2011 - 2012: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and Silver Linings Playbook

What's fun about these two movies is they're also the only ones on this list that I also read the books for. I looooved both books and while the movies are different I also really liked the movies as well.

2011: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Movie Facts:
Directed by  David Fincher
Rated R
Genre Thriller/Drama
Tagline: The feel bad movie of Christmas.
Daniel Craig - as sexy and frequently stupid.
Rooney Mara - as creepy as hell
Stellan Skarsgard - as perfect
And everyone else. Like everyone else lots of people.

Movie Thoughts:
I haven't seen this movie since I saw it in the theater. It's no that I didn't like it, because I do, but it's one of those movies you don't need to see over and over again to remember the details. Especially after reading the books and watching the Swedish films as well.  I read the books on my first Cruise bake in 2010 and I saw the Swedish movies shortly after.  When this movie came out the following Christmas I guess I was just wanting something more.  But the Swedish movies didn't leave anything to be desired and neither does this movie. As far as movie adaptations there's nothing that makes me angry about this film.  The scenery is gorgeous and stark, perfect for the story.  The cast is also pretty perfect when I read the books I imagined Stellan Skarsgard involved somehow so I saw super pleased when he was.  It's such a good fun mystery, the books suck you in and I feel like the movies do too.

The rape scene in the movie was just as painful as the rape scene in the book. I used it for a drink remix break because really the scene is hard to forget and who needs to relive it. And when Lisbeth gets him back it's still hard to watch- yes he deserves it but still hard to watch.

For some reason the ending of this movies doesn't surprise me as much as it did in the book. I feel like you can see it coming more in the movie- anyone else feel that way? Just realized that. About Harriet, not Lisbeth. This deviation from the book is probably the biggest but really doesn't bother me.  I wasn't too disappointed when they said they wouldn't make the other movies, they aren't needed. The Swedish ones are great! Again, this one is good too though.

Tyler's Rating: Aish  maybe A-.

2012: Silver Linings Playbook

Movie Facts:
Directed by David O. Russell
Rated R
Genre Drama/Comedy
Tagline: Watch for the signs.
Bradley Cooper - as crazy and awesome
Jennifer Lawrence - as crazy and neurotic
Robert DeNiro - as heartbreaking

Movie Thoughts:
One of the things in the book and movie I never understood was the fanaticism of football fans. I don't understand how these grown men act - I asked lots of people and apparently it's realistic...I just don't get it. So this is a movie that's I've definitely seen in the last 6 months. I love this movie. I find parts of it uncomfortable to watch but that's a good thing. It's acted really well and I just love Cooper and Lawrence together. I love the music, David O Russell really likes music he tends to do that part well too. I love that this movie is about mental illness, I love that Robert DeNiro came out and spoke about his son's illness during promotions. I like that their craziness is relatable and real and a work in progress.  There are so many deviations from the book in this movie but that's not what this project is about. I think the movie is a good clean happy ending that doesn't feel cheap- predictable yes but not cheap. So yay.

Tyler's Rating: A. Solid A.

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One more movie. One more.

Overview of the Project
My thoughts on Legend
1986-1989 Movies
1990-1993 Movies

1994 Leon

1995-1999

2000 - 2005

2006-2010
2006 & 2013

30:30:30 1986-1989 Movies- Short Circuit, Lost Boys, Heathers, and Say Anything

Okay so I'm going to try to knock out the 80s while doing laundry and cleaning the house. This week will be pretty busy so I don't know how many movies I'll get to before the next weekend.  So here we go!

