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| After a long day at work and play and nothing is left to mow, plant, plow, pitch, love, build, paint, sell, reap, brush, or drive, we are left to view. But the airwaves are pretty devoid of interest. Therefore, we take advantage of one of the few dot.bomb successes, i.e., NetFlix. The table that follows tracks our viewing history, giving you an idea of both our taste in the treats of Hollywood and differences in our perceptions. Before too long, I figured out some sites that did reviews on movies. Starting with #12, I started putting some links into these sites. For those interested in an analysis, check out the Movie Stats Page. | |||
| Seq | Title | Date | Stars | Type | Type 2 | Subject | Dad | Mom | Kid | Ave | Comments |
| 1 | Keeping the Faith | 28-Dec-00 | Ben Stiller Jenna (from Dharma and Greg) |
Comedy | Romantic | Rabbi and Priest love business women | 8 | 8 | 8 | ||
| 2 | Return to Me | 29-Dec-00 | Minnie Driver David Duchovny |
Comedy | Romantic | Transplantation Romance | 6 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 3 | Frequency | 30-Dec-00 | Dennis Quaid | Sci-Fi | Drama | Radio thru Time | 7 | 6 | 6.5 | ||
| 4 | Simon Birch | 03-Jan-01 | Ashely Judd, kids and Jim Carey | Comedy | Heart Warming | Small Man Hero. John Irving | 7 | 7 | 7 | ||
| 5 | Where the Money is | 21-Jan-01 | Paul Newman, Linda Fiorentino, Dermot Mulroney | Drama | Boring | Old Robber hooks up with young ones | 2 | 3 | 2.5 | ||
| 6 | Nurumberg (2000) | 27-Jan-01 | Alec Baldwin | Drama | Boring | Remake of Nurumburg trials. Snoozer. | 2 | 3 | 2.5 | ||
| 7 | The Replacements | 10-Feb-01 | Gene Hackman Keanu Reaves Rhys Ifans (Notting Hill) Brooke Langton |
Comedy | Drama | Replacment football players become a team. Good Soundtrack. | 7 | 7 | 7 | ||
| 8 | Saving Grace | 16-Feb-01 | Brenda Blethyn, Craig Ferguson, Martin Clunes, Director Nigel Cole | Comedy | British | Widower grows POT to pay her mortgage | 5 | 9 | 7 | Music by Sherena Dugani (Accidental Angel) | |
| 9 | Running Mates | 26-Feb-01 | Tom Selleck, Nancy Travis, Teri Hatcher, Laura Linney | Drama | Comedy | Presidential candidate has to show virtue in picking the right running mate. | 4 | 5 | 4.5 | ||
| 10 | Sixth Sense | 28-Feb-01 | Bruce Willis | Drama | Weird | Man helps boy by curing him of seeing dead people. | 8 | 9 | 8.5 | ||
| 11 | Meet the Parents | 17-Mar-01 | Ben Stiller, Robert DeNiro | Comedy | Funny in spots | Boyfriend meets CIA agent father-in-law to be and seeks his approval. | 8 | 7 | 7.5 | ||
| 12 | Wonder Boys | 24-Mar-01 | Michael Douglas, Tobey Maguire | Drama | Comedy | College professor/author helps young writer. | 7 | 7 | 7 | ||
| 13 | 28 Days | 31-Mar-01 | Sandra Bullock, Richard Gere | Comedy | Thoughtful | Woman undergoes inpatient treatment and learns life lessons. | 7 | 8 | 7.5 | ||
| 14 | With Honors | 01-Apr-01 | Joe Pesci, Brendan Fraser | Drama | Heart Warming | Harvard student takes in a bum. | 5 | 4 | 4.5 | ||
| 15 | Remember the Titans | 30-Apr-01 | Denzel Washington, Will Patton | Drama | Sports | Integration affects a Northern Virginia High School football team and community. | 7 | 8 | 7.5 | ||
| 16 | Space Cowboys | 01-May-01 | Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones | Drama | Space | Four old guys finally get a chance to go to space | 4 | 3 | 3.5 | Dumb | |
| 17 | No Way Out | 02-May-01 | Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman, Sean Young, Will Patton | Drama | Mystery | Young officer shares mistress with Secretary of Defense. | 3 | 3 | 3 | Very corny storyline | |
| 18 | Croupier | 11-May-01 | Gina McKee | Drama | English | Fellow goes back to his life as a casino dealer and gets involved in crimes. | 4 | 4 | 4 | Got four because it was different even though story was slow. | |
| 19 | Miss Congeneality | 12-May-01 | Sandra Bullock, Michael Caine | Comedy | Cops | Female FBI agent goes undercover at beauty pagent to catch the crook | 5 | 7 | 6 | ||
| 20 | French Kiss | 06-Jul-01 | Kevin Kline, Meg Ryan | Comedy | Romantic | Theif falls in love with woman trying to get her fiance back in Paris. | 6 | 5 | 5.5 | ||
