Project 365 – VICTORY!

…on the 11th day of Castmas the Chrazzas gave to me…

So here we are Casta fans – I’m sure you can no doubt tell from the oh so subtle title and my prolific singing in the soundclip above that I DID IT!  I finally stuck to a New Year’s resolution and completed one of the stupidest and most arduous tasks I’ve ever undertaken!

But here I am at the other side and you know what? I feel great. Not only have I finally managed to verse myself on a great deal of “classic” cinema, I’ve also managed to keep very abreast of the newest cinema releases throughout the year, as well as finding a few hidden gems I might have otherwise missed were I not scouring the world for movies every waking second of my life. Add in the fact that I have a full time job, have been on a couple of extended holidays, watched a ridiculous amount of TV and have a very time hungry passion outside of work and watching 365 films has been no mean feat.

People have asked me whether I think watching all these movies has been a waste of time, and I can quite honestly say that no, it hasn’t. Except maybe for Knowing… For the most part, watching movies has been a way of killing dead time either on the way to work, at the gym, on longer journeys, or just when I’m sat at home completely broke. Fair to say I could have used the time more constructively but that just wouldn’t have been me :p

I am a little shocked however that I managed to watch over fifty in the first three weeks; in comparison the last fifty took me over twice as long at nearly eight weeks. God I was a loser at the beginning of 2010. Look how much has changed.

Another thing people have asked me is what I’m going to do with all my free time next year. Well I’m thinking of splitting the time I spent watching movies (ave. 12.8 hours a week) into thirds and still spending a portion of that watching movies (for Casta’s sake!), the second third maybe doing something useful like the gym or something (where conveniently I can watch movies whilst on the exercise bike…) and the least third I want to spend concentrating on my own creative writing. Thinking on it, I might just use the second third on Casta instead.

The rest of this post is largely going to be further info for the datahounds and statcats like me out there, so if you’re not interested in that kind of thing then you’re probably just as well stopping here.

Before you go though I’d urge you to check out the picture just below (it’s the poster for every movie I watched this year in order and took me HOURS to make!)  and also to click on both the picture above and  the thumbnail of Marty Me at the bottom of this post – they’re very special for a reason that should become clear as soon as you click on them!

Thanks then to everyone who has supported me on my stupid venture throughout the year and lent me DVDs, come to the cinema with me (usually against their will), given me Orange Wednesday codes, let me change the channel or simply suggested movies I should watch.
You guys were great.

But I was better.

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If you’re still with me, here’s some stats for you!

This year I watched;

• 365 new movies (plus Toy Story 2 3D and the Back to the Future rerelease)
• 115 of these were in the cinema (31.33%)
• 135 were cinematic releases this year (36.78%)
• The average length of those movies was one hundred and eight minutes (and forty nine seconds)

I spent;

• 39,929 minutes watching new movies. Or twenty seven days, seventeen hours and twenty nine minutes if you prefer.
• 12,148 (30.4%) of these minutes were spent in the cinema. That’s eight days, ten hours and twenty eight minutes.

• The most films watched in any one day was five (twice, once in week three and once, unsurprisingly on the last day of the EIFF)
• The most films watched in a week was nineteen (week two)
• The most consecutive days without watching any movies was fifteen (whilst in Canada – although I did try and watch both Yojimbo and Weird Science but fell asleep in both and as such they don’t make the 365)

The best of these movies will be announced in the Castatrophies tomorrow.

For those who think this amount of film watching has been excessive, I’ll happily point out that I didn’t watch any movies on 140 days (includes those from now up to the end of the year), which accounts for 38% of the year. Ner ner!

