#99 (2007): Toy Story

M: What's not to love about this movie? Aside from the all-star cast projecting their voices through Pixar creations, the film itself was clever and entertaining. This is one of those you could watch a dozen times.

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J: Dude! It's Toy Story!

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#99 (1998): Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

M: Edgy, I'm sure, for it's time. I was enthralled to see how, back then, interracial coupling was such a sensitive topic--in the days when one was either "colored" or a "negro" rather than "black" or "African-American". It was great to see such powerhouses of acting together in a film, that being Hepburn, Tracy, and of course Poitier. A must-see movie.

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J: I don't know much about older actors, but I know enough to understand that Spencer Tracy + Katharine Hepburn + Sidney Poitier is going to equal gold on film. I loved this movie, enough that I would watch it again and highly recommend it. It was interesting that these parents raised their daughter to be colorblind. That's not a side of things you often see in movies from the 60s and before.

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#100: Yankee Doodle Dandy

M: This was a good film. I fond the songs and storyline entertaining, though the choppy segues of back-stories failed to explain some things. When I learned the movie was based on an actual person, I thought it even better. And, with most films of old, the acting was unwavering.

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J: I had pretty low expectations for this movie because it is super old and black and white. And I made the mistake of looking at the running time: over two hours! But it didn't feel like it was that long. Could have done without the blackface, but other than that, it was very entertaining, the music was great, and hey! did you know it was based on a real guy?

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Rating System

Okay, it took me forever to start posting, but we have been watching movies. Here is how we're going to post about them: each of us will write a brief review followed by one of two grades:

If we like it:






If we don't like it:






We will also link to each movie's Wikipedia and IMDB pages at the bottom of each post.

Also, we haven't yet decided if we're going to watch #49, Intolerance!. I think we should because otherwise we won't have seen all the movies. M thinks we shouldn't because it's another 3-hour DW Griffith epic and Birth of a Nation was already torturous. He makes a good point.