The movie list lives on. A bit late, and fewer movies, but I can at least say that my streak of ranking every movie I’ve watched for the last 19 years continues. I think this is the fewest movies I’ve watched in that stretch, for a couple reasons. One is that coaching basketball took up just about all of my free time, and more significantly a foot injury kept me off the treadmill in the morning for the last six months, which is where I watch a lot of my movies. Hopefully next year I’ll get back into the 40’s or higher. The good news is that my top 5 movies were all really great. Each of my top 5 would’ve been number 1 last year. On to the list! 30. Send Help Just a truly terrible movie. The premise sounded fun - a misogynistic boss and his cronies are flying to a meeting with an underappreciated coworker (Rachel McBride) when the plane crashes and the two of them are the only survivors on a tropical island. The tables are turned after he is injured in the crash and she turns out to be...
2024/2025 Movies The movie list almost died this year. I was so busy for the entire last month of the school year that I didn’t even start the list. I thought it was maybe time to let it go, especially since no one was exactly clamoring for it (well, that’s not completely true - Dan asked when it was coming out, and was bummed that it wasn’t - so Dan, it is either to your credit, or your fault, that the list is making a belated return). It didn’t help that this year was probably my least favorite year of movies in the 20 years I’ve been doing the list. In fact in I actually left the top 5 spots blank, because there was not a single movie I watched (for the first time) that I thought was good enough to be considered a “top 5” movie. There were still some that I enjoyed, and this year my favorite things that I watched were actually TV shows (see the bonus list at the bottom). The first few movies on the list this year are all ones that I thought were awful or really did not e...