Saturday, January 10, 2015

'New To Me' Movies of 2014

Every year I keep a list of movies I've never seen before and set a goal of how many I would like to see for the year. For 2014 I had 75 as my goal and I achieved that (and then some).

So in no particular order here is my top 10 movies of 2014. 
  1. Her
  2. Dallas Buyers Club
  3. The Princess Bride
  4. The Jerk
  5. Mud
  6. The Grand Budapest Hotel
  7. The Way Way Back
  8. A Mighty Wind
  9. The Kings Of Summer
  10. Guardians Of The Galaxy
With special mentioned to The Room and Frankenhooker for being two movies that i will never forget.

And here is the list of everything I watched in 2014:


January
1.     Anchorman 2 – 3/5
2.     Gangsta squad – 4/5
3.     Saving Mr Banks – 3.5/5
4.     Her – 4/5
5.     Dallas Buyers Club – 4/5
6.     Wolf of Wall Street – 3.5/5

February
7.      Blue Jasmine – 3/5
8.      Robocop – 3/5
9.      Nebraska – 4/5
10.   Princess Bride – 5/5

March
11.  Barton Fink – 2.5/5
12.  Veronica Mars 4/5
13.  The Jerk – 4/5
14.  Mud – 4.5/5

April
15.  The Room – 0/5 (But will be watch many more times)
16.  Drag Me To Hell – 3.5/5
17.  Captain America: The Winter Solider – 3/5
18.  Serendipity – 3/5
19.  The Grand Budapest Hotel – 4.5/5
20.  In Your Eyes – 3/5
21.  The Queen of Versailles – 3/5
22.  Vulgar – 3/5

May
23.  Filth – 4/5
24.  The Way Way Back – 4/5
25.  Ender’s Game – 3.5/5
26.  The Big Bounce – 2/5
27.  Afternoon Delight – 3/5
28.  A Mighty Wind – 4/5
29.  Last Vegas – 3/5
30.  The Double – 2/5
31.  Manic – 3/5
32.  Hope Springs – 2.5/5

June
33.  Julie & Julia – 3/5
34.  Eat Pray Love – 2/5
35.  Before Sunrise – 2.5/5
36.  August – Osage County – 4.5/5
37.  22 Jump Street – 2.5/5
38.  Only Lovers Left Alive – 3/5
39.  Transamerica – 3/5

July:
40.  Frankenhooker – 2.9/5
41.  Mighty Aphrodite – 3/5
42.  The Kings of Summer - 4.5/5
43.  The Great Buck Howard – 4/5
44.  Living In Oblivion – 3.5/5

August:
45.  Step Brothers – 3/5
46.  Guardians Of The Galaxy – 4/5
47.  Cuban Fury – 2/5
48.  Spiderman 2 – 2/5
49.  The Fault in our Stars – 3.5/5

September:
50.  Sunshine Cleaning – 3/5
51.  Locke -3/5
52.  The Station Agent – 4/5
53.  Spirited Away – 4/5
54.  Chef – 4/5
55.  Frank – 3.5/5
56.  In The Soup – 3/5

October:
57.  Swimming With Sharks – 2.5/5
58.  Jersey Boys – 3/5
59.  Event Horizon – 1.5/5
60.  Wish I Was Here – 4/5
61.  Happy Christmas – 3/5
62.  This Is Where I Leave You – 3/5
63.  The Story of The Descendents & All – 4/5
64.  Machete Kills – 4/5

November:    
65.  Gone Girl – 3.5/5
66.  Lust For Love – 3/5
67.  Land Ho! – 3/5
68.  Sound Of My Voice – 3/5
69.  Let’s Be Cops – 2.5/5
70.  Interstellar – 4/5
71.  The Kings Speech – 4/5
72.  Godzilla – 2/5
73.  Dawn of the Planet of the Apes – 3.5/5
74.  Rudderless – 4/5
75.  The Imposter – 3.5/5
76.  Hunger Games: Mockingjay – 3/5

December:
77.  Tusk – 4/5
78.  The Skeleton Twins – 2.5/5
79.  Mistaken For Strangers – 4/5
80.  20,000 Days on Earth – 3/5
81.  X-Men: Days of future past – 3/5
82.  St Vincent – 4/5
83.  They Came Together – 3/5

84.  Afflicted – 3.5/5


There were some really amazing movies watched this past year and some really unforgettable ones. I have decided to aim for 80 movies this year and I'm already three in. 

xx
Smorgy



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