1.01.2009

The Coelacanth Watched Movies

I did an interesting thing (that did not involve any reproductive organs) in 2008. I watched a bunch of movies. Out of curiosity, though, I wrote every one down in a notebook. You probably don't care, but I thought it was kind of neat, and some fairly obvious patterns emerged.

If you care to scroll through the list, a couple of explanatory remarks: the film titles with (C) beside them are ones I saw in the cinema.
In some cases (i.e. TV series/some films), I didn't watch the entire thing on that specific day, but the day listed was simply when I completed the series/film ("Baseball" being the obvious one).
Some of the films I had seen before, some I had not. Here goes:

January

3 - Hostel: Part II
4 - Psycho III
Natural Born Killers
5 - Stardust
6 - Angel Heart
Big Trouble in Little China
Shoot 'Em Up
8 - Hannibal Rising
10 - Henry Fool
There Will Be Blood (C)
The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!?
12 - Phantom of the Paradise
13 - No Country For Old Men (C)
14 - Onibaba
A Bell From Hell
17 - The Abominable Dr. Phibes (C)
19 - King of New York
20 - Coal Miner's Daughter
21 - Thunder Road
23 - Saw IV
24 - Ms. 45
True Romance
The Mechanic
25 - Into the Wild (C)
27 - MASH
Control (C)
28 - Blow Out
Night Moves
29 - They All Laughed
31 - Michael Clayton (C)
Rambo (C)

February

1 - Death Sentence
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
4 - Smokin' Aces
6 - Death Hunt
8 - The Orphanage (C)
11 - Race With the Devil
13 - Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
14 - Diary of the Dead (C)
17 - Out of Sight
Garbage Warrior (C)
19 - Vive le Tour
Kurt Cobain About a Son
28 - Meatballs
29 - Crimes of Passion

March
6 - The Tenant (C)
Sleepaway Camp
9 - The Flying Scotsman
After Hours
12 - Cruising
24 - Persepolis (C)

April
1 - Ken Burns' Baseball
9 - Juno
13 - P2
23 - White Mane
The Red Balloon
26 - Paddle to the Sea
Wolves: A Legend Returns to Yellowstone

May
8 - Zombie (C)
19 - Los Muertos
29 - Iron Man (C)
30 - Monkey Warfare

June
3 - The Late Show
4 - Ils (Them)
8 - Gothic
10 - 3 Women
17 - Deadly Strangers
18 - Honeydripper
24 - Frontiere(s)

July
6 - The Tracey Fragments (C)
22 - Doomsday
23 - The Dark Knight (C)

August
1 - Waterwalker
5 - King of the Hill
18 - Sans Soleil
28 - Woman in the Dunes
Smiley Face

September
5 - V For Vendetta
7 - Cloverfield
9 - The Burrowers (C)
10 - Martyrs (C)
13 - Inju, la bete dans l'ombres (C)
Prince of Darkness
14 - The Host
20 - Forgetting Sarah Marshall
30 - Nightmare Detective

October
2 - Vampires
Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer
8 - Inside
14 - The Strangers
17 - The Old Dark House
18 - Halloween
Pumpkinhead
Return of the Living Dead
Demons
22 - The City of the Dead
25 - In the Mouth of Madness
27 - Child's Play
Fright Night
28 - The Oblong Box
31 - Satan's Little Helper
Halloween III: Season of the Witch

November
2 - Hellboy II: The Golden Army
10 - Buffy the Vampire Slayer S1
13 - TransSiberian
18 - Red
20 - Antonio Gaudi
23 - The Last Winter
26 - Scream of Fear
27 - Vanishing Point
29 - Buffy S2

December
5 - Buffy S3
12 - Paranoid Park
14 - Ed Wood
Bell, Book and Candle
Scrooged
16 - Buffy S4
20 - The Unforeseen
22 - Escape From New York
28 - The Wrestler (C)

Roundup:
Films/TV watched: 120
Watched in cinema: 21
2008 releases: 14

New Year's resolutions: watch more current film/go to the cinema more often.

Try to keep your own film diary for 2009. It's fun and informative.

3 comments:

Dropkick said...

i was wondering what you were gonna do with your notes, this is pretty impressive and fun to read.
I'm thinking i should start one up too. it'll definitely keep track of how many films I'm watching.

dude, you blasted through those Buffys

the coelacanth said...

yes, mad addicted to buffy! it also took me maaaaad loong (on NYE too) to do links to all the films. my life's mad exciting...

Dropkick said...

this some REAL TALK