30 Movies for 2014

[Spritedude]

Movies 27/30

Wolf of Wall Street - 9/10
Pulp Fiction - 10/10
Cat in the Hat - 3/10
Elysium - 8/10
Lone Survivor - 8.5/10
The Mask - 7/10
Pacific Rim - 7.5/10
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit - 6/10
Dredd - 8/10
Upstream Color - ?/10
Dallas Buyers Club - 9/10
Blackfish - 8/10
Labor Day - 5/10
Dumb and Dumber - 7/10
The Monuments Men - 6/10
Nacho Libre - 4/10
Fearless - 7/10
Robocop (2014) - 7.5/10
3 Days to Kill - 6/10
Alien Planet - 7.5/10
Schindler's List - 9/10
Non-Stop - 7.5/10
Insmonia - 7.5/10
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - 9/10
Shutter Island - 8/10
Gravity - 9.5/10
Memento - 10/10

[CaptHayfever]

Movies: 26/30

The Secret of NIMH (10 Mar) - 10/10

And remember, "I'm-a Luigi, number one!"

[Softguitar]

Movies 9/30
A Beautiful Mind - 1/1/14 - 9/10
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 - 1/4/14 - 7/10
Don Jon - 1/7/14 - 6/10
Kiki's Delivery Service - 1/16/14 - 9/10
Frozen - 1/18/14 - 9/10
The Prestige - 1/25/14 - 9.5/10
Rush - 1/25/14 - 8.5/10
Prisoners - 2/1/14 - 8.5/10
The Lego Movie (DUTCH VERSION) - 3/8/14 - 8.5/10

[Calamity Panfan]

Movies 34/30
Frozen - 1/3: A-
Space Jam - 1/5: C+ (Nostalgia Factor: A++)
Despicable Me 2 - 1/6: B
Face/Off - 1/7: B+
Man of Steel - 1/9: B-
Galaxy Quest - 1/14: B
How to Train Your Dragon - 1/16: A
American Pie Presents Band Camp - 1/23: F
Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines - 1/23: F
The Music Man (Robert Preston, not Matthew Broderick) - 1/26: A
End of Watch - 1/28: B+
Crazy Stupid Love - 1/31: B
xXx - 1/31: D+
Van Helsing 2/1: C-
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World - 2/1: A+
The Conjuring - 2/11: B
Pet Sematery - 2/11: D+
The Lego Movie - 2/15: B+
The Evil Dead 2 - 2/15: A-
The Hangover - 2/16: B
Haunter - 2/16: C+
Sleepy Hollow - 2/16: C+
Machine Gun Preacher - 2/21: C
Over the Top - 2/23: C-
Vision Quest - 2/23: C-
Trollhunter - 2/25: B+
I, Robot - 2/26: C+
Don Jon - 2/27: C
21 Jump Street - 3/1: A-
Up - 3/4: A+
Inglorious Basterds - 3/5: A
Vampires Suck - 3/5: D-
The Starving Games - 3/10: **** Everything
Gravity - 3/11: A

Favorite Film Overall: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Favorite Film First Viewing: Gravity
Favorite Film from Within the Year: Gravity
Least Favorite Film: The Starving Games

[Bomby]

Movies 12/30

Tokyo Story - 6 January 2014 - A+
Elysium - 11 January 2014 - C+
Before Midnight - 18 January 2014 - A
Her - 19 January 2014 - A-
Poetry - 8 February 2014 - A+
Side by Side - 11 February 2014 - B
Following - 21 February 2014 - B-
Notorious - 23 February 2014 - A-
Actresses - 24 February 2014 - B+
Once Upon a Time in High School: The Spirit of Jeet Kune Do - 26 February 2014 - B-
Rope - 2 March 2014 - A+
My Friend and His Wife - 4 March 2014 - B
Beau Travail - 8 March 2014 - B+

Favorite film I've watched overall: Tokyo Story
Favorite film I've seen for the first time: Poetry
Favorite film from within the past year: Before Midnight

[Spritedude]

Movies 30/30

Wolf of Wall Street - 9/10
Pulp Fiction - 10/10
Cat in the Hat - 3/10
Elysium - 8/10
Lone Survivor - 8.5/10
The Mask - 7/10
Pacific Rim - 7.5/10
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit - 6/10
Dredd - 8/10
Upstream Color - ?/10
Dallas Buyers Club - 9/10
Blackfish - 8/10
Labor Day - 5/10
Dumb and Dumber - 7/10
The Monuments Men - 6/10
Nacho Libre - 4/10
Fearless - 7/10
Robocop (2014) - 7.5/10
3 Days to Kill - 6/10
Alien Planet - 7.5/10
Schindler's List - 9/10
Non-Stop - 7.5/10
Insmonia - 7.5/10
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - 9/10
Shutter Island - 8/10
Gravity - 9.5/10
Memento - 10/10
The Usual Suspects - 9/10
The Crying Game - 7.5/10
Need For Speed - 7/10

Aaaand we're complete.

