Movie List 2011
Just thought I'd do a quick post with the movies I saw in 2011! I've got all the super hilarious superlatives under the cut as well (best, worst, weirdest place I watched a movie, The Sweetest Thing award for I Can't Believe I Sat Through That, etc). Beat last year's record by 8 movies!
The movies on here are those I saw for the first time in 2011; goes Title/Date/Format. I have a Quickflix subscription shared with my mum which is to thank for the amounts of Blu-Rays/DVDs, and I never see movies in cinema for full price. We only go on Tuesdays when it's $10 a ticket, or to cheap promotional screenings.
1. Despicable Me 11/01 (cinema)
2. The Fighter 27/01 (cinema)
3. Black Swan 31/01 (Gold Class cinema)
4. True Grit 01/02 (cinema)
5. Twilight 11/02 (TV)
6. The Kids Are All Right 12/02 (DVD)
7. 127 Hours 15/02 (cinema)
8. The Social Network 26/02 (digital)
9. Animal Kingdom 05/03 (Blu-Ray DVD)
10. Inception 12/03 (Blu-Ray DVD)
11. Bedtime Stories 19/03 (TV)
12. Iron Man 2 19/03 (Blu-Ray DVD)
13. Rango 22/03 (cinema)
14. Slither 01/04 (TV)
15. Never Let Me Go 02/04 (cinema)
16. Bridge To Terabithia 02/04 (TV)
17. Brothers 17/04 (Blu-Ray DVD)
18. Sucker Punch 29/04 (cinema)
19. Restrepo 30/04 (Blu-Ray DVD)
20. Candy 20/05 (DVD)
21. Up 31/05 (Blu-Ray DVD)
22. 500 Days Of Summer 05/06 (Blu-Ray DVD)
23. Soul Surfer 07/06 (cinema)
24. Toy Story 2 18/06 (Blu-Ray DVD)
25. Toy Story 3 01/07 (Blu-Ray DVD)
26. The Next Three Days 03/07 (on a plane)
27. The Dead 11/07 (projector in class)
28. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 12/07 (projector in class)
29. Ulysses 13/07 (projector in class)
30. Bridesmaids 18/07 (cinema)
31. All Good Things 20/07 (on a plane)
32. Marie Antoinette 14/08 (DVD)
33. Wake Up Ron Burgendy! 21/08 (DVD)
34. Rise of the Planet of the Apes 23/08 (cinema)
35. The Taking of Pelham 123 27/08 (TV)
36. The Help 10/09 (cinema)
37. Whatever Works 13/09 (DVD)
38. How To Train Your Dragon 01/10 (Blu Ray)
39. Chloe 08/10 (DVD)
40. My Sister's Keeper 14/10 (TV)
41. The Runaways 14/10 (Blu Ray)
42. Crazy Stupid Love 15/10 (cinema)
43. Perfect Blue 30/10 (DVD)
44. Gasland 29/10 (DVD)
44. Zombieland 30/10 (Blu-Ray)
45. In The Valley Of Elah 04/11 (DVD)
46. Tornado Alley 11/11 (3D IMAX)
47. Happy Feet 11/11 (Blu-Ray)
48. Midnight In Paris 16/11 (cinema)
49. Drive 18/11 (cinema)
50. Super 8 19/11 (DVD)
51. My Summer Of Love 26/11 (DVD)
52. Morning Glory 02/12 (Blu-Ray)
53. War Horse 07/12 (cinema)
54. Puss In Boots 10/12 (3D cinema)
55. Somewhere 11/12 (Blu-Ray)
56. The Ides Of March 14/12 (cinema)
57. Gnomeo and Juliet 15/12 (Blu-Ray)
58. Fast Five 18/12 (DVD)
59. Winter's Bone 22/12 (Blu-Ray)
60. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Swedish 29/12 (Blu-Ray)
Superlatives:
Worst movie I saw on TV this year: TWILIGHT! I know that's an unoriginal answer but I honestly did sit through Twilight from beginning to end and it is amazingly bad. Or Bedtime Stories, also amazing bad. Adam Sandler, much like Nickelback, needs to stop.
Best movie I saw on TV this year: Bridge To Terabithia, oddly enough. It's a kid's movie but actually really heartfelt and sad.
Most overrated movie: Nobody in The Kids Are Alright should have been nominated for anything! Inception is confusing and long! Never Let Me Go's premise is overshadowed by a love triangle!
Unique movie viewing locations: I flew to Ireland via London and back in July and watched The Next Three Days and All Good Things on the plane as well as rewatching Rango. In the second week we got a really lazy teacher who spent the afternoon showing us various cinematic adaptations of James Joyce's works on a projector. Fine with me!
