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10. Toy Story (Favorite of that series: Toy Story 1)
9. Inside Out
8. Back to the Future (Favorite of that series: Back to the Future Part 1, the only part of the trilogy that I've seen)
7. Indiana Jones (Favorite of that series: Raiders of the Lost Ark)
6. Star Wars (Favorite of that series: The Force Awakens)
5. Garden State
4. Booksmart
3. Coco
2. Citizen Kane
1. Marvel Cinematic Universe (Favorite of that series: Spider-Man: No Way Home)
My favorite movie of every year, excluding any years from which I've seen fewer than 2 movies:
1989: Dead Poets Society
1994: Forrest Gump
1995: Toy Story
1997: Good Will Hunting
1998: Mulan
1999: Toy Story 2
2000: The Emperor's New Groove
2001: Monsters, Inc.
2002: My Big Fat Greek Wedding
2004: Garden State
2005: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2007: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2008: WALL-E
2009: Up
2010: Toy Story 3
2011: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2012: Wreck-it Ralph
2013: Despicable Me 2
2014: The Lego Movie
2015: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2016: Zootopia
2017: Coco
2018: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
2019: Avengers: Endgame
2020: Soul
2021: Spider-Man: No Way Home
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Signs (2002)
The stupidest movie that I have ever seen
I'm going to talk about 2 moments in Signs that made me sigh (in my head, not out loud). The first one is when Graham tells his family that he heard "a theory that, uh, they don't like places near water" (NOTE: "they" refers to the aliens) and Morgan responds that said theory "sounds made up." This is stupid because Morgan gets most if not all of Morgan's information on aliens from a book that Morgan purchased whose veracity is, at the moment of Morgan saying that the theory that Graham heard "sounds made up," dubious. At one point, Morgan wears a tinfoil hat so that the aliens can't read Morgan's mind, even though Morgan has no proof that the aliens can read Morgan's mind if Morgan's not wearing a tinfoil hat. Morgan's comment that the theory that Graham heard "sounds made up" is highly hypocritical. The second moment in Signs that made me sigh is in the climax, in which there's an alien. During part of the climax, the camera angle switches from third-person, where we can actually see the alien, to first-person, through the viewpoint of the alien. I don't know why the camera angle switched this way, but my guess is that the filmmakers stopped showing the alien so that the filmmakers didn't have to spend as much money on CGI. Come on, filmmakers, don't be lazy!
I give Signs a 3.1/10.
Bee Movie (2007)
The final half hour is completely unnecessary
Everyone has already talked about how terrible the jokes in this movie are. And they're right - but there's nothing new that I can say about that aspect of the film. If you want to know why the jokes are not funny, read another review. Because of that, I'm going to talk about the film's other really big problem: the last half hour of the film. (For reference, the film is approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes long.) The first hour is about a bee named Barry B. Benson who, upon finding out that humans eat honey, decides to sue the human race. The main conflict in the first hour is Barry vs. the human race. Then, about an hour into the movie, the trial comes to a conclusion, and we have the resolution of the first hour of the film. Then, for the final half hour... the story keeps going. Right after the trial ends, we get another exposition, then another rising action, then another climax, etc. That's not how you write a proper story. A proper story has an exposition, rising action, a climax, falling action, and a resolution; that's it. A proper story does not keep going after the resolution. My guess is that the writers of this film thought, If we end this movie with the conclusion of the trial, this movie will only be an hour long. We better add another plot so that it will be an hour and a half long. Please don't waste your time and money watching Bee Movie.
How I Met Your Mother: The Chain of Screaming (2008)
An underrated episode
This episode is not amazing because of its plot. That's not to say that its plot is bad, but it's not why I'm reviewing this so positively. It's amazing primarily because of 1 thing: the characters. To be more specific, the writers made Marshall the main character in this episode. In most other HIMYM episodes, Ted is the main character. Don't get me wrong, HIMYM is a great show, but making Ted the main character was a mistake. He's lame and pretentious. He's constantly correcting people, yet he gets stuff wrong (e.g. mispronouncing "chameleon" and falsely stating that "love thy neighbor" is not the Golden Rule). With Marshall in the spotlight, we have a story that doesn't suffer from being centered on a pretentious snob. Marshall is a genuinely nice guy who doesn't constantly correct people. He makes the audience genuinely care about him when they see him try to stand up to his boss. When Ted's in the spotlight, sorry, but I don't really care about his romantic pursuits, because I don't care about him.
The Big Bang Theory: The Bitcoin Entanglement (2017)
Worst episode so far, characters act out of character
If you've been a fan of this show for a while, you'll find the characters' behavior in this episode hard to believe. First of all, because Sheldon is mad at Leonard, Raj, and Howard for not letting him mine Bitcoin with them, he refuses to tell them where they stored it (he has an eidetic memory). Leonard criticizes him for still being mad about something that happened 7 years ago. Later, however, Leonard finds out that after he gave Penny a laptop as a gift, she gave it to Zack when Leonard and Penny broke up, which causes him to get mad at her. She gave the laptop to Zack 7 years before this episode takes place. Leonard tells Sheldon not to be mad about something that happened 7 years ago, but he gets mad at Penny for something that happened 7 years ago. It has been clearly established that Leonard is a really nice guy, so he would never be a hypocrite like that. Some time after Leonard criticizes Sheldon, Sheldon criticizes Penny for ignoring her customers, and she tells him to shut up and eat his burger. He corrects her, saying that it's a turkey club. She asks, "Didn't you order a burger?" and he answers, "I did, and yet here we are." It's been clearly established that Sheldon complains about even the slightest inconvenience. He would've told Penny that she had gotten his order wrong as soon as she had given him the turkey club. Later, Amy mentions that at Comic-Con, Leonard wiped his nose on Sheldon's Darth Vader cape. Again, it's been clearly established that Leonard is a really nice guy. He would never wipe his nose on someone else's cape. Do the writers really expect us to believe this?
