So yes, I realized my "Recent Movies Watched" list was getting a little out of hand, so I decided to put an archive listing of the summer's films and respective ratings in a blogpost and refresh the list. Even I was surprised at the number of movies I've seen since I came home 5 1/2 months ago, but you know, if you're gone for two years, you have a little leeway to catch up. (Actual count is approximately 106, FYI, not counting the full seasons of TV shows also watched.)
Random statistics:So anyway, nothing new listed below, just a condensed version of the list that's been listed on the right since the end of March. This ought to clear up that sidebar quite nicely. Movies go in order from most recent to least recent seen, starting 24 March 2008, ending 25 August 2008.
Top Five:There are several which came close to making this list (such as Flushed Away, The Prestige, Ironman, to name a few), so they will receive Honorable Mention.
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Enchanted
- Hairspray
- Shaolin Soccer
- The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Bottom Five:The Golden Compass and The Da Vinci Code earn Dishonorable Mention for the bottom list.
- Spider-Man 3
- Return with Honor
- The Singles 2nd Ward
- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
- Happy Feet
Estimated hours spent watching movies: Too many to feel right about posting.
Poll results to the question, "Have I seen too many movies this summer?" were as follows (based on five votes):Number of "page downs" it took to scroll through the list: 4.
- YES! Good heav, do you do ANYTHING else??? - 1 vote (20%)
- No, that seems like a perfectly healthy amount of movie watching. - 3 votes (60%)
- It's all right, I guess, after all, you are catching up from two years of no movies whatsoever. - 1 vote (20%)
- I am absolutely ambivalent either way. - 0 votes (0%).
Kung Fu Panda **** / Charlotte's Web **** / The Last Mimzy ** / A Lot Like Love *** / Bridge to Terabithia **** / Failure to Launch ** / Apocalypto *** 1/2 / Pan's Labyrinth *** 1/2 / Happy Feet ** / Song of the South *** 1/2 / Freedom Writers *** / Rocky Balboa *** 1/2 / Casino Royale *** / August Rush **** / Déjà Vu *** 1/2 / Scoop ** 1/2 / 3:10 to Yuma *** / Poseidon *** / Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog **** / The Dark Knight ** 1/2 / American Dreamz ** 1/2 / Mamma Mia! **** / United 93 **** / The Other Boleyn Girl **** / The Guardian ** 1/2 / The Ultimate Gift ** 1/2 / Wall-E *** 1/2 / The Spiderwick Chronicles *** / Millions **** / Click **** / She's the Man *** 1/2 / Catch and Release ** / Evan Almighty **** / The Diving Bell and the Butterfly *** 1/2 / The Golden Compass ** / The Da Vinci Code ** / Persuasion (BBC) *** 1/2 / The Illusionist *** / Music and Lyrics *** 1/2 / The Nanny Diaries *** 1/2 / The Fox and the Hound 2 *** / Flushed Away **** / High School Musical 2 ** / The Invisible ** 1/2 / Disturbia *** / The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep *** 1/2 / Cinderella III: A Twist in Time *** 1/2 / LOST (Season 4) ***** / Brother Bear 2 ** 1/2 / No Reservations *** / Iron Man **** / Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull *** / P.S. I Love You *** / The Devil Wears Prada *** / Magic in the Water ** / Loch Ness *** / Lars and the Real Girl *** 1/2 / Becoming Jane *** 1/2 / The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian ***** / Nancy Drew *** / The Nativity Story **** / One Night with the King *** / I Am Legend *** / 27 Dresses *** 1/2 / Chaplin *** / Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End ** / Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest ** 1/2 / Mission: Impossible III **** / Ocean's Thirteen **** / Stranger Than Fiction **** / The Prestige **** 1/2 / World Trade Center ** 1/2 / All the King's Men *** / Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street *** 1/2 / Thumbarathon ***** / Nanny McPhee **** / 1408 (Director's Cut) ** 1/2 / Stardust ** 1/2 / Across the Universe *** / Miss Potter **** / Premonition *** 1/2 / Lady in the Water **** / The Holiday *** 1/2 / X-Men 3: The Last Stand **** 1/2 / Dan In Real Life **** / The Singles 2nd Ward * 1/2 / Return With Honor ** / My Boy Jack *** / The Pursuit of Happyness **** / Dreamgirls **** / Transformers *** 1/2 / Night at the Museum **** / Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed **** / Meet the Robinsons **** / Juno **** / Ratatouille ***** / 12 Monkeys *** / Fun with Dick and Jane *** 1/2 / Spider-Man 3 ** 1/2 / The Invasion **** / The Color Purple ** 1/2 / The Office (Season 3) ***** / LOST (Season 3) ***** / Shaolin Soccer ***** / Superman Returns **** / The Simpsons Movie **** / The Office (last half of Season 2) ***** / Hairspray ***** / LOST (last half of Season 2) ***** / Enchanted ***** / Nacho Libre *** / Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix *****
I will admit that the vote about watching too many movies was me. But it was just because it said "good heav" in the sentence. Glad that I could be a part of a lot of those! And here's to the next 100. Scrumps!
ReplyDeleteI think it's quite amusing that OOTP shared the top 5 with Shaolin Soccer. Don't get me wrong, I like Shaolin Soccer, it's crazy funny. But I'm surprised you put it on the same level as OOTP (as far as overall ratings go).
ReplyDeleteAnd it does make me cry a little that POTC:AWE shares the bottom with Happy Feet. So sad to see something I love coupled with something I despise. Hopefully I can get over it and we can still be friends.
I loves me some Shaolin Soccer. I need to see it again, it's probably been a few years (due to the extremely geeky people I hung out with in high school, I first saw this movie quite a while ago). Did you see it with subtitles? Those are one of the best parts! I'm also sad to see Pirates in your bottom five. I wouldn't expect it to be in the top, but not that far down. However, it seems you never liked the first one anyway.
ReplyDeleteYes, Control, it is a curious mix of Top 5, isn't it? I loved them both for very different reasons. And yes, I have seen it with the subtitles. My quest is to find Shaolin Soccer dubbed in Hmong (because it DOES exist, a companion of mine bought it at a Hmong tournament once... I looked and looked last Saturday, but no luck.) And I mostly drew my top and bottom five based on the ratings I had given them previously.
ReplyDeleteAnd I am sorry indeed to you Pirates fans... In fact, I'm REALLY sorry because of the pain I was in during those movies (ZING!). It's true, Mandy, I never have been much of a PotC fan, but I had hopes the next two would impress me more. Alas.
Wait, I said that?
ReplyDeleteYes, I once mentioned I was going to do a blogpost called this, and you said that as a joke in response, because it just sounded like so many movies when you say it that way.
ReplyDeleteHa ha, at first, I thought you were starting your bottom two by saying Ironman and the Prestige get honorable mentions, and I was about to question your brains, but now I see what you mean. Yes, I completely agree with your top 5 and bottom. Though, a couple out there i would mix up the ratings a bit. Have you seen March of the Penguins yet? That is a good one. Stupid Happy Feet...
ReplyDeleteYes, I saw March of the Penguins in theaters when it was still new. I quite liked it, and was satisfactorily distraught during the harsh winter scenes of laying on eggs and whatnot. 1000X better than that stupid Happy Feet.
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