Wednesday, April 18, 2012

My Movie Diary (August 2010-March 2012)

Since August of 2010, I've been keeping a movie diary on the right-hand column of FILMICABILITY.   But now it's time for me to delete those titles on the sidebar in order to make room for newer titles. So, in one single post, I decided to group these 630 films and 14 TV series according to the grades I've given them.  This is really just a post for me, but it can be for you, too.   Just take all the titles in the A+/B range, and if there's anything you haven't seen on these lists, boy, update your Netflix list pronto, because you need to see these movies/TV series.   At any rate, I'm not commenting at all on these, except to say: AVOID those titles at the bottom!  


A+
Pulp Fiction, You're Gonna Miss Me, General Orders No. 9, The Tree of Life, A Little Romance, Midnight Cowboy, Culloden, A Man Escaped, Bonnie and Clyde, O Lucky Man, Tommy, Rushmore, Goodfellas, A Separation, Tiny Furniture, Yellow Sky, Quatermass and the Pit, Hardware Wars, The Big Lebowski, Drugstore Cowboy, Men Don't Leave, Birth, The Deer Hunter, Moneyball, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, On The Bowery, Melancholia, Interiors, Frankenstein (1931), Louie (Seasons 1 & 2), The Fountain, Tess, Life is Sweet, Blood Simple, To Kill a Mockingbird, Blue Velvet, Bugsy Malone, Short Cuts, Inglourious Basterds, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries, Harry and Tonto, The King's Speech, Encounters at the End of the World, This Man Must Die, 12 Angry Men, Timepiece, Special Delivery, Marvin and Tige, Electra Glide in Blue, Chopped (seasons 1-10), Jackie Brown, All The President's Men, Hud, Brewster McCloud, Point Blank, Troll 2 (good bad movie), "I Know Where I'm Going," Let Me In, Goodbye Day, Ablution, Secrets and Lies, K Street (miniseries), per-mu-tat-tion, On The Bowery, All or Nothing, 8 Ball Bunny, The Dot and the Line, My Darling Clementine, Our Day, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, King-Sized Canary, Breaking Bad (Seasons 1-4), The Office (seasons 1-5), Home Movies (Seasons 1-4), The House of Mirth, Salesman, What's Up, Doc?, Mad Men (Seasons 1-4), The Wire (Seasons 1-3), Targets, Dock Ellis and the LSD No-No, Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory, Catalog, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, The Social Network, Boxing Gym, The Heiress, Greenberg, The Short and Curlies, Topsy-Turvy, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Edvard Munch, Make Way for Tomorrow, The Sopranos (full series).

A
Star Wars, Dillenger (1973), We Need To Talk About Kevin, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, Buck, Inside Moves, Heartbeats, Of Gods and Men, Storytime, Winnie The Pooh, An Idiot Abroad (Seasons 1 and 2), Footnote, Motion Painting 1, King of the Hill (Steven Soderburgh), Hell and Back Again, A Night to Remember, Dusty and Sweets Magee, George Harrison: Living in the Material World, One Trick Pony, Carny, The Edge of Heaven, Billy Budd, Goodbye First Love, Stanley Kubrick's Boxes, Play, A Little Help, Striking Distance (good bad movie), We Own The Night, Find Me Guilty, The Wrestler, The Artist, High School, Contagion, Pina, Car Wash, Citizen X, Career Girls, Successful Alcoholics, Red (starring Brian Cox), Reagan, Big Fan, Theater of Blood, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (Seasons 1-4), Galaxy Quest, eXistenZ, The Last of Sheila, Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Elliot Spitzer, Happy-Go-Lucky, Red (Bruce Willis), The Simpsons (Season 4), Easy A, Blue Valentine, Conspiracy, The Rutles: All You Need is Cash, Birds Anonymous, Green for Danger, My Dog Tulip, The Fighter, Disneyland Dream, Clueless, Rejected, Player Hating: A Love Story, The Ghost Writer, Blazing Saddles, The Autobiography of Nicolai Ceausescu, The Bostonians, Carlos, A Letter to Elia, Tuesday After Christmas, Inside Job, Hausu, Lucky Louie (Season 1), The In-Laws (1979), Picnic at Hanging Rock, Julia (Tilda Swinton), Frozen (2010), Night of the Demon, Deep End, Insignificance, The Tin Star, The Ricky Gervais Show (Seasons 1 & 2)


