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I watched exactly 100 films in 2007, including a real push to watch 'notable' films - those that you're supposed to watch but don't necessarily want to. Some of them I couldn't see what the fuss was about, but some of them fully deserved their status as 'classic'.
A Few Good Men - 8/10
A Prairie Home Companion - 7/10
Adam's Rib - 5/10
Almost Famous - 8/10
Amadeus - 6/10
An American in Paris - 6/10
An Inconvenient Truth - 8/10
Babel - 6/10
Best in Show - 5/10
Bobby - 7/10
Bride of Frankenstein - 6/10
Capote - 7/10
Casino - 5/10
Children of Men - 9/10
Chocolat - 7/10
Clerks II - 5/10
Collateral - 5/10
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind - 5/10
Crash - 8/10
Dreamgirls - 8/10
Finding Nemo - 8/10
For Your Consideration - 4/10
Frankenstein - 5/10
Friday Night Lights - 8/10
From Here to Eternity - 5/10
Ghost Busters - 7/10
Happy Feet - 5/10
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - 8/10
Hitch - 7/10
Hot Fuzz - 8/10
Infamous - 6/10
Inside Man - 7/10
It Happened One Night - 5/10
JFK - 6/10
Jurassic Park - 8/10
Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World - 5/10
Kill Bill Vol. 1 - 4/10
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - 8/10
Lady in the Water - 4/10
Little Miss Sunshine - 8/10
Lord of the Rings 1: Fellowship of the Ring - 9/10
Lord of the Rings 2: The Two Towers - 9/10
Lord of the Rings 3: The Return of the King - 8/10
Marie Antoinette - 4/10
Memoirs of a Geisha - 6/10
Midnight Cowboy - 6/10
Miss Potter - 6/10
Monsters, Inc. - 8/10
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House - 6/10
Music and Lyrics - 7/10 | My Beautiful Laundrette - 5/10
My Fair Lady - 6/10
Network - 4/10
Night at the Museum - 5/10
Ocean's Eleven - 8/10
Ocean's Twelve - 5/10
On the Waterfront - 5/10
One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing - 7/10
One Fine Day - 6/10
Pan's Labyrinth (El Laberinto del Fauno) - 7/10
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End - 8/10
Practical Magic - 8/10
Remains of the Day - 5/10
Schindler's List - 8/10
Se7en - 8/10
Shrek 2 - 7/10
Shrek the Third - 4/10
Smokey and the Bandit - 7/10
Snakes on a Plane - 5/10
Spider-Man 3 - 4/10
Sunshine - 4/10
Superman Returns - 4/10
Syriana - 8/10
Taxi Driver - 4/10
The Big Sleep - 7/10
The Birdcage - 8/10
The Black Dahlia - 6/10
The Break-Up - 4/10
The Departed - 7/10
The Devil Wears Prada - 6/10
The English Patient - 7/10
The French Connection - 5/10
The Fountain - 4/10
The History Boys - 8/10
The Lake House - 5/10
The Last Emperor - 6/10
The Money Pit - 7/10
The Odd Couple - 5/10
The Pianist - 8/10
The Prestige - 8/10
The Pursuit of Happyness - 6/10
The Queen - 6/10
The Sound of Music - 7/10
Top Gun - 5/10
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines - 5/10
Transformers - 8/10
Venus - 6/10
Walk the Line - 8/10
West Side Story - 4/10
While You Were Sleeping - 7/10 |
By the numbers
100 films in total
80 (ish) films that were new to me
63 films via LoveFilm (really getting my money's worth from unlimited dvds, one at a time)
47 films I consider good
40 films I consider mediocre
22 from imdb's top 250 (as of Jan 3rd 2007)
16 Oscar winners
13 Films I consider bad
12 2007 films - Babel, Dreamgirls, Harry Potter, Hot Fuzz, Infamous, Music and Lyrics, Shrek the Third, Spider-Man 3, Sunshine, The Fountain, The Pursuit of Happyness, Transformers
11 films from the old American Film Institute top 100 films
9 Films off the new American Film Institute top 100 films
8 films seen in the cinema
5 films each featuring Sandra Bullock (something of a rom com phase in the middle helped by Infamous), Cate Blanchett (3 Lord of the Rings, doing nothing in Babel and apparently she was in Hot Fuzz...), George Clooney (predictable), Brad Pitt (also predictable)
1 film with William H. Macy - that's rather poor
Best film
Sometimes my ratings don't quite work and I end up thinking the best film of the year is something that gets better the longer I think about it, this year, I think I'll go with the the only new 9/10 rated film this year. Children of Men. I really enjoyed watching it; an interesting story well acted and beautifully directed that had me fascinated from the very beginning.
Worst film
There are 13 films I rated 4/10 so it would seem I don't have a very good grasp of rating bad films. Looking at my reviews, many are rated bad for missed opportunities or the fact that I just didn't get it. I think the Worst Film Award has to go to Lady in the Water however, for a review that starts "What an awful, awful film!"
Miscellaneous Awards:
Does What It Says on the Tin Award: Transformers
Best Comeback Award- Al Gore, Inconvenient Truth
Surprisingly Good Award - Dreamgirls
Taking the Piss AND Being Funny Award - Hot Fuzz, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Everyone Should Watch Even if They Don't Want To Award: Schindler's List
Immediately Want to Watch It Again Award - The Prestige
How To Do A Complex Plot Without Making Me Fall Asleep Award - Syriana
How NOT To Do A Complex Plot Without Making Me Fall Asleep Award - The Fountain
Film that Doesn't Do As You expect Award - Friday Night Lights
Aw Aren't They Lovely Rom-Com Couple Award - Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore in Music and Lyrics
You Should Know Better Award - Shrek 3 producers, M. Night Shamalwhassit for Lady in the Water
Predictably Awful But I Paid To See It Anyway Award - Spider-Man 3
What Am I Missing? Award - Taxi Driver, Kill Bill
It Started So Well - Sunshine - good opening, plummeting to awfulness
So Bad It's Just Awful Award - Superman Returns
Stupidest Plot Award - Network (for endless loops of hirings and firings and being surprised at the next screw-up)
Most Tenuously Connected Collection of Short Stories Where the Best One Has No Actual Connection to the Main Plot Award - Babel (ditch Brad Pitt et al and just make the Japanese section an entire film)
Stay Behind the Camera Award - Emilio Estevez for Bobby, a great film from a mediocre actor
Best Play For Those That Don't Go to the Theatre- The History Boys
Great Film I Can Never Watch Again - Little Miss Sunshine - the ending was perfect, but just remembering it makes me want to hide behind a cushion.
Nice Idea Shame About the Outcome - Night at the Museum |