Candice's Personal Challenge

I've been blogging about my personal challenge a bit on my LiveJournal and my Facebook, so why not here as well!

Besides the film club that Annika and I have started I also set myself a personal challenge last month to watch every movie we have in the house. Since then I've created a couple of exceptions. One, I don't have to watch the same movie each time I come across multiple copies. And two, if I've watched the movie within the last 10 months I don't have to rewatch it (unless I want to). Why 10 months? Well that's because I watched the first 3 Saw movies around Christmas time and really don't want to watch them again.

So I'll mark my progress here and if Annika feels like she wants to chime in on any of the movies in my challenge she will. We will probably watch some of them as part of our club as well, cause really I only have 24 hours in a day!

The first month of watching is here, in short form:

Unforgiven - very good, love Clint Eastwood as a director, but it took me time to quit rebelling against my dad and saying I hate Eastwood.

Bill Cosby Himself - super funny, made me want to watch old Cosby show episodes, loved his bit about people drinking and how most of the way through his joke he reminds us that these drinkers started the night "deserving" this night out.

Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare - God awful, totally dated, have you even seen Breckin Meyer's hair in this? And Worst. Kill. Ever. Freddy plays a video game?

Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master - had to wash my brain of the awful Freddy's Dead and so chose to watch a much better part of the series. I will go back and watch other ones throughout the next however long it takes me to get through every movie in the house, but I'd seen almost all the other ones pretty recently so this was the one I chose to watch.

Back to the Future 1, 2 & 3 - I was super excited to see this set on the shelf once I really started looking. That is until I started watching numbers 2 and 3. I know other people enjoy those movies, and I've heard some even say they prefer the sequels, but it took me days to get through them. They just didn't keep my interest and I kept drifting to doing other things while they were on.

Catch Me If You Can - released at the height of my "I can't stand watching one more Leo movie" and corresponding with my ongoing "I can't stand watching one more Tom Hanks movie" . Even though I loved Leo as a young actor and enjoy him quite a bit as a seasoned adult actor, he was all over the place for a few years and you couldn't have paid me to watch one of his movies, and that's exactly how I still feel about Tom Hanks. It has nothing to do with whether or not they are good actors, or the movie is any good or anything, it's just the hype that makes me feel ill. I enjoyed the movie immensely and may have more to say about it later, but still would not have watched it without my promise to myself. Now if only I can keep it when it comes time to watch Road to Perdition.

Spiderman 1, 2 & 3 - the first film is still incredibly watchable and even though I put it on in the background while reading marketing books for work I was still caught up in watching it. The second and third films are not as watchable. The second one took me three viewings to make it through to the end, and the third about the same number. James Franco and JK Simmons continue to be the best parts of the entire series. James Franco is just about the only watchable part of number 3 and I love his role so much in that one I would almost purchase it so I can watch him over and over again. Topher Grace is also great as Eddie Brock, I just love Topher and I really wish he had a better film to be a part of. I look forward to the day I pick up the house copy of In Good Company to watch since I haven't seen it yet.