Watched as part of Honey, I Shrunk the Watchlist! (round 3(!))
--> Watch the movie that is rated highest
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Ikiru is my final film of the 2024 Watchlist Challenge... the third (and final) round. All 35 movies are ranked at the link above.
Ikiru actually wasn't the initially the highest rated film in my watchlist. That went to Over the Garden Wall... which would have been an amusing and inexplicable watch for the criteria. But it turns out it…
Watched as part of Honey, I Shrunk the Watchlist! (round 3(!))
--> Watch a movie from the 1960s
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The Lion in Winter was not a film I thought I'd enjoy. I some snide comments from critics back in the day but I might be confusing it with another movie, maybe Robin and Marian or similar "English legend is an Old Man now" movie.
Anyway, I actually rather enjoyed this film though its play-like structure set in a single…
Watched as part of Honey, I Shrunk the Watchlist! (round 3(!))
--> Watch a movie from your least favorite genre
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I'm very surprised I enjoyed Rio Bravo as much as I did. I'm not a huge fan of Westerns and this looks and feels like a bog standard one of them. Except that it's so content to just stick around town the whole time, I figured it should be called "Lets Save on Location Shooting: The Movie". But that…
Watched as part of Honey, I Shrunk the Watchlist! (round 3(!))
--> Watch the movie that is the most popular
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While I recently watched and enjoyed Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love, Chunking Express - just as romantic - left me a little cold. I found the two semi-connected storylines a little impenetrable and confounding. I wasn't sure what the point of the first story was and found the second too long.
In case you don't know, it's…
Watched as part of Honey, I Shrunk the Watchlist! (round 3(!))
--> Watch a movie with a person's name in the title
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I'm afraid this kind of detective noir isn't really my thing, especially when the generic gumshoe guy lacks charisma in a film with three other actors with plenty to spare. Yes, our stoic lead plays stoic Sam Spade type with square jawed inflection-free tough guy delivery too faithfully.
But Gene Tierney, Clifton Webb, and a disturbingly young…
Watched as part of Honey, I Shrunk the Watchlist! (round 3(!))
--> Bonus: A film with a full sentence for a title
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There are a lot of things we need to do with Kevin and talking about him is the least of them. Unfortunately, everything we need to do would land us in prison. But maybe it'd be worth it.
Turns out I'd been spoiled about this movie back in 2011 since it isn't immediately clear what Kevin did…
Watched as part of Honey, I Shrunk the Watchlist! (round 3(!))
--> Watch a movie that stars one of your favorite actresses
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It seems improbable that a sexy fun 1963 caper thriller/comedy starring Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant wouldn't have been directed by Alfred Hitchcock. But I think think it's the cover art being so similar to Vertigo that created such cognitive dissonance. I know it's not Hitch... but it seems like it should be. No shade on Mr.…
Watched as part of Honey, I Shrunk the Watchlist! (round 3(!))
--> Watch a documentary
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When I saw Back to Black, the narrative biopic of Amy Winehouse's life, I was warned it was safe, sanitized, and more dedicated to covering asses than being an honest film about her life. And that I should watch this documentary to get an honest, three dimensional look at her... and how her friends and family used her.
And, yeah, this is a better…
Watched as part of Honey, I Shrunk the Watchlist! (round 3(!))
--> Watch a movie from the 1980s
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Back in the mid '80s, video rental store Sci-Fi sections were stocked full of Conan the Barbarian and Mad Max cheapo knockoffs, each worse (or better if you were a masochist) than the last. Cheap, ugly, and derivative nearly every one of them. And so is She... but She arrived with a wink and a nod. I had never heard of…
Watched as part of Honey, I Shrunk the Watchlist! (round 3(!))
--> Watch a movie from the 2010s
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As a film director, Steven Soderbergh clearly can't be pinned down to any one genre... but perhaps satirical anti-wealth polemic isn't his best niche. This semi-narrative film that feels a lot like a low energy The Big Short just never finds a consistent narrative groove that I cared about.
The flick is about how the mega rich make sure they stay…
Watched as part of Honey, I Shrunk the Watchlist! (round 3(!))
--> Watch the movie that is the least popular
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I added Just. One. Mile. to my watchlist after podcaster Jeff Cannata gushed about it emotionally on The Filmcast. There it sat for a year until it qualified as the least watched movie in my list. Which is a little sad but, hey, something's always gotta be in last place.
The documentary is about one hundred runners who enter…
Watched as part of Honey, I Shrunk the Watchlist! (round 3(!))
--> Watchlist Shuffle
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As a fan of classic Star Trek, one thing that always bugged me were the sexist miniskirts all the actresses were forced to wear. But, I figured, that's just the 60s talking. But then I learned the actresses on the show LOVED the mini... they saw it as liberation. So, yeah, times change and we forget old battles. The story of Nichelle Nichols loving her…
