how does an asshole like Bob get such a great kitchen?
END OF THE YEAR BOOK AND MOVIE ROUND UP!!!!!
MOVIES!!!
(second verse same as the first, letters indicate rewatches, eventually I started recording dates)
1. Taxi Driver (didn't really get it)
2. Alien (yay claustrophobic space horror!)
3. Aliens (dumber than the first, not as good but more fun)
4. Alien 3 (oh dear)
5. High Noon (I like old genre movies, any genre)
6. On the Waterfront (but I always want to laugh when I see Brando in action)
a) To Kill a Mockingbird (liked it better than in freshman English. I saw a lot of these in my music in film and tv class, which was awesome. yay Elmer Bernstein!)
7. Man On Wire (pretty doc about a dick)
8. Predator (I fell asleep a billion times, but I saw the end so on the list it went)
9. Steamboy (yay steampunk! you mean there's more than wild wild west?)
10. Blindness (pretty)
11. The Magnificent Seven (yay cowboys)
12. The Visitor (awesome)
13. The Blob (best theme song ever)
b) Gosford Park (simply the best)
14. Watchmen (I need to see this again, I had so many thoughts after my first viewing)
15. Pather Panchali (such good music)
16. Psycho (uh oh, killer tranny)
17. Rachel Getting Married (liked how this was shot, would rewatch, a bit overhyped)
18. The Thing (soooooo good. I've been jonesing for this one lately.)
19. A Prairie Home Companion (I need to see more Altman. LiLo was a bit distracting)
20. I Love You, Man (I had such retardly high expectations, they could not help but be slightly dashed)
21. Barton Fink (I prefer my Coens zany, but the hallway scenes stuck with me next time I was in a hotel)
22. Men of Honor (old-timey diving suits!)
23. Arthur (finally watched this after scrounging a tape years ago. glorious, love me some Liza)
c) The Replacements (why do I have good feelings for this movie? it came on tv and I watched.)
24. CJ7 (cable made me watch this, I was so confused)
25. Caberet (BASIL EXPOSITIONS & LIZA!!!!)
26. Amadeus (lol)
d) Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (classic)
e) Glory (Cary Elwes is in this! tons of people are in this.)
27. Death at a Funeral (good times. I actually think the remake looks pretty hilarious.)
28. Slap Shot (I feel an affection towards hockey players that I do not quite understand.)
f) Forgetting Sarah Marshall (getting in the mood for Hawaii, we actually went to lunch at Turtle Bay)
29. Last Chance Harvey (watched this on the plane, it was sweet.)
30. The Wrestler (also on the plane. this killed me.)
31. Yes Man [6/2] (plane ride home. I usually dislike Jim Carey and Zooey Deschanel, but found myself charmed)
g) Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (so good. soooooo good.)
32. Se7en (alright)
33. The Hangover (blew I Love You, Man out of the water.)
34. Into the Wild (kind of cool.)
h) Wild Zero (i always want this to be a little more terrible-good than it is. i have to play the built in drinking game sometime.)
i) The Fellowship of the Ring (watched with j when we were in the mood from reading. it'd been sooooooo long)
35. My Name Is Bruce (funny even though I've barely seen any Bruce Campbell movies)
36. Eastern Promises (blew my mind and got me on a Russian kick)
j) The Land Before Time (cable and I watched right after EP. even better double featch than American Psycho and Newsies. perfectly familiar, I could cry just from the music)
kl) Eastern Promises (again x2) (yes, two more times within a week. j wanted to see naked Viggo and I wanted em to see it.)
37. Lying (nice as it is to see a movie entirely populated by women who barely so much as mention men, this was soooooo slooooooow.)
38. Fargo (finally saw it, great. there's the zany.)
39. Star Trek [7/4] (lol, it took me that long to see it)
m) In Bruges (so good.)
n) Clue (so good.)
o) The Road to El Dorado (SO GOOD.)
