2023 Film Watch (January)

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Continuing on from 2020, I’m keeping track of the films that I’m watching during 2023, by month.

Here’s to January 2023!

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Compared to last year at this time, I am nowhere near the amount of films I watched (62 films compared to 16). But that’s okay, because I didn’t set myself any particular goal.

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Note: (N) indicates a film that was new to me (aka never seen before).

If you see a link on one of the titles, following it takes you to my review of the film on Letterboxd.

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1. Happy Death Day (2017)
2. Happy Death Day 2U (2019)
3. The Bourne Identity (2002)
4. Logan’s Run (1976)
5. The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
6. The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
7. Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe (2020)
8. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
9. Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995) (N)
10. Ready or Not (2019)
11. Guns Akimbo (2019)
12. Wholly Moses! (1980) (N)
13. Gojira (aka Godzilla) (1954) (N)
14. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
15. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
16. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
    

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Top 50 List for 2023 (of Films I’d Never Seen Before).

Last year, one of the goals I set for myself was to watch at least one film a day that I’d never seen before. Films tha stretched from 1921 to 2022. I missed 37 days of the year not watching any films, but I ended up with a grand total of 474, out of 675 films watched. So, a little past my goal.

Here’s the top 50 of those 474. I thought for sure that the number one film of the year was going to stay number one by the end of the year. I’d seen it on March 25, as the 126th film of the year, and the 104th one I hadn’t seen. You could tellthat I thought highly of that film. But then 275 days later (546 films later), on Christmas Day, out of nowhere, came a film that ended up tying for first place.

Here’s the top 50:

1. When Marnie Was There / Marcel the Shell With Shoes On
3. Everything Everywhere All At Once
4. Spirited Away
5. My Neighbor Totoro
6. Princess Mononoke
7. North by Northwest
8. Last Night in Soho
9. Rope
10. Taxi Driver
11. The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
12. The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special
13. The Deer Hunter
14. Big Fish
15. The Elephant Man
16. Ordinary People
17. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
18. The Sting
19. Brigsby Bear
20. The Wind Rises
21. The Mitchells vs. the Machines
22. A Monster Calls
23. King Kong (1933)
24. ‘dial M for Murder’
25. Rear Window
26. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
27. Howl’s Moving Castle
28. Castle in the Sky
29. Ponyo
30. Pompoko
31. Only Yesterday
32. The Shape of Water
33. Another Earth
34. Guillermo del Toro’s Pinochhio
35. Ghostbusters: Afterlife
36. From Up on Poppy Hill
37. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
38. Thor: Love and Thunder
39. The Iron Giant
40. My Man Godfrey
41. The Wicker Man
42. The Evil Dead
43. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
44. Dark City (Director’s Cut)
45. Let the Right One In
46. Akira
47. Stranger than Fiction
48. The Art of Racing in the Rain
49. Room
50. Tideland

2022 Film Watch (December)

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Continuing on from 2020, I’m keeping track of the films that I’m watching during 2022, by month.

Here’s to December 2022!

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I hit 474 films this year that I’d never seen before, 123 of them this month alone – which works about to around 1/6th of the films I watched total (675).

Film of Note: It’s not often a person gets to do something like this, but I watched STUDIO 666 as my 666th film of the year.

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Of those 474 I’d never seen before, these were my top 10:

10. Taxi Driver
9. Rope
8. Last Night in Soho
7. North by Northwest
6. Princes Mononoke
5. My Neighbor Totoro
4. Spirited Away
3. Everything Everywhere All At Once
1. A tie: WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE and MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON.

A fun month with a lot of great films and not once did I feel pressure to watch any of them to hit any goal.

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Note: (N) indicates a film that was new to me (aka never seen before).

If you see a link on one of the titles, following it takes you to my review of the film on Letterboxd.

