December 2019 50 Movie Challenge

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December Theme: Make-Your-Own-Challenge (40 movies)
For December, just chill and organize your movies into categories of your choosing (be creative). The goal is 8 categories of 5 movies each but you can divide up your 40 movies however you want. Make one of your categories holiday themed (Christmas/Hannukuh/Kwanzaa/Festivus/New Year).

December Recommendations Category (optional): Movies that take place during winter or lesser known films (5 Movies)
As an example, the lesser known films can be straight to video or films that have found a second life on streaming services. In your initial tracking post, everyone list 5-10 winter or lesser known films that you think others may not have seen and may enjoy. Then for the ones you watch for this category, mention who recommended the film in your post.

December Featured Category (optional): Reverse Secret Santa (5 movies)
Watch 5 movies from other user's collections. In your initial tracking post, state if your collection on this site is current or post a link to your collection on another site. Then for the ones you watch for this category, mention who's collection it belongs in.
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The Usual Fine Print:

• 50 movies is the goal, but based on your own time and situation you can shoot for more or less, so we have different levels from Coal to Platinum:
  60 Movies - Platinum
  50 Movies - Gold
  40 Movies - Silver
  30 Movies - Bronze
  20 Movies - Copper
  10 Movies - Coal
  <10 Movies - Why are you on this site?
• If you're going to re-post your entire list every time, please hide it under spoiler tags.
• If you're going to post pictures for the films (poster art or Blu-ray covers, for example) please try not to use GIANT pictures, and if there are tons of them, again - please hide under spoilers.

[kingdoxie]

Recent:

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Total: 50

I TRIPLE-dog-dare-ya!
1. The Polar Express
2. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
3. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (2nd time)
4. Rudolph/Grinch/Year Without Santa
5. Elf
6. Home Alone
7. Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
8. Jingle All the Way
9. Christmas With the Kranks
10. Gremlins 4K
11. Die Hard 4K
12. A Christmas Story
13. It's a Wonderful Life
14. Krampus

Scrooge
1. A Christmas Carol (2009)
2. A Christmas Carol (1951)
3. A Christmas Carol (1938)
4. Scrooged
5. A Christmas Carol (1938)

Reverse Secret Santa
1. The Ice Storm ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (filmbuffTX)
2. Watership Down ⭐⭐⭐ (Al_The_Strange)
3. Sleeping Beauty ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (DanTheMan)
4. In a Lonely Place ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (odguitar)

Unwatched backlog
1. Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936) ⭐⭐⭐
2. The 7th Voyage of Sinbad ⭐⭐⭐⭐
3. The Wreck of the Mary Deare ⭐⭐⭐⭐
4. Gold Diggers of 1933 ⭐⭐⭐
5. Footlight Parade ⭐⭐⭐
6. The Threat ⭐⭐⭐
7. Jason and the Argonauts ⭐⭐⭐⭐
8. The Most Dangerous Game ⭐⭐⭐
9. The Set-Up ⭐⭐⭐⭐
10. Kid Glove Killer ⭐⭐⭐⭐
11. 5 Against the House ⭐⭐⭐
12. The Narrow Margin ⭐⭐⭐⭐
13. Dodge City ⭐⭐⭐
14. Chimes at Midnight ⭐⭐⭐
13. Dive Bomber ⭐⭐⭐

Hodgepodge
1. Frozen II ⭐⭐⭐⭐
2. All That Jazz ⭐⭐⭐⭐
3. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker ⭐⭐⭐⭐
4. The Missouri Breaks ⭐⭐⭐

The Fifth Dimension
1. The Twilight Zone; S5, E5-8 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
2. The Twilight Zone; S5, E9-12 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
3. The Twilight Zone; S5, E13-16 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
4. The Twilight Zone; S5, E17-20 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
5. The Twilight Zone; S5, E21-24 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
6. The Twilight Zone; S5, E25-28 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
7. The Twilight Zone; S5, E29-32 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
8. The Twilight Zone; S5, E33-36 ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Recommendations (Winter and lesser known films):

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[DanTheMan]

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Reverse Secret Santa: filmbuffTX

Home for the Holidays* (1995) -
Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town (1970) -
The Polar Express* (2004) -
The Muppet Christmas Carol* (1992) - ½
Meet Me in St. Louis* (1944) - ½

Reverse Secret Santa: kingdoxie

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) - ½
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966) - ½
Rambo: First Blood Part II* (1985) -
Rambo: First Blood Part III* (1988) - ½
The Last Detail* (1973) - ½

Reverse Secret Santa: Travis

Frosty the Snowman (1969) - ½
Miracle on 34th Street* (1947) -
Basic Instinct* (1992) - ½
Burn After Reading* (2008) -
Annie* (1982) -

Reverse Secret Santa: Al_The_Strange

A Charlie Brown Christmas* (1965) -
It’s A Wonderful Life (1946) -
Gremlins (1984) - ½
Funny Face* (1957) -
A Few Good Men* (1992) - ½

Reverse Secret Santa: starryeyes

The Santa Clause (1994) -
Grumpy Old Men* (1993) - ½
Pretty Woman* (1990) - ½
Little Miss Sunshine* (2006) -
All the President’s Men* (1976) -

