I think 13 might have been my favorite one.  It's less light hearted and has a little grit in it and makes the stakes higher.  I'd say you probably enjoy it.  Spot on criticism of 12 and 11.  I hate heist films that seem too easy or just don't take it seriously enough, if you've ever seen Now You See Me, it's the same concept.

Oh on 12, yeah I HATED that Roberts part near the end.  I thought it was a mediocre sequel up to that point but the ending there just dumped it into "I will never watch this shit ever again" status.

I generally dislike remakes to begin with UNLESS there is a director I like who is at the helm.  Or it's just a totally different concept from the original film.  About the only remake I'm interested in is John Woo remaking (his own film) The Killer.

Bird on A Wire.  I'm pretty sure I saw this in the early 90s.  Mel is in top form here and continues his string of hits.  Goldie Hawn plays her usual nervous, energetic perona well here.  Yes, it's predicatable and lags a little in the second half but it's fun.  I wish they would have used the bad guys more (esp David Carradine) in the film.  Oh, if they wanted to turn this into one of those love triangle comedy films they could have, as I thought Joan Severence (Rachel) had almost as good chemistry with Gibson in her brief scenes together.

Three Thousand Years of Longing.  I'm not sure what to think about this one.  I was reading some criticism about this prior to watching...and I think I agree that the darker aspects of this film are the best.  And that the director made a mistake in veering it towards another direction in the last section.  Oh, this is beautfully filmed.  I have no idea how this is marketed as but it's closer to 1001 Arabian Nights than Aladdin.

I had to look up what the hell these guys lost to.  Tom Hanks in Philadelphia won Best Actor.  It was an "Oscar Bait" role for Hanks.  But I remember nothing of the FILM itself outisde of the Springsteen song that won an Oscar, I think.  The film was rather dull (to me) from the one time I saw it.

Fiennes lost to Tommy Lee Jones in the Fugitive.  It's not exactly the toughest of roles to pull off for Jones and he does go over the top a little. I'd say Fiennes was probably robbed more. I mean Jones was fine it's just not one of those high degree of difficulty roles.  Honestly, I think Malkovich was better In the Line of Fire (like Fiennes, nominated but lost out to Jones).

This isn't the problem.  It's the fact that Neeson is basically wasting his talent doing basically the same damn role for the last 10-15 years.  Yeah, it's an easy paycheck.  But man he's been the butt line of jokes.  Maybe this should have bombed so he would taken more interesting roles.

Cruise would have played the Sheen role ?  Yeah, I could see him doing some good things there.

Target (1985) Gene Hackman film.  I'd seen it years ago on tv somewhere.  It's half a good movie.  It seems to want it both ways in terms of being a gritty spy film/man on the run and a male bonding film w/mismatched partners (in this case father and son).  The parts with  Matt Dillion do not work at all.  He comes off as whiny and idiotic. The Hackman parts where he's running all over Europe and finding information and pining about the days of the past are the best parts.  Either they should have recast the role of Dillion or just changed the plot.  Because this film isn't really gritty enough.

Inferno .  Argento 1980 film.  This one is more interesting than Suspiria which hits you more on a sensory level.  Inferno is one of those spooky gothic infleunced stories about magic, and witches and all that other fun stuff.  The kills are more interesting and the soundtrack is pretty good from Keith Emerson, especially one part near the end. I think Tenebrae or Opera may be better than this one but this is prime Argento.

Yup.  And when you add that thye barely releases live stuff itself (talking about live concert  footage/performances) it makes it all the ever more laughable.  The hardcore fans were the ones providing footage for the casuals.  And naturally they just had to go ruin that.

I can't find Lofton's post but I rewatched Single White Female for the first time in decades after seeing that he watched this a while ago.  It's weird how time and aging can skew your perspective on a film.  I last saw this film in the mid 90s at some point.

Anyway, the first thing I notice while watching this today, the damn apartment complex is a character onto itself.  It's mostly shown shrouded in darkness and shadows.  There's a slight spooky vibe to it, like dangerous.  This isn't one of those haunted house films but this adds to the amibance of the film.  Oh, forgot about the creaky old school elevator that probably doesn't exist anymore now days anyway.

It's kinda cool how there's a lot of great scenes that happen in this film that are non verbal.  It's adds to the voyeuristic aspect to this film.   Oh there are a couple of odes to Vertigo that are pretty good too.

I felt a lot of sympathy for Hedra.  Don't get me wrong she's still the "villian" in this thing, but there's more of an anti-hero vibe to her than flat out person I'm supposed to hate because she's a psycho.  She's tragic in a sense. Jenifer Jason Leigh did a great job here.

Totally forgot what a creep that Mitch was.  Honestly, most of the main male characters in here are pretty awful, except for the gay neighbor.  And yeah there's definitely a vibe here, I'm not sure it's feminist but maybe highlighting the differences between male and females.  It's hard to explain.

Oh, they stuck the landing on this film as well. Some of these films the ending just kinda sucks compared to the rest of the film, but this one was fine.