Top 10 Films First Seen During 2014

[Spun Lepton]

You know the drill, folks.

[Spun Lepton]

1. 48 Hours (Hill, 1982) (7/10)
2. Duplex (DeVito, 2003) (4/10)

[Gizmo]

haha! I had a goal last year of 150, and got 52, though I watched a lot of Netflix tv series, and now I'm pretty much caught up there with everything I've been dying to see. So This year my goal is 1 film for every 2 days, or 182. So far I've got 3 in 5 days, but I've also been off work 4 of the 5 days of the new year, and that's about to change after tomorrow.

[Lazlo]

1. The Wolf of Wall Street
2. Saving Mr. Banks

[MadMan]

1. Dressed To Kill (1980, Brian De Palma)

[baby doll]

• A Dog's Life (Charles Chaplin, 1918)
• Sylvia Scarlett (George Cukor, 1935)
• Five Women Around Utamaro (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1946)
• Seppuku (Masaki Kobayashi, 1962)
• Days of '36 (Theo Angelopoulos, 1972)
• Il fiore delle mille e una notte (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1974)
• Love Streams (John Cassavetes, 1984)
• Highway Patrolman (Alex Cox, 1991)
• To Live (Zhang Yimou, 1994)
• Mysteries of Lisbon (Raúl Ruiz, 2010) [272 minute version]

[Scar]

1. Carrie (2013) Eh, her pupils dilating were a nice touch. Not required viewing, but not horrible.

[Dukefrukem]

1. Primer
2. Upstream Color
3. Insidious: Chapter 2
4. Hangover III

[Spun Lepton]

1. Lovelace
2. 48 Hours
3. Duplex

[Dead & Messed Up]

1. The World's End

On the map!

[kuehnepips]

1. Shallow Grave - 1994, Boyle
2. The Hobbit, Desolation of Smaug

[Spun Lepton]

The Road
Lovelace
48 Hours
Duplex

[Spun Lepton]

----10
----09
----08
The Road
Lovelace
48 Hours
----07
----06
The Last Stand
Duplex
----05
----04
----03
----02
----01

[Scar]

1. Lone Survivor (2013)
2. Carrie (2013)

[Melville]

Everything great I've seen so far:

1. The Hired Hand
2. The Defiant Ones
3. Another Year
4. The Man with the Golden Arm
5. Serpico
6. Jezebel
7. White Material
8. Slacker

[Yxklyx]

Everything great I've seen so far:

1. The Hired Hand
2. The Defiant Ones
3. Another Year
4. The Man with the Golden Arm
5. Serpico
6. Jezebel
7. White Material
8. Slacker

Slacker...so low...

Loved Darren McGavin in TMWTGA - and of course Sinatra was awesome.

[Melville]

Slacker...so low...

Loved Darren McGavin in TMWTGA - and of course Sinatra was awesome.

I liked Slacker a lot. That's number 8 out of about 30.

Yeah, Sinatra was great. I liked all the performances, but I especially liked Sinatra's wife, and how her attachment to her crippled state mirrored Sinatra's attachment to heroin and all-night gambling. Self-destructive, desperate characters ftw.

[Dead & Messed Up]

1. The World's End (Edgar Wright, 2013)
2. Inside Llewyn Davis (The Coens, 2013)
3. The Battery (Jeremy Gardner, 2013)
4. The Hobbit: The Mehsolation of Smaug (Peter Jackson, 2013)

[Spun Lepton]

1. The Hobbit: The Mehsolation of Smaug (Peter Jackson, 2013)

(a.k.a.) The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smehg

[Scar]

1. Lone Survivor (2013)
2. Carrie (2013)
3. Machete Kills (2013) Ooof. Entrails into helicopter blade was cool, and I enjoyed Mel, but, oof, not quality.

[Ivan Drago]

1. Nebraska (Alexander Payne, 2013)
2. Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2013)

I feel bad looking back at my 2013 list, which I didn't even bother to update after baby doll called me out on the fact that I saw very few older films. But this year, I'm going to make an effort to see more older movies. I know I'm off to a good start already, but that's only because I want to catch up on the Oscar nominees...that, and newer movies are all I've had time to see recently. But rest assured, I'll do my best to see more classics!

