Here is my list of movies.
The "Status" column may contain:
- The date when I watched the movie
- "(?)" if I watched the movie before mid-2015, when I began keeping track, or if I forgot to record the date at the time of watching it.
- "Not yet" if I intend to watch the movie but have not watched it yet.
The "Rank" column is one of the following:
- π Personal favorite. Usually, (but not always,) a must-watch.
- β Must-watch.
- π OK to watch.
- π€· Meh.
- π Do not watch.
- π¦ Not sure / do not remember / not watched.
Please note that the remarks that I have written for each movie reflect the impression I was left with at the time of watching that movie, which may have been quite a long time ago. So, these remarks may not be what I would have written if I had watched that movie today. (Some of these movies I even watched on Greek Public TV in the 1980s; that's like in a previous life.)
On several occasions I mention the Truffaut effect; here is some information about it: Google search - Truffaut effect
Cover image: my-movie-list by michael.gr, based on "Film" by Bonnie Duffley from The Noun Project
Year | Title | link | Status | Rank | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1927 | Metropolis | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | A classic. One of the most influential movies of all time, but very hard to watch for someone who has grown up watching modern movies. So far I have made two attempts to watch it, both unsuccessful. Maybe one day I will succeed. |
| 1930 | All Quiet on the Western Front | IMDb | (?) | β | A classic. I think it had zero Truffaut effect. |
| 1935 | Mutiny on the Bounty | IMDb | (?) | π | A classic. Also see Mutiny on the Bounty (1961) and The Bounty (1984) |
| 1939 | The Wizard of Oz | IMDb | (?) | π | A classic. Spectacular in its time. Worth watching for cultural literacy. |
| 1940 | Fantasia | IMDb | (?) | π | Walt Disney's spectacular classic. |
| 1940 | The Great Dictator | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | I have actually watched it, but I do not remember much, so I should watch it again. |
| 1941 | Citizen Kane | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | Freek says it was nothing to write home about. |
| 1951 | The African Queen | IMDb | (?) | π | I do not remember much; I think I found it a good movie. |
| 1953 | War of the Worlds | IMDb | (?) | π | A classic. Also see War of the Worlds (2005) |
| 1954 | Animal Farm | IMDb | (?) | π¦ | I most probably watched it, but I am not entirely sure. If I remember correctly, it was harrowing, as it should. |
| 1957 | 12 Angry Men | IMDb | (?) | β | A classic. Also see 12 Angry Men (1997) |
| 1957 | Paths of Glory | IMDb | (?) | β | A classic. No Truffaut effect. |
| 1957 | The Bridge on the River Kwai | IMDb | (?) | π | A classic. No Truffaut effect. |
| 1958 | The Old Man and the Sea | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | See also The Old Man and the Sea (1990) and The Old Man and the Sea (1999) |
| 1959 | Ben-Hur | IMDb | (?) | π | A classic. |
| 1961 | Mutiny on the Bounty | IMDb | (?) | π | A classic remake of the classic original. Also see Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and The Bounty (1984). |
| 1961 | The Guns of Navarone | IMDb | (?) | π€· | Quite impressive for its time. This is an old style war movie, so the Truffaut effect is inapplicable. |
| 1962 | Lawrence of Arabia | IMDb | (?) | π | From the little that I remember, it was a good movie. |
| 1962 | To Kill a Mockingbird | IMDb | (?) | π | A classic. |
| 1963 | The Great Escape | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | |
| 1964 | Dr. Strangelove | IMDb | (?) | β | A classic. No Truffaut effect. |
| 1966 | Fahrenheit 451 | IMDb | (?) | π€· | Ray Bradbury's book is a classic masterpiece. This movie was incredibly cheap. Also, I think it was not exactly true to the book. |
| 1967 | The Day the Fish Came Out | IMDb | (?) | π | One of my personal favorite movies. It is low budget, so it must be judged with some lenience. |
| 1968 | 2001: Space Odyssey | IMDb | (?) | π | Absolutely awesome. One of my personal favorite movies. Also, an extremely important and influential movie. |
| 1968 | Barbarella | IMDb | (?) | π | Entertaining. Influential. Borderline pornographic. |
| 1968 | Planet of the Apes | IMDb | (?) | π | Decent actually, considering when it was made. Important for cultural literacy. |
| 1968 | Where Eagles Dare | IMDb | (?) | π€· | Quite spectacular considering when it was made. A classic of its genre. Truffaut effect is inapplicable. |
| 1969 | Easy Rider | IMDb | (?) | π | Decent, but not living up to all the hype around it. |
| 1970 | Catch-22 | IMDb | (?) | π¦ | I do not remember much anymore, but I think it was very good. |
| 1970 | Patton | IMDb | (?) | π | I do not remember much, but I think I found it decent. Truffaut effect inapplicable. |
| 1970 | Tora! Tora! Tora! | IMDb | (?) | π | I do not remember much, but I think I found it decent. Truffaut effect inapplicable. |
| 1971 | A Clockwork Orange | IMDb | (?) | π | A powerful and influential movie, but I am not sure it deserves all the hype. |
| 1971 | Johnny Got His Gun | IMDb | (?) | β | Scenes in the video clip for the song "One" by Metallica prompted me to search for, download, and watch it. This is the most brutally anti-war movie ever made. Also, one of the most scarring movies ever made. Negative Truffaut score. |
| 1971 | THX 1138 | IMDb | (?) | π€· | I prefer movies that make sense. |
| 1971 | The Andromeda Strain | IMDb | (?) | π | Quite good, especially considering the time it was made. |
| 1971 | The French Connection | IMDb | 2017-08-13 | π | Started watching it, not interesting enough, quit before the middle. |
| 1971 | The Omega Man | IMDb | (?) | π | Low budget and poor acting, but still, a classic. |
| 1972 | Last Tango in Paris | IMDb | (?) | π | Disappointing to the point of being a joke; a prank at the expense of the audience. |
| 1972 | Silent Running | IMDb | (?) | β | Very good considering its time, and its low budget. A very influential movie. |
| 1972 | Slaughterhouse 5 | IMDb | (?) | β | Very good, especially if you have read Kurt Vonnegut's classic masterpiece. |
| 1972 | The Poseidon Adventure | IMDb | (?) | π€· | Exciting, I suppose, for its time. |
| 1973 | Fantastic Planet | IMDb | (?) | π€· | (La planΓ¨te sauvage) I have made a couple of attempts to watch it, it is really fascinating, but it is also boring, and honestly, the ugliness surpasses the beauty. |
| 1973 | Soylent Green | IMDb | (?) 2015-06-19 | β | Watched it again; a classic. |
| 1974 | The Conversation | IMDb | 2025-03-16 | π€· | Tried watching it because of very good recommendations, but found it boring, pointless, and illogical, so I quit watching. |
| 1974 | The Land that Time Forgot | IMDb | (?) | π€· | Watched it a very long time ago on Public TV in Greece. It has some fascinating aspects, but the production was cheap. |
| 1974 | Zardoz | IMDb | (?) | π€· | Watched it a very long time ago on Public TV in Greece. It has some fascinating aspects, some thought-provoking, some cheesy, some incomprehensible, some boring. |
| 1975 | A Boy and His Dog | IMDb | (?) | π | I watched it because I had read the Sci-Fi story that it is based on, which is very good. I did not find it as good as I had expected, but not bad, either. |
| 1975 | Jaws | IMDb | (?) | π | A classic. Not even nearly as frightening as I feared it would be, but then again I watched it as a grown man, not as a small child. I have a friend who watched it as a kid and whose relationship with the sea was forever messed up as a result. That is harm. |
| 1975 | Three Days of the Condor | IMDb | (?) | π | Quite good. |
| 1976 | Logan's Run | IMDb | (?) | β | A legendary science fiction film. The premise was a bit lame, the production was cheap, the acting was bad, the editing was butchered, and yet it is still a classic. Also see The Island (2005) and In Time (2011) |
| 1976 | Rocky | IMDb | (?) | π | Decent, actually. |
| 1976 | The Eagle Has Landed | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | |
| 1976 | The Man Who Fell to Earth | IMDb | (?) | π | I started watching it but stopped because it was not making any sense and looked very cheap. |
