Seen:

Toy Story- cute, but everyone has seen that

Batman Forever- The destruction of Burton's Batman world begins. :(

The Usual Suspects- classic Tarantinoesque film

Goldeneye- Literally just saw this again the other day. Dench makes her first appearance as M (and she has been the most awesome M ever).

Twelve Monkeys - The Terry Gilliam effect overcomes the Brad Pitt and Bruce Willis effect* to make a great time travel movie.



Not seen but felt like I have:

Braveheart - felt like I've seen this movie because parts have been overplayed over and over, but just wasn't interested in Mel Gibson's "let's be a historical figure going to war" phase

Jumanji- It's a game. It's a movie! It's not what I am interested in.

Seven- I feel like I know the whole plot already. But I couldn't overcome the "Brad Pitt effect*"



Movies I wasn't going to watch anyway:

Casino- Hey look- Vegas!

Pocahontas- Hey look, Disney fucks up history!

Heat- Crime drama that never peaked my interest

Heavyweights- Never heard of it

Apollo 13- Not a huge fan of disaster dramas, prefer fantasy/sci fi drama to it

Clueless- teen girl movie, nuff said

Die Hard with a Vengeance- Bruce Willis effect*, also long to revive sequel to series of films that were fun as a kid but somewhat obnoxious when I got older.

Billy Madison- naw, thank you.



*- *person* effect. Usually a negative, when an actor is so busy playing a version of themselves (usually a fantasy version) that watching any movie with them in it becomes too difficult to bear, leading to avoiding movies with them in it. There are positive versions of this effect that tend to get me to watch a movie or that overwhelm the negative. In the case of Twelve Monkeys, the Gilliam effect was enough to overcome both the Willis and Pitt effects in the movie.

The Tom Cruise effect is super strong in the negative- so strong that it hasn't been overcome by the positive Phillip K. Dick effect (Minority Report) nor the Simon Pegg effect (Mission Impossible).