Most obscure movie: I would say Animal Kingdom being an Australian independent production, but Jacki Weaver got deservedly nominated for an Oscar so I guess you can't call it obscure. So I'll say Tornado Alley, the 45 minutes 3D IMAX documentary about tornado chasers, or Perfect Blue which is a Japanese anime from the mid-90's about a movie star being stalked. It's hilarious too because the lead character has to have someone teach her how to use a computer and doesn't know what the internet is LOL.
Best film seen in cinema: Black Swan!
Movie I thought I would enjoy, but didn't: The Kids Are Alright. I have real problems with this movie, you guys.
The Sweetest Thing award for I Can't Believe I Sat Through That: Can we get worse than last year's Life As We Know It? Honestly, no, but Bedtime Stories was still pretty insufferable.
Movie I didn't actually watch to the end but included on this list anyway: Restrepo, and skipped through quite a bit of Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Movie I only watched because of hot people: Brothers (Gyllenhaalenhoogen), Slither (Nathan Fillion), Whatever Works (Evan Rachel Wood), Chloe (vaguely lesbian Amanda Seyfreid), Midnight In Paris (Rachel McAdams)
Notable Shit from 2010 I haven't actually seen yet: Basically everything that hasn't made it here yet - The Artist, Martha Marcy May Marlene, My Week With Marilyn, The Descendants, blah blah blah
Scary foreign movies: Perfect Blue (Japan), Animal Kingdom (Australia), Happy Feet (the ocean idk)
Funniest movie I saw this year: Bridesmaids!
Scariest movie I saw this year: Slither, though more gross than funny, and All Good Things because it plants the idea in your head that if you marry Ryan Gosling HE WILL KILL YOU AND HIDE YOUR BODY. YOU DID THE RIGHT THING RACHEL MCADAMS.
The Worst Movie I Saw This Year: Twilight lol
Honourable Mentions: Bedtime Stories, Slither, Brothers, Gnomeo and Juliet
The Best Movie I Saw This Year: Rise of the Planet of the Apes. You think just by reading the title it's terrible, but it benefits from a VERY well-written screenplay and a pretty amazing motion capture performance from Andy Serkis (yes, he of Gollum fame) as Caesar le Ape.
Honourable Mentions: Black Swan, The Social Network, Rango, Toy Story 3, Marie Antoinette, How To Train Your Dragon, Winter's Bone
The movies on here are those I saw for the first time in 2011; goes Title/Date/Format. I have a Quickflix subscription shared with my mum which is to thank for the amounts of Blu-Rays/DVDs, and I never see movies in cinema for full price. We only go on Tuesdays when it's $10 a ticket, or to cheap promotional screenings.
1. Despicable Me 11/01 (cinema)
2. The Fighter 27/01 (cinema)
3. Black Swan 31/01 (Gold Class cinema)
4. True Grit 01/02 (cinema)
5. Twilight 11/02 (TV)
6. The Kids Are All Right 12/02 (DVD)
7. 127 Hours 15/02 (cinema)
8. The Social Network 26/02 (digital)
9. Animal Kingdom 05/03 (Blu-Ray DVD)
10. Inception 12/03 (Blu-Ray DVD)
11. Bedtime Stories 19/03 (TV)
12. Iron Man 2 19/03 (Blu-Ray DVD)
13. Rango 22/03 (cinema)
14. Slither 01/04 (TV)
15. Never Let Me Go 02/04 (cinema)
16. Bridge To Terabithia 02/04 (TV)
17. Brothers 17/04 (Blu-Ray DVD)
18. Sucker Punch 29/04 (cinema)
19. Restrepo 30/04 (Blu-Ray DVD)
20. Candy 20/05 (DVD)
21. Up 31/05 (Blu-Ray DVD)
22. 500 Days Of Summer 05/06 (Blu-Ray DVD)
23. Soul Surfer 07/06 (cinema)
24. Toy Story 2 18/06 (Blu-Ray DVD)
25. Toy Story 3 01/07 (Blu-Ray DVD)
26. The Next Three Days 03/07 (on a plane)
27. The Dead 11/07 (projector in class)
28. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 12/07 (projector in class)
29. Ulysses 13/07 (projector in class)
30. Bridesmaids 18/07 (cinema)
31. All Good Things 20/07 (on a plane)
32. Marie Antoinette 14/08 (DVD)
33. Wake Up Ron Burgendy! 21/08 (DVD)
34. Rise of the Planet of the Apes 23/08 (cinema)
35. The Taking of Pelham 123 27/08 (TV)
36. The Help 10/09 (cinema)
37. Whatever Works 13/09 (DVD)
38. How To Train Your Dragon 01/10 (Blu Ray)
39. Chloe 08/10 (DVD)
