5Flix
I've had a variety of ideas in this space for some daily film-based sort of social game. I've finally put it together and launched it for a first attempt.
The premise is simple: Rank five films in the order of best to worst according to their IMDB ratings.
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Masters of the Universe (2026)
I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this. It was good campy fun. I still hate Jared Leto in literally everything though.
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In Time (2011)
I really like the concept of this movie. I saw it originally in the theaters when it came out but unfortunately this movie just doesn't land in any of its elements. It's "almost good" in everything.
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True Romance (1993)
I'd never watched it before and it came up on Jeopardy! tonight, so we put it on.
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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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