watch 100 films in 2006

1 Crash
2 Brokeback Mountain
3 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
4 Every Which Way But Loose
5 Strangers On A Train
6 The Blair Witch Project
7 March Of The Penguins
8 Curly Sue
9 Layer Cake
10 Final Destination
11 Final Destination 2
12 Lovely & Amazing
13 My Life Without Me
14 Suicide Kings
15 Alien Nation
16 A Clockwork Orange
17 Collateral
18 Loser
19 A Hard Day’s Night
20 Random Hearts
21 Simply Irresistible
22 The Buddy Holly Story
23 Chocolat
24 The Amityville Horror
25 The Faculty
26 Valiant
27 Mean Creek
28 How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days
29 An American Werewolf In London
30 American Beauty
31 Blood Simple
32 Phone Booth
33 The Lord Of The Rings – The Fellowship Of The Ring
34 The Lord Of The Rings – The Two Towers
35 The Lord Of The Rings – The Return Of The King
36 In Her Shoes
37 Jarhead
38 Little Nicky
39 The Big Lebowski
40 Save The Last Dance
41 Adaptation.
42 Far From Heaven
43 Down To You
44 Cache (Hidden)
45 Kidulthood
46 Danielle Steel’s Once In A Lifetime
47 Valentine
48 Lost In Translation
49 Maybe Baby
50 Apocalypse Now
51 Wolf Creek
52 Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
53 The War Of The Worlds
54 Trainspotting
55 Badlands
56 Secrets And Lies
57 The Shrink Is In
58 Enduring Love
59 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
60 Halloween 5: The Revenge Of Michael Myers
61 The Man Who Knew Too Much
62 Let Him Have It
63 Swinging
64 Festival
65 The Weather Man
66 Shopgirl
67 Proof
68 The Perfect Catch (aka Fever Pitch)
69 Kiss Of Life
70 She’s The Man
71 Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride
72 Land Of The Dead
73 Wrong Turn
74 Severance
75 Princess Mononoke
76 The Hudsucker Proxy
77 Miller’s Crossing
78 Along Came A Spider
79 The Shining
80 Barton Fink
81 Brick
82 The Squid and the Whale
83 A Knight’s Tale
84 The Ladykillers
85 The Man Who Wasn’t There
86 Hero
87 The Royal Tenenbaums
88 My Summer Of Love
89 Stuck On You
90 Damien: Omen II
91 The Devil Wears Prada
92 Halloween: Resurrection
93 The Italian Job
94 Boys and Girls
95 Dracula
96 About Adam
97 What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?
98 Amélie
99 Irreversible
100 Audition
101 À Bout De Souffle (Breathless) [Not finished watching]

I now have 12 left to go…

I’m at 65 films at the moment, so I guess I’m roughly on target!

I guess this proves that if it shows up on iheartcinema, I’ll watch it. Um.

I really enjoyed this. It was entertaining as well as thought-provoking. I don’t think it can really hold up under the enormous pressure being heaped on it by fans and conspiracy theorists (it’s not the best film I’ve ever seen. hyperbole what?), but it’s fun and interesting and worth the price of admission.

LMFAO.

This was totally adorable and weird. It starts off a little rocky, but it winds up being very cute, if bittersweet. The cross-generational (a 21-year-old and a 14-year-old) love story manages to not seem creepy at all, because the protagonist has spent her life so wrapped up in meeting goals that her social maturity is still firmly in the early teens. The two main characters are very suited for each other, and it’s interesting to see a story that really strives to demonstrate the strange barriers that love can cross. And not seem cheesy. I liked!

I really wanted to like this, but I found it pretty dull. It wasn’t fast-paced enough so that the multiple plot/genre/characterization changes felt natural, and it wasn’t slow enough so that it made the most of all of the different developments. The abrupt transition into the war felt extremely tacked on, and the idea that those women had given up that lifestyle was completely lost in the shuffle of them stepping right back into it.

I haven’t read the novel yet, but I’m assuming it must be a lot better. Which is a shame. :/

I’m kind of in the middle about this film. I liked it, but I didn’t like it. It was very bland, to the point of almost being boring. The only plotline that really grabbed me was that of the 50s housewife, and the rest of it felt… forced. I haven’t read the book, but I think the concept would work better if the ending didn’t feel so artificially brought together.

(However, Nicole Kidman + that nose = true love.)

Few things are as odious as a film that strives to hold a mirror up to its audience and say, “This is you – aren’t you ridiculous?”

The only saving grace of this film was its main character. He was so knowable, so sympathetic, and so real that it was hard to not care what happened to him. Whoever cast that role understands high schools in a way that few other casting directors do, because the actor truly looked the part of the awkward outsider. The shaggy hair and sallow skin paired with the neuroses and torment made it like watching the personal life of someone I might have gone to school with.

The rest of the film, though, felt like a tapestry of others. There were pieces of I ♥ Huckabees, Donnie Darko, Igby Goes Down, and multiple other coming of age stories. The blend of existential, “what am I doing with my life?” confusion and surrealism has already been done, and doesn’t need to be touched on again.