watch 50 movies in 2007

Sweeney Todd
The Golden Compass
The Myth 4 years ago

was few movies away :( didnt do it in time…hhmm i also started the list few months before 07..i guess i got to try this year once again ..lol 4 years ago

i hope this works 4 years ago

Finished it about three days ago :) This has really increased my appreciation of film, so it was worth doing.

1. Oliver!
2. Juste une question d’amour
3. Goodbye Lenin!
4. The Naked Gun
5. Willow
6. Wallace and Gromit – Curse of the were-rabbit
7. My Beatiful Laundrette
8. Romeo and Juliet
9. Napola
10. West Side Story
11. Summer Storm
12. Amelie
13. Corpse Bride
14. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
15. The Breakfast Club
16. Ladies in Lavender
17. In and Out
18. The Great Dicator
19. Proteus
20. Modern Times
21. Regular Guys
22. Sleepless in Seattle
23. Puckoon
24. Love, Actually
25. Maurice
26. Blazing Saddles
27. Adolf Hitler – My Part in His Downfall
28. Goodnight and Good Luck
29. Little Miss Sunshine
30. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
31. This is Spinal Tap
32. The History Boys
33. Walking on Water
34. Cockles and Mussels
35. Yossi and Jagger
36. The Miracle of Bern
37. Thank You For Smoking
38. Get Real
39. The Producers (1968)
40. Hot Fuzz
41. The Simpsons Movie
42. The Cardcaptor Movie
43. Cardcaptor Sakura – The Sealed Card
44. Beautiful Thing
45. There’s Something About Mary
46. Elizabeth
47. What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?
48. My Neighbour Totoro
49. The Lavender Hill Mob
50. North by Northwest 4 years ago

I counted feature-length tv movies and documentary films in this list, but not films I had already seen before. This count is slightly inaccurate as I decided to do this once the year had already begun. Therefore, I may have actually reached this goal. This isn’t in order either. Parts of it are, but sometimes I remembered that I watched a film ages ago but hadn’t written it down so put it down then. e.g. “Princess Mononoke” I watched earlier in the year, but only remembered it yesterday when reading the tv guide and seeing it mentioned.

1. Kill Bill 2
2. Vera Drake
3. Spiderman 3
4. Pitch Black (although I was reading at the same time…erm…)
5. The Maltese Falcon
6. Go
7. Y tu mama tambien
8. Somersault
9. The Magdalene Sisters
10. Garden State
11. I Heart Huckabees
12. Forest Gump
13. The Dreamers
14. Bowling for Columbine
15. Girl, Interrupted
16. Adaptation
17. Nosferatu
18. Kan shang qu hen mei/Little Red Flowers
19. The Trial
20. The Handmaid’s Tale
21. Blow-up
22. Alice in Wonderland (1966)
23. Alice in Wonderland (1906) (eight minutes long, but whatever!)
24. The Company of Wolves
25. The Birds
26. Shrek The Third
27. Eyes Wide Shut
28. Sleepy Hollow
29. Vanity Fair
30. A Series of Unfortunate Events
31. The Terminal
32. Ballet Shoes
33. In America
34. The History Boys
35. Amelie
36. Orlando
37. The Virgin Suicides
38. Elizabethtown
39. The Shadow in the North
40. Princess Mononoke
41. The Royal Tenembaums
42. Marie Antoinette 4 years ago

Well I managed the full 50 films but I must admit it was a push at the end to reach the full 50 and I have cheated slightly because a few of the last ones were more on in the background rather than sitting down and paying full attention to them!

Out of the 50 watched in 2007:

• 25 of them were at the cinema
• 17 were on DVD
• 7 were on TV
• 1 was on a plane!

• 37 were new films I’d never seen before
• 13 were repeats of films I’d seen in the past

I’m not going to set myself the challenge for next year but I am going to try and see more films at the cinema. 4 years ago

31/12/2007 – TV 4 years ago

31/12/2007 – DVD4 years ago

Well, with only 34 movies watched it looks like I am not going to be able to complete this goal. I can do it in 2008, though! 4 years ago

42. St Trinian’s 4 years ago

No Country for Old Men. Wow, that was intense. Javier Bardem was brilliant, and I hope to never cross his character, Anton Chigurh. Never. One of the interesting things about this film was I didn’t know where it was going. Some movies you can tell are going to go a certain way, but this one kept me guessing, and I didn’t care which way it pulled me. Good or bad. 4 years ago

28/12/2007 – TV 4 years ago

28/12/2007 – Cinema (new)

Fun modern twist on the usual fairytale story. 4 years ago

I just saw Once. Oh. My. God. Amazing. It’s just consuming my existence right now. Just a little. It’s such a seamless musical, more natural than any musical I’ve ever seen. That’s not ragging on the traditional genre, but this was a very different approach, having each song uninterrupted by dialog or plot. The lyrics told the untold story of emotion and love. Did I mention the soundtrack is to die for? 4 years ago

27/12/2007 – Cinema (new)

Not as scary/tense as I thought it’d be but had good effects and Will Smith is fabulous. 4 years ago

27/12/2007 – DVD4 years ago

27/12/2007 – DVD4 years ago

22/12/2007 – Cinema (new)

