'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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Goodbye 2012...

Well here we are again... Another year about to come to an end.

2012 has been a HUGE year for me and even though there have been some down moments mostly it's been a great year.

The year started off perfectly with BJ and I moving into our house. We've spent the year doing little home improvements and really making it our own.

And we ended this year getting engaged. After 7 wonderful years together we are both very excited to be getting married... in 2013!!!

I've finally let go off stressing about my work as our office is doing the best it's ever done and that is all thanks to our amazing team. I don't mind that i've had to go in and do what a few times over my Christmas holidays as it just means that things aren't going to slow down for us - Which is great news.

I havent blogged as much as i'd hoped to, or stuck to a lot of my goals this year but i am going to make up for all that in 2013. I'm motivated more then every to get healthy, get crafty and get bloggin'.

And now in no particular order here are some awesome things that i've seen and hear this year...


Awesome movies I've seen this year:
The Avengers
Take Shelter
The Muppets
Moonrise Kingdom
The Perks of Being a Wallflower


Awesome albums I've heard this year:
Jack White - Blunderbuss
Alabama Shakes - Boys & Girls
The Black Keys - El Camino
Edward Sharp & The Magnetic Zeroes - Here
Bon Iver - Bon Iver


Awesome TV I've watched:
Breaking Bad
AMC's The Walking Dead
Game Of Thrones
Mad Men
Treme
(And honorable mention to Boardwalk Empire... I could keep listing because there has been some AWESOME TV this year)


Favourite Fork This episode for 2012:

2013 is going to be a great year for us and I cant wait to share it all on here. 

xx

Smorgy

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Christopher Nolan's Batman Trilogy *No Spoilers*

BJ and I are both really excited about the final Batman this Thursday. BJ LOVES this trilogy and has been talking about it non-stop for 12 months, waiting it to be out... If you've spoken to him, im sure he's mentioned Batman... A LOT! I too love this trilogy but am excited for another reason. This Batman trilogy is the first new trilogy BJ and I have experienced together from start to finish and I am excited and sad for it to come to an end.

Batman Begins was the FIRST movie we ever saw together. We went to Reading Cinemas in Chirnside Park and it was before we were even dating and only the second time we'd hung out together. Batman Begins was the start of what was to become a very large (and expensive) addiction between BJ and I. We love going to the cinemas and if we could we'd go every week.

Dark Knight was viewed at a cinema in Seattle, WA. It was released just before our 3rd anniversary (Which we celebrated at Disneyland) and we were left with a whopper of a story from our adventure to the cinemas. The day had us walking 5 miles to a cinema only to find they weren't playing Dark Knight, then another mile to the next cinema, walking down the side of a busy road which wasn't pedestrian friendly, only to come out of the movie late at night, stranded, with no taxi's around and the fear of not knowing how we'd get back to our motel.

In the end we got a lift from a very friendly fella who played talk back church radio the whole drive back to the motel and wouldn't accept any money from us. Good times!

And now here we are at The Dark Knight Rises which came out right before our anniversary once again. It will be our 7th anniversary... Oh my, how time flies. We have followed this Trilogy for our whole relationship and we were so excited for the final instalment of what has been a great trilogy.

BJ and I walked out of the cinemas opening night, gave each other a big hug and just smiled.

It's the end of an era.... But I look forward to many more trilogies in our future.

xx
Smorgy

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70 “New-To-Me” Movies 2011

Last year i set myself a realistic goal of 50 'New-To-Me' movies. This year i increased my number to 70 and i made it.

Here is my list of movies I watched in 2011 and my ratings. Looking at the list there are only a couple of ratings that i now regret and would change but have left at my original rating.

January:

Greenberg – 1.5/5

Black Swan – 5/5

February:

127 Hours – 4/5

March:

Just Buried – 1.5/5

Because I said so – 2/5

The Last Kiss – 2/5

Hairspray (1988) – 2.5/5

Youth and Revolt – 2.5/5

Waiting for Guffman – 3.5/5

No Reservations – 3/5

Dinner for Schmucks – 2/5

Cyrus – 3/5

The Runaways – 2/5

Get Him To The Greek – 4/5

April:

How to eat fried worms – 3/5

Hot Rod – 2/5

Thor – 3.5/5 – By the hammer of THOOORRRR!!!!

