I'm planning on having a bit of a movie-going blitz over the course of the next few weeks so that I can get my numbers up at least into the modestly respectable forties. I haven't seen most of the Oscar-bait movies yet, so hopefully I'll be in for some good times at the cinema.
(Does anyone say "I'm going to the cinema" anymore? We should start saying "cinema" more often instead of just saying "movies.") ("Cinema" is just a much cooler word.)
Since I like lists, here's a quick list of the twenty-seven movies I saw at the movie theater in 2006. In no particular order:
- 3 Needles
- Annapolis
- Bobby
- Borat
- The Departed
- The Devil Wears Prada
- For Your Consideration
- Friends With Money
- Grandma's Boy
- Half Nelson
- John Tucker Must Die
- Last Holiday
- The Last Kiss
- Little Children
- Little Miss Sunshine
- Man of the Year
- The Omen
- The Pursuit of Happyness
- The Queen
- Slither
- Something New
- Step Up
- Stick It
- Superman Returns
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
- Tristan & Isolde
- World Trade Center
Movies high on my Must See List: (some are still in theaters and some are long gone and I'm mad that I missed my chance to see them on the big screen)
Babel, Brick, Casino Royale, Children of Men, The Covenant, The History Boys, Marie Antoinette, Notes on a Scandal, Shortbus, Snakes On a Plane (it was a victim of my own hype I guess...by the time it came out, I guess I wasn't clamoring to see it like I'd been months earlier), Stranger Than Fiction, United 93, We Are Marshall
Jan 1, 2007 Addendum: I saw a few more movies over the holidays:
28. Casino Royale
29. Night At The Museum
30. Rocky Balboa
31. We Are Marshall
9 comments:
I've only seen 9 on your list. Terrible. And I work in the Industry. I guess working too much...no time to see movies.
DAD
But dad, I'm sure you saw some movies this year that I didn't see. I mean, you saw more than nine movies this year. And some of the movies on my list are definitely NOT movies than anyone should have seen. I won't name names, but there were definitely a few major clunkers in there.
it makes me sad that You and I only saw one film together last year and it was fucking Last Holiday.
Jesse, that IS sad. We have to do better in 2007. However, in defense of Last Holiday--what the fuck with the "fucking" Last Holiday???? It was a great movie!
Can I implore you to make one of your to-see movies a higher priority? Please?
Stranger than Fiction.
And if you're just looking to drool over a nicely waxed body, go see Bond. What's-his-name is all like, my face is kinda fucked up but it's the hottest thing you've ever seen. And lots of really loud fast stuff happens.
Cheers,
Eleanor
For a list in no particular order, this one is startlingly alphabetical.
Eleanor, Stranger Than Fiction IS high on my list. The list isn't ordered by order of importance, it's in no particular order...
...except, okay, maybe Communicatrix is right and maybe it's alphabeticalish. But if so, that's totally a coincidence.
Urp, I like your use of the word "sorely," but you're wrong. The Queen was great.
And Eleanor's boobies.
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