Topic: The No-Goal, No-Theme, unwatched Marathon

[Achim]

...for January 2008. (As proposed by RossRoy.)

All you have to do is work down on your unwatched pile, preferably with titles you've never see before. To make things more interesting you can combine it with any of these ideas (or a combination of them), to possibly make selection easier:
Random movie pick marathon
Letter linking marathon (new title begins with last letter of previous title)
Star linking marathon (start and finish on same star)

You should watch 26 (or more) during this month.

My list:

Title	Date	Rating*	Connection to previous movie (if any)
The Lady and the Tramp	1/01	_8/10
Edmond	1/01	_7/10	none
The Black Cat	1/04	_7/10	same director (Stuart Gordon)
The Trouble with Harry		_8/10	last/first letter of title
The Duellists	1/06	_8/10	none
Crash	1/06	_7/10	none; had this one picked by Movie Pick
House of Frankenstein	1/07	_5/10	last/first letter of title
Night of the Living Dorks	1/07	_6/10	last/first letter of title
The Simpsons Movie	1/11	_8/10	last/first letter of title
Taegukgi	1/12	_9/10	none; had this one picked by Movie Pick
Halloween: Resurrection	1/13	_4/10	none; picked by a friend who visited today
Office: Season One	1/14	_7/10	none; arrived in December, wanted to see what all the fuzz is about
3rd Rock from the Sun: Season 4	1/17~26	_9/10	none; been 5 months since I finished Season 3, needed a fix
My Father is a Hero	1/19	_7/10	none; had this one picked by Movie Pick
Blade Runner: The Final Cut	1/20	_9/10	none; picked by a friend who visited today
Rush Hour 3	1/21	_5/10	last/first letter of title
Robinson Crusoe on Mars	1/25	_8/10	last/first letter of title
Cloverfield	1/26	10/10	cinema
The Mummy's Hand	1/26	_5/10	none
Duck, you sucker	1/26	_8/10	last/first letter of title
Ride the High Country	1/27	_9/10	last/first letter of title
The Yakuza	1/27	_9/10	last/first letter of title
Masters of Horror: Dream Cruise	1/27	_6/10	both take place in Japan
Eyes Without a Face	1/27	_8/10	last/first letter of title
Es geschah am hellichten Tag	1/29	_8/10	last/first letter of title
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai	1/30	_8/10	last/first letter of title
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* (Note: these are slightly modified from the ones Rick and James are using; I was too lazy to make a list up myself... )
1 - One of the worst movies I’ve seen EVER.
2 - One of the worst movies I've seen in a while. You've been warned.
3 - Did not like it but I can see where there may be someone out there who would.
4 - Not good but has at least some redeeming quality.
5 - Not good, not bad. If you like the genre you may like it.
6 - I recommend it and think it's good.
7 - Generally recommended for overall entertainment value.
8 - Strongly recommended.
9 - Now this is a movie!
10  - One of the best movies I have ever seen!

[Tom]

Not sure about the unwatched part for myself, as most of my unwatched stuff are TV boxsets.

