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Movies - 1,654 of 'em!

Like most everybody else I love movies and had probably seen nearly a thousand* of 'em by the time I decided to create this page in my late 40s (circa 2000, but I was only able to recall about half at that time...). So, although the page will never be able to reflect my entire movie going experience it should provide a glimpse of what I enjoy and what I don't - maybe helping you decide if your tastes are similar to mine?

1,000 Movies probably sounds like a lot but just think of all the flicks you've seen at school, on airplanes, or just on trips to the local theatre or even on Friday night television - not to mention all of the sequels, remakes, digitized and "colorized" versions that have come out. Also, if you're like me, you may have attended a few film festivals over the years. In my case, I was a regular attendant at the Banff Mountain Film Festival in Denver, Radical Reels, and the Backcountry Film Festival over the years - each featuring countless short feature films that were simply too numerous for me to have recorded here. Anyway, for this page I was able, pretty quickly, to recall almost a third of the movies that I've seen so far...

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Selection Bias:

"...the bias introduced by the selection of individuals, groups or data for analysis in such a way that proper randomization is not achieved, thereby ensuring that the sample obtained is not representative of the population intended to be analyzed." In other words, although I occasionally do it, I find it really difficult to watch any form of entertainment or genre whose topic, title, or reputation doesn't interest me. For example, I never watch sports. As such, you're going to find that this page will have almost no reviews for anything related to "the game" - I don't like sports and, therefore, almost never watch anything related to it. The same applies for some other genres, too - if it doesn't interest me I don't seek it out. So, that's why my "No! Roger Retches" section has fewer reviews - I try to seek out movies that are of interest to me. Life is too short to do otherwise!

Woke Movies:

Most of us have grown tired of paying good money to see a movie only to discover it's nothing more than a political platform. The desire for producers, filmmakers, actors, and many others in the industry to "change the world" has become so strong that it's diminishing the quality of their work and making their offerings offensive. Here's what television host Greg Gutfeld had to say about Disney, after they recorded the "worst box office opening weekend" for their latest Marvel movie in November, 2023:   "They keep trying to get us to see movies with a message, but are they getting our message? Have they finally realized that most of us would rather be dry shaved with a cheese grater than spend 25 bucks being scolded by a virtue signaling cartoon?   "Reviews for the flick have been brutal. Apparently, the problems include the script, the acting, the casting, the plot. Aside from that, it's a masterpiece."   "Audiences want a good movie, not phony virtue signaling from a bunch of elitist PC ***wipes trying to appeal to a select group of outraged activists."

Roger rates 'em:

