2024, The Year’s Movies

Here are the movies I watched this year.

Movie (Year Released – Date Watched)

Wonka (2023 – 1/20)
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023 – 2/02)
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023 – 2/03)
John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017 – 2/24)
John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (2019 – 2/24)
John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023 – 3/02
Argylle (2024 – 3/08)
Frozen (2013 – 3/29)
Road House (1989 – 3/30)
Baby Driver (2017 – 4/13)
Beauty and the Beast (2017 – 4/27)
Gentlemen Broncos (2009 – 5/03)
Charlie’s Angels (2000 – 5/03)
Tombstone (1993 – 5/06)
Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021 – 5/10)
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024 – 5/10)
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024 – 5/11)
The Last Stop in Yuma County (2024 – 5/11)
Civil War (2024 – 5/25)
The First Omen (2024 – 6/08)
Billy Madison (1995 – 6/08)
Goodfellas (1990 – 6/14)
Dune: Part Two (2024 – 6/17)
M*A*S*H (1970 – 6/24)
Deadwood The Movie (2019 – 6/29)
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F (2024 – 7/06)
Napoleon Dynamite (2004 – 7/06)
The Exorcsim (2024 – 7/12)
Godzilla Minus One (2023 – 7/13)
The Fall Guy (2024 – 7/20)
The Sum of All Fears (2002 – 7/20)
Thelma (2024 – 7/26)
The Planet of the Apes (2001 – 7/27)
A Quiet Place: Day One (2024 – 8/02)
Deadpool & Wolverine (2024 – 8/09)
Man Down (2016 – 8/10)
Legally Blonde (2001 – 8/11)
Legally Blonde 2 (2003 – 8/16)
The Many Saints of Newark (2021 – 8/18)
Alien: Romulus (2024 – 8/24)
The Dirt (2019 – 8/24)
The Union (2024 – 8/30)
Stand By Me (1986 – 8/31)
Seven Psychopaths (2012 – 9/07)
Field of Dreams (1989 – 9/13)
Stuck on You (2003 – 9/13)
El Camino (2019 – 9/18)
MK Ultra (2022 – 9/20)
The World’s End (2013 – 9/21)
Tea with Mussolini (1999 – 9/27)
The Godfather (1972 – 9/28)
Daughter of the Wolf (2019 – 10/04)
The 4:30 Movie (2024 – 10/05)
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024 – 10/11)
Meet Joe Black (1998 – 10/12)
Pulp Fiction (1994 – 10/24)
Final Destination (2000 – 10/25)
Scream (1996 – 10/26)
Signs (2002 – 10/29)
Jeffrey (1995 – 11/03)
Reagan (2024 – 11/09)
Saturday Night (2024 – 11/16)
Jules (2023 – 11/16)
Conclave (2024 – 11/27)
Grumpy Old Men (1993 – 11/28)
It’s A Wonderful Life (1946 – 11/29)
We’re the Millers (2013 – 12/13)
Red One (2024 – 12/14)
Krampus (2015 – 12/14)
Christmas Vacation (1989 – 12/25)
Bad Santa (2003 – 12/24)
A Christmas Story (1983 – 12/25)
The Holdovers (2023 – 12/28)

2024, The Year’s Bingings

These are the television series I’ve binged, in their entirety, this year. As in previous years, I’ve had some free time on my hands.

Elementary
Absolutely Fabulous (plus the movie)
Keeping Up Appearances
Rescue Me (continued from 2023)
Masters of the Air
Friends (continued from 2023)
Deadwood (plus the movie)
The Sopranos (plus The Saints of Newark)
Franklin
The Acolyte
The Good Lord Bird
Sausage Party: Foodtopia
Breaking Bad (plus El Camino)
Better Call Saul
Lioness
Schitt’s Creek

The Real Threat

Quotes from the party of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

◦ Kamala Harris — repeatedly: “Trump is a threat to our democracy and fundamental freedoms.”

◦ Kamala Harris: “It’s on us to recognize the threat [Trump) poses.”

◦ Kamala Harris: “Does one of us have to come out alive? Ha ha ha ha!”

◦ Joe Biden: “It’s time to put Trump in a bullseye.”