No	Title	Date	Rating	Reason for inclusion
1	Erik the Viking	Jan 01	6/10	Unwatched
2	Family Guy: Volume 5	Jan 02	7/10	Never seen
3	Clone Wars: Volume 2	Jan 02	4/10	Never seen
4	Walk the Line	Jan 03	8/10	Unwatched
5	SNL: The Best of Saturday TV Funhouse	Jan 03	7/10	Never seen
6	Timecop	Jan 04	7/10	Time-travel marathon
7	Blackadder: Back & Forth	Jan 04	8/10	Time-travel marathon
8	Timecop 2: The Berlin Decision	Jan 04	4/10	Time-travel marathon
9	Retroactive	Jan 05	7/10	Time-travel marathon
10	Time After Time	Jan 05	7/10	Time-travel marathon
11	Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home	Jan 05	9/10	Time-travel marathon
12	Kate & Leopold	Jan 05	7/10	Time-travel marathon
13	Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures	Jan 06	8/10	Time-travel marathon
14	Somewhere in Time	Jan 06	7/10	Time-travel marathon
15	The Final Countdown	Jan 06	7/10	Time-travel marathon
16	The Girl Who Leapt Through Time	Jan 06	10/10	Time-travel marathon
17	The Philadelphia Experiment	Jan 06	5/10	Time-travel marathon
18	Primer	Jan 06	3/10	Time-travel marathon
19	Groundhog Day	Jan 06	10/10	Time-travel marathon
20	The Cat Returns	Jan 11	7/10	Never seen
21	Silent Movie	Jan 13	6/10	Never seen
22	Wish Upon a Star	Jan 14	7/10	Never seen
23	Les Visiteurs	Jan 15	7/10	Unwatched/Time-Travel marathon
24	Once Bitten	Jan 15	3/10	Never seen
25	Just Visiting	Jan 16	6/10	Never seen/Time-Travel marathon
26	Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella (1957)	Jan 18	6/10	Never seen/Cinderella marathon
27	Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella (1965)	Jan 19	7/10	Never seen/Cinderella marathon
28	Ever After: A Cinderella Story	Jan 19	10/10	Cinderella marathon
29	Tři oříšky pro Popelku	Jan 19	8/10	Cinderella marathon
30	The Slipper and the Rose	Jan 19	7/10	Cinderella marathon
31	Mädchenjahre einer Königin	Jan 20	7/10	Cinderella marathon
32	Coming to America	Jan 20	9/10	Cinderella marathon
33	Young Frankenstein	Jan 21	8/10	Never seen
34	Il Mare	Jan 23	8/10	Never seen/Time-travel marathon
35	The Meteor Man	Jan 25	5/10	Unwatched
36	The Lake House	Jan 26	8/10	Time-travel marathon
37	Happy Accidents	Jan 26	8/10	Time-travel marathon
38	I'm a Cyborg, But that's OK	Jan 30	9/10	Unwatched

[RossRoy]

Here we go! First one of 2008!

Rating scale
1/5 = Awful
2/5 = OK, I guess
3/5 = Good
4/5 = Very good
5/5 = Fabulous

My list
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#	Title	Date	Rating	Connection to previous movie (if any)
01.	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix	02	4/5
02.	The Simpsons Movie	02	4/5
03.	Futurama: Bender's Big Score	04	5/5	Matt Groening of course!
04.	CSI: Miami: Season 3	09	5/5
05.			/5
06.			/5
07.			/5
08.			/5
09.			/5
10.			/5
11.			/5
12.			/5
13.			/5
14.			/5
15.			/5
16.			/5
17.			/5
18.			/5
19.			/5
20.			/5
21.			/5
22.			/5
23.			/5
24.			/5
25.			/5
26.	Veronica Mars: Season 3 (Last Ep: 09)	Ongoing	?/5

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5 down, 22+ to go.

[Jimmy]

I'll go for this one, I can't say that all the movie are unwatched since usually I watch them almost after buying them. When they are not watch it's because they were buy to complete an order to get the free delivery (and usually they are not really great to begin with).

I move the rest of the title of my previous marathon here. All the movie from the #10 untill the last one are unwatched

What I'll have to watch

#	TITLE	RATING		DATE
01	Cannibal Apocalypse	3.5/5		2/01
02	Cannibal Ferox	4.5/5		3/01
03	Manos the Hands of Fate	2.0/5 1		4/01
04	Hell of the Living Dead	3.0/5		4/01
05	The Molesters	3.0/52		5/01
06	Garden of the Dead	2.5/53		7/01
07	Maniac	4.0/54		8/01
08	Tombs of the Blind Dead	3.0/55		11/01
09	Looker	4.0/56		11/01
10	Psychomania	3.0/5		11/01
11	Killing Machine	4.0/5		12/01
12	The Flesh and Blood Show	2.0/5		16/01
13	Virgin Witch	3.5/5		18/01
14	Idaho Transfer	4.0/5		18/01
15	The Curse of Lizzi Borden	0.0/5		19/01
16	The Great American Snuff Film	3.5/5		20/01
17	The Boston Strangler	3.5/5		22/01
18	Sombre	1.5/5		23/01
19	The Milpitas Monster	1.5/5		23/01
20	Moonlighting Wives	3.5/5		24/01
21	Asylum Erotica	2.0/5		24/01
22	Terror From Under the House	3.0/5		25/01
23	The Last Supper	4.0/5		26/01
24	The Baby	4.0/5		27/01
25	Moon Child	1.0/5		29/01
26	The Bermuda Triangle	3.5/5		29/01

1. Not as bad as everybody say, it have a couple of good ideas. But the movie is so technically inept that I can't give it more even if I like it
2. I would have prefered to watch the original Swiss version, since this is the 1964 US version with some add scene to make it creepier. But my hope are not really high, the odds to have a release of a 1963 sexual study movie not really popular are certainly low.
3. If you are a zombie movie completist only. This one have running zombie who use tools to fight, but the budget was very low. for a better film by the same director try "Grave of the vampire"
4. The best performance of the great character actor Joe Spinell (Rocky, The Godfathers,etc.). The DVD himself get a 5/5 because of the documentary on Spinell career.
5. I have watch the 101 minutes Spanish version. The second one (Return of the evil dead) is much better.
6. A very good one by Michael Crichton before he start to wrote on automatic pilot. A Thriller who mix  publicity and technology. 

