22 response about Movies I Saw in 2007 »

1. 

   Wow, that is an impressive list! So many that were this year releases too. I got caught up on a lot of older film this year. 278 total films (so far!).

   Prefix’s sacrificed for Alpha order.

   1408
   3:10 to Yuma
   3:10 to Yuma
   30 Days of Night
   300
   Aachi & Ssipak
   Affair to Remember
   After the Wedding
   âge des ténèbres
   All About My Mother
   Alone
   Amours d’Astrée et de Céladon
   And Thereafter II
   Angel-A
   Annie Hall
   Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
   Audience of One
   Automation Transfusion
   Away From Her
   Babel
   Bad Boys II
   Bade Area
   Barbarella
   Bay Boy
   Beowulf
   Beowulf & Grendal
   Beyond the Years
   Blood Brothers
   Blood Diamond
   Blood of Yingzhou District
   Bombombomb!!!
   Bourne Ultimatum
   Boy A
   Brand Upon The Brain!
   Breaking Up
   Brick
   Broken Flowers
   Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
   Cabaret
   Cabin Fever
   Capote
   Cèdre penché
   Children of Men
   Chrysalis
   Clerks 2
   Congorama
   Contre toute espérance
   Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
   Copland
   Corporation
   Crossing
   Curse of the Golden Flower
   DAINIPPONJIN
   Danish Poet
   Darjeeling Limited
   Day Watch
   Death Defying Acts
   Deer Hunter
   Derailed
   Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
   Drumline
   Eastern Promises
   Eight Below
   El Dorado
   Encounters at the End of the World
   Enemy Below
   Enter the Dragon
   Eve and the Fire Horse
   Everyone’s Hero
   Everything’s Gone Green
   eXistanZ
   Eyes Without a Face
   Factory
   Factory Girl
   Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
   Far Side of the Moon
   Fido
   Film is Not Yet Rated
   Finishing the Game
   Fistful of Dollars
   Fists of Fury
   Flash Point
   Forever Never Anywhere
   Four Weddings and a Funeral
   French Guy
   Gandhi
   Glory to the Filmmaker!
   Golden Compass
   Gone Baby Gone
   Good Shephard
   Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The
   Gracie
   Graduate
   Grizzly Man
   Guardian
   Hairspray
   Hard Candy
   Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
   Heading South
   Henry Fool
   High Noon
   High Plains Drifter
   Holes
   Homestay
   Hoodwinked
   Host
   Hot Fuzz
   House of Sand
   I am From Titov Veles
   I Am Legend
   In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
   In The Shadow of the Moon
   Incredibles
   Invasion of the Body Snatchers (original)
   Iron Giant
   It Happened One Night
   Italian Job
   Jeremiah Johnson
   Jerry Maguire
   Jesus of Montréal
   John and Jane
   Just Visiting
   Kill Zone
   King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
   King of the Hill
   Kingdom of Heaven
   Kings
   Lady in the Water
   Lagaan
   Lake House
   Last Chip
   Last Legion
   Last Man on Earth
   Last Night
   Last Trapper
   Lawrence of Arabia
   L’Enfant
   Let’s All Hate Toronto
   Letters from Iwo Jima
   Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico, The
   Live Free or Die Hard
   Lonestar
   Love Comes Lately
   Love Conquers All
   Love Story
   Love, Sex and Eating the Bones
   M
   Madadayo
   Maelström
   Malcolm X
   Man of Cinema: Pierre Rissient
   Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
   Manchurian Candidate (1964)
   Manchurian Candidate (2004)
   Margot at the Wedding
   Master & Commander - the Far Side of the World
   Mean Girls
   Messengers
   Miami Vice
   Midnight Cowboy
   Modern Times
   Mongol
   Monkey Warfare
   Mother of Tears
   Motorcycle Diaries
   Mulberry Street
   Murder on the Orient Express
   Murderball
   My Darling Clementine
   My Winnipeg
   Namesake
   National Velvet
   Niagara Motel
   Night of the Hunter
   Nightmare Detective
   No Regret
   Normal
   Nos vies privé
   Notes on a Scandal
   Odessa File
   Office Space
   Old Joy
   Once
   Once Upon a Time in the West
   One Minute Short Film Festival
   Outlaw Josey Wales
   Owl and the Sparrow
   Ox-Bow Incident
   Paranoid Park
   Patton
   Philidelphia Story
   Pieces of April
   Point Break
   Posiedon
   Poultrygeist
   Prestige
   Promise to the Dead: The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman
   Proof
   Queen
   Radiant City
   Raging Bull
   Raise the Red Lantern
   Ran
   Rashôman
   Ready to Wear
   Real Women Have Curves
   Reaping
   Rebel
   Recycled Life
   Red Shoes, The
   Rehearsing a Dream
   Republic of Love
   Resident Evil: Extintion
   Return of the Dragon
   Ride with the Devil
   Rosemary’s Baby
   Route
   Sad Vacation
   Sakuran
   Saw
   Secret Life of Happy People
   Seducing Dr. Lewis
   September
   Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
   Seven Samurai
   Seventh Seal
   Shadows
   Shake Hands with the Devil
   Shanghai Triad
   Sharkwater
   Shaun of the Dead
   Simon Says
   Sky High
   Snow Cake
   Solyaris
   Souvenir of Canada
   Spartacus
   Spymate
   Stomp the Yard
   Stone Angel
   Strangers on a Train
   Streetcar Named Desire, A
   SUKIYAKI WESTERN DJANGO
   Sun Also Rises
   Sunshine (1999)
   Sunshine (2007)
   Sweet and Lowdown
   Terms of Endearment
   Third Man
   Thousand Years of Good Prayers
   Throne of Blood
   THX 1138
   Total Bangkok
   Transformers
   Treasure of Sierra Madre
   Tristan + Isolde
   Twelve and Holding
   Twelve Twenty
   Two Hands
   Ultraviolet
   Ulzhan
   United 93
   Very Long Engagement
   Vexille
   Volver
   Voyage du ballon rouge
   Want You
   War
   We Belong Together
   Weather Man
   Why We Fight
   Wild Horse Redemption
   Wolfhound
   Wolfsbergen
   XXY
   Yojimbo
   You and Me and Everyone We Know
   Zoo La Nuit

