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| The Birth of a Nation |
Happy New Year! I've decided to switch from a 4-star rating scale to a letter grade system this year, so I'm starting with this post. I've also made a note of this on the reviews page, since I'm not going to update all of my pre-2015 posts to letter grades.
The Best:
1. The Birth of a Nation - A
2. The Skeleton Twins - A-
3. Cold in July - A-
4. Like Father, Like Son - A-
5. Abuse of Weakness - A-
6. The Game - A-
7. The Imitation Game - B+
8. The One I Love - B+
9. The Wind Rises - B+
10. The Babadook - B
The Rest:
Adventures in Babysitting - B
Annie (2014) - B-
Big Eyes - B-
Exodus: Gods and Kings - B-
God's Pocket - B-
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies - B
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 - C+
Into the Woods - B
Listen Up Philip - D
Pizza Shop: The Movie - D
The Theory of Everything - B
The Trip to Italy - B
Unbroken - B
Wild - B
The World According to Garp - B
Rewatched:
The Adventures of Tintin - B+
Calvary - A+
Dom Hemingway - B
The Immigrant (2014) - A+
Interstellar - A
It's a Wonderful Life - A+
Locke - A
Love Actually - A
A Most Wanted Man - A
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation - B
The Polar Express - A
Starred Up - A
White Christmas - A
38 Films Watched - 25 New, 13 Rewatched
You did good! Except for Listen Up Phillip, whatever that's about. lol
ReplyDeleteThanks! Lol. I've seen Listen Up Philip near the top of some people's top 10 lists. I just can't with that movie.
DeleteExcellent stuff as always. I haven't counted them up but this might be the first month I was anywhere near you in quantity watched. Off the top of my head I think I hit 30 in December. I'm proud of myself.
ReplyDeleteThanks. Great job! I've enjoyed watching less than I was for the CinSpecs, as well as rewatching more films. Cramming in 50+ movies a month was daunting.
DeleteI am glad you are such a fan of It's a Wonderful Life. It is sappy, but I never get tired of it. :-)
ReplyDeleteOh, it's a classic. Typical Capra, but I love Capra. :)
Delete"Only" 38 Josh? You're slipping, he..he..
ReplyDeleteSeems like lots of ppl are rewatching Love Actually this Christmas, I did that too but only a few segments. Well, looks like you like Into the Woods and The Hobbit 3 more than I did. I'm glad I gave Exodus a shot though, it's really not that bad.
Haha. I'm just glad that I don't feel the need to cram in so many movies now that I've finished my weekly CinSpec posts. (I still need to update all of them to images, though.) :)
DeleteLove Actually is brilliant. Just a delightful movie. Yeah, I liked Into the Woods and The Hobbit 3 well enough, and Exodus wasn't terrible.
Belated Happy New Year to you too! Have a great 2015!
ReplyDeleteI'm going to skip 3rd Hobbitt and new Hunger Games, I just lost interest in following those franchises, and the reviews seem to be mixed.
Like Father, Like Son is a film I want to see before I publish my best of 2014. What did you dislike about Listen Up Philip?
Thanks, Chris! The same to you. :)
DeleteI'm tired of The Hunger Games, but I'll finish it, since I only have one film left. The third Hobbit was action-packed like the second, and much better than bloated first one.
Like Father, Like Son will likely make my honorable mentions, but I have several films ahead of it already. I disliked pretty much everything about Listen Up Philip, actually. It felt like a shallow, unoriginal exercise, and I just couldn't get into it at all. Though, I can see why some people love it.