Starting with Psychomania, I will wrote a short review of each movie (film + DVD) on another thread since each new one is a first time watch for me. Hope that I will not be too boring 

[m.cellophane]

"No Goal" sounds good to me.  I'm going to completely rip-off Rick's rating chart from his Christmas marathon. I find that I generally like pretty much anything I care to actually watch, so hopefully this will keep me a bit more critical. 

1 - One of the worst movies I’ve seen EVER. I would do everything in my power to make sure nobody sees it.
2 - One of the worst movies I've seen in a while. You've been warned.
3 - Did not like it but I can see where there may be someone out there who would.
4 - Not good but has at least one redeeming quality. If you like the genre you may like it.
5 - Not good, not bad.
6 - Generally recommended for overall entertainment value.
7 - I recommend it and think it's good.
8 - Strongly recommended.
9 - Now this is a movie!
10  - One of the best movies I have ever seen!

ITEM	TITLE	DATE	RATING
1	Shoot the Moon	2	7
2	National Treasure	3	6
3	The Shoes of the Fisherman	4	6
4	Winter Kills	5	8
5	Hairspray (2007)	6	10
6	The Black Orchid	6	6
7	House on Telegraph Hill	8	6
8	The Spy Who Came In from the Cold	10	8
9	Never Again	13	8
10	Paris When It Sizzles	15	7
11	Daddy Long Legs	19	7
12	Dark Passage	21	8
13	The Fountain	28	5

Viewing thoughts reported in The Viewage of m.cellophane.

[lyonsden5]

I said I wasn't going to participate in one this month but this one sounds like you can't loose.  I'll shoot for 26 but will be happy with whatever unwatched I get through.

1 - One of the worst movies I’ve seen EVER. I would do everything in my power to make sure nobody sees it.
2 - One of the worst movies I've seen in a while. You've been warned.
3 - Did not like it but I can see where there may be someone out there who would.
4 - Not good but has at least one redeeming quality. If you like the genre you may like it.
5 - Not good, not bad.
6 - Generally recommended for overall entertainment value.
7 - I recommend it and think it's good.
8 - Strongly recommended.
9 - Now this is a movie!
10  - One of the best movies I have ever seen!

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[Jimmy]

ITEM	TITLE	DATE	RATING
1	Shoot the Moon	2	7

Thanks I didn't know that this one was release. Just place an order

[DJ Doena]

After having finished Xena the day before yesterday I had the choice to start another TV show (Highlander or Angel would have come to mind) I decided to reduce my unwatched pile (155/581 movies).

But I won't rate my movies on a scale (I am not good at that).

