Every year for the past four years I've kept a list of all the movies I've watched during that year. It all started because a friend mentioned he did it, so I had jump on that bandwagon, of course. In 2013, I watched 150 movies. (2012's list also had 150, 2011's list had 175; 2010's list had 331 -- let's not even talk about that).
There's no big revelation about me in these lists, except probably that I watch too many movies.
If a movie is on the list more than once, that's because I watched it more than once during 2013. Unlike some of my movie buff friends (you know who you are) I did not consider watching a double episode of a television show, or an hour-long comedy special, a movie.
(Although I almost considered listing the BBC Sherlock episodes as movies, since those are each 1.5 hours long, but decided against it. Television is not movies. But just FYI -- WATCH THOSE if you haven't. They are fabulous)
* denotes that I was seeing it for the first time
# denotes that it was part of the Sunday Showdown Challenge
Movies that are highlighted are ones I most enjoyed and would most recommend. My top three recommendations from what I saw in 2013 would be: The Intouchables, All About Eve and Safety Not Guaranteed. Although seriously, you can't go wrong with any of the ones that were highlighted.
And yes, I am keeping a list for 2014. Right now it has a big, fat NOTHING on it. But it will have The Way, Way Back, as soon as I can find the time.
2013 Movie List
1 Taxi
Driver*#
2 Man on a
Ledge*
3 Ted*
4 Safety Not Guaranteed*
5 Pitch
Perfect*
6 Spirited
Away*#
7 The
Maltese Falcon#
8 Beasts of
the Southern Wild*
9 On the
Waterfront*#
10 Life of
Pi*
11 Lincoln*
12 Zero Dark
Thirty*
13 Silver
Linings Playbook*
14 Beasts of
the Southern Wild*
15 Django
Unchained*
16 Les
Miserables*
17 Argo*
18 A Good
Day to Die Hard*
19 Burning
Man: Beyond Black Rock*
20 Lawrence
of Arabia#*
21 Rear
Window#
22 WALL-E*#
23 The
Shining#
24 The Intouchables*
25 A
Streetcar Named Desire#
26 Premium
Rush*
27 Alien*
28 The Perks
of Being a Wallflower*
29 The Mummy
30 The
Bourne Legacy
31 8 Years
of Burning Man*
32 It Happened One Night*#
33 Ruby Sparks*
34 Step Up:
Revolution*
35 Confessions
of a Burning Man*
36 Trouble
with the Curve*
37 Amelie#
38 To Rome
With Love*
39 The Journey of Natty Gann
40 Sherlock
Holmes: A Game of Shadows
41 This
Means War
42 GI Joe:
The Rise of Cobra
43 GI Joe:
Retaliation*
44 21 Jump
Street*
45 Vertigo#
46 Iron Man
3*
47 The
Philadelphia Story#
48 Looper*
49 Taken 2*
50 Bonnie
and Clyde*#
51 Step Up*
52 2 Fast 2
Furious
53 Fast and
Furious
54 King
Kong#
55 Oblivion*
56 American
Beauty#
57 American
History X*#
58 Apocalypse
Now*#
59 Fast Five
60 The Fast
and the Furious 6*
61 Star Trek
Into Darkness*
62 Argo
63 Fast and
Furious: Tokyo Drift
64 The Best
Years Of Our Lives*#
65 Chasing
Mavericks*
66 Citizen
Kane#
67 Pitch
Perfect
68 Annie Hall#*
69 Leon: The
Professional#
70 Mao’s
Last Dancer*
71 Snow
White and the Seven Dwarves#
72 Source
Code
73 Iron Man
3
74 The Great
Gatsby*
75 Star Trek
Into Darkness
76 The Mummy
77 The Mummy
Returns
78 The Sound
of Music#
79 Hot Fuzz
80 Oz The
Great and Powerful*
81 One Flew
Over the Cuckoo’s Nest#
82 The
Godfather#
83 Sunset
Boulevard*#
84 The
Godfather Part II #
85 Sex and
the City The Movie
86 GI:Joe
–Retaliation
87 It’s a
Wonderful Life#
88 Matrix
89 Matrix
Reloaded
90 Matrix
Revolutions
91 Se7en#
92 High
Noon*#
93 Star Trek
Into Darkness
94 Thor
95 Sex &
the City 2
96 All About Eve#
97 Elysium*
98 Mr. &
Mrs. Smith
99 Mr. Smith
Goes to Washington#
100 Eraser
101 Now You
See Me*
102 E.T.:
The Extra Terrestrial#
103
Limitless
104 Toy
Story 3*#
105 Déjà vu
106 The
Bodyguard
107 Mud*
108 The
Graduate#
109 Monsters
University*
110 Seven
Samurai#*
111 The
General#*
112 The
Good, the Bad, and the Ugly#*
113
Casablanca#
114 Heathers
115 The
Heat*
116 2001: A
Space Odyssey#
117
Goodfellas#
118 Percy Jackson:
Sea of Monsters*
119
Frequency
120 Love
Potion #9
121 Cloud
Atlas*
122 Here
Comes the Boom*
123 Much Ado
About Nothing*
124 Star
Wars#
125 Psycho#
126 The
Empire Strikes Back#
127 A Good
Day to Die Hard
128 Romeo +
Juliet
129 Pacific
Rim*
130 Rock of
Ages
131 Gone
with the Wind#
132
Inception#
133 The
Kings of Summer*
134. World
War Z*
135 Thor 2*
136 Jack
Reacher
137 World
War Z
138 The
Internship*
139 Skyfall
140 Man of
Steel*
141 Men in
Black 3
142 White
House Down*
143 Singin’
In the Rain#
144 Secretary
145 Moneyball
146 Top Gun
147 Red
148 Red 2*
149 Chicago