1986: Short Circuit

Movie Facts:
Directed by John Badham
Movie tagline: Something wonderful has happened...No. 5 is alive!
Steve Guttenberg - he's played this character before
Ally Sheedy - I kinda like some of her clothes

Before Thoughts: I had this movie on VHS for the longest time growing up and think the last time I watched it was probably middle school or early high school. I remember it being about an escaped government robot who wanders into Ally Sheedy's house and starts looking for "input" it learns by watching and reading and it can imitate. I think Steve Guttenberg works for the government and is trying to get it back.  I think it almost dies at some point but they are able to fix it...don't really remember how it ends but I think it's a happy ending... sometimes I get it confused with Short Circuit 2- cause that one there's a wharehouse and he makes like miniature robots I think... on with the show!


After Thoughts:
Oh this was bad...seriously. So I remembered the story pretty much. Guttenberg ends up being a good guy in the end. But can we please talk about the horribly racist white/indian guy?!? OMG it was terrible! This actor has been in a million things why did he play a horrible stereotype in this.  Anyways Ally Sheedy looks just like she did in Breakfast Club so that was entertaining. The special effects were sad and bad, but that's okay. Again glad this movie was short too.  Now they're off to Montana...Short Circuit 2 is not on my to watch list during this project.  Really no sequel was needed.

Tyler's Ranking:   B-

1987: The Lost Boys

Movie Facts:
Directed by Joel Schumacher
Movie Tagline: Sleep all day. Party all night. Never grow old. Never die. It’s fun to be a vampire.
Kiefer Sutherland - international vampire spy
Corey Haim - less annoying than the other Corey
Corey Feldman - the annoying one
Jamie Gertz - as the same character from Less than Zero- right? of course her name is Star

Before thoughts: I probably haven't seen this movie since High School. I know Haley used to like it and that's probably how I ended up seeing it.  Vampires, absent parents, annoying teen "heartrhobs" the Coreys. I remember the soundtrack being really good.  Of the story what I remember is there's two brothers who move somewhere near a boardwalk with their mom and they used to be close, but the brother falls in with the wrong crowd- vampires- and falls in love with like the head vampire's girlfriend, and then Corey Feldman and his friend convince the younger brother they have to kill them vampires or something...is this one of those movies that doesn't really have a happy ending? I hope so cause Short Circuit was too cheesy.

A Few Live Thoughts: (I'm doing laundry and trying to clean so I'll throw in a few thoughts here and there)
- Diane West really? Wow totally did not remember she was in this
- Did Jason Patric ever do anything again?
- Awwww brotherly love!
- Words of wisdom "if you read the TV guide you don't need a TV"
- Oh no, spandex...and body grease this is not good
- OMG the outfits- next ear for Halloween I'm going as Corey Haim in Lost Boys
- Look it's Richard Gilmore!
- Corey Haim taking a serious bubble bath...
- How old is Corey supposed to be? I'm so confused...
- Ewwwww he bit his head...
- Garlic Holy Water...okay
- This reminds me I need a dog when I move home...my cats aren't very protective
- Ewwwwwwwwww
- This song is so creepy
- I want her hair

After thoughts:  Ehhh. Like all movies...from the 80s...or from forever. Why do these people fall in love?!? Like seriously you just see a chick dancing to some sweaty guy in spandex and all of the sudden you're in love?  Why was she with David to begin with? He had bad bleached hair!  So this is an excellent example of a great bad movie. It definitely wasn't good, but it wasn't painfully bad.  Very entertaining and the best costumes. Apparently I remembered the plot I needed to.  It was mom's new boyfriend who was the head vampire...figures. It's always a woman's fault.

Tyler's Ranking : A for a B movie.

1988: Heathers

Movie Facts: 
Directed by Michael Lehmann
Movie tagline: Best friends, social trends and occasional murder.
Winona Ryder being angsty
Christian Slater being weird and Jack Nicholson-y
Shannen Doherty being a bitch

Before thoughts:  I was probably in college the first time I saw this movie and have probably seen it more recently than the last three. A bunch of girls name Heather are in a clique and after one dies of an apparent suicide there are copy cats.  The one chick not named Heather in the group is basically responsible because her new boyfriend Christian Slater is a horrible influence...also she's kinda a freak and shouldn't be friends with the Heathers anyways.  So basically it's the 80s mean girls right?  Eh we'll see. However it does contain a lot of my favorite one liners "what's your damage" and "gag me with a spoon".