#	Date	Movie	Previous State	Comment
1	Jan 13	The Lawnmower Man	never seen	unfortunately no original audiotrack; supposedly a cyber classic but outdated IMHO
2	Jan 13	Black Rain	unseen	typical 80s movie (smoking bad ass cop hunts down evil Mafia/Yakuza man); Douglas' character is arrogant and rude to his japanese colleagues; didn't like it much
3	Jan 13	Der Eisbär	unseen	german fun movie with Til Schweiger
4	Jan 13	Bubba Ho-tep	never seen	ARGL! Picked one with forced german subtitles when choosing original audiotrack; Given the setting it was a rather quiet movie but I enjoyed it
5	Jan 14	12 Monkeys	unseen	Double-ARGL! What did I do and to whom? Only after entering the DVD I saw that it has no original audiotrack at all; Have to get one with it; Liked it a lot; Always wondered if it was a coincidence that the woman sat next to the virus-man
6	Jan 14	The 13th Warrior	unseen	Three in a row. Today's my lucky day. No, seriously I had thought that forced subs had died out but obviously one has to check every back cover for it before buying. The movie itself was a good "sword movie"; some people say it's bad because of the book, but since I've never read the book I don't care
7	Jan 16	The Addams Family	unseen	real fun movie that is
8	Jan 16	Addams Family Values	unseen	liked it even more than the first one, especially with the summer camp
9	Jan 16	About a Boy	unseen	I like Hugh Grant flicks; they are light-hearted comedies that don't need to resort to "fart jokes" and the like
10	Jan 17	American Psycho	never seen	On word: strange; and to be honest I did not understand the ending; did he imagine all this without actually doing it?
11	Jan 17	The Sum of All Fears	never seen	While I like both Ben Affleck and Jack Ryan they don't match; Ben is no Dr. Ryan; neither compared to Alec Baldwin nor to Harrison Ford nor to the man in the books
12	Jan 17	Astérix et le coup du menhir	unseen	The Gaul Asterix is a local hero around here; but this is one of the inferior movies; the earlier ones are way better
13	Jan 18	Asterix in America	unseen	not one of my favourites eiter; I bought the complete box with all Asterix movies and this one and the above were unseen for a reason; but on the other hand it's not as bad as I remembered it
14	Jan 18	The Cannonball Run	unseen	classic fun race movie with a lot of stars; liked to watch it again
15	Jan 18	Major Payne	unseen	always liked fun military movies and now I've seen it for the first time in english; had to get used to the major's voice but it was fun to watch it again
16	Jan 19	For the Love of the Game	unseen	I think it's a very good movie although I never catched all the rules of that game; and as I said I have nothing against Costner's acting
17	Jan 19	Back to Gaya	unseen	BtG is the first german CGI animation movie; the story is ok but not outstanding
18	Jan 19	Bang Boom Bang - Ein todsicheres Ding	unseen	Another german comedy (it seems to be the only kind of movie we're capable of doing right) that I like
19	Jan 19	The Evil Dead	unseen	Horror classic; although horror is not really my genre I enjoyed this one; mainly because of Bruce Campbell
20	Jan 19	Bad Boys 2	never seen	it's a fairly good no-brainer; but the Cuba part was a bit of an overdose
21	Jan 19	Bandidas	unseen	Hadn't seen this in English until now; liked the setting and the acting of both women
22	Jan 20	Barfuss	unseen	I really enjoyed to watch her find her way in the real world with everything being new, even a bus drive; and Til again in his role as likable loser
23	Jan 20	Batman Forever	unseen	I like the dark movies better (B, BR, BB); I bought the 1-4 box because it was cheaper than buying B & BR seperately; but this one is still ok to watch
24	Jan 20	Batman & Robin	never seen	This one was a bit too much over all the edges; in regards to story, physical abilities of the characters and looks
25	Jan 20	Be Cool	never seen	'Til now I only knew the predecessor Get Shorty but I enjoyed this as much as Shorty; some people don't like it; don't know why
26	Jan 20	Beverly Hills Cop 2	unseen	Good to see the fastest mouth of the 80s again; these three movies were good fun action cop movies
27	Jan 20	Beverly Hills Cop 3	unseen	same as above; I do like all three parts of that trilogy
28	Jan 21	TMNT	never seen	While the story is ok (it's a movie about mutated turtles!) I still like the "real movies" better. They had a certain charme and this doesn't really work with CGI
29	Jan 21	Blade	never seen	This was actually a blind buy; I have avoided the Blade series for quite some time; somehow I was right; the movie didn't interest me that much; Snipes had better roles than this one
30	Jan 21	The Blue Lagoon	unseen	the story is simple but likeable; who wouldn't want to be stranded with Brooke Shields on an island?; didn't know that Brooke was only 14 when she made that movie until now
31	Jan 22	Return to the Blue Lagoon	unseen	Couldn't really remember it, just bought it cheap because Milla Jovovich was on the cover . Basically it's the same plot as its predecessor with slight variations
32	Jan 22	Blood Diamond	never seen	It's a rather serious movie; was a blind buy; I am not that big a fan of DiCaprio's; but both main actors played very well
33	Jan 22	Bomber	unseen	Bud Spencer and Terrence Hill (not present in this movie) are my childhood favourites; all their movies are guilty pleasures, this one not excluded; but I still watch them now and then
34	Jan 23	Brubaker	unseen	Great movie; I watched it nearly every time when it came on TV but ironically haven't watch it on DVD until now
35	Jan 23	Children of Men	unseen	Scary vision; while I have no children of my own, I love children and couldn't imagine a world without them
36	Jan 23	Chingachgook, die grosse Schlange	unseen	In what used to be the former Eastern Bloc, Gojko Mitić is famous for playing Native Amerians in "Red Westerns"; this movie is based loosely on Cooper's "The Deerslayer"
37	Jan 24	The Bourne Ultimatum	unseen	Good conclusion to the series; but the camera is a bit too unsteady for my taste
38	Jan 24	Conan the Barbarian	unseen	Schwarzenegger classic; it is a good movie but I like his later works better
39	Jan 24	Brice de Nice	never seen	Funny french movie
40	Jan 25	The Crow	unseen	It's an ok movie, but I seriously liked the same plot in The Wraith better; maybe because of the car
41	Jan 25	Blue Streak	unseen	Funny how one can adopt to live a cop's live; it's a good comedy
42	Jan 25	The Interpreter	unseen	It is a good movie but I seriously don't believe that it's telling something realistic; personally (without trying to offend anyone) I think the US doesn't give a rat's ass about the UN or the International Court of Justice in The Hague; they say they do, but I don't believe it
43	Jan 26	Tri orísky pro Popelku	unseen	See also; It's a fairy tale classic and I loved to re-watch it again
44	Jan 26	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	never seen	Hey, so many familiar faces!; and they still all have their heir on their heads, too!; good movie, didn't like the end, though; I would have killed Kai Winn
45	Jan 26	Derailed	never seen	I am not into thrillers that much, but I like both Jennifer Aniston and Clive Owen; it hard a good plot twist IMHO
46	Jan 27	Equilibrium	never seen	What is a world worth without love even if it hasn't hate in it either?; My first movie with Christian Bale in it was Shaft and I think he is an excellent actor in both good and bad roles
47	Jan 27	Evil Dead II	never seen	Horror isn't exactly my genre but I liked to find out how Ash got there were he was in Army of Darkness
48	Jan 27	Army of Darkness	unseen	My favourite of the trilogy; the skeletons are funny as hell
49	Jan 27	Occhio alla penna	unseen	Italian Western with Bud Spencer; I'll always aks myself who can eat more and who can punch harder, Bud or Obelix; had a really good laugh with this movie
50	Jan 27	Flags of Our Fathers	unseen	I like a balanced POV on the war, that's shows that neither side is the good and the other is the evil; the Vietnam movies were all unbalanced IMHO, mostly not in favour of the GIs

