Loved, loved, loved this one. I gave some early thoughts on this film adventure over here.
All of that remains true. I continued watching, documenting and finding it hard to rate them all. But here we are at 50 and well ahead of schedule.
I’ve gone back through my comments about each film and made some stats of what I watched. Where there is more than one genre I’ve gone with the one I felt outweighed the others although sometimes the balance was 50/50.
The rating system I used changed part way through the process. Like I say I was struggling with this and Gav suggested that I use Halliwells rating system. Here is an abridged description of that system.
- 4 stars – outstanding in many ways, a milestone in cinema history
- 3 stars – high standard of professional excellence
- 2 stars – generally entertaining
- 1 star – not satisfactory as a whole
- 0 stars – totally routine production or worse
Of course the Halliwell system had more than one critic. Content and quality of movies is very subjective so bear that in mind…. Ha!
Here is a list of all 50 –
- The Age of Adaline
- Admission
- Home Again
- Love, Rosie
- Queen of Katwe
- Elizabethtown
- Oblivion
- American Assassin
- Mama Mia – Here we go Again
- The Hit Mans Bodyguard
- Destry Rides Again
- I’ll See You in My Dreams
- The Nice Guys
- The Spy Game
- Now You See Me
- Crazy, Stupid Love
- Black Panther
- Before We Go
- Jack Ryan – Shadow Recruit
- Nights in Rodanthe
- Leap Year
- First Man
- The Notebook
- Belle
- Pygmalion
- Our Brand is Crisis
- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
- One Day
- Love and Friendship
- Magic Mike
- The Secret Life of Pets
- The Limehouse Golem
- Summertime
- A Christmas Prince
- Holiday Calendar
- Bohemian Rhapsody
- Tomb Raider
- Larry Crowne
- The Big Short
- Mary Poppins Returns
- Hampstead
- Aloha
- The Bookshop
- Ready Player One
- Wind River
- Mission Impossible – Fallout
- Crazy Rich Asians
- Sweet Home Alabama
- Puzzle
- The Narrow Margin (1952 version)
Genres
- Drama – 9
- Romance – 12
- Musicals – 3
- Romantic Comedy – 6
- Drama/Comedy – 8
- Sci-fi – 2
- Action – 7
- Crime – 3
Within those something I noticed was that 4 were also biographies.
Where/how watched
- Netflix – 33
- Cinema – 4
- T.V – 4
- Other – 9 (this included my sisters Sky)
Rating
- 0 – 16
- 1 – 19
- 2 – 12
- 3 – 3
- 4 – 0
All that said I think my favourites for sheer entertainment value are Mama Mia, Home Again, The Nice Guys (violent but very, very funny) and Crazy, Stupid Love.
If you know me at all then you know I like happy endings so it is a miracle that lots of these did not have happy endings! It’s good to have learned that I can accept this even though my comfort zone will always be happy endings……
I’m pleased that there are some oldies in the mix too like The Narrow Margin and Summertime. Both worth a watch to see film making like it used to be done.
I also found a holiday destination while watching Nights in Rodanthe. The Outer banks in North Carolina were simply captivating in the film, a character in itself. I fell in love with the place so much that we are going to go see if it lives up the the depiction in the film when we head stateside in October!
All in all I am really glad I challenged myself to this adventure. And am pretty sure that I will do it again.
Here’s to the film watching.
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