A Few of My Favorite Things

Die Hard 4K (1988) -
Home Alone (1990) -
Jingle All the Way (1996) - ½
Jumanji (1995) -
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) -

Some Extra Holiday Spirit

Miracle on 34th Street (1994) - ½
Noelle* (2019) - ½
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms UHD (2018) -

That Sweet, Sweet Ultra Hi-Def

Hobbs & Shaw UHD (2019) -
Rocketman UHD (2019) -
Ghost in the Shell UHD (2017) -
Lucy UHD (2014) -
It: Chapter Two UHD (2019) -
John Wick: Chapter 3 UHD (2019) -

Blu-ray Rewatches

Fighting with My Family (2019) - ½
Midsommar (2019) -
Weird Science (1985) -
Booksmart (2019) -

Star Wars: The Saga Re-Awakens

The Phantom Menace (1999) - ½
Attack of the Clones (2002) -
Revenge of the Sith (2005) -
A New Hope (1977) -
The Empire Strikes Back (1980) -
Return of the Jedi (1983) - ½
The Force Awakens (2015) - ½
The Last Jedi (2017) - ½
The Rise of Skywalker* (2019) -

Visit to the Cinema

Knives Out* (2019) - ½
Last Christmas* (2019) -
Jumanji: The Next Level* (2019) -
Cats* (2019) -
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood* (2019) -
Queen & Slim* (2019) - ½

Oh You Eyeing That Gold, Ain’t Ya?

Marriage Story* (2019) - ½
Bombshell* (2019) -
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) - ½
Little Women* (2019) -
Joker (2019) - ½
Parasite* (2019) -

You Wanna Get Independent?? Let’s Get Independent!!

The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019) -
The Farewell (2019) - ½
Uncut Gems* (2019) - ½
The Nightingale* (2019) -
The Lighthouse (2019) - ½

Best of the Decade: 2010s

Inception (2010) -
Drive (2011) -
The Master (2012) -
12 Years a Slave (2013) -
Birdman (Or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) -
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) -
La La Land (2016) -
The Shape of Water (2017) -

[Al_The_Strange]

Collection is up-to-date.

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Christmas Carols
12/08: A Christmas Carol (1938) (BD) 4/5
12/21: A Christmas Carol (1984) (BD) 3.5/5
12/21: A Christmas Carol (1999) (DVD) 3.5/5
12/24: A Muppet Christmas Carol (DVD) 3.5/5
12/25: A Christmas Carol (1951) (BD) 4/5

Winter Wonderlands
12/10: The Grinch (Netflix streaming) 3/5
12/22: Nutcracker and the Four Realms (Netflix streaming) 3/5
12/23: Ice Age: Continental Drift (Vudu streaming) 2.5/5
12/30: Frozen (UHD) 4/5

Laugh, and the World Laughs With You...
12/01: Duck Soup (BD) 3.5/5
12/06: The Cocoanuts (BD) 2.5/5
10/22: A Serious Man (Vudu streaming) 2.5/5
10/29: American Reunion (BD) 3/5
10/31: I'll Be Home for Christmas (BD) 3/5

...Weep, and You Weep Alone
12/01: OldBoy (2003) (UHD) 5/5
12/06: Slaughterhouse-Five (BD) 4/5
12/19: Joker (Vudu streaming) 4.5/5

I Just Wanted To Watch It, Okay?
12/13: Until the End of the World (BD) 3.5/5
12/22: Knight of Cups (Netflix BD) 3/5

What Did I Miss For The Last 12 Months?
12/14: Aladdin (2019) (Netflix BD) 3/5
12/14: 6 Underground (Netflix streaming) 3.5/5
12/17: Hail Satan? (Hulu streaming) 3.5/5
12/18: The Irishman (Netflix streaming) 3.5/5

Space
12/09: Space Adventure Cobra (UHD) 3.5/5
12/18: Ad Astra (UHD) 4/5
12/31: Star Wars Episode IX: Rise of Skywalker (Cinema) 3.5/5

Blind-Buys
12/02: Der Golem (BD UK Import) 4/5
10/05: Wolf Children (BD) 4/5
12/13: Viy (BD) 3.5/5
12/21: The Skin Game (BD) 2.5/5

Well, I Heard They Were Good...
10/04: Citizenfour (Netflix BD) 2/5
10/06: Spotlight (BD) 3/5
10/07: Manchester by the Sea (BD) 3/5
10/09: Diary of Anne Frank (BD) 3.5/5

Reverse Secret Santa
10/03: 2 Guns (Vudu streaming) 3/5 (filmbuffTX)
10/04: Moonstruck (Netflix DVD) 3.5/5 (DanTheMan)
10/29: Ocean's 8 (Netflix BD) 3.5/5 (DanTheMan)
10/30: Burning (Netflix streaming) 3.5/5 (graf1k)

Recommendations
10/13: Whiteout (Netflix BD) 3/5 (recommended by FilmKoala)
10/23: Princess Cyd (Netflix streaming) 3.5/5 (recommended by odguitar)
10/23: Winter Light (BD) 3/5 (recommended by VincentVendetta)