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1 MILLION watts—really? FM Supertower Part 2! (2022) - great explanations! 12 Angry Men (1957) - a classic! 12 Causes of the Russo-Ukrainian War, The (2022) [William Spaniel, YouTube] 12th Man, The (2017) - historical 12 Years a Slave (2013) 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016) 14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible (2021) - amazing! 17 Miracles (2011) 127 Hours (2010) - Gruesome! 1917 (2019) 1922 (2017) 1945: The Savage Peace (2015) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - I saw it when it first came out while I was in Junior High and was in complete awe! 2001: A Space Odyssey Facts That Are Out Of This World (2022) [Looper, YouTube] 2016: Obama's America (2012) 3 Perplexing Physics Problems (2019) [Veritasium, YouTube] 33, The (2015) 308 vs 7.62 NATO: Huge Difference On Steel (2022) [Banana Ballistics, YouTube] $4BN Upgrade of the World’s Weirdest Airport (2022) [The B1M, YouTube] 50 First dates (2004) 5,000 Fingers of Dr. Terwilliker, The (1953) - I watched it in 1962 and 2014 50/50 (2011) Abandoned (2015) About Time (2013) Above and Beyond (2014) Act of Valor (2012) - Excellent! Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The (1939) Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994) Affluenza (1997) - the Epidemic of Overconsumption Age of Stupid, The (2009) Airplane (1970) Airport (1980) Alamo, The (2004) - A good look at Texas history Alexander Revisited (2004) Alive: The Miracle of the Andes (1993) Alien (1979) - The first one was best! Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007) - better than I thought it would be! All Different Types Of Radiations Explained! (2022) [Scientifical, YouTube] All Quiet on the Western Front (1979) All Quiet on the Western Front, Im Westen nichts Neues (2022) - horrifyingly real! Almost Famous (2000) - cute! Alone Across Australia (2003) - Filmed by Jon Muir himself! Alpha (2018) Alpinist, The (2021) - climber Marc-André Leclerc made some of the boldest solo ascents in history! Altered States (1980) American, The (2010) American Animals (2018) American Beauty (1999) American Experience: Earth Days (2009) American Experience: Tesla (2016) American Graffiti (1973) American Honey (2016) American Murder: The Family Next Door (2020) American Sniper (2014) Americans Have No Idea How Much Fuel Idling Uses 92018) - Excellent explanation! [Engineering Explained, YouTube] Amistad (1997) Anatomy of a Headshot (2021) [Dark Science, YouTube] Andromeda Strain, The (1971) Animal House (1978) Anna and the King (1999) Annie Hall (1977) Anthropoid (2016) Apocolypse Now (1979) - My favorite! Apocalypse Now Redux (2001) - extended version with 49 minutes of material that had been removed from the original film. Apocalypto (2006) - brutal but excellent! Apollo 11 (2019) - fantastic archival footage! Apollo 13 (1995) Arctic (2018) Argo (2012) Armadillo (2010) Armstrong (2019) - Excellent! Around Cape Horn (1929) - Captain Irving Johnson Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) Arrival, The (1996) Artificial Intelligence: A.I (2001) Astronaut Farmer, The (2006) Atlas Shrugged: Part 1 (2011) Atlas Shrugged: Part 11 (2012) Attack the Block (2011) - not great but different! Attribute of Light Science Still Can't Explain, The (2023) [Astrum, YouTube] Australia (2008) Avatar (2009) - Beautiful! Aviator, The (2004) Azorian: The Raising of the K-129 (2010) - an amazing undertaking!! Babel (2006) Backcountry (2014) - gruesome! Backcountry Film Festival - always a great experience! Back to the Future (1985) Back to the Future II (1989) - fun picture that mentions my birthday! Bad Times at the El Royale (2018) Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) - I loved it! Banff Mountain Film Festival - I have seen many dozens of films at their Denver Paramount Theater CMC event Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 (2000) - yes, I enjoyed it! Battle of the Bulge (1965) Bayandalai: Lord of the Taiga (2018) - Dikhas tribe elder on life and death Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) Beatles Explosion, The (2007) - historical footage Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, A (2019) - touching! Beautiful Mind, A (2001) Becoming Human Part 2: Homo Sapiens: The Birth of Humanity [NOVA Documentary] (2011) Beetle Juice (1988) Being Hear (2016) Ben-Hur (1959) Bernie (2011) Best in Show (2000) Beyond Higgs: The Wild Frontier of Particle Physics (2019) [World Science Festival, YouTube][ Beyond the Atom: INCREDIBLE Plunge into the Heart of Matter towards the Infinitely Small Documentary (2023) [Wondody | The World of Odysseys, YouTube] Beyond the Edge 2013 Big Chill, The (1983) Big Interview with Dan Rather, The: Geddy Lee of Rush (2017) Biking Borders (2021) Bill Nye: Science Guy (2017) Billy Jack (1971) Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) Birds, The (1963) Biutiful (2010) Black Book (2006) Blade Runner (1982) Blair Witch Project, The (1999) Black Sea (2014) Blazzing Saddles (1974) - I was 17 and it seemed very funny at the time! Bliss (2007) Blues Brothers (1980) Blue Valentine (2010) Bodyguard, The (1992( Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) Bombardment, The (2022) - Sad... Bonnie and Clyde (1967) Book of Eli, The (2010) Born on the Fourth of July (1989) Bowling for Columbine (2002) - Sad, funny and poignant... Boy and His Dog, A (1975) Boyhood (2014) Boys in the Boat, The (2023) Boys From Brazil, The (1978) Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, The (2019) Brain on Fire (2016) Braveheart (1995) Breakdown (1997) Breaking Away (1979) Breaking The Codes (2009) Breathe - Based on a true story... (2018) Brian Cox: "The Universe Existed Before Big Bang" (2023) [Space Wind, YouTube] Brian Greene - What Was There Before The Big Bang? (2021) [Science Time, YouTube] Bridge of Spies (2015) Bridge over the River Kwai, The (1957) Bright (2017) Brimstone (2016) Broad Peak - (2022) The BRUTAL Execution Of The Woman That Shot Lenin 2023 TheFortress BRUTAL Execution Of Mussolini's 77 Year Old General, The (2022) [TheUntoldPast, YouTube] BRUTAL Execution Of The Woman That Shot Lenin, (2023) [TheFortress, YouTube] Buddy Holly Story, The (1978) - interesting, but poor acting. Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976) Bug's Life, A (1998) Bullets HITTING Bullets in Slow Motion - THE IMPOSSIBLE SHOT (2023) [Smarter Every Day, YouTube] Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) Butterflies Are Free (1972) Cabrini (2024) Caddyshack (1980) Caddyshack - The Making of (1999) Camel Finds Water (2019) - rebuilding an abandoned fishing boat in Canada Canary Islands Vacation Travel Guide (2020) [Expedia, YouTube] Captain Fantastic (2016) - I loved the funeral pyre scene and song! Capitalism: A Love Story (2009) Casablanca (1942) - old but interesting Cat Ballou (1965) Camp Leatherneck - National Geographic (2010) Casino (1995) - Excellent! Capote (2005) - an interesting look at In Cold Blood Captain Phillips (2013) - it appeared to be an accurate portrayal of events Captive, The (2014) Catch 22 (1970) - the book was also fantastic! Catch Me if You Can (2002) Chariots of Fire (1981) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) - Depp was great! Chasing Ice (2012) Che: Part One (2008) Che: Part Two (2008) - Seemed less historical than part one... Chappaquiddick (2016) Chappaquiddick (2019) - Chatter Creek, BC skiing Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) Charlie Brown Christmas, A (1965) Chicken Run (2000) China's Competition for Living Space (2021) - a DW documentary Christmas Story, A (1983) Circle of the Sun (2019?) - in the Arctic on Skis City of Joy (1992) Civil War, The (1990) Cleopatra (1963) Clerks (1994) - weird and lude but very intertaining! Clerks II (2006) - starts out slow but is still weird, lude and intertaining! Click (2006) Climbing The World's Tallest Radio Tower (2013) [Fiction Park, YouTube] Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) Closer look at Padmount Transformers, A (2022) [Bobsdecline - Lineman blogger, YouTube] Cloud Atlas (2012) - complex Clouds (2020) CODA (2021) - however, a little too explicit at times... Colorado Mountain Club In-State-Outing to the Grenadiers (1941) - by Carl Blaurock Colorado Mountain Club Winter Outing to Aschcroft (1963) - by Carl Blaurock Colorado Springs to Denver in 20 Minutes (2023) [Gixxer brah, YouTube] Concrete Cowboy (2020) Conspirator, The (2010) - a bit slow but good history Contact (1997) - A fantastic film with the exception of a very unnecessary sex scene... Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes - all four episodes (2019) Conversation with Dave & Jason, A - Episdoe 1 (2018) Conversation with Dave & Jason, A - Episdoe 2 (2018) Conviction (2010) Cool Hand Luke (1967) Cosmic Scale, The (2021) - well done! [SEA, YouTube] Cosmos (2019) - although a little slow at times... Cosmos: A Personal Voyage - TV series (1980) Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey - TV series (2014) Countdown to Zerø (2010) - scary stuff! Courier, The (2020) Cove, The (2009) Cowboys, The (1972) - excellent! Craigslist Joe (2012) Crash (2004) - pushing the boundries of diversity... Crazy Amount of Power Needed to Move World Largest Container Ships, The [sic] (2023) [Fluctus, YouTube] Crazy Mass-Giving Mechanism of the Higgs Field Simplified, The (2023) [Arvin Ash, YouTube] Crazy Sexy Cancer (2007) Crimson Tide (1995) Crip Camp - A Disability Revolution (2020) Cry in the Dark (1988) middle is a bit long and slow... Current War, The (2017) Dallas Buyers Club (2013) DamNation (2014) Dances with Wolves (1990) Dancing with the Birds (2019) Darkest Hour (2017) - excellent! Dark Waters (2019) Das Boot (1981) Das Boot Documentary (4/6) : Behind the Scenes (2023) [Tactical Wars, YouTube] Das Boot Documentary (6/6) : Back to the Boat (2023) [Tactical Wars, YouTube] Dave (1993) David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet (2020) Dawn of Humanity (2015) - NOVA Dawn Wall, The (2017) Day Without a Mexican, A (2004) - Humerous and informative Dead Man Walking (1995) Dead Poets Society (1989) - Excellent! Deadpool (2016) Death From Space - Gamma-Ray Bursts Explained (2016) [Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell, YouTube] Death Sentence (2007) Death to 2021 (2021) Deer Hunter, The (1978) Defiance (2008) Deliverance (1972) - Excellent in its day! Departed, The (2006) - Complex and bloody Diani & Devine Meet the Apocalypse - cute! Die Hard (1988) Dirtbag: The Legend of Fred Beckey (2017) Dirt, The (2019) - Interesting history about the party clowns in Mötley Crüe Dirty Dozen (1967) - a classic! Dirty Harry (1971) Dish, The (2000) District 9 (2009) - Hokey but different! Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The - Scaphandre et le papillon, Le (2007) Django Unchained (2012) Doctor Dolittle (1967) Dolittle (2020) Don Juan DeMarco (1994) Downfall (2004) - Der Untergang - Excellent bit of Hitler history... DOWN TO EARTH | The Earthing Movie 15 min Short Film (2020) - I've always loved going Barefoot! Dreamkeeper (2003) - I was fascinated with the Coyotoe and Spider scene! Drillbit Taylor (2008) - cute! Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) Dune (1984) - the book was better... Dunkirk (2017) Earthlings (2005) Earth Over The Next Billion Years (2023) [Cool Worlds, YouTube] Easy Rider (1969) - an absolute clasic! eBay is FULL of Cheap Hard Drives! What's the Catch? (2022) [Linus Tech Tips, YouTube] Echo in the Canyon (2018) Edge of the Universe (2008) [Netflix] Edge of Tomorrow (2014) Edward Abbey: A Voice in the Wilderness (1983) Edward a href="abbey.html">Abbey - Discours à Glen Canyon (21 mars 1981) (2020) [Le Partage, YouTube] Eiger Sanction (1975) El Camino Christmas (2017)- good despite poor acting Electromagnetic Spectrum, The (2010) [BestOfScience, YouTube] Elephant Man (1980) Elf (2003) Elon Musk: The Real Life Iron Man (2018) Elvis (2022) Elvis and Nixon (2016) Empire of the Sun (1987) End Game (2018) Endless Summer, The (1966) End of a Superpower - The collapse of the Soviet Union, The (2022) - [DW Documentary, YouTube] Endurance, The Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expediton (2000) Enduring Love (2004) Enemy Below (1957) - well done despite it's age Erin Brockovich (2000) E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Escape From Alcatraz (1979) Europa (1991) - a bit strange though... Europa Report (2013) Europe | First Peoples - PBS NOVA (2015) Everest (2015) - Excellent! Everything About Grain Bins (Farmers are Geniuses) (2019) [SmarterEveryDay, YouTube] Evolve: Eyes, Sex, Size, Skin, Flight, Communication, Guts, Venom, Speed, Jaws, Shape History (2008) Ex Machina (2012) Exorcist, The (1973) - Shocking in it's day! Expedition Happiness (2017) - a little too much "Rudi" but otherwise a fun trip! Exploring a 1 MILLION Watt FM Tower (2022) [Geerling Engineering, YouTube] Extreme Solution US Navy Found to Deal With Enemy Drones, The (2022) [Fluctus, YouTube] Fahrenheit 451 (2018) Fahrenheit 911 (2004) - My mom saw this on opening day, 06/25/04, and she loved it too! Fail-Safe (1964) Falcon and the Snowman, The (1985) Falling Down (1993) Family Man, The (2000) Fantastic Voyage - I was very young at the time! (1966) Far From the Madding Crowd (2015) Fargo (1999) Farthest: Voyager in Space, The (2017) Fast Runner (2001) - Good look at life up north Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead (2010) - surprisingly moving! Fearless (1993) Fences (2016) Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles (2019) Fiddler on the Roof (1971) Field of Dreams (1989) Fifth Element, The (1997) Fight Club (1999) - Bizzare but good! Fire on the Track: The Steve Prefontaine Story (1995) First American, The (2016) - Excellent! FIRST LOOK! Icom IC-905 SHF Radio at Hamcation 2023 (2023) [Ham Radio 2.0, YouTube] First to the Moon (2018) Fisher King, The (1991) Fisherman's Friend (2019) Fission and Fusion (2015) [Teacher's Pet, YouTube] Fistful of Dollars, A (1964) - Per un pugno di dollari Flags of our Fathers (2006) - excellent! Flesh Eaters, The (1964) - Saw it at the Q-Twin drive-in with Franny our sitter! Flight (2012) - fantastic upside down flying! Flight of the Phoenix, The (1965) Fly, The (1958) Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (2003) Food, Inc. (2008) Forbidden Planet 1956 - Krell steel! Ford vs Ferrari 2019 Forgotten Battle, The 2020 Forks Over Knives (2011) For the Love of Spock (2016) Founder, The (2016) Four Sheets to the Wind (2007) Fracture (2007) Frankenstein (1931) Friday the 13th (1980) Free Solo (2018) - Alex Honnold on El Capitan - an extraordinary achievement! Free State of Jones (2016) French Connection, The (1971) Frosty Affair, A (20015) - poorly done but goofy and fun! Full Metal Jacket (1987) Full Monty, The (1997) Fundamentals of Caring, The (2016) Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, A (1966) Future Computers Will Be Radically Different (2012) [Veritasium, YouTube] Gabriel and the Mountain (2017 Galaxy Quest (1999) Gallipoli (1981) Gandhi (1982) Garbage Warrior (2007) Gasland (2010) Get the Gringo (2012) Genius of Einstein: The Science, His Brain, the Man, The (2015) - The World Science Festival, in partnership with the 92Y’s 7 Days of Genius Festival George Harrison: Living in the Material World (2011) Gerald's Game (2017) Get on Up (2014) Gettysburg (1993) - Excellent! Ghost (1990) Ghost Busters (1984) Ghosts of Stonehenge (2017) Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (2009) - started out a bit slow... Girl With the Dragon Tatoo, The (2009) Gladiator (2000) Glengarry GlenRoss (1992) Glory (1989) Godfather (1972) Golden Compass, The (2007) Goldmember, Austin Powers in (2002) Gone With the Wind (1939) Gone Tomorrow: Ice Climbing in Kentucky (2019) GoodFellas (1990) - A gory look at the mob Good Morning, Vietnam (1987) Good Ol' Freda (2013) - Freda Kelly as her time as a secretary for The Beatles. Good People (2014) Good Shepherd, the (2006) Good, the Bad, the Ugly (1966) - a classic! Good Will Hunting (1997) - Click Here for Will's NSA Speech... Graduate, The (1967) Grand Budapest Hotel, The (2014) Grant (2020) - documentary mini-series Grapes of Wrath, The (1940) Gravity (2013) - Excellent! Great Escape, The (1963) Greatest Guitar Solo EVER | Pink Floyd, The (2022) - David Gilmour's solo in the Pink Floyd song, Comfortably Numb [Shred, YouTube] Green Book (2018) - well done! Green Mile, The (1999) Grey, The (2012) Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee 2016) - eating feces?? Grizzly Man (2005) - an interesting look at a very disturbed "naturalist" Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) Groundhog Day (1993) Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) Guns of Navarone, The (1961) Hanna (2011) Hang 'em High (1968) Hard Candy (2005) - Disturbing and uncomfortable to watch but worth it! Harold and Maude (1971) Hateful Eight, The (2015) - Bloody wild! Heaven Can Wait (1978) Hellboy (2004) Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) Hell or Highwater (2016) - Excellent! Help! (1965) Help, The (2011) Hereafter (2010) Hidalgo (2004) Hidden Figures (2016) Hidden Reason Ukraine Is Optimistic about Crimea, The (2022) [William Spaniel, YouTube] Hiding Place, The (1975) High Plains Drifter (1973) Highwaymen, The (2019) Hired Gun (2016) - exposing Billy Joel the clown prince! Hitchcock (2012) HMP: Wakefield (Monster Mansion) - Evil Behind Bars (2022) [BuckleZ, YouTube] Hobbit, The: An Unexpected Journey (2012) Hold the Dark (2018) - Bloody! Hole in the Head, A (1959) Holiday, The (2006) Home2Home (2022) Hornet's Nest, The (2014) Horsemen (2009) - Bloody! Hors Piste (2019) - humerous skiing animation Hot Rock, The (1972) - Afghanistan banana stand! Houdini (1953) How a Crystal Radio Works (2012) [RimstarOrg, YouTube] How a dragonfly's brain is designed to kill (2018) [TED, YouTube] How an Antenna Works and more (2022) [VirtualBrain, YouTube] How Corporate Consolidation is Killing Ski Towns (2023) [Wendover Productions, YouTube] How did life begin? Abiogenesis. Origin of life from nonliving matter. (2019) [Arvin Ash, YouTube] How Did the First Atom Form? Where did it come from? | Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (2021) [Arvin Ash, YouTube] How Do Antennas Work? (2017) - RCModelReviews How do Electron Microscopes Work? Taking Pictures of Atoms (2013) [Branch Electronis, YouTube] How Does A Carburetor Work? | Transparent Carburetor at 28,546 fps Slow Mo (2021) - [Smarter Every Day, YouTube] How Does A Sailboat Actually Work? (2012) [Veritasium, YouTube] How Does a Toyota Engine with 300,000 Miles Look Like On The Inside? (2023) [The Car Care Nut, YouTube] How does Cerenkov radiation work? (2018) [Fermilab, YouTube] How Does Childhood Differ Between Traditional Societies and Modern Societies? (2011) - National Academy of Sciences and Jared Diamond How does Starlink Satellite Internet Work? (2022) [Branch Education, YouTube] How Electricity Actually Works (2022) - Wow!! [Veritasium, YouTube] How Far Are The Nearest Stars? (2017) [Cody'sLab, YouTube] How Imaginary Numbers Were Invented (2021) [Veritasium, YouTube] How James Webb Broke Cosmology In Just 2 Months (2022) [The Secrets of the Universe, YouTube] How James Webb Showed The Universe Could Be Twice The Known Age (2023) [The Secrets of the Universe, YouTube] How NASA Filmed Apollo, the Shuttle and Other Launches (2018) [Curious Droid, YouTube] How Long Would It Take Us To Go To Jupiter? (2022) [Insane Curiosity, YouTube] How Long Would It Take Us To Go To Proxima Centauri? (2022) [Insane Curiosity, YouTube] How Rockets Are Made (Rocket Factory Tour - United Launch Alliance) (2020) - Fantastic!! [Smarter Every Day, YouTube] How Tall Can A Mountain Become on Earth? (2021) - YouTube How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966) - loved it! How the Moscow Attack Reveals Deeper Russian Weakness (2022) [William Spaniel, Youtube] How the West Can Exploit Russia's "Dutch Disease" and End the War in Ukraine (2022) [William Spaniel, YouTube] How the West Was Won (1962) How To Make A Radio Transmitter With Only 2 Components - Great Idea You Haven't Seen Before (2021) [ZAFER YILDIZ, YouTube] How to ProPress Copper Fittings (the Good and the Bad) (2019) [Roger Wakefield, YouTube] How to recover data from a dead hard drive (for beginners) (2015) [Engineer Knows Best!, YouTube] How To Setup The Buddistick Pro and Tune it up! Available NOW! (2021) [Ham Radio Crash Course, YouTube] How to Surface a Submarine in the Arctic Ocean (2021) - [Smarter Every Day, YouTube] How US Navy Drops MASSIVE aircraft carrier anchor (2022) [Fluctus, YouTube] Huawei RRU3908 1800MHz Base Station Teardown (Part 1 of 2) (2018) [Kaizer Power Electronics, YouTube] Huawei RRU3928 1800MHz Base Station Teardown (Part 1 of 2) (2018) [Kaizer Power Electronics, YouTube] Hud (1963) Hunt For Red October, The (1990) Hurt Locker, The (2008) Hustler, The (1961) I am Sam (2001) Ice Age (2002) I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore. (2017) If A Tree Falls - A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (2011) If I Had Wings (2013) If I Leave Here Tomorrow: A Film About Lynyrd Skynyrd (2018) If I touch this tower, I die (2023) [Geerling Engineering, YouTube] If You Don't Understand Quantum Physics, Try This! (2019) [Domain of Science, YouTube] I Like Killing Flies (2004) "I Loved it… I Loved it All" (1985) by Ned Judge Imitation Game, The (2014) Inception (2010) Inconvenient Truth, An (2006) - It's time to take action! Independence Day (1996) India in Motion (2008) 63 Interactive Theatre, Agra, India Infinity Chamber (2016) In His Image: Delighting in God's Plan for Gender and Sexuality (2021) [In His Image Movie, YouTube] In the Name of the Father (1993) In Bruges (2008) Inside Einstein's Mind: The Enigma of Space and Time (2015) Inside Japan's Big Physics | Part one: Super Kamiokande (2020 ) [nature video, YouTube] Into the Canyon (2018) - 1,200 km journey on foot In Time (2011) - some plot holes though... Into the White (2012) - The British characters were surprisingly obnoxious... Into the Wild (2007) - not enough wilderness scenes though... Invictus (2009) I Origins (2014) I proved 1,300,000 Earths WON'T fit in the Sun. (2021) [The Science Asylum, YouTube] Iron Lady, The (2011) Iron Sky (2012) - a comedic science fiction with cultural references - very bizzare yet entertaining! Is Having A Start-Stop System Worth It? (2023) - Inefficient to idle beyond 7 seconds... [Engineering Explained, Facebook] Is the BuddiStick Pro Really That Good?? (2022) [Ham Radio Tube, YouTube] IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE EXPENSIVE!!! Anyone with an electronics hobby can build this tool. (2023) [ZAFER YILDIZ, YouTube] It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963) IT'S COMING. April 8, 2024 Total Solar Eclipse: Here's what you need to know -Smarter Every Day 295 (2024) [Smarter Every Day, YouTube] Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit James Clerk Maxwell - A Sense of Wonder (2015) - Fascinating man! [Short Form Docs, YouTube] Jasper, Texas (2003) Jaws (1975) J. Edgar (2011) Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich (2020) - all four episodes Jeremiah Johnson (1972) - a wonderful classic! Jersey Boys (2014) Jesus Camp (2006) - scary but interesting! Jack Reacher (2012) Jim Gaffigan: Comedy Monster (2021) Jim Gaffigan: Noble Ape (2018) Jobs (2013) - however, they left too much out... John Adams (2008) John & Yoko: Above Us Only Sky (2018) Jojo Rabbit (2019) Joker (2019) - dark! Journey to the Andromeda Galaxy (2022) - This was really, really good! [SEA, YouTube] Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959) Journey to the Earth's Interior, A (2021) [Kosmo, YouTube] Journey to Tahiti and French Polynesia (2018) [Fischer Films, YouTube] Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017) Jumper (2008) - poor acting but interesting concept! Judge, The (2014) Jungle (2017) Jurassic Park (1993) Jurassic Park, The Lost World: (1999) K*19 The Widow Maker (2002) - Reliving the Cold War era... K2: The Ultimate High (1992) - A great climbing movie! K-PAX (2001) - "Every being in the universe knows right from wrong" Kanji Ishiwara: The Man Who Triggered the War Karl Meltzer: Made to Be Broken (2017) Karate Kid (1984) Kick Ass (2010) - the 11 year old girl has my vote! Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) Killing Season (2013) Kill or Be Killed (2015) Kingdom of the Sky (2018) - 3 parts; Rockies, Himalayas, Andes Kelly's Heroes (1970) Kingdom of Heaven (2005) - Excellent!