40. West Side Story (I'm actually a little into the idea of a remake because maybe they'd get some ~actual puerto ricans~)
p) Star Trek (it stewed in my brain for about a week and then I just went to see it again by myself. and then started watching TOS when I got home.)
q) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (getting in ~the mood~)
41. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (looked good as fuck, loved Sluggy and McLaggen, but the movies always leave me a little cold)
r) The Hangover (w/ my mom, she loved it but I couldn't tell because she was gasping so much at all the property damage)
42. Margot at the Wedding (kinda dug it)
s) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (w/ caitlin so she'd go see ST with me...)
t) Star Trek (...the next day. it left the $2 theatre so we had to drive to Indiana, lol)
u) Star Trek (and then I took em a few days later! AND THAT WAS THE LAST TIME.)
43. Better Luck Tomorrow [7/30] (yay subversion of asian stereotypes, but it kind of sucked. although lol @ JCho playing a hs senior at 30.
44. The Terminator [7/31] (oh god, 80's. felt like this was just a prelude to T2)
45. Terminator 2: Judgement Day [8/1] (CAR CHASES!!!! EXPLOSIONS!!!!)
46. Charlie Bartlett [8/1] (oh my god, how can a movie this dumb have such a good cast/a fair amount of genuinely funny moments?)
v) Charlie Bartlett [8/3] (watched again to get caitlin to fall in love with Anton Yelchin.)
47. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines [8/4] (Nick Stahl felt like weird casting to me, I was genuinely surprised when the world actually ended)
48. The Foot Fist Way [8/5] (love Danny McBride, but a little mean for me. super jazzed to see that kid again playing Manny in Modern Family though!)
49. Burn After Reading [8/5] (I actually missed the beginning. best part was the dildo chair and fraces mcdormand's reaction to it)
50. Terminator: Salvation [8/6] (already made an entry about my disappointment in this. JC needed to be way less present, at least the way Xtian Bale played him.)
w) Being There [8/7] (not as good the second time)
51. Fast Times At Ridgemont High (I guess you had to be there)
52. The Deer Hunter [8/13] (SO FUCKING LONG. I liked the entire hour before they actually got to nam best.)
x) The Brothers Solomon [8/15] (w/ Caitlin, who said "I AM SO UNCOMFORTABLE" a zillion times during, but I assumed she actually loved it. imagine my surprise finding out she legit hated it! idgi)
53. The Cottage [8/15] (@ cable's insistence. didn't get wholly into it. yay andy serkis.)
54. Bottle Rocket [8/16] (lol @ owen wilson's hair. didn't do tons for me but there were a few lines I found wildly amusing)
55. District 9 [8/17] (need to see this again, was feeling odd when I saw it but could tell it was my cup of tea)
56. The Drummer [8/18] (dug it)
57. Earth Girls Are Easy [8/19] (holy shit, what?)
58. Moonstruck [8/23] (finally saw it, em's loved it forever. oh, Italians. and Cher.)
59. (500) Days of Summer [8/24] (wasn't all that. I do like JGL, and had picked up the Gube love from ontd_st osmosis)
60. 17 Again [8/28] (oh my god, zefron. and thomas lennon. think I liveblogged this in sparkletext during a party post)
61. Hairspray [9/1] (wish I had seen this before the musical)
y) Hairspray (2007) [9/1] (but yayyyyyy! yeah, we watched both back to back)
62. House [9/2] (hilariously bad)
63. Bottle Shock [9/3] (alright)
64. Zodiac [9/3] (I've seen this on some best of decade lists, not sure I'd put it there. I think my problem was that I once stumbled upon this guy's website that totally convinced me his dead stepdad was the zodiac, so I was like "BUT YOU HAVE THE WRONG GUY ANYWAYYYYY")
65. Rear Window [9/4] (jimmy stewart!!!! love what they do with the building wall set)
z) Wayne's World [9/6] (so good)
66. Extract [9/6] (alright, should've waited for dvd)
aa) Master and Commander [9/10] (always perfecto)
bb) The Aristocats [9/18] (em + me + disney = a very special time)
cc) Shaun of the Dead [9/27] (so damn good.)
