	1993	3
Jan8	The Cannonball Run II*	1984	3
Jan8	Valdez Is Coming*	1971	4
Jan9	The Freshman*	1990	3
Jan9	Navajo Joe*	1966	3
Jan10	Blade	1998	2
Jan10	Raven*	1996	2
Jan11	Marriage Story*	2019	5
Jan12	The Two Popes*	2019	3
Jan12	The End*	1978	3
Jan12	My Forbidden Past*	1951	3
Jan12	Gilda*	1946	3
Jan13	Waiting for Guffman	1996	5
Jan13	I Love You, Alice B. Toklas*	1968	2
Jan14	This is Spinal Tap	1984	5
Jan14	The Two Mrs. Carrolls*	1947	5
Jan15	Best In Show	2000	5
Jan15	The Getaway*	1972	4

Date Watched	Film Title	Year Release	My Rating
Jan16	A Mighty Wind	2003	5
Jan16	The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing*	1973	4
Jan17	For Sama*	2019	5
Jan17	For Your Consideration	2006	2
Jan18	Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood*	2019	2
Jan18	Parasite*	2019	5
Jan19	Harriet*	2019	4
Jan19	JoJo Rabbit*	2019	5
Jan20	Conflict*	1945	3
Jan21	The Joker*	2019	2
Jan22	Death Wish*	2018	2
Jan23	Ford vs Ferrari*	2019	3
Jan23	Bombshell*	2019	3
Jan24	A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood*	2019	3
Jan25	Vice*	2018	4
Jan26	The Big Chill*	1983	3
Jan26	Marty*	1955	5
Jan26	Caine Mutany, The*	1954	4
Jan27	Mommie Dearest*	1981	3
Jan28	Family Buisness*	1989	0
Jan28	Frenzy*	1972	4
Jan29	Boyz N The Hood*	1991	3
Jan29	Papillon*	1973	5
Jan30	The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou*	2004	2
Jan31	American Factory*	2019	4
Jan31	Harold and Maude*	1971	4
Jan31	True Grit*	1969	3

Date Watched	Film Title	Year Release	My Rating
Feb01	1917*	2019	5
Feb01	Honeyland*	2019	5
Feb01	Widows*	2018	2
Feb02	The Edge of Democracy*	2019	3
Feb02	Judy*	2019	4
Feb03	Little Women*	2019	0
Feb03	Knives Out*	2019	3
Feb04	Pain and Glory*	2019	4
Feb04	The Crew*	2000	1
Feb05	Richard Jewell*	2019	5
Feb06	The Cave*	2019	5
Feb07	The Lighthouse*	2019	1
Feb08	The Kingsman: The Secret Service*	2014	4
Feb09	The House with the Clock in Its Walls*	2018	5
Feb09	The Kingsman: The Golden Circle*	2017	3
Feb10	Deathsport*	1978	3
Feb10	They Drive By Night*	1940	4
Feb11	Cherry 2000*	1987	2
Feb11	House On Haunted Hill*	1959	3
Feb11	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde*	1931	3
Feb12	House of Wax*	1953	4
Feb13	Green Book*	2018	5
Feb14	The Outlaw Josey Wales	1976	3
Feb14	Marked Woman*	1937	3
Feb14	Big City Blues*	1932	3
Feb15	Meet Wally Sparks*	1997	3
Feb15	Tombstone	1993	3
Feb15	The Wild Bunch	1969	5

Date Watched	Film Title	Year Released	My Rating
Feb16	The Letter*	1940	4
Feb17	Executive Suite*	1954	3
Feb18	Ben-Hur*	1959	4
Feb19	Dark Passage*	1947	3
Feb20	Angel Baby*	1961	0
Feb20	The Gunfighter*	1950	4
Feb21	The Candidate*	1972	3
Feb22	Semi Tough*	1977	3
Feb25	Born On the 4th of July*	1989	2
Feb26	Down Periscope	1996	3
Feb26	Godzilla: King of the Monsters!*	1956	3
Feb27	St. Vincent*	2014	4
Feb27	Dr. Strangelove	1964	3
Feb27	Hud*	1963	4
Feb28	End Of Days*	1999	2
Feb28	Zorba The Greek*	1964	0
Feb29	Romancing the Stone	1984	4
Feb29	The Outrage*	1964	3

