Day 21: Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour, Beetlejuice & Better Off Dead

Magical Mystery Tour

Whose Movie: Steph's

Rating: Not the best Beatles movie, but still fun.

So Matt's biggest issue with this movie was that it didn't have a plot, and I'll give him that.  The movie was 50 minutes of random stuff shoved together with some great Beatles songs like "I Am the Walrus," "Blue Jay Way," and "Fool on the Hill."  Other than the songs, the rest of the movie doesn't make much sense whatsoever.  Out of the Beatles movies, it's my least favorite because of it's lack of plot, but I still enjoy it because it has some of my favorite songs in it, especially "I Am the Walrus."

Beetlejuice

Whose Movie: Steph's

Rating: Awesome

If I had to pick a favorite director, I would pick Tim Burton.  I love his movies, and I love Danny Elfman's score for all his movies.  I especially love Beetlejuice.  After watching, I turned to Matt and told him that no matter how many times I see this movie, I still find it awesome.  We watched it and Matt finally was able to enjoy a movie in our collection again.  He sat their quoting lines right along with Bettlejuice. The movie will never get old.

Better off Dead

Whose Movie: Matt's

Rating: Super funny

This movie is HILARIOUS. I've seen it a couple times, but it had been a while since we last watched it, so I had forgotten most of the movie.  But, I was laughing through most of it.  Beginning with Lane's (John Cusack) obsession with his girlfriend Beth, to his mom's cooking, to "I want my two dollars!" to "Sorry your mom blew up Ricky." The movie made me laugh, even though at times it could be very random.

Next up in our collection: Big, Big Fish and Big Trouble in Little China

Day 20: Beatles: Help!

Help!

Whose Movie: Steph's

Rating: Fab

This is my favorite of the Beatles movies.  I like it because it's hilarious, and it's the boys at their best.  The plot is simple: A fan from the East has mailed Ringo the sacrificial ring and he's wearing it, so the guys from the temple are trying to kill Ringo throughout the movie.  Hilarious antics follow.  They filmed in England (duh), Switzerland and The Bahamas.  Matt liked this movie better than Hard Day's Night, because there was an actual plot to the movie.  This movie has great songs in addition to the plot.  One of the songs is embeded below.

I recommend anyone who hasn't seen this movie to watch it. I've seen it A LOT and I was still laughing out loud at their antics. Especially at the attempts made on Ringo's life when the people from the temple were trying to get the ring.  Another favorite scene is "Paul's Adventure on the Floor."

Next up in our collection: Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour, Beetlejuice and Big.

Day 19: Beatles: A Hard Day's Night

A Hard Day's Night

Whose Movie: Steph's (isn't it obvious?)

Rating: Fab, gear and all those other teenage hyperboles (quoted from the movie :) )

I love this movie.  It's the Beatles at the most Beatley :)  It's not my favorite of the Beatles movies, but I love it just the same.  It's an exaggerated version of the day in the life of the Beatles.  It has all of my favorite lines in in that I used to say all the time in high school.   It has great songs, and I could listen to the boys' Liverpudlian accents all day.  Now that I've watched this movie, I want to rewatch all 8 hours of The Beatles Anthology :)  Matt thought the movie was "eh" because he couldn't understand what the boys' were saying half the time.  Now I'm going to share a couple of my favorite lines :)

John: Eh, who's that little old man?

Paul: What little old man?

John: That little old man.

Paul:  Oh, that's me grandfather.

George: That's not your grandfather.

Paul: How do you figure that one out?

George: I've seen your grandfather, he lives in your house.

Paul: That's my other grandfather, this is my other one.

Paul's Grandfather: I thought I was supposed to be getting a change in scenery? So far I've been in a train and a room, a car and a room and a room and a room.

George: Those are dead grotty.

Next movies in our collection are the last 2 Beatles movies, and then Beetlejuice.

