Track the Films You Watch (2005) - Page 66

Why would a person even bother joining the thread and then only contribute one post of comment all year?

That's a swell question Joe!
Let's just review the first sentence of the first post: I could continue quoting about reserving the first two pages but I think you'd just be bored by these little details.
Happy New Year and enjoy the new thread however you may.

Thank you, Henry! Happy New Year to you as well! And I incerely hope to read many, many comments from you in the 2006 discussing the films you've watched!

Hey, Joe, not all of us can get into these long discussions over every movie we've watched. I liked keeping track of all of the films I've watched during '05, and am looking forward to hopefully doing so in '06, but I don't know if I can keep up with you and Michael on debating all of the films I watch next year.

It was a very disappointing total for me this year, personally. I always like to see at least 300 films per year, but this time I ended up at 249. Last year I managed 316. Looks like I've got to try harder in '06! But I discovered a lot of great films for the first time, and that was a plus.

Final Re-Cap 2005

001) 01-02-05 MASH (1970) ***
002) 01-02-05 The Phantom of the Opera (2004) ***
003) 01-02-05 The Defiant Ones (1958) ****
004) 01-03-05 Amadeus (1984) *
005) 01-03-05 Help Wanted Female (1968) **
006) 01-04-05 The Three Stooges in Orbit (1962) **
007) 01-07-05 The Monster that Challenged the World (1957) ***
008) 01-09-05 White Noise (2005) *
009) 01-09-05 Dawn of the Dead (2004) ***
010) 01-10-05 Zombies of Mora Tau (1958) **
011) 01-12-05 It! The Terror From Beyond Space (1958) ***
012) 01-14-05 Agony of Love (1966) BOMB
013) 01-14-05 Charley Varrick (1973) ***
014) 01-16-05 Broadway Danny Rose (1984) ***
015) 01-16-05 Mighty Aphrodite (1995) **
016) 01-17-05 Hollywood Ending (2002) ***
017) 01-18-05 M (1931) ***
018) 01-19-05 Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993) ***
019) 01-20-05 Stardust Memories (1980) ***
020) 01-21-05 Husbands and Wives (1992) ****
021) 01-22-05 Shadows and Fog (1992) ***
022) 01-23-05 A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982) **
023) 01-25-05 Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) ****
024) 01-26-05 The Public Enemy (1931) ****
025) 01-29-05 White Heat (1949) ****
026) 01-30-05 Hide and Seek (2005) ***
027) 01-31-05 Wild Man Blues (1997) ***

028) 02-01-05 Little Caesar (1930) ****
029) 02-01-05 Key Largo (1948) ****
030) 02-02-05 To Have and Have Not (1944) ***
031) 02-02-05 To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) ***
032) 02-02-05 The Roaring Twenties (1939) ***
033) 02-04-05 Westworld (1973) ****
034) 02-06-05 Dark Passage (1947) **
035) 02-07-05 The Petrified Forest (1936) ****
036) 02-08-05 The Maltese Falcon (1941) **
037) 02-08-05 High Sierra (1941) ***
038) 02-11-05 Gojira (1954) ****
039) 02-11-05 Godzilla Raids Again (Japan) (1955) *
040) 02-11-05 King Kong vs. Godzilla (Japan) (1962) ***
041) 02-11-05 Godzilla vs. Mothra (1964) ***
042) 02-12-05 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) ***
043) 02-15-05 Jezebel (1938) ***
044) 02-15-05 Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964) ***
045) 02-16-05 Adam's Rib (1949) ****
046) 02-16-05 On the Waterfront (1954) ****
047) 02-17-05 Godzilla vs. Monster Zero (1965) ***
048) 02-18-05 Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster (1966) **
049) 02-18-05 Son of Godzilla (1967) ***
050) 02-21-05 The Hustler (1961) ***
051) 02-25-05 They Don't Cut the Grass Anymore (1985) *
052) 02-25-05 A Thousand Pleasures (1968) *