THE MOVIE LIST

(c) indicates I watched the film at the cinema

(r) indicates the film was a cinematic release this year but I caught it on DVD

1. Sherlock Holmes (c)

2. Bad Lieutenant (r)

3. The Hurt Locker

4. Coraline

5. Extract (r)

6. Monsters Vs Aliens

7. Rocky Balboa

8. Man on Wire

9. Max Payne

10. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

11. Primer

12. (500) Days of Summer

13. Daybreakers (c)

14. I love you Beth Cooper

15. The Proposal

16. X Men Origins: Wolverine

17. The Brothers Bloom (r)

18. Push

19. Leatherheads

20. Superman: Doomsday

21. The Square

22. Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist

23. Dr Stangelove

24. Half Nelson

25. Max Manus: Man of War

26. Underworld Evolution

27. Underworld: Rise of the Lycans

28. American Pie: Book of Love

29. Hellboy: Blood & Iron

30. Resident Evil: Apocalypse

31. Resident Evil: Extinction

32. Observe & Report

33. American Pie: Beta House

34. The Road (c)

35. Easy Rider

36. Hellboy: Sword of Storms

37. Falling Down

38. The Book of Eli (c)

39. The Pursuit of Happyness

40. Waltz with Bashir

41. In Bruges

42. Casablanca

43. Aliens

44. Last of the Mohicans

45. Four Weddings and a Funeral

46. Bangkok Dangerous

47. American Gangster

48. Deliverance

49. Race to Witch Mountain

50. Up in the Air (c)

51. Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid

52. Get Carter

53. Charlie & Boots

54. Knowing

55. Me & Orson Welles (c)

56. Citizen Kane

57. The 6th Day

58. Away We Go

59. Bruno

60. The Lionshare

61. Ponyo (r)

62. Bonnie & Clyde

63. Good Will Hunting

64. Stardust

65. Raging Bull

66. Shooter

67. Vicky Cristina Barcelona

68. Precious (r)

69. Badlands

70. Pulp Fiction

71. A Cock and Bull Story (Only how much I watched)

72. A Prophet (c)

73. Pretty Woman

74. Dr Zhivago

75. The Goonies

76. Edge of Darkness (c)

77. Mystic River

78. The Dukes of Hazzard

79. Jaws

80. Time Bandits

81. Jennifer’s Body

82. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

83. The Day the Earth Stood Still (2009)

84. Heat

85. The Princess and the Frog (c)

86. 12 Angry Men

87. 2001: A Space Odyssey

88. Rocky II

89. The Graduate

90. Rocky III

91. Manhattan

92. Rocky IV

93. Hotel Rwanda

94. Percy Jackson & the Lightning Thief (c)

95. LA Confidential

96. The Wolfman (c)

97. The Jacket

98. True Romance

99. Rocky V

100. The Manchurian Candidate

101. Sahara

102. Annie Hall

103. Breakfast at Tiffany’s

104. Solomon Kane (c)

105. A Serious Man

106. Cocoon

107. Wolf Creek

108. Stormbreaker

109. Some Like it Hot

110. Right at Your Door

111. My Name is Khan (c)

112. Severance

113. Balibo

114. Requiem for a Dream

115.  The Darjeeling Limited

116. From Paris With Love (c)

117. Lethal Weapon

118. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

119. Misery

120. State of Play

121. Crazy Heart (c)

122. The Informant

123. Alice in Wonderland (c)

124. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (c)

125. Green Zone (c)

126. My Neighbour Totoro

127. The Blind Side (c)

128. Shutter Island (c)

129. Hot Tub Time Machine (c)

130. Kick Ass (c)

131. Whip It (r)

132. Repo Men (c)

133. Dear John (c)

134. Crying with Laughter (c)

135. It’s Complicated (r)

136. The Ghost (Writer) (c)

137. Iron Man 2 (c)

138. The Joneses (c)

139. Cheaper by the Dozen

140. Julie & Julia

141. The Men Who Stare at Goats

142. Centurion (c)

143. How to Train your Dragon (c)

144. Fanboys

145. The Final Destination

146. The Disappearance of Alice Creed (c)

147. Pandorum

148. The Time Traveller’s Wife

149. Four Lions (c)

150. Ninja Assasin

151. Alien

152. Newsmakers

153. Alien 3

154. Robin Hood (c)

155. Rock’N'Rolla

156. Date Night (c)

157. The Godfather

158. Defending your Life

159. Sunshine

160. The Godfather Part II

161. The Godfather Part III

162. A Knight’s Tale

163. Risky Business

164. The Last King of Scotland

165. The Dark Crystal

166. Zodiac

167. 13 going on 30

168. Prince of Perisa: The Sands of Time (c)

169. Braveheart

170. Ray

171. The Killer Inside Me (c)

172. Boogie Nights

173. Changeling

174. 4.3.2.1 (c)