Kelly's Heroes (1970) Kingdom of Heaven (2005) - Excellent! King's Speech, The (2010) Knowing (2009) - could have been better though... Kon-Tiki (1950) Kundun (1997) - Tibet La Bamba (1987) Ladakh Project, The (2019) - Nouria Newman's solo kayak adventure La La Land (2016) Land of Mine (2015) Largest Aircraft Carrier in The World, The (2014) Last Call for Titan (2017) - a little too speculative at the end though... Last Detail, The (1973) Last Duel, The (2021) Last of His Tribe, The (1992) - sad... Last Man on the Moon, The (2014) - some good history! Last Samurai (2003) Last Temptation of Christ, The (1988) - Although a bit long it's an interesting twist on an old story... Lawrence of Arabia (1962) Layer Cake (2004) Left STRANDED On Uninhabited Pacific Island In 1704 (2023) [Scary Interesting, YouTube] Legends of the Fall (1994) Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) Life, Above All (2010) Life as a House (2001) Life in Color with David Attenborough (2021) Life Itself (2018) - complex, poignant, well done! Life of Brian (1979) Life of David Gale, The (2003) Lincoln (2012) - Excellent! Lincoln Lawyer, The (2011) Line Across the Sky, A (2015) - great climb! Lion (2016) Lion in the House, A (2006) Little Big Man (1970) Little Buddha (1993) Lives of Others, The - Das Leben der Anderen (2007) Logan (2017) - one tough little girl! Logan's Run (1976) Lonesome Dove (1989) Lone Survivor (2013 - Intense/Excellent! Lonely Are the Brave (1962) Long Game, The (2023) Look Who's Back (2015) Lorax, The (2012) Lord of the Flies (1963) Lord of the Flies (1990) Lord of War (2005) Lost Battalion, The (2001) Lost City of Z, The (2016) Love Bug (1968) - Okay, I was very young back then! Madame Curie (1943) Mad Max (1979) Mad Max 2 (1981) Magdalene Sisters, The (2002) Magic of Belle Isle, The (2012) Magnificent Seven, The (1960) Magnificent Seven, The (2016) Magnolia (1999) - a bit strange... Making Apocalypse Now (2021) - 9 Episodes, fantastic! Making of Full Metal Jacket, The (2014) Malcolm X (1992) - slow start but good history Malpelo Island DXpedition - HKØNA (2012) MacArthur (1977) Man Called Horse, A (1970) Man Called Ove, A (2015) Manhunt: Unabomer (2017) Marathon Man (1976) - pulling teeth! March of the Penguins (2005) - Marche de l'empereur Mariana Trench - David Attenborough's Documentary on the Deepest Sea Floor (2021) [Living Attractions, YouTube] Mars Generation, The (2017) Mars in 4k: Thetta ultimate Edition (2023) - incredible images! [ElderFox Documentaries, YouTube] M*A*S*H (1970) - yet another classic! Mask, The (1994) - flawed but entertaining! Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) - Superb! Matrix, The (1999) - Well done Martian, The (2015) Max Planck Biography with Depth and Humor (2020) [Kathy Loves Physics & History, YouTube] McLibel (2005) - Big business takes on free speech Meanest Man in Texas, The (2017) Meaning of Life, The (1983) Mechanic, The (1972) Medicine Man (1992) Memento (2000) Meru (2015) - climb on! Michael (1996) Michael Clayton (2007) Michael Faraday: The Father of Electricity (2020) - Interesting! Midnight Cowboy (1969) Midnight Express (1978) Midway (1976) - Excellent bit of history! Milk (2008) [we lived near there in '78...] Million Dollar Baby (2004) Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things (2015) Miracle Worker, The (1962) Mission of Honnor (2018) Mission to Mars (2017) Molly's Game (1975) Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) Monumental David Brower's Fight for Wild America (2004) Monster (2003) - about serial killer Aileen Wuornos Moon 2009 Moonrise Kingdom (2012) Mosquito Coast (1986) Most Hated Woman in America, The (2017) Most Unknown, The (2018) Motorcycle Diaries (2004) - Diarios de motocicleta - (A look at the murderer's earlier life) Mountain Life, The (2019) Mr. Deeds (2002) Murder Ball (2005) - Gives you a lot to think about! My Family - Mi Familia (1995) My Next Guest with David Letterman and Volodymyr Zelenskyy (2022) My Policeman (2022) My Side of the Mountain (1969) - not as good as the book though... My Scientology Movie (2015) mysterious isochronous curve, The (2018) [CuriosityShow, YouTube] Mystery of Chaco Canyon, The (199) Mystery Of The 9,000 Year Old Hunting Tools Frozen In The Yukon, The (2021) YouTube Odyssey, Ancient History Documentaries Mystery of the Russian Woodpecker, The (2019) [Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World, YouTube] Mystery Road (2013) - the final shootout was well done and very realistic! Mystic Pizza (1988) Naked Prey, The (1965) Nanook of the North (1922) - a bit staged but very interesting/historical Narvik: Hitler's First Defeat (2022) NASA Scientists' Stunning Discoveries on Planet Mercury | MESSENGER Images Part 1 (2022) [Astrom, YouTube] National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989) Natural Born Killers (1994) - I just liked it! Never Cry Wolf (1983) Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary (2019) News of the World (2020) New Territory - Carlos Mencia (2011) Newton’s three-body problem explained - Fabio Pacucci (2020) [Math of the impossible, YouTube] Next Three Days, The - Very Suspenseful (2010) Nicky's Family (2011) Nikola Tesla - The Genius Who Lit the World (2017) Noah (2014) - a little strange at times... Nobody Knows What TIME Really Is. But it might be this... (2021) [Arvin Ash, YouTube] No Country for Old Men 2007) - Gory but darn interesting! No Impact Man (2009) Nomadland (2020) Non-Stop (2014) Norma Rae (1979) North Face (2008) [Nordwand original title] November Man (2014) Nowhere Boy (2009) Nyad (2023) - a little too long in some parts though... Oasis (2017) Occupy Unmasked (2012) Office Space (1999) - We've all been there... Of Gods and Men (2010) Of Mice and Men (1992) Oh, God! (1977) Omega Man, The (1971) On Any Sunday (1971) Once (2007) - nice song! Once Around (1991) - started out slow/bad but ended sad/well... Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) - C'era una volta il West One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) One of Us (2017) - New York's Hasidic community One, the Movie (2005) - (Okay, I got to Interview the filmmaker!) Only The Brave (2017) - The story of the Yarnell Hill Fire Only The Essential - A Hike from Mexico to Canada on the Pacific Crest Trail (2014) On the Beach (1959) Opening the Earth: The Potato King (2019?) - Julio Hancco is a guardian of biodiversity Open Range (2003) Open Water (2003) Operation Finale (2018) Oppenheimer (2023) a little slow at times plus not enough science! Orbiter 9 [Original title; Órbita 9] (2017) a twist on reality! Ordinary Angels (2024) origin of Electromagnetic waves, and why they behave as they do, The (2023) [ScienceClic English, YouTube] Origin of Life, Arrival David Attenborough (BBC Documentary) Origins: How Life Began Neil deGrasse Tyson (PBS Documentary, 2004) Origin of Life - How Life Started on Earth (2016) Orphanage, The (2007) El orfanato Osama (2003) - a good look at Taliban cruetly. Other One, The: The Long, Strange Trip of Bob Weir (2014) Our Souls at Night (2017) - Great story but poor acting by Redford... Outland (1981) Outlaw Josey Wales, The (1976) Pain and Glory (2019) - Dolor y gloria Paint Your Wagon (1969) Pandorum (2009) - Not well done but an interesting concept Paperboy, The (2012) Paper Moon (1973) - An excellent classic! Papillon (1973) Papillon (2017) Particle Fever (2013) - Fantastic! Pathfinder (2007) - an intriguing idea Patton (1970) - Wow! Peaceful Warrior (2006) Pedal the World (2015) - innocent, fun, and interesting! People Like Us (2012) Perfect Storm, The (2000) - I saw it while staying at the beach! Perfect Day, A (2015) Pet (2016) Peter Pan (1955) Peter Pan (2003) - I saw this version of the old clasic while on a flight to Tokyo and loved it, especially the "devilish" little Tinker Bell character! Photographer of Mauthausen, The (2018) - Original title: El fotógrafo de Mauthausen Photosynthesis (in detail) (2018) [Beverly Biology, YouTube] Physics of Sailing | KQED QUEST, The (2023) [KQED, YouTube] Picture of the Mily Way's Supermassive Black Hole, A (2022) [Veritasium, YouTube] Pink Floyd: The Making of the Dark Side of the Moon (2003) Pink Floyd - The Story of "Wish You Were Here" (2011) Pink Floyd the Wall (1982) Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) - fun! Everything About Irrigation Pivots (Farmers are Geniuses) (2022) [SmarterEveryDay, YouTube] Planck scale: Is there a fundamental limit to space and time?, The (2020) [Physics Explained, YouTube} Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987) Planet Earth 100 Million Years In The Future - What will happen to our world? (2014) Planet of the Apemen Battle for Earth 1 of 2 Homo Erectus (2011) - BBC Planet of the Apemen Battle for Earth 2 of 2 Neanderthal (20122 - BBC Planet of the Apes (1968) - It was great when it first came out! Platform, The (2019) - Wierd and brutal. Platoon (1986) - War is Hell... Play Misty for Me (1971) Poisoning Paradise (2016) Pop Aye (2017) Porter, The (2020) - Injustices on Mount Everest Poseidon Adventure, The (1972) Postman, The (1997) Powder (1995) Power of the Dog, The (2021) Predator (1987) Predestination (2015) Prefontaine (1997) Primal Fear (1986) Producers, The (1968) - Also saw the play while in London Prometheus (2012) Prospect (2018) Psycho (1960) Pulp Fiction (1994) Quantum Biology: The Hidden Nature of Nature (2015) Quest for Fire (1981) Quigley Down Under (1990) - Custom 13.5 pound (6 kg), single-shot, 1874 Sharps Rifle, with a 34-inch (860 mm) barrel Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) - Excellent behind-the-scenes stuff on the DVD as well! Radical Reels - Before it was combined with Banff, in 2018, I had been to many showings in Colorado Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Rain Man (1988) Rarest Element on Earth, The (2019) [Atlas Pro, YouTube} REAL Movement of Earth Through the Galaxy, The (2023) [Space Matters, YouTube] REAL Source of Gravity Might SURPRISE you..., The (2020) [The Science Asylum, YouTube] Real Steel (2011) Reason To Stop Worrying, A - Watch This Whenever You're Stressed Or Anxious (2021) [Pursuit of Wonder, YouTube] Recruit, The (2003) Red Planet (2000) - AMEE was sure interesting! Reel Rock 14: The High Road (2019) - Nina Williams bouldering Religulous (2008) ReMastered: Tricky Dick and the Man in Black (2018) Remember (2015) - nice twist at the end! Rendition (2007) Requiem for a Dream - Wild! Rescue Dawn (2007) - slow in some parts... Restrepo (2010) Resurrection (1980) Return to Earth (2019) - great mountain biking! Return to Space (2022) - Elon Musk and SpaceX! Revealing the Mysterious World Inside Protons (2022) [Science Discussed, YouTube] Revenant, The (2015) - Intense! Richard Jewell (2019) - Media was very unfair to Richard Right Stuff, The (1983) Rio Grande (1950) River Runs Through It, A (1992) River Runners of the Grand Canyon (1995) Road, The (2009) Road House (1989) - I saw the 2024 remake first and it wasn't as good as this one! Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964) Rocky Horror Picture Show, The (1975) Rollerball (1975) Rolling Stones, The - Olé, Olé, Olé!: A Trip Across Latin America Romance of Radium (1937) Rommel (2017) - very good! Roots (1977) Run Lola Run (1998) - I'll be buying the DVD!! Running Pastor, The (2019) - Sverri is a local Pastor and runner Russia Cosmonauts finally realized why SpaceX Dragon is better than Soyuz after DAMAGED (2023) [ALPHA TECH, YouTube] Russian Woodpecker, The (2019) [Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World, YouTube] Russia's Only Aircraft Carrier: Just a GIANT MISSILE TRUCK? (2022) [19FortyFive: Military, Defense and War News, YouTube] Sackets, The (1979) Safe Haven (2018) - Memphis climbing gym Sailing Faster Than The Wind - How Is That Even Possible? (2021) [Steve Mould, YouTube] Salyut-7 (2017) - Салют⋅7 Suprisingly well made! Sand Pebbles (1966) Saturn V Story, The (2014) - fascinating! Saving Private Ryan (1998) Saving Ryan's Privates (1998) Scarecrow (1973) - Joey the Banana King! scariest thing you learn in Electrical Engineering | The Smith Chart, The (2023) [Zach Star, YouTube] School of Rock, The (2003) - fun! Schindler's List (1993) Sea Inside, The (2004) (Mar adentro) - Interesting euthanasia question... Sea of Trees, The (2015) Search for Life in Space, The (2016) Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993) Seaspiracy (2021) - we're killing the oceans... Secret Life of Cruise, The (2018) - Fascinating!! Secret Life of Pets, The (2016) Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb (2020) Sessions, The (2012) - surprisingly moving! Seeparation, A (2011) See Through Engine - 4K Slow Motion Visible Combustion ( S1 • E1 ) (2017) [Warped Perception, YouTube] Selena (1997) Sense of an Ending, TheA (2017) Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, The (2007) Seven Years in Tibet (1997) - I was able to visit the town of Uspallata, in Argentina, where Brad Pitt