Movie Scratches: Thank-- Daddy's-- Murder

Movie Scratches--  Movies I saw at the theater in 2017

53.  THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE--  11-10--  Fox Lake, free--  We're just not taking care of our veterans  with problems when they get home.

54.  DADDY'S HOME 2--  11-14--  Woodstock, $5--  This time the two Dads battle their Fathers and Adriana.

55.  MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS--  12-7--  Fox Lake, $6--  Whodunit?  Everybody had a motive.  Everybody could have done it and the world's UGLIEST-ever mustache.

Another Year Done Gone.  --RoadDog

ACCIDENT REPORTS--  "I was thrown from my car as it left the road.  I was later found in a ditch by some stray cows."

Movie Scratches: American-- Geostorm-- Thor-- Moms

Movie Scratches--  Movies I saw at the theater in 2017.

49.  AMERICAN MADE--  11-2--  Fox Lake, $6--  A CIA, drug cartel, gun-running romp through the 70s and 80s.

50.  GEOSTORM--  11-2--  Fox Lake, $6--  "Dutch Boy" goes awry with frozen people in Afghanistan and Rio, Burns to Hong Kong and Moscow

51.  THOR:  RAGNAROK--  11-8--  Woodstock, $6--  Thor and Loki's sister is a real mean gal as in the fire devil.

52.  BAD MOMS CHRISTMAS--  11-8--  Woodstock, $6--  Moms having problems with their moms at Christmas.

Long Lines Just Before Your Movie Starts.  --RoadDog

ACCIDENT REPORTS:  "The indirect cause of the accident was a little guy in a small car with a big mouth."

Movie Scratches: Dunkirk-- Castle-- It-- Blade

Movie Scratches--  Songs that I have seen in movie theaters this year.

45.  DUNKIRK--  August 8--  Woodstock, $5--  The stoic English civilian boar captain and all those tie-in stories.  It sure seemed that the British destroyers sank fast.

46.  THE GLASS CASTLE--  September 5--  Fox Lake, $5--  Kids of a really truly dysfunctional family cope with their crazy parents.  Woody Harrelson and the movie should get nominations for Academy Awards.

47.  IT--  Sept. 26--  Fox Lake, $5--  Or, how I spent my summer vacation.  "Kill my brother and I'll GET you!!"  Freddie takes a vacation.

48.  BLADE RUNNER:2049--  Oct. 24--  Fox Lake, $5---  Who's your daddy.  Sure miserable weather in '49.

Please Don't Sit Right In Front Of Me.  --RoadDog

MORE COFFEE SIGNS:  Your coffee mug is insured by Lloyds of London.  (I, too, have my favorite mugs."

Movie Scratches: Cars-- Pirates-- Dunkirk-- Apes

Movies I have seen at the theater this year.

41.  CARS 3--  July 13--  Fox Lake, $6--  Battling the new hot-shot, faster rookies and Lightning gives his all for the Hudson.

42.  PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN:  DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES--  July 20--  Round Lake Beach, free--  Capn' Jack gets the Pearl back, a crew and a monkey.  Goodbye Barbossa.

43.  DUNKIRK--  July 28--  Fox Lake, $6--  The lines, the ships and boats, the planes, the horrors.  Simply surviving an ordeal.  This should get an Academy award nomination for Best Picture.  Definitely a movie that needs to be seen twice on the big screen.

44.  WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES--  August 3--  Fox Lake, $6--  Caesar's quest to get the Colonel and save the Apes.

Expensive, Expensive Popcorn.  --RoadDog

MORE COFFEE SIGNS:  You don't even wait for the water to boil anymore.

Movie Scratches: Pirates-- Despicable-- Spiderman-- House

37.  PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN:  DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES--  June 14--  Fox Lake, $5--  That was one really mean Spanish captain.  All's well that ends well.

38.  DESPICABLE ME 3--  July 10--  Fox Lake, $6--  Looking for the unicorn and fighting the 80s child star.

39.  SPIDERMAN:  HOMECOMING--  July 10--  Fox Lake, $6--  What was that thing Roger Dangerfield always said?  Spidey just looking for a little respect.

40.  THE HOUSE--  July 11--  Woodstock, Free--  Beware the "Butcher!"  The house always wins.

Expensive Popcorn.  --RoadDog

Movie Scratches: Guardians-- Circle-- Guardians- Woman

Movie Scratches, Movies I've seen at the Theater in 2017.