053) 03-02-05 The Letter (1940) ***
054) 03-02-05 The Dark Eyes of London (1939) ***
055) 03-04-05 Windows (1980) *
056) 03-06-05 Hitch (2005) **
057) 03-08-05 Father of the Bride (1950) ***
058) 03-08-05 Lured (1947) ***
059) 03-08-05 The Little Foxes (1941) ***
060) 03-15-05 The Searchers (1956) **
061) 03-18-05 The Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch (2002) **
062) 03-18-05 Dracula (The Dirty Old Man) (1969) BOMB
063) 03-20-05 Block-Heads (1938) ****
064) 03-21-05 Way Out West (1937) **
065) 03-22-05 Frankenstein 1970 (1958) ***
066) 03-22-05 Fight For Your Life (1977) **
067) 03-23-05 Guess What Happened to Count Dracula? (1970) *
068) 03-24-05 The Man With Nine Lives (1940) **
069) 03-25-05 The Passion of the Christ (2004) ****
070) 03-26-05 The Robe (1953) **
071) 03-30-05 Ruby Gentry (1952) **
072) 03-31-05 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1912) **

073) 04-01-05 Unforgiven (1992) ****
074) 04-09-05 I was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957) **
075) 04-16-05 The Invisible Man Returns (1940) ***
076) 04-19-05 The Last Man on Earth (1964) ***
077) 04-19-05 Panic in Year Zero! (1962) ***
078) 04-19-05 The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959) ***
079) 04-26-05 Death Takes a Holiday (1934) ***
080) 04-27-05 Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) ***

081) 05-01-05 The Black Sleep (1956) ***
082) 05-03-05 The Man Who Changed His Mind (1936) ***
083) 05-03-05 The Walking Dead (1936) ***
084) 05-03-05 Voodoo Island (1957) *
085) 05-11-05 Mildred Pierce (1945) **
086) 05-15-05 House of Wax (2005) ***
087) 05-17-05 The Call of the Wild (1935) ***
088) 05-17-05 Radio Days (1987) **
089) 05-18-05 The Black Raven (1943) *
090) 05-19-05 I Stand Alone (1998) ***
091) 05-19-05 Sin City (2005) **
092) 05-24-05 Gone with the Wind (1939) **
093) 05-24-05 Africa Screams (1949) **
094) 05-27-05 The Corpse Vanishes (1942) **
095) 05-27-05 Woman of the Year (1942) **
096) 05-28-05 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) *
097) 05-30-05 The Noose Hangs High (1948) **

098) 06-02-05 Dance With Me, Henry (1956) *
099) 06-03-05 Eat the Document (1971) *
100) 06-04-05 Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) ***
101) 06-05-05 Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) ***
102) 06-05-05 Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) ***
103) 06-07-05 Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) ***
104) 06-10-05 Open Water (2003) ***
105) 06-12-05 One Night in the Tropics (1940) **
106) 06-13-05 Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) ***
107) 06-14-05 Cool Hand Luke (1967) ***
108) 06-16-05 Jaws (1975) ****
109) 06-20-05 Jaws 2 (1978) ***
110) 06-21-05 Jaws 3 (1983) BOMB
111) 06-21-05 Jaws: The Revenge (1987) **
112) 06-22-05 Batman Begins (2005) **
113) 06-23-05 Pulp Fiction (1994) ****
114) 06-25-05 Land of the Dead (2005) **
115) 06-28-05 Night of the Living Dead (1968) ****
116) 06-29-05 Dawn of the Dead (1978) ***
117) 06-30-05 Day of the Dead (1985) ***