Total: 41 films

Al's Winter Recommendations

[Show spoiler]Batman Returns (1992)
Fargo (1996)
Frozen (2010)
Grumpy Old Men (1993)
Hardcore (1979)
The Hateful Eight (2014)
Insomnia (1997)
Love Actually (2003)
Marketa Lazarová (1967)
The Revenant (2015)

[filmbuffTX]

Recently Watched


Recommendations
1. Love Actually 4.5/5 (Al The Strange)

Reverse Secret Santa
1. The Nutcracker and the Four Realms 3/5 (DanTheMan)
2. Bad Santa 4/5 (Travis)
3. The Family Man 4/5 (starryeyes)

in a galaxy far, far away...
1. Star Wars: The Force Awakens 3D 4/5
2. Star Wars: The Last Jedi 3D 4/5
3. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker - Dolby Cinema* 4.5/5
4. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker - IMAX 3D 4/5

Holiday Classics
1. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 5/5
2. Home Alone 5/5
3. Home Alone 2: Lost in New York 4/5
4. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (Theatrical Screening) 5/5
5. Holiday Inn 3.5/5
6. Christmas in Connecticut 4/5
7. White Christmas 4.5/5
8. The Bishop's Wife 4/5
9. A Christmas Story 5/5
10. Elf 4/5
11. It's A Wonderful Life 5/5
12. Miracle on 34th Street 4/5

Period Films
1. Brooklyn 5/5
2. Carol 4.5/5
3. Meet Me in St. Louis 5/5
4. Texas Rangers* 3/5
5. The Unauthorized Saved By the Bell Story* 3/5

'A Christmas Carol' Adaptations
1. A Christmas Carol (1938) 3.5/5
2. Mickey's Christmas Carol 4/5
3. Scrooged 4/5
4. Scrooge 4/5
5. The Muppet Christmas Carol 4/5

Christmas Comedies
1. Pottersville* 2/5
2. Mixed Nuts 3/5
3. Christmas with the Kranks 3/5
4. The Night Before 3.5/5
5. Office Christmas Party 3/5
6. A Christmas Story 2 2.5/
7. A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas 4/5
8. The Night Before 3.5/5
9. Office Christmas Party 3/5
10. Home Alone 3 3/5
11. Deck the Halls 2.5/5

Coming Home for Christmas
1. Four Christmases 3/5
2. I'll Be Home for Christmas 3/5
3. The Family Stone 4/5
4. 1985 4/5

From the 90s
1. Jack Frost 3/5
2. One Christmas 3/5
3. The Preacher's Wife 4/5
4. Jingle All the Way 4.5/5
5. Miracle on 34th Street 4/5

Animated Holiday Films
1. Arthur Christmas 3D 3.5/5
2. Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas 3/5
3. The Polar Express 3D 4.5/5
4. A Christmas Carol 3D 4/5
5. Eight Crazy Nights 4/5
6. Dr. Seuss' The Grinch 3D 3.5/5
7. The Nightmare Before Christmas 3D 4/5

Holiday Horror/Thrillers
1. Better Watch Out 3.5/5
2. Anna and the Apocalypse* 4/5
3. Thankskilling* 2.5/5
4. Gremlins 5/5
5. Black Christmas (1974) 4.5/5
6. Silent Night, Deadly Night 4/5
7. Silent Night, Deadly Night: Part 2 2.5/5
8. Jack Frost (1997) 3.5/5
9. Christmas Evil* 2/5

Horror/Thriller
1. Evil Ed* 3.5/5
2. Scream 3 3/5
3. Scream 4 3.5/5
4. Bug* 3/5
5. Saturday the 14th 3/5
6. Ma 3.5/5

Friday the 13th Marathon
1. Friday the 13th 4.5/5
2. Friday the 13th Part 2 4/5
3. Friday the 13th Part III 3D 4/5
4. The Final Chapter 4/5
5. A New Beginning 4/5
6. Jason Lives 4/5
7. Jason Goes to Hell 2/5

Family Films
1. Jumanji 4/5
2. Santa's Little Helper* 3/5
3. Christmas Bounty* 1.5/5
4. The Art of Racing in the Rain* 3.5/5
5. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle 3D 3.5/5
6. The Lion King 3D 4/5
7. Prancer 4/5

Holiday Specials
1. Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas* 4/5

Amazon Prime Selections
1. The Fanatic* 2.5/5
2. One Child Nation* 4/5
3. Sweet Dreams* 3/5
4. Low Tide* 3/5

Cinema
1. Cats* 3/5
2. Spies In Disguise 3D* 3.5/5
3. Little Women* 3/5

Winter Recommendations

[Show spoiler]

[graf1k]

Recommendations

[Show spoiler]

1. In Bruges [2008]
2. Force Majure [2014]
3. The Tiger: An Old Hunter's Tale [2015]
4. Alive [1993]
5. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo [2009]
6. Let the Right One In [2008]
7. Seraphim Falls [2006]
8. Boiler Room [2000]
9. Hanna [2011]
10. Narc [2001]
11. Beautiful Girls [1996]
12. The French Connection [1971]

My collection is up to date.