33.  GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY, VOL. 2-- 5-2 Woodstock, $5--   Meeting Dad and Lil' Groot.

34.  THE CIRCLE--  5-16--  Round Lake Beach, $6--  So wonderful.  So scary.  Do we really want everyone knowing what we are doing.

35.  GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY, VOL. 2-- 6-7--  Fox Lake, $6--  One of those movies you just have to see twice.  Drax thinks it's funny and Lil' Groot steals the show.

36.  WONDER WOMAN--  6-13--  Woodstock, $5--  I'd follow this gal across anybody's "No Man's Land."

The Mysterious Seat Stain?  --RoadDog

Movie Scratches: Style-- China-- Promise-- Z

Movie Scratches:  A Dog's Eye View of Today's Movies.  These are movies I have seen recently in the theaters.

29.  GOING IN STYLE--  4-27--  Fox Lake, $6--  Getting even with the bank and their company with a late-life, short-lived crime spree.  Sure hope there's a GIS II.  This was funny.

30.  BORN IN CHINA--  4-27--  Fox Lake, $6--  China's animals and their families.  Gorgeous scenery and how did they ever get those shots?

31.  THE PROMISE--  5-2--  Round Lake Beach, $6--  The Holocaust of the Armenians in Turkey during World War I.  I'm hoping this one gets a Best Picture nomination.  It was that good.

32.  THE LOST CITY OF Z--  5-2--  Round Lake Beach, $6--  If at first you don't find it, look and look again  And, World War I also.

I have seen several movies with World War I as a theme of late.  Must be the fact that we are in the centennial of America's entry into it.

Hard to Beat Those $1 Nathan's Hotdogs at Regal Cinemas in Round Lake Beach on Tuesdays.  --RoadDog

Movie Scratches 2017: Beauty-- Kong-- Rangers-- Zookeeper's

Movie Scratches:  A Dog's Eye View of Today's Movies.

25. BEAUTY AND THE BEAST--  4-10--  Fox Lake, $6--  He booked and saved her into falling in love with him to break the spell.  Another princess movie.

26.  KING KONG: SKULL ISLAND--  4-11--  Woodstock, $5--  So good, I just had to see it on the big screen a second time.  A hot dog, beer and opening day at Wrigley Field, a World War II vet's dream comes true.

27.  POWER RANGERS--  4-13--  Fox Lake, $6--  Morphin' sure ain't easy, especially with the kookie robot and wall guy.

28.  THE ZOOKEEPER'S WIFE--  4-24--  Round Lake Beach, $6--  German-occupied Warsaw, Poland  Saving Jews at the zoo.  I really liked that little running camel until the Nazis killed him.  I would nominate this one for Best Picture.

Sticky Cup-Holders.  --RoadDog

Movie Scratches: Kong-- Logan-- Life-- Ghost

Movie Scratches--  A Dog's-Eye View of today's movies.

21.  KING KONG: SKULL ISLAND--  3-14--  Woodstock, $6.  The big ape still has a soft spot for the pretty little gal.  And, then are those monsters he keeps having to fight.

22.  LOGAN--  3-21--  Round Lake Beach, $6--  A wild child finds her dad, the Wolverine.  But, he and Charles die.  Is this the end of the Wolverine and the Professor?

23.  LIFE--  3-28--  Round Lake Beach, $6--  Our first encounter with Martian life turns ugly.  The incredibly strong and adaptive Martian looks like an octopus and stalks the space station.

24.  GHOST IN THE SHELL--  4-5--  Fox Lake, $5--  A human brain in a synthetic super body.  Corporate greed, but the cat knew.  Really, really scary geisha girls.  Right up there with those "Oz" flying monkeys.

A Fire Alarm At the Theater.  --RoadDog

2017 Movie Scratches: Wall-- Batman-- Moonlight-- Fall

Movies Scratches:  A Dog's-Eye View of the movies playing at the theaters this year.

17.  THE GREAT WALL--  3-6--  Fox Lake, Free--  What the wall "really" was built for.  Chinese ingenuity and tactics at their best.

18.  THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE--  3-6--  Fox Lake, $6--  The Caped Crusader like you've never seen him before.  Battling the sympathetic Joker who is just looking for a little respect.  Those Oz monkeys still scare me.

19.  MOONLIGHT--  3-7--  Round Lake Beach, $6.  Academy Award Best Picture winner.  Had to see it.  Nowhere near as good as "Hidden Figures" or "Fences."  My thought is that since it had a Black focus and gay as well, that put it over the top to beat the other two.

