These are (obviously, if you read the title) the movies I watched last month, in alphabetical order.
1. the Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension
2. An American Carol
3. Children of Men
4. the Departed
5. the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
6. Hancock
7. Idiocracy
8. Layer Cake
9. Manos Hands of Fate (MST3K version)
10. Mission Impossible 3
11. Raising Arizona
12. Rushmore
13. Serenity
14. Seven Samurai
15. Top Secret
16. Tokyo Gore Police
17. Wanted
18. Withnail & I
So I did someting this month that I almost never do: I actually turned three of these movies off before finishing them. I rarely do this to any movie, let alone multiple flicks. I did this because they were just not working for me and to be honest I didn't want to waste my time. It probably is no coinicidence that I gave up on all three in about a weeks time, so we'll blame it on me, not them? Okay? Okay.
Brownie points to anyone who can guess the proper three that I rejected.
Also, I felt as if I just didn't get many movies watched in February. Is watching 18 (well, 15 and change) movies in a short month bad? Average? Anyone out there watching more? Less? Am I just being a total weirdo? Feedback please...
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This is a pretty random list, so here is a random guess. I'm assuming that you've seen some of these movies before, so that makes it harder to guess the three. Off the cuff I'm going to say: Hancock, Idiocracy and Wanted. Mostly because I saw all three of them in the theater and never had the chance to turn them off. Walking out of the theater just seemed like too much work. Also, none of these three show boobs in the first 15 minutes... I know your weakness.
Although you may have made it through Wanted out of sheer hope that you might see Angelina Jolie's boobs.
You got one of them right: Hancock. What a miserable piece of poo.
I liked Idocracy. While it's no Office Space, it was at least fun to watch.
Wanted is just a purely visual exercise in action. Worry not about plot, dialogue, or even meaning, let us just kill, maim, blow up, and destroy. Shiny! Wheee!
Hancock was a classic case of not being able to polish a turd. Except in this case, you can't smash two different turds together and have a consistent story.
I liked Idocracy too, I think I was expecting more from Mike Judge, but hey once you "need teepee for your bunghole", there's really nowhere else to go but down in my opinion.
Wanted's sheen doesn't do enough to get over the fact that some dude was like "I'm going to write a screenplay about some office worker who googles his name and gets zero hits, then finds out his bloodline comes from an ancient cult of assassin weavers that have a magical loom that tells them who to kill next and have perfected the art of bending their bullets to increase their killyness." Plus, the ending was lame and the last thing I needed was that kid from Atonement asking me "what the fuck have you done?" I watched your shitty ass movie Mr. Tumnus, that's what.
Two more guesses: The Good the Bad and the Ugly and An American Carol.
I was going to guess Hancock as well. (I was also going to say Wanted but I should have known better.) How about the Gore Police one and Mission Impossible 3?
An American Carol was one of the worst movies I've ever seen, and that is not hyperbole. It is 84 minutes long and I only made it about halfway. I didn't laugh once a this alleged comedy.
I should have turned Tokyo Gore Police off but it is so bad it's good. Sort of. I watched the whole thing. I also had a friend over so I had moral support to finish. It was crap, though.
I liked Mission Impossible 3, and I love the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. It's one of my top five Westerns.
So. To sum up my ramblings... I have turned Hancock and An American Carol off early. Only one more to guess, dear readers. Good luck.
So I just picked the Good, the Bad and the Ugly because if you listed these in the order you watched them, I picked something close in order with Hancock and An American Carol since you said you turned all three of them off within the same week.
I thought you had a soft spot or the Good, the Bad and the Ugly, but I couldn't remember. I knew it was either an extreme love or hate. I guess incorrectly.
I know you wouldn't turn of Tokyo Gore Police. Your excuses are no good here.
So for the last one I ch-ch-choose Children of Men. I don't know for some reason, I can see you being over it. I was going to guess this initially, but I was afraid since it seems highly regarded. The low hanging fruit is the Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension, which will be my backup guess. I didn't guess it before because it seemed to obvious.
Of course my strategy is way off if you watched like 15 movies in one week.
Was it Manos? Just because you already have the movie memorized?
The third was Withnail & I.
I thought for sure I'd like this. I usually like British comedy. I like quirky. It always seems to be referenced well. So maybe it was just me, but ...meh. Maybe I'll try it again someday.
Ugh. American Carol....
eff that poo.
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