| 1977 | A Bridge Too Far | IMDb | (?) | π | A classic. This is a true war movie, so the Truffaut effect is not applicable. |
| 1977 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | IMDb | (?) | π | I had read the book as a child. I watched the movie decades later. I remember I found it good, albeit slightly slow to build up, and overall underwhelming. Still, it is a classic. |
| 1977 | Star Wars: A New Hope | IMDb | (?) | β | (Episode IV) Spectacular. And a very influential movie. |
| 1978 | Midnight Express | IMDb | (?) | π | Non-stop suffering and cruelty, no redeeming quality in sight, and at the same time completely unrelatable unless you happen to be a drug smuggler. (Also, undue vilification of the Turks.) |
| 1978 | The Deer Hunter | IMDb | (?) | π | A decent movie, but I am not sure it deserves all the hype it has received. I am not sure about the Truffaut effect on this one. |
| 1979 | Alien | IMDb | (?) | β | An incredible film. Normally I do not watch horror films, but I watched it as a teenager without knowing it is a horror movie. Luckily, I found it only mildly terrifying, and mostly astounding. A highly influential, classic movie. |
| 1979 | All that Jazz | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | |
| 1979 | Apocalypse Now | IMDb | (?) | π | Interesting, but I cannot say I understood all of it. Not sure about the Truffaut effect. |
| 1979 | Mad Max | IMDb | (?) | π | A good movie, and also, a very influential movie. |
| 1979 | Meteor | IMDb | 2017-07-22 | π | The precursor to Armageddon (1998). Extremely cheap and lame, and as if that was not enough, also very slow and boring. |
| 1979 | The China Syndrome | IMDb | (?) | π | A classic. |
| 1979 | Wolf Lake | IMDb | (?) | π | ("Honor guard" release) Very good. Scarring. Small Truffaut effect. |
| 1980 | Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back | IMDb | (?) | β | (Episode V) Spectacular. |
| 1981 | Chariots of Fire | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | I may have actually watched it, but I am not sure. |
| 1981 | Das Boot | IMDb | (?) 2020-07-29 | π | A really great classic masterpiece. Also, a very influential movie. Virtually no Truffaut effect. One of my personal favorites. |
| 1981 | Escape from New York | IMDb | (?) | π€· | I do not remember much, I think I found it mildly entertaining. |
| 1981 | Gallipoli | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | |
| 1981 | Heavy Metal | IMDb | (?) | π€· | I watched it decades after its release, so I was not amused by it. |
| 1981 | Outland | IMDb | (?) | π | A bit cheap, but overall, decent. |
| 1981 | Quest for Fire | IMDb | (?) | π | Very good; quite unconventional. One of my personal favorites. |
| 1982 | Blade Runner | IMDb | (?) | π | Absolutely awesome. One of the greatest and most influential movies ever. One of my personal favorites. |
| 1982 | Conan the Barbarian | IMDb | (?) | π | Entertaining. |
| 1982 | E.T. | IMDb | (?) | π | I watched it back in the day, and I liked most of it, but I was so disappointed by the magic glowing finger and the flying bicycles that I characterized the entire movie as crap. I still stand by that conviction. |
| 1982 | Gandhi | IMDb | (?) | β | Excellent. Very highly recommended. |
| 1982 | Koyaanisqatsi | IMDb | (?) | π | Awesome. One of my personal favorite movies. |
| 1982 | Pink Floyd: The Wall | IMDb | (?) | π | Very good. One of my personal favorite movies. |
| 1982 | The Final Option | IMDb | (?) | π | (Original title: Who Dares Wins) Back then impressionable young me found it impressive, but in retrospect it was cheap and lame from every aspect. |
| 1982 | Tron | IMDb | (?) | β | Spectacular for its day, and influential. Also see Tron: Legacy (2010) |
| 1983 | Antarctica | IMDb | (?) | π | (Nankyoku Monogatari) Excellent. One of my personal favorite movies. Also see Eight Below (2006) |
| 1983 | Christine | IMDb | (?) | π€· | I remember I found it cool when I was 15. |
| 1983 | Star Wars: Return of the Jedi | IMDb | (?) | β | (Episode VI) Spectacular. |
| 1983 | The Day After | IMDb | Unknown | π | A historically very important movie. I refrained from watching it back then, because I knew very well, and I thought I just would not bear it. In the 2020s I watched part of it on YouTube. It is a low budget movie, so of course it is lame by today's standards, but that does not diminish its importance. I quit watching a few minutes after the destruction started, because I knew it was only going to get worse. I find it astonishing to learn that this movie did in fact have an effect on Ronald Reagan and his subsequent decisions in the direction of disarmament. |
| 1983 | The Right Stuff | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | |
| 1983 | Wargames | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | |
| 1984 | 1984 | IMDb | (?) | π¦ | (Nineteen Eighty-Four) Of course, the book is one of the greatest novels of all time. I do not remember much of the movie anymore. I think I watched it, and I think I was annoyed by some deviations from the book, but I am not sure anymore. |
| 1984 | 2010: The Year We Make Contact | IMDb | 2017-07-16 | π | Nice. Certainly not as awe-inspiring, nor as influential, as the 1968 movie, but not bad either. Also see 2001: Space Odyssey (1968) |
| 1984 | Dune | IMDb | (?) | β | Awesome. |
| 1984 | NausicaΓ€ of the Valley of the Wind | IMDb | (?) | β | (Kaze no tani no Naushika) An awesome, breathtaking phantasmagoria. Beautiful art inspired by MΕbius, some concepts borrowed from Dune, Ecological theme, Japanese folklore, what else can you ask for? |
| 1984 | Streets of Fire | IMDb | (?) | π€· | Back then I was impressed by it. Now I would probably find it cheesy to the point of nausea. |
| 1984 | The Bounty | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | Also see Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and Mutiny on the Bounty (1961) |
| 1984 | The Killing Fields | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | I may have watched it, but I am not sure. |
| 1984 | The Last Starfighter | IMDb | (?) | π | Cheap and lame. |
| 1984 | The Terminator | IMDb | (?) | π€· | Entertaining, I guess. The kind of movie that is watched precisely for the violence, so the Truffaut effect is inapplicable, I suppose. |
| 1985 | Back to the Future | IMDb | (?) | π | Entertaining. |
| 1985 | Brazil | IMDb | (?) | π | A very, very good movie, and my personal favorite movie of all times. |
| 1985 | Enemy Mine | IMDb | (?) | π | I do not remember much anymore, but I think that besides being cheap, and a bit lame, it was actually a good movie. |
| 1986 | Ferris Bueller's Day Off | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | |
| 1986 | Platoon | IMDb | (?) | π | Quite good; gruesome; scarring. I do not remember enough to be able to assess the Truffaut effect. |
| 1986 | The Fly | IMDb | π | I watched the trailer back in 1986 and decided that a) there is no way in hell that I am watching this, b) what the hell is wrong with the world making such films, and c) what the hell is wrong with the world going and watching such films. I still stand by that conviction. The Human Fly by the Cramps is a good song, though. | |
| 1986 | The Mission | IMDb | (?) | π¦ | I do not remember much anymore, but I think I found it very decent. |
| 1986 | Top Gun | IMDb | (?) | π | Entertaining, in it's time. Cheesy by today's standards. |
| 1987 | Angel Heart | IMDb | (?) | π€· | I watched it back then because it was talked about a lot, but failed to find any redeeming quality in it. |
| 1987 | Empire of the Sun | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | |
| 1987 | Full Metal Jacket | IMDb | (?) | π | Quite good, but unlike previous Kubrick war movies, this one did have some Truffaut effect. |
| 1987 | Lethal Weapon | IMDb | (?) | π€· | Entertaining ultra-violence. |
| 1987 | Robocop | IMDb | (?) | π | Entertaining silliness. |
| 1987 | The Last Emperor | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | |
| 1987 | The Princess Bride | IMDb | (?) | π | Awesome. One of my personal favorites. |