I. The Recommendations of Others
Mongol (Travis)
Cliffhanger (starryeyes)
Carol (filmbuffTX)
Insomnia [1997] (Al the Strange)

II. Reverse Secret Santa
The Killing (traths)
F for Fake (VincentVendetta)
I Saw the Devil (Al the Strange)
Dune (Travis)

X. Making My List and Checking It Twice
2019-12-03 | The French Connection | 4.5
2019-12-04 | The Ice Storm | 4
2019-12-07 | Home Alone | 4
2019-12-09 | Freaks | 3.5
2019-12-10 | American Gangster | 4
2019-12-10 | Everybody's Everything | 3.5
2019-12-10 | QT8: The First 8 | 3
2019-12-11 | One Cut of the Dead | 4
2019-12-11 | RoboCop | 5
2019-12-12 | Stray Dog | 4
2019-12-12 | Ready or Not | 3
2019-12-12 | The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil | 3.5
2019-12-13 | The Farewell | 4
2019-12-13 | Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time | 3.5
2019-12-13 | The Grand Tour Presents: Seamen | 3.5
2019-12-14 | Marriage Story | 4.5
2019-12-14 | The Dirty Dozen | 4
2019-12-15 | The Insider | 4
2019-12-16 | Official Secrets | 3.5
2019-12-16 | The Report | 4.5
2019-12-17 | The Nightingale | 4
2019-12-17 | I Saw the Devil | 4
2019-12-18 | Lucy in the Sky | 2.5
2019-12-20 | Anna and the Apocalypse | 2
2019-12-20 | The Lighthouse | 4
2019-12-21 | Gone Girl | 4
2019-12-21 | Ad Astra | 4
2019-12-22 | The Two Popes | 3.5
2019-12-23 | The Witcher | 4
2019-12-23 | Good Time | 4.5
2019-12-24 | Uncut Gems | 4
2019-12-24 | The Muppet Christmas Carol | 5
2019-12-25 | Zombieland: Double Tap | 2
2019-12-25 | Scrooge (1970) | 4
2019-12-25 | In Bruges | 5
2019-12-26 | The Dead Center | 2
2019-12-27 | F for Fake | 4
2019-12-27 | Die Hard | 5
2019-12-27 | Don't F**k with Cats | 3.5
2019-12-28 | Boiler Room | 4
2019-12-28 | Hustlers | 3.5
2019-12-29 | Wild Tales | 4
2019-12-29 | Heavy Trip | 3.5
2019-12-29 | Bully | 3
2019-12-30 | Flint Town | 4
2019-12-31 | Monos | 4.5
2019-12-31 | The Art of Self-Defense | 3

[Travis]

Recommendations

[Show spoiler]

RECOMMENDED
1. Frozen (2010) Al_The_Strange
2.
3.
4.
5.

Reverse Santa - DanTheMan
1. Widows (2018)
2. Green Book (2018)
3. Under the Skin (2013)
4. 21 Jump Street (2012)
5.

De Niro and Pacino
1. The Irishman (2019)
2. Serpico (1973)
3.
4.
5.

80’s ACTION
1. Commando (1985)
2. Cyborg (1988)
3. Action Jackson (1988) 1/2
4. The Road Warrior (1981)
5.

APES
1. Planet of the Apes (1968)
2. Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970) 1/2
3. Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)
4. Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)
5. Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973) 1/2

Ho, Ho, Ho
1. Home Alone (1990) 1/2
2. The Search for Santa Paws (2010)
3. Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch (2018)
4. A Christmas Story (1983)
5. The Polar Express (2004)

TV Specials
1. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)
2. The Little Drummer Boy (1968)
3. Frosty the Snowman (1969) 1/2
4. Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town (1970)
5. Rudolph’s Shiny New Year (1976)

Disney Christmas
1. Olaf’s Frozen Adventure (2017)
2.
3.
4.
5.

TBD
1. Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) 1/2
2. Red Dust (1990)
3.
4.
5.



*Collection is up to date.

[starryeyes]

9KOMy collection is up to date.

Recommendations

Mystery Alaska (1999)
Eight Below (2006)
30 Days of Night (2007)
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
The Grey (2011)
The Holiday (2006)
Cliffhanger (1993)
Cool Runnings (1993)
Wind River (2017)


Christmas Classics

1. It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947)
2. Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
3. Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
4. The Bishop's Wife (1947) 1/2
5. A Christmas Carol (1951)
6. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)



Christmas Comedies

1. Jack Frost (1998)
2. Christmas Chronicles (2018)
3. Fred Claus (2007)
4. Christmas Vacation (1989) 1/2
5. Ernest Saves Christmas (1988)
6. Jingle All the Way (1996) 1/2
7. Elf (2003)
8. Christmas with the Kranks (2004) 1/2
9. Gremlins (1984)
10. A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas (2011) 1/2
11. Finding Mrs. Claus (2012)
12. Home Alone (1990)
13. A Christmas Story (1983)
14. Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992) 1/2
15. Deck the Halls (2006)
16. Christmas Chronicles (2018)
17. Surviving Christmas (2004) 1/2