67. Make Mine Music [9/30] (like fantasia for contemporary music, only slightly terrible)
68. Woman Is the Future of Man [10/1] (thought it looked cool, way boring)
69. Whip It [10/2] (charming enough. still mad about complete lack of queers. I would be so fucking good at derby.)
70. Marie Antoinette [10/4] (goddamn I love opulence)
71. Tipping the Velvet [10/8] (good as hell! really faithful to the book too)
72. Smokin' Aces [10/10] (what a piece of shit. enjoyed the nazi hicks and the lesbian assassins, but the director is a dickbag who thinks he's tarantino 2.0)
73. Hamlet 2 [10/14] (ok. I'd rather have seen more of the musical)
74. Where the Wild Things Are [10/16] w/ J and his charges. went to the wrong theatre at first and everyone was sitting down when I got there. after it was over I was amazed to see how small actual children were compared to me.)
75. I Walked With a Zombie [10/21&22]
76. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead 10/23 (morn) (fucking awesommmmme, fucking Gary Oldman and Tim Roth)
dd) Where the Wild Things Are [10/23] (w/ my mom & her friend. felt really awkward when I was basically weeping at the end and my mom wasn't.)
77. Willow 10/23 (cable watched sweet-ass movies when he was a kid. I mostly watched Disney and TMNT over and over)
78. The Celluloid Closet 11/6 (interesting. needs an update)
79. Drive Me Crazy [11/11] (another of em's favorites. oh my god, 90's. em & I agreed Melissa Joan Hart was basically the same person as our other sister)
ee) Star Trek [11/18] (morn) (was writing a paper till like 1 am before I could finally start this. I fell asleep ;___;)
80. The Fall [11/18] (so fucking gorgeous! the little girl killed em & me.)
ff) Star Trek [11/20] (it continued to be the same movie)
81. Paprika [11/21] (really not into it. and I love Tokyo Godfathers and that freaky show of his! what gives, guy?)
82. X-Men Origins: Wolverine [11/22] (ok. how are they going to retcon that shit they pulled with Deadpool, though?)
gg) Wall-e [11/25] (em hadn't seen it, she was dying.)
83. Bruno [11/29] (lots of penis. dumb, but I laughed.)
hh) Akira [12/1] (still crazy after all these years)
84. Death of a Salesman [11/30-12/2] (my english teacher was right, Malkovitch's snotting and drooling during his big emotional breakdown was indeed a thing of beauty)
85. Star Trek: The Motion Picture [12/2-12/4] (BEEGEES BONES!!!!!)
86. Auntie Mame [12/10] (I freaking love Rosalind Russel now)
ii) The Mighty Ducks [12/13] (w/ a bunch of strangers. like, j & bianca left me there with people I didn't know and I didn't even care because Mighty Ducks.)
87. Middle of Nowhere 12/20 (omg Eva Amurri! and I was hiding my face less than I sometimes have to when watching Anton in anything. way better than CB.)
88. Fantastic Mr. Fox [12/20] (SO GOOD. it already couldn't go wrong for me and it exceeded my expectations. I could see it again right now)
89. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan [12/23] (need to watch again when I'm not sleepy)
90. Avatar [12/23] (enjoyed the hell out of it. some obvious racefail, but a magnificent assortment of strong ladies and breathtaking visuals. em & i died a few times. still want to see it on imax.)
91. Sherlock Holmes [12/26] (oh my god, you have no idea how much i love squabbling roommates. shitty score, dumb plot, fun times. I'm going to start reading Doyle out loud to my mom, just watch. BUT WHERETF WAS THAT OUTFIT RACHEL MCCADAMS HAD ON IN THE TRAILER??? YOU KNOW I WAS WATCHING FOR IT)
92. Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog [12/27] (surprise ending :( must watch again in less of a social situation, definitely missed some lyrics/dialogue)
93. 9 12/29 (loved the design, felt a little slight for a feature)
No top 5 for this, I'm not feeling it. Y'all are lucky you got a list for books, I hate ranking things.
So that's 93 movies seen/watched (it's only seen if it's in a theatre, get with it) and 35 rewatched.