   Comment by Shannon the Movie Moxie — December 29, 2007
2. 

   Wow there are some definite good movies in your list. Its great to be married and have a kid but I really wish I would have started to seriously watch movies before I was married. I’m impressed that I was able to see the 160 some that I did this year.

   Only another 14 years and the son will be 18 and I’ll have a full life again.

   Comment by John Allison — December 29, 2007
3. 

   I need to note down the movies I watch so that I too can post an impressive list like this. It totally lends credibility. Maybe I should make that my new year’s resolution.

   Comment by Henrik — December 29, 2007
4. 

   Me too Henrik. There’s no way I can remember EVERYTHING I saw for the first time this year. My resolution for next year is to track EVERYTHING I see for the first time.

   Comment by Marina Antunes — December 29, 2007
5. 

   Get a book. Tape in all movie stubs in it. Flip the book over and write down all the movies you watched at home. I only wished I had started this before June of this year. I have racked my brain but can only remember a hand full of films before June, but have over a hundred written down after June.

   Comment by colleeny — December 29, 2007
6. 

   Yes…I will be picking up a book. Maybe tomorrow!

   Comment by Marina Antunes — December 30, 2007
7. 

   sounds like I have a resolution for 2008 now. hello movie book.

   Comment by Goon — December 30, 2007
8. 

   I’ve been tracking every movie I see for the last 7 years or so. It’s not too difficult as long as you remember to write each one down.

   Hasn’t been updated in almost a year, but here’s every movie I’ve ever seen in my life:
   http://moviepatron.com/page9.html

   The ones from ‘07 are HERE

   Comment by Andrew James — December 30, 2007
9. 