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1. Star Wars, Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)
2. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
3. Dredd (2012) (N)
4. Star Trek: Generations (1994)
5. Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
6. Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
7. Turning Red (2022) (N)
8. Star Wars, Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015)
9. Star Wars, Episode VIII: The Last Jedi (2017)
10. Laggies (2014) (N)
11. Star Wars, Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
12. Iron Man (2008)
13. The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982) (N)
14. The Incredible Hulk (2008)
15. Iron Man 2 (2010)
16. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! (1978) (N)
17. Thor (2011)
18. Flash Gordon (1980)
19. Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
20. The Avengers (2012)
21. Iron Man 3 (2013)
22. Basket Case (1982) (N)
23. The Stuff (1985) (N)
24. Time Bandits (1982)
25. Thor: The Dark World (2013)
26. Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
27. Casablanca (1942)
28. Sherlock Jr. (1924) (N)
29. Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
30. Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
31. Starfish (2018) (N)
32. Ant-Man (2015)
33. The Stunt Man (1980) (N)
34. Brigsby Bear (2017) (N)
35. Captain America: Civil War (2016)
36. Doctor Strange (2016)
37. Guardians of the Galaxy vol 2 (2017)
38. Spider-Man Homecoming (2017)
39. Big Eyes (2014) (N)
40. Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
41. Black Panther (2018)
42. Avengers: Infinisty War (2018)
43. A Fantastic Fear of Everything (2012) (N)
44. Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)
45. Captain Marvel (2019)
46. Avengers: Endgame (2019)
47. Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)
48. Let the Right One In (2008) (N)
49. Black Widow (2021)
50. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)
51. Eternals (2021)
52. Kat and the Band (2020) (N)
53. Let Me In (2010) (N)
54. Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
55. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)
56. Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)
57. The More You Ignore Me (2018) (N)
58. Santa Claus: The Movie (1985)
59. Muppets Haunted Mansion (2021) (N)
60. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
61. I Am Groot: Groot’s First Steps (2022) (N)
62. I Am Groot: The Little Guy (2022) (N)
63. I Am Groot: Groot’s Pursuit (2022) (N)
64. I Am Groot: Groot Takes a Bath (2022) (N)
65. I Am Groot: Magnum Opus (2022) (N)
66. Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
67. Winchester (2018) (N)
68. Casino Royale (2006)
69. Quantum of Solace (2008)
70. Skyfall (2012)
71. SPECTRE (2015)
72. No Time to Die (2021)
73. Enchanted (2007)
74. Disenchanted (2022) (N)
75. The Christmas Chronicles (2018) (N)
76. The Christmas Chronicles: Part Two (2020) (N)
77. A Christmas Prince (2017)
78. A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding (2018)
79. A Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby (2019)
80. Blackadder’s Christmas Carol (1988) (N)
81. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011) (N)
82. The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015) (N)
83. Elf (2003)
84. Pee Wee’s Big Holiday (2016)
85. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) (N)
86. A Boy Called Christmas (2021) (N)
87. Last Christmas (2019) (N)
88. Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
89. It’s Wonderful Life (1846)
90. A Christmas Story (1983) (N)
91. Jack Frost (1997) (N)
92. Anna and the Apocalypse (2017)
93. Olaf’s Frozen Adventure (2017) (N)
94. Noelle (2019)
95. Unicorn Store (2017)
96. Strange World (2022) (N)
97. The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
98. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2021) (N)
99. A Midnight Clear (1992)
100. The Boys from Brazil (1978) (N)
101. Bone Tomahawk (2015) (N)
102. Forbidden Planet (1956)
103. Star Trek (2009)
104. Star Trek: Into Darkness (2013)
105. Star Trek: Beyond (2016)
106. Spontaneous (2020)
107. Deadpool (2016)
108. Deadpool 2 (2018)
109. Ron’s Gone Wrong (2021) (N)
110. Ed Wood (1994)
111. Guillermo de Toro’s Pinocchio (2022) (N)
112. Full Metal Jacket (1988) (N)
113. The Wonder (2022) (N)
114. Studio 666 (2022) (N)
115. The Man who Invented Christmas (N)
116. My Favorite Year (1982) (N)
117. Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)
118. Princess Mononoke (1997)
119. My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
120. Spirited Away (2001)
121. Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)
122. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2021)
123. When Marnie Was There (2014)

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Goodbye, 2022. It was fun!*

*except for I AM A GHOST

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Please note: Any and all photos or trailers used for posts on my blog are not intended to infringe on any copyright(s): they are used solely for entertainment purposes, and not monetary gain.