| 1988 | Akira | IMDb | (?) | π | I do not remember much, but I do remember that I was extremely disappointed by the nonsense, the gore, and the cheap dynamic stills. I think I quit watching as soon as things started getting too weird. |
| 1988 | Dangerous Liaisons | IMDb | (?) | π | Uninteresting, irrelevant to anything, pointless. |
| 1988 | Grave of the Fireflies | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | (Hotaru no haka) (No Truffaut effect.) |
| 1988 | Mississippi Burning | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | |
| 1988 | Powaqqatsi | IMDb | (?) | β | Awesome. |
| 1988 | The Big Blue | IMDb | (?) | π | (Le grand bleu) A decent movie, but not as great as I had expected it to be. |
| 1989 | Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure | IMDb | (?) | π | Entertaining. |
| 1989 | Erik the Viking | IMDb | (?) | π | Awesome. One of my personal favorites. |
| 1989 | Excalibur | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | |
| 1989 | Lethal Weapon 2 | IMDb | (?) | π€· | Entertaining, but very high Truffaut effect. |
| 1989 | The Abyss | IMDb | (?) | β | Awesome. Captivating. Frightening. Uplifting. Insanely good special effects for 1989. |
| 1989 | The Blood of Heroes | IMDb | 2019-07-25 | π | Powerful for its very low budget. I suppose The Hunger Games (2014) were inspired by it. |
| 1989 | When Harry Met Sally | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | |
| 1990 | Dances with Woves | IMDb | (?) | π¦ | I do not remember much anymore, but I think it was a good movie. |
| 1990 | Jacob's Ladder | IMDb | (?) | π | Disturbing for absolutely no good reason. |
| 1990 | Predator 2 | IMDb | (?) | π | I was wise enough to skip the first Predator; I am not sure why I watched the second load of crap. |
| 1990 | The Old Man and the Sea | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | See also The Old Man and the Sea (1958) and The Old Man and the Sea (1999) |
| 1990 | The Russia House | IMDb | 2015-08-09 | π | Very good. Superb directing was extremely successful in imposing a particular mood and achieving immersion. |
| 1990 | Total Recall | IMDb | (?) | π€· | Entertaining, for the most part, and in that era. |
| 1991 | A Brief History of Time | IMDb | 2015-08-24 | π€· | Not so good. Neither the science nor his life are examined in any depth, so I really fail to see who is the target audience of this film. |
| 1991 | JFK | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | I may have watched it, but I am not sure. |
| 1991 | Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves | IMDb | (?) | π | Entertaining. |
| 1991 | Terminator 2 | IMDb | (?) | π | Yeah, whatever. |
| 1992 | 1492: Conquest of Paradise | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | |
| 1992 | Basic Instinct | IMDb | (?) | π€· | Well made as far as crime/thriller/erotic drama movies go, although it is hard to claim that its main selling point was not Sharon Stone's pussy. I suppose kudos go to the producer, who managed to put this movie in theaters despite censorship. |
| 1992 | Malcolm X | IMDb | (?) | π¦ | I have watched it, but I do not remember anything anymore, except the gruesome murder scene. Perhaps worth rewatching? |
| 1992 | The Last of the Mohicans | IMDb | (?) | π | Quite good, if you can avoid laughing at the "Last Mohican" being Caucasian. |
| 1992 | Unforgiven | IMDb | (?) | π | Well made. Gruesome. Scarring. |
| 1993 | Demolition Man | IMDb | (?) | π€· | Entertaining silliness. |
| 1993 | Free Willy | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | |
| 1993 | Jurassic Park | IMDb | (?) | π | Quite spectacular, decently made, and entertaining. A hallmark movie in cinematography. |
| 1993 | Remains of the Day | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | |
| 1993 | Schindler's List | IMDb | (?) | β | Very good. Scarring. |
| 1993 | Stalingrad | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | |
| 1994 | Death and the Maiden | IMDb | (?) | β | A very, very good movie based on a theatrical play. I think I have watched it twice, and the first time young me failed to be persuaded by the movie, because until the last moment I really wanted the guy dead. Only the second time, a more mature me perceived it as intended. |
| 1994 | Forrest Gump | IMDb | (?) | β | Intriguing, captivating, emotional, exalting. |
| 1994 | Pulp Fiction | IMDb | (?) | π | Entertaining. |
| 1995 | 12 Monkeys | IMDb | (?) | β | Very, very good. |
| 1995 | Apollo 13 | IMDb | (?) | β | Excellent, awesome, and very realistic in all aspects except the joystick rodeo scene. |
| 1995 | Braveheart | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | Dan Snow says the movie has replaced several historical facts with absolute nonsense. |
| 1995 | Crimson Tide | IMDb | (?) 2020-06-28 | β | Watched it again. Great movie. Some Truffaut effect. |
| 1995 | Heat | IMDb | 2023-01-22 | π | Pretty solid movie, a bit more nuanced than just senseless violence. High Truffaut effect: you cannot help but distance yourself from the law man and root for the bank robber. When the robber becomes a murderer, you are rooting for that murder. |
| 1995 | Judge Dredd | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | Also see Dredd (2012) |
| 1995 | Toy Story | IMDb | (?) | π | Entertaining. |
| 1995 | Waterworld | IMDb | (?) | π | Impressive, but too many aspects of it were impossible and the bad guys were too stereotypical. |
| 1996 | Bitter Moon | IMDb | (?) | π€· | Kind of interesting, kind of bizarre, left me wondering whether it was worth watching. |
| 1996 | Microcosmos | IMDb | (?) | β | Magnificent |
| 1996 | Mission: Impossible | IMDb | (?) | π | Entertaining. |
| 1996 | The English Patient | IMDb | (?) | π¦ | I do not remember what my verdict was. |
| 1996 | The People vs. Larry Flynt | IMDb | (?) | π | Quite good for the most part. |
| 1996 | The White Squall | IMDb | 2017-07-25 | π | Decent, but the end in the court was a bit lame. |
| 1996 | Trainspotting | IMDb | (?) | π | Started watching it, found it too ugly and uninteresting, quit. |
| 1996 | Twister | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | |
| 1997 | 12 Angry Men | IMDb | (?) | β | A remake of the classic 1957 original. Excellent. This, in turn, became a classic. See 12 Angry Men (1957). |
| 1997 | Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery | IMDb | (?) | π€· | Funny, but way too tacky. |
| 1997 | Contact | IMDb | (?) | π | Uhm, quite good. Most deviations from Carl Sagan's book were not welcome, (for example the deranged saboteur,) although the deviation from the way the book ends may have actually been a good idea. (Sorry Carl, but the Ο monkey business was just lame, okay?) |
| 1997 | Cube | IMDb | (?) | π€· | Highly unconventional, puzzling, gory, and at the end of the day, pointless. |
| 1997 | Event Horizon | IMDb | (?) | π | Started watching it, quit as soon as I realized it was a horror movie. |
| 1997 | Face/Off | IMDb | (?) | π | Crap. |
| 1997 | Gattaca | IMDb | (?) | π€· | Did not see any point in it. I am not sure I even watched it to the end. |
| 1997 | Good Will Hunting | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | |
| 1997 | Men in Black | IMDb | (?) | π | Quite silly, adequately funny. |
| 1997 | Princess Mononoke | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | (Mononoke-hime) |
| 1997 | Seven Years in Tibet | IMDb | (?) | β | Excellent. |
| 1997 | Starship Troopers | IMDb | (?) | π | Ill-conceived and crappy. |
| 1997 | The 5th Element | IMDb | (?) | β | Awesome. One of the greatest movies ever made. |
| 1997 | Titanic | IMDb | (?) | π | A very good movie. (Though perhaps not completely deserving all the hype.) |
| 1998 | American History X | IMDb | (?) | π | Pretty decent, solid movie, but high Truffaut effect. |
| 1998 | Armageddon | IMDb | (?) | π | Entertaining, but oh puh-leez Hollywood, spare us from the crap. |
| 1998 | Dark City | IMDb | (?) | π¦ | I do not remember much anymore, but I think I found it to be very lame. |
| 1998 | Elizabeth | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | Dan Snow says the movie has taken a few liberties. |
| 1998 | Les MisΓ©rables | IMDb | (?) | π¦ | I think I found it good, but I do not really remember. |
