🍿 I watched First Man today.

Making a movie about real events can be difficult because the audience likely knows the outcome of the story. The movie felt boring to me most of the time. But despite that, I recognize the cast was great, and the filmmakers included a lot of details to make the movie authentic to real life.

Movies I watched in 2024

Here’s the list of movies I watched in 2024. Titles with an asterisk after them (*) are ones I recommend.

My top 5, in no particular order

  • Predestination *
  • Deadpool & Wolverine *
  • Spy Game *
  • America’s Sweethearts *
  • tick, tick…BOOM! *

Superheroes

  • Deadpool (re-watch) *
  • Madame Web
  • Glass
  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (re-watch) *
  • Superman: Unbound

Documentaries

  • Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV *
  • Jim Henson: Idea Man

Prequels, sequels, and re-makes

  • The Lost World: Jurassic Park
  • Jurassic Park III
  • Wonka
  • Code 8, part 2

Sci-fi

  • Jurassic Park (re-watch) *
  • The Adjustment Bureau
  • Uglies
  • Somewhere in Time
  • Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
  • The Lobster *
  • Planet of the Apes (1968) *

Grab bag

  • The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
  • The Fall Guy
  • Carry-On
  • Inside Man *
  • Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (re-watch) *
  • American Splendor
  • Kung Fu Panda *

If you’d like to see movies I’ve watched in the past, I have a list going back to 2015. 🍿

🍿 Somewhere in Time (1980) - Streaming for free on Tubi. It’s a well-made movie with a great cast. I feel like it was probably well-received when it came out, but I don’t think it aged well.

🍿 Uglies (streaming on Netflix) - Same genre as Hunger Games and Divergent (and I’m not saying that’s a bad thing). I read the book years ago and liked it, so I watched the movie. Uglies is not super amazing, gonna blow your mind. But not every movie has to be. This is fine for what it is.

🍿 I watched the movie Predestination last weekend. It’s based on a short story, called “All You Zombies” by Robert A. Heinlein.

The movie is confusing in that you learn info out of order. But if you’re okay with that, I recommend watching it.