Quite funny but not in the same league as Shrek etc.. 4 years ago

Oh how I worship you Tim Burton. I could not imagine anybody else tackling the deliciously dark Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. I must say, the “By the Sea” number was my favorite, and it was oh so Burton-esque in its humor and color (or lack thereof). As for the cast, brilliant, as always. Helena Bonham Carter was perfect as the delirious Mrs. Lovett, and both she and Depp proved that they deserved these parts, not just that they are Burton’s pets. 4 years ago

38. Hannibal Rising
39. 101 Dalmatians
40. Of Mice And Men
41. High School Musical 2 4 years ago

Enchanted
It’s a Wonderful Life
The Christmas Story
Miracle on 43rd Street 4 years ago

Elizabeth I (technically a miniseries, but I’m counting it). Is there anything Helen Mirren can’t do? I mean, she has now played both Elizabeth monarchs beautifully. I didn’t know how much of a badass E I was. I mean, she was calling the shots. I knew Elizabeth was awesome, but I loved seeing her as a real, complex person. Yeah, I didn’t see Cate Blachett’s Elizabeth, so that might be why this came as a bit of a shock. That queen did like to scream a lot, didn’t she? Boy, she wasn’t much of a quiet one, was she? Again, this was the monarch in a totally different light. 4 years ago

I love Kill Bill: Volume 1. If there was any example as to why Quentin Tarentino is a genius, the proof lies in this bloody, violent pudding. Everything from the over-the-top fight scenes to the beautiful musical overlays was a delight to experience. The writing was spot on and the acting was excellent. There are so many moments that fill me with glee, but my fave has to be the big battle with the Crazy 88’s. Excellent. 4 years ago

Match Point. Wow, what a depressing movie. My mom recommended this, and I had no idea what I was getting into. This was one of those films that you realized things were going downhill about half way through the film. It felt like, if Woody Allen had decided to make this a happy film, he totally could have. But he didn’t, and it left me feeling sad. It was a good movie, though. Good, but not what I expected. 4 years ago

Charlie Wilson’s War. I still don’t know how much of that was real and how much was made up. Part of me doesn’t want to know, I figure if I just look at the movie as fiction, I enjoy it more. Tom Hanks was great! Philip Seymour Hoffman was outstand, probably the only cast member truly deserving of his nomination. Julia Roberts was overrated, barely keeping that accent together.

As for the screenwriter, the great Aaron Sorkin, this was slow pacing for him. I know that he likes to have things quickly move back and forth. It started off like that, but the pacing slowed as the movie went on. It isn’t a criticism, but more of an observation. I really liked this movie, and I think it was really interesting. It’s like an easier to understand Syriana. 4 years ago

I’ve wanted to see Juno for a while, and I found out there was going to be a free promotional screening near my school, so I went! I loved it so much! The language was in a league of it’s own. My sister’s response to the unique slang was “No one talks like that!” But that’s what’s so special about it, Juno isn’t everyone! She’s one of a kind, doesn’t follow the rules, doesn’t listen to what other people say. That’s Juno. Marches to the beat of her own drum.

I loved seeing how much of a child Juno was. She thinks she knows so much, but when you break it down, Juno is just a kid. The way she acts about her pregnancy proved that. She was so distant to the child, which I thought it was brilliant. The juxtaposition of fun-loving Juno and her bulging belly couldn’t help but make me smile.

I’m just going to talk about my favorite shot of the film, when Juno, after giving birth, lays in bed with her playful, striped socks. Nothing screams youth like fun socks, and that one shot summed up the film for me. 4 years ago

Beowulf. Wow. Special effects… wow. Action… wow. Acting… wow.

Yup, that’s it. Wow. 4 years ago

I’m going to be frank, when I first saw the trailer for Enchanted, I initially thought it would suck. But then as I saw more previews and read the raving reviews, I decided to see it. I loved it far more than I even thought I would. The film was charming and delightful, but honest. It didn’t sugarcoat life, the way fairy tales did. Actually, it made a point of saying life isn’t a fairy tale. Ironically, it does end like a fairy tale, so Disney might have mixed up their messages. One message they didn’t mess up: Patrick Dempsey is a wonderful Damsel in Distress. If you saw it, you know what I mean.

Now a note about Amy Adams, who really did make this movie. She was sweet, but not too sweet, she was oblivious, but not stupid. She was endearing, and I loved her growth throughout the movie. Oh, and the music rocked. A Disney fairy tale for the 21st century. I hope they make more, I wouldn’t mind that. 4 years ago

March of the Penguins was a brilliant documentary. What made it so brilliant was the honesty. It could have been easy to cut out the sad fact of death, but the director kept it true to nature. But really, how can you go wrong with adorable penguins? Hell, I remember when this film won an Oscar, the filmmakers came up with toy penguins! If I saw this when I was younger, I probably would be begging for a pet penguin. 4 years ago

I guess the theme for this year was movie’s I should have seen but never did. Case in point: Edward Scissorhands. Call me crazy, but this movie kept making me think of the television show, Pushing Daisies. From the beginning of that show, everyone compared it to Tim Burton’s stuff. And while I never disagreed with that, I never really felt that was a fair comparison. I mean, the show is so original and special and bright. But this movie made me understand the comparisons. Over the top colors, themes, visuals, stories… So yeah, I get it. Doesn’t make me think less of the show though, still is original.

As for the story, so sweet. But there was a point when I knew it wasn’t going to end all that well, even though I wanted it to. Oh, and Johnny Depp is boss. End of Story. 4 years ago