Thursday Movie Picks #129: Coming Home

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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Coming Home

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Just a little reminder, I posted the 2017 schedule last Monday. The are 7 dates open for theme suggestions. So this is the last call for themes, keep them coming if you still have some more ideas (comment on last Monday's post). I'll make my picks and post the final updated schedule late Saturday.

I'll Be Home for Christmas (1998)

I don't even remember much of this, but hey it fits the theme and if you're nostalgic for the 90's take a trip back to the late 90's with teen star Jonathan Taylor Thomas (or JTT as his called on all those teen magazines) as a college student trying to make his way home for Christmas.

Wind Chill (2007)
Two college students share a ride home for the holidays but their car breaks down in the middle of nowhere and they are trapped in the cold. Apparently there's a supernatural element to this which I somehow have totally forgot.

Beautiful Girls (1996)

The best out of the three: a guy goes back to his hometown to contemplate about his career and if he should get married.

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Thursday Movie Picks #128: Parties

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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Parties

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I've posted the 2017 Thursday Movie Picks schedule on Monday. Please have a look if your have not. There are 7 dates open for theme suggestions. If you think there's a theme we have yet to cover, please add a comment on Monday's post to submit your suggestions. Thanks. The complete updated schedule will be posted just before the new year.

Now on to today's pick which is a little late. 

The Great Gatsby (2013)

Jay Gatsby's parties; it's really the only thing people know about him. Since this is a Baz Luhrmann movie, the parties are even more loud, extravagant and glittery.

Marie Antoinette (2006)
Party like it's the 18th century: big wigs, powdered faces, beautiful costumes and cakes...lots of pastel colored cakes. This movie is so, so gorgeous to look at.

Can't Hardly Wait (1998)

It's a last night of high school party movie. I was looking at the photos it had on IMDB and I had forgotten that so many of the 90's teen stars made cameo appearances on this. I

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2017 Thursday Movie Picks Schedule

Hey! So I finally have the 2017 themes ready! Any questions, please leave a comment.

This year I have a new TMP special edition - A TMP Television Edition. I think the past year I've seen more TV series than movies and I thought wouldn't it be great to have a TV edition. I contemplated doing a standalone spinoff series, but was unsure if I could commit to another day of blog post or if anyone was interested in participating in the series as well, so I'm just putting it together with TMP and they will run on the last Thursday of each month. You can pick TV series or mini-series, just NOT TV movies.

I'm revising some of my rules too. I know we all love to share more of our picks, so I suggest 3-5 picks. Anymore than that it just becomes a long list. You can also pick them for whatever reasons you like. I know most usually go for favourites, but I've seen some creative picks in the last two years which is always fun. So simply pick 3 to 5 titles and tell us why you picked them. The last rule of sharing your link in the inlinkz widget and linking back to my blog on your own blog post still stands of course.

Lastly, I've opened up seven dates for suggestions on next year's schedule. If you're interested, you can submit a maximum of two suggestions in the comment section below. I'll choose 7 out of all the suggestions I've received. If you've made a suggestion in previous years which I have not used, you may resubmit again for next year's consideration. All I ask is that if you do decide to submit a topic please ensure that you will participate for the Thursday it's allocated. Here are the open dates available:

March 16 -  

May 18 - 

June 15 -  

August 10 - 

September 7 - 

October 19 - Halloween Edition:

November 16 -  

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2017 Thursday Movie Picks Schedule