[Calamity Panfan]

Movies 35/30
Frozen - 1/3: A-
Space Jam - 1/5: C+ (Nostalgia Factor: A++)
Despicable Me 2 - 1/6: B
Face/Off - 1/7: B+
Man of Steel - 1/9: B-
Galaxy Quest - 1/14: B
How to Train Your Dragon - 1/16: A
American Pie Presents Band Camp - 1/23: F
Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines - 1/23: F
The Music Man (Robert Preston, not Matthew Broderick) - 1/26: A
End of Watch - 1/28: B+
Crazy Stupid Love - 1/31: B
xXx - 1/31: D+
Van Helsing 2/1: C-
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World - 2/1: A+
The Conjuring - 2/11: B
Pet Sematery - 2/11: D+
The Lego Movie - 2/15: B+
The Evil Dead 2 - 2/15: A-
The Hangover - 2/16: B
Haunter - 2/16: C+
Sleepy Hollow - 2/16: C+
Machine Gun Preacher - 2/21: C
Over the Top - 2/23: C-
Vision Quest - 2/23: C-
Trollhunter - 2/25: B+
I, Robot - 2/26: C+
Don Jon - 2/27: C
21 Jump Street - 3/1: A-
Up - 3/4: A+
Inglorious Basterds - 3/5: A
Vampires Suck - 3/5: D-
The Starving Games - 3/10: **** Everything
Gravity - 3/11: A
The Room - 3/14: A++++++++++++++

Favorite Film Overall: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Favorite Film First Viewing: Gravity
Favorite Film from Within the Year: Gravity
Least Favorite Film: The Starving Games

First viewing of The Room in 2014 and 29th viewing overall. I'm proud of myself. I'll probably hit 30 next week.

[Kargath]

33/30

The Starving Games: 3/10/14 To give this movie a grade even an F is an insult to the letter F as well as to the movies I've previously given F's to. I could at least sit through Wrong Turn 5 and American Pie Band Camp

I don't know if you can say that I actually "watched" this movie because I only made it through the first 20 minutes of this unbearable, inept piece of gutter trash. I have prided myself in my ability to sit through terrible movies. I've seen The Room 28 times. I've seen Thankskilling and Troll 2 well over 10 times apiece. I've seen Birdemic: Shock & Terror. I regularly search to find the worst movies I can. I even sat through the unwatchable mess that is The Last Airbender despite the fact that it was 100 minutes of taking a massive **** on one of the best cartoons of all time. I just couldn't do this. I've even seen previous Seltzer/Friedberg "comedies." I've seen Epic Movie and Vampires Suck. This is on a whole new level of ****ing atrocious. I don't know how someone can make a movie this bad and not feel shame afterwards. If I made this movie and watched it I don't think I could live with myself because I would have made this movie thinking that there is some person out there who is actually dumb enough to laugh at one single "joke" found in this thing. There are no standards for any jokes in this movie. Within the first ****ing ten seconds of this ****ing Frankenstein creature, the first Goddamn "joke" in the film, is the Gale character making "Katmiss" (Which I'm impressed that Seltzer and Friedberg aren't even clever enough to realize that they could've named the character "CAT PISS" IT'S LIKE THE EASIEST JOKE EVER AND YOU EVEN ****ED THAT UP) miss her shot with a bow and arrow and it hits Oz from Oz: The Great and Powerful because GET IT THAT WAS A POPULAR MOVIE. Harry Potter, Hermoine, and Ron show up because get it they're not supposed to be there their movie franchise is over. A character gives another character a high five but OH NO THE ONE GUY HAD A FAKE ARM AND THE HIGH FIVE TORE IT OFF OOPSIE POOPSIE ISN'T THAT A RIOT. **** this movie. **** everyone who was involved in the creation of this movie. Anyone who has the patience to actually sit through this ass-bomb deserves to be a saint in the Roman Catholic Church because watching this movie in full has to account for roughly ten gazillion miracles.

****.

Surely they must make money somehow? Perhaps it's just designed to be an ultra low budget flick to get a return from nearly any amount of viewers.

[Calamity Panfan]

^ Considering that I've seen Youtube videos with better special effects than that film, it is ultra low budget.

[CaptHayfever]

Movies: 27/30

Veronica Mars (15 Mar) - 9/10
My first theater visit of the year!

And remember, "I'm-a Luigi, number one!"

