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Movies Seen in 2009
What movies have you seen this year, new or old?
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Let's see, I've seen a bunch, but here's what I remember right off:
Star Trek X-Men Origins: Wolverine Valkyrie Terminator Salvation The Hangover Hellraiser Hellbound: Hellraiser II Sixteen Candles (don't ask, I just never got around to watching it) Weird Science (same predicament) Collateral Damage Commando Observe and Report Caprica Innocent Blood Feast II: Sloppy Seconds The X-Files: I Want to Believe The Day the Earth Stood Still (Keanu Reeves) Evan Almighty The Invasion A View to a Kill The Rundown Red Heat Legend Pineapple Express W. |
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Oh yeah... I forgot about The Hangover [B]. I would also like to add Friday the 13th (2009) [F] to this list. I'm such a fan of most of the original films, but boy this movie was boring.
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I keep all my movie tickets, so I can be pretty precise about this:
Gran Torino Slumdog Millionaire The Reader Watchmen X-Men Origins: Wolverine Star Trek (twice) Up DVD: Elephant Man |
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Star Trek. Enchanted. a Kevin Pollack movie about nuclear war that I can't recall the title of. The Replacements(whenever I can). Major League. We Are Marshall. American Gangster.
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I saw American Gangster for the second time this year. It was the extended version, which I thought was ever better. |
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In the past five weeks--there's been a few more films in theaters before this...
Jury Duty In the Heat of the Night Harold and Maude Persona Non Grata Night at the Museum: Battle for the Smithsonian Terminator: Salvation The Royal Tenenbaums Dark City (Director's Cut) Star Trek (2009) Drag Me To Hell Hellraiser: Bloodline His Name Was Jason My Name is Bruce Half Nelson Chalk The Hangover Land of the Lost (2009) Woody Allen: A Life in Film Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters Night of the Living Dead (1990 remake) Fido Spielberg on Spielberg The Boondock Saints Capturing the Friedmans You, Me, and Dupree |
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The International - Will Watch this weekend.
What Just Happened? - HORRIBLE MOVIE! Quantum of Solace Bolt Doubt - Great movie Changeling Lakeview Terrace Frost/Nixon The Caller In the Electric Mist The Tale of Despereaux - Bad Movie Seven Pounds Body of Lies Hancock Babylon A.D. Behind Enemy Lines 3 Miracle at St. Anna WALL-E Blindness Spartan Burn After Reading The Dark Knight Eagle Eye Righteous Kill Batman Begins Traitor |
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I almost never watch films theatrically anymore. I watch them on Blu-ray and/or Sky Movies HD instead. I keep track of the films I watch as I see them for the first time. So far this year I've seen 97 films that I hadn't seen previously:
Mr. Brooks (2007) - very effective film; unexpectedly funny in a very dark sort of way Run Fat Boy Run (2007) - a good light comedy Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) - I was a bit disappointed with it on first viewing, but it grew on me when I watched it again later; great production design Wedding Daze (2007) - awful Black Sunday (1977) - pretty good Hoodwinked (2005) - a decent storyline is undermined by cheap, lousy animation Nancy Drew (2007) - pretty good The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) - beautifully filmed and well acted, but overlong; there have been a lot of Jesse James films but none have really stuck to the historical record The Dark Knight (2008) - the greatest superhero film made to date Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007) - reasonably entertaining with some cute moments, don't see why so much hate was aimed at it Them (2006) - a very effective French horror film, although the claim that it's based on a true story doesn't hold up to scrutiny In the Land of Women (2007) - a good film, and it was nice to see Meg Ryan looking more like her old self again Breaking and Entering (2006) - a good film The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) - good, but not quite as good as its reputation Cloverfield (2008) - a good idea, but the extent of the shaky cam was too damned annoying for it to be enjoyable McLintock! (1963) - rousing good fun, although it'll give feminists fits The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982) - very cheesy and low budget, but kinda fun The Good German (2006) - pretty good in parts, but too self-conscious The Goonies (1985) - lots of fun; I'm a child of the 80s, but somehow this one slipped through the net and I only got around to seeing it now A Bridge Too Far (1977) - a good film, but the outcome of the battle doesn't make for a good cinematic ending The Darjeeling Limited (2007) - pretty good, but not as good as Wes Anderson's previous films Edison (2005) - awful St. Trinian’s (2007) - even more awful The Great McGinty (1940) - a good film The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) - a very good film, much better than the remake How to Steal a Million (1966) - a charming film with Audrey Hepburn looking especially great decked out in mod fashions House of Bamboo (1955) - interesting to see all of the location shooting in 1950s Tokyo, but a dull film overall The Duellists (1977) - Ridley Scott's first feature film and a fine one at that Definitely, Maybe (2008) - pretty good Derailed (2005) - pretty good 1408 (2007) - good, but not quite as good as I'd heard A Clockwork Orange (1971) - great film, worthy of its status as one of the classics of science fiction cinema The Wicked Lady (1983) - crap, but cheesy fun; lots of nudity, including from Marina Sirtis Howard the Duck (1986) - awful, even worse than its reputation The Virgin Suicides (1999) - pretty good, but doesn't amount to much Frenzy (1972) - latter day Hitchcock with some very dark comedy; London and its inhabitants never looked grubbier The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958) - a good film Mama’s Boy (2007) - pretty bad The High and the Mighty (1954) a decent film, a prototype of the disaster genre Battleship Potemkin (1925) - interesting for its place in cinema history as a film that advanced the art of editing and screen composition and fascinating as a time capsule; the plot is pure commie propaganda Fairy Tale: A True Story (1997) - a good film The Cotton Club (1984) - great production design and the young Diane Lane is ravishingly beautiful, but the plot meanders around and doesn't amount to much Southland Tales (2006) - awful Zulu (1964) - a very good film, although the battle scenes have dated somewhat (the stabs with spears and bayonets are very obvious in how they were faked) Blow Out (1981) - an effective chiller with an unsettling ending The Front Page (1974) - pretty good Lemmon/Matthau remake True Grit (1969) - rousing good fun with John Wayne in great form; "Fill your hand, you son of a bitch!" Charley Varrick (1973) - pretty good crime film with Walter Matthau playing against type Romeo and Juliet (1968) - a very well-staged adaptation; the most accurate and complete cinematic adaptation of the play ever made To Catch a Thief (1955) - Hitchcock in fine form in one of his lighter outings; Grace Kelly is at her most radiant in this October Sky (1999) - a very good movie, very straightforward and sincere in its drama Custer of the West (1967) - mediocre Torn Curtain (1966) - a mostly boring Hitchcock outing with a scene showing how difficult it is to kill someone in a hand-to-hand fight being the sole standout Barefoot in the Park (1967) - a funny, effective comedy; the producers of Dharma and Greg obviously thought so, too The Killers (1964) - a decent crime drama Anne of the Thousand Days (1969) - a very good biopic with Genevieve Bujold in fine form The Enemy Below (1957) - an entertaining submarine versus destroyer World War II film that shows both sides in a humane fashion Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954) - reasonably entertaining followup to The Robe Sunset Blvd. (1950) - a great film; it stands up extremely well Cries and Whispers (1973) - an Ingmar Bergman masterpiece with one of the most realistic and harrowing depictions of someone dying of cancer ever put on film Indiscreet (1958) - reasonably entertaining West Side Story (1961) - I'm not usually one for musicals, but this one is great The Big Country (1958) - rousing western with a great cast Viva Zapata! (1952) - a good film, nicely directed by Elia Kazan The Night of the Hunter (1955) - good, with some very memorable moments, but not quite as good as its reputation The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954) - a reasonably effective, if somewhat humdrum, war drama; I can't imagine a studio film having a downbeat ending played in such an abrupt and matter of fact way these days Burn After Reading (2008) - pretty good, but a lesser Coen Bros outing; John Malkovich is the highlight Speed Racer (2008) - a great film, very underrated Wanted (2008) - crap WALL-E (2008) - a great film Kung Fu Panda (2008) - very funny Juno (2007) - pretty good, but overrated The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008) - crap Get Smart (2008) - mediocre The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008) - better than its reputation, it stands as a more fitting wrap-up than the awful series finale Wonder Woman (2009) - a very good film from the DC Universe DTV line, best one yet in fact Appaloosa (2008) - an effective western with Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen in fine form; Renee Zellweger lets the side down, though My Best Friend’s Girl (2008) - a few funny moments, but mediocre overall; Jason Biggs now looks pretty bad playing increasingly lame versions of his American Pie character 27 Dresses (2008) - reasonably entertaining Jumper (2008) - dull Panic in the Streets (1950) - pretty good Elia Kazan drama Cat People (1982) - cheesy, but fun; Nastassja Kinski and Annette O'Toole are both gorgeous in it Silent Running (1972) - a hokey hippy trippy sci-fi film Outland (1981) - an entertaining sci-fi take on High Noon The Omega Man (1971) - dated, but still rousing entertainment The Thing (1982) - a great film, John Carpenter's best and one of the best of the genre Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) - a great adaptation of Orwell's novel THX 1138 (1971) - I saw an edited version of this on television when I was a child, but this was my first time seeing the full director's cut; it's a very effective low budget dystopian sci-fi outing from the young George Lucas (with some scenes spruced up a bit with modern FX in the director's cut) 10,000 B.C. (2008) - mediocre, dull The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) - good production values for its time, nicely made and acted The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008) - so-so at the start, but it ended up being a good film Brazil (1985) - at first it seems like it might be one of Gilliam's cacophonous, messy endeavors, but it comes together and hits the target, ultimately living up to its good reputation Bedtime Stories (2008) - mediocre Australia (2008) - seems like it's going to be awful in the early going, but ends up being reasonably entertaining Quantum of Solace (2008) - a step down in quality from Casino Royale, in fact a couple of steps down The Black Swan (1942) - mediocre The Black Hole (1979) - some dated FX and production design (particularly regarding the robots and the visible wires), but good fun nonetheless and generally better than its reputation; the model work for the spaceships holds up well |
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Just watched Let the Right One In [B]. It's good, but I definitely think I deserve to give it another go when they release the new version with the updated subtitles. Apparently these are "turkey subtitles." The dialogue is reasonably bad in places due to it.
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These are some very small movies that peoples should watch.
Noise (2008) It's a really cheap movie about a NYC man who get's sick of useless car alarms so he decides to break the car alarms out. Cashback - It's about an early 20 something guy who gets dumped by his girlfriend and can't sleep. So to pass the time he takes up a job working for some grocery store overnight. He hates the job so to make it go by faster he pretends he can stop time. You can see it for free with Netflix Viewer. |
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I'm glad to see someone recommend Noise. I had been debating on whether or not to get it.
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I think I only remember the movies I've seen in cinema. And those were (in chronological order):
1) Milk 2) Frost/Nixon 3) Watchmen 4) Star Trek 5) Star Trek 6) Terminator Salvation |
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Here's what I've seen this year so far (in order of viewing):
Burn After Reading Vantage Point Appaloosa Doomsday Passchendaele Quarantine Elizabeth: The Golden Age Beverly Hills Chihuahua Twilight Earth (@theater) Layer Cake The Incredible Hulk Star Trek (@theater, twice so far) Eagle Eye Underworld: Rise of the Lycans Seven Pounds |
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