was filmed for this one! Sex Changes That Made History, The (2015) Shaun of the Dead (2004) - British humor at its best! Shawshank Redemption, The (1994) Shelby American: The Carroll Shelby Story (2019) Shimmer Lake (2017) - fascinating concept! Shinning, The (1980) Showgun (1980) Sicko (2007) - Fun, Sad and Amazing! Singin' in the Rain (1952) Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea (2007) - Original title: Lusitania: Murder on the Atlantic Silence (2016) Silence of the Lambs (1991) Sixth Sense, The (1999) Skin of the Wolf, The (2017) - Original title; Bajo la piel de lobo Slaughterhouse-Five (1972) - fun but also sad... Sleepers (1996) Sling Blade (1996) Sly (2023) - although I was never wild about his movies this was an interesting bit of history Small Crimes (2017) - surprisingly bloody... Smoke Signals (1998) - an excellent Native American film! Social Dilemma, The (2020) - scary! Social Network (2010) Some Freaks (2016) Something weird happens when you keep squeezing (2023) [Vox, YouTube] Son of Flubber (1963) Soul Surfer (2011) Sound of Music (1965) South Pacific (1958) Soylent Green (1973) Space Cowboys (2000) Space DOES NOT Expand Everywhere (2022) [PBS Space TIme, YouTube] Sparks Brothers, The (2021) - Talent is an Asset! Spartacus (1960) Spectre Expedition - Mission Antarctica (2019) - snow kites and mountain climbing Spitfire (2018) - an excellent historical piece! Spy Who Shagged Me, The (1999) Stand by Me (1986) Starman (1984) - I loved it! Stars in the Sky: A Hunting Story (2018) Startling Reason Entropy & Time Only Go One Way!, The (2023) [Arvin Ash, YouTube] Star Wars (1977, 1980, 1983) - The first two or three were great! Stephen Jay Gould interview on Evolution (2014) [Prometheus Unchained, YouTube] Sticky Notes (2016) Sting, The (1973) Stone (2017) Story of Queen, The: Mercury Rising (2011) Stoway (2021) - weak plot and acting but a fantastic rotational ship idea!! Strange Name Movie, The (2017) STROMATOLITES: Discovering the Oldest Fossils on Earth (2023) [3D Epix Inc., YouTube] Structure of DNA, The (2015) [MITx Bio, YouTube] St. Vincent (2014) Supersize Me (2004) - A good warning for all of us Surfer Dan (2018) - surfing on the Great Lakes in winter... Surfwise (2007) - unnecessarily crude language but an interesting curmudgeon... Surprising Secret of Synchronization, The (2022) [Veritasium, YouTube] Survivalist, The (2015) Suspect Zero (2004) Sweet Home Alabama (2002) - "... So I can kiss you anytime I want!" Swiss Family Robinson (1960) Sybil (1976) Syriana (2005) - Good but complex Take Me Home: The John Denver Story (2000) Taken (2008) Teardown of Kathrein 1800/900 MHz Antenna For Mobile Phone Base Station (2021) [Kaizer Power Electronics, YouTube] Temple Grandin (2010) Ten Commandments, The (1956) Terminator, The (1984) Tesla (2016) Tesla Road Trip (2017) - Season 1, all 7 episodes - way to short on technical info though... Texas Chainsaw Masacre (1974) - I saw it when it first came out and loved it! That Thing You Do! (1996) - cute! Thelma & Louise (1991) - great! Theory of Everything, The (2014) There Will Be Blood (2007) They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995) - Excellent! This is NOT how you make Artificial Gravity (2021) [The Con Hathy Channel, YouTube] Three Perplexing Physics Problems (2023) [Veritasium, YouTube] Three Wives, One Husband (2017) THX 1138 (1971) Thing, The (1982) This is Your Brain and Body When... (2017) Tech Insider, Season 1, 9 episode This TWILIGHT ZONE EPISODE was BANNED For 50+ YEARS (2023) [DoYouRemember, YouTube] Three Days of the Condor (1975) Tim Burton: Inside The Twisted Mind Of The Eccentric Filmmaker (2019) Timelapse of the Future: A Journey to the End of Time (2019) Time Machine, The (1960) Time Riders (1991) Time to Kill, A (1996) Titanic (1997) To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) Too Young the Hero (1988) Top 7 Winter Camping Mistakes & How to Sleep Warm! | Essential Tips for Comfy Nights (2023) [Matti & Stina - JOKKMOKKGUIDERNA, YouTube] Top Gun: Maverick (2022) Touching the Void (2003) - A realistic climbing movie Town Like Alice, A (1956) To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995) Toy Story (1995) Trading Places (1983) Traffic (2000) Trainspotting (1996) Transcendence (2014) Transistorized! (1999) Trashed (2007) Travelin' Band: Creedence Clearwater Revival at the Royal Albert Hall (2022) Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948) Tremors (1990) Trinity and Sartana are Coming (1972) Trip to the Moon, A (1902) - [ Original title: Le voyage dans la lune] historical! True Grit (1969) True Grit (2010) Tsunami: Caught on Camera - tragic Tuning the Buddistick Pro | Buddipole Ham Radio Antenna (2021) [Ham Radio 2.0, YouTube Tuskegee Airmen (1995) Twelve Monkeys (1995) - releasing the germ... Twelve O'Clock High (1949) Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970) Dos mulas para la hermana Sara U 571 (2000) Una (2016) Unabomber - In His Own Words (2018) Unbroken (2014) Understanding HF Propagation (2020) - RSGB, Steve Nichols, GØKYA Unfaithful (2002) Unforgivable, The (2021) - well done! Universe: Journey from Earth to the Edge of the Cosmos (2006) Unsinkable Molly Brown, The (1964) Untamed Romania (2018) US Testing Its Monstrously Powerful $500 Million Rail Gun (2022) US vs German Pliers (WIRE CUTTERS)? Knipex vs Snap On, Irwin, Milwaukee, DeWalt, Craftsman, Wiha (2021) - [Project Farm, YouTube] U.S. vs. John Lennon, The (2006) Val (1993) - he certainly led an interesting life! Valdez Is Coming (1971) Valkyrie (2008) - interesting historical detail Vanishing of the Bees (2009) Vertigo 2005: Live from Chicago (2005) - some songs not so good... Victoria and Abdul (2017) - both cute and sad Vincent Van Gogh: A Stroke of Genius - (1997) Biography Channel Viruses: Molecular Hijackers (2017) [Professor Dave Explains, YouTube] Vladimir Pozner: How the United States Created Vladimir Putin (2018) [YaleUniversity, YouTube] Voyager 1 Terrifying New Discovery After 45-year In Interstellar Space (2022) [The Space Wind, YouTube] Voyager Just Entered Deep Space & Sent Back This Terrifying Message To Scientists! (2022) [Future Unity, YouTube] Voyager Spacecraft's Terrifying New Signals Unlike Anything Ever Seen (2022) [Factnomenal, YouTube] Waco: American Apocalypse (2023) Waitress (2007) Waiting for 'Superman' (2010) Walk Among the Tombstones, A (2014) Walking Out (2017) Walk the Line (2005) Wall Street (1987) Warcraft: The Beginning (2016) WarGames (1983) - dated but good War of the Worlds (1953) - The 2005 version was not very good... Warriors, The (1979) Wasp Network (2019) Was The Universe Born From Nothing? (2022) [History of the Universe, YouTube] Water (2005) Weather Underground (2002) We're Off to See the Munchkins (1993) - Nice! We Were Soldiers (2002) Whale Rider (2002) What ARE electronic orbitals? (2023) [Three Twentysix, YouTube] What Are Neutrinos? | How The Universe Works (2021) [Discovery UK, YouTube] What Can You Do If a Mob Surrounds Your Car? (2023) - excellent advice on protecting yourself from Antifa and other thugs [Washington Gun Law, YouTube] What Caused the Big Bang? (2019) - a bit complex... [PBS Space Time, YouTube] What Happens When a Submarine Implodes (2023) [Not What You Think, YouTube] What Ibuprofen Does to the Body (2021) [Institute of Human Anatomy, YouTube] What If Our Everyday Life Was Quantum Mechanical? (2022) [Arvin Ash, YouTube] What if we could see Spacetime? An immersive experience (2024) [ScienceClic English, YouTube] What If You Could See Every Wavelength Of The Electromagnetic Spectrum? (2019) [Joe Scott, YouTube] What If You Met All Your Ancestors from 385 Million Years Back? (2021) [Ridddle, YouTube] What If Physics IS NOT Describing Reality? (2022) [PBS Space Time, YouTube] What If You Spent 5 Seconds on Venus? (2023) [What if, YouTube] What is driving particle physics? (2023) [fermilab, YouTube] What is Space? - The Fabric of the Cosmos NOVA (2011) What is the Celestial Origin of All the Atoms in the Universe? (2021) [Arvin Ash, YouTube] What is the Electro Magnetic Spectrum? (2013) [MonkeySee, YouTube] What is the Ultraviolet Catastrophe? (2020) - Max Planck's solution! [Physics Explained, YouTube] What Lies Beyond the Boundaries of the Milky Way? (2020)[Kosmo, YouTube] What Lies Beyond the Boundaries of the Milky Way? The Intergalactic Medium (2021) [Kosmos, YouTube] What Life In a Lunar Colony Will Be Like (2022) [The Space Race, YouTube] What Really is Everything? [History of the Universe, YouTube] (2021) What's inside my broken hard drive? HDD teardown (2018) [River's Educational Channel, YouTube] What's with the Spirals on German Aircraft? (2023) [Premier History, YouTube] What they NEVER told you about the B0DIES after the EX3CUTIONS in Nuremberg (2023) [Military History, YouTube] What Uses Less Gas - Coasting Or Engine Braking? (2017) [Engineering Explained, YouTube] What Was the Earth Like 1 Billion Years Ago? (2022) [History of the Earth, YouTube] What Was the Earth Like before the Age of Dinosaurs? (2021) [Kosmo, YouTube] What would we see at the speed of light? (2023) [ScienceClic English, YouTube] When Neanderthals and Modern Humans Met - Human evolution from 60,000 - 30,000 years ago (2015) [Allan Wilson Centre, YouTube] When You're Strange (2009) - A Film About The Doors Where Did Viruses Come From? (2018) [PBS Eons, YouTube] Where Does Grounded Electricity Actually Go? (2023) [Practical Engineering, YouTube} Where the Crawdads Sing (2022) - started out slow but ended up with a very moving ending! Where The FCC Tracks & Locates ANY Radio Signal (2023) [Ringway Manchester, YouTube] Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) Who Killed America's Biggest Gadget? (2012) Why 80% of Americans live east of this line (2022) [RealLifeLore, YouTube] Why is All Life Carbon, Not Silucon? Three Starling Reasons! (2023) [Arvin Ash, YouTube] Why Are Rails Shaped Like That? (2023) [Practical Engineering, YouTube] Why Are there Holes in the James Webb Sunshield? (Explained by My Dad) (2022) - [Smarter Every Day, YouTube] Why can't you go faster than light? (2017) [Fermilab, YouTube] Why Didn't Germans Just Go Around the Berlin Wall? (2016) by William C. Fox Why Did Time Start Going Forward? (2021) [History of the Universe, YouTube] Why did ww2 soldiers not wear chin straps? M1 helmet (2022) [At Ease, Soldier!, YouTube] Why Do All The Planets Orbit In The Same Plane? (2022) [Insane Curiosity, YouTube] Why do atoms form molecules? The quantum physics of chemical bonds explained (2020) [Arvin Ash, YouTube] Why Do Bees Die After Stinging? (2022) [Be Amazed, YouTube} Why Does Light Exist? What Is Its Purpose? (2024) [Arvin Ash, YouTube] Why don't photons fly apart in the nucleus of atoms? RESIDUAL Strong Force Explained (2022) [Arvin Ash, YouTube] Why Gravity is Not a Force (2020) [Veritasium, YouTube] channel Why haven’t we found aliens? A physicist shares the most popular theories. | Brian Cox (2023) [Big Think, YouTube] Why is Coax 50 Ohms? (2020) [David Casler, YouTube] Why is the speed of light what it is? Maxwell equations visualized (2020) - the best explanation I've encountered so far! [Arvin Ash, YouTube] Why MONSTER WAVES Can't Sink US Navy's LARGEST Aircraft Carriers During Rough Seas (2023) [NAVY Productions, YouTube] Why New York's Billionaire's Row Is Half Empty (2021) [The B1M, YouTube] Why No One Has Measured The Speed Of Light (2020) [Veritasium, YouTube] Why There's a CIA Base in the Center of Australia (2022) [RealLifeLore, YouTube] Why the Second Amendment? ... by Newt Gingrich (2016) Why Were US Aircraft Silver? (2023) [Premier History, YouTube] Why would anyone still want a 30-06? (2023) [Ron Spomer Outdoors, YouTube] Wild Bill (1995) Wild Horse Redemption, The (2008) Wild Horse Wild Ride (2011) Wildlike (2014) Wild Wild Country (2018) - Osho Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) Wind River (2017) - wow! Witch, The: A New-England Folktale (2015) Witness (1985) - I didn't see it until 38 years later but still enjoyed it! Wizard of Oz (1939) - I've seen it dozens of times! Wolf of Wall Street, The (2013) Wolf's Call, The (2019) Le chant du loup Wonderful Life, It's A (1946) Woodsman, The (2004) - Intense World's Fastest Indian, The (2005) World's Toughest Fixes: Nuclear Turbine (2008) - Nation Geographic Wow Signal (2017) - a good, balanced presentation Wrath of Man (2021) - the ending could have been a little stronger Yellow Submarine (1968) Yesterday (2019) - cute! You can't explain prisms without understanding springs | Optics puzzles part 3 (2023) [3Blue1Brown, YouTube] Young Frankenstein (1974) Your Body's Molecular Machines (2018) [Veritasium, YouTube] Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005) cute! Zero Dark Thirty (2013) - Jessica Chastain's role was a bit overblown... Zion (2018) - Zion Shaver the wrestler Zombieland (2009) Zookeper's Wife, The (2017) Zulu (1964) Zulu Dawn (1979) ZZ Top: That Little Ol' Band from Texas (2019)