Goal for 2010: 100 MOVIEFILMS. I thought I'd met that this year, but I numbered them wrong. ;______;
MOVIES!!!
(second verse same as the first, letters indicate rewatches, eventually I started recording dates)
1. Taxi Driver (didn't really get it)
2. Alien (yay claustrophobic space horror!)
3. Aliens (dumber than the first, not as good but more fun)
4. Alien 3 (oh dear)
5. High Noon (I like old genre movies, any genre)
6. On the Waterfront (but I always want to laugh when I see Brando in action)
a) To Kill a Mockingbird (liked it better than in freshman English. I saw a lot of these in my music in film and tv class, which was awesome. yay Elmer Bernstein!)
7. Man On Wire (pretty doc about a dick)
8. Predator (I fell asleep a billion times, but I saw the end so on the list it went)
9. Steamboy (yay steampunk! you mean there's more than wild wild west?)
10. Blindness (pretty)
11. The Magnificent Seven (yay cowboys)
12. The Visitor (awesome)
13. The Blob (best theme song ever)
b) Gosford Park (simply the best)
14. Watchmen (I need to see this again, I had so many thoughts after my first viewing)
15. Pather Panchali (such good music)
16. Psycho (uh oh, killer tranny)
17. Rachel Getting Married (liked how this was shot, would rewatch, a bit overhyped)
18. The Thing (soooooo good. I've been jonesing for this one lately.)
19. A Prairie Home Companion (I need to see more Altman. LiLo was a bit distracting)
20. I Love You, Man (I had such retardly high expectations, they could not help but be slightly dashed)
21. Barton Fink (I prefer my Coens zany, but the hallway scenes stuck with me next time I was in a hotel)
22. Men of Honor (old-timey diving suits!)
23. Arthur (finally watched this after scrounging a tape years ago. glorious, love me some Liza)
c) The Replacements (why do I have good feelings for this movie? it came on tv and I watched.)
24. CJ7 (cable made me watch this, I was so confused)
25. Caberet (BASIL EXPOSITIONS & LIZA!!!!)
26. Amadeus (lol)
d) Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (classic)
e) Glory (Cary Elwes is in this! tons of people are in this.)
27. Death at a Funeral (good times. I actually think the remake looks pretty hilarious.)
28. Slap Shot (I feel an affection towards hockey players that I do not quite understand.)
f) Forgetting Sarah Marshall (getting in the mood for Hawaii, we actually went to lunch at Turtle Bay)
29. Last Chance Harvey (watched this on the plane, it was sweet.)
30. The Wrestler (also on the plane. this killed me.)
31. Yes Man [6/2] (plane ride home. I usually dislike Jim Carey and Zooey Deschanel, but found myself charmed)
g) Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (so good. soooooo good.)
32. Se7en (alright)
33. The Hangover (blew I Love You, Man out of the water.)
34. Into the Wild (kind of cool.)
h) Wild Zero (i always want this to be a little more terrible-good than it is. i have to play the built in drinking game sometime.)
i) The Fellowship of the Ring (watched with j when we were in the mood from reading. it'd been sooooooo long)
35. My Name Is Bruce (funny even though I've barely seen any Bruce Campbell movies)
36. Eastern Promises (blew my mind and got me on a Russian kick)
j) The Land Before Time (cable and I watched right after EP. even better double featch than American Psycho and Newsies. perfectly familiar, I could cry just from the music)
kl) Eastern Promises (again x2) (yes, two more times within a week. j wanted to see naked Viggo and I wanted em to see it.)
37. Lying (nice as it is to see a movie entirely populated by women who barely so much as mention men, this was soooooo slooooooow.)
38. Fargo (finally saw it, great. there's the zany.)
39. Star Trek [7/4] (lol, it took me that long to see it)
m) In Bruges (so good.)
n) Clue (so good.)
o) The Road to El Dorado (SO GOOD.)