| 1998 | Ronin | IMDb | (?) | π | Quite good, but very high Truffaut effect. |
| 1998 | Saving Private Ryan | IMDb | (?) | β | Very good. Plenty of Truffaut effect. |
| 1998 | Sphere | IMDb | (?) | π | Lame nonsense. |
| 1998 | The Horse Whisperer | IMDb | 2016-11-05 | π | Nice, but boring, quit watching after 2 hours. |
| 1998 | The Mask of Zorro | IMDb | (?) | π | Entertaining. |
| 1998 | The Thin Red Line | IMDb | (?) | π | Impressive. Memorable. Worth watching. I do not remember enough to judge the Truffaut effect. |
| 1998 | The Truman Show | IMDb | (?) | β | A very, very good movie. |
| 1999 | American Beauty | IMDb | (?) | π€· | Not a bad movie, but I do not understand all the hype about it. |
| 1999 | Animal Farm | IMDb | (?) | π¦ | I think I have watched it, but trailer is too short to be able to tell for sure. |
| 1999 | Himalaya | IMDb | (?) | π | Quite good. (Probably not for the average Hollywood movie-watching audience.) |
| 1999 | Star Wars: The Phantom Menace | IMDb | (?) | π | (Episode I) Spectacular. |
| 1999 | The Fight Club | IMDb | (?) | π€· | Incredible amounts of violence for absolutely no good reason, nonsensical end. Hits red on the Truffaut scale. |
| 1999 | The Insider | IMDb | (?) | π | Quite good. Must-watch if you are a smoker, have ever been a smoker, or know anyone who is a smoker. |
| 1999 | The Matrix | IMDb | (?) | π€· | Yes, spectacular and influential, but sorry, I belong to the exceedingly small percentage of the population that found this entire franchise quite crappy. |
| 1999 | The Old Man and the Sea | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | See also The Old Man and the Sea (1958) and The Old Man and the Sea (1990) |
| 1999 | The Talented Mr. Ripley | IMDb | (?) | π | Disturbing and pointless. |
| 1999 | The Virgin Suicides | IMDb | (?) | π€· | Largely pointless. Creates the impression that it recounts a true story, but nothing like that ever happened. The music by Air was awesome, though. |
| 1999 | eXistenZ | IMDb | (?) | π | Quite good; certainly a must watch for anyone who is into gaming, and especially for anyone who has been a game developer. |
| 2000 | Cast Away | IMDb | (?) | β | Very good. |
| 2000 | Erin Brockovich | IMDb | (?) | β | Very good. |
| 2000 | Gladiator | IMDb | (?) | β | An excellent movie, whose influence extended beyond the cinema industry. |
| 2000 | Pitch Black | IMDb | (?) | π€· | Immature scenario, pointless terror and gore. |
| 2000 | Quills | IMDb | (?) | π¦ | I think I was unimpressed, but I do not really remember. |
| 2000 | Requiem for a Dream | IMDb | (?) | β | A very good movie. |
| 2000 | Space Cowboys | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | |
| 2000 | The Beach | IMDb | (?) | π¦ | I do not remember much anymore, but I think I found it quite good. |
| 2000 | U-571 | IMDb | (?) | π | Technically well done, but repulsive in principle because it is a Hollywood attempt to re-tell the story of capturing the Enigma machine, but as if it was done by Americans instead of British. This kind of historical lie is immoral. |
| 2001 | A.I. Artificial Intelligence | IMDb | (?) | π€· | Some very nice visuals, but other than that, slow, boring, and pointless. |
| 2001 | AmΓ©lie | IMDb | (?) | π | (Le Fabuleux Destin d'AmΓ©lie Poulain) Nice. |
| 2001 | Black Hawk Down | IMDb | (?) | π€· | I am not sure why I watched this. |
| 2001 | Captain Corelli's Mandolin | IMDb | (?) | β | Quite good. At least an attempt was made to make the Greek characters believable. The movie completely fails to show the scale of the actual historical atrocity, but then again, if it did, then a) audiences would have dismissed it as unbelievable, and b) the movie would have shown nothing but that, because it lasted for 5 days. |
| 2001 | Donnie Darko | IMDb | (?) | π | I prefer movies that make sense. |
| 2001 | Enemy at the Gates | IMDb | (?) | β | Quite good. |
| 2001 | No Man's Land | IMDb | (?) | π | Decent. Not as jolly-funny as the trailer depicts it. I had two issues with it: The (admittedly very brief and minor) wallet scene struck me as vilification of homosexuals. There is one token woman in the movie and her only purpose is to keep showing her thighs around. |
| 2001 | Ocean's Eleven | IMDb | π | I do not remember much now, but I think it was well made and entertaining. | |
| 2001 | Planet of the Apes | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | |
| 2001 | Schrek | IMDb | (?) | π | Entertaining. |
| 2001 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | IMDb | (?) | π | Entertaining, but I do not care for the genre. |
| 2001 | Vanilla Sky | IMDb | (?) | π | I prefer movies that make sense. |
| 2001 | Winged Migration | IMDb | (?) | π | (Le peuple migrateur) Magnificent; one of my personal favorite movies. |
| 2002 | Equilibrium | IMDb | (?) | π | The scenario and the photography were so cheap that I quit watching before the middle. |
| 2002 | Firefly (TV Series) | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | |
| 2002 | Gangs of New York | IMDb | (?) | π | If there was a point in any of this, I completely missed it. Utterly uninteresting, quit watching before the middle. |
| 2002 | Hero | IMDb | (?) | β | An unforgettable visual masterpiece. (Though, not my genre.) |
| 2002 | Ice Age | IMDb | (?) | π | Entertaining. |
| 2002 | K-19: The Widowmaker | IMDb | (?) | β | Awesome. Harrowing. Scarring. |
| 2002 | Minority Report | IMDb | (?) | π€· | Having practically grown up with George Orwell's 1984, I failed to see what is the big deal about this movie. |
| 2002 | Naqoyqatsi | IMDb | (?) | β | Awesome. |
| 2002 | Secretary | IMDb | (?) | π | Decent. The happy ending was kind of cheap, but then again I think I prefer that over a disaster ending. |
| 2002 | Solaris | IMDb | (?) | π | Slow, uneventful, nonsensical, uninteresting. |
| 2002 | Star Wars: Attack of the Clones | IMDb | (?) | π | (Episode II) Spectacular. |
| 2002 | The Bourne Identity | IMDb | (?) | π | Well made and quite entertaining ultra-violence. |
| 2002 | The Pianist | IMDb | (?) | β | Very good. Harrowing. Devastating. Scarring. |
| 2003 | Battlestar Galactica TV Miniseries Part 1 of 2 | IMDb | 2016-12-28 | π | Not very good, but not bad enough to deserve passing. |
| 2003 | Battlestar Galactica TV Miniseries Part 2 of 2 | IMDb | 2016-12-29 | π | Not very good, but not bad enough to deserve passing. |
| 2003 | Code 46 | IMDb | 2017-08-03 | π€· | Interesting. Slow. A bit incomprehensible at times. Overall, neither very entertaining nor very thought provoking, some quite good visuals but not spectacular, so, I do not know what the point was. |
| 2003 | Kill Bill | IMDb | (?) | π | Crap. |
| 2003 | Lost in Translation | IMDb | (?) | π | A decent, subtle movie focusing on two characters and nothing else. |
| 2003 | Love, Actually | IMDb | 2015-12-21 | π | Watchable. Barely. |
| 2003 | Master and Commander | IMDb | (?) | β | Awesome, and very realistic. |
| 2003 | The Last Samurai | IMDb | (?) | π | Quite good, if you can avoid laughing at the "Last Samurai" being Caucasian. |
| 2003 | The Life of David Gale | IMDb | (?) | π | Quite a good movie. |
| 2004 | A Series of Unfortunate Events | IMDb | (?) | π¦ | I do not remember now what my verdict was for this movie. I think I found it pointless. |
| 2004 | Alexander | IMDb | (?) | π | Epic and spectacular, so, uhm, okay, I guess. But couldn't they have found an actor resembling Alexander The Great as we know him from statues, coins, etc.? And what is the deal with army generals wearing black eyeliner? Whatever. |
| 2004 | Downfall | IMDb | (?) | β | (Der Untergang) Excellent. |
| 2004 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | I have watched the movie, but I do not remember anything, so I should probably watch it again. |
| 2004 | Hotel Rwanda | IMDb | (?) | β | Devastating, harrowing, scarring, and worst of all, based on historically accurate events. |
| 2004 | I, Robot | IMDb | (?) | π¦ | I do not remember what my verdict was. Probably not very good. |
| 2004 | In Enemy Hands | IMDb | 2020-06-27 | π | Quite good |
| 2004 | Kinsey | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | |
