......and then it was December

Clearly we bit off more than we could chew. If seeing films and blogging were our career, we'd have had no issues. Our commitment to viewing films out weighed our commitment to writing about them unfortunately, but we thought it might be nice to end the year with some lists of the films that we most/least enjoyed.

1st category-

Films we wouldn't see again if you paid us

In no particular order

Aquaman

Shazam

All is True

If Beale Street Could Talk

2nd Category-

Films that should have been better

In no particular order

The Mule

Last Christmas

Ugly Dolls

Stan and Ollie

Ready or Not

Child's Play

Dumbo

IT chapter 1&2

Scary Stories (to Tell in the Dark)

A Million Little Pieces

The Current War

Doctor Sleep

Red Joan

Pet Sematary

What Men Want

Escape Room

Aladdin

Midsommer

Black Christmas

Ordinary Love

Frozen 2

All had great potential but we felt they missed the mark

3rd Category-

Great Films

In no particular order

The Upside

Fighting with the Family

Zombieland Double Tap

Pain and Glory

The Farewell

Can you Ever Forgive Me?

Boy Erased

Crawl

Anna

Fisherman's Friends

What they Had

Instant Family

Detective Pikachu

The Dead don't Die

The Lion King

Lego Movie 2

Ben is Back

Wild Rose

Beautiful Boy

Collette

The Informer

Vice

Tolkien

Blue Story

Welcome to Marwen

The Mustang

Glass

Judy

Booksmart

The Aeronauts

Greta

The Intruder

Mary Poppins Returns

The Long Shot

Toy Story 4

On the Basis of Sex

Mrs Lowry and Son

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Dirty God

Little Women

Motherless Brooklyn

Eighth Grade

Sorry we Missed You

Kindergarten Teacher

4th Category-

Special Viewings that we didn't feel fair to put in any other category

In no particular order

Friends- The One with the Anniversary Part 1

Friends- The One with the Anniversary Part 2

Friends- The One with the Anniversary Part 3

Gremlins 35th Anniversary

Roger Waters- Us and Them

Apocalypse Now- The Final Cut

Saving Private Ryan- D Day 75th Anniversary

The King and I- from the London Palladium

Schindlers List- 25th Anniversary

Everybody's Talking about Jamie- Encore

These would all fall in to the outstanding category

5th Category-

Outstanding!

In reverse order

Mary Queen of Scots

Sometimes, Always, Never

Bohemian Rhapsody

Rocketman

Dragged Across Concrete

Beats

Yesterday

Mid 90s

Animals

Blinded by the Light

A Private War

Le Mans '66

Green Book

Our Top 3

JoJo Rabbit

As we both had a different film of the year, the top spot is split between

Joker and The Favourite

What an amazing year of film. What was your film of the year?

Bring on 2020

Comments

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Julia Roberts proving that she really can act and Lucas Hedges proving that be is wise beyond his years, in a sad take on a Mother's need to protect her child against all sound reasoning and at a cost to the rest of her family and potentially her own well-being. Ben is Back is a lovely film with sadness and risk running throughout it. Told again from a slightly different angle, but with lots of familiar themes and issues. The mistrust when someone has a history of drug use, the desperate need of a parent to protect and understand their child, especially when their behaviour is alien or out of character. The film mostly documents one night in these peoples lives and the dark turns and lengths they go to, and how decisions they make impact upon each other. We will give each film we see a score out of 10 for overall enjoyment. Ben is Back = 8 No feel good elements which made it hard to enjoy although a very good film. The card...

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Shazam! is an absolutely dreadful pile of tosh. The story was poorly thought out and executed and the characters were inconsistent. The effects were everything you expect in this sort of film. The humour was not. We have come to the conclusion at last that these super hero films just aren't for us. In fact we already knew that but the trailer for this one was so misleading that we actually thought it would be amusing. It wasn't, and we didn't give it the satisfaction of even watching it til the end. Rubbish. The trailer made the film look like a deadpool-esque parody of a comic book character. It hinted at humour but this wasn't forthcoming. We felt duped by the trailer which certainly wasn't a true representation of the film. The only redeeming features were the foster parents and we agreed that we would have preferred to see the development of that storyline. We will give each film we see a score out of 10 for overall enjoyment. Shazam! = 2 ...

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