I dislike Boot Hill, but i don’t hate it.
Impossible to play the game. here’s my picks from what I have seen so far
Day 1. Best of 2016 So Far – haven’t seen more than 3 yet and none of them impressed me
Day 2. Favourite Action - Predator
Day 3. Childhood Favourite – Neverending Story
Day 4. Favourite Spaghetti Western – For A Few Dollars More
Day 5. Used to Love it, Now I Hate It – none, but there are a few that I simply
do not like much anymore
Day 6. Favourite Actor – Gene Hackman
Day 7. Favourite Actress – don’t have a favorite, I do think that Meryl Streep
can act real good though
Day 8. Guilty Secret Pleasure – still enjoy some Smurfs episodes
Day 9. Favourite Reboot/Remake - Sorcerer
Day 10. So Bad, it’s Good - Ölüm
savasçisi
Day 11. I Could Quote Every Line – I can quote quite a few lines from the first
4 Rocky films
Day 12. Haven’t Seen it Yet, think I’m Going to HATE it… – too numerous to
mention
Day 13. Haven’t Seen it Yet, think I’m Going to LOVE it… – maybe Idi I smotri
Day 14. Favourite Documentary – Hoop Dreams
Day 15. Favourite Sequel/Prequel – Rocky 2
Day 16. Favourite Director – Sidney Lumet
Day 17. Favourite Comedy – City Slickers
Day 18. Favourite War - Platoon
Day 19. All-Time Most Hated – I’ll pick a recent one which tortured me mercilessly, Godard’s Week End.
Day 20. WTF?! - Challenging Cinema – Holy Mountain
Day 21. Favourite Sci-Fi- Alien
Day 22. Favourite Drama – Wake In Fright
Day 23. Scariest Movie – The Fly (Cronenberg)
Day 24. Favourite Animated – Grave Of The Fireflies
Day 25. Favourite Western (NON-Spag) - Lawman
Day 26. Biggest Disappointment – Terminator Salvation
Day 27. Most Pleasant Surprise – Personal Best
Day 28. Really Should Have Seen This By Now – She Wore A Yellow Ribbon
Day 29. Movie Which Best Describes ME – Rocky 3
Day 30. All-Time Favourite – Any of the first four Rocky films
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I hate Boot Hill, but I don’t dislike it entirely 
But in a phrase like “I hate Boot hill” the term hate is used in a metaphorical sense, at least by me
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IT’S HERE!
DAY 1: BEST OF 2016 SO FAR
Fairly self-explanatory category, ths one (as most of them are): It’s the film which has most snapped your radish, pickled your onion, tinkled your ivories etc. so far in this, the year of Our Lord Two Thousand and Sixteen. However , I’m already making a compromise. My true favourite this year so far has been Marvel mash-up Captain America: Civil War (Russo/Russo, 2016) but that’s not the picture I’m nominating for viewing today, for no other reason than it’ll be arriving at my doorstep on Monday when it’s released on blu-ray and I’ll want to watch it then, not now.
So, my pick for today is Deadpool (Miller, 2016) the (somewhat) surprise X-Men spin-off smash hit from February, which spent over a decade in development hell, with star Ryan Reynolds waiting to play the lead role for the entire time. Whether I get to watch Deadpool today though is another matter entirely, since each day my pick will be set against my wife’s pick and my son’s pick too, all at the whim of a dice throw. Today, my son has gone for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (Snyder, 2016), and my wife has selected The Purge: Election Year (DeMonaco, 2016). I’m happy to watch any of those tbh; that won’t be the case every day however, I’m sure.
EDIT Yay! I won the first throw! Deadpool it is.
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Godspeed on your perilous journey over the next four weeks!
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DAY 2: FAVOURITE ACTION
I thought this category was going to be simple - I like a lot of action-packed movies - but I’m not sure if I’m that keen on too many movies which define themselves most readily as action films. When I think “Action Film” I immediately think of Stallone, Arnie, Bruce; of movies featuring This Van Damme, That Van Diesel, The Other Van Seagull; in which rocks are chucked by men called Rock, or Chuck. I almost gave in and stuck Commando (Lester, 1985) down. But ultimately, even though those movies are fun in their way, they’re not really me.
So, after (very) briefly considering Sly and The Expendables 2 (West, 2012), thinking long and hard about Arnie (not in that way, you dirty hobbits!) and Predator (McTiernan, 1997), and abandoning both the fantastic The Bourne Supremacy (Greengrass, 2004) because I watched it on telly about a week or so ago AND Kill Bill: Vol.1 (Tarantino, 2003) because I watched it less than a fortnight ago , I finally settled on my nomination for today: Sin City (Miller/Rodriguez, 2005), that white-on-inky-black comic come to life which was unlike anything I’d ever seen before (I’ve seen a couple of movies like it since - including its own sequel/prequel - and they’ve paled in comparison).