40. West Side Story (I'm actually a little into the idea of a remake because maybe they'd get some ~actual puerto ricans~)
p) Star Trek (it stewed in my brain for about a week and then I just went to see it again by myself. and then started watching TOS when I got home.)
q) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (getting in ~the mood~)
41. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (looked good as fuck, loved Sluggy and McLaggen, but the movies always leave me a little cold)
r) The Hangover (w/ my mom, she loved it but I couldn't tell because she was gasping so much at all the property damage)
42. Margot at the Wedding (kinda dug it)
s) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (w/ caitlin so she'd go see ST with me...)
t) Star Trek (...the next day. it left the $2 theatre so we had to drive to Indiana, lol)
u) Star Trek (and then I took em a few days later! AND THAT WAS THE LAST TIME.)
43. Better Luck Tomorrow [7/30] (yay subversion of asian stereotypes, but it kind of sucked. although lol @ JCho playing a hs senior at 30.
44. The Terminator [7/31] (oh god, 80's. felt like this was just a prelude to T2)
45. Terminator 2: Judgement Day [8/1] (CAR CHASES!!!! EXPLOSIONS!!!!)
46. Charlie Bartlett [8/1] (oh my god, how can a movie this dumb have such a good cast/a fair amount of genuinely funny moments?)
v) Charlie Bartlett [8/3] (watched again to get caitlin to fall in love with Anton Yelchin.)
47. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines [8/4] (Nick Stahl felt like weird casting to me, I was genuinely surprised when the world actually ended)
48. The Foot Fist Way [8/5] (love Danny McBride, but a little mean for me. super jazzed to see that kid again playing Manny in Modern Family though!)
49. Burn After Reading [8/5] (I actually missed the beginning. best part was the dildo chair and fraces mcdormand's reaction to it)
50. Terminator: Salvation [8/6] (already made an entry about my disappointment in this. JC needed to be way less present, at least the way Xtian Bale played him.)
w) Being There [8/7] (not as good the second time)
51. Fast Times At Ridgemont High (I guess you had to be there)
52. The Deer Hunter [8/13] (SO FUCKING LONG. I liked the entire hour before they actually got to nam best.)
x) The Brothers Solomon [8/15] (w/ Caitlin, who said "I AM SO UNCOMFORTABLE" a zillion times during, but I assumed she actually loved it. imagine my surprise finding out she legit hated it! idgi)
53. The Cottage [8/15] (@ cable's insistence. didn't get wholly into it. yay andy serkis.)
54. Bottle Rocket [8/16] (lol @ owen wilson's hair. didn't do tons for me but there were a few lines I found wildly amusing)
55. District 9 [8/17] (need to see this again, was feeling odd when I saw it but could tell it was my cup of tea)
56. The Drummer [8/18] (dug it)
57. Earth Girls Are Easy [8/19] (holy shit, what?)
58. Moonstruck [8/23] (finally saw it, em's loved it forever. oh, Italians. and Cher.)
59. (500) Days of Summer [8/24] (wasn't all that. I do like JGL, and had picked up the Gube love from ontd_st osmosis)
60. 17 Again [8/28] (oh my god, zefron. and thomas lennon. think I liveblogged this in sparkletext during a party post)
61. Hairspray [9/1] (wish I had seen this before the musical)
y) Hairspray (2007) [9/1] (but yayyyyyy! yeah, we watched both back to back)
62. House [9/2] (hilariously bad)
63. Bottle Shock [9/3] (alright)
64. Zodiac [9/3] (I've seen this on some best of decade lists, not sure I'd put it there. I think my problem was that I once stumbled upon this guy's website that totally convinced me his dead stepdad was the zodiac, so I was like "BUT YOU HAVE THE WRONG GUY ANYWAYYYYY")
65. Rear Window [9/4] (jimmy stewart!!!! love what they do with the building wall set)
z) Wayne's World [9/6] (so good)
66. Extract [9/6] (alright, should've waited for dvd)
aa) Master and Commander [9/10] (always perfecto)
bb) The Aristocats [9/18] (em + me + disney = a very special time)
cc) Shaun of the Dead [9/27] (so damn good.)
