Jumping onto the bandwagon kick-started by this wonderful list over at Zara's. Ranked according to the categories below. Rules are as follows:
- There is no time limit on the challenge; as long as you complete the challenge you've succeeded, even if it takes you a week or two years!
- You must pick only one film for each 50 categories.
- Each film you select must be a film you've never seen, to aid your discovery of new and exciting films!
- Tag each log entry/review + your list with this tag: "time wasters challenge".
- Most importantly, have an absolute ton of fun!
✔️= watched
Progress: 2/50
~ CATEGORIES ~
1. A film listed in 3 different TV Tropes…
Jumping onto the bandwagon kick-started by this wonderful list over at Zara's. Ranked according to the categories below. Rules are as follows:
- There is no time limit on the challenge; as long as you complete the challenge you've succeeded, even if it takes you a week or two years!
- You must pick only one film for each 50 categories.
- Each film you select must be a film you've never seen, to aid your discovery of new and exciting films!
- Tag each log entry/review + your list with this tag: "time wasters challenge".
- Most importantly, have an absolute ton of fun!
✔️= watched
Progress: 2/50
~ CATEGORIES ~
1. A film listed in 3 different TV Tropes articles
2. A live-action film that features a main character transforming into an animal via magic
3. A film starring Kyle MacLachlan
4. A Non DC/Marvel superhero film
5. A film among the top 10 lowest-rated films of any year between 2000-2016 according to Letterboxd (sort the films of the year by average rating and pick lowest first to find a film)
6. A horror film whose main antagonist is an ordinary household object (toys do not count)
7. A sci-fi film where the alien is a main protagonist
8. A fantasy film with a plot that focuses on war
9. A film set in a decade that features music from a different decade (example: a film set in the 1950s with music from the early 2000s)
10. A live-action film with mermaids as the main protagonist
11. An animated drama
12. A film in which the trope the Chanteuse appears (the trope: tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheChanteuse)
13. A non-horror film about cannibals/cannibalism
14. A 2000s sci-fi film with a female protagonist
15. A non-drama film about lesbians
16. A film featuring one song by the band Oingo Boingo on the soundtrack
17. A non-sci-fi film about time travel
18. A live-action film that doesn't feature the main character on the poster
19. A film from a director's filmography that you love but have seen less than 20% of
20. A film where the main protagonist is a chef
21. An animated horror film
22. An MA15+/R-rated musical film
23. A sequel that you haven't seen to a popular horror film you've seen
24. A film starring an actor/actress your mum absolutely hates
25. A film featuring necrophilia
26. A popular film in the crime genre that you have not seen according to Letterboxd
27. A film based on, or a loose adaption of, a Shakespeare play
28. A film which is a prequel or sequel of, or based on a popular TV show
29. A film with a primary neon colour palette
30. A film that has won an Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling
31. A film from the Barbie franchise
32. A comedy film starring Harrison Ford
33. A foreign thriller film
34. A sci-fi western
35. A Disney Channel film
36. A film based on real accounts of UFO sightings, alien abductions and other similar things
37. An urban fantasy film
38. A documentary film about toys
39. A 90s mystery film
40. A film made by a mockbuster production company
41. A 2016 fantasy film
42. An animated film directed by a woman (co-directed also counts)
43. A non-comedy film starring Robin Williams
44. A Quentin Tarantino film that doesn't star Samuel L. Jackson
45. A biopic set in the 80s
46. A romantic thriller
47. A film that is the lowest-rated film in the filmography of an actress that you love
48. A gothic teen film
49. A fantasy mystery film
50. A film that isn't directed by David Lynch but is scored by Angelo Badalamenti
