Friday, January 06, 2012

Movies Seen in 2011

I set a goal of seeing (on average) a movie a day in 2011. I saw 366 feature length films and 30 short films. I'm not doing that again. Lots of times it was fun, sometimes it was a chore. I used the Academy's definition of short, that is under 40 minutes long. Most of those were nominated short films and pixar shorts I caught on TV. For features, I separated out 5 TV movies that were either HBO originals or a PBS documentary.

67% I watched on cable, and 27% were in a theater (this is the first question people usually ask). The rest were online or via netflix or DVD. I watched one movie on my iPad (on a flight).

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12% I had seen before, the rest were first times. (This is the second question people ask and yes reruns count. Seeing Casablanca a second or third time is still seeing a movie).

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I rated all the films on a scale of 1-5, 5 being the best. I use what's mostly a Netflix scale. 3 is ok, 4 I really liked and 5 is great. 2 I didn't like and 1 I hated. I didn't see many fives this year and I was pretty good about only seeing reruns that I liked.

I did pretty well breaking them up throughout the year but I still needed to make a push in December.
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Most of the films I saw were recent films
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and most were US films
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I tried attaching a genre to each film but this was harder than I thought. The best I came up with was a two tier system. This worked well for things like biography that could be either a drama or a documentary but it didn't work for other things. Lots of dramas I couldn't find a good sub-genre for. So I'll work on that for next year.
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And finally here's the whole list with my ratings. I'll do a separate post about 2011 films as I'm still seeing lots of them that came out at the end of the year.

