2024-2025 List

It's fine.

Re-watch. Still an enjoyable film

Holy moley this was a disappointing movie. No fun, and very stupid-video-game-ish. I didn't think it was really possible to make boring fighting-Nazis movies, but this one sure managed it.

This is a fairly stupid movie, where I don't think they knew what they wanted to do and had no idea how to end it - but it was still somehow slightly more entertaining than Ungentlemanly Warfare.

Not great, but a genre-satisfying classic western film. Cool night-time lighting.

This is okay - until you get towards the end, where it completely loses it's mind - and not in a zany, fun way, in a "this makes no sense at all" way.

Yay, a new-to-me and entertaining little noir! Not quite a seven, but close enough to round up.

Re-watch, although it's been ages. I don't think I realized before that Dana Andrews once had curly hair. Oh the movie? What did I think about the movie? I thought it was pretty good. I was a bit worried it would be slow, as the novel starts pretty slow, and to be 100% honest, there were a few places in the middle where this felt a teeny bit draggy, but it's only just over an hour, and the timing of this release in terms of geopolitical events is quite interesting. Oh the movie itself? I liked it. It was quite good, I think. Unfortunately I watched it over two nights, which probably lessened it's impact unfairly. Still, I'll give this a 7.

Re-watch, although this is another film where it's been so long since I've seen it, I only barely had a few moments that I thought it seemed vaguely familiar. This is an enjoyable, if low-key little spy story. Nothing blows up, but actors act. Stayed up late to watch it all the way to it's conclusion in one night.

It's fine. A bit too self-referential for me, and the "heart" of the story felt a bit lacking, but as a film that is mostly about the stunts, there was a sufficient number of stunts to be entertaining. I didn't bother to see it in theater, happy enough to watch it at home.

Re-watch, probably, although I didn't remember it very well. This is okay. Not as funny as it could have been, I thought, sort of lost steam in the second half, but it was okay.

Fast-forwarded through a lot of this - poorly paced (and it's only a little over an hour long!) truly terrible dialogue at times/ very predictable plot - although, admittedly, it's a bit more casually violent than you might expect and some decent action scenes and location shooting. Probably, if you were into motorcycle history, you'd be happy to geek out to at least some of this film, but for most of us audience now, it's not got a lot to offer.

Re-watch almost certainly. Admittedly this kinda loses it's mind towards the end, (the music does not help) (and if you actually try and think about the plot you're gonna be disappointed - and confused) but I still enjoyed watching it. It was interesting to see how they expanded the radio play. Probably not really a 7, but I'm giving it a 7 anyway, so there.

This was a pretty good shew. Surprisingly tense towards the end.

Re-watch, been ages. Okay, so almost thirty years later, the special effects are not quite up to the modern standard. That's no one's fault. This is a full-on ridiculously silly but still enjoyable film. Do not expect it to make sense, and have a good time.

Re-watch, maybe? DVD test. It works. The story behind this movie must be more interesting than the actual movie - so much of it, including an intro music, and an intermission - and such a poor sense of pace and poor writing.

Re-watch, *shrug* reasonably enjoyable somewhat dated comedy.

Re-watch, almost certainly - is that why it felt a bit predictable? Really good looking, perhaps even a bit too stylish at some points, like it's trying super-hard, and good makeup, but I'm not so sure about the plot. Enjoyable, not remarkable, noir. Perhaps a 7 on first watch.

Re-watch. Watching mostly to test the DVD. While this hasn't aged particularly well, it does get better as it goes along, but after the first bit we almost gave up, and my memory of this film was a bit lackluster going in as well. Somewhere between a 5 and a 6.

Rounding up to 7. Has a hard thing to do, putting a three person play on the screen, and does a pretty good job of it. Kept me interested throughout. Maybe helped that I watched it over two nights so had a bit of a break part of the way through.

Re-watch for Christmas mood. It's another "it's fine" movie.

At first, I didn't like this movie, due to it's early fast cuts and dark digital screen style - but, sticking with it, I began to find it strangely charming - until the very end, which I didn't understand - I think they were trying to say something profound, but if so, it passed over my head. Still, an interesting thing to watch. Almost a 7.

Okay Britnoir. I'm not sure they knew how to finish up their plot, there was atleast one loose end and it gets a bit hysterical at the finale, without that really fitting with what came before. But, it did have a Canadian character as the (criminal) lead, so that was a bit fun. Unfortunately, the actor was actually American.

Re-watch. Not sure what happened here. Did I rate this a 6 the other day and not leave a note, or have I watched this in the last few years and don't remember doing that? I do know I've seen it before. Took three nights to watch - it's not that long, it was just a thing that happened. Is it a 6 or a 7? Somewhere in there. And the DVD copy we have worked.

Re-watch. Probably. Certainly the "let's take this bombed out Nazi-infested town" aspect was familiar. But I didn't remember much else. I just figure I've probably seen it before. I did not expect 'ol Pete to die so quickly, that was disappointing - but I am pleased with myself I now recognize him. This film was based on a play, and you can sort of tell, particularly early on, but it's well-adapted. With Palance and an early Marvin, you can pretty much guess the tone of this film correctly, the exclamation mark is also a clue. It's a bit different from the usual war film, with it's questioning of a particular officer, and a fair amount of talk (see: based on play) but it's ultimately rah-rah. Or at least that's the way I interpreted it, you might find the end more open. I suspect that some days this would be more a five or six, because some days I would just not agree to catch the mood.