Category: Action
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1989
1662nd movie, 189th from the 1980s, 462nd on Disney+ (also on Netflix and Paramount+) Comfort movie 10th viewing Part of our mini Indiana marathon to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the release of Temple of Doom.
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 1984
1660th movie, 188th from the 1980s, 461st on Disney+ (also on Netflix and on Paramount+) Comfort movie 10th viewing Watching it only a month after the last viewing to celebrate the 40th anniversary of it’s release.
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Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981
1659th movie, 187th from the 1980s, 460th on Disney+ (also on Netflix and Paramount+) Comfort movie 10th viewing Watching it only a month after the last viewing due to the 40th anniversary of Temple of Doom!
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Léon: The Professional 1994
1657th movie, 266th from the 1990s, 543rd on Netflix Bi-annual movie, 3rd viewing. I will need to unpack this one on my main blog. I understand Natalie Portman’s looking back on the movie and seeing it the way she does. But there are also other angles depending on how you see the world.
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The Spy Who Loved Me 1977
214th personal movie, 18th from the 1970s, 117th on iTunes Yes, I even watch James Bond movies in my spare time! This is the first film with Jaws, who was a big thing when I was a kid, but I do find it rather silly as an adult. But Roger Moore Bond was always rather…
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The Mask of Zorro 1998
1656th movie, 265th from the 1990s, 542nd on Netflix Part of the Film Sack collection. This Zorro prequel wasn’t the best of the Antonio Banderas Zorro’s but it was still a lot of fun!
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Twister 1996
1655th movie, 264th from the 1990s, 150th on iTunes Part of the Halloween, Disaster and Film Sack collections. Comfort movie 11th viewing Playing it only 1.5 months after last viewing, partly to make up for the atrocity that was Black Adam, partly because there’s a tornado advisory in effect.
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Die Hard II 1990
1654th movie, 263rd from the 1990s, 459th on Disney+ Part of the Xmas collection, comfort movie 9th viewing. Seriously though, I am curious how explosive a fully fueled plane would go up!
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Black Adam 2022
1653rd movie, 250th from the 2020s, 541st on Netflix Part of the Marvel/DC collection 71st EWOKed movie (4.3%), 7th for May 2024, 23rd for 2024 , 19th on Netflix (3.51%) 3rd Epic EWOK… yes it’s that bad. Wakanda wannabes Poor man’s Black Panther, meets X-Men meets Scorpion King. And none of the good bits of…
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John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum 2019
1650th movie, 384th from the 2010s, 148th on iTunes Comfort movie, 8 viewing It’s the most video game like of the 4 movies. It really set the tone that John was a user controlled character in a land of mostly NPCs.