| 2004 | Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow | IMDb | (?) | π¦ | I do not remember whether I have watched it or not. |
| 2004 | The Aviator | IMDb | (?) | π | Interesting. |
| 2004 | The Bourne Supremacy | IMDb | (?) | π | Well made and quite entertaining ultra-violence. |
| 2004 | The Day After Tomorrow | IMDb | (?) | π | Entertaining, if you can be entertained by something that is entirely impossible. |
| 2004 | The Notebook | IMDb | (?) | β | Very good, actually. |
| 2004 | The Terminal | IMDb | (?) | β | Excellent. |
| 2004 | Troy | IMDb | (?) | π | Quite good, except that Brad Pit was unsuitable to play Achilles; him and Patroclus looked more like California surfer boys rather than ancient Greek warriors. Also, the effeminate gayness was quite wrong. Also, Helen could have looked more Greek and less Germanic. The choice to not show any of the gods of the Homeric original was okay in my book. Other than that, it was true to the original, quite well made, and fascinating. |
| 2005 | Cinderella Man | IMDb | (?) | π | Well made, gruesome, uplifting. |
| 2005 | Kingdom of Heaven | IMDb | (?) | π | I do not remember much anymore, I think it was okay-ish. |
| 2005 | Lord of War | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | |
| 2005 | March of the Penguins | IMDb | (?) | β | Magnificent |
| 2005 | Mr. & Mrs. Smith | IMDb | (?) | π | Entertaining silliness. |
| 2005 | Serenity | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | (Actually, I think I may have watched it, but I do not remember anything, so I might as well watch it again.) |
| 2005 | Sin City | IMDb | (?) | π | Entertaining. |
| 2005 | Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith | IMDb | (?) | π | Episode III - Spectacular. |
| 2005 | The Island | IMDb | (?) | π | Inspired by Logan's Run (1978) but reimagined and executed using modern movie-making technology. Spectacular action scenes, violence, destruction, etc. Very entertaining. Strangely, the actors in the poster do not look like Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson, but that is who they are. |
| 2005 | V for Vendetta | IMDb | (?) | π | Interesting, entertaining. A bit cheesy. |
| 2005 | War of the Worlds | IMDb | (?) | π¦ | I do not remember anymore what I thought of that movie. I think I found it good. Also see War of the Worlds (1953) |
| 2006 | 300 | IMDb | (?) | β | Very good, and true to Frank Miller's original comic. A few small issues with the original, for example the unnecessary vilification of the Persians, and of Xerxes in particular. |
| 2006 | A Scanner Darkly | IMDb | (?) | π | The artistic choice was too weird and difficult to get accustomed to. The movie did not seem to be getting anywhere fast. I lost interest and quit watching. |
| 2006 | An Inconvenient Truth | IMDb | (?) | β | Not everything in it is accurate, but nonetheless, a must-watch. |
| 2006 | Blood Diamond | IMDb | (?) | β | A very good movie, and also an awareness-raising movie. Ironically, the movie came out just shortly after I bought a diamond wedding ring. |
| 2006 | Borat | IMDb | (?) | π | I regret having watched it. |
| 2006 | Children of Men | IMDb | (?) | π | Quite an impressive movie, if we disregard the impossible basic premise. |
| 2006 | Eight Below | IMDb | (?) | π | A Hollywood attempt to remake Antarctica (1983) but this time as a children's movie, with American protagonists and an all-American plot. Of course the production and the effects are better than the original, but the copying of the original is plagiarism and the deviation from the original is immoral. |
| 2006 | Idiocracy | IMDb | (?) | β | Very good. Frighteningly good. |
| 2006 | Poseidon | IMDb | (?) | π€· | Okay, I suppose. |
| 2006 | The Devil Wears Prada | IMDb | (?) | π¦ | I have watched it, but I do not remember what I thought of it. |
| 2006 | The Last King of Scotland | IMDb | (?) | π¦ | Not yet. |
| 2006 | The Prestige | IMDb | (?) | π | Well done and intriguing up until the moment you realize that you have been tricked into watching a movie with metaphysical nonsense. |
| 2006 | The Queen | IMDb | (?) | π¦ | I do not remember what I thought of the movie. |
| 2007 | Hot Fuzz | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | |
| 2007 | I Am Legend | IMDb | (?) | π | A remake of a much older movie with the same title. Some very good concepts and visuals. The first part of the movie is astonishingly good; the second, so and so. |
| 2007 | Sunshine | IMDb | (?) | π | Quite good, although the basic scientific premise was a bit hard to swallow, the villain was completely over the top, and the end looked unnecessarily metaphysical considering that it did not really involve anything metaphysical. |
| 2007 | The Bourne Ultimatum | IMDb | (?) | π | Well made and quite entertaining ultra-violence. |
| 2007 | The Man from Earth | IMDb | Not yet. | π | Quite good. It requires some patience. I think it is a theatrical play. |
| 2008 | Iron Man | IMDb | (?) | π | Utter crap. |
| 2008 | Seven Pounds | IMDb | (?) | π | Decent. The mystery keeps piling up, but it is manageable. You have to ignore several unrealistic premises. In the end, it is uplifting. |
| 2008 | Taken | IMDb | (?) | π | Entertaining. (If you find ultra-violence entertaining.) Cheap scenario. |
| 2008 | The Hurt Locker | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | |
| 2008 | Valkyrie | IMDb | (?) | β | Very good. Scarring. |
| 2008 | Wall-E | IMDb | (?) | β | Very good, except for the fully detached, free-floating parts of the Eve robot, which were extremely annoying and did a lot to ruin the movie for me. Anyway, a spectacular, and deeply emotional movie, with multiple messages. A classic. |
| 2009 | 2012 | IMDb | (?) | π | A spectacular global destruction movie. |
| 2009 | Agora | IMDb | (?) | β | Excellent. Luckily Hypatia's gruesome murder is not shown. Funny thing: a prickly pear cactus can be seen in one or more scenes; this is an anachronism; this cactus was brought from the New World more than a thousand years later. |
| 2009 | Avatar | IMDb | (?) | π | Spectacular; rich in techno lust; simplistic political ideology; runaway sentimentalism; new age spiritual mumbo jumbo; and of course, ultra violence. Extremely high Truffaut effect. |
| 2009 | District 9 | IMDb | (?) | π€· | The basic premise makes no sense: aliens with space-faring technology cannot possibly need to live in earth slums, nor obey human law enforcement. The aliens are too ugly to be looking at them for two hours straight. Yes, the movie gets you to view them from a different angle by the end, but I am not sure that it was worth two hours of torture. If this was intended to be allegorical, it miserably failed to work. |
| 2009 | Hachi: A Dog's Tale | IMDb | (?) | π¦ | I do not remember much, but I think I found it quite good. |
| 2009 | Moon | IMDb | (?) | β | Very good. |
| 2009 | SM Rechter | IMDb | 2016-01-07 | π | Decent. |
| 2009 | Terminator Salvation | IMDb | 2017-07-31 | π€· | Entertaining. Some good moments, but also lots of cheapness in the scenario. |
| 2009 | The Age Of Stupid | IMDb | 2019 | π | Interesting. |
| 2009 | The Butterfly Circus (Short) | IMDb | 2017-07-30 | π | (Directed by Joshua Weigel) Nice. |
| 2009 | The Road | IMDb | (?) | β | A very good movie. Magnificent. "Not entertainment in any conventional sense". |
| 2010 | 127 Hours | IMDb | (?) | β | Unconventional. Very good, especially considering that it is about a real event. |
| 2010 | Despicable Me | IMDb | (?) | π | Entertaining. |
| 2010 | Inception | IMDb | (?) | π | I prefer movies that make sense. |
| 2010 | Shutter Island | IMDb | (?) | π | When you watch an entire bizarre mystery thriller only to realize in the end that the scenario writer has been playing a bad joke on you all along. |
| 2010 | The Book of Eli | IMDb | (?) | π€· | A decently made action adventure up until some point near the end when the religious nonsense is revealed. |
| 2010 | The King's Speech | IMDb | (?) | π | Quite decent. Dan Snow says that everything has been exaggerated for the purposes of this movie, but it is okay. |
| 2010 | The Social Network | IMDb | (?) | π | Informative, but of limited interest. |