Date Watched	Film Title	Year Released	My Rating
Mar01	Jewel of the Nile	1985	2
Mar02	After The Wedding*	2019	2
Mar04	The Stunt Man*	1980	0
Mar06	ZZ Top: That Little Ol’ Band from Texas*	2019	4
Mar06	War of the Roses	1989	3
Mar07	Gator	1976	3
Mar07	White Lightning	1973	4
Mar07	Harvey*	1950	5
Mar08	Bon Cop Bad Cop*	2006	1
Mar11	The Lords of Flatbush*	1974	1

Date Watched	Film Title	Year Released	My Rating
Mar15	Badge 373*	1973	2
Mar15	The Roaring Twenties*	1939	4
Mar16	The Last of the Mahicans*	1992	2
Mar17	Joe vs The Volcano*	1990	2
Mar18	Old Gringo*	1989	3
Mar18	On Golden Pond*	1981	5
Mar19	The Cooler*	2003	2
Mar19	The Irish In Us*	1935	3
Mar20	Klute*	1971	2
Mar21	Gladiator	2000	2
Mar21	The Fabulous Baker Boys*	1989	3
Mar21	Joysticks*	1983	1
Mar24	The Platform*	2020	5
Mar26	Uncut Gems*	2019	4
Mar27	Back To School*	1986	3
Mar28	Easy Money	1983	3
Mar28	Caddyshack	1980	5

Date Watched	Film Title	Year Released	My Rating
Apr6	Jumping Jack Flash*	1988	2
Apr7	9 to 5	1980	3
Apr8	Bad Lieutenant*	1992	2
Apr9	Police Story*	1985	5
Apr9	Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf*	1966	2
Apr10	Nobody’s Fool*	1994	3
Apr10	Police Story 2*	1988	5
Apr11	The Artist*	2011	0
Apr11	Police Story 3: Super Cop*	1992	4
Apr11	Edge of the City*	1957	5
Apr12	Night Shift	1982	4
Apr12	A Raisin in the Sun*	1961	5
Apr13	Crime Story*	1993	4
Apr13	All Through the Night*	1942	3
Apr16	First Blood	1982	5
Apr17	Jackie Chan’s First Strike (AKA Police Story 4)*	1997	4
Apr18	New Police Story 2004*	2004	3
Apr18	The Grapes of Wrath*	1940	5
Apr19	Cactus Flower*	1969	4
Apr19	Adam’s Rib*	1949	5
Apr21	Police Story: Lockdown*	2013	4

Date Watched	Film Title	Year Released	My Rating
Apr22	The Railrodder	1965	5
Apr22	Thunder Road*	1958	4
Apr23	Zero Dark Thirty*	2012	1
Apr23	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre	1948	5
Apr24	Death Promise*	1977	2
Apr24	The Way We Were*	1973	2
Apr25	Mission Killfest*	1991	1
Apr25	Hell Comes to Frogtown*	1988	1
Apr26	100 Rifles*	1969	4
Apr26	The Harder They Fall*	1956	5
Apr27	Sam Whiskey*	1969	5
Apr28	Blockers*	2018	4
Apr28	Bleeding Steel*	2017	4
Apr28	Island Of Fire (AKA The Prisoner)*	1990	2
Apr29	Drunken Master*	1978	4
Apr29	The Bachelor Party*	1957	3
Apr30	Buster	1988	3
Apr30	The Last Temptation of Christ*	1988	1

