The Good Movies Write Off Oct 01 '07 (Updated Dec 01 '07)     Write an essay on this topic. Tweet The Bottom Line The Good Movies Write Off: 148 entries 37 entrants 148 good movies for you to choose from!! The Good Movies Write Off A conundrum I had was solved by this write off idea. I don't know about anyone else, but I don't like to post a long succession of movie reviews that are all 4 or 5 stars - after a while I think it makes me look like I have low standards or simply rate things higher than I should to get more money or whatever. Maybe I'm just being paranoid, but just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean you don't all think what I think you're thinking. Anyway, this lead to a problem - I recently bought a load of movies that I wanted to see, and after having watched most of them, I realised that I liked every single one of them (proof of good taste! :-D). However if I review them all now it would mean a string of ten or so 4 or 5 star movies. So, to counteract this, I came up with a write off idea. It's very simple - any 4 or 5 star film for which you post the review in October is eligible for this write off. Just email me the link or leave a comment with the film title and url, and I'll add it to the list. Genre: Any Year of Release: Any Cast: Any Director: Any Closing Date: 31st October [EDIT - 30th November!] ------------------------- OKAY IT'S OVER NOW!! ------------------------- [Additional Rule #1] The only thing is it must be a movie - or maybe a movie double pack - but no TV shows. It just wouldn't feel right. (Sorry WC Mark...) [Additional Rule #2] Incidentally, made-for-TV or straight-to-video movies are fine. [Additional Rule #3] Right then, entry number 12 made me think about this - documentaries are okay to enter! (Hadn't thought of that one...) [Additional Rule #4] If by chance the film you want to review has already been reviewed, by all means still enter it. I'm not listing author by the review links, so that film will appear more than once in the list. Anyone who's just read this bit will not be confused by that!! ---------------------------------------------------------- I don't promise to read, rate, and comment on every single review that's entered - this is because I hope there'll be a lot of entries. The list of entries can serve as a standing example of what movies we Epinionators like and perhaps a launchpad for anyone wanting to watch a new movie but stuck for ideas. Just so you get a taste of the movies that have caused me this problem (and which I hope to review before the end of the month), here's the list so far - I think! [EDIT - also includes some more, mostly ones I've seen recently at the cinema or will be seeing and expect to be 4 or 5 star movies. Of course if they're not I'll take them off the list!! :-D] I Capture the Castle (Bill Nighy, Tara Fitzgerald, Romola Garei, Rose Byrne) - 4 stars - DONE We're No Angels (Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov, Aldo Ray) - 5 stars - DONE Court Jester (Danny Kaye, Basil Rathbone) - 4 stars - DONE Spirited Away (anime fantasy) - 5 stars - DONE The Terminal (Tom Hanks, Catherine Zeta Jones, Stanley Tucci) - 4 stars - DONE Grave of the Fireflies (anime set in World War 2) - 4 stars - DONE Ratatouille (animated ratty adventure) - 4 stars - DONE Stardust (fantasty starring Charlie Cox, Claire Danes,Michelle Pfeiffer, Robert De Niro) - 5 stars - DONE Nancy Drew (detective comedy starring Emma Roberts) - 4 stars - DONE Enemy Mine (Dennis Quid, Lois Gosset Junior) - 4 stars - DONE Big Business (comedy starring Bettte Midler, Lily Tomlin and Fred Ward) - 5 stars - DONE Brewster's Millions (comedy starring Richard Pryor and John Candy) - 4 stars - DONE The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain (wonderful comedy starring Hugh Grant, Tara Fitzgerald) - 5 stars - DONE ------ So, anyway, if you want to enter, you know what to do. Please include a link to this page and the words "Good Movie Write Off - " followed by the title of the movie in quotation marks. If you don't you'll grow crow's feet. Or something. Including the words "CaptainD is the Greatest!" in the text of your reviews probably isn't obligatory. But it might be... Entrants So Far Dragonfire88 (25) Stephen_Murray (20) Wychic (16) CaptainD (14) Carstairs38 (8) Pmills1210 (6) Ifif1938 (5) RKingFish (4) Staceums (4) Cmaw63 (4) JanKP (3) Shmoo1 (3) DLStewart (3) Befus (2) SusiDee34 (2) Dbcint (2) DarylCarpenter (2) Telynor (2) Artemis8 (2) sj1and0 (2) Dolphinboy (1) Ed.Williamson (1) Gaelkm (1) Smorg (1) Glowsw (1) Alexdg1 (1) Buscemifan (1) Jev04again (1) Elvisdo (1) Ssjakira1 (1) Millinocket (1) Ander_Clayton (1) Dianapinions (1) Shopaholic_Man (1) BeastieGirl (1) Msmorvay (1) Jeremy1456 (1) Entrants To Be (so they say!) Mike.Holmes will be hunted down and fed to the giant duckbill platypus if he doesn't get his entry in before the end of the month... Unfortunately Mike failed to respond to this terrible threat... so if you don't see him around after today, you know what happened!!! [EDIT - my entries are now in bold - because I can make it so! Just try and stop me... {Insert your favourite evil laugh here}] Entries 1 - I Capture the Castle 2 - The Jungle Book 3 - We're No Angels 4 - Gone in 60 Seconds/ Con Air 5 - Drowning Mona 6 - Wild Hogs 7 - Sleeping With The Enemy 8 - Tara Road 9 - Courage Under Fire 10 - Silverado 11 - Court Jester 12 - Discovering the Real World of Harry Potter: The Magic Behind the Young Wizard 13 - Shadow of a Doubt 14 - Black Book 15 - Aladdin 16 - Almost Peaceful 17 - Lohengrin from the Met (Opera) 18 - Conformist 19 - The Edukators 20 - Slither 21 - They Live By Night 22 - Truly, Madly, Deeply 23 - Spirited Away 24 - Eastern Promises 25 - The Guns of Navarone 26 - White Squall 27 - Ziegfeld Follies 28 - Tristan and Isolde 29 - L'eclisse 30 - Smokey Joe's Cafe 31 - Ever After 32 - Wicker Man 33 - The Compleat Beatles 34 - Intervista 35 - Dr. Mabuse the Gambler 36 - Testament of Dr. Mabuse 37 - Grizzly Man 38 - Superman: The Movie 39 - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 40 - Innocent Voices 41 - Raiders of the Lost Ark 42 - Darjeeling Limited 43 - Witches of Eastwick 44 - Murder Of Innocence 45 - The Terminal 46 - On Golden Pond 47 - Eastern Promises 48 - Grave of the Fireflies 49 - Michael Clayton 50 - We Are...Marshall 51 - A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story 52 - The Invisible 53 - Quicksand 54 - Sesame Street - Computer Caper 55 - Clue 56 - Back to the Future 57 - Broken Trail 58 - Ratatouille 59 - Kiki's Delivery Service 60 - Rope 61 - Saw 62 - Gone Baby Gone 63 - Springfield Rifle 64 - Stardust 65 - Room with a View 66 - We Own the Night 67 - The Haunted Mansion 68 - Into the Wild 69 - Young Frankenstein 70 - House of Flying Daggers 71 - The Crow 72 - The Valet 73 - Dan in Real Life 74 - Breaking Away 75 - Hocus Pocus 76 - The Rocky Horror Picture Show 77 - Pride and Prejudice 78 - Lars and the Real Girl 79 - Blown Away 80 - The Prestige 81 - Legends of the Fall 82 - Lars and the Real Girl 83 - Psycho 84 - Candleshoe 85 - X-Men Trilogy 86 - Nancy Drew 87 - Dream Girls 88 - Rendition 89 - Rumor Has It 90 - Jason X 91 - 28 Weeks Later 92 - Enemy Mine 93 - Planet Terror 94 - Brian's Song 95 - You Kill Me 96 - American Gangster 97 - When Father Was Away on Business 98 - A Christmas Carol 99 - A Mighty Heart 100 - Mala Noche 101 - Bee Movie 102 - Impact 103 - A Kid in King Arthur's Court 104 - War of the Roses 105 - Suckers 106 - Stormy Weather 107 - On A Clear Day You Can See Forever 108 - Michael Clayton 109 - Kung Pow!: Enter the Fist 110 - My Neighbors The Yamadas 111 - The Nightmare Before Christmas 112 - Children of Men 113 - The Right Stuff 114 - Newsies 115 - The Remains of the Day 116 - Honey, I Shrunk the Kids 117 - Who Framed Roger Rabbit? 118 - Ratatouille 119 - The Prestige 120 - Infamous 121 - Jeff Corwin Experience- Out on a Limb: Monkeys, Orangutans, and More! 122 - Lions for Lambs 123 - Gone Baby Gone 124 - La Vie En Rose 125 - Children's Stories from Africa Volumes 1 and 2 126 - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 127 - Scrooged 128 - Couers 129 - My Architect 130 - Enchanted 131 - Clerks 132 - The Monolith Monsters 133 - Colma: The Musical 134 - How The Grinch Stole Christmas 135 - The Dummy 136 - Big Blonde 137 - Hush! 138 - God Grew Tired of Us: The Story of Lost Boys of Sudan 139 - What Happened to Jack Kerouac? 140 - Big Business 141 - Brewster's Millions 142 - Hairspray 143 - No One Writes to the Colonel 144 - Superman II 145 - The Wrong Box 146 - The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain 147 - Practical Magic 148 - Hustle and Flow ------------------------------- Disclaimer Please note that these films are all ones that the author of the review thought was a "good movie". I will not necessarily agree (unless I was the reviewer :-D) , you may not either.

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