January 5 -Legal Thrillers
January 12 - Fashion World
January 19 - The Underdog
January 26 - TMP Television Edition: Science Fiction
February 2 -Movies About Artists (Painters)
February 9 - Prodigy/Genius
February 16 - Shakespeare Adaptation
February 23 - TMP Television Edition: Superheroes/Super Powers
March 2 - On the Run
March 9 - Remakes/Sequels/Reboots (of a movie that hasn't got one) You Want to See
March 16 -
March 23 -Ancient World (3600 BC – 500 AD)
March 30 - TMP Television Edition: Period Drama
April 6 - Cars/Racing
April 13 - Rivalry
April 20 - A Disappearance
April 27 - TMP Television Edition: Police
May 4 - Clones/Doppelgänger
May 11 - Deserts (Hot or Cold)
May 18 -
May 25 - TMP Television Edition: Time Travel
June 1 - Tall Buildings
June 8 -  Double Features (Movies that go well together)
June 15 -
June 22 -The Woods
June 29 - TMP Television Edition: Medical Drama
July 6 - Summer Vacation
July 13 -Amusement Parks
July 20 - The Chosen One 
July 27 - TMP Television Edition:Non-English
August 3 -  Crime Family
August 10 -
August 17 - Rescue
August 24 - The Stage
August 31 - TMP Television Edition:High School
September 7 -
September 15 - Financial World
September 21 - Just Not Funny Comedies
September 28 - TMP Television Edition: Family
October 5 - Halloween Edition: Masks
October 12 - Halloween Edition: Dolls
October 19 - Halloween Edition:
October 26 -Halloween/Television Edition: Horror
November 2 - A Stranger
November 9 - An Adaptation (of a book, comic, game etc that hasn't been adapted) You Want to See
November 16 -
November 23 - Origin Movies
November 30 - TMP Television Edition: Workplace
December 7 - Ugly Duckling to Beautiful Swan Makeover
December 14 - Small Towns
December 21 - 2018 Movies You're Looking Forward To
December 28 - TMP Television: Friendship

Thursday Movie Picks #127: Video/Arcade/Board Game Movies

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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Video/Arcade/Board Game Movies

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I generally think movies based on video/arcade/board games are bad, most of the reviews said they were anyway, so I haven't really make any effort to watch any of them. I may have watch both the Silent Hill movies in parts when they aired on TV, but I just wasn't really into them. So my picks today will be three that I'm curious about.

Assassin's Creed (2016)

I mostly want to see this because of the actors, who generally star in good movies or at the very least interesting ones. Reviews are still not out yet so yeah I'm curious. Saw bits of the trailer and it looks kinda cool.

Clue (1985 & ?)
I have not seen the '85 version and now there's a new adaptation in the works. I do like who whodunnits like And Then There Were None and Gosford Park, so I'd like to check out both Clue adaptations.

Ouija (2014) & Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016)

If I'm not mistaken, unlike others, these two are like the official Ouija movies based on the Hasbro board game. The first one had really bad ratings but the second one looks like it's not bad.

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Thursday Movie Picks #126: Movies based on Toys

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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Movies based on Toys

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Today is one of those themes where I think "what was I thinking", plus for some reason I excluded board games (which will be in next week's theme) making today that much more challenging. My picks today are two that I like and one that I want to check out.

*I will post a new list of themes sometime next week.

The Lego Movie (2014)

I didn't quite love this movie, but I enjoyed it. Everything Is Awesome is awesome.

Transformers (2007)
I have only seen 2 from the current movie franchise, I did enjoy the first movie so it earns a spot on today's picks but the second was just bad that I can't be bothered with the rest especially since the general opinion is that the franchise just get worse with each movie.

Jem and the Holograms (2015)

It got bad reviews with an 18% tomatometer but I still want to see it. I grew up with the cartoons so I am very curious what the live action movie look like. I've always that thought that Jem and the Holograms started as a TV series but actually, like Transformers, the TV series was created to sell toys.

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Thursday Movie Picks #125: Your Comfort Movie

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This week's Thursday Movie is Your Comfort Movie

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Your comfort movie - the kind you can watch over and over again and never grow tired of them and lift your spirits when you're feeling blue. I have a quite a few so here's 3 of them.