118) 07-01-05 War of the Worlds (2005) ****
119) 07-01-05 Tourist Trap (1979) *
120) 07-02-05 Spider-Man 2 (2004) ***
121) 07-05-05 Buck Privates (1941) ***
122) 07-06-05 In the Navy (1941) **
123) 07-07-05 Hold That Ghost (1941) ***
124) 07-07-05 Keep 'Em Flying (1941) **
125) 07-08-05 Splash (1984) ****
126) 07-09-05 Fantastic Four (2005) ***
127) 07-12-05 Ride 'Em Cowboy (1942) **
128) 07-12-05 Pardon My Sarong (1942) ***
129) 07-14-05 Who Done It? (1942) ***
130) 07-14-05 Hit the Ice (1943) **
131) 07-15-05 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) **
132) 07-15-05 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971) **
133) 07-16-05 In Society (1944) **
134) 07-16-05 House of Frankenstein (1944) ***
135) 07-16-05 King Kong Escapes (1968) ***
136) 07-17-05 Million Dollar Baby (2004) **
137) 07-18-05 Here Come the Co-Eds (1945) **
138) 07-19-05 The Naughty Nineties (1945) ***
139) 07-19-05 Little Giant (1946) ***
140) 07-20-05 The Time of Their Lives (1946) **
141) 07-21-05 The Son of Dr. Jekyll (1951) *
142) 07-21-05 The Invisible Menace (1938) *
143) 07-24-05 The Devil's Rejects (2005) ****
144) 07-27-05 The Island (2005) ***
145) 07-29-05 Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster (1965) **

146) 08-02-05 El (1953) ***
147) 08-06-05 Lust For a Vampire (1970) **
148) 08-16-05 The Out of Towners (1970) ***
149) 08-17-05 Revenge of the Zombies (1943) **
150) 08-17-05 Bringing Up Baby (1938) ****
151) 08-19-05 Panic in the Streets (1950) **
152) 08-21-05 The 40 Year-Old Virgin (2005) ***
153) 08-21-05 The Wild One (1953) **
154) 08-22-05 Raging Bull (1980) ***
155) 08-24-05 The Odd Couple (1968) ****
156) 08-25-05 The Odd Couple II (1998) ***
157) 08-26-05 It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963) ***
158) 08-30-05 Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) **

159) 09-01-05 The Raven (1935) ***
160) 09-01-05 The Black Cat (1934) ****
161) 09-02-05 The Curse of the Werewolf (1961) **
162) 09-03-05 Helter Skelter (1976) **
163) 09-08-05 The Brides of Dracula (1960) ***
164) 09-09-05 Criminally Insane (1975) *
165) 09-10-05 White Chicks (2004) **
166) 09-11-05 The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005) **
167) 09-11-05 The Sting (1973) ****
168) 09-12-05 Schindler's List (1993) ***
169) 09-12-05 The Phantom of the Opera (1962) **
170) 09-13-05 Black Friday (1940) ***
171) 09-14-05 The Brick Dollhouse (1967) *
172) 09-14-05 A Sweet Sickness (1968) *
173) 09-16-05 Bad Girls Go to Hell (1965) *
174) 09-16-05 Another Day, Another Man (1966) *
175) 09-17-05 The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash (1978) ***
176) 09-18-05 Ben-Hur (1959) ****
177) 09-23-05 Perdita Durango (1997) *
178) 09-23-05 The Limey (1999) BOMB
179) 09-27-05 No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005) ***