Yet More Holiday Movies

1. A Miracle on Christmas Lake (2016) 1/2
2. Prancer (1989) 1/2
3. Last Holiday (2006)
4. Christmas Miracle (2012)
5. Elliot the Littlest Reindeer (2018)
6. A Heavenly Christmas (2016)
7. Noel (2004)
8. Angels in the Snow (2015) 1/2
9. The Family Stone (2005)
10. Christmas Break-In (2018)
11. Love Actually (2003)


Biblical/Spiritual Movies[/B]

1. The Star (2017) 1/2
2. The Shack (2017)
3. Samson (2018) 1/2
4. The Mission (1986) 1/2
5. Hereafter (2010) 1/2
6. The Nativity Story (2006)


Dystopian/Apocalyptic Movies

1. eXistenZ (1999) 1/2
2. The Road (2009) 1/2
3. Cosmopolis (2012) 1/2
4. Future World (2018) bomb
5. V for Vendetta (2005) 1/2
6. The Matrix (1999)
7. I Am Legend (2007)
8. How It Ends (2018) 1/2
9. Planet of the Apes (1968)


Fantasy

1. Mirror Mirror (2012) 1/2
2. Aquaman (2018)
3. I kill Giants (2017) 1/2
4. The Kid Who Would Be King (2019)
5. The Age of Adeline (2015) 1/2
6. Night at the Museum 2006) 1/2


War/War Related

1. One of Our Aircraft is Missing (1942) 1/2
2. M.A.S.H. (1970) 1/2
3. The Man Who Cried (2000) 1/2
4. The Enemy Below (1957)
5. Lifeboat (1944) 1/2



Reverse Secret Santa

1. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer (1964)(kingdoxie) 1/2
2. The Master (2012)(DanTheMan)
3. The Black Hole (1979)(Al_The_Strange)
4. Lost Horizon (1937)(odguitar)
5. Adoration (2008)(filmbuffTX)
6. In the Heart of the Sea (2015)(graf1k) 1/2


Misc

1. Titanic (1997) 1/2
2. The Unseen (2016)
3. Evolution (2001) 1/2
4. Zodiac (2007)
5. The Next Three Days (2010)
6. The Intruder (2019)
7. Nim's Island (2008)
8. Drone (2017)
9. Awake (2019) 1/2
10. Green Book (2018)
11. Dante's Peak (1997) 1/2
12. Midsommar (2019) 1/2
13. Shutter Island (2010) 1/2


Watches in Bold Total Watched 79

[odguitar]

Recently Watched

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Christmas Classics
1. Christmas in Connecticut 4/5
2. The Shop Around the Corner 4/5
3. The Bishop's Wife 4/5
4. It's a Wonderful Life 5/5
5. White Christmas 4/5
6. The Man Who Came to Dinner 3.5/5
7. Remember the Night* 4/5

Holiday Specials/TV
1. Merry Happy Whatever (S1)* 3.5/5
2. Robbie the Reindeer: Hooves of Fire* 3.5/5/Robbie the Reindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe* 3/5/Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas 5/5/The Leprechauns' Christmas Gold* 2.5/5
3. Pinocchio's Christmas* 2/5/The Stingiest Man in Town* 2.5/5
4. A Charlie Brown Christmas 5/5/Frosty's Winter Wonderland 2/5/'Twas the Night Before Christmas 2.5/5/Nestor, the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey 3/5
5. Cricket on the Hearth 2/5/Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol 2.5/5
6. Frosty Returns 1/5/The Little Drummer Boy 2.5/5/The Year Without a Santa Claus 3.5/5
7. Santa Claus is Comin' to Town 4/5/Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer 5/5
8. Frosty the Snowman 3/5/Rudolph's Shiny New Year 3/5

Family Christmas
1. Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas 3/5
2. The Nutcracker and the Four Realms* 1.5/5
3. Home Alone 2: Lost in New York 4/5
4. The Polar Express 5/5

Christmas Comedies
1. Elf 5/5
2. Let It Snow* 3.5/5
3. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 4.5/5
4. Home Alone 4.5/5
5. A Christmas Story 5/5

Christmas Carols
1. Scrooged 5/5
2. A Christmas Carol (1951) 4/5

Misc. Holidays
1. The Preacher's Wife 3.5/5
2. Gremlins 4/5
3. Die Hard 5/5
4. Eyes Wide Shut 4.5/5
5. Carol 5/5
6. Black Christmas 4/5
7. When Harry Meet Sally 5/5

Secret Santa
1. Gandhi 4/5 (Al_the_Strange)
2. Shame* 4/5 (filmbuffTX)

Recommended
1. The Revenant* 4/5 (Al_the_Strange)

Indie Spirit Awards 2019 Nominees
1. Honey Boy* 4.5/5
2. Booksmart 5/5
3. The Last Black Man in San Francisco 5/5
4. Midsommar 4.5/5
5. Waves* 5/5
6. Apollo 11 5/5
7. Her Smell 5/5
8. The Farewell 5/5
9. American Factory* 4.5/5
10. High Flying Bird 4/5
11. Uncut Gems* 5/5

