I forgot to say that in my last posting: Happy new year, my dear readers! Inspired by some of you, here is my ranking for last year: Films which came out in 2010 or 2011 and which I saw in 2011. Onto the list!
1. Copie Conforme
2. The Guard
3. Midnight in Paris
4. True Grit
5. Saranghanda, saranghaji anneunda
6. Tropa de Elite 2
7. The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya
8. Biutiful
9. Hugo
10. Golden Slumber
11. 127 Hours
12. Kung Fu Panda 1 & 2
13. Bridesmaids
14. Black Swan
15. Friends with Benefits
16. Puss in Boots
17. Confessions
18. The Housemaid
19. Les amours imaginaires
20. The Ides of March
21. You will meet a tall dark stranger
22. Toy Story 3
23. Shutter Island
24. Welcome to the Uchuu Show
25. Sleeping Beauty
26. No Strings Attached
27. Solanin
28. Pokémon Movie No. 13: Zoroark Master of Illusions
29. Source Code
30. Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole
31. The Borrower Arrietty
32. Thor
1-7 were absolutely brilliant, 8-14 were great, 15-22 were good and the rest was okayish to downright horrible. Unsurprisingly, “Thor” is the only film in the category “downright horrible”, most films I have seen had some merit.
If I did not make a mistake, I did indeed watch 32 films of this year! Thinking about it, that is quite impressive and I probably have not seen so many recent films ever since my early days of movie-watching. Let’s hope next year will be another great year of films as well.
I like how our lists differ from those of renowned film critics in how there are so many random movies in there. (POKÉMON!! XD)
From the (few) films we have in common we are pretty comparable. Of course I want to see your top ones – I didn’t realize how much you liked The Guard.
HAHAHA Pokemon! XXXXD Yeah, our lists are random but perhaps in some sense even more refined than “renowned movie critics” lists because our tendency to watch what other people want to read about is smaller.
I want to see your top films too – Melancholia is a must despite my current doubts against Emolars, and “Abrir puertas y ventanas” sounds very interesting. I think you need to watch more movies though… how can “Biutiful”, “Black Swan” AND “127 Hours” be in your top 5? Harr harr.
My love for “The Guard” probably mostly comes from incredible fan-girling for “In Bruges” and the McDonagh brothers.
Dito to the fangirling, the brothers are wonderful. (I still think it’s one and the same person.)
I guess we differ in that we have “regular” friends and still possess shards of random curiosity?