The Good Movies Write Off
Oct 01 '07 (Updated Dec 01 '07)
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!]
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OKAY IT'S OVER NOW!!
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[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!!
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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
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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
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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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