A-
Gone in 60 Seconds (1974), The Yes Men Fix The World, Crazy Stupid Love, Phone Booth, Elephant (Alan Clarke short), Shampoo, Louie CK: Hilarious, The Future, King of New York, Bridesmaids, The Dirty Dozen, Japanese Myths, The Silence of the Lambs, The Devil's Double, The Squid and the Whale, An Enemy of the People, The Little Foxes, The Devil Thumbs A Ride, C'est La Vie, Paris Texas, The Boys Next Door, Enter the Void, Buffalo Soldiers (2001), Escape From New York, Seconds, The Constant Nymph, Martha Marcy May Marlene, La Vie en Rose, Magic, Jude, Heat (Michael Mann), Disabled but Able to Rock, Rabbit Hole, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, The Swimmer, The Odd Couple (1968), Kitchen Nightmares (Seasons 1-4), Dick, Gandhi, You're Telling Me, Frances, Lebenon, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Cyrus, Tom Sawyer (1973), The Bank Job, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, Double Indemnity, War Zone (Maggie Hadleigh-Smith), Nights and Weekends, The Bridge, Silent Souls, Aurora, Rollerball (1974), Mother and Child, The Outsiders (director's cut), Please Give, The Hitch-hiker (Ida Lupino)


B+
Duma, The Sniper, Midnight in Paris, The Lonely Guy, The Brink's Job, Captain America: The First Avenger, The Sunshine Boys, Project Nim, Beginners, The Trip (full series, 2011), The Inturrupters, Pollyanna, Patton, The Guard, The Rain People, The Yes Men, Tell No One, Little Buddha, Into the Abyss, Warrior, River of Grass, Clean and Sober, My Week With Marilyn, Source Code, When The Wind Blows, Magnum Force, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Win Win, A Room with a View, Path to War, Seven Men From Now, Death Buy Lemonade, Kwidan, Cleopatra (1963), Countdown to Zero, Night Shift, Hatchiko: A Dog's Story, Beeswax, Who is Harry Nilsson (and Why is Everybody Talkin' About Him), The Tillman Story, Stone, Pawn Stars (Seasons 1-4), Mona, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Monsters, The Great Santini, Eegah (good bad movie), Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today, The Racket, Meek's Cutoff, Tales from the Crypt (1972), 1941, The House of the Devil, The Narrow Margin (1952)


B
Trainspotting, Exam, Once Upon a Time in America, War Horse, The Days of Wine and Roses, That Evening Sun, Q, Corman's World, The Doonesbury Movie, A Dangerous Method, Breaker Morant, Quicksand, Where The Sidewalk Ends, Tyrannosaur, The Man Who Crossed Hitler, The Muppets, Ironweed, The Aviator, Croupier, The Skin I Live In, The Descendants, An Inconvenient Truth, 4:44: Last Day on Earth, The Help, Fatso, Let There Be Light: The Making of DARK STAR, Boardwalk Empire (Seasons 1 & 2), Inherit the Wind (1962), Rocky Balboa, Rio Lobo, The Gathering Storm, Helter Skelter (2004), Stepping Out, Freakonomics, Lars and the Real Girl, The Lookout, Get Low, Suddenly, Lovely Still, Black Swan, Paranormal Activity, Monty Python's Life of Brian, Without Limits, Film Socialisme, American Hot Wax, Dark Passage, Our Mother's House, Animal Kingdom, Trailer Park Boys: The Movie, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), Man with the Gun, Voices, One on One