| 2010 | Tron: Legacy | IMDb | (?) | π | A movie with no reason to exist. Also see Tron (1982) |
| 2011 | Another Earth | IMDb | (?) | π | I was refusing to watch it due to the unbelievably lame premise. When I finally decided to give it a try, I realized that my reservations had been entirely correct. |
| 2011 | Contagion | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | |
| 2011 | Drive | IMDb | (?) | π | Entertaining. Decent. |
| 2011 | In Time | IMDb | (?) | π | Another movie inspired by Logan's Run (1976). Decent, entertaining. |
| 2011 | Rise of the Planet of the Apes | IMDb | (?) | π¦ | I do not remember much, but I think it was a decent movie. |
| 2011 | Source Code | IMDb | (?) | π | Very lame basic premise. Pointless. Barely entertaining. |
| 2011 | Super 8 | IMDb | 2017-08-02 | π | Very entertaining. For the entire family. |
| 2011 | The Grey | IMDb | (?) | π | Entertaining. I have an issue with the scenario: why did they ever leave the plane wreck? |
| 2012 | Astronaut: The Last Push | IMDb | 2015-08-08 | π | Decent; interesting; moving; quite realistic; but to most people I would not recommend it, because they'd be bored senseless. |
| 2012 | Cloud Atlas | IMDb | (?) | π | I prefer movies that make sense. |
| 2012 | Django Unchained | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | |
| 2012 | Dredd | IMDb | (?) | π€· | Entertaining, but barely. Also: it was disappointing to see that the gear was somewhat of a downgrade both from the original comic book and from the 1995 movie. Even Carl Urban's pointy chin was a downgrade from Sylvester Stallone's square chin. See Judge Dredd (1995) |
| 2012 | Flight | IMDb | 2016 | π | A decent movie. |
| 2012 | Hemingway & Gellhorn | IMDb | (?) | π¦ | I do not remember much about it now; I think I found it decent. |
| 2012 | Lincoln | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | |
| 2012 | Looper | IMDb | (?) | π | The lameness of the basic premise prevented me from enjoying the movie. Plus, all the violence. Felt like a case study on why time travel is impossible. |
| 2012 | Prometheus | IMDb | (?) | π | The scenario was not promising right from the beginning. Quit watching as soon as I realized it was a (poorly done) horror movie. |
| 2012 | Promised Land | IMDb | 2021-07-09 | π | Slow, uninteresting, unengaging, boring. A succession of plot twists in the end were hardly capable of salvaging it. |
| 2012 | Robot & Frank | IMDb | (?) | π | Entertaining. |
| 2012 | Searching for Sugar Man | IMDb | 2016-06-12 | π | Nice. |
| 2012 | Sex, Death, and the Meaning of Life | IMDb | 2015-08-12 | π | (Richard Dawkins, 3 episodes, Channel 4) Good. |
| 2012 | Taken 2 | IMDb | (?) | π€· | Entertaining, if ultra-violence is your kind of entertainment. |
| 2012 | The Avengers | IMDb | 2017-08-10 | π | Watched it for the cultural literacy aspect of it. Β It was exactly as I expected it: spectacular and entertaining, but naive to the point of annoyance. |
| 2012 | The Bourne Legacy | IMDb | (?) | π | Well made and quite entertaining ultra-violence |
| 2012 | The Life of Pi | IMDb | (?) | π | A good movie, though less interesting and less impressive than I hoped, based on the hype. |
| 2013 | 12 Years a Slave | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | |
| 2013 | Antarctica: A Year On Ice | IMDb | 2015-11-08 | β | Very good. Be sure to watch in good quality. |
| 2013 | Autumn Blood | IMDb | 2018-08-10 | π | Quite well made, but I had to stop watching before the middle because I could not stand the violence. |
| 2013 | Despicable Me 2 | IMDb | 2015-06-16 | π | Entertaining. |
| 2013 | Dirty Wars | IMDb | 2015-08-21 | π | Interesting, though it could have been a medium-length article. |
| 2013 | Elysium | IMDb | (?) | π | Entertaining, but over the top a lot of the time. |
| 2013 | Ender's Game | IMDb | (?) | π | Lame. |
| 2013 | Europa Report | IMDb | (?) | β | Very good for its low budget. Very realistic. |
| 2013 | Gravity | IMDb | (?) | π | Spectacular visuals, lame plot. |
| 2013 | Her | IMDb | (?) | β | For a long time I resisted watching the movie due to its rather repulsive theme, but when I finally watched it I found it quite good, actually. |
| 2013 | Oblivion | IMDb | (?) | β | Quite spectacular, but with several gaping scenario issues. |
| 2013 | Olympus Has Fallen | IMDb | (?) | π | Entertaining. |
| 2013 | Pacific Rim | IMDb | (?) | π | Barely entertaining; juvenile. |
| 2013 | Parker | IMDb | 2017-08-08 | π | Very entertaining. Unsophisticated, but without any discernible flaws. |
| 2013 | Particle Fever | IMDb | 2015-07-29 | β | Very interesting.Β Also quite moving at times. |
| 2013 | Phantom | IMDb | 2020-06-27 | β | Very good. |
| 2013 | Riddick | IMDb | (?) | π | Starts entertaining, and then goes completely over the top, to the point where it is not entertaining anymore. |
| 2013 | Snowpiercer | IMDb | (?) | β | Very good. |
| 2013 | The Wind Rises | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | (Kaze tachinu) |
| 2013 | The Wolf of Wall Street | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | |
| 2013 | The World's End | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | |
| 2013 | Zero Dark Thirty | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | |
| 2014 | Automata | IMDb | (?) | π¦ | I do not remember what my verdict was. |
| 2014 | Birdman | IMDb | 2015-12-21 | π | Started watching it, not interesting enough, quit. |
| 2014 | Captain America: The Winter Soldier | IMDb | (?) | π | Utter crap. |
| 2014 | Dawn of the Planet of the Apes | IMDb | (?) | π | Decent up until the very end, where it turned into crap. |
| 2014 | Edge of Tomorrow | IMDb | (?) | π | Crap. |
| 2014 | Fury | IMDb | 2015-09-22 | π€· | Well made ultra-violence. The final massacre could have been of less unrealistic proportions. |
| 2014 | Good Kill | IMDb | 2015-08-03 | π | Quite decent. Of course, we are not buying the "U.S. army = good, C.I.A. = bad" premise, but the movie was good nonetheless. |
| 2014 | Interstellar | IMDb | (?) | π | Entertaining, but barely, due to all the impossibilities. (If we had the technology shown in the movie we would certainly be able to fix our crops.) At some point near the end, the spiritual nonsense turned the whole movie into a pile of crap. |
| 2014 | John Wick | IMDb | (?) | π | Entertaining ultra-violence. |
| 2014 | Kill The Messenger | IMDb | 2015-08-11 | π€· | Excellent up until about the middle; then I stopped watching it, not because it turned bad, but because I realized that I was about to get very seriously pissed off with what was about to happen. |
| 2014 | Kingsman - The Secret Service | IMDb | 2015-08-01 | π€· | Entertaining, but quite silly. |
| 2014 | Lucy | IMDb | (?) | π | Utter crap. Spectacular crap. |
| 2014 | Madame Bovary | IMDb | 2015-07-29 | π | Watched one third of it, uninteresting, quit. |
| 2014 | Merchants of Doubt | IMDb | 2015-07-28 | β | Very well made and very interesting. |
| 2014 | Noah | IMDb | (?) | π | Pretty crappy. |
| 2014 | Of Mice and Men | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | I tried to read the very highly acclaimed book, but I was too quick to find it boring, so I stopped reading. Perhaps the movie will solve this problem. |
| 2014 | Selma | IMDb | 2015-08-14 | β | Quite good. Inspiring, uplifting, infuriating. |
| 2014 | The Admiral: Roaring Currents | IMDb | 2015-06-16 | π | Quite epic. |
| 2014 | The Equalizer | IMDb | (?) | π | Entertaining. Very high Truffaut effect. |
| 2014 | The Grand Budapest Hotel | IMDb | (?) | π | Refreshingly unconventional place and time; other than that, I completely failed to see the slightest point in the whole movie. |
| 2014 | The Hunger Games - Mockingjay Part 1 | IMDb | 2015-12-18 | π | A bit slow at times, but overall, okay. |
| 2014 | The Imitation Game | IMDb | 2017-08-07 | β | Very good. Beware of some deviations from historical fact. |
| 2014 | The Theory of Everything | IMDb | 2015-08-23 | π | Very good, but you need to read the Wikipedia article about Hawkins before watching it, otherwise certain things won't make sense. |