[b l a n k]

Surely they must make money somehow? Perhaps it's just designed to be an ultra low budget flick to get a return from nearly any amount of viewers.

I was thinking about PanFan's post and why Seltzer and Friedberg's mashup parodies don't work and why others' do. One critic summed it up best:

...spoof movies, as practiced by the cultural blight that is Seltzer-Friedberg, aren't just troubling from an aesthetic viewpoint. They're horrifying from a moral standpoint as well. The parody of the Zucker brothers and Mel Brooks is defined by love, knowledge, and appreciation: The Zucker brothers and Mel Brooks love, know, and appreciate the source material they're spoofing enough to get all the details perfect. The comedy of Seltzer-Friedberg, in sharp contrast, is defined by contempt: contempt for the attention span, intelligence, maturity, and frame of reference for the audience, and an even more raging contempt for the source material they're spoofing. Friedberg and Seltzer aren't writers; they're comic terrorists who cavalierly destroy what others create for their own ugly self-interest. Their success is entirely dependent on making comedy a dumber, crasser, less dignified place.

[Calamity Panfan]

^ I remember reading that. Is that from Rabin's Year/World of Flops or elsewhere?

[Softguitar]

Movies 10/30
A Beautiful Mind - 1/1/14 - 9/10
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 - 1/4/14 - 7/10
Don Jon - 1/7/14 - 6/10
Kiki's Delivery Service - 1/16/14 - 9/10
Frozen - 1/18/14 - 9/10
The Prestige - 1/25/14 - 9.5/10
Rush - 1/25/14 - 8.5/10
Prisoners - 2/1/14 - 8.5/10
The Lego Movie - 3/8/14 - 8.5/10
Rurouni Kenshin - 3/16/14 - 9/10

These are all movies I hadn't watched before. No point in bolding them.

Rurouni Kenshin was a good movie: good action scenes, drama... I watched Samurai X when I was little, but I don't remember a thing about it. However, I had the feeling a lot of parts of the manga /anime were left out in the movie. So I recommend reading the manga or watching the anime first to get to know the characters better. Although you don't really have to do that to enjoy the movie.

[b l a n k]

^ I remember reading that. Is that from Rabin's Year/World of Flops or elsewhere?

Right here: http://www.avclub.com/article/the-surre ... ther-91699

Also, up to 10/30:

Wordplay (Creadon, 2006), 1-2-14 – 10/10
Annie Hall (Allen, 1977), 1-13-14 – 586/10
Runaway Train (Konchalovsky, 1985), 1-23-14 – 6/10
Paul (Mottola, 2011), 1-24-14 – 6.5/10
Risky Business (Brickman, 1983), 2-15-14 – 8.5/10
The Bridge on the River Kwai (Lean, 1957), 2-22-14 – 10/10
Admission (Weitz, 2013), 2-24-14 – 5/10
The LEGO Movie (Lord and Miller, 2014), 3-2-14 – 11.5/10
Hitchcock (Gervaski, 2012), 3-4-14 – 7.5/10
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (Reiner, 1982), 3-16-14 – 8.5/10

Coincidentally, the last one is an example of a mashup parody that is, in fact, reverent and praiseful of the source material it's spoofing, and it's fun to see Steve Martin add his comic flair to an otherwise serious role.

[CaptHayfever]

^Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid was directed by Carl Reiner & came out in 1982.

And remember, "I'm-a Luigi, number one!"

[Calamity Panfan]

Movies 36/30
Frozen - 1/3: A-
Space Jam - 1/5: C+ (Nostalgia Factor: A++)
Despicable Me 2 - 1/6: B
Face/Off - 1/7: B+
Man of Steel - 1/9: B-
Galaxy Quest - 1/14: B
How to Train Your Dragon - 1/16: A
American Pie Presents Band Camp - 1/23: F
Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines - 1/23: F
The Music Man (Robert Preston, not Matthew Broderick) - 1/26: A
End of Watch - 1/28: B+
Crazy Stupid Love - 1/31: B
xXx - 1/31: D+
Van Helsing 2/1: C-
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World - 2/1: A+
The Conjuring - 2/11: B
Pet Sematery - 2/11: D+
The Lego Movie - 2/15: B+
The Evil Dead 2 - 2/15: A-
The Hangover - 2/16: B
Haunter - 2/16: C+
Sleepy Hollow - 2/16: C+
Machine Gun Preacher - 2/21: C
Over the Top - 2/23: C-
Vision Quest - 2/23: C-
Trollhunter - 2/25: B+
I, Robot - 2/26: C+
Don Jon - 2/27: C
21 Jump Street - 3/1: A-
Up - 3/4: A+
Inglorious Basterds - 3/5: A
Vampires Suck - 3/5: D-
The Starving Games - 3/10: **** Everything
Gravity - 3/11: A
The Room - 3/14: A++++++++++++++
The Ginger-Dead Man - 3/17: D ("so bad it's good" enjoyment factor, probably: B)

