I‘m currently writing up my top 10 list which has probably changed a fair amount in the past couple of week, but I don’t want to get into the whole favorites constantly changing thing right now. I figured just for fun I would post up the list of movies that I watched this year. The list is composed of anything that I watched for the very first time. I will probably add one or two more before New Years Day. If you keep track of what you watch feel free to post your list in the comments. My count of movies is 162 right now.
- 30 Days of Night
- 300
- 1408
- 28 Weeks Later
- 3:10 to Yuma (2007)
- A Mighty Heart
- Aachi & Ssipak
- Aguirre: Wrath of God
- Alone
- Alpha Dog
- Alvin and the Chipmunks
- American Gangster
- Angel-A
- Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters
- Atonement
- Audience of One
- Automaton Transfusion
- Away From Her
- Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
- Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
- Beowolf
- Black Book
- Black Sheep (2007)
- Black Snake Moan
- Blood Car
- Blood Simple
- Branded to Kill
- Blood and Chocolate
- Bug
- Children of Men
- Chunking Express
- Citizen Kane
- Confession of Pain
- Cronos
- Curse of the Golden Flower
- Day Watch
- DOA: Dead or Alive
- Doctor Strange
- Don’t Look Now
- Dragon Tiger Gate
- Duck You Sucker
- Eastern Promises
- El Aura
- Exiled
- Exterminating Angel
- Eye in the Sky
- Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
- Fay Grim
- Fido
- Flash Point
- Funny Games (1998)
- Get Carter (1971)
- Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
- Ghost Rider
- Gone Baby Gone
- Grindhouse
- Halloween (2007)
- Hannibal Rising
- Hard Boiled
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Hatchet
- Hitman
- Hostel Part II
- Hot Fuzz
- I’m Not There
- Idiocracy
- Ils (Them)
- In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
- Inland Empire
- Insomnia (1997)
- Into the Wild
- Jesus Camp
- King of Kong
- Kontroll
- Letters from Iwo Jima
- Little Children
- Live Free or Die Hard
- Lust, Caution
- Meet the Robinsons
- Michael Clayton
- Mr. Brooks
- Mulberry Street
- Murder Party
- Mysterious Skin
- Naboer
- Nightmare Detective
- No Country for Old Men
- Notes on a Scandal
- Out of Sight
- Ocean’s Thirteen
- Once
- Pan’s Labyrinth
- Paprika
- Perfect Blue
- Perfume – The Story of a Murderer
- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
- Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead
- Raising Arizona
- Ratatouille
- Re-Cycle
- Rescue Dawn
- Resident Evil: Extinction
- Retribution
- Right at your Door
- Rope (1948)
- Saw 3
- Seraphim Falls
- Severance
- Shinobi
- Shoot ‘Em Up
- Shrek the Third
- Shutter
- Sicko
- Silip
- Simon Says
- Six String Samurai
- Sl8n8
- Sleuth (2007)
- Smokin’ Aces
- Spider-Man 3
- Stardust
- Sunshine
- Superman: Doomsday
- Surf’s Up
- Suspiria
- Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
- Tekkon Kinkreet
- Tetsuo: The Iron Man
- The 400 Blows
- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
- The Bourne Ultimatum
- The Condemned
- The Darjeeling Limited
- The Devil’s Backbone
- The Good German
- The Good Shepherd
- The Hamiltons
- The Hitcher (2007)
- The Host
- The Kingdom
- The Last King of Scotland
- The Lives of Others
- The Lookout
- The Mission
- The Mist
- The Number 23
- The Page Turner
- The Rebel
- The Simpsons Movie
- The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
- The Tripper
- The Wind That Shakes the Barley
- TMNT
- Transformers
- Triangle
- Volver
- Waitress
- We Own the Night
- What Alice Found
- Who Can Kill A Child?
- Wolfhound
- Zodiac
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yes…I will be picking up a book. Maybe tomorrow!
sounds like I have a resolution for 2008 now. hello movie book.
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
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.
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.
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…
I loved Nicolas Cage in Ghost Rider. Ghost Rider is like Anchorman and Nicolas Cage is as funny as Will Ferrell.
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.
Oh, and Andrew – love the knowledge base, that is a great idea. Like with any system if works if you *use* it!
I actually haven’t seen a single movie ever. I’m a surprisingly effective liar.
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.
Bringing Out The Dead, Adaptation, The Weatherman. All Fine Nic Cage perfs in the past 10 years.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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.