What I Watched In… July 2017

In the interest of full disclosure (and to generate a little content here) I thought I’d present a regular tally of what movies I managed to see in the previous month. Some of them I’ve written or talked about, most of them I haven’t. This list includes movies I saw for the first time, movies I’ve seen a thousand times, movies I saw in the theater, movies I watched at home, direct-to-DVD, made-for-TV and anything else that qualifies as a movie. I also choose my favorite of the month among those movies I saw for the first time, marked in red. Feel free to discuss or ask about any of them!

July’s favorite of the month is a rare tie. Dunkirk was an excellent war movie. The Big Sick was a romantic comedy that struck me on a remarkably personal level. The two films are so different from one another that I simply couldn’t rank one above the other.

1. Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989), C
2. Invasion of Astro-Monster aka Godzilla Vs. Monster Zero (1965), B+
3. Mothra Vs. Godzilla aka Godzilla Vs. the Thing (1964), B+
4. Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975), B-
5. Godzilla’s Revenge aka All Monsters Attack (1969), F
6. Godzilla Vs. Destoroyah (1995), B-
7. Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. (2003), B
8. Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964), B+
9. Godzilla: Final Wars (2004), B+
10. Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001), B
11. Godzilla and Mothra: The Battle For Earth aka Godzilla Vs. Mothra (1992), B+
12. Despicable Me 2 (2013), B
13. Minions (2015), B
14. The Secret Life of Pets (2016), B+
15. Rodan (1956), B+
16. Airplane! (1980), A
17. The Lego Batman Movie (2017), A
18. Dr. No (1962), B
19. Harvey (1950), B+
20. From Russia With Love (1963), B
21. Doomed! The Untold Story of Roger Corman’s the Fantastic Four (2015), B+
22. The Time of Their Lives (1946), B+
23. Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), A-
24. Goldfinger (1964), B+
25. The Amazing Spider-Man (1977), C
26. Sing (2016), B+
27. The Car (1977), D
28. Thunderball (1965), C
29. Return of the Fly (1959), C
30. Godzilla 2000 (1999), C
31. Father of the Bride (1950), A
32. Jaws (1975), A+
33. Airplane II: The Sequel (1982), C-
34. Bratz (2007), D
35. Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), A-
36. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014), A
37. Spider-Man Strikes Back (1978), C-
38. You Only Live Twice (1967), B
39. T.J. Miller: Meticulously Ridiculous (2017), C-
40. Gymkata (1985), F
41. War For the Planet of the Apes (2017), B+
42. The Big Sick (2017), A+
43. Galaxy Quest (1999), A
44. Summer Magic (1963), B+
45. Spaceballs (1987), B+
46. Lifeboat (1944), A-
47. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), A
48. Kong: Skull Island (2017), B
49. Dunkirk (2017), A
50. Ducktales: Treasure of the Golden Suns (1987), B+
51. Ducktales The Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990), B+
52. Daffy Duck’s Movie: Fantastic Island (1983), B-
53. The Man Called Flintstone (1966), B
54. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005), B-
55. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011), A-