Date Watched	Film Title	Year Released	My Rating
May01	The Cincinnati Kid*	1965	5
May01	Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison*	1957	4
May02	Charley Varrick*	1973	4.5
May02	The Foreigner*	2017	4.5
May03	Race with the Devil	1975	4
May04	The Sand Pebbles*	1966	4
May04	The Beguiled*	1971	3
May05	la femme Nikita*	1990	4
May05	Ace In The Hole	1951	5
May06	Brazil*	1985	2
May06	Double Indemnity	1944	4
May07	Airheads	1994	2
May07	Everest*	2015	3
May07	Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker*	2019	NA
May07	The Love Bug	1968	3

Date Watched	Film Title	Year Released	My Rating
May08	Funny Face*	1957	NA
May08	Ghost World	2001	5
May08	King Kong vs Godzilla*	1962	2
May09	Shaolin Soccer*	2001	1
May09	Hang ’em High	1968	4
May09	Internal Affairs*	1990	2
May10	The Slender Thread*	1965	4
May10	Lonely Are The Brave*	1962	5
May11	Invitation to a Gunfighter*	1964	2
May11	John Wick 2*	2017	3
May11	Man with The One Red Shoe*	1985	2
May12	Shatter*	1974	NA
May12	Keeper of the Flame*	1942	2
May14	John Wick 3*	2019	3

Date Watched	Film Title	Year Released	My Rating
May15	In The Name of the Father*	1993	5
May15	The Man From U.N.C.L.E.*	2015	NA
May15	The Queen*	2006	4
May16	Andre The Giant*	2018	4
May16	Looper	2012	2
May16	The Princess Bride	1987	4.5
May17	The Dam Busters*	1955	4
May17	Suddenly, Last Summer*	1959	3.5
May18	Baby The Rain Must Fall*	1965	5
May18	The Maltese Falcon	1941	5
May19	The Chase*	1966	4
May19	Office Space	1999	5
May19	Underworld: Evolution	2006	2
May20	Underworld: Rise of the Lycans	2009	2
May20	The Nightmare Before Christmas*	1993	2
May20	Straight Talk*	1992	2
May21	The Three Faces Of Eve*	1957	3
May21	Underworld: Awakenings*	2012	1

Date Watched	Film Title	Year Released	My Rating
May22	Comes a Horseman*	1978	2
May22	Wild River*	1960	4.5
May23	Conan The Barbarian*	1982	2
May23	Conan The Destroyer*	1984	3
May23	Red Sonja*	1985	3
May23	Zodiac	2007	4
May24	Fuzz*	1972	3
May24	The 33*	2015	3
May25	X-Men	2000	4
May25	Desk Set	1957	4
May26	X2	2003	4
May26	Inherit the Wind	1960	4
May27	The Great Escape	1963	5
May28	The Descendants*	2011	5
May29	Seabiscuit*	2003	3.5
May30	The Predator*	2018	NA
May31	X-Men: The Last Stand	2006	2.5
May31	X-Men Origins: Wolverine	2009	3
May31	The Apartment	1960	5

Date Watched	Film Title	Year Released	My Rating
Jun01	X-Men: First Class	2011	4
Jun01	Almost Famous: The Bootleg Cut	2001	5
Jun02	Wheels On Meals*	1984	4
Jun02	Some Like It Hot	1959	5
Jun03	Stalag 17	1953	4.5
Jun04	The Wolverine	2013	3.5
Jun04	Sunset Boulevard	1950	5
Jun05	Glengarry Glen Ross	1992	5
Jun05	Ulzanas Raid*	1972	3
Jun06	A Fist Full of Dollars	1963	4
Jun07	For A Few Dollars More	1965	5
Jun07	Mad Max: Fury Road	2015	5

Date Watched	Film Title	Year Released	My Rating
Jun08	Ghostbusters	1984	5
Jun08	The Good, The Bad, & the Ugly	1966	5
Jun09	Sabrina*	1954	4
Jun11	Irma La Douce	1963	4
Jun12	Duck, You Sucker*	1971	4
Jun13	Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure	1989	3.5
Jun14	Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey	1991	3.5

