2020 FILM IN REVIEW

Continuing this again, why not! This year I watched way way more movies this year than for obvious reasons (the release of HBO Max). I’ve made serious headway into my watchlist and there’s still so much more to see, which makes me acutely aware of my mortality. I also got a Letterboxd account which satisfies my compulsive need to tag things.

Best film I saw in 2020: Yi Yi

Best film I saw in 2020 that was released in 2020: Live From the Space Stage: A Halyx Story

Worst film I saw in 2020: I bought a DVD collection of old movies at Ross over a decade ago but I never watched any of them until this year, at a pace of one a month. It turns out they’re all public domain movies (despite this, each DVD starts with a hilarious CGI-animated FBI warning of a guy in jail) of extremely varying quality. So far The Inspector General is the least watchable one.

Good movie that was maybe not the best choice for quarantine viewing: Aniara

Best character name: Leopold Dilg from The Talk of the Town

Funniest movie: The Wrong Guy

Films I saw in 2020 for the first time:

1. Animal Crossing: The Movie
2. THX 1138
3. See You Yesterday
4. The Omega Man
5. Dark Star
6. Good Vibes at the Iowa State Fair (short)
7. Westworld
8. Mad Max
9. Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.
10. Logan’s Run
11. Once Upon A Time… in Hollywood
12. Parasite
13. Joker
14. Mister America
15. Betty Blue
16. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
17. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
18. Chungking Express
19. Fail Safe
20. And Then There Were None (1945)
21. The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
22. It’s Such a Beautiful Day
23. The Lion King 1½
24. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
25. The Favourite
26. M
27. What Did Jack Do? (short)
28. To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before
29. To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You
30. The Big Heat
31. The Great Mouse Detective
32. After Truth: Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News
33. Die Hard
34. The Flintstones: On The Rocks
35. Shaft
36. Eyes of Laura Mars
37. Dr. No
38. The Rocketeer
39. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
40. Good Boys
41. Talk of the Town
42. Clockstoppers
43. The Straight Story
44. Day for Night
45. Murder By Contract
46. Z
47. The Limey
48. Aniara
49. The Three Caballeros
50. Godzilla
51. Red Sun
52. Arthur
53. Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
54. Newsies
55. Haxan
56. Road to Bali
57. Good Will Hunting
58. Raging Bull
59. Jaws
60. The Age of Innocence
61. Waking Sleeping Beauty
62. Grey Gardens
63. Spider-Man
64. Stop Making Sense
65. Dick Tracy
66. Contempt
67. Fantastic Mr. Fox
68. The Farewell
69. The Immoral Mr. Teas
70. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
71. Creepozoids
72. City Lights
73. Mon oncle
74. John Carter
75. Tokyo Drifter
76. The Pirates! Band of Misfits
77. Do Not Resist
78. 8 ½
79. The Devil and Miss Jones
80. Dirty Work
81. But I’m A Cheerleader
82. Goodfellas
83. Batman Forever
84. At War With The Army
85. Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made
86. Pather Panchali
87. Forbidden Zone
88. Josie and the Pussycats
89. The Reagan Show
90. Yi Yi
91. Wings
92. Castle in the Sky
93. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
94. Hamilton
95. Ikiru
96. Ad Astra
97. Booksmart
98. Network
99. Palm Springs
100. Olivia
101. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
102. The Wrong Guy
103. Hot Rod
104. Star Trek: The Motion Picture
105. Barbarella
106. Superman Returns
107. The Goonies
108. Anomalisa
109. Rugrats Go Wild
110. Felix the Cat: The Movie
111. Birdboy: The Forgotten Children
112. Pinocchio
113. Private Buckaroo
114. Aparajito
115. The Maltese Falcon
116. I Love You, Daddy
117. Blood on the Moon
118. Bicycle Thieves
119. Picnic at Hanging Rock
120. Comic Book Confidential
121. Jojo Rabbit
122. The Comedy
123. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
124. The Magnificent Ambersons
125. The Peanuts Movie
126. Alita: Battle Angel
127. Look Who’s Back
128. Two Gun Gussie (short)
129. Hollywood Shuffle
130. Howard
131. Welcome to the Dollhouse
132. Antoine and Collette (short)
133. Once Upon a Time in the West
134. Kiki’s Delivery Service
135. The Killers
136. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
137. Thor: Ragnarok
138. Live From the Space Stage: A Halyx Story
139. The World of Apu
140. Scanners
141. The Front Page (1931)
142. Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe
143. The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T
144. Rock’n’ Roll High School
145. The Kid Brother
146. Smilies of a Summer Night
147. Dumbo (1941)
148. Yojimbo
149. The Inspector General
150. Loving Vincent
151. Real Life
152. Thank You and Good Night
153. Nocturama
154. Green Lantern
155. Peeping Tom
156. From Russia With Love
157. The Death of Stalin
158. Us
159. Primary
160. Cat People (1942)
161. Pushing Tin
162. The Cocoanuts
163. The Trial of the Chicago 7
164. Bambi
165. Black Panther
166. The Virgin Suicides
167. The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
168. The Invisible Man (2020)
169. Over the Moon
170. Porco Rosso
171. The Addams Family
172. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
173. Guest of Honour
174. Saludos Amigos
175. Uncut Gems
176. Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
177. The General
178. The Lego Ninjago Movie
179. Knives Out
180. The Silence
181. Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island
182. The Man from Utah
183. Pom Poko
184. Spider-Man: Far From Home
185. The Best Man (1964)
186. Bad Day at Black Rock
187. She Done Him Wrong
188. The Naked City
189. Mank
190. Make Mine Music
191. Goldfinger
192. Class Action Park
193. Broadcast News
194. The Muppet Christmas Carol
195. Soul
196. Wonder Woman 1984
197. Whisper of the Heart
198. The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
199. Adversary (short)