TitleYearTypeCountryRating
Go West1940FeatureUS4
The King's Speech2010FeatureBritain4
The Devil and Miss Jones1941FeatureUS3
The Good Night2007FeatureUS2
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows I2010FeatureUS3
Greenberg2010FeatureUS2
Leap Year2010FeatureUS2
A Prophet2009FeatureFrance5
The Book of Eli2010FeatureUS2
Fort Apache1948FeatureUS3
Twilight: New Moon2009FeatureUS2
True Grit2010FeatureUS4
Chinatown1974FeatureUS3
Clash of the TItans2010FeatureUS2
One Way Passage1932FeatureUS3
Love and Other Drugs2010FeatureUS3
Percy Jackson - The Lightening Thief2010FeatureUS2
The Sun Also Rises1957FeatureUS1
Swing Time1936FeatureUS3
The Fountainhead1949FeatureUS1
The Shop Around the Corner1940FeatureUS4
Extraordinary Measures2010FeatureUS2
Somewhere2010FeatureUS2
Le Mans1971FeatureUS1
Life During Wartime2010FeatureUS1
The Way Back2010FeatureUS4
Dogtooth2010FeatureGreece1
My Idiot Brother2010FeatureUS4
The Warriors of Qiugang2010ShortUS3
The Thomas Beale Cipher2010ShortUS3
The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra2001FeatureUS5
The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper2005ShortUS3
The Mechanic2011FeatureUS2
Trouble in Paradise1932FeatureUS3
Anne of the Thousand Days1969FeatureBritain4
Becket1964FeatureBritain4
Edward My Son1949FeatureBritain4
Lust for Life1956FeatureUS4
William S. Burroughs - A Man Within2010FeatureUS2
A Damsel in Distress1937FeatureUS3
Madame Curie1943FeatureUS4
The Shoes of the Fisherman1968FeatureUS2
Biutiful2010FeatureMexico2
The Illusionist2010FeatureBritain3
In the Shadow of the Moon2007FeatureUS5
High Noon1952FeatureUS5
The Pride of the Yankees1942FeatureUS4
Disraeli1929FeatureUS3
Another Year2010FeatureBritain4
Love Affair1939FeatureUS3
The Sunset Limited2011TVUS3
National Velvet1944FeatureUS3
Poster Girl2010ShortUS4
Strangers No More2010ShortUS4
Killing in the Name2010ShortUS3
Sun Come Up2010ShortUS2
Rabbit Hole2010FeatureUS3
The Confession2010ShortBritain4
Wish 1432010ShortBritain4
The Crush2010ShortIreland4
How to Train Your Dragon2010FeatureUS3
God of Love2010ShortUS3
Na Wewe2010ShortBelgium3
I Am Love2010FeatureItaly2
Day & Night2010ShortUS5
Let's Pollute2010ShortUS4
The Story of Louis Pasteur1936FeatureUS4
The Lost Thing2010ShortAustralia4
The Gruffalo2010ShortBritain4
The Cow Who Wanted to be a Hamburger2010ShortUS3
Urs2010ShortRussia3
Madagascar, Carnet de Voyage2010ShortFrance3
Barney's Version2010FeatureUS4
Blue Valentine2010FeatureUS4
Date Night2010FeatureUS2
Whatever Works2009FeatureUS4
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here1969FeatureUS2
Star Trek: The Motion Picture1979FeatureUS3
Metropolis1927FeatureGermany4
Our Relations1936FeatureUS3
Real Genius1985FeatureUS3
Secretariat2010FeatureUS3
The Adjustment Bureau2011FeatureUS3
Tortilla Flat1942FeatureUS2
Watch on the Rhine1943FeatureUS3
Summertime1955FeatureBritain3
Rio Bravo1959FeatureUS3
Tron1982FeatureUS3
For Heaven's Sake1926FeatureUS4
I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang1932FeatureUS3
Robin Hood2010FeatureUS2
The Terminator1984FeatureUS4
Robocop1987FeatureUS2
The Magnificent Yankee1950FeatureUS2
The Losers2010FeatureUS3
Black Death2010FeatureBritain1
Hot Millions1968FeatureBritain3
Wife vs. Secretary1936FeatureUS3
Ivanhoe1952FeatureUS3
Red Dust1932FeatureUS2
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof1958FeatureUS4
Paul2011FeatureUS2
Sunshine Cleaning2008FeatureUS3
The China Syndrome1979FeatureUS4
Creation2009FeatureUS2
MacGruber2010FeatureUS1
Win Win2011FeatureUS4
Henry & June1990FeatureUS4
The Other Guys2010FeatureUS3
Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf1966FeatureUS4
The Beast of the City1932FeatureUS2
New York I Love You2009FeatureUS2
The More the Merrier1943FeatureUS3
Source Code2011FeatureUS3
Thurgood2011TVUS4
Inception2010FeatureUS5
Dead Again1991FeatureUS4
The Conspirator2011FeatureUS3
Cinema Verite2011TVUS3
Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story2005FeatureUK2
His Way2011TVUS4
Being Elmo2011FeatureUS5
Three Faces of Eve1957FeatureUS3
On the Ice2011FeatureUS3
The Bengali Detective2011FeatureUK2
The Catechism Cataclysm2011FeatureUS4
Submarine2011FeatureUK4
The City Dark2011FeatureUS4
Last Days Here2011FeatureUS5
How to Die in Oregon2011FeatureUS4
Stake Land2011FeatureUS3
Convento2011FeatureFrance2
Windfall2011FeatureUS2
The Future2011FeatureUS2
Make Believe2011FeatureUS4
Circumstance2011FeatureUS4
Another Earth2011FeatureUS4
God Willing2011FeatureUS2
El Bulli: Cooking in Progress2011FeatureGermany5
Sons of Perdition2011FeatureUS4
The Whistleblower2011FeatureUS4