180) 10-01-05 Indestructible Man (1956) **
181) 10-01-05 The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) ***
182) 10-02-05 The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958) ***
183) 10-04-05 The Seventh Victim (1943) **
184) 10-05-05 Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972) **
185) 10-06-05 Isle of the Dead (1945) **
186) 10-06-05 The Body Snatcher (1945) ****
187) 10-07-05 Cat People (1942) **
188) 10-08-05 Carrie (1976) ***
189) 10-08-05 Bedlam (1946) ***
190) 10-09-05 Abbott & Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1953) **
191) 10-09-05 I Walked With a Zombie (1943) ***
192) 10-10-05 The Invisible Man (1933) ****
193) 10-10-05 The Devil's Rain (1975) **
194) 10-10-05 Grizzly (1976) **
195) 10-11-05 Dracula Has Risen From the Grave (1968) ***
196) 10-11-05 Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970) **
197) 10-12-05 The Evil of Frankenstein (1964) ***
198) 10-16-05 I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957) ***
000) 10-18-05 I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957) **
199) 10-18-05 Blood of Dracula (1957) **
200) 10-18-05 How To Make a Monster (1958) ***
201) 10-18-05 Night of Terror (1933) **
202) 10-19-05 Invisible Ghost (1941) ***
203) 10-19-05 Werewolf of London (1935) **
204) 10-19-05 She-Wolf of London (1946) *
205) 10-20-05 The Wolf Man (1941) ****
206) 10-20-05 Phantasm (1979) **
207) 10-21-05 Freddy vs. Jason (2003) ***
208) 10-21-05 Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) ***
209) 10-22-05 Saw (2004) ****
210) 10-23-05 Phantasm II (1988) **
211) 10-23-05 House of Dracula (1945) **
212) 10-23-05 Dracula's Daughter (1936) ***
213) 10-24-05 House on Haunted Hill (1958) **
214) 10-25-05 The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973) **
215) 10-25-05 Island of Lost Souls (1933) ****
216) 10-26-05 The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967) **
217) 10-27-05 Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist (2005) *
218) 10-27-05 Hellraiser (1987) ***
219) 10-29-05 Spooks Run Wild (1941) **
220) 10-29-05 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) ****
221) 10-30-05 Saw II (2005) ***
222) 10-30-05 Exorcist: The Beginning (2004) ***
223) 10-31-05 The Munsters' Revenge (1981) *

224) 11-04-05 The Concert for Bangladesh (1972) ***
225) 11-04-05 Prime (2005) *
226) 11-05-05 Bride of Frankenstein (1935) ****
227) 11-05-05 Help! (1965) ***
228) 11-11-05 That'll Be the Day (1973) ***
229) 11-12-05 The Machinist (2004) ***
230) 11-13-05 Raising Cain (1992) BOMB
231) 11-14-05 The Flesh Eaters (1964) **
232) 11-14-05 The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) ****
233) 11-15-05 Rope (1948) ***
234) 11-17-05 Psycho (1960) ****
235) 11-21-05 The Haunting (1963) **
236) 11-22-05 King Kong (1933) ****
237) 11-22-05 Son of Kong (1933) **
238) 11-22-05 Psycho II (1983) ***
239) 11-24-05 Mighty Joe Young (1949) ***
240) 11-27-05 Frankenstein's Bloody Terror (1968) ***
241) 11-27-05 The Fury of the Wolfman (1970) *

242) 12-01-05 Annie Hall (1977) ****
243) 12-02-05 Small Time Crooks (2000) ***
244) 12-05-05 Play It Again, Sam (1972) ****
245) 12-06-05 Imagine: John Lennon (1988) ****
246) 12-10-05 The Thing (1982) ***
247) 12-18-05 King Kong (2005) **
248) 12-30-05 Paths of Glory (1957) ****
249) 12-30-05 The King of Kings (1927) ***

Total Features Watched: 249
First-time Viewings: 107

Well, I saw very few films made in 2005 this year. I went to see all of the big genre pictures like STAR WARS and KONG, but haven't been to as many smaller pictures(I still need to see BAREBACK MOUNTAIN, CAPOTE and a few others). I hope to have more variety in my film viewing in '06. And lots of repeat viewings this year. I've rewatched the SW films, BATMAN BEGINS, the original KONG and other faves several times.

Bring on 2006! Happy New Year, everyone!

Added the following to my list:

The Family Stone - ****
Fun with Dick and Jane - ***
Good Night, and Good Luck - ****
Munich - ****

Alas, Mike, no. Today was: go to work, come home, spend a few minutes online, shower, go out for New Year's Eve.

My totals for 2005:

686 films watched (373 and 313 )

My main reason for doing this was to get a better handle on how many films I've seen in my life. My best estimates have been "more than 5000 and less than 10,000", though most people scoffed and said no way I'd seen anywhere near that many. But I've been watching films for over 40 years, and for about 30 years at about the pace I do now (no doubt some years watching less, but certainly many years watching more, before I had a full-time job, a wife and a son). At least half of the films I watched this year were ones I'd never seen before, and even rounding down, 300*30 = 9000, and while that might still be too high, I still think "more than 5000 and less than 10,000" is probably accurate.