40. My Sister's Keeper 14/10 (TV)
41. The Runaways 14/10 (Blu Ray)
42. Crazy Stupid Love 15/10 (cinema)
43. Perfect Blue 30/10 (DVD)
44. Gasland 29/10 (DVD)
44. Zombieland 30/10 (Blu-Ray)
45. In The Valley Of Elah 04/11 (DVD)
46. Tornado Alley 11/11 (3D IMAX)
47. Happy Feet 11/11 (Blu-Ray)
48. Midnight In Paris 16/11 (cinema)
49. Drive 18/11 (cinema)
50. Super 8 19/11 (DVD)
51. My Summer Of Love 26/11 (DVD)
52. Morning Glory 02/12 (Blu-Ray)
53. War Horse 07/12 (cinema)
54. Puss In Boots 10/12 (3D cinema)
55. Somewhere 11/12 (Blu-Ray)
56. The Ides Of March 14/12 (cinema)
57. Gnomeo and Juliet 15/12 (Blu-Ray)
58. Fast Five 18/12 (DVD)
59. Winter's Bone 22/12 (Blu-Ray)
60. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Swedish 29/12 (Blu-Ray)
Superlatives:
Worst movie I saw on TV this year: TWILIGHT! I know that's an unoriginal answer but I honestly did sit through Twilight from beginning to end and it is amazingly bad. Or Bedtime Stories, also amazing bad. Adam Sandler, much like Nickelback, needs to stop.
Best movie I saw on TV this year: Bridge To Terabithia, oddly enough. It's a kid's movie but actually really heartfelt and sad.
Most overrated movie: Nobody in The Kids Are Alright should have been nominated for anything! Inception is confusing and long! Never Let Me Go's premise is overshadowed by a love triangle!
Unique movie viewing locations: I flew to Ireland via London and back in July and watched The Next Three Days and All Good Things on the plane as well as rewatching Rango. In the second week we got a really lazy teacher who spent the afternoon showing us various cinematic adaptations of James Joyce's works on a projector. Fine with me!
Most obscure movie: I would say Animal Kingdom being an Australian independent production, but Jacki Weaver got deservedly nominated for an Oscar so I guess you can't call it obscure. So I'll say Tornado Alley, the 45 minutes 3D IMAX documentary about tornado chasers, or Perfect Blue which is a Japanese anime from the mid-90's about a movie star being stalked. It's hilarious too because the lead character has to have someone teach her how to use a computer and doesn't know what the internet is LOL.
Best film seen in cinema: Black Swan!
Movie I thought I would enjoy, but didn't: The Kids Are Alright. I have real problems with this movie, you guys.
The Sweetest Thing award for I Can't Believe I Sat Through That: Can we get worse than last year's Life As We Know It? Honestly, no, but Bedtime Stories was still pretty insufferable.
Movie I didn't actually watch to the end but included on this list anyway: Restrepo, and skipped through quite a bit of Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Movie I only watched because of hot people: Brothers (Gyllenhaalenhoogen), Slither (Nathan Fillion), Whatever Works (Evan Rachel Wood), Chloe (vaguely lesbian Amanda Seyfreid), Midnight In Paris (Rachel McAdams)
Notable Shit from 2010 I haven't actually seen yet: Basically everything that hasn't made it here yet - The Artist, Martha Marcy May Marlene, My Week With Marilyn, The Descendants, blah blah blah
Scary foreign movies: Perfect Blue (Japan), Animal Kingdom (Australia), Happy Feet (the ocean idk)
Funniest movie I saw this year: Bridesmaids!
Scariest movie I saw this year: Slither, though more gross than funny, and All Good Things because it plants the idea in your head that if you marry Ryan Gosling HE WILL KILL YOU AND HIDE YOUR BODY. YOU DID THE RIGHT THING RACHEL MCADAMS.
The Worst Movie I Saw This Year: Twilight lol
Honourable Mentions: Bedtime Stories, Slither, Brothers, Gnomeo and Juliet
The Best Movie I Saw This Year: Rise of the Planet of the Apes. You think just by reading the title it's terrible, but it benefits from a VERY well-written screenplay and a pretty amazing motion capture performance from Andy Serkis (yes, he of Gollum fame) as Caesar le Ape.
Honourable Mentions: Black Swan, The Social Network, Rango, Toy Story 3, Marie Antoinette, How To Train Your Dragon, Winter's Bone