Terri2011FeatureUS3
Conan O'Brien Can't Stop2011FeatureUS3
Thor2011FeatureUS3
13 Assassins2011FeatureJapan3
Rubber2011FeatureUS2
Incendies2010FeatureCanada4
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel2009BiographyUS4
Catch Me If You Can2002FeatureUS4
Heartbreakers2001FeatureUS3
Easy A2010FeatureUS3
Cave of Forgotten Dreams2011FeatureUS3
Too Big To Fail2011FeatureUS4
My Sister's Keeper2009FeatureUS2
Flash Gordon1980FeatureUS4
Midnight in Paris2011FeatureUS3
Sin City2005FeatureUS3
Wilson1944FeatureUS2
Maxed Out2006FeatureUS3
Beautiful Boy2011FeatureUS2
Reagan2011FeatureUS4
Harvard Beats Yale 29-292008FeatureUS2
River of No Return1954FeatureUS3
Lebanon2009FeatureIsrael2
Tree of Life2011FeatureUS4
Agora2009FeatureUS3
Bobby Fischer Against the World2011FeatureUS3
Dodsworth1936FeatureUS3
X-Men: First Class2011FeatureUS4
Religulous2008FeatureUS2
Super 82011FeatureUS2
An Eastern Westerner1920ShortUS4
Mr. Hulot's Holiday1953FeatureFrance4
A Matter of Taste: Serving Up Paul Liebrandt2011FeatureUS4
Public Enemies2009FeatureUS3
My Favorite Wife1940FeatureUS4
Kameradschaft1931FeatureGermany3
The Beautiful Blonde From Bashful Bend1949FeatureUS2
Green Fire1954FeatureUS2
Devil2010FeatureUS1
Sex Crimes Unit2011FeatureUS3
What a Way to Go1964FeatureUS3
Billy Wilder Speaks2006FeatureUS4
The Pawnbroker1965FeatureUS5
Tamara Drewe2010FeatureBritain4
The African Queen1951FeatureUS4
Hot Coffee2011FeatureUS4
The Rack1956FeatureUS4
The Perfect Host2011FeatureUS3
Cluny Brown1946FeatureUS4
Citizen U.S.A.2011FeatureUS3
The Spiral Staircase1945FeatureUS3
Angels in the Outfield1951FeatureUS3
Despicable Me2010FeatureUS4
Lovely & Amazing2002FeatureUS4
Christmas in July1940FeatureUS3
The Petrified Forest1936FeatureUS3
WUSA1970FeatureUS2
Horrible Bosses2011FeatureUS4
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps2010FeatureUS3
Love Crimes of Kabul2011FeatureUS4
Burlesque2010FeatureUS2
Twilight: Eclipse2010FeatureUS1
Seven Days to Noon1950FeatureUS4
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince2009FeatureUS4
Project Nim2011FeatureUS4
Mann v. Ford2011FeatureUS3
Moon2009FeatureUS3
Departures2008FeatureJapan4
The Laughing Policeman1973FeatureUS3
The Captains2011FeatureCanada3
The Quiller Memorandum1966FeatureUS3
GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra2009FeatureUS2
Captain America2011FeatureUS4
Brute Force1947FeatureUS3
Buried2010FeatureUS3
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 22011FeatureUS4
The Tourist2010FeatureUS2
Good Neighbors2011FeatureCanada4
George Washington Slept Here1942FeatureUS4
Cowboys & Aliens2011FeatureUS2
A Patch of Blue1965FeatureUS4
Harper1966FeatureUS3
Koran by Heart2011FeatureUS4
Oktapodi2007ShortFrance4
Kiki1926FeatureUS3
Rise of the Planet of the Apes2011FeatureUS2
Magic Trip: Ken Kasey's Search for a Kool Place2011FeatureUS2
How to Steal a Million1966FeatureUS4
My Dinner With Andre1981FeatureUS4
Jaws1975FeatureUS5
Skidoo1968FeatureUS2
Superheroes2011FeatureUS3
Dinner with Schmucks2010FeatureUS2
Beginners2011FeatureUS3
The Trip2011FeatureBritain1
The Help2011FeatureUS4
Gloria: In Her Own Words2011FeatureUS3
Crazy, Stupid, Love2011RomanceUS3
London After Midnight1927FeatureUS2
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari1920FeatureGermany3
The Children's Hour1961FeatureUS4
Ponyo2008FeatureJapan3
The Karate Kid2010FeatureUS3
Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon1970FeatureUS2
Dark Journey1937FeatureUS2
It's Kind of a Funny Story2010FeatureUS2
Rembrandt1936FeatureUS2
Quintet1979FeatureUS1
The Tillman Story2010FeatureUS4
Point Blank2011FeatureFrance4
The Lady is Willing1942FeatureUS2
The Color of Money1986FeatureUS4
Fast Food Nation2006FeatureUS3
Stone2010FeatureUS2
Runaway Jury2003FeatureUS3
Bomba the Jungle Boy1949FeatureUS2
Hear No Evil1993FeatureUS2
Better This World2011FeatureUS4
Outrage2009FeatureUS4
United 932006FeatureUS5
The A-Team2010FeatureUS3
Killer of Sheep1977FeatureUS3
Jack Goes Boating2010FeatureUS2
Contagion2011FeatureUS2
After the Sunset2004FeatureUS4
The Switch2010FeatureUS3
If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front2011FeatureUS3
The Hot Rock1972FeatureUS3
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution1976FeatureUS3
Tit for Tat1935ShortUS4
Pirana2010FeatureUS3
The Interruptors2011FeatureUS4
Bloody Sunday2002FeatureBritain3
Main Street2011FeatureUS2
The Other Man2008FeatureUS2
Drive2011FeatureUS3
Moneyball2011FeatureUS4
The Green Hornet2011FeatureUS2
Tucker and Dale vs Evil2011FeatureUS4
The Expendables2011FeatureUS2
メ50/50モ2011FeatureUS3
Crank: High Voltage2009FeatureUS2
