One of my goals for 2020 is to be more decisive when it comes to choosing movies to watch so what better way to start than with a good old-fashioned hunt.
Original List
1. Watch a movie from or set in the 1920s.
2. Watch a movie where a door or gate is integral to the plot (ex: Monsters Inc.) or where a famous scene from the movie involves a door or gate (ex: "Here's Johnny").
3. Watch a movie featuring a hybrid (animal-animal, human-animal).
4. Watch a movie musical.
5. Watch something nominated at the 14th Golden Globe Awards.
6. Watch a romance film from the 1970s.
7. Watch a movie where actors were together/married during the time of…
One of my goals for 2020 is to be more decisive when it comes to choosing movies to watch so what better way to start than with a good old-fashioned hunt.
Original List
1. Watch a movie from or set in the 1920s.
2. Watch a movie where a door or gate is integral to the plot (ex: Monsters Inc.) or where a famous scene from the movie involves a door or gate (ex: "Here's Johnny").
3. Watch a movie featuring a hybrid (animal-animal, human-animal).
4. Watch a movie musical.
5. Watch something nominated at the 14th Golden Globe Awards.
6. Watch a romance film from the 1970s.
7. Watch a movie where actors were together/married during the time of filming or got together/married after meeting on set (the couple can now be no longer together).
8. Watch a movie where a parent and child act together.
9. Watch a movie where two siblings have acted together.
10. Watch a movie directed by siblings.
11. Watch a movie composed by, directed by or featuring someone in or who has ever been married into the Coppola family.
12. Watch a movie set in Philadelphia.
13. Find a musician from Philadelphia that has contributed to a movie's soundtrack and watch that movie.
14. Watch a movie featuring someone who's known prominently as a musician (the musician cannot be playing themselves in the movie).
15. Watch a movie featuring one (or more?) of the actors Madonna name drops in "Vogue".
16. Watch a movie where Edith Head was the costume designer.
17. Watch a movie released in 1962 that falls in either the action, adventure, fantasy and/or sci-fi genre.
18. Watch a non-MCU movie from 2010 onward where at least two Marvel actors have acted in.
19. Watch a movie featuring costume design by Ruth E. Carter or production design by Hannah Beachler.
20. Watch a movie where John Williams composed the original score.
21. Watch a movie that someone filed a lawsuit against.
22. Watch a film featuring Katsumi Tezuka or any centenarian still alive or who had lived to 100 years of age.
23. Watch a movie directed by, contributed by or featuring someone who died last year.
24. Watch a movie where an actor was born in or after the year 2000 and plays a prominent role.
25. Watch an actor's breakthrough role where they were at twenty years old of the time of the movie’s release.
26. Watch any directorial debut.
27. Watch a movie where a person was both an actor and director (cameos are okay)
28. Watch a movie where the actor and director have collaborated at least five times.
29. Watch a movie that was hated by an actor or crew.
30. Watch a movie with a rotten critic percentage, but a fresh audience percentage and with at least a 25% difference.
31. Go to the official top 250 narrative feature films and see how many you've watched (# out of 250). Go to that # on the list and watch that movie. If it's a movie you've watched, go up or down the list to the nearest movie you haven't watched (or more realistically, up or down to the movie that easiest for you to watch).