Watching films all year long
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tilly_stratfordI couldn't access LJ on New Year's Eve to post my 2012 movie list, and then I subsequently forgot. But here it is, an actual internet page dedicated to it this time:
MOVIES 2012
That's 189 movies, not counting the rewatches. That's more than previous years', probably because I haven't had a very good year and among the multitude of reasons why I love movies, escapism ranks pretty highly.
There have been, as usual, some recurring names and themes among the movies I've seen. Some intended (Spencer Tracy, George Sanders, Bollywood, Busby Berkeley, Herbert Marshall) and some surprises (William Bendix sure popped up a lot somehow!).
My absolute favourite movie this year was a romantic comedy from 1932, Trouble in Paradise. Usually romantic comedies and love triangles are not my thing, but the story of a gentleman thief living in sin with a female confidence trickster (they first meet when they try to scam each other, thinking each other rich) who then falls in love with his next mark is just so absolutely delightful and I'm in love with all the characters. It's so wonderfully, elegantly risqué as well, without being crude.
Anyway, it was fun fiddling about with the HTML and posters for this year's list. I used Imgur to host the images, which means the poster images will eventually break - but it works for now.
MOVIES 2012
That's 189 movies, not counting the rewatches. That's more than previous years', probably because I haven't had a very good year and among the multitude of reasons why I love movies, escapism ranks pretty highly.
There have been, as usual, some recurring names and themes among the movies I've seen. Some intended (Spencer Tracy, George Sanders, Bollywood, Busby Berkeley, Herbert Marshall) and some surprises (William Bendix sure popped up a lot somehow!).
My absolute favourite movie this year was a romantic comedy from 1932, Trouble in Paradise. Usually romantic comedies and love triangles are not my thing, but the story of a gentleman thief living in sin with a female confidence trickster (they first meet when they try to scam each other, thinking each other rich) who then falls in love with his next mark is just so absolutely delightful and I'm in love with all the characters. It's so wonderfully, elegantly risqué as well, without being crude.
Anyway, it was fun fiddling about with the HTML and posters for this year's list. I used Imgur to host the images, which means the poster images will eventually break - but it works for now.
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Date: 2013-01-04 02:52 pm (UTC)Second: wow, that is a convenient way to catalog all of them!
I'm surprised how different a lot of our ratings are. I mean, I haven't seen most of the movies on your list (as usual), but I love The Deer Hunter and The Lion in Winter (those were both 5-star movies for me), and I really liked The President's Men (though I admit it was mostly the acting that impressed me in that one). I'm glad you enjoyed Beckett, though! And I really liked Harakiri, too. Oh, and Waltz with Bashir. I'll try to check out some of the ones you liked that I haven't seen, including that Patrick Stewart Christmas Carol, even if it's not the best version out there.
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Date: 2013-01-07 01:04 pm (UTC)Yeah, I love movie posters, period, so I really wanted to use a list format that used them in some ways. The star rating was a pain in the behind though, because I'm not very good at those things. Like "Wow this movie was super boring except that truly awesome scene, let's see, how many stars does that translate to?"
And yeah, I'll be the first to admit my ratings got inconsistent pretty fast, and probably had a lot to do with how I was feeling that day. But still, I know a lot of movies didn't really click with me even though I expected them to (my mother threatened to disown me because I didn't really like The Deer Hunter :P) But Beckett was great, though! It was actually one of my profs at uni who recommended it to me as possibly the best movie set in the Middle Ages ever!