414 watched through September, 287 still unwatched. I'll be glad when I'm finally caught up sometime next year, so I can go back to just watching for fun--I've seen lots of great movies this year, but trying to get through them all makes me kind of (ok very) compulsive about watching something every day. + = first time I've ever watched.
October (58 watched)
10/4: Star Trek Generations ***1/2
10/5: Psycho ****1/2; Touch of Evil ****
10/6: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind ****1/2
10/7: Bloodwork+ ****; The Virgin Suicides ****
10/8: Shadow of a Doubt ****
10/9: Videodrome ****; Rear Window ****1/2; Rebel Without a Cause ****
10/10: The Quiet American ****1/2; The Minus Man ***1/2
10/11: Final Destination ****
10/12: The Hudsucker Proxy ****1/2; Dog Day Afternoon+ *****
10/13: The Right Stuff ****1/2; Thriller: A Cruel Picture ***1/2
10/14: The Sweet Hereafter *****; The Night Stalker ****; The Night Strangler ****; Three Kings ****; Ginger Snaps+ ***; Chinatown *****; The Sixth Sense ****
10/15: Romeo + Juliet ***1/2; Die Hard ****; Die Harder ***1/2; Die Hard With a Vengance ****
10/16: Run Man Run+ ****; Mannaja: A Man Called Blade+ ****1/2; Keoma+ ***1/2
10/17: Babe-Pig in the City ****; The Count of Monte Cristo ****
10/18: Dreamscape ***
10/19: Giant+ ****
10/20: Mars Attacks+ **1/2
10/21: Mean Streets+ ****; Terminator ****
10/22: Terminator 2 ****; Terminator 3 ****
10/23: The Wizard of Oz *****; Pretty Baby+ ****; Suicide Kings+ ****; The Mummy+ ***; The French Connection ****1/2
10/24: Panic Room ***; An Affair to Remember+ ***1/2
10/25: Return of the Magnificent Seven+ ***1/2; The Cowboys+ ****
10/26: Dawn of the Dead (2004)+ ****
10/27: Scream ****
10/28: Scream 2 ***1/2; Scream 3+ ***; The Sons of Katie Elder+ ***1/2
10/29: Paint Your Wagon+ ***
10/30: The Stepford Wives ***1/2
10/31: Being John Malkovich ****1/2; The Fearless Vampire Killers+ ****
November (65 watched)
11/1: Star Wars ****1/2; Empire Strikes Back *****; Return of the Jedi ****; The Phantom Menace **1/2
11/2: Attack of the Clones ***
11/3: Close Encounters of the Third Kind ****1/2; Scarface (1932)+ ****
11/4: Scarface (1983) ****; Death Rides a Horse+ ****
11/5: Notorious *****; Strangers on a Train ****; Rooster Cogburn and the Lady ***1/2
11/6: Looney Tunes Gold Collection 2 ****1/2
11/7: 28 Days Later ****
11/8: That's Entertainment ****1/2
11/9: That's Entertainment 2 ****; That's Entertainment 3 ****1/2
11/10: The Tin Drum *****
11/11: Wyatt Earp+ ***1/2; Night Passage+ ***1/2; Saving Private Ryan ****; Mayor of the Sunset Strip+ ****
11/12: Underworld+ ****; The Tune ****; Sunset Boulevard *****
11/13: Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore ****
11/14: Black Hawk Down ****; Signs ***1/2; Castle in the Sky+ ***1/2
11/15: Duck Soup+ ***1/2; The Cocoanuts+ ***1/2; Memento ****
11/16: Animal Crackers+ ****; Monkey Business+ ***1/2; Horsefeathers+ ***1/2
11/17: Freaks+ ****
11/18: Anastasia+ ****; Love is a Many Splendored Thing+ **1/2; Iron Giant+ ****
11/19: Warlock Moon (Joe Bob Briggs Commentary)+ ****; Samurai Cop (JBB Commentary)+ ****; The Chooper (JBB Commentary)+ ***1/2
11/20: Companeros+ ****; Days of Heaven ****1/2
