Pitch Perfect (2012) 7/10

The world of a cappella on college campuses. I went in not knowing much about it, but the one thing I did know is that I probably wasn't going to enjoy it. I ended up with a stack of DVDs, and this was next in the pile.
This was a surprisingly strong movie. The singing was really good (as it would have to be), had a lot of great humor also, and one of those "What the fuck?" moments where I had to rewind and make sure I heard what I thought I did.
If a couple of the humor scenes didn't fall completely flat, I would have seriously considered giving it an 8.
Most surprisingly liked FTV in probably three years.

The Duchess (2008) 7/10

This is a period piece chronicling the life of Georgiana Spencer, the Duchess of Devonshire.
I really enjoyed it. But then, I do like period piece movies and biographical films, of which this was both.
Keira Knightley was really good in this. There were scenes where she didn't have to say a word,, it was all expressed through the eyes. And when she was on the platform as Charles Grey gave his first speech? Yowzaaa...
Ralph Fiennes was very good as The Duke. Played it very stodgy, as I'm sure a lot of the English upper crust were.

The Fatal Hour (1940) 5/10

A police captain's friend is murdered, and he and the famous Detective Wong investigate and end up surrounded by murders.
Nothing really stands out in this film, but it is very derivative of the Torchy Blane films from the mid to late 30s.

John Travolta is The Fanatic

Yes, this is the movie directed by Fred Durst, and it's surprisingly competent. I wont say it's great, but John Travolta is great as the obsessive and almost child-like fan. A boy in a grown man's body who is obsessed with Hunter Dunbar (Devon Sawa) and plots some incriminating ways to get an autograph after he misses out on a book-signing opportunity.

Devon Sawa is also good. After watching this and Escape Plan 3, I wonder why we don't see more of him. Still, this is mostly a story about Hollywood's shallow front and more importantly, it's psychotic fans. Being a movie about movie fandom, you'll see a fair amount of nods and homages.

IMDB Trivia:

Inspired by a real-life fan who pursued Limp Bizkit's frontman Fred Durst many years ago.

Moose is John Travolta's favourite character he has ever played.

John Travolta took the role of Moose as a tribute to his autistic son Jett who passed away in 2009.

I Have a Mask Stalker at Work

Would have been cooler if it was a MASKED stalker.

There's a guy at work who has decided to make it his job to ensure I am wearing a mask.
I was in his office area where 3 of the 8 people wear masks, and I wasn't. He asked me to put one on, I said "Sure" and went about my business. Bear in mind I have been in that office area maybe ten times in the past year.
In the past two days he found me in the lunchroom and twice on the plant floor, and asked me to wear a mask.
But he passes right by other people not wearing masks to get to me.
I'm about ready to tell him he needs a new hobby.
I'm gone in 2.5 weeks anyway. Heading back out to California to hike the Pacific Crest Trail again, and do the whole thing instead of just to mile 580 or so.

Hellmaster 1992

First off, is this movie a Hellraiser rip-off? Sorta. The cover art features a pinhead-esque villian named Razorface. He isn't the main villain though. John Saxon plays a psychotic cult leader who injects drugs into people to create his evil cenobite-like servants while David Emge uses a crossbow with a counterdrug to melt their brains. And somehow, this movie STILL sucks.

Perverted Religion

What are your favorite movies that pervert religious beliefs? Any religion.
The Exorxist is probably the most famous of these, IMO.

Tenet

I've fallen off the Nolan bandwagon a bit over the years, but this one was alright. It's basically Christopher Nolan's big and overblown Hollywood version of "In the Shadow of the Moon", but I'm not complaining. With all the weird sci-fi shit he does, it's about time that he did something with time-travel.

Does it make sense though? Eh, it makes enough sense I guess. Nolan is big on introducing huge high concept sci-fi and leaving the mechanisms to the imagination, or flat out making up weird bullshit (I'm looking at you, Interstellar). But it's like Dean Lerner said, "If you're looking at the wires, you're a freak." which basically means shut up and accept it. It's a time travel movie, so it'll never make complete sense.

Does it feature Michael Caine though? Yes, and barely. It also features recycled plots from Inception about someone trying to get their kid back, as well as our "protagonist" being coerced into working with the bad guys. You can predict a few twists too, but maybe it's not so much predicting as it is reading character reactions to certain scenes. The little details are handled pretty well though.

It's kinda boring for the first half, but then it'll all start to get interesting as you watch things fold. Or unfold? Also, tenet spelled backwards is tenet. 🥴

Firecracker (1981)

My most recent foray into action/exploitation. This one directed by Cirio H. Santiago who has what seems like an unlimited filmography in this category. This is right up there with one of his more entertaining.

There is absolutely no plot or character development in this one. They just get right into it. Basically a girl goes to the Philippines to find her sister who disappeared. She runs into drug dealers and even a Bloodsport type martial arts tournament where people fight to the death. She just happens to be a tiny gorgeous blonde who is a master of martial arts played by Jillian Kesner. She kicks ass through out the film both clothes on and off while she tries to find out what happened to her sister. This movie was super entertaining and the actress was super attractive. Not sure how this didn't become a series of movies or why she wasn't a bigger star. She was in some other exploitation and horror films but in smaller rolls. I have been on a roll with watching some entertaining films and this was no acception.

Anyone Else Keep a Movie Seen List?

I got bored one day and decided to make an Excel spreadsheet tracking all the movies I've seen over the years. 2013 is when I started keeping track, and older ones as I remember.
Right now I'm up to 2760 movies seen.

What I have listed on the spreadsheet are:
Movie title with IMDB link
Year of release
My rating out of 10
IMDB rating at date of listing
Movie run time
MPAA rating
Medium viewed in
First three genres listed on IMDB
Primary genre (in my opinion)
Date first watched
Plot synopsis

Then I also have tabulations at the bottom tracking number each year, decade, medium, MPAA rating primary genre, and personal rating. And also a few time watched computation totals (minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years).
By the by, just over half a year on what I know of.

Anyone else lead this boring a life?