But will I get to watch it? Up against Sin City in the dice throw today is my son’s pick: Die Hard (McTiernan, 1988) and my wife’s pick, the reality show spoof Series 7: The Contenders (Minahan, 2001).
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I’d side with your son.
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My wife won today, so we’re going with Series 7: The Contenders. I wouldn’t have placed it among my favourite action pics ever but I certainly like it tbh so it’s all good. Still, I’m going to bat my eyelashes a bit, show a bit of leg and try to sweet-talk the missus into watching Sin City late tonight anyway. Worth a try!
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DAY 3: CHILDHOOD FAVOURITE
I suppose if I was going to point toward my childhood childhood, the obvious and only choice for me for today would be Star Wars (Lucas, 1977) or, to give it the clunkier title by which it’s known within the larger Star Wars canon: Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope. It represented my primary interest between ages 5-13, approximately; little else got a look in. Adam and the Ants, 2000AD Weekly, Asterix books and Star Wars - that was pretty-much me at that point. In fact I’ve still got a bunch of the old vintage Star Wars action figures, spaceships and what-not up in the loft, waiting patiently to be passed down to my son, or to any other person on Earth prepared to make me an offer I can’t refuse.
Still, I’m not going back quite that far today.
For young teenagers in the 1980’s, the cinematic landscape was a rich tapestry indeed but, for me, three films dominated, particularly in the mid-eighties when my peers were busy either learning the consequences to feeding Mogwai after midnight or convincing one another that they “Ain’t 'fraid of no ghost”: The John Hughes-helmed one-two punch Twin Towers that were Weird Science (1985) and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986) - both of which I could also have saved for “I Could Quote Every Line” day on the 11th - and the movie I’m picking today: Fright Night (Holland, 1985).
For me, Fright Night was - and remains - everything one needs from a movie, perfectly blended. It’s fun, it’s a proper vampire film, it’s an old-fashioned monster movie and it’s as cool as f*ck (well, it was in the eighties. Has there ever been a better on-screen vampire than Chris Sarandon? There haven’t been many. And how cool was Stephen Geoffreys as “Evil” Ed Thompson? I wanted to be Stephen so much (although I probably wanted to be him slightly less as his life altered paths and he turned to a career in gay porn. Only slightly less, though). And I think Amanda “Marcy from Married… With Children” Bearse represented my first real crush, once she’d been “turned” by vampire Jerry Dandridge.
So, what’s Fright Night up against? My wife’s pick is the f#ckawful Mary Poppins (Stevenson, 1964), my son’s is the considerably more tolerable Wreck-It Ralph (Moore, 2012). Dice don’t fail me now!
EDIT: YES! I WIN! Oh, you’re so cool, Brewster!
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Haven’t seen it in decades. Good film, as far as I remember, but back then I preferrred Holland’s Child Play. It went soon downhill with the child and his play, but the first movie was great.
If you were scherpschutter, you’d have watched Jean Girault’s Le gendarme se marie tonight (The Gendarme Gets Married, 1968); nice Dutch title: De gendarme op vrijersvoeten; silly German title: Balduin, der Heiratsmuffel. One of my favorite Girault–de Funès movies as a kid was Les Grandes Vacances (1967), but I guess I loved all Louis de Funès films. titoli’s pick, A Little Romance (George Roy Hill, 1979), I’ve never seen, and Wolfgang Petersen’s Unendliche Geschichte (The NeverEnding Story, 1984), ION_BRITTON’s favorite childhood movie, I simply couldn’t like when it was released because then I was gradually making my transition from mama’s little darling to badass hardcore punk rocker. The Gun Club, Hüsker Dü, The Damned, Dead Kennedys et al. and Limahl? No way, man.
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Good for you, sir. Did you ever hear/enjoy The Spermbirds? German post-punk combo (but with an American frontman), came to prominence in the early/mid eighties? I loved those f#ckers. Something to Prove remains one of my all-time favourite albums. I even bought an FC Kaiserslautern shirt just because they were from there (I had no idea if the band gave a sh^t about football; they probably don’t for all I know). I was grabbed by the throat in Oxford Street (London) by a grown man and called a “f#cking kraut c^nt”. I was not quite fifteen. Only made me like the Spermbirds - and FC Kaiserslautern, briefly - all the more.
I liked the Spermbirds back in the late eighties, early nineties. They were part of a European hardcore/punk scene with many, many cool bands. I can’t remember whether I saw them at that time live in Innsbruck, Vienna or Linz. In retrospect, though, I think it’s kind of ironic – or telling, I don’t know – that they used Dave Sim’s Cerebus the Aardvark as cover image for some of their records, given the trajectory of Sim’s political and philosophical beliefs.