After thoughts: Oh yah it's actually just them that kill everybody. The fashion is fabulous, the music is synthesized.  I love the priest it's that one guy and he's fabulous. Blowing up a school is obviously not something that would have gone over well in the 90s. It was also fun to watch all the teenage smoking. I feel like not a lot of my friends smoked in High School. The parents all suck, cause apparently they don't hear people breaking into their daughter's rooms in the morning to kill them! Also they have bomb equipment in their homes with their sociopathic children. Excellent parenting all around. Good job.

Tyler's Ranking: B+

1989: Say Anything

Movie Facts:
Directed by Cameron Crowe
John Cusack being himself
Ione Skye as the only character where she didn't have to act
The old guy from Fraiser

Before Thoughts: Ummm it's another teen movie. I'm in a rut and I'm only 4 years in! So it's another movie where people fall in love for no reason, they're compatible for no reason.  So girl falls for guy for some stupid reason. They have sex and she tries to break up with him. He doesn't take no for an answer. Her dad is evading the IRS and then they leave for London together.  She's really smart, he's what happens to millennials in the early 2000s. And that's all I got.

After Thoughts: Ummm why did I start crying in this middle of this! So good. This movie was way better than I remembered it.  Stands the test of time nicely. So guy falls for girl for some stupid reason not the other way around. I think Ione's character is so unlikeable! I really dislike her. Why does she break up with Lloyd? I mean really, her dad is the douche, she tells him everything and he still doesn't get it! I mean come on. Who tell's their dad that much... Also the pen! OMG so annoyed with the damn pen. But Lloyd reminds me of this Mixed CD a High School friend made me when I was in college "Songs where the guy hurts" it's a great mixed CD I still have it on my Google Music.  But it's all about when the guys are left with questions and all WTF after girls do stupid stuff like break up with them after sex. But I still love this movie I mean Lloyd may not be the perfect guy, because really what the hell is he going to do with his life, but his adoration of the useless Diane Court is admirable.

Tyler's Ranking: A. Just an A.  Good all around movie.

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Previous 30 day movie project posts
Overview of the Project
My thoughts on Legend

30 days, 30 years, 30 movies.

Soon I will have been alive for 30 years! I am so excited to turn thirty it scares my friends.  To celebrate I'm doing a lot- spending time with friends, family, eating super good food and drinking really good wine.  That's basically all I got.  But since I'm super lucky and my 30th birthday falls on March 30th I thought I'd do something extra fun and silly.  I'm going to watch one movie from every year I've been alive-  here are my options if you have thoughts on which should win feel free to comment below and I'll update and post new blogs for movies that really had a fun impact. as well as at the end which once I ended up watching.

1985- The Breakfast Club
           Legend
           Clue*
           A Chorus Line*
1986-  Top Gun
           Stand By Me*
           Pretty in Pink*
           Short Circuit
           Little Shop of Horrors*

1987- The Princess Bride*
           Dirty Dancing*
           The Lost Boys
           Empire of the Sun
           Harry and the Hendersons

1988-  Beetlejuice*
           Rain Man
           Who Framed Roger Rabbit*
           Willow*
           Heathers*        
           Big

1989-  Batman
           Dead Poets Society
           The Little Mermaid*
           Say Anything*
           Steal Magnolias*
           Troop Beverly Hills*

1990- Pretty Woman
           Edward Scissorhands*
           Dick Tracy*
           Arachnophobia
           The Witches
           Mermaids* 

1991- The Silence of the Lambs
           Hook*
           Thelma & Louise
           My Girl*
           The Father of the Bride*
           City Slickers
           Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
           Drop Dead Fred

