Friday, 31 August 2012

The film challenge

At the beginning of July, I accepted somewhat of a challenge from www.reddit.com which entailed watching 100 movies in 365 days. A challenge indeed, as I'm not the best movie watcher ever and my attention span can run a little short, but I thought I may as well give it a try. Since about July 14, I have actually managed to watch 21 movies- an awesome start. It gives me an excuse to finally catch up on my movie watching. Here is the list thus far (and approximate, whole number scores out of 10):

1. July 14?- American Psycho 7/10
2. July 18?- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 9/10
3. July 20?- Star Wars II 6/10
4. July 22- How to Train Your Dragon 10/10
5. July 23- The Princess Bride 8/10
6. July 25- Dazed and Confused 7/10
7. July 26- I Love You Philip Morris 7/10
8. July 29- Batman Begins 9/10
9. July 30- Pinocchio 7/10
10. August 8- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 8/10
11. August 11- The Dark Knight (for the third time) 10/10
12. August 13- The Five-Year Engagement 6/10
13. August 14- Bad Teacher 5/10
14. August 16- The Dark Knight Rises 9/10
15. August 18- The Royal Tenenbaums 7/10
16. August 19- Rushmore 7/10
17. August 23- Fright Night 7/10 (would have been lower, but David Tennant made it awesome)
18. August 25- Wargames 7/10
19. August 26- THEM! 8/10
20. August 29- The Ides of March 7/10
21. August 30- Clue 7/10

I know a lot of these hover around a 7, but I do my best to watch movies I think I'll like. 7 means I enjoyed it, but wouldn't make it to a list of "top favorites of all time". For the rest of this challenge (starting now) I'm going to do my best to write reviews of the movies.. At least every other one. Enjoy!