2019 Movie Challenge

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09-14-19

I've picked up the pace these past couple of weeks and it is starting to look like I will complete this...

Films Remaining:
Main Challenge - 8
Nightmare Mode - 17

Main Challenge

Nightmare Mode

1. watch 10 foreign language films [ Persepolis, The Man Without a Past, Cold War, Mongol, When the Buckwheat Flowers Blossom, I Vitelloni, To Joy, Marshal Tito's Spirit, The Scent of Green Papaya, Letters from Iwo Jima ]
2. watch every film nominated in 2018 for the Academy Award for Best Picture [ Black Panther, Roma, Bohemian Rhapsody, BlacKkKlansman, Vice, Green Book, The Favourite, A Star is Born ]
3. watch 10 films released before 1960 [ Tokyo Twilight, The Man in the White Suit, The Body Snatcher, The Killers (1946), Marty, A Foreign Affair, Mogambo, Them! ]
4. watch 20 films released in the same decade (1930s) [ Frankenstein, Rich and Strange, A Star Is Born (1937), Cavalcade, Cimarron, Stagecoach, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, Judge Priest, The Life of Emile Zola, King Kong (1933), Grand Hotel, The Lady Vanishes, The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939), Woman of Tokyo, Number Seventeen, Captains Courageous ]
5. watch 10 films in AFI�s top 100 [ Some Like It Hot, The Grapes of Wrath, Guess Who's Coming to Diner, West Side Story, Swing Time, A Night at the Opera, From Here to Eternity, The Philadelphia Story ]
6. watch 10 films released before 2000 that have won an Academy Award at any category [ The Full Monty, Z, Oliver!, Ben-Hur, America America, Gentleman's Agreement, Legends of the Fall, Black and White in Color, Bugsy ]
7. watch 20 films from the Roger Ebert�s great movies list [ 8�, The Battle of Algiers, The Wild Bunch, Battleship Potemkin, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Broken Blossoms, The Circus, The Night of the Hunter, Easy Rider, Planes Trains & Automobiles, Pather Panchali, Aparajito, Apur Sansar, Howards End, The Bride of Frankenstein, Adaptation, The Thief of Bagdad, Waking Life ]
8. watch 10 films featuring the same actor (Clint Eastwood) [ Where Eagles Dare, Kelly's Heroes, Casper, Absolute Power, The Beguiled (1971), Blood Work, Heartbreak Ridge ]
9. watch 10 films from the same director (Akira Kurosawa) [ Rashomon, The Most Beautiful, Ran, Throne of Blood, The Hidden Fortress, Rhapsody in August, Dreams ]
10. watch 10 films released in 2019 [ Captain Marvel, Avengers: Endgame, Glass, Spider-man: Far from Home, Midsommar, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Pokemon Detective Pikachu, Brightburn, Joker, The Laundromat ]

Leftovers

Last edited by Jabs; 10-28-19 at 06:22 AM.

Jabs

Also answers to Jabba

09-27-19

@Iroquois I was checking your progress and I noticed you accidentally used The Leopard twice. Just a heads up.

Siddon

Registered User

09-27-19

Glad this got bumped up here's my first update in quite a while

1. a foreign language film The Wave

4. an indie film Britney Runs a Marathon

6. a film released before 1960 Teachers Pet

7. a silent film The Doll

11. a Studio Ghibli film Spirited Away

18. a French New Wave film [NEW] Lola

23. a New Queer Cinema film [NEW] Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood

24. a Hyperlink cinema film [NEW] Gummo

32. a film included in the National Society of Film Critics' 100 Essential Films list Battleship Potemkim

34. a film that is a novel or play adaptation The Merchant of Four Seasons

38. a film more than 160 minutes long War and Peace

39. a (neo) noir film Dragged Across the Concrete

43. a box office flop (made less money that it cost) X-men Dark Phoenix

45. a film with a budget lower than 1 million Tower

48. a Woody Allen/John Ford/David Lynch/Paul Thomas Anderson film. [NEW] Three Bad Men

50. a Buster Keaton/James Cagney/Gary Cooper/Jack
Lemmon/Sidney Poitier film. [NEW]The Odd Couple

52. a film in theaters. Crawl(2019)

Last edited by Siddon; 09-27-19 at 05:42 AM.

Jabs

Also answers to Jabba

09-27-19

Anybody else care to share their progress?

@Theophile @Yam12 @Diehl40 @pahaK @ahwell @sawduck @MijaFrost @Monika Sharma @renileini

ScarletLion

Wales, Europe

09-27-19

My progress:

progress

Last edited by ScarletLion; 09-30-19 at 08:53 AM.

Iroquois

Welcome to the human race...

09-27-19

Originally Posted by Jabs

@Iroquois I was checking your progress and I noticed you accidentally used The Leopard twice. Just a heads up.