◦ Joe Biden: “I mean this from the bottom of my heart: Trump is a threat to this nation.”

◦ Joe Biden: “There is one existential threat: it’s Donald Trump.”

◦ Joe Biden: “Trump is a genuine threat to this nation … He’s literally a threat to everything America stands for.”

◦ Joe Biden: “Trump and MAGA Republicans are a threat to the very soul of this country.”

◦ Joe Biden: “Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic… and that is a threat to this country.”

◦ Tim Walz: “Are [Republicans] a threat to democracy? Yes. … Are they going to put peoples lives in danger? Yes.”

◦ Gwen Walz: “Buh-bye, Donald Trump.”

◦ Rep. Nancy Pelosi: “[Trump) is a threat to our democracy of the kind that we have not seen.”

◦ Rep. Jasmine Crockett: “MAGA in general — they are threats to us domestically.”

◦ Rep. Dan Goldman: “He is destructive to our democracy and … he has to be eliminated.”

◦ Disgraced Harris staffer TJ Ducklo: “Trump is an existential, urgent threat to our democracy.”

◦ Top Harris surrogate Liz Cheney: “Trump presents a fundamental threat to the republic and we are seeing it on a daily basis.”

◦ Rep. Steve Cohen: “Trump is an enemy of the United States.”

◦ Rep. Maxine Waters: “Are [Trump supporters] preparing a civil war against us?”

◦ Rep. Maxine Waters: “I want to know about all of those right-wing organizations that (Trump] is connected with who are training up in the hills somewhere.”

◦ Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Trump is an “existential threat to our democracy.”

◦ Rep. Adam Schiff: Trump is the “gravest threat to our democracy.”

◦ Rep. Gregory Meeks: “Trump cannot be president again. He’s an existential threat to democracy.”

◦ Rep. Dan Goldman: “Trump remains the greatest threat to our democracy.”

◦ Rep. Jake Auchincloss: “What unifies us as a party is knowing that Donald Trump is al existential threat to Democracy.”

◦ Rep. Abigail Spanberger: “Trump is a threat to our democracy … the threats to our democratic republic are real.”

◦ Rep. Annie Kuster: “Trump and his extreme right-wing followers pose an existential threat to our democracy.”

◦ Rep. Becca Balint: “We cannot underestimate the threat [Trump] poses to American democracy.”

◦ Rep. Jason Crow: “Trump is an extreme danger to our democracy.”

◦ Rep. Raul Grijalva: “Trump is an existential threat to American democracy.”

◦ Sen. Michael Bennet: Trump is “a threat to our democracy.”

◦ Rep. Stacey Plaskett: Trump “needs to be shot.”

◦ Rep. Steven Horsford: “Trump Republicans are a dangerous threat to our state.”

◦ Rep. Gabe Vasquez: “Remove the national threat from office.”

◦ Rep. Mike Levin: “Donald Trump is a threat to our nation, our freedom, and our democracy.”

◦ Rep. Eric Sorensen: “He is the greatest threat to law and order we have in our country.”

◦ Rep. Greg Landsman: “The threat is not over.”

◦ Rep. Pat Ryan: “Trump is an existential threat to American democracy.”

◦ Rick Wilson, The Lincoln Project: “They’re still going to have to go out and put a bullet in Donald Trump.”

◦ Former Harris-Biden staffer Kate Bedingfield: Democrats should “turn their fire on Donald Trump.”

◦ Rep. Hakeem Jeffries: “We must stop [Trump].”

◦ Rachel Vindman, wife of disgraced impeachment hoax ‘witness: “No ears were harmed. Carry on with your Sunday afternoon.”

◦ Rep. Mikie Sherrill: “This really seems to be the confluence of two very bad things going on in the Republican Party … the attempts to divide, to enrage the population.”

◦ State Rep. Steven Woodrow (D-CO): “The last thing America needed was sympathy for the devil but here we are.”

◦ Lester Holt, NBC Nightly News: “Today’s apparent assassination attempt comes amid increasingly fierce rhetoric on the campaign trail. Mr. Trump, his running mate JD Vance, continue to make baseless claims…”