| 21 | The Princess Diaries | 05-Aug-01 | Julie Andrews, Anne Hathaway | Comedy | Kids | Clutsy girl becomes princess of Genovia | 7 | 7 | 7 | ||
| 22 | Unbreakable | 07-Aug-01 | Bruce Willis, Samuel Jackson | Drama | Weird, Self Important | Man never gets hurt while another always does. | 3 | 6 | 4.5 | ||
| 23 | The Family Man | 10-Aug-01 | Nicholas Cage, Téa Leoni | Comedy | Romantic | Rich broker gets a glimpse of his life as it would have been if he made a different choice. | 6 | 7 | 6.5 | ||
| 24 | Thirteen Days | 15-Aug-01 | Kevin Costner, Bruce Greenwood, Steven Culp | Drama | Historical | Special Assistant to JFK works thru the cuban missile crisis with other political figures | 5 | 8 | 6.5 | Kevin's accent unbelievable | |
| 25 | Chocolat | 19-Sep-01 | Johnny Depp, Juliette Binoche | Comedy | Romantic | Women changes town's spirit with chocolate shop | 4 | 9 | 6.5 | ||
| 26 | Batman | 20-Oct-01 | Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger | Drama | Fantasy | Caped Crusader battles the Joker. | 3 | 3 | |||
| 27 | U571 | 10-Nov-01 | Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, Harvey Keitel, Jon Bon Jovi,
Jake Weber, Erik Palladino, Matthew Settle, David Keith |
Drama | War | WWII submarine takeover | 7 | 7 | 7 | ||
| 28 | Red Planet | 28-Dec-01 | Val Kilmer, Carrie-Anne Moss | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Special mission to Mars takes unexpected twist | 5 | 5 | |||
| 29 | Jurassic Park 3 | 30-Dec-01 | William Macy, Tea Leoni | Adventure | Sci-Fi | A third visit to the island of dinosaurs of Ngen. | 6 | 6 | |||
| 30 | Fast and Furious | 06-Jan-02 | Vin Diesel | Adventure | Auto | Undercover kid joins street drivers. | 7 | 7 | Conitrived story but neat cars and action | ||
| 31 | O Brother Where Art Thou | 02-Feb-02 | George Cluney, John Turturro, Holly Hunter | Drama | Adventure | Three convicts encounter oddities of south in search of their treasure. | 8 | 7 | 7.5 | Odd behaviors and interesting story outweigh slow pace. Good soundtrack. | |
| 32 | Rat Race | 29-Mar-02 | John Clese, Newman, Dave Thomas | Comedy | Adventure | Seven gamblers race for a chance at $2M. | 9 | 8 | 8.5 | ||
| 33 | Beautiful Mind | 13-Jul-02 | Russel Crowe, Jennifer Connely | Drama | Historical | Professor suffers from schizophrenia. | 4 | 4 | 4 | Slow, but very thought provoking. | |
| 34 | Proof of Life | 20-Jul-02 | Russel Crowe, Meg Ryan | Adventure | Drama | Woman hires insurance soldier to negotiate then rescue her husband in Ecuador. | 5 | 9 | 7 | Slow | |
| 35 | Kate and Leopold | 27-Jul-02 | Meg Ryan, Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Natasha Lyonne, Breckin Meyer, Bradley Whitford | Comedy | Romantic | Man from 19th Century finds his true love in the 21st. | 4 | 5 | 4.5 | Moved quickly and interesting story. | |
| 36 | Bandits | 28-Jul-02 | Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Cate Blanchett, Troy Garity, Bobby Slayton, Stacey Travis | Adventure | Drama | A pair of bankrobbers involve a woman in their plan to rob enough banks to buy paradise. | 4 | 7 | 5.5 | Slow but interesting twist at the end | |
| 37 | Field of Dreams | 03-Aug-95 | Kevin Costner, Amy Madigan, Gaby Hoffman, Ray Liotta, Timothy Busfield, James Earl Jones | Drama | Adventure | Ray builds a baseball field, fullfilling the dreams of many. | 10 | 10 | 10 | Viewed again on 8/3/2002. First and only 10. | |
| 38 | Showtime | 25-Aug-02 | Robert Deniro, Eddie Murphy, Rene Russo | Comedy | Police | Hard core cop is recruited for a prime time reality show. | 8 | 7 | 7.5 | ||
| 39 | Oceans Eleven | 03-Sep-02 | George Clooney, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia, Brad Pitt, Elliot Gould, Carl Reiner, Julia Roberts | Comedy | Crime | Ex-con and friends carry out complex casino vault heist. | 7 | 7 | 7 | ||
| 40 | The Last of the Blonde Bombshells | 07-Sep-02 | Judi Dench, Ian Holm, Leslie Caron, Olympia Dukakis | Comedy | Heart Warming | WWII Womens group reunites in the 90's. | 4 | 6 | 5 | ||
| 41 | Panic Room | 13-Oct-02 | Jodie Foster, Kristen Stewart, Forest Whitaker, Dwight Yoakam, Jared Leto, Patrick Bauchau | Drama | Thriller | Tenacious thieves try to get treasure and mom and daughter from panic room | 3 | 5 | 4 | ||