175. Thelma & Louise

176. Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom

177. Death at a Funeral (c)

178. 30 Days of Night

179. The Losers (c)

180. Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade

181. Milk

182. E.T.

183. Not Another Teen Movie

184. The Tooth Fairy (c)

185. Greenberg (c)

186. Superhero Me (c)

187. Skeletons (c)

188. High School (c)

189. The Good Heart (c)

190. The Extra Man (c)

191. Get Low (c)

192. Son of Rambow

193. World’s Greatest Dad (c)

194. Third Star (c)

195. Mean Creek

196. Restrepo (c)

197. Toy Story 3 (c)

198. Jackboots on Whitehall (c)

199. Monsters (c)

200. Eagle vs. Shark

201. The Station Agent

202. L’arnacouer (c)

203. Labyrinth

204. Whatever Works (c)

205. Get him to the Greek (c)

206. Twilight

207. New Moon

208. Eclipse (c)

209. Capote

210. Youth in Revolt (r)

211. Cop Out (r)

212. Shrek Forever After (c)

213. Predators (c)

214. The Pianist

215. Go

216. The Breakfast Club

217. Titanic

218. Alien Resurrection

219. It

220. Inception (c)

221. A Few Good Men

222. Singin’ in the Rain

223. Duck Soup

224. Raw Deal

225. FIT

226. Dirty Harry

227. Splice (c)

228. Synecdoche, New York

229. I Love You Phillip Morris (r)

230. The Bounty Hunter (r)

231. The A Team (c)

232. Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque) (c)

233. The Karate Kid (2010) (c)

234. Commando

235. Resevoir Dogs

236. The Happening

237. Predator

238. Lars and the Real Girl

239. She’s out of My League (r)

240. Collteral Damage

241. The Rebound (c)

242. Conan the Barbarian

243. Predator 2

244. Knight and Day (c)

245. Night at the Museum

246. Magnum Force

247. The Enforcer

248. Evil Dead

249. 3:10 to Yuma

250. Lemony Snicket: A Series of Unfortunate Events

251. The Sorceror’s Apprecntice (c)

252. Mad Max

253. Midnight Meat Train

254. Evil Dead II

255. Salt (c)

256. The Expendables (c)

257. Sudden Impact

258. Rambo III

259. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian

260. The Dead Pool

261. Full Metal Jacket

262. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (c)

263. Gattaca

264. Mulholland Drive

265. The Girl who Played with Fire (c)

266. The Italian Job

267. Flags of our Fathers

268. Samurai Fiction

269. Michael Clayton

270. The Human Centipede (r)

271. So I married an Axe Murderer

272. The Illusionist (c)

273. The Switch (c)

274. Grown Ups (c)

275. Dinner for Schmucks (c)

276. Going the Distance (c)

277. The Visitor

278. Swingers

279. Cyrus (c)

280. Tamara Drewe (c)

281. The Other Guys (c)

282. Devil (c)

283. The Town (c)

284. Winter’s Bone (c)

285. The Hole (c)

286. Almost Famous

287. Bronson

288. Buried (c)

289. Carrie

290. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

291. El Topo

292. Fast Times at Ridgemont High

293. Goodfellas

294. Hard Candy

295. Enthiran: the Robot (c)

296. In the City of Sylvia

297. Junebug

298. A Town Called Panic (c)

299. The Killer

300. The Social Network (c)

301. The Last Boy Scout

302. Moulin Rouge!

303. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (c)

304. Night on Earth

305. The Incredible Melting Man

306. Ong Bak 2

307. The Puffy Chair

308. Quiet City

309. Revolutionary Road

310. Sling Blade

311. Time Crimes

312. The Union

313. Videodrome

314. Despicable Me (c)

315. Cemetery Junction (r)

316. Wall Street

317. XX/XY

318. You, Me & Dupree

319. Zidane

320. Red (c)

321. Easy A (c)

322. THX 1138

323. Gone Baby Gone

324. Halloween

325. La Horde

326. Bubba Ho-Tep

327. Paranormal Activity 2 (c)

328. The Arbor (c)

329. Paranormal Activity

330. Burke & Hare (c)

331. Top Gun

332. The Karate Kid

333. Let me In (c)

334. Due Date (c)

335. The Seventh Seal

336. Schindler’s List

337. Skyline (c)

338. We Are What We Are (c)

339. Thirst

340. The Kids Are Alright (c)

341. Mary & Max (r)

342. Chico & Rita (c)

343. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part One (c)

344. MacGruber (r)

345. The Crazies (r)

346. Jackass 3D (c)

347. Unstoppable (c)

348. Machete (c)

349. Megamind (c)

350. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest (c)

351. 12 Rounds

352. The American (c)

353. The Illusionist (2006)

354. Withnail & I

355. Diary of a Wimpy Kid (r)

356. Killers (r)

357. The Warrior’s Way (c)

358. Exit Through the Gift Shop (r)

359. Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (c)

360. The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader (c)

361. The Tourist (c)

362. Brighton Rock (c)

363. Smoky and the Bandit

364. Tron Legacy (c)

365. Once

366. Back to the Future (c)

367. Toy Story 2 3D (c)

Project 365: Weeks 35-40

So here we are chums, in this our week of celebrations, there’s yet another thing for us to be excited about – I’m up to three hundred! Take a minute and think about that – let it sink in… THREE HUNDRED MOVIES SO FAR! Only sixty five to go! Surely I’m on to a winner! Woohoo!