Brokeback Mountain (2005) 9/10
An outstanding film that's probably my pick for #1 new movie of 2005. The differences in the two main characters helps to make their relationship really interesting and compelling. Heath Ledger plays a rarely portrayed sort of character, in that he doesn't seem to be attracted to other men in general, but nonetheless finds the love of his life with someone of the same gender. But Jake Gyllenhaal's character is pretty clearly gay, and his struggles in their relationship are largely due to Ledger's character's inability to deal with his conflicting emotions. The supporting cast is excellent as well, with lots of memorable little character moments popping up all throughout. Ang Lee's direction is mostly straightforward, and it serves the story well.

Kiss of Death (1947) 8/10
Richard Widmark's legendary debut performance as a depraved criminal lives up to the hype, and Victor Mature is also great as a small-time robber who turns into a police informant. I also liked the romantic subplot with Mature and Colleen Gray. But the script does take some shifts in direction that feel somewhat forced, and a terrifically thrilling final scene unfortunately leads to a dud of an ending. Still, there's lots to like about it, especially the great tension of the robbery in the opening sequence.

Munich (2005) 8/10
A very strong suspense thriller, with chillingly realistic and brutal violence, particularly in the flashbacks to the Munich massacre itself. The cast is excellent, with Eric Bana being quite believable to me as a native-born Israeli. Somewhat to my surprise, the politically-oriented speechifying in several scenes is almost uniformly terrific, with some dialogue passages that represent larger currents of political thought on both sides of the Israeli/Arab conflict with great accuracy and compelling drama.

But the drama fades a bit down the end, as Spielberg's (mostly successful) approach of raising more questions than he answers comes up against the problem of the audience's identifying with the main character and the conclusions that he appears to have reached. And one climactic scene (climactic in, er, more ways than one) felt pretty over-the-top and botched to me as well. However, the film deals with a lot of interesting themes in a very compelling way.

My totals for 2005

862 films watched, 643 of those were first time viewings

Decade Breakdown

1880-1920s--70
1930s--26
1940s--14
1950s--31
1960s--53
1970s--79
1980s--59
1990s--51
2000s--476

Forgot to do my decade breakdown:

1910s - 1
1920s - 9
1930s - 60
1940s - 115
1950s - 62
1960s - 75
1970s - 68
1980s - 78
1990s - 79
2000s - 139

Bill kicked my ass overall, although I did see more in most of the decades. But for recent films and very early films, I am pulverized.

Passion Fish (1992)

Viewed 12/25/2005 (first viewing)

Fine drama from John Sayles about an ornery soap opera star paralyzed after an auto accident. She retreats to her Louisiana home and meets her match in her troubled nurse.

out of


Speedy (1928)

Viewed 12/25/2005 (first viewing)

Pleasant little Harold Lloyd comedy has the comedian trying to save his girlfriend's grandfather's horse-drawn trolley from being forced out of buisness. A bit too typical of Lloyd's other work, but still enjoyable.

out of


Piano Man (1996)

Viewed 12/26/2005 (first viewing)

Korean serial killer flick has a hot female detective tracking down the titular killer. A solid genre entry.

out of


Grizzly Man (2005)

Viewed 12/27/2005 (first viewing)

The best Werner Herzog documentary I've seen yet explores the final years and grisly (sorry) death of Timothy Treadwell, an aimless man who found his calling studying grizzly bears in Alaska.

out of


The Wooden Camera (2003)

Viewed 12/27/2005 (first viewing)

Pretty good little film from South Africa about two friends who find the corpse of a man. On the body they find two objects: a gun and a camera. The quieter boy takes the video camera and embarks on a career of documenting the world around him, while his friend takes the gun and begins a life of crime. Can they ever be reconciled after taking two such differnt paths, especially after they both fall for the same girl?

out of


Rouleman (2005)

Viewed 12/28/2005 (first viewing)

Stark drama about a couple of journalists investigating the whys and wherefores behind the murder of a young girl.

out of


The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)

Viewed 12/29/2005 (first and last viewing)

Well, this film gets the dubious honor of receiving my one and only Bomb rating for 2005. It's a courtroom drama that investigates the death of a young girl after a failed exorcism. Unfortunately it pays only lip service to any scientific analysis of the girl's death and panders to the masses by playing up the supernatural angle (it would have been far more interesting had it been the other way around). Add to that some truly ludicrous moments ("She looks at possession from a scientific perspective and doesn't try and debunk it!" Huh?) and there you go. A hearty f**k you to the makers of this trash.