B-
Paul, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Desperate Hours (Cimino version), Before The Devil Knows You're Dead, Water for Elephants, The Mist, Rudy, Loophole, Candleshoe, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Walking and Talking, Tell No One, 'night Mother, Half Nelson, Robocop 2, The Beaver, The Happy Years, Beautiful Girls, Copland, The Falcon and the Snowman, Assault on Precinct 13 (1973), Terri, The Last Man on Earth, The Caine Mutiny, Greased Lightning, Short Walk to Daylight, A Patch of Blue, Soldier in the Rain, Bonanza Bunny, Outland, The Company Men, Big, Longford, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Blood Work, Hardcore Pawn (Seasons 1-2), The Bunker, Somewhere, Splice, The Office (seasons 6 & 7), Gasland, Huge (Season 1), Hot Tub Time Machine, Lennon NYC, Quiz Show, The Leopard, How to Train Your Dragon, In the Valley of Elah, The Hospital, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

C+
Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Red State, The Paper, Horror of Dracula, When Worlds Collide, Puss in Boots, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (David Fincher), Three Days of the Condor, Ciao Manhattan, Black Dynamite, A Bunch of Amateurs, Carnage, Cleaners, The Lady in Ermine, The Devil Rides Out, Vicki Christina Barcelona, Brainstorm, The Young Lions, Man on Fire, Hanna K., The Special Relationship, The New Centurions, Bitter and Twisted, Rango, Texas Killing Fields


C
Hugo, In The Heat of the Night, The Round-Up, Transamerica, Django, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Racing with the Moon, A Movie, Firstborn, 28 Days, Trial and Error, The Towering Inferno, Rabid, Night Falls on Manhattan, Happy Accidents, Barber Shop, Man in the Moon, A Dog Year, Margin Call, She's Working Her Way Through College, The Enforcer, Sometimes a Great Notion, Helen, Lust For Life, Art and Copy, Welcome to Mooseport, Best Worst Movie, Moonshot, Just You and Me, Apocolypto, John Carpenter's Vampires, Welcome to the Rileys, The Night They Raided Minsky's, The Cat Concerto, An Unfinished Life, American Crude, American: The Bill Hicks Story, Brubaker, Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Cemetery Junction, Cold Weather, Page One: Inside The New York Times, Cinema Verite, Too Big to Fail, The Ides of March 

C-
Ice Station Zebra, Horrible Bosses, Super 8, The Scenesters, Smokey and the Bandit II, Hammer, Battle Royale, Into the Night, The Selling, Our Idiot Brother, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Fair Game, Only You, Six Pack, Paul McCartney is Really Dead, Funeral for a Friend, Art School Confidential, Nowhere Boy, Phoebe in Wonderland, The Robber, Hereafter, Revelucion, Immortal Sargeant, Rampart, The Boyfriend

D+
The Iron Lady, This Thing of Ours, Sudden Impact, Surviving the Game, Unstoppable, 127 Hours, The Sunset Limited, Conan O' Brien Can't Stop, 

D
The Conspirator, Bad Teacher, The Satan Bug, The Bigamist, Fighting Back, Evilspeak, Billy The Kid (1956), Albert Nobbs, J. Edgar, Fast Break, The Man With The Golden Gun, The Conspiritor, The Brothers Grimm, Lymelife, 8 Million Ways to Die, The Elephant in the Room, Fracture, To Hell and Back, Deadhead Miles

D-
My Super Ex-Girlfriend, 30 Minutes or Less, Grandma's Boy, Me Myself and Irene, Frankie and Alice, Kick-Ass, The Strange Case of Angelica, Pretty Ugly People, Saturn 3, Another Earth

F
Larry Crowne, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, The Wicker Tree, Wrecked, Robocop 3, Little Murders, Chillerama, Immortal Beloved, Hot Stuff, We Can't Go Home Again, Assault of the Killer Bimbos, Joe Dirt, Nothing But Trouble, The Omen (2006), Veronica Guerin, Volunteers, Edison Force

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Wow ! Kickass got an F !!