Showing posts with label movie list. Show all posts
Showing posts with label movie list. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Geek Fest 2013: My Movie List

My blog has had to take a back to seat to my real writing deadlines, so sorry. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like that's going to change any time soon. But before we got too far into 2014, I wanted to share my 2013 movie list. 

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

Monday, February 4, 2013

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.