Zero Stars out of


Empire of the Wolves (2005)

Viewed 12/29/2005 (first viewing)

Over-plotted thriller features Jean Reno as a disgraced bad cop teamed up with a young upstart partner to track down a serial killer. Or are the murders the result of something else? Worth a look, though it never really catches fire.

out of


Son of Kong (1933)

Viewed 12/30/2005

Sequel to King Kong has Carl Denham returning to Skull Island where he meets the big K's offspring. Better than I remember, but the rushed climax still hurts it.

out of


Borsalino & Co. (1974)

Viewed 12/31/2005 (first viewing)

Kickin' gangster flick has Alain Delon as an ousted crime boss seeking revenge on the rival mobster who took over his territory.

out of

[c]December Recap[/c]

Bolded titles are first viewings.

Ratings range from Bomb to


The Bird With the Crystal Plumage ***
Borsalino & Co. ***1/2
Bunshinsaba ***
Cabiria ***
The Card Player ***
The Dark Corner ***
A Dog's Life ***
The Driver ***
Empire of the Wolves **1/2
The Exorcism of Emily Rose Bomb
Fahrenheit 451 ***1/2
Fantastic Four ***
Flic Story ***1/2
For Heaven's Sake ****
The 40-Year-Old Virgin ***
Galaxy Quest ***
Girl Shy ***
Godzilla: Final Wars ***
Grizzly Man ****
House By the River ***
Ivanhoe ***
The Kid Brother ***1/2
King Kong (1976) **1/2
King Kong (2005) ****
Kiss of Death '47 ***
Lancelot of the Lake ***
The Last Tycoon ***1/2
Let's Go With Pancho Villa ****
Lianna ***
Lilya 4-Ever ***1/2
Little Fugitive ***
Mary Pickford ***
McCabe and Mrs. Miller ***
The Milky Way (1936) ***
Mouchette ***
Ninotchka ***1/2
Passion Fish ***
Phantasm II **1/2
The Pharmacist ***
Piano Man ***
Rouleman ***
Scarlet Street ***
Show Me Love ***1/2
Signs & Wonders ***
Sin City: Recut ****
Slaughterhouse Five ***
Son of Kong ***
Speedy ***
State of Grace ***
3:10 to Yuma ***1/2
Two Men in Town ***
Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price ***
The Wooden Camera ***1/2


Total films viewed: 53

First viewings: 36


A pretty good year for me with over 600 films viewed. I'd say about 70% of those were first viewings. (I'd give an exact count but I never updated my post on the first page and I'm way too tired right now to go back through the thread to find my monthly recap posts.) Anyway, I really started exploring silent films this year, making Saturday night "Silent Movie Night," and plan on continuing this (I still need to watch Lang's Die Nibelungen!) Highlights of the year would include seeing for the first time almost all of Aki Kaurismaki's films, including the brilliant tragedy/noir Juha (highly recommended). Well, catch ya in the 2006 thread!

so who's gonna open the 2006 version?

wow how did i miss it, never mind.

421 movies seen - 386 for the first time

Really enjoyed participating in the thread this year...I dropped right off getting reviews of all the films I watched done, so I figure next year I should concentrate on only the interesting ones.

Thanks to all the other contributers. I was steered to many films I otherwise would've completely missed due to the reviews and discussions. I also learned a great deal about, well, film in general.

Looking forward to more discoveries this year.