Note: There are a lot of bad movies out there. And, unfortunately, I've probably seen a "ton" of 'em. However, because I'm so impatient I usually don't sit through an entire movie if I'm not enjoying it. So, to be fare, I only list films that I've seen in their entirety in this column - hoping to build-up courage to revisit the really bad ones toward the bottom of this column (see Unfinished Business, further down...)... Anyway, here are the bad movies I was able to sit through (well, maybe I was able to sit through most of them...):

No! - Roger Retches

No! - Roger Retches

2036 Origin Unknown (2018) - Started out poorly with faster than light communications and only got worse after that... 2149: The Aftermath (2021) - poor acting, poorly done 45 Years (2017) 7 Sunsets (2022) - surprisingly slow moving for a 16 minute short! 90 Minutes in Heaven (2015) Adjustment Bureau, The (2011) Alice in Wonderland (2010) Alienate (2016) Alien Hunter (2003) - Poorly executed Alien Invasion: S.U.M.1 (2017) - Australian flies around their spacesuits! Alien: Resurrection (1997) - However, the first two were great! All the President's Men (1976) American Fable (2016) Amsterdam (2022) - long and boring Anna Karenina (2012) - yawn... Annihilation (2018) - goofy and incongruent Aquaman (2018) - one long cgi caroon fight... Archive (2020) - robot costumes were horrible! Arctic Void (2022) - poor acting, poorly done Are You Scared? (2006) Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1978) Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) Barbie (2023) - absolute drivel Battle for Saipan (2022) Black Snake Moan (2007) Beginners (2010) Born Free (1966) - corny and childish Bottle Shock (2008) - exaggerated, overly dramatic Bourne Supremacy, The (2004) Bruce Almighty (2003) Bullitt (1968) Butterfly Effect (2004) - Horrible, disjointed plot contstruction. However, the idea of going back in time, to correct present problems, has a certain appeal... By Dawn's Early Light (1990) Call of the Wild, The (2020) - extremly unrealistic animal behaviors Cats (2019) Cloverfield (2008) Cloverfield Paradox, The (2018) - the writing arm scene was really goofy! Circle, The (2017) Citizen Kane (1941) Cliffhanger (1993) - Horrible portrayal of rock climbing! Colony, The (2021) - poorly done Constant Gardender (2005) - long and difficult to follow Cry Macho (2021) - poor acting, Eastwood should have retired... Darkest Hours, The (2011) Dark Side of the Moon, The (1990) - there aren't many movies this bad! Date Night (2010) Day the Earth Stood Still, The (2008) - 50's version was slightly better... Decendents, The (2011) Deep Field: The Impossible Magnitude of our Universe (2018) - graphics weren't placed very well... [Eric Whitacre, YouTube] Deep Impact (1998) Delivery (2022) - poor props, poor acting [short film] Devotion (2022) - some great military scenes but way too many long and boring sections Dog (2022) - unrealistically dramatic and certainly not funny Don't Die Without Telling Me Where You're Going (1995) Edward Scissorhands (1990) English Patient, The (1992) Evan Almighty (2007) Event Horizon (1997) Everything Must Go (2010) Exiles, The (1961) the 2008 remake didn't help it Exporting Raymond (2010) Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011) Faces of Death (1980) - very overblown in its day... Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022) - way too much cgi and make-believe! Finding Forrester (2000) First Kill (2017) Flying Scotsman, The (2006) - overly dramatic Frozen (2010) - interesting concept though... Geronimo: An American Legend (1993) Get Out (2017) Ghost and Mr. Chicken, The (1966) Ghost Story, A (2017) - fascinating concept Gigi & Nate (2022) - too many simple events over overdramatized... Goldilocks (2022) - poor electronic props, poor acting [short film] Gorgon, The (1964) - poorly done props with poor acting Halston (2019) - a boring story about a snob Happening, The (2008) - acting can't get much worse than this one! Heaven is for Real (2014) - poorly done Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard, The - horrible, written to entertain 13-year-old-boys I am Legend (2007) - Will Smith's character was an idiot... Ice Harvest (2005) - Shooting into the steamer trunk was interesting though! Impossible, The, (2012) - overly dramatic and overacting througout... Invasion, The (2007) - poorly done IO (2019) Journey to Alpha Centauri (2023) - too speculative throughout combined with a distracting speech pattern [Isaac Arthur, YouTube] Juno (2007) - highly overrated... Kalashnikov (2020) - overly dramatic and drawn-out Kilimanjaro: To The Roof of Africa IMAX (2003) - I enjoyed the real thing much better! Kill Bill (2003) - Two bloody, severed thumbs down for being a childish action flick with little meaning King of California (2007) Kon-Tiki - shark scenes were overly dramatic (2012)

Last Days on Mars, The (2013) Last of the Dogmen (1995) - Poorly done but with great scenery Ledge, The (2011) Let There Be Light (2017) - poor acting and, overall, poorly done... Hotel Rwanda (2004) - A poor job at covering a very sad chapter in Human history... Last of the Mohicans, The (1992) [I enjoyed it a lot more after my second viewing in 2021...] Life (2017) Life of Brian (1979) - Not nearly as good as all the other Monty Python stuff! Lockout (2012) - should have been a lot better... Magellan (2017) - this topic had such great potential! Mang Called Otto, A (2022) - poor acting Montford: The Chickasaw Rancher (2021) Martian Child (2007) Matrix Reloaded (2003) - I'll be writing them to ask for a refund and to suggest they hire my 8 year old niece to create a better story for them...) Meet Dave (2008) Millennium (1989) - Ladd and Kristofferson at their worst! Misery (1990) Mist, The (2007) - Hokey but with interesting bug parts - bad ending though... Mimic (1997) Moonfall (2022) - poor acting and poorly done overall Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) Munich (2005) - A long and poorly done propoganda film Mystic River (2003) - Good story but a very disappointing ending by Sean Penn's character My Cousin Rachel (2017) Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains Electric Power (2021) - sophmoric Northman, The (2022) - boring despite all the action... No Time to Die (2021) - a very poor movie not worth spending time (or money) on. Now is Good (2012) Oblivion (2013) On the Basis of Sex (2018) - boring Open House, The (2018) Open Range (2003) Open Water 2: Adrift (2006) - not as good as the first one... Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre (2023) very unrealistic with long boring parts on top of it... Pathfinder, The (1996) - poor acting and poorly executed Pi (1998) Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999) Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) Point Break (1991) Premonition (2007) Prestige, The (2006) - long periods of boredom interupted with moments of gore Real Images From Venus: What We Actually Saw There (2023) [The Secrets of the Universe, YouTube] Rescued by Ruby (2022) - corny Rift, The: Dark Side of the Moon - poorly done with especially inappropriate music Road, The (2009) RoboCop (2014) Rock, The (1996) Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, The (1976) Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The (2015) Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The (2013) Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978) - good music though... Shakiest Gun in the West, The (1968) Shame (2011) Shotgun Wedding (2022) - poor acting and much too goofy Shutter Island (2010) - Unfortunately requires two viewings... Signs (2002) - poorly done on too many levels to list here... Singularity (2017) Somnus (2016) Sorority Row (2009) Species (1995) - poorly done Speed (1994) Spies Like Us (1985) - poorly done in almost every regard! Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006) Taxi Driver (1976) - Depressing Terminal, The (2004) - Tom Hanks wasted his time on this one... Things to Do (2006) - a glorification of childishness This is How it Ends (2018) Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) way too much cgi and make-believe Tig (2015) - a selfish, self-centered homsexual Titan, The (2018) Tombstone (1993) - overly dramatic, disjointed, and poor acting - 13-year-old boys will love it! Tomorrow War, The (2021) - poor, overly dramatic acting Top Gun (1986) Trans-Siberian Express (2008) - too boring to watch to the end... Troy (2004) - long and boring Twister (1996) US vs German Pliers (WIRE CUTTERS)? Knipex vs Snap On, Irwin, Milwaukee, DeWalt, Craftsman, Wiha (2021) - [Project Farm, YouTube] Vast of Night, The (2019) - dialogue was excessive and too fast... War of the Worlds (2005) - I liked the 1953 version better... We're the Millers (2013) What Lies Beneath (2000) - My wife thought it was manipulative! What the Bleep do we Know? (2004) - A childlike interpretation of physics and spirituality - a huge disservice to thoughtful inquiry and scientific thinking. What a shame that such a wonderful theme could be so thoroughly trashed. But, I'll have to admit, I'm one of the movie's few critics - most everyone else seemd to enjoy it - that's the world for you - it's all a matter of opinion! Wonderwall (1968) World War Z (2013) Wunderland (2018) - a very moving part of Battle of the Bulge history muddled by poor acting...

Undecided

Maybe? - Some parts good, some parts bad...

Maybe? - Some parts good, some parts bad...

10,000 B.C. (2008) 11/8/16 (2017) - too biased... 11 Items Christians Shouldn't Own (2021) [Ruocca, YouTube] 13 Going on 30 (2004) 1408 (2007) 2010: Odyssey Two (1984) - Not nearly as good as the original 2001... 28 Days Later (2002) - good idea, poor execution 300 (2006) 3022 (2019) 5 Worst Carry Guns That Idiots Will Buy in 2023 (2023) [THE PEWPEW ZONE, YouTube] Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994) Accidental Environmentalist: Catherine Flowers, The (2018) Acts Of Vengeance (2017) Ad Astra (2019) - Fantastic antenna concept and scenes on the moon though! Adrift (2018) - personal history part was too drawn out... African Queen, The (1951) Against All Odd (1984) - too hard to follow who was blackmailing who... Air Force One (1997) Alabama Moon (2009) - a cute idea poorly executed All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) Amish and the Reformation, The (2017) - explained some interesting history Amundsen (2019) - Interesting history but a little too long and boring in some sections... Apollo 18 (2011) - realistic looking footage! Apostle, The (1997) Arctic Daughter: A Lifetime of Wilderness (2018) - her halting, droning speech pattern was a big distraction Armageddon (1998) Arrival (2016) - This was my initial rating but I liked it better the 2nd time Astronaut's Wife, The (1999) Atlas Shrugged: Part 1 (2011) Baby Mammoth (2008) - Extinction Was Just the Beginning... Bachelors, The (2017) Bad Reputation (2018) She and Billie Joe Armstrong weren't portrayed as very intelligent Bambi (1942) Beaver, The (2011) Beekeeper, The (2024) Being the Ricardos (2021) Ben-Hur (1959) Bereft (2004 - not sure of date...) - bizarre... Bezos (2023) - nice story, bad acting, overuse of profanity Big Easy, The (1987) - somewhat confusing at times Big Lebowski, The (1998) - could have been much better Big Trouble (2002) silly but funny at times Black Crab (2022 Original title: Svart krabba) - a bit boring in parts... Black or White (2014) Blade Runner 2049 (2017) - nice soundtrack! Blood Diamond (2006) - sad story Borat (2006) Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids (2004) Bridge to Terabithia (2007) Brokeback Mountain (2005) Bruno (2009) Bucket List, The (2007) Butler, The Original title: Lee Daniels' the Butler (2013) Bullet Train (2022) - too goofy at times Caligula (1979) Call to Spy, A (2019) Carrie (1976) Casino Royale (2006) - the usual 007 stuff... Cast Away (2000) Charly 1968 (From the book Flowers for Algernon) (Chernobyl) Probably the best DUGA RADAR "how it works" video on youtube! (2017) [mrmattandmrchay, YouTube] Cheyenne Autumn (1964) Choppers, The (1961) - poor acting but interesting because I lived in L.A. once! Christopher Robin (2018) Cinderella Liberty (1973) Clan of the Cave Bear (1986) Client, The (1994) Clearing, The (2004) Clockwork Orange, A (1971) Colors (1988) Colony, The "Colonia" (2015) Come Sunday (2018) Command, The (2016) Concussion (2013) Contagion(2011) Cowboys and Aliens (2011) Coyote Waits (2003) Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The (2008) - interesting idea but a bit boring at times... Da Vinci Code, The (2006) - interesting idea but boring presentation Darjeeling Limited, The (2007) - I'm always interested in anything about India Dark Divide, The (2020) - it had the potential to be very good... Dark Night, The (2008) - the Nurse/Hospital part was the only good scene... Dark Wind (1991) Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier (1955) Day After, The (1983) Day the Earth Stood Still, The (1951) - interesting and historical but not well done Descent, The (2005) Deadpool 2 (2018) - a bit too goofy and vulgar at times Death Wish (1974) Death Wish (2018) Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005) Dig, The (2021) - Interesting but a bit long and drawn out... Dirty Dancing (1987) - I waited until 2022 to see it but found it better than I had imagined... Disturbing Horrors Behind The Wizard of Oz That'll RUIN Your Childhood (2021) [EXPLORE WITH US, YouTube] Doctor Strange (2016) - poor ending... Dogma (1999) Don't Look Up (2021) - a fun idea but a bit goofy and poorly done Double Jeopardy - stretched believability... (1999) Driving Miss Daisy (1989) Deuces Wild (2002) Dumplin' (2018) Dune (1984) Edie (2017) - 85-year-old climbs Mt Sullivan in Scotland Elysium (2013) Employee of the Month (2006) Endless, The (2017) Enlighten Up (2008) - should have been better E.O. Wilson: Aliens are Out There and They Probably Look Like This (2014) [Big Think, YouTube] E.O. Wilson: Synthetic Biology Will Radically Change the World (2015) [Big Think, YouTube] Evita (1996) - Historical but not enough detail! Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) Europa Report (2022) - bordered on being a bad movie, but not quite... Extinction (2018) - the interesting twist keeps this from being rated poorly Fablemans, The (2022) Fantastic Fungi (2019) - a little goofy at times Father Stu (2022) Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles (2019) - They tried injecting a bit of "woke" into some tragic Jewish history Final Cut (2004) - Interesting memory idea but very poor plot Final Destination (2000) Final Destiny [Original title: Brace for Impact] (2017) - poor acting Finest Hours, The (2016) - I was also surprised at the amount of insubordination. Flashdance (1983) Forest Gump (1994) Frozen Ground (2013) - poor acting on Cage's part... Fury of a Patient Man Tarde para la ira (2016) Geronimo: An American Legend (1993) Ghost Busters II (1989) Ghost and the Darkness, The (1996) Gidget (1959) Gladiator (2000) God Who Wasn't There, The (2005) - a good theme but poorly executed... GoldenEye (1995) (Another 007 flick) Gone Girl (2014) Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017) Good Bye Lenin! (2003) Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind (2019 Greatest Movie Ever Sold, The (2011) Gunner Palace (2004) - Not even close to Apocolypse now... Gunga Din (1939) Hair I saw one of their last live, original performances in Honolulu in 1976 Hancock (2008) Hangover, The (2009) Hangover Part III, The (2013) Har Days Night, A (1964) Hardtack & Hell Fire Stew (2022) [Tasting History with Max Miller, YouTube] Hardware Wars (1978) Holdovers, The (2023) - boring, at times, with the younger actors doing a poor job at their craft Home Alone (1990) Horse Soldiers, The (1959) - poor acting Horses: The Story of Equus: IMAX (2002) How Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs Work In 10 Minutes (2020) [Riddle, Youtube] How I would explain Calculus to a 6th grader (2021) - It is what it is... [https://tcmathacademy.com/, YouTube] Hugo (2011) Hundred-Foot Journey, The (2014) Hunger Games, The (2012) - An interesting idea badly written and poorly executed I am Number Four (2011) Icarus (2017) - too long and boring at times... Ice Road, The (2021) - too many improbabilities... Identity (2003) Idiocracy (2006) I Heard the Bells (2022) - good history but poor acting I Love You Phillip Morris (2009) Immitation Game, The (2014) Incident at Oglala: The Leonard Peltier Story (1992) Mr. X?? Inconceivable (2017) - his acting is poor... Incredibles, The (2004) Infinite Storm (2022) - the boring parts were dran out much too long... Inglourious Bastards (2009) Intersellar (2014) Into Great Silence (2005) Into the Abyss (2011) - An anti death penalty propoganda piece I, Robot (2004) Island in the Sky (1953) James Bond 007 Casino Royale (2006) Jazz Singer, The (1980) - poor acting, especially by Olivier Jerk, The (1979) Jesus Revolution (2023) Jingle All the Way (1996) Jumanji: The Next Level (2019) - poor acting and poor flow Kangaroo Jack (2003) Keith Richards: Under the Influence (2015) - some interesting Jazz connections... Key Largo (1948) Kiss the Ground (2020) King Richard (2021) Kite Runner, The (2007) Kodachrome (2017)