20.  BEFORE I FALL--  3-13--  Fox Lake, $6--  It was "Groundhog Day" all over again.  Until she finally "Got It Right."  Sadly, not a happy ending.

Way Too Many Pre-Show Commercials.  --RoadDog

2017 Movie Scratches: Dog's-- Fences-- Lion-- Space

Movie Scratches--  A Dog's-eye View of the movies showing at theaters.

13.  A DOG'S PURPOSE--  2-2--  Woodstock, $5--  It made you laugh.  It made you cry.  A dog's eye view of reincarnation.

14.  FENCES--  2-7--  Round Lake Beach, $6--  Another Best Picture nominee.  I had earlier thought that "Hidden Figures" should get Best Picture, but not now.  If "La La Land" gets it, I'll join the blacks in their protest.  By far the best movie I've seen in a long while.

15.  LION--  2-8--  Fox Lake, $5--  Another nominee.  A lost Indian child gets lucky, gets adopted by Australian parents and then goes in search of his "lost" family.

16.  THE SPACE BETWEEN US--  2-10--  Fox Lake, $6--  A REAL long-distance love affair.

I Wish It Was Easier to See Movies Getting Nominated for Best Picture.  --RoadDog

YOU'RE DRINKING TOO MUCH COFFEE WHEN: Your life's goal is to "amount to a hill of beans."

2017 Movie Scratches: Rogue-- Arrival-- Manchester-- Groundhog

Movie Scratches--  Movies I have seen at the theater in 2017.  A Dog's-eye view.

9.  ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY--  1-26--  Fox Lake, $6--  The kind of movie you really need to see on the big screen twice.  Especially now that I know it is a throw-back story and not the next one in the sequels.

10.  ARRIVAL--  1-31--  Round Lake Beach, $6--  Now I am trying to catch up on all the nominees for Academy Award Best Picture.  I'd only seen one before this.  It's all in the way that you say it.

11.  MANCHESTER  BY THE SEA--  1-31--  Round Lake Beach, $6--  Another Best Picture nominee.  A man battling his own personal demons.  Good movie, but way too much swearing and confusing flashbacks.

12.  GROUNDHOG DAY--  2-2--  Woodstock, Free--  What better way to celebrate Groundhog Day than seeing this movie on the big screen at the theater that appeared in the movie.  And, for FREE!

Catching Up On the Nominees.  --RoadDog

Movie Scratches for 2017: Figures-- Patriots'-- La La-- Founder

Movie Scratches--  A Dog's-Eye View of Today's Movies.

Fox Lake is the Classic Cinemas.  Round Lake Beach is the Regal Cinemas.

5.  HIDDEN FIGURES--  1-23--  Fox Lake, $6--   If this doesn't win Best Picture, something's mighty wrong.  The role of black women in the early days of NASA.

6.  PATRIOTS' DAY--  1-23--  Fox Lake, $6--  The story of the Boston Marathon Terrorist Attack

7.  LA LA LAND-- 1-24--  Round Lake Beach, $6--  Follow your dreams, no matter what obstacles get placed in your way.  Jazzing and writing all the way.

8.  THE FOUNDER--  1-26--  Fox Lake, Free--  A true American success story.  Ray Kroc, the good guy overcoming all obstacles then gets all trumped up.

Flat, Cardboard Popcorn.  Yuck!!  --RoadDog

Movie Scratches for 2017: Rogue-- Creed-- Sing-- Moana

This is a list of movies that I saw at the theater during the year.

A bit hard to see movies this January because of school being off and being on a trip to North Carolina.

The number of the movie, name, date seen, where I saw it, price and then a really short summary of it.

1.  ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY--  1-3-- Round Lake Beach, $6--  Or, Star Wars One, now #4, revisited.  telling the events leading up to the very first episode.  (I didn't know that.)

2.  ASSASSIN'S CREED--  1-5--  Fox Lake, $6--  Turns out that Christopher Columbus had the Eden Apple all along.  That Chris!!

3.  SING--  1-9--  Fox Lake, $6--  How to wreck a perfectly good heater.  Let the boy sing.  He's not cut out for a life of crime.

4.  MOANA--  1-9--  Fox Lake, $6--  Guess it was "Mo- ana" not "Mona-a."  What, no Haka?

Too Many Kids Seeing Movies on School Holidays.  --RoadDog

YOU'RE DRINKING TOO MUCH COFFEE WHEN:  You can take a picture of yourself from ten feet away without using a timer.