Hella can't figure out what movies I actually wanna watch outta this list

I thought I wanted to see these movies out of the remaining 19 from indiewires' fifty best of 2020 list. 

But the more I look at it, the more I realize I just made it for a movie meetup I was gonna have w a friend, or had w them. Now I feel different, and I wanna talk about why, and how those feelings changed or stayed the same for each, and every one out of these seven films that made it out of the list of nineteen.

But I also think the ones that didn’t make the cut were replaced by ones from the list of nineteen that didn’t make it originally, so to start I guess I could see what everything looked like at first, like that’s where I could start.

Still can’t stop feeling like I’m gonna have to talk about every single one to do this. Another thing is I have four lists; one is the nineteen remaining, two is the seven out of that list I wanna see, three is maybe three movies I can’t see, and then four is the movies I can’t, but also can’t see, but I actually do have something to say about each of those as well, so I think I could do that maybe.

Okay, so here goes lists one:

Nomad land
Da 5 bloods (netflix)
Mank (netflix)
Dick Johnson is dead (netflix)
Minari 
Promising Young Woman (19.99)
Collective (6.99)
The trial of the Chicago 7 (netflix)
David byrne’s American utopia (hbomax)
Soul
The whistlers (Hulu)
News of the world
Palm Springs (Hulu)
City Hall Borat subsequent moviefilm (amazon prime)
Undine
Ma Rainey’s black bottom (netflix)
Let them all talk (hbomax)
Emma (hbomax)

List two:

The whistlers (Hulu)
Palm Springs (Hulu)
Collective (6.99)
Promising young woman (19.99)
Dick Johnson is dead (netflix)
Emma (hbomax)
Let them all talk (hbomax)

List three:

Nomadland 
News of the world
Minari

List four:

The trial of the Chicago 7 (netflix)
David Byrnes America utopia (hbomax)
Soul
City hall
Borat subsequent moviefilm (amazon prime)
Undine
Ma Rainey’s black bottom (netflix)

Now where do we go from here?

Which list do I wanna start w of these three? I guess w the ones I don’t wanna see, bc that’s the closest to me atm. Then from there I could start w what’s staying the same:

Trial of the Chicago 7 looks boring to me. American utopia, bc it sounds like a musical, and I don’t like musicals. City hall, bc it’s four hrs long, but even if I wanted to watch it, I wouldn't know where to find it, so that’s a lost cause. Never seen any of the Borats, so I don’t have any context, and I don't want any. 

Let’s get into new additions to the list, so we can see what it looks like afterwards. No, first let’s get w what’s coming out of this list, and where it’s going:

Soul is going to the want to watch, but can’t watch list, bc it wasn’t like I never wanted to see it. I just couldn’t, bc I don’t have Disney plus, so it’s like a lost cause, unless someone wants to give me their password. 

Same goes for Undine, only there is no Disney plus option for this movie, let alone any streaming venue, except maybe one, but it seems sus, like it comes w commercials.

I think ma Rainey’s black bottom is going somewhere. Idk where, it might not go anywhere, bc I’m hella on the fence about it. And being on the fence about it, is probably like as good as being neither here or there about it, like take it or leave it. I’ll probably leave it. But it shouldn’t be in the don’t wanna see list, bc that's not the case. 

Now to get into movies that are being added to it, which will make up for some of the changes I’m making to the wanna see list:

News of the world was gonna go up to the wanna see, when I saw it was available for 19.99. I added it to the watch list and everything before I took it down after reading the synopsis. Idk, just not my thing. Paul greengrass, director of hella Bourne movies, I'm coo.

I'm taking Emma out. I don’t care about it. Never did, just thought the person I watched movies w would wanna see it, and they did. I mean they had already, and they didn’t like it. 

I keep trying to think I wanna see let them all talk, but I hella don’t; young man finds romance with a literary agent while taking a trip with the woman's famous aunt and her friends. W meryl streep, sounds like sideways, but it's probably hella good, and I’m missing out, but whatever.

Then from the overall list in general I’m adding mank to it, bc like borat, I have no context. It’s supposed to be like a prequel to citizen Kane,  and I’ve never seen it. 

So the list goes like this now:

Trial of the Chicago 7 (netflix)
David Byrnes American utopia (hbomax)
Mank (netflix)
News of the world (19.99)
City Hall
Borat subsequent moviefilm (amazon prime)
Let them all talk (hbomax)
Emma (hbomax)

Movies I wanna see but can’t goes like this:

Nomadland
Minari
Soul (Disney plus)
Undine (?)

And the movies I wanna see look like this:

The whistlers (Hulu)
Palm Springs (Hulu)
Collective (6.99)
Promising young woman (19.99)
Dick Johnson is dead (netflix)
Da 5 bloods (netflix)

But does it really? 

The more I look at this list the more I think I only wanna see like two movies out of it, especially since I didn’t watch any of them at my friends last night, which is what I made it for.

The only one out of it that came up as a prospect was the whistlers. The other two was from another list from another list of movies from 2020 I found through google, so I think I’m having an existential crisis over this list, bc I think I’m done w it.

Whistlers is about a group of assassins that travel to Romania to learn a language that’s just whistling. Am I really into those movies? They're hit, or miss, and amazon only gave it three and a half stars maybe. Maybe I'll end up watching it if I remember. I don't have a watchlist for hulu. The only watch list I look at is amazon prime's.

Palm Springs was the first, and only one out of this list I've watched so far. A movie about a couple strangers at a wedding in palm springs get trapped in an infinite time loop which causes them to go through the same day every day. I found it relatable, in that I feel like that's what I'm living in as well, but do I really need to be reminded of this by Andy Samberg? Posted the movie poster to stories w a caption over it reading, "relatable, and it wasn't bad, but I also didn't care."

Collective is probably on par w the whistlers, but documentaries are always a tossup to me, bc I don't necessarily like them, and I can't quite really remember the plot all that well. Let me look it up; Journalists uncover healthcare fraud in the wake of a fire in bucharest romania. This has the same odds of appealing to me as the whistlers for both of them taking place in romania, but I also find the odds of them confusing me the same too, being just as high. Maybe as high as the price to watch. Idk if 6.99 is worth being confused by.

Dick johnson is dead looks interesting. I think what makes it more appealing is it's free on netflix, but it also actually just sounds hella good, from the synopsis; director stages her father's oncoming death in inventive and comical ways to help her face the inevitable. Temples got warm just thinking about it, I'll probably hella watch it tbh, tonight maybe even

Originally in the list of movies I'm on the fence about, Idk if I'll ever watch da 5 bloods. Appealing to me for the same reason as the last, it's also directed by spike lee, and everyone says it's hella good. A movie about five guys getting dropped off somewhere to look for the remains of their fallen comrade, and the treasure he left hidden, the cast looks amazing, Idk actually. I think I'm in.

I was gonna say the more I look at this list the more I think I only wanna see a promising young woman, but the last two I discussed actually sound hella tight after going over them, so the one's that remain of the must see list go as such:

Promising young woman (19.99)
Dick Johnson is dead (netflix)
Da 5 bloods (netflix)

And the on the fence list now goes:

The whistlers (hulu)
Collective (6.99)
Ma Rainey's black bottom (netflix)

Looks like maybe the next, and last three I'm going to watch out of this list.