| 2014 | Unbroken | IMDb | 2015-08-16 | π | Quite good, though the Watanabe's character was underdeveloped; either we should be told more about him, or he should not have been made to look so evil. |
| 2015 | Air | IMDb | 2015-10-24 | π | Very good. |
| 2015 | Blackhat | IMDb | 2017-02-17 | π | The technical parts were not too implausible for a change. Β Was a strange mixture of cheap and well made. Worth watching. |
| 2015 | Bridge of Spies | IMDb | 2016-07-17 | β | Excellent, despite the lame title. |
| 2015 | Burnt | IMDb | 2016-01-02 | β | Very, very good. |
| 2015 | Cartel Land | IMDb | 2015-11-26 | π€· | Started watching it, kind of interesting, but not interesting enough, quit. |
| 2015 | Chappie | IMDb | 2015-06-22 | π€· | Entertaining, but also annoying. |
| 2015 | Danny Collins | IMDb | 2015-08-02 | β | Good, quite good. |
| 2015 | Ex Machina | IMDb | 2015-12-13 | β | Pretty good. |
| 2015 | Fifty Shades of Grey | IMDb | 2015-12-18 | π | Very lame. Luckily, all the prior bad publicity had prepared me for the lameness, so I was not as disappointed as I had expected. |
| 2015 | High-Rise | IMDb | 2017-07-28 | π | The trailer looked promising, but the actual movie was too boring, uninteresting, and annoying. Β There were some very good concepts, but it was going nowhere up until past the middle, which is when I quit watching. |
| 2015 | In The Heart of the Sea | IMDb | 2016-07-19 | π | Quite decent. |
| 2015 | Infini | IMDb | 2015-12-21 | π | Started watching it, not interesting enough, quit. |
| 2015 | Jurassic World | IMDb | 2017-07-31 | π | Very entertaining. |
| 2015 | Mad Max: Fury Road | IMDb | 2015-06-28 | π€· | An incredible amount of violence and grotesqueness for absolutely no reason. |
| 2015 | Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation | IMDb | 2015-11-21 | π | Quite entertaining, most of the time. |
| 2015 | Momentum | IMDb | 2015-11-23 | π€· | Entertaining, but not by much. Bad acting, plenty of ludicrousness, and overall, not terribly exciting. |
| 2015 | Run All Night | IMDb | 2015-12-19 | π | Very, very good for the genre.Β If you want a reasonable scenario, a lot of action, and a lot of meanness, and all that, strangely, together with a fair amount of emotion. |
| 2015 | San Andreas Quake | IMDb | 2015-11-08 | π | Lame on all aspects.Β Name an aspect, it was lame on it. |
| 2015 | Self/Less | IMDb | 2015-11-24 | β | Excellent. On a few occasions it makes you think that it is about to make some serious blooper, but it does not. |
| 2015 | Sicario | IMDb | 2017-04-27 | π | Quite good. Grim. Gruesome. Realistic. Very high Truffaut effect. |
| 2015 | Spare Parts | IMDb | 2015-08-08 | β | Quite good. A bit too much sentimentalism at a certain point, but overall, quite good. |
| 2015 | Spectre | IMDb | 2016-03-13 | π | Entertaining. Cheap scenario. |
| 2015 | Spotlight | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | |
| 2015 | Star Wars: The Force Awakens | IMDb | (?) | π | (Episode VII) Decent, but not quite as good as the previous ones. |
| 2015 | Survivor | IMDb | 2015-08-13 | π | Uhm, entertaining, but barely, due to several lame premises and instances of cheapness in the scenario. |
| 2015 | Terminator Genisys | IMDb | 2015-12-04 | π€· | Somewhat entertaining, considerably lame. |
| 2015 | The 33 | IMDb | 2015-11-27 | β | Awesome. |
| 2015 | The Astronaut Farmer | IMDb | 2015-07-27 | π€· | Uhm, decent, but barely. |
| 2015 | The Big Short | IMDb | 2016-07-21 | π | Well done, but above my head on several occasions. Known for being historically accurate. |
| 2015 | The Hateful Eight | IMDb | 2017-08-10 | π | Well executed, slowly building into a murder mystery and then into a complete splatter. Decent, but overall, completely pointless, like most Tarantino movies. |
| 2015 | The Hunger Games - Mockingjay Part 2 | IMDb | 2016-04-23 | π | Uhm, entertaining, but the scenario was cheap and cheesy on several occasions. |
| 2015 | The Last Rescue | IMDb | 2015-12-03 | π | Not bad. But not very good, either.Β Some technical cheapness, the audio cover was done by an amateur, too much emphasis on human expressions sometimes to the point of cheesiness, and an unwarranted vilification of the Germans. |
| 2015 | The Man From U.N.C.L.E. | IMDb | 2015-11-20 2016-07-23 | π | Very entertaining. |
| 2015 | The Martian | IMDb | 2015-12-29 2015-12-30 2025-10-20 | β | Very, very good, if we disregard several very annoying impossibilities. |
| 2015 | The Revenant | IMDb | 2017-01-21 | π€· | Two and a half hours of bloodshed, gore, misery, and loss, in beautiful snow-covered nature. |
| 2015 | Tomorrowland | IMDb | 2015-10-25 | π | Decent, for kids. |
| 2015 | Woman in Gold | IMDb | 2015-08-05 | β | Quite good.Β A bit unnecessarily convoluted and/or dragging at one point, but just one point. |
| 2015 | Z for Zachariah | IMDb | 2017-04-28 | β | Quite good in many ways. A bit too embarrassing at times. Not nearly as predictable as one might think, but unfortunately, the sensation of predictability lessens the enjoyment of watching. Well delivered ending. Overall, worth watching. |
| 2016 | A Hologram For The King | IMDb | 2017-01-08 | β | Nice. |
| 2016 | Approaching the Unknown | IMDb | 2017-04-26 | π | Boring, lame, and cheap. |
| 2016 | Arrival | IMDb | 2017-04-16 | β | Mostly pretty good. Requires ignoring a few lame premises. (E.g. if they bothered to come over here to tell us something, they would have probably figured how to say it in our language.) |
| 2016 | Bluefin | IMDb | 2019 | π | Informative. Not exciting or anything. |
| 2016 | Criminal | IMDb | 2017-05-28 | β | A lot of suspense, a lot of action. A bit too cheesy-emotional at times, but overall, good. |
| 2016 | Deepwater Horizon | IMDb | 2017-01-08 | β | Quite good. |
| 2016 | Hacksaw Ridge | IMDb | 2017-06-14 | β | Very good production, story telling, effects. Incredibly gory. Didactic. Scarring. Uplifting. The gore was a bit over the top. I am unsure about the Truffaut effect. Overall, very good. |
| 2016 | Hidden Figures | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | |
| 2016 | Jack Reacher: Never Go Back | IMDb | 2017-01-07 | π | Action and ultra-violence for the entire family. Decent, actually. |
| 2016 | Jackie | IMDb | 2017-07-02 | π | Interesting, but also kind of boring too. |
| 2016 | Jason Bourne | IMDb | 2016-11-27 | π | Very well made and quite entertaining ultra-violence. |
| 2016 | London Has Fallen | IMDb | 2017-08-11 | π | Entertaining. Β Barely. |
| 2016 | Our Kind of Traitor | IMDb | 2016-12-24 | β | In the beginning it was a bit boring, but just as I was getting ready to quit, it picked up and it turned out to be quite a good movie. |
| 2016 | Passage to Mars | IMDb | 2017-04-25 | π€· | Barely worth watching for someone like me. Β Definitely not worth watching for the vast majority of people I know. |
| 2016 | Passengers | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | |
| 2016 | Rogue One Bonus Disk | 2017-04-22 | π | Interesting. Mildly. | |
| 2016 | Rogue One: A Star Wars Story | IMDb | 2017-04-22 | π | Quite good. |
| 2016 | Snowden | IMDb | 2017-01-02 | β | Highly recommended. |
| 2016 | Star Trek Beyond | IMDb | 2016-12-30 | π | Entertaining, but too lame too much of the time. |
| 2016 | Sully | IMDb | 2017-01-03 | β | Quite good, although it falsely vilifies the investigators. |
| 2016 | The Accountant | IMDb | 2017-04-14 | π | Entertaining. |
| 2016 | The Divergent Series: Allegiant | IMDb | 2017-08-12 | π€· | Entertaining, but naive, immature and lame. |
| 2016 | The Magnificent Seven | IMDb | 2017-08-10 | π | Naive, and bloody, but entertaining. |
| 2016 | The Nice Guys | IMDb | 2017-06-01 | π | Entertaining. |
| 2016 | War Dogs | IMDb | 2017-01-13 | β | Starts a bit boring, but after not too long it turns quite good. |
| 2017 | 6 Days | IMDb | 2018-05-20 | π | Quite good; epic; tragic. High Truffaut effect. |
| 2017 | American Made | IMDb | (?) | π | Well made, entertaining, and interesting, knowing that it is based on a true story. |
| 2017 | Atomic Blonde | IMDb | 2018-08-10 | π | Well made, entertaining ultra violence without serious annoyances. The end was bizarre. Could watch again. |