2019 Films
1. Frozen II* 4/5
2. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood* 5/5
3. Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood 5/5
4. The Report* 4/5
5. The Two Popes* 4.5/5
6. Cats* 1/5
7. Richard Jewell* 3/5
8. Bombshell* 4.5/5
9. Queen & Slim* 4/5

60s Films
1. Midnight Cowboy 5/5
2. The Battle of Algiers* 5/5
3. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner 4.5/5
4. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 5/5
5. Easy Rider 5/5
6. Bullitt 4/5
7. Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice* 3.5/5
8. Midnight Cowboy 5/5
9. The Apartment 5/5

Misc.
1. When Harry Met Sally 5/5
2. The Nice Guys 4/5
3. Meet Me in St. Louis 4.5/5
4. INXS: Live Baby Live* 4/5
5. The Diary of Anne Frank* 4/5
6. Love, Simon 5/5
7. Macbeth* 3.5/5
8. Losing Ground* 4/5
9. Claudine* 5/5
10. Phantom Thread 5/5

TOTAL: 75

Recommendations

[Show spoiler]Princess Cyd
Support the Girls
Columbus
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
Christine (2016)
Inside Llewyn Davis
The Ref
Misery
The Thing (1982)
The Man Who Came to Dinner

[VincentVendetta]

Woot woot.

Recommendations


Ash Ketchum

• #30, The Mule (Clint Eastwood, USA, 2018),
• #28, Alita: Battle Angel (Robert Rodriguez, USA, 2019),
• #25, Booksmart (Olivia Wilde, USA, 2019),
• #29, Glass (M. Night Shyamalan, USA, 2019),

Best of the Decade

• #34, The Chemical Brothers: Don't Think (Adam Smith, GBR, 2012),
• #32, Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg, CAN, 2012),
• #31, Holy Motors (Leos Carax, FRA, 2012),
• #26, Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine, USA, 2012),
• #43, Elle (Paul Verhoeven, FRA, 2016),
• #39, Twin Peaks: The Return (David Lynch, USA, 2017),
• #21, Le Livre d'image (Jean-Luc Godard, FRA, 2018),

Varda by Agnès

• #10, Du côté de la côte (Agnès Varda, FRA, 1958),
• #11, La Cocotte d'Azur (Quinto Albicocco, Paul Guth, Agnès Varda, FRA, 1958),
• #12, L'Opéra-Mouffe (Agnès Varda, FRA, 1958),
• #09, Le Bonheur (Agnès Varda, FRA, 1965),
• #13, Les Enfants du musée (Agnès Varda, FRA, 1965),
• #14, Oncle Yanco (Agnès Varda, FRA, 1967),
• #15, Black Panthers (Agnès Varda, FRA, 1968),

It's a Man's Man's Man's World (Or: Work B**ch)

• #04, The Leopard Man (Jacques Tourneur, USA, 1943),
• #06, Give a Girl a Break (Stanley Donen, USA, 1953),
• #22, Vivre sa vie (Jean-Luc Godard, FRA, 1962),
• #08, Les Soeurs Brontë (André Téchiné, FRA, 1979),
• #36, Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, USA, 2001),
• #19, Camille Claudel 1915 (Bruno Dumont, FRA, 2013),
• #27, The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine (Zeze Takahisa, JPN, 2018),

French Punks

• #42, Mauvais sang (Leos Carax, FRA, 1986),
• #33, Noise (Olivier Assayas, FRA, 2006),
• #41, Iris: A Space Opera by Justice (André Chemetoff, Armand Béraud, FRA, 2019),

Flirting With the Devil

• #40, Senso (Luchino Visconti, ITA, 1954),
• #20, The Devils (Ken Russell, GBR, 1971),
• #35, Lost Highway (David Lynch, USA, 1997),
• #37, Mean Girls (Mark Waters, USA, 2004),

Small-town and Gay

• #16, Mala Noche (Gus Van Sant, USA, 1986),
• #17, Tom à la ferme (Xavier Dolan, CAN, 2013),

The War Back Home

• #07, The War of the Worlds (Byron Haskin, USA, 1953),
• #18, Flandres (Bruno Dumont, FRA, 2006),

One Thousand and One Nights

• #03, Les Nuits de pleine lune (Éric Rohmer, FRA, 1984),
• #05, The Thief and the Cobbler (Richard Williams, GBR, 1992),

Start Your Engines

• #38, Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks, USA, 1939),
• #24, Ford v Ferrari (James Mangold, USA, 2019),

The Blacker the Berry

• #01, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (Melvin Van Peebles, USA, 1971),
• #23, Waves (Trey Edward Shults, USA, 2019),

Long Time No See

• #44, Rumble Fish (Francis Ford Coppola, USA, 1983),
• #02, The Grandmaster (Wong Kar-wai, HKG, 2013),

[traths]

I have a lot of backlog to watch so that's going to take up a lot of my movie watching for the month.