11/21: Hell High (JBB Commentary)+ ***1/2; The Hollywood Strangler Meets the Skid Row Slasher (Yes, another JBB Commentary)+ ***1/2; A Place in the Sun+ ****
11/22: Spike & Mike's Cutting Edge Classics+ ****; Battle Royale+ ****
11/23: Edward Scissorhands *****; Tommy ****
11/24: Gentlemen Don't Wear Plaid ****
11/25: Terror in a Texas Town+ ***1/2; Excalibur ****; Time After Time ****
11/26: The Dead Zone ****; The Tin Star ***1/2; The Railway Children+ ***; Last Train from Gunville ***1/2
11/27: Salem's Lot+ **1/2
11/28: Any Gun Can Play+ ***1/2; Vanilla Sky (Commentary) ****; The Deer Hunter *****
11/29 Flesh + Blood+ ***; American Psycho+ ****
11/30: The Professionals+ ***1/2
December (84 watched)
12/1: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (movie) ***; Desperado ****
12/2: Norma Jean and Marilyn ***
12/3: The Mosquito Coast ***1/2; It's a Wonderful Life ****1/2
12/4: Hero ****; Run Angel Run (JoeBob commentary)+ ***1/2; Hell's Angels 69 (JBB commentary)+ **1/2;
12/5: Dawn of the Dead (European Cut+) ***1/2; The Big Red One ****; McCabe and Mrs. Miller ***1/2; Spiderman 2 ****
12/6: The Blind Swordsman Zatoichi+ ***1/2; Royal Warriors+ ***1/2
12/7: The Talented Mr. Ripley ****1/2; The Day the Earth Caught Fire+ ***1/2; Switchblade Sisters+ ***1/2
12/8: Twin Warriors **** (in spite of the dubbing)
12/9: The Stranger's Gundown+ ***1/2; The Night Porter+ ****; Robocop ****
12/10: The Song of Bernadette+ ****; The Inn of the Sixth Happiness+ ***1/2; Ronin+ ***1/2
12/11: Saint Sinner+ **1/2
12/12: Aladdin ****; All's Quiet on the Western Front+ ****
12/13: Solaris+ ***1/2; Gumby ***1/2; Popeye ***
12/14: Mutiny on the Bounty+ ****; The Conversation ****1/2
12/15: Four of the Apocalypse+ ***1/2; Daredevil ***1/2
12/16: Marnie+ ***1/2; To Have and Have Not+ ***1/2
12/17: In Cold Blood+ *****; The Best Years of Our Lives ****1/2
12/18: Glengarry Glen Ross+ ****1/2; The Wolf Man ****; Dracula ****1/2; Frankenstein *****; The Bride of Frankenstein+ *****; Following+ ****
12/19: Ali+ ***1/2; The Invisible Man ****1/2; Creature from the Black Lagoon ****
12/20: LOTR: ROTK EE+ ****1/2
12/21: Shaun of the Dead ****
12/22: Exotica ****1/2; Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ****1/2; Whale Rider ****
12/23: Spellbound (Hitchcock)+ ***; Election ****; Once Upon a Time in Mexico ***; Operation Petticoat ***1/2
12/24: Wild at Heart ****; That Touch of Mink+ ***; The Grass is Greener+ ***; Father Goose+ ***1/2
12/25: Indiscreet+ ***
12/26: Day of the Dead+ ***1/2; Gun Crazy+ ****1/2; The Asphalt Jungle+ ****
12/27: The Set-Up+ ***1/2; Murder my Sweet+ ****; Out of the Past+ ****
12/28: Paris Texas *****; Shrek 2 ****; Fresh ****; Gosford Park ****; Elizabeth ****
12/29: From Hell ***1/2; Dances with Wolves ***1/2; Happiness ****
12/30: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner+ ****; From Here to Eternity ****; Resident Evil: Apocalypse+ ***; Gaslight ****; Summer of Sam ***1/2
12/31: Midnight Cowboy+ ****1/2; Easy Rider ***1/2; Platoon ****1/2
Finished off the year with 642 watched from my collection for the first time, 192 left to go.
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