I decided that on Saturday I was going to do nothing but watch movies. Let's see how that went, starting with the only film from the list I'd seen before:
Short Circuit
Probably not as good as you remember, although the robots still look cool - the power of practical effects in action. It's pretty tired as far as the plot goes and has a dude in brownface playing an Indian character. Now, even though some of the best films ever made are guilty of this (cough Aliens cough), Short Circuit merrily has the character not be able to speak English properly and keep making "hilarious" errors. So, you know, no.
Detective Pikachu
Some people on here seemed to really like this - I thought it was crap. Just... Dull.
Tucker and Dale vs Evil
Ha, this was great! College kids think Tucker and Dale are evil and keep trying to attack them, often dying in the process. Tucker and Dale are appropriately bemused by the entire thing.
V for Vendetta
This was also good, although I'm sure they could have found an actual English actress to play the English lead(s). Weaving wasn't bad but Portman was noticeably "not from around here". Also at the end the copper shouted "pull that lever" and made lever rhyme with "clever", and somehow that made it into the final cut. But still, a good film, even if it did take quite a dump on the story from the comic.
Upgrade
Sci-fi movie where a paraplegic dude has a computer put in him to help him use his arms and legs again. Does this go perfectly well with no side effects? No, no it does not. But it's a great film and has some of the best fight scenes I've seen for a long time, with some incredible camerawork. It's quite a lot like Venom, not least because the main dude looks like Tom Hardy.
Cam
Not the horror movie it was billed to be, Cam is about a cam girl whose account gets taken over by a lookalike, and she can't get it back. It's interesting, but probably 20 minutes too long. But! If you wanted to see the girl off Handmaid's Tale (not Zoe Bartlett, the other one) get her norks out (a lot) then this is the movie for you!
The Babysitter
Unexpectedly good slasher film with some properly funny moments. The main kid is clearly 18 but is meant to be 12, but you can overlook anything because Samara Weaving is ridonka-hot.
The Autopsy of Jane Dow
I probably should have mentioned this earlier in case anyone was looking for a Halloween movie, but TAoJD is creepy and smart, and only goes slightly off the rails in its final act. Watch it and be impressed by how still the actress playing the corpse could be (it was nearly all done by a real living person, apparently).
The Babysitter 2: Killer Queen
Predictably not as good as the first one, especially as the trailer made it look like Samara Weaving was back in it but she had about five minutes of screen time at best. Good ending, though.