What I Watched in June

June

1. Jackass 3.5 (Tremaine, 2011)

2. Howl (Epstein, Friedman, 2010)

3. The Rite (Håfström, 2011)

Total films watched in 2011: 64

A busy month with me spending more than a week away in Florida at Walt Disney World on family vacation, my department at work is being completely renovated and we're doing all the labor, my friends and I have been maintaining daily updates on our wrestling blog, etc. July's going to be a hectic month but I aim to be more diligent and disciplined. There's a lot I want to see!

What I Watched in May

May

1. Watership Down (Rosen, 1978)

2. Summer Wars (Hosoda, 2009)

3. Happiness Is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown (Beall, Molieri, 2011)

4. Skyline (Strause, Strause, 2010)

5. Inside Job (Ferguson, 2010)

6. All-Star Superman (Liu, 2011)

7. Bastards of Young (Hartman, 2005)

8. Never Let Me Go (Romanek, 2010)

9. Caché (Hidden) (Haneke, 2005)

10. Black Swan (Aronofsky, 2010)

11. Waking Sleeping Beauty (Hahn, 2009)

Total films watched in 2011: 61

What I Watched in April

April

1. Unstoppable (Scott, 2010)

2. Source Code (Jones, 2011)

3. My Soul to Take (Craven, 2010)

4. The Fighter (Russell, 2010)

5. Let Me In (Reeves, 2010)

6. Animal Kingdom (Michôd, 2010)

7. Monsters (Edwards, 2010)

8. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (Yates, 2010)

9. TRON: Legacy (Kosinski, 2010)

Total films watched in 2011: 50

This was one of the weaker months in terms of time allotted to movies. Besides job hunting, on the more closely related viewing front, found much of my watching time dedicated to working through the 115 episode run of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (about halfway there), and towards participating in several large-scale projects over on the wrestling blog I write for Never Hand Over. Since I'll be traveling in June and gone for a chunk of that month I intend on watching 12-15 movies in May minimum.

What I Watched in March

March

1. Piranha (Aja, 2010)

2. The Kids Are All Right (Cholodenko, 2010)

3. The Last Airbender (Shyamalan, 2010)

4. Is This Goodbye, Charlie Brown? (Roman, 1983)

5. Charlie Brown's Christmas Tales (Leichliter, 2002)

6. Catfish (Joost, Schulman, 2010)

7. The Expendables (Stallone, 2010)

8. Snack and Drink (Sabiston, 2000)

9. Devil (Dowdle, 2010)

10. The American (Corbijn, 2010)

11. Day & Night (Newton, 2010)

12. Toy Story 3 (Unkrich, 2010)

13. Vampires Suck (Friedberg, Seltzer, 2010)

14. Ajami (Copti, Shani, 2009)

15. Megamind (McGrath, 2010)

16. Stone (Curran, 2010)

17. Due Date (Phillips, 2010)

18. Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy, 2010)

Total films watched in 2011: 41

My Top 100 Movies of the 2000's

(I re-edited this on 5/10/11 with over 20+ changes, be it additions, subtractions, rearrangements, etc.)

My usual monthly update will be posted per normal on the 1st of next month (and I've watched a lot so far!). A forum I frequent is running a poll on the best films of the 2000's and I hastily threw together a ballot. It's not perfect. I'm not necessarily saying these are the best films of the decade. That'd be impossible to declare or prove. But these are my favorites:

100. Bloodz vs. Wolvez

99. Grandma's Boy

98. Brother Bear

97. Last Days

96. The House of Sand and Fog

95. (500) Days of Summer

94. Man on Wire

93. The Brothers Bloom

92. The Visitor

91. Quills

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90. Wonder Boys

89. Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead

88. About Schmidt

87. It Runs in the Family

86. The Bridge

85. Milk

84. Elephant

83. Bella

82. WALL-E

81. 10 Items or Less

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80. The Pursuit of Happyness

79. Requiem for a Dream

78. The Last King of Scotland

77. Mysterious Skin

76. Dogville

75. Better Luck Tomorrow

74. Paranoid Park

73. Ali

72. Ratatouille

71. Brokeback Mountain

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70. Dark Water (Nakata, 2002)

69. Fantastic Mr. Fox

68. Bolt

67. Springtime in a Small Town

66. Summer Wars

65. The Darjeeling Limited

64. The New World

63. Signs

62. High Fidelity

61. The Dangerous Lives of Alter Boys

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60. Clerks 2

59. Antwone Fisher

58. A.I. Artifical Intelligence

57. Hulk

56. In the Bedroom

55. Almost Famous

54. The Pianist

53. Finding Nemo

52. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

51. The Rules of Attraction

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50. Happy-Go-Lucky

49. The Way of the Gun

48. Monsters Inc.

47. Bamboozled

46. Junebug

45. The Last Castle

44. I Heart Huckabees

43. Elizabethtown

42. City of God

41. My Summer of Love

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40. Shattered Glass

39. Garden State

38. Lonesome Jim

37. The Hottest State

36. Where the Wild Things Are

35. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

34. Jackass: The Movie

33. The Fountain

32. You Can Count on Me

31. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring

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30. Spirited Away

29. Zodiac

28. The Cruise

27. TMNT

26. Winter Solstice

25. George Washington

24. The Secret in Their Eyes

23. 25th Hour

22. The Squid and the Whale

21. Off the Black

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20. Dancer in the Dark

19. Calling Bobcat

18. Up

17. Wendy and Lucy

16. American Splendor

15. Sideways

14. Once

13. The Devil and Daniel Johnston

12. Into the Wild

11. Rachel Getting Married

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10. Gerry

9. King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters

8. Tape

7. Before Sunset

6. The Royal Tenenbaums

5. The Station Agent

4. All the Real Girls

3. Old Joy

2. Waking Life

1. Lost in Translation

This was a little more difficult than I'd imagined. I came up with my seventy movies or so right away I knew would be on. Then it took some time racking my brain and researching to fill out the rest. The hardest part was determining the place of the final three movies. I moved them around a few times before finally settling on this finalized list. I'd love to hear yours. Be well.

What I Watched in February

Another month down and I was able to squeeze in more films than last month. I definitely enjoyed soaking up some cinema. Here's the list of what I saw and some notes:

February

1. 127 Hours (Boyle, 2010)

2. The Social Network (Fincher, 2010)

3. Ip Man (Yip, 2008)

4. The Other Guys (McKay, 2010)

5. The Last Exorcism (Stamm, 2010)

6. Cyrus (Duplass, Duplass, 2010)

7. Youth in Revolt (Arteta, 2009)

8. Takers (Lussenhop, 2010)

9. Dinner for Schmucks (Roach, 2010)

10. Salt (Noyce, 2010)

11. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Wright, 2010)

12. Easy A (Gluck, 2010)

13. DC Showcase Original Shorts Collection (Dos Santos, 2010)

14. Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1974 (Jarrold, 2009)

Total films watched in 2011: 23

Overall, a strong month, of note, I caught up on a lot of newer releases with more to follow suit but hope to insert more critically acclaimed and varied stuff into my queue for March. If anyone would like to discuss any of the films, hear my opinion, share theirs, etc. please leave a comment here and we can start a dialogue. My new goal is 125 movies which I have no doubt I'll be able to attain. I have a good feeling March is going to be a strong viewing month and I've already got a lot of interesting stuff at home waiting to be spun. Until next month be well and next time you're having your own movie marathon count me in as an honorary attendee!