Stardust (2007)

Absolutely love this movie! I'd say this is a fairy tale for adults, I don't think kids would get much of the humour. Anyway it's such a magical, charming and funny movie; it just makes me happy and I love the score as well. The gist of the story is a young man goes on a journey into a magical world to catch a fallen star for the girl he loves. But he isn't the only one looking for the star: three witches and ruthless princes want the star as well.

Love Actually (2003)
I think everyone would have seen or at least have heard of Love Actually by now. It's the movie that gets played quite a bit during this festive season. You either love it or hate it; I love it! It makes me laugh and cry, I just think it has a lot of heart.

A Little Romance (1979)

I've picked this movie before in the early days of TMP; it's picked again today because I think it's quite a forgotten gem having fallen through the cracks of time and it is one of my favorite movies that I revisit from time to time. It's also one of those movies that I think could do what the Before (Sunrise, Sunset, Midnight) series did, exploring what happens to the characters years or in this case decades later - I would just just love to see it. Anyway...A Little Romance is about two young intellectual teens (I think they're 13), an American girl (a young Diane Lane) and a French boy, who meet in the Palace of Versailles. They become fast friends and soon realise they are probably each others soulmates. When the girl learns her family is moving back to the US, they both run away to Venice to the Bridge of Sigh because legend say that the couple that share a kiss underneath it will be granted eternal love and bliss. The kids are adorable and the movie is just so so charming, shot against some very historic and scenic places in Europe.

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Thursday Movie Picks #124: Western

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This week's Thursday Movie is Western (Suggested by Birgit)

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Ahh...Westerns...definitely not my genre, which is why it probably took Birgit to suggest to finally become a theme on TMP  but I have seen a few; mostly the newer ones. My picks today are the ones I like.

Slow West (2015)

One of my most recent watch. It's sort of a quirky poetic fish-out-of-water story set in the American West. The scenery in this was just very beautiful, the music too and I just overall really enjoyed the movie. The gist of it is a Scottish teen goes on a journey to find the girl he loves who is, with her father, on the run and has come to the West to hide out. Along the way the boy meets a mysterious man whom he pays to guide him as the journey begins to become more and more dangerous.

3:10 to Yuma (2007)
A rancher takes up the dangerous job of escorting an outlaw to the 3:10 to Yuma train. It has been a quite a while since I've seen this, so my memory of it is hazy, but I do remember liking it a lot.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

Another one that I haven't seen in a long time, but yeah I think it's as great as everyone says it is. In short it's a buddy movie of two robbers trying to escape from the law..

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Thursday Movie Picks #123: Movies based on a TV Series

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This week's Thursday Movie is Movies based on a TV Series

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Here's a fun theme. I love watching TV just as much as movies so it's always interesting to see if a successful tv series can be made into a movie. My picks today are 2 that I like and the third is one where it totally didn't work.

21 Jump Street (2012)

I thought the idea of a movie remake of 21 Jump Street was so dumb. I wasn't super familiar with the TV series, but from what I understand it was a drama. So thinking the remake would similarly be a drama I just thought the premise sounds too dated for this decade. But nope, the movie is comedy and it was great. They had a lot of fun with the basic premise of young-ish  (but not so young-ish) cops having to go undercover as high school students.

Mission: Impossible (1996-
Have not seen this TV series too and had never really cared for the movies as well; but after seeing how great Ghost Protocol was, I checked out the 3rd one and have now also seen Rogue Nation. As action films, they're probably one of the best. In terms of story, they have convoluted plots that I've given up following which I suspect are all really dumb anyway. So just watch it for the amazing stunts, gadgetry and impossible situations.

Bewitched (2005)

The bad apple of today's picks. I love the TV series and had look forward to the movie. Unfortunately it was terrible. I just don't understand why they just didn't do a straight up remake.

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Thursday Movie Picks #122: Movies about Addiction

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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Movies about Addiction (Suggested by Wendell)

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This week's theme is a suggestion from Wendell@DellonMovies. It's a tough topic for me; not that I can't think of any, just that I can't say I really like them much. Still I'm going with the 3 that I suppose I like better than the rest.