Milo Murphy's Law: Going the Extra Milo/Sunny Side Up (2016)
Funny, clever, and well-thought-out
The plot and humor of these episodes make them great.
Going the Extra Milo:
Plot: Zack, the new kid, meets Milo and discovers that Milo is extremely unlucky. While they're waiting for the schoolbus, a concrete drainage pipe comes rolling toward them, and they miss the bus. In the rest of the A-plot, they try to get to school on time, but Milo's misfortune prevents them from doing so. This A-plot is great because it keeps you on your toes. Every 5 seconds, something new happens. And yet, it still flows nicely, because every event furthers the plot. In the B-plot, Melissa takes up bets with the other students on the bus on whether they'll arrive on time. The B-plot works because it's dependent on the well-put-together A-plot.
Humor: There are many clever jokes in this episode. Milo subverts the old cliché by saying "Sticks and stones can damage your vital organs, but always wear body armor." Later, when a wolf with its head in a beehive starts chasing them, Zack asks Milo how many fatalities are caused by bees and wolves together, and he answers, "Well, we would be the first." Those aren't the only funny moments in this episode, but I can't tell you all of them, or else this review would be too long.
Rating: 9.0/10
Sunny Side Up:
Plot: Zack, Melissa, and Milo are tasked with building a container that will prevent an egg from breaking when dropped from the school roof for a science experiment. I like this concept because it's simple. It's not a convoluted plot that's really difficult to follow. Also, near the end, just before they're about to do the science experiment, Milo inadvertently breaks the egg that they were planning to use; currently, Zack, Melissa, and the audience think that that was the last one, so it seems like all hope is lost. Then, however, he remembers that he has another egg in his pocket, so they're able to use that one. All too often, I've seen cartoon characters (I'm looking at you, modern Patrick Star) who cause problems and make no effort to solve them. Here, Milo actually makes an effort to solve the problem that he caused. That is a stellar character trait!
Humor: Like "Going the Extra Milo," this episode is quite funny. In the beginning, Bradley scoffs at Melissa for declining to work with him, and she says, "Bring it on. I eat eggs for breakfast." He replies, "Yeah. So do all of us." Later, Milo is shocked when he "wakes up" to see that nothing bad happened the previous night; then, he actually wakes up to see that a tree fell through his window and says, "Yeah, that's more like it." It's a very clever subversion.
Rating: 9.2/10
Average: 9.1/10 (I would've rated this as a 9.1/10, but IMDB didn't let me rate it as that, so I had to rate it as 9/10.)
Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017)
Don't listen to the haters; it's really good
Just a heads up: The Last Jedi is quite long. In fact, it's approximately 2 and a half hours long. That's neither good nor bad; I'm just stating a fact.
I'm going to talk about the characters, plot, and humor of this great film.
Characters: With a few exceptions, the acting is really good. Daisy Ridley is a phenomenal actress. I could tell that she genuinely cared about her role as Rey. All of her facial expressions and tone match the plot and the dialogue perfectly. When Rey is angry, Ridley is angry. Mark Hamill is really good, too. Initially, he acts uninterested in the plot. That might sound bad, but it's actually good, because Luke is supposed to be uninterested at this point. Hamill starts caring more and more as the film goes on, just like his character. Later, he shows amazing chemistry with Carrie Fisher- they act just like you'd expect 2 siblings who love each other and haven't seen each other in years to act. They hug and express their sibling love for each other. That's the kind of chemistry that you have to be really talented to portray well. Oscar Isaac and John Boyega act just as well as they did in The Force Awakens. Their facial expressions look exactly like those of a sarcastic antihero and someone who's constantly trying to impress others, respectively. Their acting matches their personalities. Andy Serkis plays Snoke very sinisterly. The only characters who aren't great are Kylo Ren, DJ, and the Porgs. Adam Driver plays Kylo Ren very emotionally, which is good, but he acts a little too emo at times. He yells numerous times, and it's only sometimes warranted (i.e. in the highly dramatic scenes). Driver's performance reminded me of Hayden Christensen's; I should add, though, that it's not nearly as bad. It's a very mild version of Christensen. DJ's performance isn't bad, but it isn't good. Benicio del Toro delivers the lines lazily and half-heartedly. He didn't seem very interested in his role. The Porgs are a little too cute. I'm not going to explain why- I'm sure that you've already seen them. They're only there to be cute. There is no Watsonian reason for why they're there. However, they don't have a lot of screen time, so I was able to tolerate them, and you'll probably be able to tolerate them too.
Plot: There are enough surprising twists to entertain you and keep you on your toes, and most of the questions raised by TFA are answered. That's not to say that it's totally conclusive, however; the ending is a good set-up for Episode IX. Yes, I know that that's vague, but I can't get more specific without spoiling it.
Humor: This isn't the best Star Wars film, but it is the funniest one. I laughed my head off too many times to count. For example, at one point, Luke asks Rey where she's from, and she says that she's from nowhere. He replies, "No one is from nowhere." She says that she's from Jakku, and he says, "All right, that is pretty much nowhere." At another point, after inadvertently breaking a cart of the caretakers on Luke's home planet, Rey says, "I don't think they like me," and Luke replies, "I can't imagine why." Those are not the only funny moments, but I can't tell you all of them- this review is already pretty long.
Overall, I give TLJ a 9.4/10, and I would definitely recommend that you see it. (I would've rated the movie 9.4/10, but this site only lets you rate something as a whole number out of 10, so I had to rate it 9/10.)