May:

Paperman – 4/5

Blood into Wine – 4/5

The Hangover 2 – 4/5

June:

The Green Hornet – 3/5

Drive Angry – 3/5

American: The Bill Hicks Story – 4/5

Year One – 1/5

Super 8 – 4/5

DIG! – 3/5

Stranger than fiction – 3/5

Couple’s Retreat – 2.5/5

We own the night – 2/5

Rango – 3/5

July:

District 9 – 3.5/5

You Again – 3/5

Mama Mia – 2/5

Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows Pt 2 – 4/5

Bride Wars – 2/5

Jesus Camp – 3/5

Suckerpunch – 2/5

Bridesmaids – 4/5

Accepted – 3/5

Despicable me – 2.5/5

August:

Sunshine – 3/5

Captain America – 4/5

The Losers – 3/5

Raising Arizona 4/5

Hesher – 4/5

The music never stopped – 4/5

Man with the screaming brain – 2/5

Sourcecode – 2/5

Bad Teacher – 2/5

The Best and the Brightest – 3/5

September:

Everything Must Go – 3/5

The Beaver – 3/5

Burlesque – 2/5

Horrible Bosses – 3/5

Intolerable Cruelty – 3/5

October:

Red State – 4.5/5

November:

Let’s go to Prison – 2/5

Marley and Me – 2/5

Exit through the gift shop – 4.5/5

Tucker and Dale vs Evil – 2.5/5

Welcome to the Dollhouse – 1/5

The Benchwarmers – 3/5

December:

50/50 – 4.5/5

The Help – 4.5/5

The Myth of the American Sleepover – 3/5

The Invention of Lying – 3/5

Contagion – 3.5/5

Our idiot brother – 3/5

Cherrybomb – 1/5

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice – 4/5

Project Nim – 5/5

7 Up – 3/5

7 Plus 7 – 3/5

Submarine – 5/5

Total: 74

Good Effort if i do say so myself. Next year I will probably increase it more. With BJ and I moving in together we will have a lot more time to watch movies (AND TV shows).

I should really do a blog like this for TV shows but it's a hard one because there are soo many series we started this year as well as one's we've continued from past years. There is soo much GREAT TV out there at the moment so i might just mention some of my favourites currently.

Great Shows:

Breaking Bad - fantastic show. I wasn't the happiest person with regards to the ending of season 4 but i fucken love that show. Boardwalk Empire - Just amazing. Everything about it is perfect. The acting the sets the costumes. Louie - HILARIOUS!!! Don't need to say anything else. For Animation I'm in love with Bob's Burgers and Archer. I still love How I Met Your Mother. My new favourite sitcom is New Girl. Perfect in every way. Game Of Thrones - Mother fucken Game of THRONES!!!! The Killing is the most depressing show i've watched and actually had to stop for a while because i couldn't handle it but it's such an amazing edge-of-your-seat show. The Walking Dead always gets your heart racing and the season of nothing happening was worth sitting through for the last 10 minutes of the season final. Mike and Molly, Raising Hope and Melissa and Joey are all worth watching, feel good shows. The nerd in me feels enough people don't know about Eureka and should.

Not So Great Shows:

I'm proud to say i've finally quit True Blood. Talk about a shit show. It made me soo angry but i'm not one to finish mid season so i toughed it out. Also, I'm pretty disappointed with how this years season of Dexter went. It turned really soapie and lame. I still can't tell if Colin Hanks was acting really well or REALLY BADLY. Season ending was a twist which HOPEFULLY will improve next season. Entourage's ending was what BJ described as and i quote 'A pile of shit'. Glee has been stinkin' pretty bad since the end of season 1. This season of Chuck has been a bit lagging which makes me sad.

So there is a little insight to SOME of the TV I've watched this year. (I watch a fuckload of TV). 

BJ are I are trying to decide weather to watch a TV show or movies to bring us into 2012.  So i may have to add to this later on.

Hope everyone has a safe and happy new year.
2012 is going to be the best!!

xx

Smorgy

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