We are the party of Science,we listen to the experts, we’re only putting qualified people into leadership positions, no more quid pro quo *seconds later* Yeah the ex-mayor of a small town can have Transportation why not

I quietly brought back my Simpsons news blog a couple months ago. It’s been redesigned with a mobile-friendly layout, tags have been added to every post, and I drew a spiffy new background for it.

Some recent stories:

• You Won’t BELIEVE Who Homer Simpson’s Boss Is!
• Simpsons Writer COMPLETELY EVISCERATES Spicy Nugget!!!
• 17 Simpsons Characters Who Definitely Voted For Trump

I’ve been having a lot of fun making incredibly stupid stuff during these dismal times.

Over the years I’d have an idea for an Anthropomorphic Republican Talking Duck comic but I didn’t have the time or strive to do it, and then the moment would pass and it seemed silly to do something that was already outdated. Now my thinking is… why not just do them anyway. I came up with this one in either 2016 or early 2017:

Mallard Fillmore Watch

9/14/2020

9/15/2020

9/16/2020

Bruce Tinsley made a triumphant return to his comic strip for the first time in nearly a year. Two days later, it’s back to the other guy.

Wikipedia:

The Starspeeder weaves its way through the comet and escapes by crashing through one of the walls. Upon escaping the comet, however, the ship encounters a Star Destroyer of the Imperial Remnant.

The Starspeeder gets caught in its tractor beam, but manages to get loose when a New Republic X-wing fighter provided assistance by destroying the tractor beam’s generator. Soon the Starspeeder accompanies the Republic fleet on an assault on the Death Star III (later revealed by Leland Chee in 2013 to be a Habitation Sphere disguised as a Death Star in a plot by an Imperial Warlord to distract the New Republic). Rex uses the Starspeeder’s lasers to eliminate several TIE fighters while a Republic pilot destroys the Death Star in the same manner as Luke Skywalker by firing two proton torpedoes into the exhaust port.

Everything I thought I knew about Star Tours has been a goddamned lie