Netflix DVD's Most Rented Movies from 1998-2022

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“Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public,” and look at how long most of these terrible movies are!

  • No Time to Die 2021 2h 43m

  • News of the World 2020 1h 58m

  • Ford v Ferrari 2019 2h 32m

  • Green Book 2018 2h 10m

  • Dunkirk 2017 1h 47m

  • Wonder Woman 2017 2h 21m

  • Sully 2016 1h 36m

  • The Martian 2015 2h 10m

  • The Monuments Men 2014 1h 58m

  • Captain Phillips 2013 2h 14m

  • The Hunger Games 2012 2h 22m

  • The Lincoln Lawyer 2011 1h 59m

  • Inception 2010 2h 28m

  • The Blind Side 2009 2h 6m

  • The Hurt Locker 2008 2h 10m

  • The Bucket List 2007 1h 37m

  • The Departed 2006 2h 31m

  • Crash 2005 1h 53m

  • The Notebook 2004 2h 3m

  • Mystic River 2003 2h 18m

  • The Bourne Identity 2002 1h 59m

  • Memento 2000 1h 53m

  • Gladiator 2000 2h 35m

  • Office Space 1999 1h 30m

  • The Big Lebowski 1998 1h 58m

Movies Watched -- The 39 Steps (1935)

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86 minute running time … Alfred Hitchcock, maybe at his best? But he never made a bad movie, they just run from good to great. Green-go, recommended for sure. I saw this 30 years ago and still remembered the political rally speech scene the best.

The phallic coat hook, then Margaret gets smacked around off camera

Movies Watched -- Mr. Freedom (1969)

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92 minute running time … political satire from the late 1960s, it can’t have gotten much play-time at the time, just too incendiary, but it is funny. The big handsome palooka (John Abbey) playing Mr. Freedom was good. This has to be a cult movie now, but I wouldn’t go out of my way for it.

Movies Watched -- The Caine Mutiny (1954)

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125 minute running time so 25 minutes too long … I’ve mentioned I don’t like Humphrey Bogart, he was such an odd Hollywood star since he was short and scrawny and funny-looking and couldn’t really act … anyway, this was a strange movie, interesting in a way because you didn’t see mental illness movies in the 50s, especially when the sick man was an officer in the military … I liked the class angle in this movie, with the rich-kid Princeton guy and how the others related to him … I can’t recommend it because it was overly long, but it is a unique movie for the time.

No more backtalk

Movies Watched -- Invisible Girlfriend (2009)

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74 minute running time … David Redmon made one good documentary (Girl Model) … I tried to watch Kamp Katrina but it was so depressing I quit five minutes in and I should have known better than to get Invisible Girlfriend since it tracks the life of one mentally ill guy who I guess was in Kamp Katrina … equally depressing and boring, who watches stuff like this?!? Ugh!

Movies Watched -- High Sierra (1941)

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99 minute running time … I never liked Humphrey Bogart or saw his appeal, he often played a tough, but he always struck me as a little, weasel-like, weird guy … this was an unusual movie though (thanks to David Lehman for the reco), I didn’t hate it, but it also wasn’t good enough to recommend. “Look, she’s a cripple too!” Interesting class commentary from 40s America: “What’s an outfit like that doing in Tropico anyhow?” And the cop sniveling around the rich guy.

Excerpts from Imogen Sara Smith’s essay: High Sierra: Crashing Out

“The film is many things: a hybrid of gangster movie, western, and proto-noir; an elegy for the Depression-era archetype of the noble outlaw … America’s perverse love affair with violent men … Nostalgia pervades the film, for both a lost world of agrarian innocence and a vanished age of outlaw glory [well said!] … Roy’s foolish reverence for middle-class respectability and ‘decency’ inspires a grotesque fantasy of marrying the daughter of the family, Velma, who is happy to accept his charity but repelled by him as a suitor. [right, good ] … outlaws are romanticized, demonized, and commodified, packaged as entertainment and edifying moral lessons … The big shot’s downfall is a kind of ritual, a collective reminder not just that crime does not pay but that ‘crashing out’ is only a fantasy that keeps you going as you serve your time.”

Joan Leslie and Ida Lupino Face-off

Movies Watched -- Young Man with a Horn (1950)

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112 minute running time so about 15 minutes too long … Kirk Douglas plays a good fake trumpet … Harry James played the trumpet parts and that really is Doris Day singing … I liked this one, Lauren Bacall plays a great crazy hot rich girl … the only drugs you see are alcohol, none of the cocaine and heroin and other hard stuff that drove the jazz scene… this is a green-go, recommended movie… this was a David Lehman recommendation and I thank him for it.

Jazz is purely African … it’s a sort of cheap mass-produced narcotic