The Hunger Games (2012)
I rewatched the movie yesterday and then this morning to finish it. I am reminded now how disappointed I was by the adaptation, it did wonderfully in creating the world and setting but so much of the written story and its nuances was lost in the adaptation.
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My current Top 50
I wrote a new movie tool that puts movies into a matchup and then generates Elo rankings for them. With over 2300 movie matches calculated, here are my current top 50:
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The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
Twenty years old and yet it has aged quite well. Still a classic.
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The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026)
Since we watched the first, we continued in to watching the second one. And, look, it's a kid's movie. That's the most important thing. But, as entertainment for adults - it was bad.
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The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)
I had watched this previously on an airplane, but I dozed off multiple times. So the wife and I gave it a watch last night.
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Mission Impossible (1996)
Crazy to think that this movie is thirty years old. Well, I say that, but so much of this movie is aged. From the dial up internet and bad technology, to the style and cinematography.
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Home Alone 1 and 2
It's hard for me to explain why, but I found myself greatly disliking the second movie's decision to further rely on slapstick and painful moments with the thieves. I haven't watched Home Alone 2 in a long time and so the rewatch today made me realize how far it trails the first in my overall enjoyment.
I realize they're kid movies and may as well be cartoons, but the painful moments definitely hit harder (no pun intended) and are less entertaining for me in the second movie than the first's, which I still find largely enjoyable and nostalgic.
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Running Man (2025) - 2 or 5 Hunters
An especially important and poignant commentary on society and modern entertainment, but nothing particularly life changing as far as movies go.
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Frankenstein (2025)
Overall, I quite enjoyed it. It didn't blow me away, but it was classic Guillermo del Toro doing what he does. Also, I restrained myself to only shouting out "It's Franken-steen!" once while watching.
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Thunderbolts* (2025)
I didn't love this one the way other people did, but it's still a decent MCU flick, and of the recent era it's great.
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Naked Gun (2025)
Okay, that movie was fucking hilarious. And so true to the vision and experience of the first. Liam Neeson killed it.
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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025)
I haven't loved an MI movie since maybe... 3? I don't know. Finally checked this one out and... woof. Good riddance to this series, maybe we can get a new action star series going..
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The Thursday Murder Club (2025)
Such a disappointing film with such a murderer's row of talent in the cast. I think some of what I attribute to low quality in the film is more of a purposeful schlock for the genre and feel they were going for.
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Superman (2025)
We finally watched this at home, never made it to the theaters for it. It was... fine. I think my expectations were too high going in.
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The Amateur (2025)
Just flat and ultimately slow moving. I should have loved it but I didn't.
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Nonnas (2025)
Put on Nonnas today and found it cute but overall nothing amazing. It's a feel good Vince Vaughn movie with a few notable faces and some delicious sounding and looking Italian food.
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Fountain of Youth (2025)
The movie is not amazing. It's the latest in the lineage of Indiana Jones, the Librarian, and National Treasure. But, it is not an amazing movie. I hope it does well enough they get to do another one and perhaps find their groove.
Also, I legit can't remember much of the soundtrack at all, but there is a Thai version of 'Bang Bang' at the start of the movie which is a banger:
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Chef (2014)
Still a fantastic movie. Makes me realize I really need to get a panini press.
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Mission Impossible (1996)
Crazy to think this movie is 29 years old. I remember seeing it when it came and even then thinking it was kind of hokey. I was also pissed off they killed Emilio Estevez.
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The 'Sinners' Movie's Syllabus
Looks to be an incredible list of resources and things to further research into key areas of the movie, from Jim Crow and the Mississippi Delta, to the blues, the great migration, and more. Wow.
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