My 2012 Movie List

Most of January was taken up with talk of running.  It’s time to put an end to that nonsense and get to the important stuff: movies. 

Starting in 2010 I began keeping a list of all the movies I watched for the year. 2010 was out of control – basically I attempted to see as many movies as possible that year. Ended up being 331. Yep, a little less than a movie per day. 

2011 was a little more reasonable: 175. That list is available here.

And now I present the 2012 list, totaling 150.  

1 RV	76 The Prestige^^
2 Friends With Benefits*	77 The Rock
3 Ben Hur^^	78 Pan’s Labyrinth*^^
4 Unforgiven^^	79 Tango & Cash
5 Toy Story^^	80 Monty Python & the Holy Grail^^
6 Yankee Doodle Dandy*^^	81 Serenity
7 The Maltese Falcon^^	82 Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog
8 Breaking Dawn	83 Raiders of the Lost Ark^^
9 Inception	84 Shawshank Redemption^^
10 Unknown	85 Twilight
11 Star Trek (2009)	86 Tootsie*^^
12 Blade Runner: Theatrical Release^^	87 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolfe? *^^
13 Gladiator^^	88 Reservoir Dogs^^
14 The Sting*^^	89 Saving Private Ryan*^^
15 Do the Right Thing^^	90 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
16 Journey 2*	91 Treasure of the Sierra Madre*^^
17 Metropolis*^^	92 50/50*
18 The Last Picture Show*^^	93 Total Recall (2012)*
19 Moneyball*	94 African Queen^^
20 Pulp Fiction^^	95 Rock of Ages*
21 Gran Torino^^	96 The Bourne Legacy*
22 The French Connection*^^	97 In Time*
23 Downfall*^^	98 Chinatown^^
24 Up^^	99 the Bourne Identity
25 The Fabulous Baker Boys	100 Network*^^
26 The Apartment*^^	101 New Moon
27 Sophie’s Choice*^^	102 Real Steel
28 Swing Time*^^	103 X-Men: First Class
29 The Bicycle Thief^^	104 Total Recall
30 11:14*	105 L.A. Confidential^^
31 Bringing Up Baby^^	106 Real Steel
32 The Great Dictator*^^	107 Twilight
33 Footloose (2011)	108 New Moon
34 12 Angry Men^^	109 Eclipse
35 Inglourious Basterds*^^	110 The Third Man*^^
36 2001: A Space Odyssey ^^	111 Ice Age: Continental Drift*
37 Double Dare*	112 Haywire*
38 Platoon^^	113 Cabaret^^
39 This Means War*	114 Das Boot*^^
40 Full Metal Jacket*^^	115 Requiem for a Dream*^^
41 Night At the Opera*^^	116 American Graffiti ^^
42 Thor	117 Sullivan’s Travels*^^
43 Easy Rider*^^	118 The Avengers
44 The Avengers*	119 Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind^^
45 The Green Mile*^^	120 Aliens^^
46 Titanic^^	121 What’s Your Number?*
47 Amadeus^^	122 Big Miracle*
48 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans*^^	123 Mission Impossible: 3
49 We Bought A Zoo*	124 The Three Musketeers*
50 The Avengers IMAX 3D	125 Scooby Doo*
51 All About Eve*^^	126 City Lights*^^
52 Spartacus*^^	127 Twilight
53 I Am Number Four	128 New Moon
54 The Vow*	129 Eclipse
55 Men In Black 3*	130 Breaking Dawn, Part 1
56 Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol	131 Breaking Dawn, Part 2*
57 Last of the Mohicans	132 Magic Mike*
58 Bridge on the River Kwai* ^^	133 Surfwise*
59 Mission: Impossible	134 Hancock
60 Modern Times*^^	135 Breaking Dawn, Part 2
61 Some Like It Hot^^	136 The Departed*^^
62 The Gold Rush*^^	137 Jaws^^
63 Memento^^	138 MASH*^^
64 All the President’s Men*^^	139 Pump Up the Volume
65 Forrest Gump^^	140 To Kill a Mockingbird*^^
66 In the Heat of the Night*^^	141 North By Northwest^^
67 Cinema Paradiso*^^	142 The Deer Hunter*^^
68 Ragining Bull*^^	143 The Pianist*^^
69 X-Men	144 Les Miserables *
70 Silence of the Lambs^^	145 West Side Story^^
71 Hunger Games*	146 Paths of Glory*^^
72 Journey 2	147 West Side Story
73 Back to the Future^^	148 The Amazing Spider-man*
74 Mission: Impossible 2	149 Iron Man
75 X-Men 2	150 The Dark Knight Rises*

Cinema Paradiso - My pic for fave

Films marked with an *denotes that it was my first time seeing it.  A ^^ denotes it was part of my Sunday Showdown (AFI vs. IMDb) challenge.  Having the Sunday Showdown hanging over me each week definitely has caused me to see quite a few films I normally wouldn’t in the course of the year. Kubrick aside, that was mostly a good thing.

I highlighted the films I particularly found enjoyable and would suggest to others. Five of the six of them are from the Sunday Showdown challenge; 2/3 are from before 1970.  Cinema Paradiso (1988) was my absolute favorite. 

I’m  keeping a list again for 2013(currently at 14), a few of my movie-geek friends are too. We’ll see what exciting cinematic experiences that leads to.