Koyaanisqatsi - Life Out of Balance (1982) Kung Fu Panda (2008) Lady Bird (2017) Last Big Field Day, The - The 2004 W3AO operation (2011) Last Castel, The (2001) Lazarus Project, The (2008) - interesting concept but executed too slowly Lead me Home (2021) Leave No Trace (2018) - nice idea but poorly executed Let Me In (2010) - a good swimming pool revenge scene... Life off Grid (2016) Life of Pi (2012) Little Women (2019) Living in the Future's Past (2018) - needed more mention of the population problem Local Hero (1983) Looper (2012) - disjointed Lou (2022) - the plot gets a bit goofy at times... Love and Other Drugs (2010) Machinist, The El Maquinista (2004) Matilda (1996) - too much "slapstick," even for young people Magnolia (1999) Maltese Falcon, The (1941) - a classic but very poor acting Maria Full of Grace (2004) - Sad look at Columbian drug trade Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015) Mean Creek (2004) - unsatisfying ending Mechanical circuits: electronics without electricity (2022) [Steve mould, YouTube] Meet the Parents (2000) - a bit sophmoric... Memoirs of a Geisha(2005) - culturally interesting but too long... Men in Black (1997) Messenger, The (2009) Midnight Sky, The (2020 Miss Congeniality (2000) Mission, The (1986) Monuments Men, The (2014) Moonlight (2016) Most Dangerous Hiking Trails In America, The (2020) - interesting but too simplistic [EveryState #Hiking, YouTube] Mountain (2017) Mountain Men, The (1980) Music Never Stopped, The (2010) - poor acting My Dad's Christmas Date (2020) Napoleon (2023) Napoleon Dynamite (2004) Nebraska (2013) Never Let Me Go (2010) No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005) - examining another self-absorbed life Notebook, The (2004) - sweet ending Nobody - (2021) O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) - a bit of the Odyssey Ocean's Twelve (2004) Ocean's Eleven (2001) October Sky (1999) - too much drama, not enough science and history Officer and a Gentleman, An (1982) On a Wing and a Prayer (2023) - overly dramatic One Hour Photo (2002) - somewhat awkward Once is Enough (2020) - He's not funny but the Leadville 100 was very interesting! On Golden Pond (1981) Operative, The (2019) Orbital Mechanics 101 (2014) [Martian Colonist, YouTube] Ornithologist, The (O Ornitólogo - original title) (2016) - Confusing! Pacific Rim (2013) Papa Hemingway in Cuba (2015) - some good history but poor acting Passengers (2016) Passion of the Christ, The (2004) Peanut Butter Falcon, The (2019) People vs. Larry Flynt, The (1996)- historical, kind of... Pez Outlaw, The (2022) - interesting story but with too many theatrics... Photograph, The (2020) - interesting storyline Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017) Powaqqatsi (1988) - Life in Transformation Prancer (1989) Predators (2010) - this theme is almost runout... Pretty Strong (2020) Primer: What Happens If It Actually Works? (2004) Princes Bride, The (1987) Promised Land (2012) - a little slow at times... Proposal, The (2009) Purge, The (2013) Pursuit of Happyness (2006) - nice story but too slow Quadrophenia (1979) (the ending made me a bit dizzy...) Rabbit Hole (2010) Radius (2017) - interesting concept that was poorly executed Raiders of Old California (1957) Ram Dass, Going Home (2018) Red (2010) - a bit goofy at times Red Blood, Yellow Gold (1967) Red Dawn (1984) Redeemed by Grace (2015) - Christian documentary Reservoir DOGS (1992) - interesting twist on cops 'n robbers... Ritual, The (2018) Road House (2024) - not as good as the 1989 original, the fight scenes were unrealistic Rosalind Franklin: DNA's unsung hero - Cláudio L. Guerra (2016) [Ted-Ed, YouTube] Running Man, The (1987) Salvation Boulevard (2011) Samaritan (2022) - an interesting concept that could have been done better Schultze Gets the Blues (2003) - cute, sweet, but too slow! Scrooged (1988) Seabiscuit (2003) Secretariat (2010) Sentinel, The (2006) - Thrilling but unrealistic... Seven Psychopaths (2012) - some parts interesting Shack, The (2017) - touching at times... Shanghai Noon (2000) Shape of Water, The (2017) She Came to the Valley 1979 Silver City (2004) - The real Colorado... Sister Act (1992) Skins (2002) - poor acting Skyfall (2012) Slumdog Millionaire (2008) Snowpiercer (2013) - wierd! Son of Rambow (2007) Spaceballs (1987) Space Between Us, The (2017) Spectral (2016) Split (2016) Spring, Summer, Fall, Witner... and Spring - Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom (2003) Spy Game (2001) Stalingrad (2013) Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) State of Alabama vs. Brittany Smith (2022) - low rent... Steel Magnolias (1989) Step Brothers (2008) Stillwater (2021) Straw Dogs (1971) Summer Rental (1985) Super 8 (2011) Super High Me (2007) Taps (1981) Tender Mercies (1983) - Interesting but too slow and not a lot of content Thank You for Smoking (2005) - Poor plot but funny Thing, The (2011) This is Spinal Tap: Special Edition (1984) Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) Tootsie (1982) To Sir, with Love (1967) Toy Story 2 (1999) Toy Story 3 (2010) Trainspotting (1996) - bizarre and depressing Transformers (2007) - Too long but a couple funny parts... Trigger Effect, The (1996) - interesting concept but poor acting... Trinity and Sartana Are Coming (1972) Triple Frontier (2019) Trip to Infinity, A (2022) - immature at times Tropic Thunder (2005) - a bit too goofy... True Lies (1994) - The first half was great, the second half was poorly done True Spirit (2023) - poor acting and overly dramatic throughout Truman Show, The (1998) Unforgiven (1992) Unstoppable (2010) USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage (2016) Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017) Vengeance (2022) Vengeance: A Love Story (2017) - nice theme but slow start and bad acting Via Ut Roma Road to Rome (2009) Vice (2018) - slightly slanted view of history that has some surprisingly boring scenes at times... Visualizing the Proton: A Documentary (2022) - too much art, not enough physics [Arts at MIT, YouTube] Voyagers (2021) Voyeur (2017) - Netflix Waiting for Anya (2020) Walk in the Woods, A (2015) A fun story but poor acting by Redford and Nolte Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) Walmart: The High Cost Of Low Prices (2005) War of the Worlds (2005) - Poor script, good special effects Water (2005) Wesley Willis: The Daddy of Rock 'n' Roll (2003) West Side Story (1961) Whale, The (2022) - depressing What If You Swam in Titan's Lakes for 5 Seconds? (2023) Started out fun but then got too goofy... [What If, YouTube] What life inside the SpaceX starship will be like! (2023) [The Space Race, YouTube] Why does light slow down in water? (2020) - Starting at about 7:10, he doesn't explain why (or how) two waves move at different speeds through the same atoms... [Fermilab, YouTube] Why You Don't See THESE On Phones Anymore (2019) - somewhat goofy [Techquickie, YouTube] Wild (2014) Wild Hogs (2007) Windtalkers (2002) - good history Year One (2009) Zodiac (2007) Zoe (2018)

For a variety of reasons (Sometimes because I lost interest or other times when I was interupted and had to leave to go do something else...) I didn't finish watching these movies in their entirety but may return to them someday:

Waiting List: Some of the movies I've been planning to see but haven't been able to find or just haven't gotten around to yet...

Filmmakers: (Click on thumbnail image for a larger view)

It's not often I have the pleasure of meeting a real movie producer but on September 9, 2005 that's what happened! John De Graff, producer of Affluenza, took time out of his busy schedule to chat with me at the Sierra Club's 2005 Summit in San Francisco. It was refreshing to hear John talk about his own personal effort to live a low-impact, low consumption life-style. He did admit that frequent air travel was a regular part of his business but he made every effort to keep it to a minimum. I won't hold it against him as my own job keeps me in the air way too much as well!

And, as luck would have it, in September '06 I had the pleasure of conducting a radio interview with first time moviemaker Ward Powers about his project, One, the Movie - we received great listener response!

Jeep commercial!

