How much do I love this movie? So, so much.
This whole Coupeville Sports gig? Just killin’ time while I wait for the inevitable return of video stores.
I mean, it has to happen, right?
Yes, I’ve been wandering the desert for a decade now, with my 15-year run (1994-2009) in movie nirvana having ended before many of the current CHS freshmen entered kindergarten…
But I have to keep the dream alive.
Some day people will wake up, really look at how few films Netflix and other streaming services really offer, and we shall return to the days of Videoville renting 500 VHS tapes on a Friday night.
Or, some hipster with WAY more disposable income than myself, and a burning desire to toss money into the wind, will come along and say, “Hey, let’s be ironic and open a video rental store.”
And, when that happens, I will be there, waiting, like Silent Bob himself, who yes, I know, I sort of, kind of, look like.
Endless stats and long stretches of sitting on butt-busting school bleachers will fade, and I will be paid to once more yammer on endlessly about some weird-ass foreign film you have no intentions of ever seeing.
Yes, it starts off with dozens of Japanese school children holding hands and jumping in front of a speeding bullet train, and no, it makes no sense at all at any point from there, but … Suicide Club!!
The movie you didn’t want to watch in 2001 and still don’t want to watch in 2020.
Heathens.
Or, I know you’re going to rent Jurassic Park … but first, can I tell you the good word about Bottle Rocket?
Yes, I know 98% of the town of Coupeville hated it.
Sometimes 98% of a town can be wrong.
So there.
But anyways, just because video stores died doesn’t mean I became any less obsessed with films and yammering on about them.
So, for the three people out there who care, pop over to the link below and discover my picks for the 100 best movies to hit during my decade wandering in exile.
These are the films I would have been pestering you to rent between 2010-2019 if someone were still paying me to sit around and watch movies all days.
What? Alphabetical order??? I want a true top 100 so I know which to start with over the next 8 days before BB resumes again! 😁
Many I have not seen (now have your great list to work with) but totally agree on Ex Machina and the Black Swan, so well done and complete mind twisters.