The Movie Post - 2011

I like to keep track of things during the year and two of my major non-cooking hobbies are movies and books – both of which lend themselves to list making.  I keep lists of these things throughout the year so I can see what I’ve seen and read and I figured I’d share those lists here as a Fun Thing To Do at the end of the year.  I know it’s not quite the end of the year, but it’s unlikely that I’ll finish another book or see another movie.  If you’re curious about the movies, click the link to read more!

Movies
I live with a cinephile (Lance) so he and I see quite a few movies during the year.  We’re lucky enough to live near a major metropolitan area so we have access to a great little theater that shows limited releases as well as a great huge theater that shows things in IMAX.  We’ve also got a crummy local theater which we utilize for everything else.  (We do have a brand-new theater being built less than 10 minutes away from the house, so that will be a happy day when it is completed!)

A few years ago we decided to watch all of IMDB’s top 250 movies and, once we finished that (it took about 2 years – we finished early this year) we moved on to watching all of the Best Picture and Best Foreign Picture Oscar nominated movies.  We’re still working on that project but it’s been slow going this year due to other commitments.  We’ve made it to around the C’s.  (The IMDB list changes from month to month, so we check for new movies every month and add those to our “to watch” list.) 

Theater movies in bold are ones that I particularly enjoyed. 

Theater Movies
1    The King’s Speech
2    The Fighter
3    Season of the Witch
4    Country Strong
5    The Green Hornet IMAX 3D
6    The Rite
7    The Mechanic
8    The Roommate
9    Biutiful
10    The Company Men
11    Unknown
12    I Am Number Four
13    Drive Angry 3D
14    Beastly
15    127 Hours
16    The Adjustment Bureau
17    Rango
18    Battle LA
19    Red Riding Hood
20    Limitless
21    The Lincoln Lawyer
22    Sucker Punch IMAX
23    Jane Eyre
24    Insidious
25    Source Code
26    Hanna
27    Rio 3D
28    Scream 4
29    In a Better World
30    The Conspirator
31    Water for Elephants
32    Fast Five
33    The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
34    Thor 3D
35    Priest 3D
36    Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
37    X-Men: First Class
38    Kung Fu Panda 2 3D
39    Super 8
40    Green Lantern 3D
41    The Tree of Life
42    Beginners
43    Transformers: Dark of the Moon IMAX 3D
44    Cars 2
45    Horrible Bosses
46    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
47    Captain America: The First Avenger
48    Winnie the Pooh
49    Cowboys & Aliens
50    Rise of the Planet of the Apes
51    The Devil’s Double

52    The Future
53    Another Earth
54    Conan
55    The Help
56    Fright Night
57    30 Minutes or Less
58    The Debt
59    Colombiana
60    Apollo 18
61    Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark
62    Contagion
63    Drive
64    Straw Dogs
65    Killer Elite
66    Moneyball
67    Abduction
68    Dream House
69    Real Steel
70    The Thing
71    Ides of March
72    The Three Musketeers
73    Take Shelter
74    Margin Call
75    In Time

76    Anonymous
77    Puss in Boots
78    J. Edgar
79    Immortals
80    The Muppets
81    Martha Marcy May Marlene
82    My Week with Marilyn

83    Hugo
84    The Descendents
85    The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1
86    A Dangerous Method
87    Shame
88    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
89    Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
90    The Artist
91    Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol IMAX
92    The Adventures of Tintin

Home Movies with Lance
1    LotR: The Two Towers (extended)
2    LotR: Return of the King (extended)
3    Laura
4    In the Heat of the Night
5    Great Expectations
6    La Dolce Vita
7    Rocky
8    Harold and Maude
9    Good Will Hunting
10    Planet of the Apes
11    Barry Lyndon
12    My Man Godfrey
13    Mou gaan dou
14    Sleuth
15    Safety Last!
16    XXX
17    Sherlock Jr.
18    Mary and Max
19    Ikiru
20    The Secret in Their Eyes
21    Monsters
22    Frost/Nixon
23    The Passion of Joan of Arc
24    Fanny and Alexander
25    Battle Royale
26    The Celebration
27    Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
28    Megamind
29    My Neighbor Totoro
30    Castle in the Sky
31    Winter’s Bone
32    How to Train Your Dragon
33    Red Dragon
34    Persona
35    Three Colors: Blue
36    Three Colors: White
37    Three Colors: Red
38    The 400 Blows
39    Scream
40    Scream 2
41    Scream 3
42    Best in Show
43    Insomnia
44    Evangelion 1.11 You Are (Not) Alone
45    In the Mood for Love
46    Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring
47    The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
48    Howl’s Moving Castle
49    A Christmas Story
50    Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
51    Rain Man
52    An Education
53    Tropic Thunder
54    Evangelion 2.22 You Can (Not) Advance
55    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
56    The Girl Who Played with Fire
57    The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
58    Before Sunrise
59    Before Sunset
60    12
61    Heavenly Creatures
62    A Few Good Men
63    Working Girl
64    A Passage to India
65    A Place in the World
66    The Verdict
67    Hulk
68    The Incredible Hulk
69    Stone
70    Gosford Park
71    A Prophet
72    A Soldier’s Story
73    A Room with a View
74    All Things Fair
75    All About My Mother
76    After the Wedding
77    Easy A
78    Grand Illusion
79    Antonia’s Line
80    Angry Harvest
81    Apollo 13
82    As Good As It Gets
83    Ajami
84    Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgandy
85    Atlantic City
86    As It Is in Heaven
87    Awakenings
88    Atonement
89    Tokyo Story
90    Ip Man
91    Rubber
92    The Thin Red Line
93    Babe
94    Babel
95    Babette’s Feast
96    Beaufort
97    Betty Blue
98    Dodgeball
99    Pinchcliffe Grand Prix
100    Before the Rain
101    Beyond Silence
102    Stalker
103    Broadcast News
104    Born on the Fourth of July
105    Trollhunter
106    Brokeback Mountain
107    Bugsy
108    Interview with the Vampire
109    Burnt by the Sun
110    Camila
111    In the Mouth of Madness
112    Vanishing on 7th Street
113    Carmen
114    Central Station
115    Camille Claudel
116    Character
117    The Brothers Bloom
118    Sherlock Holmes (the bad straight to video one)
119    Series 7: The Contenders
120    A Beautiful Mind
121    Red State
122    The Social Network
123    Requiem for a Dream
124    Akira
125    Chariots of Fire
126    Red

Movies without Lance
1    This Film is Not Yet Rated
2    The Constant Gardener
3    Fed Up!
4    Ingredients
5    Case 39
6    The Good Son
7    The Girl Next Door
8    Toxic Skies
9    2012 Ice Age
10    Resident Evil
11    The Warrior’s Way
12    How the Grinch Stole Christmas