   My suggestion would be to actually install the wp movie listing plugin that we use here. Both WP and the plugin are free. Then you just create one page and have that as the home for the site and you can easily list all the movies there with links to imdb, your rating and date.

   I’ve been doing it manually over on Film Grotto this year and coming up in a couple of days I’m going to switch to the plugin.

   If people are interested in this perhaps I’ll do a post explaining how to do it a bit more in depth.

   Comment by John Allison — December 30, 2007
10. 

    Oh and I keep a book also but I use the book to jot down movies I should see as I hear/read about them.

    Comment by John Allison — December 30, 2007
11. 

    I’m watching Ghost Rider. Yes, thats right. I make time for bad Nicolas Cage movies. I think I enjoy them almost as much as the few good ones.

    Man, they just set a retarded monkey loose on screen… its seriously the worst performance i’ve seen all year, i had to take a break from it to relax…

    Comment by Goon — December 30, 2007
12. 

    I loved Nicolas Cage in Ghost Rider. Ghost Rider is like Anchorman and Nicolas Cage is as funny as Will Ferrell.

    Comment by Henrik — December 30, 2007
13. 

    I’m impressed that you saw 160 John! That is amazing!

    Getting a book is a great idea! That is on my list for tomorrow (actually to get 2, so I can have one for books too). Including the stubs is a great idea!

    I pulled that list from Access, I have a database for film and so I can easily see what I’ve seen, by title or date, where my notes are for each film, if I’ve reviewed it, etc.

    Comment by Shannon the Movie Moxie — December 30, 2007
14. 

    Oh, and Andrew - love the knowledge base, that is a great idea. Like with any system if works if you *use* it!

    Comment by Shannon the Movie Moxie — December 30, 2007
15. 

    I actually haven’t seen a single movie ever. I’m a surprisingly effective liar.

    Comment by Matt Gamble — December 30, 2007
16. 

    DIVERSION

    can someone settle something between me and Henrik?

    True or false:
    outside of his ‘maudlin’ state (ie Leaving Las Vegas, Adaptation, Matchstick Men) these days Nicolas Cage is pretty much considered a joke.

    Comment by Goon — December 30, 2007
17. 

    Bringing Out The Dead, Adaptation, The Weatherman. All Fine Nic Cage perfs in the past 10 years.

    Comment by Kurt — December 31, 2007
18. 

    thats not the question

    I mean, outside his more somber/laid back performances, these days true or false - when Cage tries to ‘act’ ie Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Wicker Man, etc, he gets laughed at.

    Comment by Goon — December 31, 2007
19. 

    are you asking if he gets laughed at in general, or by us as individuals? i still think cage has some great performances left in him. he just needs a little… discretion.

    Comment by andrew dykstra — December 31, 2007
20. 

    to the topic at hand, i am feeling the ebb in my movie viewing this year for sure(haven’t kept track, but i’d be surprised if i saw more than 120 this year). after my personal best of 421 a few years back (recorded in a legal pad complete with legend), the regularity has almost gone to the opposite extreme.

    Comment by andrew dykstra — December 31, 2007
21. 

    “outside his more somber/laid back performances”

    This is the actual acting that he does. The other blockbuster stuff he does he just experiments and tries strange things out because he can’t take it seriously. And I appreciate that. He is fantastic when the part is worthy of an actual performance, and not just experimenting. I mean the character in Ghost Rider is nothing on paper. So in order for him to have soemthing to do rather than just say words without motivation other than the paycheck, he has to inject all sorts of weird things into it. And it’s funny! His performance in Ghost Rider is betrayed by a pathetic no-talent director, thinking that Nicolas Cage is actually serious when pointing at people and talking like Elvis.

    Comment by Henrik — December 31, 2007
22. 

    I don’t know how far he has got, but Ian Pugh over at Film Freak Central is doing a lengthy analysis of the Cage-meister over at Filmfreakcentral.net ’s blog.

    Comment by Kurt — December 31, 2007

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