Dragnet (1987)

[Movie 185 / Day 204]


Average 80s spoof of the detective series. Aykroyd is good as the strait-laced Joe Friday and plays off Hanks' average guy Detective Streeback well. Some of the jokes are hilarious, but the plot is distinctly average.

My rating: 5.8 / 10
IMDB rating: 5.6 / 10
Running time: 106 mins
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Apollo 13 (1995)

[Movie 162 / Day 173]


Space rocket takes off on moon-landing mission; breaks; "Houston, we have a problem"; aborts mission; gets home.

Based on real life, you know what's going to happen - yet the film manages to hold you in suspense and makes you really root for the characters stuck on board the stricken craft.

The actors are all as good as you'd expect really.

We should go back to the moon, it's been over 35 years.

My rating: 7.7 / 10
IMDB rating: 7.5 / 10
Running time: 140 mins
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Turner & Hooch (1989)

[Movie 62 / Day 38]


Tom Hanks is an 'investigator' in a small town's police force. An old man is murdered and he inherits the old man's dog - a massive, slobbery brute called Hooch. As Hooch is the closest thing to a witness, he's important to cracking the case. Or something.

Anyway, as the film progresses, the two become closer and fall in love with the local vet (and her dog).

I used to love this movie as a kid, but it's fairly typical 80s blandness when you rewatch it now.

My rating: 5.9 / 10
IMDB rating: 5.5 / 10
Running time: 97 mins
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The Terminal (2004)

[Movie 29 / Day 15]


Tom Hanks plays a man from Eastern Europe who is visiting New York. Unfortunately, while he's flying, a coup is staged in his country meaning that when he lands, both his passport and his visa are invalid - the US officials can't let him into the States, but they also can't send him back to his own country.

All they can do is put him in the international departure lounge and wait for him to try and escape so he can be arrested and will become someone else's problem. Problem is, he doesn't try to escape. He was told to wait, so wait he will.

Loosely based on a true story, this Steven Spielberg movie is an out-and-out feel-good flick - and while it's a bit sickly sweet in places, it does what it says on the tin, helped in no short measure by an excellent performance by Hanks, as well as the solid supporting cast.

My rating: 7.7 / 10
IMDB rating: 7.1 / 10
Running time: 128 mins
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Big (1988)

[Movie 6 / Day 4]


Good times.

My rating: 7.9 / 10
IMDB rating: 7.2 / 10
Running time: 104 mins
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