July 2020’s Movies Watched List with Juicy Stats!

Happy Civic weekend, everyone!

If you’re not a Canadian you’re probably wondering what I mean by “Civic weekend”.  Well, we Canadians have made the first Monday in the month of August a holiday in celebration of the Honda Civic!  Due to Covid, ‘Civic Parade’ at the Honda Plant has been canceled for the first time in over 40 years.  As far as I know, ‘Corrolla Eve’ is still happening in November.  Look it up!

Oof… only 24 movies this month?!!?

Well, let me tell you…  not much.  I spent a few evenings watching people play professional baseball instead of acknowledging the global pandemic they are swimming in.  Spent a few evenings outside with Sarah and the podcasting took up a few more.  So, it was just a bunch of small things that added up.

The List

• An asterisk (*) indicates a first time viewing.
• Links will take you to write-ups posted.
• Bold font indicates a write-up is done and scheduled to be posted.
• Strike-through means I didn’t enjoy it enough to finish it.

Date Watched	Film Title	Year Released	My Rating
Jul01	Some One Up There Likes Me*	1956	3
Jul01	Inherit The Wind*	1999	3
Jul02	The Young Philadelphians*	1959	3
Jul04	Brubaker*	1980	3
Jul05	Ladyhawke*	1985	NA
Jul05	Switching Channels*	1988	3.5
Jul06	The Great Waldo Pepper*	1975	4
Jul07	Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)*	2014	NA

 

Date Watched	Film Title	Year Released	My Rating
Jul08	Havana*	1990	NA
Jul08	The Terminator	1984	5
Jul09	Terminator 2: Judgement Day	1991	5
Jul10	The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean*	1972	NA
Jul11	Cat On A Hot Tin Roof*	1958	4
Jul12	California Suite*	1978	3
Jul13	The Wrecking Crew*	2008	5
Jul14	The Mosquito Coast*	1986	3

Date Watched	Film Title	Year Released	My Rating
Jul15	In The Heat of the Night	1967	5
Jul15	Paths Of Glory*	1957	3.5
July16	They Call Me Mr. Tibbs!*	1970	3.5
July17	The Organization*	1971	3.5
July23	Attack The Block*	2011	4.5
Jul24	Eighth Grade*	2018	5
Jul24	It Follows*	2014	3
Jul26	The Old Man and the Gun*	2018	3

The Juicy Stats

Total Number of movies watched: 24
The number of first-time watches: 21
Oldest movie: Someone Up There Likes Me (1956)
Longest movie: The Young Philadelphians (2hr 16m)
Most watched actor: Robert Redford (4)
The number of movies watched by decade:
‘30s – 0
‘40s – 0
‘50s – 3
‘60s – 1
‘70s – 4
‘80s – 4
‘90s – 2
‘00s – 1
‘10s – 5

How I watched them:
PVR/DVR – 14
DVD Collection – 1
Blu-ray Collection – 5
4K Blu-ray collection – 1
Public Library DVD – 0
Netflix – 1
Amazon Prime – 0
Tubi – 0
YouTube – 0
Kodi – 0
Disney+ – 0
Pirates – 2

Genres:
Action – 0
Animated – 0
Comedy – 2
Comic Book – 0
Crime – 3
Documentaries – 1
Dramas – 11
Fantasy – 1
Film Noir – 0
Horror – 1
Kung Fu – 0
Thriller – 0
War – 1
Western – 1

Baseball time!
These are the “batting stats” compiled for the FIRST TIME watches.  I give each movie a rating out of 5.  5s are home runs, 4s and 3s are hits, 2s and 1s are pop or ground outs, an NA (did not finish) is a Strike Out.  This tells me how well of a job I’m doing at picking which movies to watch.

Good Movie Average:  17/21 – .809  (Last month: .917)
Home Runs: 2 – Eighth Grade, The Wrecking Crew
Strikeouts: 4

Awards
Most Under-Watched: The Wrecking Crew
Most Overrated: Birdman
Most Fun: Switching Channels
Most Forgettable: The Old Man and The Gun
Best re-watch: The Terminator
The movie I can finally cross off the Bucket-list: Paths of Glory
Most surprising performance:  Elizabeth ‘Lizzy’ Taylor – Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
Most Bizzare Casting: Harrison Ford as Allie Fox in The Mosquito Coast
The film that was the Most Pleasant Surprise: Eighth Grade
Worst Movie: Birdman
Best Movie: Eighth Grade

Feel free to tell me how terrible my opinion(s) are in the comments!