FlixSplosion

Just watched Birdbox on Netflix (not to be confused with the Bird Cage....  which - yeah - you should just look that up and watch it.) This movie was better than I expected, but not as good as I hoped. Huh?  What does that mean? Well - it is a bit derivative.  It's basically a permutation of A Quiet Place (great movie, if you haven't watched it.)  It had solid emotional beats (Sandra Bullock's character with a love interest, trying to save [redacted] while understanding not all of them can survive - if they were a bit predictable. The ending was... Meh.... Overall?  An OK watch. #6/10

What, exactly, you may ask, is the point of this? I don't know. But - if I were a betting man, I'd say... I don't know. Since I'm not a betting man, though, I can say that the basic premise is that I'm going to try and watch as many movies as possible this (2019) year. A few ground rules - because who doesn't love rules? 1. It has to be a movie I haven't already seen.  It's all about the newness (well, new to me.) 2. It has to be a feature length film.  This may seem arbitrary to some - but the movie has to be at least 80 minutes long for me to count it (not counting commercials, for those that have them.)  This means no TV specials. 3. Documentaries are OK, as long as they fulfill rules 1 and 2. That's pretty much it. So, let's see what I can do. My goal is 500 movies for the year.  Many will be terrible.  Some will be incredible.  Most will be.. meh. As I journey through each movie, I'll leave brief thoughts here (...