[baby doll]

1. Nebraska (Alexander Payne, 2013)
2. Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2013)

I feel bad looking back at my 2013 list, which I didn't even bother to update after baby doll called me out on the fact that I saw very few older films. But this year, I'm going to make an effort to see more older movies. I know I'm off to a good start already, but that's only because I want to catch up on the Oscar nominees...that, and newer movies are all I've had time to see recently. But rest assured, I'll do my best to see more classics!

That's why I'm here: to guilt you into watching better movies.

[Spun Lepton]

----10
----09
----08
The Road (Hillcoat; 2009)
Lovelace (Epstein, Friedman; 2013)
48 Hours (Hill; 1982)
----07
----06
The Last Stand (Jee-Woon, 2013)
Duplex (DeVito; 2003)
----05
Futureworld (Heffron; 1976)
----04
----03
----02
----01

[Gizmo]

1. Nebraska (Alexander Payne, 2013)
2. Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2013)

I feel bad looking back at my 2013 list, which I didn't even bother to update after baby doll called me out on the fact that I saw very few older films. But this year, I'm going to make an effort to see more older movies. I know I'm off to a good start already, but that's only because I want to catch up on the Oscar nominees...that, and newer movies are all I've had time to see recently. But rest assured, I'll do my best to see more classics!

Meh, I watch more newer stuff, probably a 5 to 1 ratio, because it's fresher in my mind, easier to converse about with "real people" and even online (try adding a comment in here about a 2010 film you just saw, for example. Good luck finding other conversation about it in the 28 Film Discussions later thread, or an individual thread for the film where your comment isn't the first in the last 2 years, and won't be the last for the next 2.)

Classics are great, but I feel I've seen most of the ones that I should have (minus the man with no name trilogy, in my case), so any others could be hit or miss, and again something you're watching just to have seen, not share conversation and, outside of film forums/clubs, mutual appreciation/enjoyment.

I find it easier to watch a crappy spoof film that I know is garbage, but relates to my time, than a talky dramatic classic from 1953. I'm not saying it's a better film, but it's easier for me to watch. I guess that goes into me having a family with 2 young girls too, because I rarely have undistracted viewing chances except in the middle of the night, where a slow drama is just as likely to put me to sleep as it is to keep me engaged for ~2 hours.

What I'm saying, I guess, is watch what you want when you want and don't worry about what people here think. You may not watch many old films, but if they're quality, they'll find their way onto your top 10 of the year, and if they're not, they won't.

[baby doll]

Meh, I watch more newer stuff, probably a 5 to 1 ratio, because it's fresher in my mind, easier to converse about with "real people" and even online (try adding a comment in here about a 2010 film you just saw, for example. Good luck finding other conversation about it in the 28 Film Discussions later thread, or an individual thread for the film where your comment isn't the first in the last 2 years, and won't be the last for the next 2.)

Classics are great, but I feel I've seen most of the ones that I should have (minus the man with no name trilogy, in my case), so any others could be hit or miss, and again something you're watching just to have seen, not share conversation and, outside of film forums/clubs, mutual appreciation/enjoyment.

I find it easier to watch a crappy spoof film that I know is garbage, but relates to my time, than a talky dramatic classic from 1953. I'm not saying it's a better film, but it's easier for me to watch. I guess that goes into me having a family with 2 young girls too, because I rarely have undistracted viewing chances except in the middle of the night, where a slow drama is just as likely to put me to sleep as it is to keep me engaged for ~2 hours.

What I'm saying, I guess, is watch what you want when you want and don't worry about what people here think. You may not watch many old films, but if they're quality, they'll find their way onto your top 10 of the year, and if they're not, they won't.

I gave up talking to "real" people about movies years ago. It's a total waste of time, so I just try to avoid the subject altogether. In any case, I still prefer watching films to talking or writing about them, and since I live alone I can watch all the slow and/or talky movies I like. (Speaking of 2010 movies, I just got Dogtooth on Blu Ray--fuck yeah!) Furthermore, far from having exhausted more than one hundred years of world cinema, I feel like I'm just getting started considering how many films I still haven't seen by Theo Angelopoulos, Sam Fuller, Miklós Jancsó, Kenji Mizoguchi, Satyajit Ray, and Ousmane Sembène just to name a few.