Anyways, I decided to be helpful and watch a movie to let KP and 80s know a movie
NOT to include in their 21st century countdown -
Wet Hot American Summer
I clicked on it only knowing that it was a comedy and somehow has a 75% score on RT. It has a 39% critic score which is still too much. At first, I thought this was just a poorly written comedy (I guess it still is) but it's an absurdist parody so I guess if you are into things like that then you might like it. TBF, I chuckled a few times so I guess there's some redeeming value? 5.0 for effort
This also spawned 2 shows on netflix. Have no clue why.
I had a similar reaction - with the people involved, I was expecting a little funnier.
I will repeat this in a few weeks, as we put our finishing touches on our lists and expect to start it fairly soon. For me, a list of 100 movies in 25 years was MUCH harder to tackle and narrow down than our submission of 70 albums for doc. I literally grabbed one of my notebooks and went through each one of
THESE pages on wikipedia, from 2000-2024. I wrote down any title I saw that I remember liking enough to rewatch, recommend to customers when I ran the stores, or would recommend to the FFA. All 7/10 or higher type of movies in my rating (which is a bit odd, I admit). Just that was probably 500-600 titles. THEN I looked at lists of horror movies because I love those and watch a lot of those and wrote down probably another 50-75 (many did show up on those lists above because they are foreign or a lot release direct to dvd or streamers). THEN I looked through foreign language movies and wrote down another 50-60 there. You get the idea. There are going to be so many "I can't believe this isn't on the list!" type comments that I am probably going to agree with and is a movie I have written down in this notebook I am looking at (I am working on my 41st-50th ranked movies this morning)
In the end, I decided to not stress about it too much and approached it much like I did the album countdown. I am going desert island style and trying to build a collection of 100 movies that I would love to have on my shelf from that era and it will have something for anybody who is at my house (hopefully). These are movies I own already, that made me cry or laugh a lot, that made me fall for foreign language movies, genuinely surprised or that I have enjoyed watching with my family the most. My weird tastes and quirks are represented (no Marvel and few action movies, for example) but when we are talking an average of only 4 movies/year there are going to be a ton of great movies not showing up on our collective countdown. I'd expect we have less crossover than our lists that focused on one decade, so in the end we probably will have 160 or so movies and hopefully people will find a handful of movies they will discover because of it. Like the album countdown, this is all about the discussion and love of movies.
What I do plan to do as we get to about 75-50 or so in the countdown and get to movies high on our individual lists or ones we agreed on is like doc did in the album countdown reveal mini lists of movies with fun (to me at least) categories. [ if
@Ilov80s thinks this is a fun idea too, of course ] When I went through I saw themes, actors, and directors pop up on my lists. Many of them are the ones I did each week about a month ago. I wrote ideas on the margins from Ryan Gosling movies to crappy families to time travel to best movies with worst titles to my most uncomfortable watches. Things like that to have fun and provide even more suggestions for people.