Date Watched	Film Title	Year Released	My Rating
Jun15	Sweet Bird of Youth*	1962	3.5
Jun18	Fletch Lives	1989	3.5
Jun19	Crossfire*	1947	3
Jun19	30 Seconds Over Tokyo*	1944	2.5
Jun20	Fighting With My Family*	2019	3.5
Jun21	Alien	1979	5

Date Watched	Film Title	Year Released	My Rating
Jun22	The Major and The Minor*	1942	4
Jun25	The Revenant*	2015	5
Jun26	The Last Detail	1973	4
Jun26	One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest	1975	4
Jun27	Five Easy Pieces	1970	4
Jun27	Truth*	2015	3
Jun28	Network	1976	4
Jun29	The King’s Speech*	2010	4

Date Watched	Film Title	Year Released	My Rating
Jul01	Some One Up There Likes Me*	1956	3
Jul01	Inherit The Wind*	1999	3
Jul02	The Young Philadelphians*	1959	3
Jul04	Brubaker*	1980	3
Jul05	Ladyhawke*	1985	NA
Jul05	Switching Channels*	1988	3.5
Jul06	The Great Waldo Pepper*	1975	4
Jul07	Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)*	2014	NA

Date Watched	Film Title	Year Released	My Rating
Jul08	Havana*	1990	NA
Jul08	The Terminator	1984	5
Jul09	Terminator 2: Judgement Day	1991	5
Jul10	The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean*	1972	NA
Jul11	Cat On A Hot Tin Roof*	1958	4
Jul12	California Suite*	1978	3
Jul13	The Wrecking Crew*	2008	5
Jul14	The Mosquito Coast*	1986	3

Date Watched	Film Title	Year Released	My Rating
Jul15	In The Heat of the Night	1967	5
Jul15	Paths Of Glory*	1957	3.5
July16	They Call Me Mr. Tibbs!*	1970	3.5
July17	The Organization*	1971	3.5
July23	Attack The Block*	2011	4.5
Jul24	Eighth Grade*	2018	5
Jul24	It Follows*	2014	3
Jul26	The Old Man and the Gun*	2018	3

Date Watched	Film Title	Year Released	My Rating
Aug01	The Andromeda Strain	1971	4.5
Aug01	Kicking and Screaming*	1995	0
Aug02	The Thing	1982	5
Aug03	Terminator: Dark Fate*	2019	3
Aug04	Westworld*	1973	3
Aug05	The Fury*	1978	3
Aug06	Woman of The Year*	1942	3
Aug08	A Big Hand for the Little Lady*	1966	2.5
Aug09	Jeremiah Johnson*	1972	4.5
Aug10	Foul Play*	1978	3

Date Watched	Film Title	Year Released	My Rating
Aug11	Pennies From Heaven*	1981	2.5
Aug12	Roxanne	1987	4
Aug13	The Dead Don’t Die*	2019	2
Aug15	The Running Man	1987	3.5
Aug16	Blue Thunder*	1982	2
Aug17	The King of Marvin Gardens	1972	2.5
Aug18	Sea Of Love*	1988	2.5
Aug20	Tokyo Joe*	1949	2.5

Date Watched	Film Title	Year Released	My Rating
Aug21	The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years*	1988	3.5
Aug21	The Honeymoon Machine*	1961	2.5
Aug22	The Old Guard*	2020	2
Aug23	Soldier in the Rain*	1963	2.5
Aug24	The Rack*	1956	4.5
Aug25	The Left Handed Gun*	1958	3
Aug26	Extraction*	2020	3
Aug26	The Electric Horsemen*	1979	3
Aug27	In The Tall Grass*	2019	2
Aug28	Ip Man*	2008	5
Aug29	Da 5 Bloods*	2020	3
Aug30	The Mule*	2018	4
Aug31	White Heat*	1949	5