Smashed (2012)

In a lot of movies, the person with the addiction is like the only screw up. I think the most interesting part in this one is that the people in the lead character's life are pretty much functional alcoholics too; so much so that she doesn't, nor does anyone else, realise her alcoholism has gotten really bad until it's put her in embarrassing and dangerous situations.

Flight (2012)
Has a premise that is sort of like Sully, but it's not a true story and with the alcoholism bit.

Trainspotting (1996)

I really don't remember much of this. I think there was a freaky hallucination scene of a baby crawling around or was that in Requiem of a Dream? Anyway, there is a sequel coming up, so I guess I'll be seeing this again before watching the new one.

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Thursday Movie Picks #121: Non-English Language Movies - Middle Eastern Language Movies

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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Non-English Language Movies - Middle Eastern Language Movies

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This week is challenging for me. I don't have a lot choices to pick from and 90% of the ones I've seen are Iranian so all my picks to day will be Iranian movies and they're definitely gems.

A Separation (2011)

Such a great movie. A married couple have differing views on where to raise their daughter. The husband wants to stay in Iran so that he can also care for his father who has Alzheimer while the wife wants to move to another country for better opportunities for their daughter. Caught in the middle is the daughter, and the last scene was just very sad because throughout the movie we see that they are pretty loving family; it's that one thing that forces them apart.

Baran (2001)
Set in Iran, a Turkish boy is resentful of the new Afghan boy at the construction site he works at as the boy gets to do the lighter tasks. However, when he discovers the boy is actually a girl, he begins to understand the hardship she goes through and falling in love with her, he tries to help her in any way he can. A lovely story of unselfish love that is definitely not like the typical teen love story.

Children of Heaven (1997)

A brother loses his sister's shoes, and not wanting to trouble their parents, they cope with the lost shoes by sharing the only pair they have left, the brother's, between them. The movie and the kids are just sweet, charming and full innocence.

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Thursday Movie Picks #120: Halloween Edition - Epidemic/Pandemic/Outbreak

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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Halloween Edition -  Epidemic/Pandemic/Outbreak

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Hey it's October and the whole of this month I'm running the Halloween Edition. Take a look at what's in store for the rest of the weeks.

October 6 - Halloween Edition: Witches/Warlock
October 13 - Halloween Edition:  Creature/Monster Features (NO Aliens/Vampires/Zombies/Werewolves) (Example of Creature/Monsters: Cujo)
October 20 - Halloween Edition: Science Fiction Horror
October 27 - Halloween Edition: Epidemic/Pandemic/Outbreak

Ahh...it's last week of October. I hope you had a fun one and discovered some good new scary movies to watch.
  

28 Days Later (2002)
Absolutely love this movie! Great story, great music and just really really scary. I think this was the first zombie-ish movie I ever saw and what a movie to start with.

Contagion (2011)
Scary because it sorta looked like SARS (which did happen here) even with the way it was spread globally. The movie does up the mysterious epidemic several notches with what looks like a worst mortality rate so yeah very very scary but at least we can console ourselves that one of this magnitude didn't happen and yet look how easily and quickly it could.

Carriers (2009)
Two brothers and their friends are on the road to go to their childhood vacation spot to escape a mysterious outbreak that has seemingly left the world quite deserted. It has been a few years since I saw this but I remember liking it. It's like a low key version of Zombieland, that's not a comedy and wasn't quite a zombie outbreak (I think people got rapidly sick but linger for some time) but has a more disastrous consequence for a few of the main characters.

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So that's it...my three picks. What three movies made your list today?

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Check out some of my random Thursday Movie Picks

Thursday Movie Picks #28: Movies with Colour in the Title
Thursday Movie Picks #17: Movies Featuring Amnesiacs
Thursday Movie Picks #25: Bank Robberies
Thursday Movie Picks #13: Zombie Movies
Thursday Movie Picks #22: Movies that Feature a Family Secret

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