| 42 | Harry Potter and Chamber of Secrets | 26-Nov-02 | Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Maggie Smith, Alan Rickman, Robbie Coltrane, Richard Harris, Kenneth Branagh | Adventure | Fantasy | Wizard students unravel the 1000 year mystery of the chamber of secrets at Hogwarts | 8 | 8 | 8 | Dombledor - You are judged not on your abilities, but on your choices. | |
| 43 | Freshman | 27-Nov-02 | Marlon Brando, Mathew Brodrick | Comedy | Crime | College student gets involved in apparent mobster activities | 4 | 7 | 5.5 | ||
| 44 | The Importance of Being Ernest | 05-Dec-02 | Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Frances O'Connor, Reese Witherspoon, Judi Dench, Tom Wilkinson | Comedy | English | Pair of English gentlemen obfuscate their family relations and names in order to get the girl. | 3 | 3 | |||
| 45 | Spiderman | 29-Dec-02 | Tobey Maguire, Willem Dafoe, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Cliff Robertson, Rosemary Harris | Adventure | Fantasy | Teen gets bit by a spider and, with resulting superpowers, protects his beloved city, family, and girl. | 4 | 4 | |||
| 46 | Signs | 01-Feb-03 | Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, Rory Culkin, Patricia Kalember, Cherry Jones, Abigail Breslin, M. Night Shyamalan | Drama | Horror | Family encounters mystery alien attacks and evaluates unrelated signs that had been under their noses afterwards | 6 | 7 | 6.5 | ||
| 47 | Triple X | 15-Feb-03 | Vin Diesel, Samuel L. Jackson, Marton Csokas, Asia Argento, Michael Roof, Eve | Adventure | Action | Activist street thug turns James Bond and saves the world from a deadly Russian anarchist. | 8 | 8 | |||
| 48 | Bourne Identity | 15-Feb-03 | Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Chris Cooper, Brian Cox, Clive Owen, Judy Parfitt, Gabriel Mann | Drama | Mystery | CIA programmed killing machine forgets his purpose and realizes the real purpose of his life. | 7 | 7 | 7 | ||
| 49 | The Sum of all Fears | 01-Mar-03 | Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman, James Cromwell, Bridget Moynahan, Liev Schreiber, Alan Bates, Philip Baker Hall | Action | Thriller | Greenhorn CIA agent unravels true motive behind escalating nuclear showdown. | 7 | 4 | 5.5 | ||
| 50 | Maid in Manhattan | 28-Mar-03 | Jennifer Lopez, Ralph Fiennes, Natasha Richardson, Stanley Tucci, Tyler Garcia Posey, Bob Hoskins, Frances Conroy | Comedy | Romantic | Cindarella remake of a maid falling in love with a senatorial candidate | 8 | 6 | 9 | 7.67 | |
| 51 | Big Fat Greek Wedding | 04-Apr-03 | Nia Vardalos, John Corbett, Michael Constantine, Laine Kazan, Andrea Martin, Joey Fatone | Comedy | Romantic | Greek woman intermarries with a non Greek, involving him in her loud, breeding, greek eater family | 9 | 7 | 8 | ||
| 52 | The Lizzie McGuire Movie | 06-May-03 | Hilary Duff, Adam Lamberg, Robert Carradine, Hallie Todd, Jake Thomas, Ashlie Brillault | Teen | Romantic | Lizzie finds fame and adventure on her trip to Rome | 7 | 10 | 8.5 | ||
| 53 | Groundhog Day | 29-May-03 | Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott, Stephen Tobolowsky, Brian Doyle-Murray, Marita Geraghty | Comedy | Lesson | Phil spends a long day learning what's important in life. | 9 | 8 | 8.5 | ||
| 54 | Bruce Almighty | 16-Jun-03 | Jim Carrey, Morgan Freeman, Jennifer Aniston, Catherine Bell, Philip Baker Hall, Lisa Ann Walter, Steve Carell, Nora Dunn | Comedy | Lesson | Bruce learns that being God is harder than it seems and that power is better when spread around fairly | 9 | 9 | 9 | ||
| 55 | It’s a Guy Thing | 23-Jun-03 | Jason Lee, Julia Stiles, Selma Blair, Thomas Lennon, Lochlyn Munro, James Brolin, Shawn Hatosy, David Koechner, Diana Scarwid | Comedy | Romantic | Guys subtly watch out for one another in this tale of a mismatch corrected. | 4 | 4 | 4 | ||
| 56 | East is East | 27-Jun-03 | Om Puri, Linda Bassett | Comedy | English | Traditional Pakistani father expects traditional lives for his seven English mainstream children | 2 | 2 | I didn't get it as well as a smart person would |