Having trouble motivating the wife to conquer more of the movie list lately. I’m trying to sparse out the “really good” movies that I know are good so that there is always a flick on the horizon that I know will pull her back in. But I’m starting to think I need to go on […]
The Graduate (1967): For a woman who loves Simon & Garfunkel as much as the wife does, it was stunning to hear her tell me she hadn’t seen this movie all the way through. “yeah, there is the great music, the guy gets hit on by the mom and it’s kinda creepy and depressing” was […]
Duck Soup (1933): This is up there with All About Eve as an early contender for Most Pleasant Surprise movie in the challenge list. Not sure how this one escaped me, but I didn’t know it was a Marx Brothers film, so just seeing the name Duck Soup on the list was a little eye-rolling. […]
Part of the wife and I’s movie challenge involves a pretty good number of westerns, something we aren’t super big on. Sure, we like Unforgiven and the like, but we’re going to have to bang through some desert chatter and John Ford cinematography if we expect to get through the list. Stagecoach (1939): Our first […]
After a strong start, we haven’t kept up a torrid pace to knocking movies off the AFI 100 list. But we did manage to take two off. It’s a Wonderful Life (1942): I could not believe it when the wife told me she hadn’t seen this movie from start to finish. We’ve probably watched A […]
It’s been a crazy week at work, so we didn’t make much progress on the AFI movie challenge this week. Early in the week when my eyes felt like they would burst into flames and my hands were blazing with early onset arthritis, we did take a break to knock one movie off the list. […]
Last week the wife came home and made a bold declaration. “There’s tons of movies … really good ones … that I need to see.” See, she’ll watch hours of Real Housewives and tons of useless crap on Bravo and E! but when I’ve mentioned watching movies of actual value, I get the eye rolls […]