Way back in July, I did the Mid-year Movie Breakdown where I gave a short breakdown of all the movies I had watched up until that point. What we all learned from this is that I am a total loser with too much time on my hands. Well, I am happy to inform you that that did not change! I am still the same, lovable loser who is afraid to leave his bedroom. So now, my obsessive compulsive brain brings you the entire list of 2009, this time with double the insane categorization!! Here we go!!
The list consists of 254 titles.
The month in which I watched the most movies was January with an incredible 42 titles.
The month in which I watched the least movies was November with a paltry 7 titles. Yes, quite an embarrassment.
Breakdown by decade:
1900-1909: ZERO
1910-1919: ZERO
1920-1929: 6
1930-1939: 7
1940-1949: 19
1950-1959: 27
1960-1969: 51
1970-1979: 58
1980-1989: 30
1990-1999: 14
2000-2009: 42
The director who I watched the most was Akira Kurosawa, with 9 titles. Other notable numbers are Ingmar Bergman (5), Stanley Kubrick (5), Alfred Hitchcock (5), Andrei Tarkovsky (3), Billy Wilder (3), David Lynch (3), Howard Hawks (3), Jack Arnold (3), Jack Hill (3), Jacques Tourneur (3), John Carpenter (3), Roger Corman (3), Sam Peckinpah (3), Terence Fisher (3), Teruo Ishii (3), Werner Herzog (3), and Woody Allen (3).
Country Breakdown:
United States: 139 (over half)
Japan: 31
United Kingdom: 21
Italy: 14
France: 11
Germany: 10
Sweden: 6
Hong Kong: 4
Russia/USSR: 4
Spain: 4
Canada: 3
South Korea: 2
Czechoslovakia: 1
Denmark: 1
Mexico: 1
Netherlands: 1
New Zealand: 1
Genre breakdown:
Horror: 85
Drama: 61
Action/Adventure/War: 46
Science Fiction: 27
Comedy: 22
Western: 7
Documentary: 5
Musical: 1
Last time, Toshiro Mifune was the most frequent actor on the list with 5 appearances. However, he has been dethroned!! By who, you ask? The great, underrated VINCENT PRICE with 6 appearances! Congratulations, Vinnie! Let's see what you've won! NOTHING! because you're dead.
The weirdest movie I saw remains Valerie and Her Week of Wonders.
The worst movie that I saw is a tie between the Friday the 13th remake and Newsies (Both of which I saw in the theaters!)
The most suprising film I saw was The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters. I can't praise this film enough. Not only is it possibly the best documentary I've ever seen, it was one of the most compelling and interesting movies I've seen from this past decade.
The most disturbing film I saw is another documentary, Jesus Camp. If you want a terrifying glimpse into what could be in store for the next generation of Americans, watch this film. I am reminded of a quote from the book 1984: "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever." This movie is a boot to the pie hole.
Only 34 of the films were repeat viewings from before. I only watched one movie two times in the past year: Trick 'r Treat, a great new Halloween movie that was released on DVD this year.
There we go. Just imagine all the things I could have accomplished instead of wasting time compiling all this information and watching all these films. I'd be the freaking president of something. But movies are my weakness and I love watching them and somehow, this does not seem like a waste of time to me. So here's to a new year, and doubling the length of this list! GO TEAM!!!!!!
So where's the whole list you ask? Well, here it comes!!
| 8 1/2 |
| 10th Victim |
| 12 Monkeys |
| 2001: A Space Odyssey |
| A Bout de Souffle |
| Abominable Dr. Phibes |
| Ace in the Hole |
| Aguierre: The Wrath of God |
| Alphaville |
| Amadeus |
| Amelie |
| Andrei Rublev |
| Anthropophagus: The Grim Reaper |
| Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The |
| Assault on Precinct 13 |
| Battle Royale |
| Beast from 20,000 Fathoms |
| Beyond the Darkness |
| Beyond the Valley of the Dolls |
| Big Sleep, The |
| Black Book |
| Black Sunday |
| Blind Woman's Curse |
| Blindman |
| Blob, The |
| Blood on Satan's Claw |
| Body Snatcher, The |
| Bonnie and Clyde |
| Bridge on the River Kwai, The |
| Bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia |
| Bringing Up Baby |
| C.H.U.D. |
| Casablanca |
| Cat and the Canary, The |
| Cat People |
| Changeling, The |
| Chasing Amy |
| Children of Men |
| City of Lost Children |
| Class of 1984 |
| Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs |
| Coffy |
| Creature from the Black Lagoon |
| Curse of the Cat People |
| Curse of the Werewolf, The |
| D.O.A. |
| Dark City |
| Das Boot |
| Dead and Buried |
| Dead of Night |
| Death Race 2000 |
| Demons |
| Deranged |
| Devil Rides Out, The |
| Devil's Backbone, The |
| District 9 |
| Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The |
| Django |
| Dodes'ka-den |
| Dog Day Afternoon |
| Don't Look Now |
| Double Indemnity |
| Downfall |
| Drag Me to Hell |
| Earth vs The Flying Saucers |
| El Topo |
| Elephant Man |
| Elevator to the Gallows |
| Erik the Viking |
| Even Dwarfs Started Small |
| Exorcist, The |
| Eyes Wide Shut |
| Fanboys |
| Fantastic Planet |
| Farhenheit 451 |
| Faust |
| Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion |
| Female Yakuza Tale |
| Fountain, The |
| Foxy Brown |
| Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman |
| Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed |
| Freaks |
| Frenzy |
| Friday the 13th |
| Gate of Flesh |
| Get Carter |
| Ghost in the Shell |
| Ghost Ship |
| Girl Who Knew Too Much, The |
| Great Escape, The |
| Great Silence, The |
| Halloween |
| Hangover Square |
| Hangover,The |
| Harakiri |
| Hard-Boiled |
| Haunting, The |
| Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages |
| Hidden Fortress |
| Horrors of Malformed Men, The |
| Hour of the Wolf |
| House of Bamboo |
| House of Wax, The |
| House on the Edge of the Park |
| I Love You, Man |
| I Walked with a Zombie |
| Ikiru |
| In a Glass Cage |
| Inglourious Basterds |
| Invasion of the Body Snatchers |
| Invisible Man, The |
| It Came From Beneath the Sea |
| It Came from Outer Space |
| Jacob's Ladder |
| Jason and the Argonauts |
| Jesus Camp |
| Jigoku |
| Kagemusha |
| Kibakichi |
| Killer, The |
| Killing Fields, The |
| Killing of a Chinese Bookie, The |
| Killing, The |
| King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, The |
| Kiss of Death |
| Kuroneko |
| Kwaidan |
| La Dolce Vita |
| Lady in White |
| Lair of the White Worm |
| Laura |
| Le Cercle Rouge |
| Le Samourai |
| Legend of 7 Golden Vampires, The |
| Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural |
| Leopard Man, The |
| Les Diaboliques |
| Let the Right One In |
| Little Murders |
| Lives of Others, The |
| Lolita |
| Lookout, The |
| Lost Highway, The |
| Love and Death |
| M |
| Mad Love |
| Maltese Falcon |
| Man Who Laughs, The |
| Man with the Movie Camera |
| Marathon Man |
| Marebito |
| Marnie |
| Masque of Red Death, The |
| Master of the Flying Guillotine |
| Matango: Attack of the Mushroom People |
| Mechanic, The |
| Metropolis |
| Midnight Express |
| Mulholland Drive |
| Naked Kiss, The |
| Naked Lunch |
| Network |
| Newsies |
| Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist |
| Night of the Creeps |
| Night of the Demons |
| Night of the Hunter |
| North by Northwest |
| Observe and Report |
| Once Upon a Time in America |
| Onibaba |
| Paris, Je T'aime |
| Persona |
| Pieces |
| Pineapple Express |
| Pit and the Pendulum, The |
| Point Blank |
| Poltergeist |
| Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead |
| Premature Burial |
| Prince of Darkness |
| Psycho |
| Quartermass and the Pit |
| Ran |
| Rashomon |
| Repo Man |
| Return of the Evil Dead |
| Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky |
| Rio Bravo |
| Robinson Crusoe on Mars |
| Rock 'n' Roll High School |
| Role Models |
| Sabata |
| Sanjuro |
| School of the Holy Beast |
| Seconds |
| Sentinel, The |
| Shadow of a Doubt |
| Shock Waves |
| Sister Street Fighter |
| Sleeper |
| Slumdog Millionaire |
| Society |
| Solaris |
| Spartacus |
| Stalker |
| Star Trek |
| Step Brothers |
| Stranger, The |
| Straw Dogs |
| Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter |
| Street Fighter, The |
| Stroszek |
| Sunset Boulveard |
| Super High Me |
| Switchblade Sisters |
| Sword of Doom |
| Sympathy for Lady Vengeance |
| Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance |
| Sympathy for the Underdog |
| Take the Money and Run |
| Talk Radio |
| Tarantula |
| Testuo: The Iron Man |
| Them! |
| Throne of Blood |
| Through a Glass Darkly |
| Tingler, The |
| Touch of Evil |
| Trick 'r Treat |
| True Romance |
| Two-Lane Blacktop |
| Typewriter, the Rifle, and the Movie Camera, The |
| Uninvited, The |
| Valerie and Her Week of Wonders |
| Valley of Gwangi, The |
| Vampyr |
| Vampyres aka Daughters of Dracula |
| Vanishing Point |
| Virgin Spring, The |
| Warriors, The |
| Watchmen |
| Waxwork |
| White Zombie |
| Wild Bunch, The |
| Wild Strawberries |
| Wizard of Gore |
| Wolf Man, The |
| Wrestler, The |
| Yojimbo |
| Zack and Miri Make a Porno |
| Zombie Holocaust |
| Zombieland |
2 comments:
awesome progress man! keep up the good work! read through your list, if you want to watch a really great Hitchcock film that I think is grossly underrated, check out ROPE. let me know what you think!
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