Day 18: Be kind Rewind

Be Kind Rewind

Whose Movie: Mutual Buy

Rating: Gets better as the plot evolves

The last time we saw this movie was in the theaters, in California, with our wedding party, a couple days before the wedding.  So this movie has a bit of nostalgic value to it, which is probably why when we saw it in the $5 movie bin in Wal-Mart, we couldn't pass it up. Last night we unwrapped it from it's cellophane, and watched it for a second time, and it was still a decent movie.  It still had a few funny moments (Hello, it IS Jack Black after all) and it still made me tear up in the end.  We had forgotten that the end doesn't really wrap up the movie though, and that was still disappointing.

Next: All 3 Beatles movies, followed by Beetlejuice

Day 17: The Dark Knight

The Dark Knight

Whose Movie: Mutual Buy

Rating: Best of the Batman movies in our collection

Okay, we know this should technically be in the 'D' section, but we organize our movies not only in Alphabetical order, but we also keep series movies together and in order. So, we watched The Dark Knight again. We each saw it twice in theaters when it came out, and at Free Friday Flicks when they showed it. This is also the newest movie (by release date) that we've watched in our collection so far.  This movie is really good.  It doesn't lose anything in multiple viewings, except maybe we didn't laugh so hard at The Joker's magic trick.  The effects are amazing, the story is amazing and the acting is amazing.  I think they do a great job at setting up the next movie.

Next: Be Kind Rewind, followed by 3 Beatles movies (Hard Days Night, Help, and Magical Mystery Tour)

Day 16: Batman Returns and Batman Begins

Batman Returns

Whose Movie: Mutual Buy

Rating: Great

Another Tim Burton Movie :) We learned that Tim Burton's Batman isn't so great at keeping his true identity a secret.  In the first movie, he totally told Vicky Vail, and in this movie, not only did he tell Catwoman, he totally ripped his mask off and revealed his identity to Shrek. But whatever.  What's great about the Tim Burton Batman movies is that you get a backstory on the villains. You get to find out how they became who they are.  This movie was just as great as the first one, and Danny Elfman's score just makes the movie fifty times better (can you tell I'm a Danny Elfman fan?)

Batman Begins

Whose Movie: Mutual Buy

Rating: Awesome

And then we have the reboot of the series.  I think that Tim Burton and Christopher Nolan's Batmans are awesome in their own way.  What Matt and I like about this one is that Wayne Enterprises is actually mentioned, and it's explained that the company is how Batman can actually be Batman.  Matt thought the backstory ran too long, but I thought it was necessary in order to set up the movie and the next one.  A superhero is nothing without his backstory :) Christian Bale makes a great Batman, and Liam Neeson as always if flipping awesome (which makes one wonder why he's in Battleship). 

Next up: "The Dark Knight," "Be Kind Rewind," and "Beatles: A Hard Day's Night."

Day15: Batman: The Movie and Batman

Batman: The Movie

Whose Movie: Mutual Buy

Rating: Terribly Corny

Okay,so this was a nostalgia buy. We both loved watching this Batman series when we were kids, and bought it on a whim.  The last time we watched it was before we went and saw "The Dark Knight" for the first time.  It's horribly corny, and there are so many problems with the plot that I could write pages on it.  The thing that bothered me the most though was that every time it when to the "super criminals" hideout, the shot was crooked. Like SUPER crooked. Seriously, it annoyed the heck out of me.  Parts that made us laugh the most (we laughed and mocked the ENTIRE movie) was every time Batman and Robin had to solve one of the Riddler's riddles. "A Sparrow with a machine gun." "Of course, that is the only answer obviously."

Batman

Whose Movie: Mutual Buy

Rating: Awesome

If Matt had to choose a favorite movie, he said last night he would have a hard time choosing between this and "Back to the Future."  After watching the disaster of the other Batman movie, we decided to watch this one as well.  This one, besides the 80s fashion, has aged really well. And plus it's a Tim Burton movie :) Jack Nicholson was awesome as The Joker.  And Danny Elfman's score is awesome as well.  Prince wrote a bunch of songs for the movie as well, and they played only when the Joker was making mischief. Matt said "This leads me to believe that Prince is a terrorist, what with his sponsering of The Joker's activities and all." This is the first of several Tim Burton movies in our collection, as he's my all time favorite director.

Three more Batman movies left in our collection. Then after Batman we have Be Kind Rewind.