Favourites of the year:

My Voyage To Italy
The Third Man
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (previously seen)
The Battle Of Algiers
For All Mankind
The Red Shoes
The Incredibles (previously seen)
Touch Of Evil
Catch-22
Primer
Personal Journey With Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (previously seen)
Visions Of Light (previously seen)
The Ox-Bow Incident
Punch-Drunk Love (previously seen)
The Royal Tenenbaums (previously seen)
Blazing Saddles (previously seen)
Grosse Pointe Blank (previously seen)
Hoop Dreams (previously seen)
Jaws (previously seen)
Almost Famous (previously seen)
The Sting (previously seen)
Psycho
Short Cuts
Being John Malkovich

Overall ratings:

24
320
75
2


Breakdown by year:

1920's - 3
1930's - 22
1940's - 40
1950's - 41
1960's - 35
1970's - 51
1980's - 28
1990's - 58
2000's - 143

373 films seen for me in 2005
270 first viewings
17 repeat viewings within the year

77 films seen in a theater, about 60% of those pre-2005 films

True - but then it doesn't really make much sense to own DVDs, does it?

Final update

First time viewings in Blue

The Idiot (1951)
Kurosawa melodrama about a mentally unstable mans relationship with two women and the tragedy that befalls. Toshiro Mifune is very good in a supporting role.

I Live in Fear (1955)
Glacial paced Kurosawa drama stars Toshiro Mifune as an elderly man obsessed with nuclear annihilation.

The Purple Plain (1954)
WWII melodrama stars Gregory Peck as a battle fatigued bomber pilot.

The King and Four Queens (1956)
Lightweight Western has cowboy Clark Gable romancing a quartet of females in order to find some hidden loot.

In Harms Way (1965)
John Wayne & Kirk Douglas lead an all star cast in this drama on the lives of a group of Naval Officers during the immediate aftermath of the Pearl Harbor attack.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960)
Michael Curtiz version of Mark Twain’s famous boy adventurer. I’d still like to check out the more famous 1939 version.

The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)
Awkward Historical drama/comedy chronicling the lead-up to the Crimean War.

Cromwell (1970)
Disappointing Historical drama chronicles the revolt led by Oliver Cromwell (Richard Harris) against King Charles I (Alec Guinness) in 17th century England.

The Grissom Gang (1971)
A pale Bonnie & Clyde imitation has a group of misfits kidnapping a young girl who eventually falls in love with one of the kidnappers.

The Devil’s Rejects (2005)
Stomach churning Hillbilly splatter-fest that manages to rip-off everything from Texas Chainsaw Massacre to Near Dark, etc. I did like the use of the southern rock soundtrack which merit it an extra half star.

Tess (1979)
Overlong and bland period melodrama chronicling the sexual misadventures of poor farm girl Nastassja Kinski. Not the type of material Roman Polanski is adept at.

2005 in review.

First time viewings = 620
Revisits = ???*

* I stopped keeping track of revisits from my collection very early in the year because frankly it started to become a tedious bore. I found this thread more useful in tracking my first time viewings while occasionally commenting on a few notable revisits such as something new to DVD, etc.

All in all a pretty good year of older film discoveries (mostly noirs) and a decent year for new releases - the few I've seen that is.


Top 20 First Time Viewings

1. King Kong (2005)
2. Night and the City (1950)
3. Sin City (2005)
4. Nightmare Alley (1947)
5. Incredibles, The (2004)
6. Fallen Idol, The (1948)
7. Batman Begins (2005)
8. Touchez pas au Grisbi (1954)
9. Cinderella Man (2005)
10. Downfall (2004)

11. Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)
12. House of Flying Daggers (2004)
13. Raw Deal (1948)
14. Seven Men From Now (1956)
15. Adventures of Don Juan (1948)
16. Polar Express, The (2004)
17. War of the Worlds (2005)
18. Woman in the Window, The (1945)
19. Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)
20. Infernal Affairs (2002)

Well, yeah. But why do you own some movies?

