Watching movies alphabetically, round II
This is a sequel of the first post: Picking and watching movies alphabetically.
The question What do we watch?
is a tough one to answer.
We decided to break out of our self-established, comfortable, filter bubble and started watching movies alphabetically.
We made an exception, again, for the letter X and skipped it.1
Q is another letter we had to skip. We couldn’t find a movie starting with Q.
The movies we watched with my ratings
Ratings are on a scale of 1 (bad) to 10 (good).
- Avengers: Endgame 3/10
- BlacKkKlansman 8/10
- Contagion 5/10
- Downfall 5/10
- Edge of Tomorrow 3/10
- Free Solo 7/10
- The Gentlemen 7/10
- Hey Arnold: The Jungle Movie 1/10
- Invictus 6/10
- Jumanji: The Next Level 5/10
- Kids 5/10
- Lost In Translation 5/10
- M 9/10
- Nineteen Eighty-Four 5/10
- Overlord 4/10
- The Panama Papers 6/10
Q skipped- Righteous Kill 3/10
- Sneakers 6/10
- The Terminator 6/10
- Utøya: July 22 1/10
- Video Games - The Movie 5/10
- What Dreams May Come 7/10
X skipped- Yellow Submarine 6/10
- Zero Days 7/10
Only few movies in this round left a lasting impression:
Free Solo: this movie was thrilling and intense. Had goosebumps most of the time and wanted to scream.
M: a must see, a milestone in film history.
Utøya: July 22: another one-take movie. I haven’t really liked any one-take movie yet and this one, although covering a movie-worthy topic, wasn’t worth it at all.
What Dreams May Come: the atmosphere was amazing and the progression of film style reflected the topic on a very meta basis.
Zero Days: although the impression manifests that the told story is true, no evidence is provided which would hold up in a court house. This ambiguity in combination with its political explosiveness makes it a movie worth watching… with a grain of salt.
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We’re not into superhero movies. ↩