I watched thirty five films in the six weeks since the last update, eighteen of which were at the cinema! Go statistics!

So the thirty five then;

266. The Girl who Played with Fire
267. The Italian Job
268. Flags of our Fathers
269. Samurai Fiction
270. Michael Clayton
271. The Human Centipede
272. So I married an Axe Murderer
273. The Illusionist
274. The Switch
275. Grown Ups
276. Dinner for Schmucks
277. Going the Distance
278. The Visitor
279. Swingers
280. Cyrus
281. Tamara Drewe
282. The Other Guys
283. Devil
284. The Town
285. Winter’s Bone
286. The Hole
287. Almost Famous
288. Bronson
289. Buried
290. Carrie
291. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
292. Back to the Future
293. El Topo
294. Fast Times at Ridgemont High
295. Goodfellas
296. Hard Candy
297. Enthiran: the Robot
298. In the City of Sylvia
299. Junebug
300. A Town Called Panic

Highlights: The Illusionist, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Back to the Future, A Town Called Panic
Lowlights: The Human Centipede, The Other Guys, Bronson, El Topo

Surely I’m on the home straight now!

Project 365: Weeks 27 – 34

Well obviously I dropped the ball on this one didn’t I? Not actually on watching the movies, but keeping you informed about them. From now on I’ll try to update more regularly but no promises! I’m still on target albeit with a smaller buffer than before but I’m feeling confident that I’ll still be able to get through 365 by December 31st.

Okay so here are the sixty films I’ve watched in the eight weeks mentioned above:

206. Get him to the Greek
207. Twilight
208. New Moon
209. Eclipse
210. Capote
211. Youth in Revolt
212. Cop Out
213. Shrek Forever After
214. Predators
215. The Pianist
216. Go
217. The Breakfast Club
218. Titanic
219. Alien Resurrection
220. It
221. Inception
222. A Few Good Men
223. Singin’ in the Rain
224. Duck Soup
225. Raw Deal
226. FIT
227. Dirty Harry
228. Splice
229. Synecdoche, New York
230. I Love You Phillip Morris
231. The Bounty Hunter
232. The A Team
233. Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque)
234. The Karate Kid (2010)
235. Commando
236. Resevoir Dogs
237. The Happening
238. Predator
239. Lars and the Real Girl
240. She’s out of My League
241. Collteral Damage
242. The Rebound
243. Conan the Barbarian
244. Predator 2
245. Knight and Day
246. Night at the Museum
247. Magnum Force
248. The Enforcer
249. Evil Dead
250. 3:10 to Yuma
251. Lemony Snicket: A Series of Unfortunate Events
252. The Sorceror’s Apprecntice
253. Mad Max
254. Midnight Meat Train
255. Evil Dead II
256. Salt
257. The Expendables
258. Sudden Impact
259. Rambo III
260. Night at the Museum 2
261. The Dead Pool
262. Full Metal Jacket
263. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
264. Gattaca
265. Mulholland Drive

Highlights: Singin’ in the Rain, Dirty Harry, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

Lowlights: Get Him to the Greek, Duck Soup, The Happening

Project 365 – Half Year Review

Well well well! It’ been some time since I’ve done one of these (as evidenced by the sheer number of films above) but what better time to catch up than when we’re in the business of catching up?

So the 1st of July was the 182nd day of the year and thus fell exactly half way from start to finish. Like a mid point. Gee, I’m clever today. Enough ramble, time for FACTS and ANALYSIS!

In the first six months of the year I saw two hundred and five films, of which fifty six were at the cinema (accounting for 27.32% of all films watched). A further seven were cinematic releases this year that I caught since being released on DVD which, when added to the fifty six previous means I’ve seen sixty three cinematic releases so far, accounting for 30.73% of all films seen. The total runtime of these films (as gathered from IMDB and Wikipedia) is a mammoth twenty two thousand, five hundred and eighty seven minutes (it looks more impressive in words) which translates to fifteen days, sixteen hours and twenty seven minutes watching movies – of which five thousand, nine hundred and ninety one minutes were spent actually watching movies in the cinema (not accounting for trailers) – that’s four days, three hours and fifty one minutes!

