New years resolutions are the damndest things; every January we think up things we can do to make ourselves better people. Gym membership swells, enrolment in online courses surges and pubs are empty. For 2013 I decided on a resolution that not only would I enjoy completing but I could experience with others and share my progress along the way – The 100 movie challenge. I challenged myself to watch 100 movies I had never seen before in 12 months. Any genre, any era, the only rule was I couldn’t have seen it before.
My usual choice of movies is a trashy rom com or a feel good 80’s teen movie so I also wanted to use the list as a chance to branch out, seek out classic movies I had never seen and experience some genres I wouldn’t usually try. I choose 100 as it seemed like an acceptable and, more importantly, achievable, target.
So how am I doing?
With 4 months of the year gone I have watched a total of 54 new movies – in other words I am smashing it! So much so in fact that I have decided to increase my target to 150 movies by December 31st 2013!!
I have posted the list of movies watched so far below so you can see how I am getting on.
I would point out two things – firstly you’ll often see patterns i.e during award season I watched a lot of the nominated films and if I attended a festival (e.g Sundance London) then many of the screenings are on the list. I’ll admit the classics aren’t getting much of a look in at present- but that’s something to work on! Some films were a disappointment (Silver Linings Playbook anyone? Just me?) and some I utterly adored (Kings of Summer – catch it if you can!) but I enjoy adding an entry to my list after each movie regardless of what I thought of it.
I would point out two things – firstly you’ll often see patterns i.e during award season I watched a lot of the nominated films and if I attended a festival (e.g Sundance London) then many of the screenings are on the list. I’ll admit the classics aren’t getting much of a look in at present- but that’s something to work on! Some films were a disappointment (Silver Linings Playbook anyone? Just me?) and some I utterly adored (Kings of Summer – catch it if you can!) but I enjoy adding an entry to my list after each movie regardless of what I thought of it.
So here’s the list so far:
1. Struck by Lightning
2. Skyfall
3. Now is Good
4. Hello, I Must Be Going
5. Zero Dark Thirty
6. Jeff, Who Lives at Home
7. Moonrise Kingdom
8. Waiting for Forever
9. Little Birds
10. Half Nelson
11. Les Miserables
12. Silver Linings Playbook
13. So Undercover
14. Take This Waltz
15. Lincoln
16. Anna Karenina
17. Argo
18. The Impossible
19. The Sessions
20. The Imposter
21. Love and Honor
22. I Give it a Year
23. Django Unchained
24. The Master
25. Amour
26. In Time
27. Footloose (2011)
28. The Ghost
29. All Good Things
30. Dan, In Real Life
31. Four Lions
32. The First Time
33. The Brass Teapot
34. The Knot
35. West of Memphis
36. Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial
37. Breaking Away
38. Fun Size
39. Ginger and Rosa
40. This is 40
41. What Richard Did
42. Compliance
43. Unstoppable
44. The Giant Mechanical Man
45. Sightseers
46. Prosecuting Casey Anthony
47. Shadow Dancer
48. People Like Us
49. Touchy Feely
50. The Kings of Summer
51. In Fear
52. A.C.O.D
53. Upstream Color
54. Iron Man 3
I’m looking forward to growing the list even further in the next few months and hope I can keep the same pace throughout the year – for now though I’m off to watch number 55! I’ll let you know what I think.
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