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 | 1985 | NA | |
Jul05 | Switching Channels* | 1988 | 3.5 |
Jul06 | The Great Waldo Pepper* | 1975 | 4 |
Jul07 | 2014 | NA |
Date Watched | Film Title | Year Released | My Rating |
Jul08 | 1990 | NA | |
Jul08 | The Terminator | 1984 | 5 |
Jul09 | Terminator 2: Judgement Day | 1991 | 5 |
Jul10 | 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!
Yep, a few strike-throughs (more like “strikeouts”) this month…
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Yep. Can’t win them all.
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Pretty cool month of movies again Kev! Do you sleep at all? Between movies,baseball,hiking in the wild and basically on YouTube 7 days a week how the hell do u do that?
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Time management and a boring job!
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Your My Hero!
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You need to set your goals much higher, lol
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Bahahaha umm nope
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By the way watched The Go Go’s Documentary tonight! What a story! From Punk to Pop to Success to Coke to Heroin to Egos to Breakup
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What service is that on? I want to see that documentary.
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It said Showtime at the start but we pulled it off our stream box.
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Looking it up now and it says “Showtime on Hulu”. That means its free to pirate here in Canada, lol
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Help yourself!
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I think it is Showtime. I will see if I can find it anywhere.
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Oooo… I love music docs. I’ll have to check it out!
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The Wrecking Crew has been on my list for a while. 5 from 5. I guess I better get to it. 👍
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It is a must watch for any music fan. If you thought the bands from the ’80s were up to shenanigans… The Monkees were only the tip of the iceberg in the ’60s.
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I look forward to this monthly feature, Kevin – I still have never seen the original Terminator, it’s time!
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WHUT!!!
Yes, you need to see this one ASAP Geoff. Just make sure the little one’s are off in bed!
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Perhaps not a family flick!
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They’ll love it when they are teenagers! (maybe)
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More like a Wendy and Geoff Flick
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Drop what you are doing and get on it!
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Consider it dropped!
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Next to Halloween “Honda Civic” day is my favorite (Good one Mars).
A few on the list I have seen. I was disappointed in ‘Roy Bean’ also. ‘The Westerner’ with Cooper and Brennan is a good one.
Pretty good wack of movies again.
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