I ♥ data analysis.

The films then!

Weeks 20 – 26

150. Four Lions
151. Ninja Assasin
152. Alien
153. Newsmakers
154. Alien 3
155. Robin Hood
156. Rock’N'Rolla
157. Date night
158. The Godfather
159. Defending your Life
160. Sunshine
161. The Godfather Part II
162. The Godfather Part III
163. A Knight’s Tale
164. Risky Business
165. The Last King of Scotland
166. The Dark Crystal
167. Zodiac
168. 13 going on 30
169. Prince of Perisa: The Sands of Time
170. Braveheart
171. Ray
172. The Killer Inside Me
173. Boogie Nights
174. Changeling
175. 4.3.2.1
176. Thelma & Louise
177. Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom
178. Death at a Funeral
179. 30 Days of Night
180. The Losers
181. Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade
182. Milk
183. E.T.
184. Not Another Teen Movie
185. The Tooth Fairy
186. Greenberg
187. Superhero Me
188. Skeletons
189. High School
190. The Good Heart
191. The Extra Man
192. Get Low
193. Son of Rambow
194. World’s Greatest Dad
195. Third Star
196. Mean Creek
197. Restrepo
198. Toy Story 3
199. Jackboots on Whitehall
200. Monsters
201. Eagle vs. Shark
202. The Station Agent
203. L’arnacouer
204. Labyrinth
205. Whatever Works

Project 365 – Back in Action

Well I think it’s about time I brought you up to speed on project 365. As mentioned a while ago I was finding the whole thing too easy and so decided to try and watch the entirety of Lost. Truth be told I actually managed to do this a few weeks ago and so, as well as having a three week holiday in Canada, doing my back in and moving house, I’ve also managed to get myself fully up to date with 24, Breaking Bad, Flashforward, Modern Family, The Office, Parks & Recreation and the Big Bang Theory.

Whilst pummelling all that I did still manage to see some films, but nowhere near as many as previously, at one point I even managed to go twenty four days seeing only a single movie in the middle. In the sixty five days from hiatus start I managed to see twenty eight movies which pales somewhat to the one hundred and twenty one I saw in the sixty three days before it.

Whatever the weather I’m still on track and am feeling refreshed from not having watched quite so many films recently. I’d better get back to business and build up a good lead now so I can make myself do something else stupid before I finish…

Suggestions are always welcome – either leave me a comment here or look to the right for other ways to get in touch.

Enough waffle.

Weeks 10 – 19

122. Crazy Heart
123. The Informant
124. Alice in Wonderland
125. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
126. Green Zone
127. My Neighbour Totoro
128. The Blind Side
129. Shutter Island
130. Hot Tub Time Machine
131. Kick Ass
132. Whip It
133. Repo Men
134. Dear John
135. Crying with Laughter
136. It’s Complicated
137. The Ghost (Writer)
138. Iron Man 2
139. The Joneses
140. Cheaper by the Dozen
141. Julie & Julia
142. The Men Who Stare at Goats
143. Centurion
144. How to Train your Dragon
145. Fanboys
146. The Final Destination
147. The Disappearance of Alice Creed
148. Pandorum
149. The Time Traveller’s Wife

Highlights: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Crying with Laughter, How to train your Dragon
Lowlights: Whip it!, Cheaper by the Dozen, Centurion

Project 365 – ON HIATUS!

Hiatus Chris? Surely not! Is this all going to fizzle out like everything else you do? What are you playing at?!

Yes, Yes, No and GIVE ME A MINUTE TO EXPLAIN!

Okay so at the moment I’m around twice as far ahead in my goal of watching 365 films this year as I need to be at this point in time. The two main reasons for starting the project in the first place were:

1. To catch up on all those “classic” films I really should have seen by now.

2. The challenge.

See the thing is, whilst I’ve very much been sticking to point one, point two hasn’t really come into it and as of yet there hasn’t been any challenge involved at all. As alluded to in our most recent episode, the malaise has kicked in and I certainly feel that in a lot of cases, I’m watching films just for the sake of crossing another one off the list and that was never really the point.