[Jimmy]

Jan 21

The Blue Lagoon

unseen

the story is simple but likeable; who wouldn't want to be stranded with Brooke Shields on an island?; didn't know that Brooke was only 14 when she made that movie until now

Karsten, If you like The Blue Lagoon, maybe you should try to find "Paradise". It's almost the same story, but in a dessert. The visual is very good and you got "Phoebe Cates" who is a much better actress than Brooke Shields (just a question of preference). Sure it's a rip-off of TBL but contrary to what happen usually the copy is better than the original.

[DJ Doena]

Karsten, If you like The Blue Lagoon, maybe you should try to find "Paradise". It's almost the same story, but in a dessert. The visual is very good and you got "Phoebe Cates" who is a much better actress than Brooke Shields (just a question of preference). Sure it's a rip-off of TBL but contrary to what happen usually the copy is better than the original.

Thx.

But "Blue Lagoon" is more a childhood favourite, I bought it (and the sequel) more fore sentimental reasons.

Maybe if I see Paradise in a Wal-Mart bin...

[Tom]

"Phoebe Cates"

Phoebe Cates 
Such a cutie. She stopped doing movies much too early.

[DJ Doena]

Allow me the latitude to start another posting, the other one has become a bit unmanageable.

50

Jan 27

Flags of Our Fathers

unseen

I like a balanced POV on the war, that's shows that neither side is the good and the other is the evil; the Vietnam movies were all unbalanced IMHO, mostly not in favour of the GIs

#	Date	Movie	Previous State	Comment
51	Jan 27	Letters from Iwo Jima	unseen	I don't know what exactly it is, but somehow I can better connect to this characters (Saigo, Kuribayashi) than to their american counterparts; that is why I like this movie a bit better than Flags From Our Fathers
52	Jan 30	Per un pugno di dollari	never seen	It's an interesting movie; I grew up watching Eastwood as Rowdie Yates in Rawhide
53	Jan 31	Per qualche dollaro in più	never seen	Good continuation; Really liked to see Lee Van Cleef; I knew him only from The Master

PS: It's Jan 31st, 11:23p.m. here and I conclude my part in this marathon.

I managed to remove a third of my unwatched pile and I will continue later this year.