Favorite Film Overall: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Favorite Film First Viewing: Gravity
Favorite Film from Within the Year: Gravity
Least Favorite Film: The Starving Games

[Bomby]

Movies 17/30

-Tokyo Story - 6 January 2014 - A+
Elysium - 11 January 2014 - C+
Before Midnight - 18 January 2014 - A
Her - 19 January 2014 - A-
Poetry - 8 February 2014 - A+
Side by Side - 11 February 2014 - B
Following - 21 February 2014 - B-
Notorious - 23 February 2014 - A-
Actresses - 24 February 2014 - B+
Once Upon a Time in High School: The Spirit of Jeet Kune Do - 26 February 2014 - B-
-Rope - 2 March 2014 - A+
My Friend and His Wife - 4 March 2014 - B+
Beau Travail - 8 March 2014 - B
The Wind Rises - 18 March 2014 - B+
American Hustle - 19 March 2014 - B+
-The Godfather Part II - 20 March 2014 - A+
Strange Circus - 25 March 2014 - First 40 minutes gets an A, rest of the film gets a C-

Favorite film I've watched overall: Tokyo Story
Favorite film I've seen for the first time: Poetry
Favorite film from within the past year: Before Midnight

[Calamity Panfan]

Movies 39/30
Frozen - 1/3: A-
Space Jam - 1/5: C+ (Nostalgia Factor: A++)
Despicable Me 2 - 1/6: B
Face/Off - 1/7: B+
Man of Steel - 1/9: B-
Galaxy Quest - 1/14: B
How to Train Your Dragon - 1/16: A
American Pie Presents Band Camp - 1/23: F
Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines - 1/23: F
The Music Man (Robert Preston, not Matthew Broderick) - 1/26: A
End of Watch - 1/28: B+
Crazy Stupid Love - 1/31: B
xXx - 1/31: D+
Van Helsing 2/1: C-
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World - 2/1: A+
The Conjuring - 2/11: B
Pet Sematery - 2/11: D+
The Lego Movie - 2/15: B+
The Evil Dead 2 - 2/15: A-
The Hangover - 2/16: B
Haunter - 2/16: C+
Sleepy Hollow - 2/16: C+
Machine Gun Preacher - 2/21: C
Over the Top - 2/23: C-
Vision Quest - 2/23: C-
Trollhunter - 2/25: B+
I, Robot - 2/26: C+
Don Jon - 2/27: C
21 Jump Street - 3/1: A-
Up - 3/4: A+
Inglorious Basterds - 3/5: A
Vampires Suck - 3/5: D-
The Starving Games - 3/10: **** Everything
Gravity - 3/11: A
The Room - 3/14: A++++++++++++++
The Ginger-Dead Man - 3/17: D ("so bad it's good" enjoyment factor, probably: B)
The Ginger-Dead Man 2: Passion of the Crust - 3/18: D+
Turbo - 3/26: C
Super Troopers - 3/26: B

Favorite Film Overall: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Favorite Film First Viewing: Gravity
Favorite Film from Within the Year: Gravity
Least Favorite Film: The Starving Games

[Thanous]

oh no I wish I woulda seen this earlier! dangit I've watched so many movies this year! but I don't remember many of them :(
So I shall put what I remember and what I do from now on, some I don't remember the exact date of, but thank god that I post almost everything I watch on facebook

Movies 21/30
Escape from alcatraz-2/9-8.5/10
Computer chess- -5/10
Clerks-2/15-9.9/10
double dragon-1/25-7/10
bad news bears-1/18-9.5/10
pirates of the Caribbean-2/25-9/10
indiana jones and the temple of doom-2/22-7.5/10
Turbo-3/18-9/10
Skyfall-2/3-7/10
batman(66)- -11/10
change of heart-3/24-4/10
laqusha smith-3/24-6/10
wanted taste-3/24-7.2/10
airheads- -9/10
the truman show- -9/10
good burger- -9.5/10
the improv 10 years behind the brick wall- -7/10
holes- -8/10
zoolander-3/(12 or 19)-9/10
hot rod-3/(12 or 19)-8/10
guilt trip- -7/10

again, I've probably watched way more but just can't rememeber them and netflix only holds your 100 most recent views now so :/

and a question, are we counting comedy specials as movies? if so I'm in the hundreds by now

[Calamity Panfan]

^ I'd say the comedy special counts if it's a theatrical release. Like Eddie Murphy: Raw would count but not Jim Gaffigan: King Baby.