Century of Viewing, Month One, Thoughts and Lists

Century of Viewing Challenge

I was able to watch 70 things. (Things = movies, shorts, cartoons, television seasons, etc.) Thirty-one I rated four stars and above. It was relatively-relatively easy to determine five star ratings. These went above and beyond. The line between four and four and a half star ratings were BLURRY, BLURRED, EVER SHIFTING. I changed the rating on some of these half a dozen times. There were some three and a half star movies that I was almost tempted to raise as well. 

Two things became clear within the first two weeks of the challenge

1) I had seriously underestimated silent movies. Seriously I have spent all of my life ignoring silent movies and thinking that I wasn't missing out on much. I am going to be deep-diving down this particular rabbit hole.

2) I had fallen head over heels--truly, madly, deeply in love with Buster Keaton. 

Other observations

• I have watched three adaptations of the play Chicago.
• I have watched two adaptations of Three Men in a Boat.

My Five Star Movies

• Seven Chances (1925) (BUSTER KEATON)
• The General (1926) (BUSTER KEATON)
• Roxie Hart (1942)
• Harvey (1950)
• It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
• Ivanhoe (1982)
• Places in the Heart (1984)
• One Life (2023)

My Four and Half Star Movies AND my Four Star Movies

• Chicago (1927)
• Steamboat Bill, JR (1928) (BUSTER KEATON)
• The Death Kiss (1932)
• Lured (1947)
• Singin in the Rain (1952)
• High Time (1960)
• The Heroes of Telemark (1965)
• One Week (1920) (BUSTER KEATON)
• Our Hospitality (1923) (BUSTER KEATON)
  
• Sherlock JR (1924) (BUSTER KEATON)
• The Navigator (1924) (BUSTER KEATON)
• College (1927) (BUSTER KEATON)
• Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
• My Dear Secretary (1948)
• Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949)
• Woman's World (1954)
• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966) (BUSTER KEATON)
• Follow Me Boys (1966)
• Capricorn One (1978)
• Soap Dish (1991)
  
• Black Beauty (1994)
• Moulin Rouge (2001)
• Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile (2022)
  

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