1992-  Reservoir Dogs*
           A Few Good Men
           A League of Their Own
           Newsies*
           Buffy the Vampire Slayer
1993-  Jurassic Park
           The Sandlot
           Hocus Pocus*
           Robin Hood Men in Tights
           Falling Down
           The Three Musketeers
           Benny & Joon*

1994- The Shawshank Redemption
           Forrest Gump
           Leon
           Interview with a Vampire*
           Clerks*
1995- Se7en
          Clueless

          Toy Story*
           A Little Princess*
           Empire Records
           Too Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar
1996- Jerry Maguire*
           Romeo + Juliet*
           The Birdcage
           The Craft*
           Mars Attacks!
1997-  Boogie Nights*

           Starship Troopers*
           The Fifth Element*
           Contact
           The Saint*
1998- The Big Lebowski*
           Saving Private Ryan
           The Truman Show
           The Wedding Singer*
           The X-Files
1999-  American Beauty*

           Office Space
           Girl, Interrupted*
           Magnolia*
           The Talented Mr. Ripley
           Dogma*
2000- Snatch*
           Almost Famous*
           O Brother, Where Art Thou*
           Chocolat*
           High Fidelity*
           Boondock Saints*

2001- Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone*
           Ocean's Eleven*
           Moulin Rouge*
           Blow
           Vanilla Sky*
           Gosford Park*

2002- Star Wars Episode 2- Attack of the Clones*

           Ice Age
           Chicago*
           Signs
           Punch Drunk Love*
2003- Pirates of the Caribbean Curse of the Black Pearl* 

           Finding Nemo*
           Big Fish*
           Lost in Translation*
           Mystic River*
2004-  Mean Girls*

           Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind*
           50 First Dates*
           The Life Aquatic*
           Closer*
2005- Batman Begins*

           Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire*
           V for Vendetta*
           The Chronicles of Narnia- The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe*
           Walk the Line*
           Jarhead*
2006- The Departed*

           The Prestige*
           Pan's Labyrinth
           Cars
           Stranger than Fiction*
2007-  Stardust*

           Juno*
           The Golden Compass*
           Knocked Up*
           Pirates of Caribbean at World's End*
          Ocean's Thirteen*
          Across the Universe*
2008- The Dark Knight*

           Twilight*
           Mamma Mia*
           Vicky Cristina Barcelona
2009- Watchmen

           The Hangover*
           District 9*
           Up in the Air
           Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Price*
          Up*
2010- Inception*

          The Social Network*
           Easy A*
           Toy Story 3
           Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World*
2011- Harry Potter & the Dealthy Hallows Part 2*

           X-Men First Class*
           The Help
           The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
2012- The Hunger Games*

           The Dark Knight Rises*
           Zero Dark Thirty
           Silver Linings Playbook*
           Moonrise Kingdom*
           Les Miserables*
2013-  Frozen*

           The Great Gatsby*
           The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
           American Hustle*
2014- Gone Girl

           Big Hero 6
           Interstellar
           Guardians of the Galaxy*
           The Grand Budapest Hotel*
           The Book of Life

* = I own.


With the help of IMBD these are not my favorite movies from these years, not all the movies I own from these years in fact since I own over 300 DVDs (yes I know I have a problem).  I own 104 on this list of 165.  There are no movies on this list I haven't already seen.  And there are a few movies I'll disqualify because I've seen them pretty recently like in the last 3ish months.  I could have added all the Harry Potter movies but I may watch those all before the end of February so we'll see. Either way these are all movies I really like for some weird reason or another.

So this all starts March 1st.  Now I probably wont be able to watch one movie a day so I'll probably end up binging a bit on the weekends.  Also for the rest of February I'm going to tackle some of these I know I can't make in March.  So I'll try to post at least once a week maybe twice a week in March with my progress and what years I cover.  This should be fun! Anyone who knows me knows how obsessive I can be when I decide I want to do something so while it'll be fun it will also be really really obnoxious.