[Peavey]

59/50


The Mechanic (1972)
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
Passenger 57 (1992)
A Simple Plan (1998)
Assualt on Precinct 13 (2005)
Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)
A Christmas Story (1983)
88 (2015)
Paranoia (2013)
Dr. Seuss' The Grinch Who Stole Christmas (2000)
Out of the Furnace (2013)
After the Sunset (2004)
The Fog (1980)
RV (2006)
Free Money (1998)
Ernest Saves Christmas (1988)
Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
Noelle (2019)
Instant Family (2018)
The Equalizer 2 (2018)
Four Christmases (2008)
Home Alone (1990)
Santa's Little Helper (2015)
Love Actually (2003)
Cadillac Man (1990)
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)
Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas (1999)
Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas (2004)
The Omen (1976)
Friday the 13th: Part VII - The New Blood (1988)
Friday the 13th: Part VIII - Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993)
Freddy vs. Jason (2003)
Friday the 13th (2009)
Christmas with the Kranks (2004)
It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947)
The 6th Day (2000)
Drop Zone (1994)
Assault on Wall Street (2013)
Joker (2019)
Scrooged (1988)
Jingle All the Way (1996)
Red Dawn (1984)
Fracture (2007)
The Polar Express (2004)
Dèjá Vu (2006)
Get Him to the Greek (2010)
Mixed Nuts (1994)
Dr. Seuss' The Grinch (2018)
The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)
The Santa Clause (1994)
Joker (2019)
A Christmas Story (1983)
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
The Santa Clause 2 (2002)
Daddy's Home 2 (2017)
Lethal Weapon (1987)
Office Christmas Party (2016)

[Travis]

[fighthefutureofhd]

50 movies for the month?!?!?! That's a challenge?!?!?!?! I usually watch a movie or two a night and then watch 5 or 6 on Saturday along with 5 or 6 more on Sunday. So that is at most 22 a week. i would have that in 2, 3 weeks tops. i could probably do it in less time. Cause I could do 3 movies a night and 10 on Saturday along with another 10 on Sunday. that would put me at 35 for the week. I then could take two days off (I've got time left) and 10 on each day. Which would give me 20. So, in a week and two days I'd have 55 movies watched. Some challenge. Don't try challenging someone who's severely depressed and has no life whatsoever.

[Al_The_Strange]

Originally Posted by fighthefutureofhd

50 movies for the month?!?!?! That's a challenge?!?!?!?! I usually watch a movie or two a night and then watch 5 or 6 on Saturday along with 5 or 6 more on Sunday. So that is at most 22 a week. i would have that in 2, 3 weeks tops. i could probably do it in less time. Cause I could do 3 movies a night and 10 on Saturday along with another 10 on Sunday. that would put me at 35 for the week. I then could take two days off (I've got time left) and 10 on each day. Which would give me 20. So, in a week and two days I'd have 55 movies watched. Some challenge. Don't try challenging someone who's severely depressed and has no life whatsoever.

So, does this mean you're participating this month? Where's your recs?

[Trollhunter]