So here’s where the additional challenge comes in… In 2004 there was a TV show released which a few of the more eagle eyed listeners (ooh we’re multi sensory!) out there might have noticed. This show was Lost. I never started watching Lost – in fact I always said that I’d watch it all when it’s finished – that way I wouldn’t have to have the annoyance of finding out exactly nothing every episode then waiting a week just to find out nothing again. Well very recently I was kindly reminded of the fact that Lost has very nearly finished now and that’s where the idea of this challenge hit me.

Watch all of Lost in time to watch the series finale.

The series finale is on the 23rd of May and a quick bit of maths reveals the fact that there are 120 episodes to watch leading up to the finale (including all the others in Season 6). Each episode is around forty two minutes long which means that in seventy six days, I need to watch eighty four hours of Lost – an average of sixty six minutes a day until then. This might sound pretty easy – especially when you consider how much time I spent watching film in the first two months – but when you factor in my three week holiday to Canada in a fortnight, having to keep up with current cinema releases for Casta and the inevitable lull in interest following the same characters for such an extended period, I think I’m on for a fair old challenge!

So in the meantime I’ll keep watching films but just not quite as avariciously as before – I won’t be doing my weekly updates, I might just do them every time I hit twelve films or something. Hopefully then I’ll come back to 365 after Lost is finished with renewed interest and a greater appetite for a more difficult challenge.

Wish me luck!

Project 365 – Week 9 – Feb 26th – Mar 4th

Another fairy lean week this week but then again if I continue to manage to watch seven per week from here on in, I’ll reach my target in about October so no complaints from me!

So this week we had:

115. Requiem for a Dream
116. The Darjeeling Limited
117. From Paris With Love
118. Lethal Weapon
119. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
120. Misery
121. State of Play

No highlights and lowlights this week as they were all really good films in their own ways (for details of why From Paris with Love isn’t completely rubbish, be sure to tune in to episode 13 of Casta). Watching Requiem for a Dream first thing on Friday morning with a hangover might not have been the best decision though…

Project 365 – Week 8 – Feb 19th to 25th

These “classic” films just keep on impressing! A great week despite not having seen the most films ever. My Name is Khan is possibly the best film I’ve seen so far this year and is still on at certain cinemas, so go see it if you can!

103. Annie Hall
104. Breakfast at Tiffany’s
105. Solomon Kane
106. A Serious Man
107. Cocoon
108. Wolf Creek
109. Stormbreaker
110. Some Like it Hot
111. Right at Your Door
112. My Name is Khan
113. Severance
114. Balibo

Highlights: Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Right at Your Door, My Name is Khan
Lowlights: Cocoon, Stormbreaker, Severance

Project 365 – Week 7 – Feb 12th to 18th

Wow, I’m back on form and I’ve hit over one hundred! “So how long does it take to watch a hundred movies Chris?” I hear you cry! Well no fear, thanks to my trusty excel spreadsheet (yes I’m a loser…)  I can tell you that the first hundred films took me a total of one hundred and eighty one hours and thirty three minutes. Or Seven days, thirteen hours and thirty three minutes. Meaning that so far this year I’ve spent at least a day a week watching movies.

Should that be celebrated or lauded?

Well obviously…

So enough babbling, here are the fifteen films I watched in week seven:

88. 2001: A Space Odyssey
89. Rocky II
90. The Graduate
91. Rocky III
92. Manhattan
93. Rocky IV
94. Hotel Rwanda
95. Percy Jackson & the Lightning Thief
96. LA Confidential
97. The Wolfman
98. The Jacket
99. True Romance
100. Rocky V
101. The Manchurian Candidate
102. Sahara

Highlights: Rocky II, The Graduate, Hotel Rwanda

Lowlights: Manhattan, The Wolfman, Sahara

Remember fact fans that the highlights and lowlights go solely off my enjoyment watching that film – no ouright comment on quality (although The Wolfman was totally rubbish). Suggestions welcome as always – stick them on a comment here or on the facebook group.

Smooches!

Project 365 – Week 6 – Feb 5th to 11th

Wow, quiet week this time around but hey, I’ve been hella busy so shush up! I think there’ll be more weeks like this to come so I’m glad I’m so far ahead already. Well anyway…

83. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
84. The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
85. Heat
86. The Princess and the frog
87. 12 Angry Men

For highlights this week take it that Heat and The Princess & the Frog were very good, the 2008 version of The Day the Earth Stood Still was pretty bad and 12 Angry Men was all out excellent.