Winter's Bone2010FeatureUS5
The Next Three Days2010FeatureUS2
Killer Elite2011FeatureUS4
Brothers2009FeatureUS3
Trollhunter2011FeatureNorway3
Brothers at War2009FeatureUS4
No Strings Attached2011FeatureUS2
Ides of March2011FeatureUS4
George Harrison: Living in the Material World2011FeatureUS3
Wham! Bam! Islam!2011TVUS3
The Guard2011FeatureIreland4
The Killing Fields1984FeatureUS4
Love Liza2002FeatureUS2
Winged Migration2001FeatureFrance5
Raising Arizona1987FeatureUS5
Edison the Man1940FeatureUS4
Take Shelter2011FeatureUS4
Let Me In2010FeatureUS4
Doughboys1930FeatureUS1
The Debt2011FeatureUS4
Blackthorn2011FeatureUS3
What! No Beer?1936FeatureUS2
Margin Call2011FeatureUS4
Last Train Home2010FeatureCanada4
Kevin Smith: Too Fat for 40!2010FeatureUS3
Oceans2009FeatureFrance4
"Paris, Texas"1984FeatureGermany2
The Emperor's New Clothes2001FeatureBritain2
Let the Right One In2008FeatureSweden5
From the Sky Down2011FeatureUS2
The Unknown1927FeatureUS3
The Passionate Plumber1932FeatureUS2
Morning Glory2010FeatureUS3
Enter the Dragon1973FeatureHong Kong4
Top Gun1986FeatureUS4
Peacock2010FeatureUS2
Basic Black2011FeatureUS3
Made in Dagenham2010FeatureBritain4
Where Soldiers Come From2011FeatureUS3
Star Trek2009FeatureUS3
Babbitt1934FeatureUS1
A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas2011FeatureUS3
Secret Ballot2001FeatureIran2
Big Business1929ShortUS4
Double Whoopie1929ShortUS4
Habeas Corpus1928ShortUS3
Angora Love1929ShortUS3
Megamind2010FeatureUS4
Melancholia2011FeatureDenmark2
Pandora's Box1929FeatureGermany3
Solitary Man2009FeatureUS3
A Farewell to Arms1932FeatureUS2
The Roommate2011FeatureUS2
Melinda and Melinda2004FeatureUS2
Battle Los Angeles2011FeatureUS1
Groundhog Day1993FeatureUS5
The Thing1982FeatureUS4
Being Elmo2011FeatureUS5
The Descendants2011FeatureUS3
My Week With Marilyn2011FeatureBritain4
Social Network2010FeatureUS4
John Q2002FeatureUS3
Unknown2011FeatureUS2
Super2011FeatureUS3
The Lincoln Lawyer2011FeatureUS3
The Way We Were1973FeatureUS4
The Two Towers2002FeatureUS4
Parlor, Bedroom and Bath1931FeatureUS3
Executive Suite1954FeatureUS4
Outrage2011FeatureJapan3
The Great Muppet Caper1981FeatureUS3
Of Gods and Men2011FeatureFrance2
Sherlock Holmes1922FeatureUS2
Expensive Women1931FeatureUS2
Radio Days1987FeatureUS4
The Secret of the Kells2010FeatureIreland4
Trek Nation2010FeatureUS3
Bombshell1933FeatureUS2
Shrek Forever After2010FeatureUS2
Harry Brown2010FeatureBritain3
Libeled Lady1936FeatureUS4
The Moon Is Blue1953FeatureUS4
Due Date2010FeatureUS2
Man on the Moon1999FeatureUS2
Jackass 32010FeatureUS2
Super Size Me2004FeatureUS5
The Swell Season2011FeatureUS4
Silent Running1971FeatureUS2
The Disappearance of Alice Creed2010FeatureBritain4
Shame2011FeatureUS4
Out of the Past1947FeatureUS4
Grand Central Murder1947FeatureUS3
J. Edgar2011FeatureUS3
The Blue Bird1918FeatureUS2
Fear and Desire1953FeatureUS2
Best Worst Movie2010FeatureUS3
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy2011FeatureBritain3
Blue State2007FeatureUS3
Manhattan1979FeatureUS4
Tangled2010FeatureUS3
Country Strong2010FeatureUS3
The Blind Side2009FeatureUS4
The Company Men2010FeatureUS3
The Artist2011FeatureFrance4
A Dangerous Method2011FeatureBritain3
Young Adult2011FeatureUS2
Hereafter2010FeatureUS2
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows2011FeatureUS3
Fairyland: A Kingdom of Fairies1903ShortFrance2
Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory1903ShortUS3
The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon1907ShortFrance2
A Trip To The Moon1902ShortFrance3
Hugo2011FeatureUS4

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

The Other Guys gets a 3??? I actually thought it was painful to watch.

I also hope that you were forced to see the twilight movies.

Howard said...

I was surprised that I didn't hate it. If I gave half stars it would have been 2.5 and I was a little generous. There were a couple of lines in it that I liked a good deal.

I saw the Twilight films on cable at home and was often reading or doing other things while it was on. I saw reviews of the first one that it wasn't bad and was curious at all the hoopla. The first one was ok for half of it (the setup of the world) and then just went no where (the relationship). I really loathe the main character but I was never a tween girl. The second and third films are just horrible from the get go.

Anonymous said...

I assume you were able to here yourself laugh, I guess if I had seen it with you it probably would have been funnier

Ryan said...

Wow! Congrats on a banner year!