101 movies rated in a few words

I’m not sure exactly how many films I’ve seen in my lifetime.

It is probably over a thousand, the list below barely scratches the surface of all the films I’ve seen and it was surprisingly easy to come up with. Rather than systematically list films by era or genre I got my brother’s girlfriend Dawn to call out any films she could think of.

I thought of this idea about five minutes before I began typing and Dawn rattled off films as they came to her while I typed out brief verdicts for each one. I initially intended to create a system for rating but found it too restrictive so I just wrote a brief instinctual verdict for each one.

I have included a link to Rotten Tomatoes and the score of each film, I haven’t seen some of these movies in a very long time…

NOTE: The percentages at the end are not my scores but the percentage of positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes.

Men in Black (1997) – meh (91% – seriously?!)
Fight Club (1999) – brilliant (80%)
Unforgiven (1992) – immense (96%)
Shaun of the Dead (2004) – decent (gets worse every time I watch it)
Memento (2001) – pretty good (93%)
The Departed (2006) – good (92%)
Aliens (1986) – the best sequel ever made (100%)
Reservoir Dogs (1992) – great characters and dialogue (95%)
American Beauty (1999) – uplifting, brilliant (the stupid bag scene apart) (89%)
Goodfellas (1990) – excellent (96%)
Predator (1987) – one of Arnie’s best (76%)
12 Angry Men (1957) – captivating (100%)
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) – meh (78%)
Shawshank Redemption (1994) – really, really good (88%)
Little Miss Sunshine (2006) – better than I expected (90%)
Sin City (2005) – flashy trash (78%)
Toy Story 2 (1999) – yep, it’s good (100%)
Bambi (1942) – I remember it being good (much to the amusement of Dawn and Sean, many gay jokes followed) (89%)
Final Destination (2000) -guff (30%)
Edward Scissorhands (1990) – pretentious crap (90%)
Stranger than Fiction (2006) – Surprisingly good (72%)
Shallow Grave (1995) – okay (71%)
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1996) – facepalm (49%)
Man on Fire (2004) – underwhelming (39%)
Ocean’s Eleven (2001) – meh (81%)
28 Days Later (2003) – meh (88%)
Casino Royale (2006) – surprisingly really good (94%)
Psycho (1960) – I was expecting it to be better (98%)
The Flintstones (1994) – Jesus wept (18%)
Aladdin (1992) – good (92%)
Jackass: The Movie (2002) – hard to class as a film really, hit and miss(48%)
E.T (1982) – good (98%)
Independence Day (1996) – a glorified B movie (61%)
Titanic (1997) – Good (81%)
Ring (2002) – fairly decent (71%)
Pulp Fiction (1994) – Tarantino’s best film by a long way (97%)
Hot Fuzz (2007) – fun (90%)
Monty Python: Holy Grail (1975) – classic (94%)
Good Will Hunting (1997) – good (97%)
Heat (1995) – pretty good, not great (89%)
Zodiac (2007) – boring (87%)
Little Mermaid (1989) – decent (90%)
Ghost (1987) – crap (80%)
Dirty Dancing (1987) – utter shit – that women like this film makes me wonder if they actually deserve equal rights (67%)
The Terminator (1984) – the best Terminator (100%)
Bean (1998) – a test of mental endurance, awful (41%)
The Mask (1994) – rubbish (76%)
Frailty (2002) – ridiculous (74%)
The Day After Tomorrow (2004) – shite
Donnie Darko (2001) – overrated pish (84%)
Apollo 13 (1995)– crap (96%)
Deep Impact (1998)– more crap (46%)
Volcano (1997) – even more crap (40%)
I know what you did last summer (1997)– yet more crap (36%)
The Matrix (1999) – first half decent rest shite (86%)
Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (2002)– boring (96%)
Addams Family Values (1994) – some good moments (74%)
Nightmare before Christmas (1993) – overrated, largely guff (97%)
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (1983) – (see earlier blog) (75%)
Three Men and a Baby (1987) – sickening (78%)
Transformers: The Movie (1986) – decent (haven’t seen it in 10 years) (50%)
Cruel Intentions (1999) – trash (47%)
Lock Stock and Two Smoking barrels (1998) – good if a little overrated (71%)
Clerks II (2006) – absolutely fucking diabolical (62%, seriously what the fuck?)
Baby’s Day Out (1994) – horrific (23%)
Home Alone 2 (1992) – decent (17% – that seems harsh!)
Liar Liar (1997) – pretty bad (84%)
Babe (1995) – Jesus wept (98%)
The Simpsons Movie (2007) – unfunny crap from a show that is a pale shadow of what it used to be (90%)
Mr Nanny (1993) – a holocaust of a film (7%)
The Thing (1980) – really tense, really good (80%)
Blair Witch Project (1999) – doing something different doesn’t make it good (85%)
Run Lola Run (1999) – see above (92%)
The Santa Clause (1994) – crap (Dawn: “What’s the film with Tim Allen dressed as Santa Claus?”) (79%)
Silence of the Lambs (1990) – they really should have just stopped at this one, a fine film (96%)
Matilda (1996) – another crap Dahl adaptation (89%)
A Bridge too Far (1977) – the quintessential war movie (67%)
Rocky V (1990) – laughable (21%)
The Sting (1973) – really good (91%)
The Sword in the Stone (1963) – good (73%)
The Witches (1990) – crap (100%, what the fuck?)
Starship Troopers (1997) – entertaining trash (60%)
Love Actually(2003) – hated it (63%)
White men can’t jump (1992) – I liked it despite itself (78%)
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1999)– a pointless sequel (48%)
A Bug’s Life (1998) – meh (91%)
Hollow man (2000)– hollow is an appropriate adjective (but I like Bacon’s character) (27%)
Jaws (1975) – good but overrated (100%)
Jerry Maguire (1996)– oh Christ (84%)
Dawn of the Dead (1978)– awesome (95%)
Drop Dead Fred (1991)– mindless crap (still haunted by my little sister’s repeat viewing of this monstrosity) (9%)
Braveheart (1995) – good (it’s a movie, not a history lesson) (76%)
Saw II (2005) – crap (35%)
Mouse Hunt (1997)– hated it (really wanted the mouse to die) (44%)
The Mummy (1999)– didn’t like it (54%)
George of the Jungle (1997)– crap (53%)
Leon (1994) – ludicrous garbage (74%)
Death becomes her (1993)– had its moments (56%)
Meet Joe Black (1998) – meh (49%)
Dog Soldiers (2002) – entertaining (79%)
Cool Hand Luke (1967) – the best film ever (100%)