During the evening of August 6, 2008, I was "scouting" the area of Yankee Boy Basin (in the vicinity of Ouray and Telluride, Colorado) in preparation to climb Mt. Sneffels (14,150 ft/4,313 m) early the next morning. On my way back down the 4wd road I ran into this film crew at 11,000 feet (3,353 m)!! The light seemed low, to me (but seemed to satisfy them as you'll hear them say, in my YouTube video, "The saturation now is perfect" - whatever that means!!), and it was even sprinkling a bit. Nevertheless, they continued to film in ernest with a crew of at least 15 people (I can only imagine how much all this cost, being advised that the dozen or so director's assistants, alone, were each being paid $250 uSD per day, not to mention food, lodging and travel expenses!!) working diligently on the production. Since we were on public land they allowed me to hang around without hesitation. They were also controlling some of the 4wd traffic but did a great job in keeping the traffic flowing, and people happy, as much as possible. It was a very interesting affair that I'm happy I ran into. Oh, the camera vehicle was really out-of-this-world with its gyroscopically controlled camera-on-a-boom constantly panning and scanning every inch of the canyon. Really strange!

Protectng the camera

Protectng the camera

Camera vehicle

Camera vehicle

Actual filming

Click Here for my YouTube video of them filming the Jeep commercial!

Jane Wodening and I were part of the 13 founding members of the Colorado QRP Club amateur radio group and were friends for
three decades. Sadly, Jane passed in November, 2023 and will always be missed by me and the rest of our club. In addition to being
a writer (she even mentioned me in one of her books!), Jane and her then husband at the time were involved in filmmaking.

In a December 7, 2023 New York Times article, Penelop Green wrote;   "Jane Wodening, the longtime collaborator and wife of Stan Brakhage, the avant-garde filmmaker, who flourished as an author after their divorce, writing stories about her years living on the road and then alone in a mountain shack, died on Nov. 17 at her home in Denver. She was 87."   "Mr. Brakhage, who died in 2003, was among the most influential experimental filmmakers of the 20th century, though his work could be considered an acquired taste. He made hundreds of movies, most of them silent, that were deeply personal, sometimes elegiac and very beautiful, though they dispensed with any recognizable narrative, often veering into complete abstraction."   For three decades, starting in the 1960s, he and Ms. Wodening lived a spartan life in a century-old cabin in a ghost town in the Rocky Mountains called Lump Gulch, sharing it with their five children and many animals..."   "It was this world that Mr. Brakhage captured in his idiosyncratic, inscrutable way, in what the film critic J. Hoberman, writing in The Village Voice, described as 'home movies raised to the zillionth power — silent and rhythmic, based on an invented language of percussive shifts in exposure or focus, multiple superimpositions, refracted light, and staccato camera moves.'"

Encountering Stars!

I had the good fortune of sitting with Pierce Brosnan for much of the evening on Saturday, February 26, 2017. This was at Foss Auditorium [American Mountaineering Center] in Golden, Colorado, for the viewing of his wife's new film (Poisoning Paradise, about Bill 2491 and Native Hawaiian communities being exposed to pesticides on Kaua'i). His wife, Keely Shaye Smith, was also there to discuss the film the audience. At the end she came to the back of the theatre, where we had both been sitting, where he had been holding a small thermos drink for her - very chivalrous! Although I couldn't get a "selfie" of Pierce and me (I didn't have my phone) this was the same jacket and scarf he was wearing in the theatre. Oh, and his wife's film was one of many being featured by the Colorado Environmental Film Festival that weekend - a great event!

Some Filmmaking History From the inside DVD cover of David Shepard's restoration of Robert Flaherty's 1922 classic, Nanook of the North

"IN ITS EARLIEST YEARS (APRROX. 1895-1902), film production was dominated by 'actualities,' short pictures of real people in real places. Comprised largely of two categories - the travelogue and, more substantially, the industrial-life portrait - these films favored an unmediated view of the world over arranged spectacle."

"Though they gave way in popularity to the narrative fictions of Georges Méliès and Edwin Porter, they continued to be produced in great number. Robert Flaherty's great innovation was simply to combine the two forms of actuality, infusing the exotic journey with the details of indigenous life. By so doing, Flaherty transcended the travelogue, as the picturesque became a real and respectful portrait."

"THE PORTRAIT HAS TWO THINGS that, even today, remain at the very core of the documentary idea. These are process and duration - the detailed representation of how everyday things are done (covering a kayak, negotiating ice floes, hunting, and caring for children) and how long the doing takes. For instance, consider Nanook's stunning igloo-building sequence, where labor is not only revealed in its social context, but emerges, through Nanook's skill and Flaherty's cinematic revelation, as a n ideal of beauty and spirituality."

"First there is shelter, then warmth, and finally light (the window!). Here and elsewhere in the film, by giving real processes a human dimension, craftsmanship and artistry become one. Nanook of the North pioneered these ideas, and it remains nearly matchless in executing them."

Although I like most of the 100 top movie quotes of all time the following are some of my personal favorites:

• Sweet Home Alabama (2002)
  
• Apocolypse Now (1979)
  Kilgore: Smell that? You smell that?
  Lance: What?
  Kilgore: Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. [kneels] I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like [sniffing, pondering] victory. Someday this war's gonna end...
• Good Will Hunting (1997)
  (Matt Damon, as Will Hunting, being interviewed for a possible job with the National Security Agency - the spooks who conduct electronic eavesdropping for the U.S. Government)

  Why shouldn't I work for the NSA? That's a tough one. But I'll take a shot. Say I'm working at the N.S.A. Somebody puts a code on my desk, something nobody can break. So I take a shot at it and maybe I break it. And I'm real happy with myself 'cause I did my job well. But maybe that code was the location of some rebel army in North Africa or the Middle East. Once they have that location they bomb the village where the rebels were hiding and fifteen hundred people I never had a problem with get killed. Click Here for the rest of the quote...

• Jeremiah Johnson (1972)
  While travelling, Jeremiah comes across Del Gue, a guy who has been burried up to his neck in the ground. Jeremiah asks Gue, "Injuns put you here?" The man replies, "twern't Mormons."
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
  President Merkin Muffley: [to Kissoff] Hello? ... Ah ... I can't hear too well. Do you suppose you could turn the music down just a little? ... Oh-ho, that's much better. ... yeah ... huh ... yes ... Fine, I can hear you now, Dmitri. ... Clear and plain and coming through fine....I'm coming through fine, too, eh? ... Good, then ... well, then, as you say, we're both coming through fine. ... Good. ... Well, it's good that you're fine and ... and I'm fine. ... I agree with you, it's great to be fine. ... a-ha-ha-ha-ha ... Now then, Dmitri, you know how we've always talked about the possibility of something going wrong with the Bomb. ...The *Bomb*, Dmitri.... The *hydrogen* bomb! ... Well now, what happened is ... ah ... one of our base commanders, he had a sort of ... well, he went a little funny in the head ... you know ... just a little ... funny. And, ah ... he went and did a silly thing. ... Well, I'll tell you what he did. He ordered his planes ... to attack your country... Ah... Well, let me finish, Dmitri. ... Let me finish, Dmitri. ... Well listen, how do you think I feel about it?! ...Can you *imagine* how I feel about it, Dmitri? ... Why do you think I'm calling you? Just to say hello? ... *Of course* I like to speak to you! ... *Of course* I like to say hello! ... Not now, but anytime, Dmitri. I'm just calling up to tell you something terrible has happened... It's a *friendly* call. Of course it's a friendly call. ... Listen, if it wasn't friendly ... you probably wouldn't have even got it. ... They will *not* reach their targets for at least another hour. ... I am ... I am positive, Dmitri. ... Listen, I've been all over this with your ambassador. It is not a trick. ... Well, I'll tell you. We'd like to give your air staff a complete run-down on the targets, the flight plans, and the defensive systems of the planes. ... Yes! I mean i-i-i-if we're unable to recall the planes, then ... I'd say that, ah ... well, ah ... we're just gonna have to help you destroy them, Dmitri. ... I know they're our boys. ... All right, well listen now. Who should we call? ...*Who* should we call, Dmitri? The ... wha-whe, the People... you, sorry, you faded away there.... The People's Central Air Defense Headquarters. ... Where is that, Dmitri? ... In Omsk. ... Right. ... Yes. ...Oh, you'll call them first, will you? ... Uh-hu ... Listen, do you happen to have the phone number on you, Dmitri? ... Whe-ah, what? I see, just ask for Omsk information. ...Ah-ah-eh-uhm-hm ... I'm sorry, too, Dmitri. ...I'm very sorry. ... *All right*, you're sorrier than I am, but I am as sorry as well. ... I am as sorry as you are, Dmitri! Don't say that you're more sorry than I am, because I'm capable of being just as sorry as you are. ... So we're both sorry, all right?! ... All right.
   
   
  Major T. J. "King" Kong:
  

  "Well boys, we got three engines out, we got more holes in us than a horse trader's mule,   the radio is gone and we're leaking fuel and if we was flying any lower why we'd need sleigh bells on this thing...   but we got one little budge on those Roosskies. At this height why they might harpoon us but they dang sure ain't gonna spot us on no radar screen!"

• The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
  "Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure."

My Five Most Favorite Movie Scenes:

2001, Contact, Apocalypse Now and Dreamkeeper contain my most favorite individual scenes. Although Dreamkeeper isn't one of my most favorite movies I still liked it a lot and enjoyed the Coyote and Spider (Iktome) scene more than almost any others except for the aforementioned 2001, Contact, and Apocalypse. Of Course the scene where Dave unplugs HAL, in 2001, is a classic by most standards as is the Colonel Kilgore piece in Apocalypse, where he's talking about the smell of napalm in. Also, I've repeatedly watched the scene (over and over!) where Jodie Foster first hears the alien signal in Contact - although one of my favorite movies, too, Contact has a gratuitous sex scene and some bureaucratic and political bungling that detract a bit from an otherwise fantastic movie.

My favorite movie "clips" (or scenes) aren't necessarily the same as my favorite movie quotes. Dreamkeeper's Coyote and Spider (Iktome) scene has simple dialogue but contains that nighttime-half-asleep-dream appearance that really captivated me. "Tweren't Mormons," as mentioned earlier (Jerimiah Johnson, in my "Movie Quotes" section), is a great quote that's also part of a great scene with Del Gue buried up to his head by Indians.

Another close runner-up was the marine's meltdown in Aliens (game over man, game over!). There are tons of other good scenes, too, in other movies, but the ones I mention here stick out best in my memory and bring the most pleasure when I think about 'em!

Dave unplugs Hal in 2001: A Space Odyssey

Ellie hears an alien signal in Contact

Spider and Coyote in Dreamkeeper

Too many great scenes to select just one!

Lieutenant Colonel Kilgorer loves the smell of napalm in the morning in Apocolypse Now

Televison Series (and series run on NetFlix and other internet outlets):

It's been a busy life with almost little time for television (plus I have no direct reception where I live and
I refuse to pay the outrageous rates for cable and subscriptions!). Although I've seen a bit of it while traveling
(hotel rooms, at a friend's house, etc.) I'm confident I haven't missed much as the vast majority of programming
is poorly done, boring, and demeaning. That being said, there were some programs I was able to catch either in part,
or in their entirity, that I really enjoyed:

Alone (all of seasons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8) Breaking Bad (all of 'em!) Carnivale (All of 'em!) Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (All of it!) Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (All of it!) Emergency NYC (2023) All episodes Expanse, The Fargo Kung Fu (when I was very young and loved 'em all!) Lenox Hill (2020) All episodes Oz (Most of 'em!) Naked and Afraid (Most of 'em!) Squid Game (2021) - Season 1, all 9 episodes Survivor (the first few seasons) World War II in Colour (2009) I viewed all of the episodes WWII in HD (2009) I viewed all of the episodes One series I thought would be enjoyable was Outer Range - taking place in Wyoming, it started out pretty good but got so much worse (and weird) that I wasn't able to finish it all...

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