Date Watched	Title	Year Released	My Rating
Sep01	The Man From Snowy River	1982	2
Sep02	Soylent Green	1973	4.5
Sep04	Ip Man 2*	2010	4
Sep05	A Walk in The Woods*	2015	4
Sep06	The Fortune*	1975	3.5
Sep06	Happy Gilmore	1996	4
Sep07	Carnal Knowledge*	1971	4
Sep08	A Face In The Crowd*	1957	4.5
Sep09	Modern Problems*	1981	2
Sep10	The Day Of The Jackal*	1973	4

Date Watched	Title	Year Released	My Rating
Sep11	Ip Man 3*	2015	3
Sep12	Five Bucks At The Door: The Story of Crocks N Rolls*	2019	5
Sep12	Jack of All Trades*	2018	3
Sep13	There was a Crooked Man…*	1970	3.5
Sep14	Save The Tiger*	1973	3.5
Sep15	Moonrise Kingdom*	2012	4
Sep16	Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band*	2019	4.5
Sep17	Election	1999	4
Sep19	Love In The Afternoon*	1957	3.5
Sep20	Shoot the Moon*	1982	4.5
Sep21	Brute Force*	1947	4.5
Sep22	Tapeheads*	1988	2
Sep22	The Stoned Age	1994	2
Sep22	What A Way to Go*	1964	3
Sep23	Pirate Radio/The Boat That Rocked	2009	2.5
Sep23	Revenge of the Nerds	1984	3
Sep24	Stripes	1981	4
Sep25	Sweet and Lowdown	1999	4
Sep25	Tommy*	1975	2.5
Sep25	Fast Times at Ridgemont High	1982	4.5
Sep27	Meatballs	1979	3
Sep28	Eastern Promises	2007	2.5

Date	Title	Year	My Rating
Oct01	Finding Steve McQueen	2018	NA
Oct01	The Who: Live at The Isle of Wright 1970	2009	4
Oct03	Led Zeppelin DVD	2003	5
Oct06	The Seven Year Itch*	1955	4
Oct10	The Amityville Horror*	1979	2
Oct11	The Blob*	1958	2
Oct12	Van Halen: Live Without A Net*	1987	4
Oct13	The Blair Witch Project	1999	3
Oct14	King Kong*	1933	5
Oct15	The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms*	1953	3.5

Date Watched	Title	Year	My Rating
Oct17	The Creature from the Black Lagoon*	1954	3
Oct18	Village of the Damned*	1960	4
Oct19	Carnival of Souls*	1962	3
Oct20	Little Shop of Horrors*	1960	4
Oct20	The Social Dilemma*	2020	1
Oct21	Maximum Overdrive	1986	3.5
Oct21	Ernest Scared Stupid	1991	NA
Oct22	The Nanny*	1965	4
Oct23	Troll 2*	1990	1
Oct23	Borat Subsequent Moviefilm*	2020	4
Oct24	Troll Hunter*	2010	3.5
Oct25	Black Sabbath*	1963	2
Oct26	A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge*	1985	1
Oct27	A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: The Dream Warriors*	1987	2
Oct28	The Frighteners	1996	3.5
Oct31	Prom Night*	1980	1

Date Watched	Title	Year	My Rating
Nov01	The Wolf Man*	1941	3
Nov02	Teen Wolf	1985	3
Nov02	Teen Wolf Too*	1987	-1
Nov03	Them!*	1954	4
Nov04	Raw Deal*	1986	2
Nov05	High Sierra*	1941	4
Nov07	The Great Race*	1966	3
Nov08	Throw Mama From The Train	1987	4
Nov10	Charade*	1963	3.5
Nov 11	Missing*	1982	3.5
Nov12	Hell or High Water*	2016	4.5
Nov14	There’s A Girl In My Soup*	1970	2.5
Nov15	The Last Picture Show*	1971	4