| 2017 | Blade Runner 2049 | IMDb | 2018-06-10 | β | Quite good, considering that its predecessor had such an impact on movie-making that it is hard to impress redoing what it did. Β I was glad that the music was vangelesque. Considerable Truffaut effect. |
| 2017 | Darkest Hour | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | (Winston Churchill) Dan Snow says the movie does take a few liberties. |
| 2017 | Dunkirk | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | |
| 2017 | John Wick Chapter 2 | IMDb | 2020-01-12 | π | Entertaining Ultra-violence. |
| 2017 | Shock and Awe | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | |
| 2017 | Star Wars: The Last Jedi | IMDb | 2019 | π | (Episode VIII) Entertaining. Not quite as good as the previous ones. |
| 2017 | The Beyond | IMDb | 2020-06-25 | π | Lame. Quit around the middle. Way too uninteresting and boring. |
| 2017 | The Circle | IMDb | 2017-07-25 | π€· | Interesting, but nothing to write home about. Β The scenario was weak and predictable. |
| 2017 | The Discovery | IMDb | 2017-07-22 | π | Interestingly macabre, while managing to stay serious, and not scary. Β A bit confusing, a bit uninteresting. Very moody. Not enough climax. |
| 2017 | The Ghost in the Shell | IMDb | 2017-07-15 | π | Quite spectacular. Insane amounts of ultra-violence. Plenty of lameness in the screenplay. Truffaut effect off the scale. |
| 2017 | Unlocked | IMDb | 2018-06-12 | π | Well made and entertaining, though the scenario was a bit over the top. |
| 2017 | Wonder Woman | IMDb | 2018-06-23 | π€· | Lame. Barely entertaining. |
| 2018 | Alpha | IMDb | 2019 | β | Interesting. A bit impossible at times, but overall, decent. Nice story for the kids. |
| 2018 | Clara | IMDb | 2020-01-11 | π€· | Just barely managing to keep me from pressing stop and watching something else. |
| 2018 | Das Boot (Mini-Series) | IMDb | 2023-12-29 | π€· | Watched an edited (butchered) very low-quality version on YouTube. It was uhm, kind of good, though I imagine that the unedited original might have been boring. The acting was decent, but the story was often hard to swallow, and the action was sometimes unnecessarily gruesome. |
| 2018 | First Man | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | |
| 2018 | Hunter Killer | IMDb | 2019 | π | Decent for an action movie. |
| 2018 | Mission Impossible : Fallout | IMDb | 2019 | π | Quite entertaining. Β Following the names was a bit complicated at some point. |
| 2018 | Ocean's 8 | IMDb | 2018-08-26 | π | Quite entertaining. Β This probably qualifies as a chick flick. |
| 2018 | Origin Unknown | IMDb | 2020-06-29 | π | Lame and Cheap. Quit during the grand finale because it was uninteresting. |
| 2018 | Prospect | IMDb | 2019 | π | Quite good, and very well done for its low budget. Extreme contrasts, claustrophobic, gruesome. Not for everyone. |
| 2018 | Solo: A Star Wars Story | IMDb | 2018-09-18 | π€· | Entertaining, but very difficult to accept someone who is not Harrison Ford playing the role of Han Solo. A mixture of good and crappy. |
| 2018 | The Equalizer 2 | IMDb | 2019 | π | Unrepresentative-for-the-genre slowness punctuated by grotesque violence and sentimental cheesiness. Ultra-high Truffaut effect. |
| 2019 | 6 Underground | IMDb | 2019-12-18 | π | Entertaining. Insane action. Ultraviolence. Silly. |
| 2019 | 1917 | IMDb | 2020-04-09 | β | Very well made. Good casting, good acting. Realistic. No grand finale. |
| 2019 | Ad Astra | IMDb | 2020-01-07 | β | Very good, but not for everyone. Slow and moody. Atmospheric but not exceptionally so. Takes you down a bit to lift you up a bit. |
| 2019 | Angel Has Fallen | IMDb | 2020-01-07 | π | Entertaining. Insane action, ultra violence. |
| 2019 | Apollo 11 | IMDb | 2020-06-28 | β | Very nice. |
| 2019 | Captive State | IMDb | 2020-06-28 | β | Quite a good movie. A bit cryptic in the end, but it makes sense. |
| 2019 | Chernobyl (TV Mini Series) | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | |
| 2019 | Climate Change: The Facts (BBC) | IMDb | 2020-01-04 | β | Certainly a must-watch. |
| 2019 | Gemini Man | IMDb | 2020-01-17 | π | Well, nice. The scenario was at times cheap, and often predictable, but still, more decent than your average mindless action movie. |
| 2019 | Harriet | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | |
| 2019 | High Life | IMDb | 2019 | π | Too cheap production, too much awfulness, difficult to make sense out of. |
| 2019 | Io | IMDb | 2020-01-18 | β | Very good. Slow, unlike the dishonest trailer. |
| 2019 | John Wick Chapter 3 Parabellum | IMDb | 2020-01-19 | π€· | Normally I'd say "entertaining", but that was over the top. Two hours straight of non-stop slaughter. |
| 2019 | Lucy in the Sky | IMDb | 2020-06-28 | π | Lame. Boring, Uninteresting. Quit at one third. |
| 2019 | Midway | IMDb | 2020-08-08 | π | Well done. Has at least one scarring scene. |
| 2019 | The Irishman | IMDb | 2020-04-11 | π€· | Well made, but not captivating enough. |
| 2019 | The Report | IMDb | 2020-01-25 | β | A.K.A. The Torture Report - A movie, but also a documentary. Well done. Good soundtrack, too. Requires patience and interest in the subject. |
| 2019 | The Wolf's Call | IMDb | 2020-06-22 | β | (Le chant du Loup) Very good. Almost excellent. |
| 2020 | Greyhound | IMDb | 2020-07-28 | β | Very good. |
| 2020 | Sonic The Hedgehog | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | |
| 2021 | Don't Look Up | IMDb | 2023-12-22 | β | Quite good. There are some impossibilities in the scenario, but it is okay, the allegory is obvious. It is perhaps the most predictable movie ever, but then again, this is meant to show that it is just as predictable in real life. |
| 2021 | Dune: Part One | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | |
| 2021 | Finch | IMDb | 2025-08-10 | π | Slightly anti-climactic, but overall quite decent. |
| 2021 | No Time to Die | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | |
| 2021 | West Side Story | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | |
| 2022 | All Quiet on the Western Front | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | |
| 2022 | Top Gun Maverick | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | |
| 2023 | Crater | IMDb | 2025-09-13 | π | Nice teenager movie. Watched it with my son. |
| 2023 | Indiana Jones and the dial of Destiny | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | |
| 2023 | John Wick: Chapter 4 | IMDb | (?) | π | Entertaining ultraviolence. |
| 2023 | Killers of the Flower Moon | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | |
| 2023 | Napoleon | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | Dan Snow says it is not historically accurate. |
| 2023 | Oppenheimer | IMDb | 2023-07-20 | π | Quite good, but the female characters are directed in a misogynistic way. The patriotic crowd scene was well done, but I think the movie needed more of that. |
| 2023 | Plane | IMDb | 2024-12-30 | π | Mediocre acting, ultra-violence, entertaining. |
| 2023 | The Creator | IMDb | 2026-07-25 | π | Very impressive visuals, some brilliant and some not-so-brilliant art, mediocre scenario and story-telling, some annoying unlikely or supernatural technology, no message to take home. The music in the truck escaping from the barn was Deep Purple - Child in Time, kudos for that. |
| 2024 | Dune: Part Two | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | |
| 2024 | Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | |
| 2024 | The Return | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | |
| 2025 | Avatar: Fire & Ash | IMDb | 2025-12-25 | π€· | Absolutely spectacular New Age mumbo jumbo mixed with ultraviolence, mixed with runaway sentiment. I do not understand who this movie is for: is it for the general population? Then the general population is schizophrenic. |
| 2026 | Nuremberg | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | |
| 2026 | The Odyssey | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | |
| 2026 | Project Hail Mary | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | |
| 2026? | Dune: Part Three | IMDb | Not yet. | π¦ | |
| TODO: Godfather movies | (?) | ||||
| TODO: James Bond movies | (?) | ||||
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| TODO: Western movies | (?) |