Best of the Decade Watchlist

[Show spoiler]The Social Network
Inception
Black Swan
Toy Story 3
Winter's Bone
True Grit
The King's Speech
127 Hours
The Kids Are All Right
The Fighter
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
A Prophet
Another Year
Shutter Island
Mother
I Am Love
The Town
Blue Valentine
Animal Kingdom
Let Me In
Kick-Ass
How to Train Your Dragon
Please Give
The Secret In Their Eyes
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1
Easy A
The Tree of Life
Drive
Hugo
The Artist
The Descendants
Melancholia
Midnight in Paris
Moneyball
A Separation
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Bridesmaids
Take Shelter
Shame
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
The Skin I Live In
Super 8
War Horse
The Help
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Warrior
Rango
The Muppets
Young Adult
Contagion
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
The Adventures of Tintin
X-Men: First Class
Source Code
Zero Dark Thirty
Moonrise Kingdom
The Master
Argo
Lincoln
Django Unchained
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Silver Linings Playbook
Skyfall
Looper
Life of Pi
The Dark Knight Rises
The Cabin in the Woods
The Avengers
Les Miserables
Cloud Atlas
Bernie
Rust and Bone
The Sessions
The Grey
The Raid: Redemption
Anna Karenina
Take This Waltz
Killing Them Softly
Flight
The Hunger Games
The Queen of Versailles
Paranorman
12 Years a Slave
Gravity
Inside Llewyn Davis
Her
Before Midnight
The Wolf of Wall Street
American Hustle
Blue is the Warmest Color
Nebraska
Spring Breakers
Upstream Color
Captain Phillips
Blue Jasmine
Short Term 12
The World's End
Mud
Fruitvale Station
Dallas Buyers Club
The Spectacular Now
Enough Said
Frozen
Stoker
The Place Beyond the Pines
This is the End
Philomena
Saving Mr. Banks
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Pacific Rim
Rush
The Way Way Back
Boyhood
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Birdman
Whiplash
Under the Skin
Gone Girl
Nightcrawler
Guardians of the Galaxy
Selma
Snowpiercer
The Lego Movie
Inherent Vice
The Babadook
Interstellar
Foxcatcher
The Imitation Game
Edge of Tomorrow
A Most Violent Year
The Theory of Everything
Locke
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Wild
The Raid 2
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
American Sniper
Mad Max: Fury Road
Spotlight
Inside Out
Carol
Ex Machina
Brooklyn
The Martian
Room
Creed
Sicario
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
It Follows
The Big Short
The Revenant
Steve Jobs
The Hateful Eight
The Assassin
Bridge of Spies
Amy
Straight Outta Compton
Love & Mercy
Mommy
Chi-Raq
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Moonlight
Manchester by the Sea
La La Land
Arrival
Hell or High Water
The Lobster
Jackie
The Witch
American Honey
Green Room
Zootopia
Sing Street
Loving
Silence
20th Century Women
Deadpool
I Am Not Your Negro
Nocturnal Animals
The Nice Guys
Fences
Kubo and the Two Strings
13th
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Captain America: Civil War
Sully
Hail, Caesar!
The Edge of Seventeen
Hacksaw Ridge
The Neon Demon
Midnight Special
10 Cloverfield Lane
I, Daniel Blake
Get Out
Lady Bird
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Blade Runner 2049
The Big Sick
Good Time
Baby Driver
A Ghost Story
Logan
Wonder Woman
The Post
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
I, Tonya
Mudbound
mother!
The Lost City of Z
Faces Places
The Disaster Artist
Coco
War for the Planet of the Apes
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Twin Peaks: The Return
Okja
Thor: Ragnarok
Wind River
It
The Meyerowitz Stories
John Wick: Chapter 2
Detroit
Logan Lucky
Darkest Hour
Brawl in Cell Block 99
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Roma
First Reformed
The Favourite
If Beale Street Could Talk
Eighth Grade
BlacKkKlansman
Black Panther
Burning
A Star Is Born
Annihilation
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Hereditary
Sorry to Bother You
Mission: Impossible - Fallout
A Quiet Place
First Man
Widows
Paddington 2
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Won't You Be My Neighbor?
Mandy
The Other Side of the Wind
Avengers: Infinity War
Green Book
Isle of Dogs
Suspiria
Vice
Crazy Rich Asians
The Hate U Give
Parasite
Marriage Story
The Irishman
Uncut Gems
Little Woman
The Farewell
Pain and Glory
Apollo 11
American Factory
1917
Booksmart
Toy Story 4
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
The Lighthouse
Knives Out
Us
Waves
Ford v Ferrari
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Ad Astra
Hustlers
High Flying Bird
Avengers: Endgame
The Two Popes
Joker
High Life
Dolemite Is My Name
Queen & Slim
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
Honey Boy
Midsommar
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
Shazam!
Rocketman
Spider-Man: Far from Home

[FilmKoala]

Recently Watched:

[Show spoiler]

* = First-time viewing


Killer Alligators/Crocodiles
1. Crawl (2019)*
2. Killer Crocodile 2 (1990)*
3. Primeval (2007) ½

Movies with Names in the Title
1. Joy (2015)* ½
2. Anna (2019)*
3. John Wick (2014) ½
4. John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)*
5. John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019)*

Marvel Cinematic Universe
1. Avengers: Endgame (2019)*
2. Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019)*
3. Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) ½
4. Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) ½
5. Thor: Ragnarok (2017)

Superheroes
1. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) ½
2. Aquaman (2018)*
3. The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) ½
4. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)* ½

Blockbuster Action Movies
1. The Fate of the Furious (2017) ½
2. Alita: Battle Angel (2019)*
3. Hobbs & Shaw (2019)*

Star Wars
1. Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)* ½
2. Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015)
3. Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi (2017) ½






TOTAL: 23

---------------------------------
RECOMMENDATIONS:

[Show spoiler]


Whiteout (2009)
Wind River (2017)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
Winter's Bone (2010)
Joy (2015)

[Travis]

[kingdoxie]

Originally Posted by fighthefutureofhd

50 movies for the month?!?!?! That's a challenge?!?!?!?! I usually watch a movie or two a night and then watch 5 or 6 on Saturday along with 5 or 6 more on Sunday. So that is at most 22 a week. i would have that in 2, 3 weeks tops. i could probably do it in less time. Cause I could do 3 movies a night and 10 on Saturday along with another 10 on Sunday. that would put me at 35 for the week. I then could take two days off (I've got time left) and 10 on each day. Which would give me 20. So, in a week and two days I'd have 55 movies watched. Some challenge. Don't try challenging someone who's severely depressed and has no life whatsoever.

Not sure I've ever seen you participate in these monthly challenges...could be wrong though. So put your money where your mouth (keyboard) is and join in the fun. These challenges are for personal reasons only and if 50 is too low for you, that's cool, go for 100...150...200 or whatever. I guarantee you the regular participants around here could give a rat's a$$ how many you watch, the fun is in organizing and curating what you watch to fit the challenge (every month is different). The other aspect is seeing what everyone else is watching and discovering new films to explore yourself.

Looking forward to your recommendations and discovering some new films to watch myself from what you post. We're a cordial group here and are always glad to have new participants, so welcome to the group!

[filmbuffTX]

Evil Ed (1995)


3.5/5

First Viewing - Special ED-ition from the Arrow Blu-ray.