Movie Lists 2017 • Page 3

100. The Homesman (Tommy Lee Jones, 2014)
101. The Long Kiss Goodnight (Renny Harlin, 1996)*
102. The Darkness (Greg McLean, 2016)
103. The Lazarus Effect (David Gelb, 2015)
104. Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse (Christopher B. Landon, 2015)
105. Bone Tomahawk (S. Craig Zahler, 2015)
106. Grandma (Paul Weitz, 2015)

 

Dude, that movie is ssssoooooooo fucking good! Definitely on my Top 10 of that year!

 

Yeah it was good.

 

Have you seen any of Tommy Lee Jones' other directorial efforts? The man is top tier!

 

No though I thought he only directed one other film?

 

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada is his other theatrical effort. He also directed a movie for HBO called The Sunset Limited, based on a play by Cormac McCarthy.

As I understand it, he also owns the rights to McCarthy's Blood Meridian and has been trying to make a movie out of it for years now.

 

I think it's really fascinating how often you seem to opt to rewatch a film instead of watch something new. Is it a comfort thing? Or do you obtain all your stuff legally and so it's harder to watch stuff you don't own? Do you prefer to reconsider films from your past you haven't seen in a while?

 

More often than not, it's just because I'm doing other stuff at the time. I work or scroll through the internet and it works well as background noise. Since I've seen the movie already before, I'm able to get a good idea of what's going on by listening.

For new movies, I have to basically just watch it without missing anything.

 

107. Florence Foster Jenkins (Stephen Frears, 2016)
108. Monster House (Gil Kenan, 2006)*
109. Straight Time (Ulu Grosbard, 1978)
110. Witness (Peter Weir, 1985)*
111. In the Heart of the Sea (Ron Howard, 2015)
112. Central Intelligence (Rawson Marshall Thurber, 2016)
113. Finding Dory (Andrew Stanton, 2016)
114. Don’t Breathe (Fede Alvarez, 2016)

 

Really proud of myself for making so much time this past month to watch movies. I think it's the most I've ever watched in one month in my life. Looking forward to more

 

Still hoping I'm going to crack 200 new movies in one year one of these days. That said, I'm getting ready to sell my TV, so probably not this year!

 

Everything new I saw in March...

29.) Ouija: Origin of Evil (Mike Flanagan, 2016)
30.) Logan (James Mangold, 2017)
31.) Straw Dogs (Sam Peckinpah, 1971)
32.) Lenny (Bob Fosse, 1974)
33.) You Can Count on Me (Kenneth Lonergan, 2000)
34.) My Life as a Zucchini (Claude Barras, 2017)
35.) American Pastoral (Ewan McGregor, 2016)
36.) The Blair Witch Project (Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sanchez, 1999)
37.) Kong: Skull Island (Jordan Vogt-Robets, 2017)
38.) Beauty and the Beast (Christophe Gans, 2016)
39.) Bridget Jones' Diary (Sharon Maguire, 2001)
40.) Beauty and the Beast (Bill Condon, 2017)
41.) Power Rangers (Dean Israelite, 2017)
42.) T2: Trainspotting (Danny Boyle, 2017)
43.) The Graduate (Mike Nichols, 1967)
44.) Song to Song (Terrence Malick, 2017)
45.) Eden of the East: The King of Eden (Kenji Kamiyama, 2009)
46.) Eden of the East: Paradise Lost (Kenji Kamiyama, 2010)
47.) Wilson (Craig Johnson, 2017)
48.) Ghost in the Shell (Rupert Sanders, 2017)
49.) The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson, 2004)

 

115. The Lone Ranger (Gore Verbinski, 2013)
116. The Mule (Tony Mahony, 2014)
117. Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese, 1973)
118. The Take (James Watkins, 2016)
119. High Plains Drifter (Clint Eastwood, 1973)
120. The Presidio (Peter Hyams, 1988)
121. Doctor Strange (Scott Derrickson, 2016)
122. Trumbo (Jay Roach, 2015)

 

Gotta admit, I've got a soft spot for that one!

 

It was practically 150 mins of torture.

 

I saw Little Miss Sunshine in a theater tonight with a big crowd and it was awesome.

 

That is awesome

 

Totally opposite end of the spectrum, but man what I wouldn't give to see Aliens again for the first time in a crowded theater!

 

Sometimes I wonder if, when it comes to classic films like this that I haven't seen, I should wait with the hope that it'll come to the independent theatre in town and I'll really get the full experience. Eraserhead is playing on Saturday, for example

 

Haven't seen Eraserhead, so I can't attest to that. But I dunno, that's a valid question.

I would normally say it probably shouldn't matter that much, just watch the movies you wanna watch. Then again, living in LA and having revival movie screenings on the regular lends a unique flip to it. I suppose it oughtn't affect your view of a film's quality, but rather, should be a unique 'experience.'

Midnight Run is a great movie, but seeing it for the first time with a crowd was a memorable experience. Same with Blue Velvet, The Devils, and Year of the Dragon (which is a PERFECT grindhouse movie!)

 

That was just at a theater 20 minutes from me, but I couldn't make it! I watched it recently for the first time and thought it was AMAZING.

 

Saw both Alien and Aliens in a double bill at my local theater not long ago.

 

123. The Relic (Peter Hyams, 1997)
124. Blue Jasmine (Woody Allen, 2013)
125. Predators (Nimród Antal, 2010)*
126. Narrow Margin (Peter Hyams, 1990)*
127. Get Out (Jordan Peele, 2017)
128. Apollo 13 (Ron Howard, 1995)
129. Bugsy (Barry Levinson, 1991)
130. Terminal Velocity (Deran Sarafian, 1994)*
131. Sudden Death (Peter Hyams, 1995)*

 

Haven't been keeping track of all the movies that I've rewatched this year, so here's all of the ones of seen that have been released this year. (Already on track to watch more than the 65 that were released in 2016.)

1. Bright Lights
2. Underworld: Blood Wars
3. Split
4. The LEGO Batman Movie
5. John Wick: Chapter 2
6. Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
7. XX
8. Fist Fight
9. Logan
10. Get Out
11. Kong: Skull Island
12. Beauty and the Beast
13. Power Rangers
14. Life

 

132. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (David Yates, 2016)
133. The Shallows (Jaume Collet-Serra, 2016)
134. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Peter Weir, 2003)*
135. Solace (Afonso Poyart, 2015)
136. Awakenings (Penny Marshall, 1990)
137. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson, 2001)*
138. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Peter Jackson, 2002)*
139. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson, 2003)