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October Movie Grades

Titles in red are available on Netflix Instant, blue are still in theaters, italics are re-watches.

A
Misery (1990)

A-
Halloween (1978)
John Wick (2014)
Gone Girl (2014)
The Judge (2014)
Snowpiercer (2014)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

B+
The Wave (2008)
In a World (2013)
Fright Night (1985)
Inhale (2010)

B
Eight Legged Freaks (2002)
Exam (2009)

B-
Joy Ride (2001)
Phantoms (1998)

C
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
Videodrome (1983)

D+
Ride Along (2014)

That's a nice set of movies. I really, really need to get to Phantoms. I heard Ben Affleck was the bomb.

My only major difference with your taste is probably the C for Texas Chainsaw Massacre. That movie is probably more like an A imo.

It was kinda funny seeing a baby faced Affleck playing a supposed former FBI agent turned small town sheriff.

Texas chainsaw was definitely interesting, the lead girls annoying nonstop screaming took me out of it a little, but the killers were definitely scary/freaky

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207 (+1,-3) 80 steps

I'm not trending the right way. Not worrying about it this weekend though, birthday weekend so I'm playing poker tonight and then dinner and maybes movie with the wife tomorrow night. Up $160 from cash, and playing in a tourney at midnight, it's been maybe 2 years since I've played poker in a casino, enjoying it so far.

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I don't get any credit for losing this week, caught a nasty stomach virus which lead to an unpleasant several days, but nice to see a negative number heading into thanksgiving week regardless.

in b4 the stomach virus diet is all the rage

Been around forever, it's called bulimia.

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No chance I'm weighing in the day after thanksgiving, went ahead and knocked it out this morning. Will probably more than makeup for the loss this weekend, my wife's family cooks a lot and does it well. Hope everyone has a great holiday! My personal goal is to enjoy the time off and keep work out of my brain for 95% of the weekend.

November Movie Grades:

A+
Double Indemnity (1944)

A
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Rope (1948)
Chinatown (1974)
Following (1998)
21 Jump Street (2012)

A-
The Lego Movie (2014)
RocknRolla (2008)
The Purge: Anarchy (2014)

B+
Pi (1998)
Sunshine (2007)
Monster House (2006)
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Murder by Death (1976)

B
22 Jump Street (2014)
Commando (1985)
Stretch (2014)
Neighbors (2014)
The Last Starfighter (1984)

B-
Europa Report (2013)

C+
Stonehearst Asylum (2014)
The Last Stand (2013)

C-
A Murder of Crows (1998)

D
The Legend of Hercules (2014)
Suspect Zero (2004)

F
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)

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Not bad after thanksgiving weekend and the 1st week of the month at work.

206 (+1,-4) 54k steps

Tis the season

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Ending the year at 207, -3 from when I started this thread, -4 from the beginning of the year, like everyone else I'm planning to get back on a healthier training starting next week.

December Movie Grades:

Titles in red are available on Netflix Instant, titles in italics are re-watches.

A+
Rear Window (1954)
The Big Sleep (1946)

A
Dial M for Murder (1954)
The Harder they Fall (1956)
In a Lonely Place (1950)
Frozen (2013)
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

A-
There will be Blood (2007)
Ghostbusters (1984)
The Roaring Twenties (1937)
Kid Galahad (1937)
Despicable Me (2010)
Christmas Vacation (1989)

B+
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)
The Abyss (1989)
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966)
The Big Clock (1948)
The Gauntlet (1977)
Sahara (1943)
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay part 1 (2014)

B
Black Legion (1937)
Suspicion (1941)
47 Ronin (2013)
San Quentin (1937)
Maleficent (2014)
Conflict (1945)
Airplane! (1980)

B-
Sin City: A Dame to Kill for (2014)

C+
Guns, Girls, and Gambling (2012)
Young Frankenstein (1974)

C
Lockout (2012)

D
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)

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I email my list to a bunch of friends and family and they were up in arms about Airplane! as well. I think nostalgia plays a huge part in that, last month was the first time I'd ever seen it. If you put a large group of people in a room to watch it for the first time I think you'd see substantially lower grades then those that remember it from the 80's and have watched over and over since.

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209 (+1,+2) 63k steps

Not going in the right direction so far this year. On a positive note I had a solid exercise week, just gotta get my eating back under control. I did make some progress the 2nd half of the week so I'm feeling ok at the moment.

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211 (+2,+4) 61k steps ... Ugh

Gotta get my stuff together and halt this backslide.

Titles in red are available on Netflix Instant, blue were scene in theater, italics are re-watches.

A+
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
The Imitation Game (2014)

A
Nebraska (2013)
The Hustler (1961)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Birdman (2014)
Notorious (1946)
Key Largo (1948)
American Sniper (2014)

A-
Saboteur (1942)
Ghost in the Shell (1995)
On the Job (2013)
Inherent Vice (2014)
Marked Woman (1937)
Passage to Marseille (1944)
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
The French Connection (1971)
Adventureland (2009)

B+
The Ref (1994)
The Interview (2014)
Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
Three Days of the Condor (1975)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Thief (1981)
Suddenly (1954)
Iron Monkey (1993)
Galaxy Quest (1999)

B
The Gambler (2014)
A Lonely Place to Die (2011)

B-
The Equalizer (2014)
Burn After Reading (2008)
Killing them Softly (2012)
The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)

C-
Doom (2011)
Faces in the Crowd (2011)

D
I, Frankenstein (2014)
The Bag Man (2014)
Falcon Rising (2014)

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Finally a negative.

We started watching a new show recently, Bates Motel, (it about Norman and Norma Bates life before Psycho, only set in modern day). We're catching up through Netflix, and it looks like season 3 will be on A&E starting March 9th, we're 7 episodes in and I highly recommend it to this point. It also peeked my curiosity to finally watch Psycho, which was fantastic.

We also finished our 3rd journey through The Wire, it's been hyped to death at this point, but it lives up every time, I absolutely love it.