67. Make Mine Music [9/30] (like fantasia for contemporary music, only slightly terrible)
68. Woman Is the Future of Man [10/1] (thought it looked cool, way boring)
69. Whip It [10/2] (charming enough. still mad about complete lack of queers. I would be so fucking good at derby.)
70. Marie Antoinette [10/4] (goddamn I love opulence)
71. Tipping the Velvet [10/8] (good as hell! really faithful to the book too)
72. Smokin' Aces [10/10] (what a piece of shit. enjoyed the nazi hicks and the lesbian assassins, but the director is a dickbag who thinks he's tarantino 2.0)
73. Hamlet 2 [10/14] (ok. I'd rather have seen more of the musical)
74. Where the Wild Things Are [10/16] w/ J and his charges. went to the wrong theatre at first and everyone was sitting down when I got there. after it was over I was amazed to see how small actual children were compared to me.)
75. I Walked With a Zombie [10/21&22]
76. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead 10/23 (morn) (fucking awesommmmme, fucking Gary Oldman and Tim Roth)
dd) Where the Wild Things Are [10/23] (w/ my mom & her friend. felt really awkward when I was basically weeping at the end and my mom wasn't.)
77. Willow 10/23 (cable watched sweet-ass movies when he was a kid. I mostly watched Disney and TMNT over and over)
78. The Celluloid Closet 11/6 (interesting. needs an update)
79. Drive Me Crazy [11/11] (another of em's favorites. oh my god, 90's. em & I agreed Melissa Joan Hart was basically the same person as our other sister)
ee) Star Trek [11/18] (morn) (was writing a paper till like 1 am before I could finally start this. I fell asleep ;___;)
80. The Fall [11/18] (so fucking gorgeous! the little girl killed em & me.)
ff) Star Trek [11/20] (it continued to be the same movie)
81. Paprika [11/21] (really not into it. and I love Tokyo Godfathers and that freaky show of his! what gives, guy?)
82. X-Men Origins: Wolverine [11/22] (ok. how are they going to retcon that shit they pulled with Deadpool, though?)
gg) Wall-e [11/25] (em hadn't seen it, she was dying.)
83. Bruno [11/29] (lots of penis. dumb, but I laughed.)
hh) Akira [12/1] (still crazy after all these years)
84. Death of a Salesman [11/30-12/2] (my english teacher was right, Malkovitch's snotting and drooling during his big emotional breakdown was indeed a thing of beauty)
85. Star Trek: The Motion Picture [12/2-12/4] (BEEGEES BONES!!!!!)
86. Auntie Mame [12/10] (I freaking love Rosalind Russel now)
ii) The Mighty Ducks [12/13] (w/ a bunch of strangers. like, j & bianca left me there with people I didn't know and I didn't even care because Mighty Ducks.)
87. Middle of Nowhere 12/20 (omg Eva Amurri! and I was hiding my face less than I sometimes have to when watching Anton in anything. way better than CB.)
88. Fantastic Mr. Fox [12/20] (SO GOOD. it already couldn't go wrong for me and it exceeded my expectations. I could see it again right now)
89. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan [12/23] (need to watch again when I'm not sleepy)
90. Avatar [12/23] (enjoyed the hell out of it. some obvious racefail, but a magnificent assortment of strong ladies and breathtaking visuals. em & i died a few times. still want to see it on imax.)
91. Sherlock Holmes [12/26] (oh my god, you have no idea how much i love squabbling roommates. shitty score, dumb plot, fun times. I'm going to start reading Doyle out loud to my mom, just watch. BUT WHERETF WAS THAT OUTFIT RACHEL MCCADAMS HAD ON IN THE TRAILER??? YOU KNOW I WAS WATCHING FOR IT)
92. Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog [12/27] (surprise ending :( must watch again in less of a social situation, definitely missed some lyrics/dialogue)
93. 9 12/29 (loved the design, felt a little slight for a feature)
No top 5 for this, I'm not feeling it. Y'all are lucky you got a list for books, I hate ranking things.
So that's 93 movies seen/watched (it's only seen if it's in a theatre, get with it) and 35 rewatched.
Goal for 2010: 100 MOVIEFILMS. I thought I'd met that this year, but I numbered them wrong. ;______;