only including things i saw for the first time. bolded are ones I liked a lot 1. Anna Karenina (Joe Wright, 2012) 2. Elephant (Gus Van Sant, 2003) 3. Finding Forrester (Gus Van Sant, 2000) 4. Titanic (James Cameron, 1997) 5. The Notebook (Nick Cassavetes, 2004) 6. A Walk to Remember (Adam Shankman, 2002) 7. The Matrix (The Wachowskis, 1999) 8. Trust (David Schwimmer, 2010) 9. Beauty and the Beast (Bill Condon, 2017) 10. Baby Driver (Edgar Wright, 2017) 11. Sicario (Denis Villeneuve, 2015) 12. Arrival (Denis Villeneuve, 2016) 13. La La Land (Damien Chazelle, 2016) 14. Duerme Mi Niña, or Mother Don't Make Me Cry (David Wilson, 2017) 15. Ashen Light, or The Kingdom of God is Within You (David Wilson, 2013) 16. Book of Wisdom and Lies, or The Wisdom of Lies (David Wilson, 2011) 17. The Glass Castle (Destin Daniel Cretton, 2017) 18. Jane Eyre (Robert Young, 1997) 19. Jane Eyre (Franco Zeffirilli, 1996) 20. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch, 1992) 21. Call Me By Your Name (Luca Guadagnino, 2017) 22. Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig, 2017) 23. Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Rian Johnson, 2017) 24. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (Gareth Edwards, 2016) 25. The Imitation Game (Mortem Tyldum, 2014) 26. Fight Club (David Fincher, 1999) 27. The Edge of Seventeen (Kelly Fremon Craig, 2016) 28. Captain Fantastic (Matt Ross, 2016) edit: holy shit y'all watch a lot of movies
462. The Stunt Man (Richard Rush, 1980) 463. Fist Fight (Richie Keen, 2017) 464. Byzantium (Neil Jordan, 2012) 465. Uncommon Valor (Ted Kotcheff, 1983) 466. Midnight Run (Martin Brest, 1988)* 467. The Terminal (Steven Spielberg, 2004) 468. Life (Daniel Espinosa, 2017)
45. The Founder (John Lee Hancock, 2016) 46. The Big Sick (Michael Showalter, 2017) 47. IT (Andy Muschietti, 2017) 48. Selena (Gregory Nava, 1997) 49. Minority Report (Steven Spielberg, 1997) 50. Spielberg (Susan Lacy, 2017) 51. Spielberg (Susan Lacy, 2017) 52. Baby Driver (Edgar Wright, 2017) 53. War for the Planet of the Apes (Matt Reeves, 2017) 54. Thor: Ragnorak (Taika Waititi, 2017) 55. Thor: Ragnorak (Taika Waititi, 2017) 56. I Don't Feel At Home In This World Anymore (Macon Blair, 2017) 57. Wind River (Taylor Sheridan, 2017) 58. Wonder Woman (Patty Jenkins, 2017) 59. Brigsby Bear (Dave McCary, 2017) 60. The Polar Express (Robert Zemeckis, 2004) 61. Trolls (Mike Mitchell, Walt Dohrn, 2016) 62. Ingrid Goes West (Matt Spicer, 2017) 63. Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Rian Johnson, 2017)
469. Home Alone (Chris Columbus, 1990)* 470. Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (Chris Columbus, 1992) 471. Die Hard (John McTiernan, 1988)* 472. The Muppet Christmas Carol (Brian Henson, 1992) 473. MouseHunt (Gore Verbinski, 1997)* 474. Gattaca (Andrew Niccol, 1997) 475. The Wall (Doug Liman, 2017) 476. In the Loop (Armando Iannucci, 2009) 477. Escape to Athena (George P. Cosmatos, 1979) 478. Robbery (Peter Yates, 1967) 479. The Red Turtle (Michael Dudok de Wit, 2016) 480. The Poseidon Adventure (Ronald Neame, 1972)*
64. Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Rian Johnson, 2017) 65. Speed (Jan de Bont, 1994) I'm going to blame my Switch for the lack of movie watching this year. Hoping MoviePass is a game changer for 2018. 2009: 300 2010: 270 2011: 155 2012: 100 2013: 105 2014: 90 2015: 110 2016: 90 2017: 65 Don't know how I managed so many when I started. Shooting for 100+ in 2018.
Everything I finished out the year with... 172.) Death Sentence (James Wan, 2007) 173.) Last Flag Flying (Richard Linklater, 2017) 174.) Mudbound (Dee Rees, 2017) 175.) Child's Play (Tom Holland, 1988) 176.) The Disaster Artist (James Franco, 2017) 177.) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Terry Gilliam, 1998) 178.) Deep Blue Sea (Renny Harlin, 1999) 179.) Silent Hill (Christophe Gans, 2006) 180.) Star Wars - Episode VIII: The Last Jedi (Rian Johnson, 2017) 181.) Rare Exports (Jalmari Helander, 2011) 182.) The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2017) 183.) The Square (Ruben Östlund, 2017) 184.) Brigsby Bear (Dave McCary, 2017) 185.) Kedi (Ceyda Torun, 2017) 186.) It (Andy Muschietti, 2017) 187.) Monster (Patty Jenkins, 2004) 188.) The Hustler (Robert Rossen, 1961) 189.) Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola, 2006) 190.) Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (Jake Kasdan, 2017) 191.) Downsizing (Alexander Payne, 2017) 192.) All the Money in the World (Ridley Scott, 2017)
Still wanting to see a couple other 'Oscar contender' movies before committing to it, but a rough top 10 so far... Your Name (MOTY for year, for sure) The LEGO Batman Movie Get Out Buster's Mal Heart Spider-Man: Homecoming The Big Sick Detroit Coco The Disaster Artist Brigsby Bear Honorable Mentions to... The LEGO Ninjago Movie - because the ending made me cry. Yes, really. mother! - For the last 40 mins, which cement Aronofsky's place the master of sensory overload.
This was the first year I really took movies seriously and followed the scene, and I love being able to look back at each movie on my list and remember exactly where I was and what I was feeling when I watched it. There were a few weeks in March and April where I was watching like four a day on top of going to school. I thankfully didn't keep that up so I'm surprised I watched as many as 333 movies this year: 99 movies from 2017, 28 from the 1980s, 20 from the 1990s, 115 horror movies, 66 drama movies, 46 comedies, 34 documentaries.. All but 44 were first-time watches, 37 were in theatres, and I watched 14 movies twice. Neato