Best 50+ Movies I Saw for the First Time in 2005


Adam's Apples (Adams æbler) (2005|Anders Thomas Jensen)
Alexandra's Project (2003|Rolf de Heer)
The Barbarian Invasions (2003|Denys Arcand)
The Big Red One: The Reconstruction (2004|Samuel Fuller)
Boy Meets Girl (1984|Leos Carax)
Brokeback Mountain (2005|Ang Lee)
The Burning Earth (Der Brennende Acker) (1922|F.W. Murnau)
Caché (2005|Michael Haneke)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005|Tim Burton)
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005|Andrew Adamson)
Class Trip (La Classe de Neige) (1998|Claude Miller)
The Conformist (Il Conformista) (1970|Bernardo Bertolucci)
Duck Season (Temporada de Patos) (2004|Fernando Eimbcke)
L' Eclisse (1962|Michelangelo Antonioni)
Enduring Love (2004|Roger Michell)
L'Enfant (2005|Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne)
Even Dwarfs Started Small (Auch Zwerge Haben Klein Angefangen) (1970|Werner Herzog)
Far Side of the Moon (La Face Cachée de la Lune) (2003|Robert Lepage)
Fox and His Friends (1975|Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Friday Night (Vendredi Soir) (2002|Claire Denis)
Germany Year Zero (Germania Anno Zero) (1948|Roberto Rossellini)
The Great Yokai War (Yôkai Daisensô) (2005|Takashi Miike)
Grizzly Man (2005|Werner Herzog)
A History of Violence (2005|David Cronenberg)
Howl's Moving Castle (Hauru no Ugoku Shiro) (2004|Hayao Miyazaki)
Human Resources (1999|Laurent Cantet)
Japanese Story (2003|Sue Brooks)
Kung Fu Hustle (Gong Fu) (2004|Stephen Chow)
Lacombe Lucien (1974|Louis Malle)
Late Spring (Banshun) (1949|Yasujiro Ozu)
License to Live (1998|Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
Manderlay (2005|Lars von Trier)
Miss Julie (1999|Mike Figgis)
Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924|Fritz Lang)
A Page of Madness (Kurutta Ippeji) (1926|Teinosuke Kinugasa)
Phantom (1922|F.W. Murnau)
Punishment Park (1971|Peter Watkins)
The Rage In Placid Lake (2003|Tony McNamara)
A Short Film About Killing (Krótki Film o Zabijaniu) (1988|Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Sound of the Mountain (Yama no Oto) (1954|Mikio Naruse)
Stroszek (1977|Werner Herzog)
Sunflower (2005|Yang Zhang)
A Swedish Love Story (En Kärlekshistoria) (1970|Roy Andersson)
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931|F.W. Murnau)
Takeshis' (2005|Takeshi Kitano)
The Time of the Wolf (2003|Michael Haneke)
The Time to Live and the Time to Die (Tong Nien Wang Shi) (1985|Hsiao-hsien Hou)
Tsotsi (2005|Gavin Hood)
Les Uns et les Autres (1981|Claude Lelouch)
Vera Drake (2004|Mike Leigh)
La Vie Promise (2002|Olivier Dahan)
The Wayward Cloud (Tian Bian yi Duo Yun) (2005|Ming-liang Tsai)
What Is It? (2005|Crispin Glover)
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Onna ga Kaidan o Agaru Toki) (1960|Mikio Naruse)
Women in Revolt (1971|Paul Morrissey)
The World (Shijie) (2004|Zhang-ke Jia)

To each his own. I'd never give up my collection. I'd rather never see a new movie ever again, than not be able to rewatch all the great films in my collection. Of course it's fun discovering a new movie, but for me, 9 out of 10 of the new films I see are ones I'd never want to watch again, and half of those are horrible. And the 1 out of 10 that is worth watching again, while good, is rarely as good as most of my collection.

I'll always want to watch new films, but I spend at least half of my time rewatching the greatest films ever made, which already are in my collection. Of course that collection is so large, that it takes a number of years to rewatch everything anyway. There are about 30 dvds in my collection I haven't seen since 2000, though hopefully I'll get to those this year.