I only had one real goal this year; to watch a 100 movies at the cinemas. Sadly [sadder than the fact that that was my one real goal of the year [and year before too]], I’m stuck on 99, and I don’t know if I’m going to squeeze in a screening of The Lovely Bones tomorrow.
w00t! Scratch all that. I found a ticket stub for a Japanese Film Festival movie I missed that wasn’t in the IMDB database / my IMDB list [and people shake their head when I mention that I collect all my movie ticket stubs – this has saved me from another year of pain and guilt!]
Anyway, here’s the list, ranked, without explanation, as always [the list was completed 2 hours after I wrote this…I really need to do it as a dynamic, weekly list next year].
- Okuribito [Departures]
- Up
- Avatar
- Revolutionary Road
- Der Baader Meinhof Komplex [The Baader Meinhof Complex]
- Beautiful Kate
- Star Trek
- I Love You, Man
- The Girlfriend Experience
- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
- The Cove
- District 9
- Balibo
- Whatever Works
- This Is It
- Samson and Delilah
- Changeling
- Inglourious Basterds
- Doubt
- The Informant!
- A Serious Man
- Låt Den Rätte Komma In [Let The Right One In]
- Los abrazos rotos [Broken Embraces]
- The Wrestler
- Sunshine Cleaning
- Gran Torino
- The Reader
- Disgrace
- Moon
- It Might Get Loud
- The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
- Seppun [The Kiss]
- Che: Part One
- Che: Part Two
- (500) Days of Summer
- Julie & Julia
- Genova
- Drag Me to Hell
- Funny People
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Brüno
- An Education
- Whip It
- Mary and Max
- The September Issue
- Hansamu sûtsu [The Handsome Suit]
- Coraline
- State of Play
- Yes Man
- Anvil! The Story of Anvil
- Watchmen
- Amreeka
- Zack and Miri Make a Porno
- Adam
- Fast & Furious
- Paper Heart
- Mao’s Last Dancer
- Rachel Getting Married
- The Boys Are Back
- Sherlock Holmes
- The Invention of Lying
- Is Anybody There?
- G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
- Milk
- Ghost Town
- The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
- The Soloist
- Synecdoche, New York
- Gomorra [Gomorrah]
- Chi Bi [Red Cliff]
- Role Models
- 9
- Duplicity
- Terminator Salvation
- Gravity’s Clowns
- Seven Pounds
- Gururi No Koto [All Around Us]
- A Christmas Carol
- Monsters vs Aliens
- Flammen & Citronen [Flame + Citron]
- Angels & Demons
- X-Men Origins: Wolverine
- Bronson
- Year One
- Blindness
- Surrogates
- The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
- Valkyrie
- Transporter 3
- The International
- Séraphine
- Zombieland
- Gake no ue no Ponyo [Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea]
- Public Enemies
- Where the Wild Things Are
- The Hangover
- Capitalism: A Love Story
- Push
- Kei hei hup [Metallic Attraction: Kungfu Cyborg]
- 2012 [I seriously stand by my tweet on this. Just, please stop, Mr. Emmerich]
Ok, a line of analysis… #1 – #50 are all pretty darn good and worthy of a second viewing. #73 onwards is where I go from like to dislike, and #98, #99 and #100; I do not wish the type of punishment I endured during them upon anyone.
Although I appreciate that this is a personal ranking, but including Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (a 1-star movie) at #10 really undermines this excercise. Fact is, G.I. Joe was superior.
Thanks Alex! But no, Transformers had giant frakn robots which turned into even bigger robots and Megan Fox being Megan Fox; it was *much* more enjoyable
Transformers II? Really? Agrees with Yo Joe that it undermines pretty much the entire post. I guess it’s your personal prefs so won’t diss… *Having said that* I can’t believe you rated Coraline, Chi Bi and The Hangover so low. And Whatever Works @ 14? You couldn’t even remember what happened properly after you saw it so come on! Much as I love LD the movie was a snoozer. OMG was just about to end the disdain and saw Paper Heart @ 56! You preferred that to 44 other movies? Vomit.
re: ‘Hangover’ I saw it directly after the awesomeness that was ‘I Love You, Man’, to which it paled in comparison and looked like a lame slapstick comedyre: ‘Whatever Works’ I forgot one bit of the story, but I *do* remember cracking up constantly! Maybe your snoozing had to do with you not sleeping the night before you saw it -_-re: ‘Paper Heart’ It really wasn’t that bad! Then again, I didn’t spend every minute hating on that freak of a woman – I just found it hilarious / very cringeworthyThanks for the disdainful comment!