So today will be Leone day. Or maybe not, alea nondum iacta est. I’m curious to learn what your wife’s and your son’s favorite Italian Westerns are.
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DAY 4: FAVOURITE SPAGHETTI WESTERN
So, let’s get the nomination out of the way immediately: Boringly I suppose, it’s The Good, the Bad & the Ugly (Leone, 1966) from me. And I stuck Spaghetti Western day on a Sunday too so’s I can stick it on and relax. Westerns are good “Sunday” viewing, aren’t they? Westerns, and Carry On… movies. And old classics. And Bond films. And Elvis movies. Yes.
Worryingly for me however is the fact that I’ll be watching TWO films as part of my challenge today, and if I’m particularly unlucky, neither will be a spag. I’m definitely watching Rollerball (Jewison, 1975) since, on another forum, today is “Favourite Sports Movie” and that’s my pick, but my wife simply couldn’t select a spag; she can only barely tolerate westerns of any kind! So we agreed that, for today’s dice throw, if she wins she gets to pick the category AND the film, and she’s decided that if she DOES win, today will henceforth become DAY 4: FAVOURITE ROM/COM, and we will be “enjoying” Love Actually (Curtis, 2003). Sh#tting crikey!
Mercifully, my son has gone for For a Few Dollars More (Leone, 1965), so at least the odds of a bit of quality shooty beauty action are in my favour.
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I didn’t realise Tom Holland directed the first Child’s Play pic. I wasn’t keen on Chuckie tbh, and of course it all got very silly as time went on, didn’t it? Over here in the UK, a prominent tabloid newspaper lay the blame for a particularly nasty child-on-child murder at the feet of Child’s Play 3: Look Who’s Stalking (Bender, 1991) and we were being zealously encouraged as a nation by this tabloid to burn our VHS tapes of the movie. Mob rule, eh?
Well, to blame a child-on-child murder on a movie (I knew the story) is quite ridiculous. But yes, the franchise got very silly, especially 2&3 were weak (4&5, made much later, were a bit better)
Still haven’t seen that one. It was announced once on Belgian TV, the Jewison version for sure, but what they were showing, was a lousy remake. It was actually so lousy that i lost my appetite for the original, at least for a while.
And, of course, my wife won today’s throw. 
EDIT It’s almost over now and, to be honest, it wasn’t that bad. I’ve seen far more objectionable chick flicks (Nick Cassavetes’ 2014 abomination The Other Woman leaps immediately to mind). It’s going on a bit now, and if it becomes any more saccharine I’m going to have a diabetic seizure, but I’ve scored some points with the wife, for sure.
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DAY 5: USED TO LOVE IT, NOW I HATE IT
Maybe you’ve outgrown it. Maybe you played it to death. Maybe it had an external resonance for you which has since turned sour, like it was the movie you saw on your first, starstruck night with the woman who would go on to become your wife, only for you to come home early from work one day five years later to find her bouncing about on top of the milkman.
For whatever reason, today’s film should be a movie you thought a lot of once, but don’t anymore. My nomination is Flash Gordon (Hodges, 1980), a movie written by Lorenzo Semple Jr who brought us the Batman TV show in the sixties, which I love to this day. In 1980 I was 8 years old and my love of all things Star Wars meant that I was on board with anything which was a) aimed vaguely at my age-range and b) space adventurey to any significant degree, and Flash Gordon fitted the bill perfectly. And as an extra corkscrew uppercut to the ballbags it also came with a kick-ass theme tune from one of the biggest rock bands on the planet. So what went wrong? Ah, I just outgrew it. It hasn’t aged well IMO, the costumes and set design look implausible at best and downright silly at worst (the same can be said in fairness of much of the other-wordly, Thor-centric elements of the far more current Marvel Cinematic Universe, but I digress), and even the Queen song seems a bit daft to me now. Oh, and the scene with Flash and James Bond shoving their hands in the tree stump just reminds me of Paul Burrell doing that Bush Tucker Trial that time.
My choice today is up against my wife’s choice Big (Marshall, 1988) and my son’s pick How The Grinch Stole Christmas (Howard, 2000), so I’m kind-of rooting for my wife here as the best from a bad bunch.
EDIT And with no joy whatsoever, I won today’s throw. Flash! Aaaaaaaaargh!
I was very disappointed by Flash Gordon when I saw it in 1981 (I was eleven or twelve then). The comic strip by Alex Raymond was so beautiful, in particular during the later years of his run, and the movie somehow looked so trashy and ugly – not Ornella Muti, of course. Still have that single of Queen’s theme song.
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