#MovieThread, 2022 edition!
In 2020 I watched 239 movies.
In 2021 I watched another 391,
for a total of 650 movies since very early into first lockdown.
That's probably all the movies, right?
Shoot, I found more movies.
Let's start with something just as topical as last year's first one, #1, or #651, 1973's "Soylent Green."
It's the year 2022...
#2, #652, we Cage ever onwards, it's 2009's "Knowing."
But do I Know what this is about? I've Know idea.
#3, #653, I gotta get back to these, it's 1938 Best Picture nominee "Four Daughters."
This is before the 80s, when Hollywood perfected the "two schmucks with a bad idea" formula, so they've overshot to "four daughters."
#4, #654, we Cage ever onwards, it's 2009's "The Bad Lieutenant - Port of Call: New Orleans."
An unwieldy title like that doesn't... traditionally... mean... good things.
#5, #655, we Cage ever onwards, with another one I'd never put on without a reason, but in a completely different way, it's 2009's "G-Force," about a team of highly trained guinea pig spies.
#6, #656, we Cage ever onwards with another celebrity voice cast children's cartoon, it's 2009's "Astro Boy," in which he voices... the professor?
#7, #657, we Cage ever onwards, with 2010's "Kick-Ass."
Saw it when it came out, but I can't imagine it's aged... particularly gracefully.
#8, #658, one of only two Taika Waititis I haven't seen, 2010's "Boy."
#9, #659, we Cage ever onwards, it's 2010's "The Sorcerer's Apprentice." Which you'd think would have Mickey Mouse in it, but it doesn't.
#10, #660, we Cage ever onwards with 2011's "Season of the Witch," which I'm pretty sure is about the Plague, no, not that one, the other one.
#11, #661, 2010's "MacGruber" because I wanna know if I should bother with that show they just dropped.
#11, #662, Netflix has been pushing me to watch whatever the fuck 1991's "Hudson Hawk" is, so whatever, let's watch whatever the fuck 1991's "Hudson Hawk" is.
Just found out there's a "Weekend at Bernie's II" (1993) and I have to know, I have to know how they get there!
#13 or #663.
#14, or #664, 2018's "Welcome to Marwen," which, I don't even remember why I downloaded this or what it's about.
I'm not doing anything else productive today, #15, or #665, 2021's "The Lost Daughter."
#16, or #666, 2010's "Devil."
#17, or #667, the number of the neighbour of the Beast but just as evil, 2021's "Dear Evan Hansen."
I did also consider doing this one for #666.
still really funny how we all went "wait it's not gay???" and instead it's about like
a 37-year old high schooler stealing valour to make himself popular and getting away with it
✉️ "Dear Evan Hansen" (2021)
boy you have to hope this large adult high schooler's singing voice works better on stage
✉️ "Dear Evan Hansen" (2021)
"You fell out of a tree? What are you, five?"
cough
✉️ "Dear Evan Hansen" (2021)
a lot of Big Wild Choices already stacking up here
✉️ "Dear Evan Hansen" (2021)
hahaha this is very stupid
✉️ "Dear Evan Hansen" (2021)
the decision not to tell the truth kinda works if he's an awkward 17-year old but it feels fucking batshit because he looks like a grown-ass large adult
while all the other teenagers are cast totally age-appropriately
like this dude could've played the principal
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✉️ "Dear Evan Hansen" (2021)
@Alexis Would you really notice if they swapped Evan Hansen out for Dennis Reynolds?
✉️ "Dear Evan Hansen" (2021)
@kurt Season 1 Dennis might honestly be slightly less weird.
Season 15 Dennis, now you're doing a Wet Hot American Summer thing.
✉️ "Dear Evan Hansen" (2021)
@Alexis The guy who plays Evan Hansen looks younger outside the movie than in the movie where they purposfully tried to make him look as young as possible and that is *with* a full beard.
✉️ "Dear Evan Hansen" (2021)
@kurt The worst thing is he's Acting SO MUCH, it's all body language, trying SO HARD to make himself 10 years younger and ganglier, but instead he looks like he's 40 and recently lost quite a lot of weight and muscle mass from a bad health scare.
✉️ "Dear Evan Hansen" (2021)
@kurt A bit Weekend at Bernie's.