#52PickUp 2017- A Retrospective

Not Quite Hollywood

English - January 07, 2018 11:00 - ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
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Well shit, that was an interesting failure, huh? I began the second year of revisiting childhood films, once per week NOT wanting to do it at all. The process of writing about each film was a chore and it wasn’t fun. I had held myself to it for 2016 because I had this newfound love […]

Well shit, that was an interesting failure, huh?

I began the second year of revisiting childhood films, once per week NOT wanting to do it at all. The process of writing about each film was a chore and it wasn’t fun. I had held myself to it for 2016 because I had this newfound love of completing things. And yet, when I started 2017’s version, I had come across an equally strong hatred for the series.

But I persisted and kept the posts coming, while also talking about them on our podcast, Not Quite Hollywood. I enjoyed that segment better because it was more of a conversation about the film and not just me writing in solitary.

Then in late October, I decided to end the podcast, and with it, the discussion of the #52PickUp of the week. I had my friend Kevin on, and he asked me if the others watched the retro film as well. I told them that they rarely did, and after recording, he said the podcast had hit a wall, where I just rambled on for five to ten minutes with no interaction.

He had a point. Then, I realized that the whole show had been askew and I made the decision to stop recording immediately.

Nevertheless, I continued to watch the film that I had set out to watch and finished watching all Fifty-two of them. Here is the complete list along with another snazzy collection of logos.

It goes without saying that I will never do this series in this way (or perhaps at all) ever again. Sometimes, you have to kill your little darlings, especially if they’re horribly deformed and are a bane to my your existence. A thinly veiled metaphor, indeed. No one will suspect a thing…

Enjoy.

1. D2: The Mighty Ducks (1994) [My Not Quite Hollywood Take]

2. Overnight Delivery (1998) [NQH]

3. Cool Runnings (1993) [NQH]

4. Small Soldiers (1998) [NQH]

5. Suburban Commando (1991) [NQH]

6. Little Monsters (1989) [NQH]

7. Mousehunt (1997) [NQH]

8. Maximum Overdrive (1986) [NQH]

9. George of the Jungle (1997) [NQH]

10. Batman: The Movie (1966) [NQH]

11. Eraser (1995) [NQH]