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This is one I had a write-up for!

Stripes: D+

This one was actually a rewatch for me. I remember scanning the list, taking note of what I had already seen and then getting to Stripes and I was like "I watched that one!" and then sitting there trying to remember a single thing about it and failing. I watched it again less than a week ago and I'm in exactly the same spot. Of all the movies on the list, this is the one I remember zoning out for a solid five minutes for and realizing I wasn't watching the movie. I wasn't even doing anything. I wasn't on my phone and I was watching this by myself, in my room, at like 1 in the morning. There were no distractions and still my brain was like "alright man you stay here, I'm heading out."

This is the third movie now on the list where I was like "oh WOW look at that cast" and then finished watching it and was like "oh man, that poor cast." This movie has no reason being and bland as it was with a cast like this. It was like an all star group of the 80s comic actors and this was the result. It would be like if the Dream Team assembled in the 90s and then went to the Olympics just had a sensible dinner before heading home. They wasted John Candy. This might be the worst I've seen Harold Ramis. And I'm afraid I hate Bill Murray now.

Also, I've written this like ten times now for different movies, but man did this not age well. But this was somehow worse. It felt like someone's secondary goal was to make a movie and their primary goal was to make sure women knew he hated them, and he wasn't all that concerned with that first part. And, to steal and adapt a line from Community, "I can excuse sexism but I draw the line at being unfunny." For all of my complaints, this was a comedy that just wasn't all that funny. It wasn't the worse film on the list, but it is definitely up there for most forgettable. I think. I'm honestly not sure anymore.