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Nah, my comedy favourites are the ones i rarely say "it's so great you have to watch it!" about, unless there's some really strong aspect other than the humour but i don't really think there is with My Cousin Vinny as much as i love it. Everyone's humour is so different and especially with people you don't know in real life it's difficult to tell whether it's something you'd like or not. All i'd say is if you are feeling lazy one day with some spare time and feel like a comedy keep My Cousin Vinny in mind.

MM, how come you didn't make these movie write ups into reviews? Your review of WALL-E easily qualifies to be an official review as it's over 250 words and has a title, year and popcorn rating, so all you would have to do is to click to submit it. It's a good review too, but I would not have seen it if you hadn't told me about it.


By my count you have around 330 movies listed here, that's impressive. If you submitted them as reviews (and it's not to late, you can still submit them) you would be on the review board with around 530. Heck! you've wrote just about as many as me.

I'd love to see you be on the review board. I don't know if that's a goal of yours or not, but there's always room for more reviewers

All my reviews are at least near the 400 word mark; I think my shortest is around 380 or something. That's my own standard for length I guess, I think a length of 250 seems too short. But hey, if you say it qualities I should start tagging more reviews.

Of course it's a goal. Any serious reviewer should see that as a goal.

BUT, the reason why, you ask? Well, all you'd have to do is go back to that link and click it once more. You'll notice that my reviews in the past was a post containing several reviews, which would mean that if I tagged it 4 more reviews or so would go along with it and Wall-E would end up somewhere in between other titles, with their own review and their own popcorn rating. So that's no good, unfortunately.

I have thought about doing a "classic callback review thread" where I would re-do the original untagged reviews that most haven't read or forgot about anyways, and then re-work them into longer, more detailed, multi-paragraphed reviews, so that like at least 60-80% Of the review would be original and new material, while the other percentage would be familiar but still not the same as I would rewrite it all; since my old work isn't as good as my new.

So yeah, that would mean I could tag them in their own posts. And to make the thread more interesting, I thought about posting the reviews "in themes", like the next few days/weeks would be animated week (s) and then a Fast & Furious week and then possibly a western week etc etc, so that it would be more organized and interesting to follow.

But I don't know... the idea is both good and bad.

Tacitus is the mod who does the review approvals and on a couple of occasions I submitted really short reviews and he told me they need to be 250 words or more. So all of your writes up would be long enough.

Seriously I'd love to see you up on the board and giving me a run for the money I've haven't had much time to do reviews so I'm falling behind.

Good point, I had forgot about that. Yeah multiple movie reviews on one post is problematic, but there's always a solution!

I like it see that's a good solution....maybe a project for you in your spare time? It sounds like a good idea as you did the work so why not have the credit?

I like that too You should do it.

I'm going to skim through this thread when I get the time. I did a quick look at there's some movies you've wrote up that I've seen.

Yaaaay! I got ONE supporter for my idea! Woop woop

I just saw Edward Scissorhands for the first time about a year ago and was surprised how much I liked it.

I didn't care for Frozen but Wreck-It Ralph made my animation list.

Glad to hear you liked Edward Scissorhands, cricket!

I understand the love for Ralph, I seem to be in the minority, though I still liked it quite a bit...

I'm not a Tim Burton fan, and that's why it took me so long to watch it. I think I watched it because of a movie swap with Miss Vicky actually. Anyway, I think he's a great director, but he doesn't generally make movies that line up with my taste.

Christmas Vacation seems so popular but I think it pretty much sucks. The first is one of my favorite comedies; after that, garbage.

Glad I'm not the only one.

Well I don't think it sucks, but it's not that good. I have no interest in the other Vacation movies either. The new one sucked balls too.

I liked this movie a little more than you did, but enjoyed reading your review. Other than the first film, this is the only other one I can watch.

Good. Sounds like I'm not missing anything by not watching any further in this franchise.

And thanks for checking in and reading my review, Gideon!!!

Again, I think I liked this one a little more than you, but agree with a lot of what you say here, especially regarding the story...there is SO much going on here that's almost headache-inducing trying to keep track of everything that's going on. Of course, overly complex plotting is a staple of Disney Pixar so I shouldn't be surprised.

@Citizen Rules you thought the new Star Wars blew and that the original Vacation is a lesser movie than Christmas Vacation... your opinion is officially invalid.

But yeah, I have watched the new Vacation movie. That one BLEW for sure. Trailer was awesome imo, too bad the movie was so poor.

About Star Wars... funny that you think it blew yet award it with 2.5 popcorns. Anyways, That was also my original rating for it, but a rewatch changed it a tiny bit for me, into a very light 3 popcorns. And if Force Awakens was released as a stand alone film without any Star Wars movie before it, then YES, it actually would be as popular if not more - because the universe would actually feel fresh.