Date Watched	Title	Year	My Rating
Nov16	Along The Great Divide*	1951	3
Nov17	Bad Times at the El Royal*	2018	3
Nov18	The Thomas Crowne Affair*	1968	3.5
Nov18	X-Men: Days Of Future Past	2014	4.5
Nov19	Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead*	1991	3
Nov19	X-Men: Apocolypse	2016	3.5
Nov20	I Am Greta*	2020	3
Nov20	Dark Phoenix*	2019	1.5
Nov21	Under Siege*	1992	2
Nov22	Stand By Me	1986	5
Nov23	Love with the Proper Stranger*	1963	4.5
Nov24	Splendor In the Grass*	1961	4
Nov25	The Iron Lady*	2011	3.5
Nov26	Rushmore	1998	5
Nov28	Silent Running*	1972	2
Nov29	Invisible Stripes*	1939	4
Nov30	The 39 Steps*	1935	3

Date Watched	Movie Title	Year Released	My Rating
Dec01	National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation	1989	5
Dec02	The Big Lebowski	1998	5
Dec03	The Prisoner of 22nd Avenue*	1975	3.5
Dec04	All Dogs Go To Heaven	1989	2.5
Dec06	The Prize*	1963	2
Dec07	Armour of God*	1986	4
Dec08	Operation Condor: Armour of God Part II*	1991	4.5
Dec09	The Lady Vanishes*	1938	4
Dec10	Big	1988	5
Dec11	Nothing But Trouble*	1944	2
Dec12	Project A*	1983	3.5
Dec13	Home Alone	1990	4.5
Dec14	Shine a Light*	2008	3
Dec14	Darkman*	1990	4
Dec15	Christmas In Connecticut*	1945	4

Date Watched	Movie Title	Year Released	Year Released
Dec 16	The ‘burbs*	1989	3
Dec17	Splash	1984	3.5
Dec19	Music. Money. Madness: Jimi Hendrix, Live In Maui*	2020	2.5
Dec19	Jimi Hendrix*	1973	3
Dec19	Remember the Night*	1940	4
Dec20	The Bishop’s Wife*	1947	4
Dec21	Kiss Kiss Bang Bang*	2005	2.5
Dec22	Mr. Soft Touch*	1949	3.5
Dec23	Cover Up*	1949	3.5
Dec24	The Lion in Winter*	1968	3
Dec26	Holiday*	1938	4
Dec27	Dark Victory*	1939	3
Dec28	The Forbidden Kingdom*	2008	4
Dec29	Rollerball*	1975	1.5
Dec30	All the King’s Men*	1949	3
Dec31	Silver Linings Playbook*	2012	2.5

The Juicy Stats

Total Number of movies watched: 445
The number of first-time watches: 337
Oldest movie: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
Longest movie: Ben-Her (3hrs 44m)
Most watched actors: Burt Reynolds (18), Humphrey Bogart (17), Jackie Chan (16), Steve McQueen (11), Jack Lemmon (9), Jane Fonda (8) 
My Average Score: 3.27
Month with the most Movies Watched: May (66)
Month with the fewest Movies Watched: July (24)

Movies watched by decade and Best Film I watched for the first time from each:
‘30s – 11 – King Kong (1933)
‘40s – 31 – Grapes of Wrath (1940)
‘50s – 39 – Marty (1955)
‘60s – 51 – A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
‘70s – 61 – Jeremiah Johnson (1972)
‘80s – 80 – How about that?!?! – Tie: Police Story (1985), Shoot The Moon (1982)
‘90s – 47 – Operation Condor: Armour of God Part II (1991)
‘00s – 30 – Ip Man (2008)
‘10s – 87 – Eighth Grade (2018)
2020 – 8 – See Below! 