Thanks. I shuffle titles around so much I lose track.

__________________

Originally Posted by Yoda

I really just want you all angry and confused the whole time.

Iro's Top 100 Movies v3.0

Jabs

Also answers to Jabba

09-27-19

@ScarletLion if you just google the name of a film and either 'budget' or 'box office', google usually provides the answer immediately. Alternatively there is boxofficemojo.

ScarletLion

Wales, Europe

09-27-19

Originally Posted by Jabs

@ScarletLion if you just google the name of a film and either 'budget' or 'box office', google usually provides the answer immediately. Alternatively there is boxofficemojo.

Thanks. Have updated but can't find any box office flops. budget info is hard to find.

Iroquois

Welcome to the human race...

09-27-19

There's also the "box office" section on an IMDb page or the info box in the top right corner of a Wikipedia article. That's actually a good question - when it comes to determining a flop, do you count international gross as well as domestic gross? Seems like you'd have to count the former for it to really count as a flop as so many films can get saved from bombing that way. If you're not particular, you could always pick one of the better films on this list of the biggest flops ever. I ended up picking Barb Wire but I only found out it counted after I'd watched it because I quite rightly assumed that it was terrible enough to be a flop.

Jabs

Also answers to Jabba

09-27-19

It is not meant to be that strict of a definition. The 3 challenges connected to budget and box office is more to get you to look into this aspect of film as well.

I have been very surprised in looking into this and finding awful films I expected would bleed money to have made a healthy profit and vice versa.

Iroquois

Welcome to the human race...

09-27-19

I'll concede that the low-budget one is definitely the kind of horizon-expanding entry I'd expect in a movie challenge, but I do question caring about box office since that has little to do with a film's worth beyond indicating how many people were simply willing to pay for a ticket (which does not imply that they liked it or didn't). I get that there are good flops and bad hits, but it's like...how much am I really supposed to care? I managed to find examples without even trying so I don't see much of a challenge when it comes to filling those slots out (especially not compared to the ones that involve different genres and whatnot).

Jabs

Also answers to Jabba

09-27-19

I get your point and I half-agree with the exception that for example seeing films that withstood the test of time but turned out to be largely ignored during their release is definitely interesting (at least to me). Similarly, if you check out the box office (in mojo) from previous decades you may be surprised.

Siddon

Registered User

09-29-19

1. watch 10 foreign language films

2. watch every film nominated in 2018 for the Academy Award for Best Picture

Green Book
Roma
Black Panther
Black Klansman
The Favorite
Vice
A Star is Born
Bohemian Rhapsody

3. watch 10 films released before 1960

Black Magic
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Angel Face

4. watch 20 films released in the same decade

Bandersnatch
Goosebumps
Creed II

5. watch 10 films in AFI�s top 100

An American In Paris
Singin the Rain
Raging Bull
Bonnie and Clyde
The Wild Bunch
Goodfellas
Pulp Fiction
Toy Story

6. watch 10 films released before 2000 that have won an Academy Award at any category

The Milagro Beanfield War (Best Original Score)

7. watch 20 films from the Roger Ebert�s great movies list [NEW]

Killer of Sheep(1978)
Faust
Groundhog Day
In a Lonely Place
The Man Who Laughs
Pandora's Box
Seven
Smiles of a Summer Night
Dr. Strangelove

8. watch 10 films featuring the same actor [NEW]
(John Candy)

Uncle Buck
Heavy Metal

9. watch 10 films from the same director
(Takashi Miike)

Andromeda
Blade of the Immortal
Hara-Kirieath of a Samurai

10. watch 10 films released in 2019

Dave Chapelle Sticks and Stones

Jabs

Also answers to Jabba

09-29-19

@Siddon @ScarletLion I suggest using the collapsible text tag to make the thread easier to scroll through.

Siddon

Registered User

11-02-19

27. a Palme d'Or winner - Parasite (2019)

7. Roger Ebert 20 films
10. Battle of Algiers, 11. Big Heat, 12. Goodfellas, 13. Peeping Tom, 14. Pulp Fiction, 15. Singing in the Rain, 16. Some Like it Hot, 17. The Wild Bunch,

4. watch 20 films released in the same decade
Final Exam (1981),Hellraiser (1987),Terror Train(1980), Offerings (1989), Funhouse(1981), You Better Watch Out (1980), Hellraiser II(1988), Night School (1981), Pieces(1982), Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer(1986),Slaughter High(1986), Friday the 13th Part IV(1984), A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: Dream Child(1989), Halloween III:Season of the Witch(1982), Sleepaway Camp II (1988), Happy Birthday to Me (1981), Blood Moon (1989), Welcome to Spring Break (1988), Prowler (1981), My Bloody Valentine (1981)

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