How I watched them:

PVR/DVR – 214
DVD Collection – 23
Blu-ray Collection – 97
4K Blu-ray collection – 8
Public Library DVD – 11
Netflix – 20
Amazon Prime – 5
Tubi – 6
YouTube – 3
Legit Stream – 3
Disney+ – 2
Pirates – 53

Genres:
Action – 46
Animated – 2
Comedy – 100
Comic Book – 13
Concert – 3
Crime – 18
Documentaries – 16
Dramas – 114
Fantasy – 6
Film Noir – 14
Horror – 29
Holiday – 5
Kung Fu – 9
Musical – 2
Science Fiction – 18
Thriller – 14
War – 6
Western – 27

Baseball time!
These are the “batting stats” compiled for the FIRST TIME watches.  I give each movie a rating out of 5.  4.5 and up are home runs, 4s to 2.5s are hits, 2 and lower are field outs, an 0.5 (did not finish) is a Strike Out.  This tells me how well of a job I’m doing at picking which movies to watch.

Good Movie Average:  248/337 – .736
Home Runs: 47
Strikeouts: 18

Best Movie(s) for Each Month:
January: Marty, Jojo Rabbit, Parasite, Marriage Story
February: 1917
March: The Platform
April: A Raisin in the Sun, Edge of the City, Police Story 1, Police Story 2
May: The Descendants, In The Name of the Father
June: The Revenant
July: Eighth Grade
August: Ip Man
September: Five Bucks At The Door: The Story of Crocks N Rolls
October: King Kong
November: Love with the Proper Stranger
December: Operation Condor: Armour of God Part II

Movies I crossed off the Bucket list: 
The Grapes of Wrath
Seabiscuit
Sabrina (1954)
Marty
Paths of Glory
Jeremiah Johnson
Tommy
King Kong
The 39 Steps
All The King’s Men

Worst Movie List (In no order):
Rollerball
Teen Wolf Too
 A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge
Modern Problems
Kicking and Screaming
Birdman
30 Seconds Over Tokyo
The Predator
The Lighthouse
Mission Killfest
Death Wish (2018)
Raven
Joysticks

Underrated/Underwatched Movie List:
Mr. Majestyk
The House with The Clock in The Walls
On Golden Pond
The Harder They Fall
Sam Whiskey
Edge of the City
A Raisin in the Sun
Adam’s Rib
Baby The Rain Must Fall
Fletch Lives
The Rack
The Nanny
The Wrecking Crew
Five Bucks At The Door: The Story of Crocks N Rolls
Throw Mama From The Train
The Forbidden Kingdom

2020 Marsy Movie Awards

Best Re-watch: The Big Lebowski

The rest are all first time watches only:

Best Comedy or Satire Film: Jojo Rabbit
Best Crime Film: Tie: The Getaway (1972) and Charley Varrick
Best Kung-Fu Film: Ip Man
Best Western Film: The Ox-Bow Incident
Best Action Film: Police Story
Best Horror Film: King Kong
Best War Film: 1917
Best Documentary: For Sama
Best Movie about Music: The Wrecking Crew
Best performance: Cloris Leachman, The Last Picture Show
Most Adorable: Marty
Worst Movie published in 2020: The Old Guard
Worst Movie: Teen Wolf Too
Best Movie published in 2020: The Platform
Best Movie: Eighth Grade

Feel free to tell me how terrible my opinion(s) are in the comments!

December 2020’s Movie Watch List with Juicy Stats

And there we have it!  A full year of doing these lists!  This happens so rarely for me, so I’m not sure but… I feel like I committed to doing something, then followed through with it.  Crazy to think of, eh?!?

I’ll work on the year end stats for tomorrow, but we still have one more month to wrap up before that!  So…

The List

• An asterisk (*) indicates a first time viewing.
• Strike-through means I didn’t enjoy it enough to finish it.

Date Watched	Movie Title	Year Released	My Rating
Dec01	National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation	1989	5
Dec02	The Big Lebowski	1998	5
Dec03	The Prisoner of 22nd Avenue*	1975	3.5
Dec04	All Dogs Go To Heaven	1989	2.5
Dec06	The Prize*	1963	2
Dec07	Armour of God*	1986	4
Dec08	Operation Condor: Armour of God Part II*	1991	4.5
Dec09	The Lady Vanishes*	1938	4
Dec10	Big	1988	5
Dec11	Nothing But Trouble*	1944	2
Dec12	Project A*	1983	3.5
Dec13	Home Alone	1990	4.5
Dec14	Shine a Light*	2008	3
Dec14	Darkman*	1990	4
Dec15	Christmas In Connecticut*	1945	4

Date Watched	Movie Title	Year Released	Year Released
Dec 16	The ‘burbs*	1989	3
Dec17	Splash	1984	3.5
Dec19	Music. Money. Madness: Jimi Hendrix, Live In Maui*	2020	2.5
Dec19	Jimi Hendrix*	1973	3
Dec19	Remember the Night*	1940	4
Dec20	The Bishop’s Wife*	1947	4
Dec21	Kiss Kiss Bang Bang*	2005	2.5
Dec22	Mr. Soft Touch*	1949	3.5
Dec23	Cover Up*	1949	3.5
Dec24	The Lion in Winter*	1968	3
Dec26	Holiday*	1938	4
Dec27	Dark Victory*	1939	3
Dec28	The Forbidden Kingdom*	2008	4
Dec29	Rollerball*	1975	1.5
Dec30	All the King’s Men*	1949	3
Dec31	Silver Linings Playbook*	2012	2.5

The Juicy Stats

Total Number of movies watched: 31
The number of first-time watches: 25
Oldest movie: Tie: Holiday and The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Longest movie: Tie: The Prize and The Lion In Winter (2hr 14m)
Most watched actor: Jackie Chan (4) 
Movies watched by decade:
‘30s – 3
‘40s – 7
‘50s – 0
‘60s – 2
‘70s – 3
‘80s – 6
‘90s – 4
‘00s – 3
‘10s – 1
2020 – 1

How I watched them:

PVR/DVR – 20
DVD Collection – 1
Blu-ray Collection – 7
4K Blu-ray collection – 1
Public Library DVD – 0
Netflix – 0
Amazon Prime – 0
Tubi – 0
YouTube – 0
Legit Stream – 0
Disney+ – 0
Pirates – 1

Genres:
Action – 1
Animated – 1
Comedy – 7
Comic Book – 0
Concert – 1
Crime – 1
Documentaries – 2
Dramas – 4
Fantasy – 2
Film Noir – 2
Horror – 0
Holiday – 5
Kung Fu – 3
Musical – 0
Science Fiction – 1
Thriller – 1
War – 0
Western – 0

Baseball time!
These are the “batting stats” compiled for the FIRST TIME watches.  I give each movie a rating out of 5.  4.5 and up are home runs, 4s to 2.5s are hits, 2 and lower are field outs, an 0.5 (did not finish) is a Strike Out.  This tells me how well of a job I’m doing at picking which movies to watch.

Good Movie Average:  20/25 – .800 even  (Last month: .750)
Home Runs: 1 – Operation Condor: Armour of God Part II
Strikeouts: 0, but Rollerball came close as several scenes were skipped. 

Awards
The Movie More People Should See: The Forbidden Kingdom
Most Fun First Time Watch: Operation Condor: Armour of God Part II
Most Fun Re-watch: The Big Lebowski
Most Forgettable: Silver Linings Playbook
Movie That Most Lived Up to How I remembered it: Big
Not As Good As I Remembered: All Dogs Go To Heaven
The movie I can finally cross off the Bucket-list: All The King’s Men
Most surprising performance: Cary Grant, The Bishop’s Wife
Most Pleasant Surprise: Darkman
Most Disappointing Movie:  Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Worst Movie: Rollerball
Best Movie: Operation Condor: Armour of God Part II

Feel free to tell me how terrible my opinion(s) are in the comments!