Finishing 100 movies on time

With a feeling of great accomplishment, I announce... I finished my 100 movies on time - and with over a week to spare! My teaching practicum and subsequent substitute teaching kept me busy enough to not even think to update this blog as I went along, but now that those are complete I can share here what I've got.

62. January 17 - Clueless
63. January 20 - Bernie
64. January 24 - Breakfast at Tiffany's
65. January 26 - The Usual Suspects
66. January 27 - Goon
67. January 28 - The Queen of Versailles
68. January 31 - Groundhog Day
69. February 5 - Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
70. February 7 - The Graduate
71. February 10 - Reservoir Dogs
72. February 17 - Argo
73. February 24 - The Perks of Being a Wallflower
74. February 26 - Les Miserables (2013)
75. March 3 - Half Nelson
76. March 5 - Monkey Business
77. March 7 - Pitch Perfect
78. March 9 - Primer
79. March 11 - Jiro Dreams of Sushi
80. March 16/17 - Submarine
81. March 23 - Heathers
82. March 29 - A Fish Named Wanda
83. March 30 - Duck Soup
84. April 18 - The Watch
85. April 20 - Baby Mama
86. May 10 - Silver Linings Playbook
87. May 27 - Lawless
88. June 6 - The Goonies
89. June 7 - Total Recall
90. June 7 - Tangled
91. June 8 - The Breakfast Club
92. June 9 - Bully (2011)
93. June 10 - Moulin Rouge
94. June 12 - Equilibrium
95. June 16 - Roman Holiday
96. June 17 - Keeping Mum
97. June 18 - Star Trek Into Darkness
98. June 21 - World War Z
99. June 23 - To Kill A Mockingbird
100. July 2 - This is the End

(Honorable inclusion 101. The Adjustment Bureau)

It's been so long now since I've seen some of these that I hardly think I can give a fair judgement to many of them. Despite all my practice this year, I'm still horribly bad at remembering details of movies! Overall, though, I saw some great films (like To Kill A Mockingbird, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, Argo); some pretty mediocre ones (The Watch, Bad Teacher, Made); some I can't believe I hadn't watched until now (The Goonies, Galaxy Quest, Little Shop of Horrors); some that made me think (Bully, Vegucated, Waiting for Superman); some that I shamefully enjoyed a lot (Magic Mike, THEM!, Clueless); some that others love, but I found to be a disappointment (Primer, Puss in Boots, Looper); and some that I'll definitely watch again (Pitch Perfect, The Usual Suspects, How to Train Your Dragon).

What a great year of movies! Should I do it again...?

Long-overdue movie update...

I can't believe I haven't updated this thing since October! I suppose it goes to show just how busy my semester got... I did, however, manage to watch a lot of movies since then, mostly thanks to the extended Christmas break I had (oh, how I miss that already). Here's what I've got, starting after My Neighbour Totoro:

32. October 20?- We Need to Talk About Kevin. I read the book, so I felt like I should see the movie.
33. October 27- Made. I really can't remember why I bothered to watch this. It was unmemorable, but it was on Netflix and so was easy.
34. October 29- Sixteen Candles. Not bad.
35. October 31- Cabin in the Woods. I watch very few "horror" movies, so this one seemed okay to me, but everyone seems to have a different opinion.
36. November 3- Moonrise Kingdom. Wes Anderson!!
37. November 10- The Blob (1958). Sufficiently entertaining.
38. November 12ish- Slap Shot. Pretty funny.
38. November 17- Galaxy Quest. HOW HAD I NEVER SEEN THIS MOVIE BEFORE?????? Alan Rickman is a genius. The rest of the movie was great too.
39. November 19- Election. Matthew Broderick and Reese Witherspoon- started out okay. Kind of got weird and withered after a while.
40. November 22- Pretty in Pink. All I could think about was how "Ducky" is in 2.5 Men.
41. December 1- Puss in Boots. Exactly the same as every other Dreamworks animated feature. Take that how you like.
42. December 3- Looper. Overhyped. Good, but I HATED the ending... almost made me wish I hadn't seen the rest of the movie.
43. December 4- Whatever Works. Larry David is hilarious, but I think I prefer him in TV-episode-length intervals. Not a bad movie though.
44. December 8- Vegucated. Basically a movie about these people who are challenged to go vegan for six weeks, what they learn, and whether or not they stay vegan at the end. Interesting.
45. December 11- Dial M for Murder. Classic! Good movie.
46. December 15- The Over-the-hill Gang. I watched this at home with my family but I'd just arrived home and was falling asleep. What I saw of it was pretty funny, though- sometimes you need a cheesy western.
47. December 16- Hanna. Awesome!
48. December 18- Little Shop of Horrors (1986). How had I not seen this movie before? Weirdly though, the version we rented had the original "director's cut" ending, and was super weird. Wish they'd had both endings on the DVD, as I had to Youtube the other ending because the one I saw didn't make the movie feel complete.
49. December 20- Scrooged. Easter Egg at the end of this movie- "Feed me, Seymour!" -directly taken from Little Shop of Horrors (the plant says it)- didn't even expect for that to happen. Hilarious though.
50. December 21- Deathtrap. Twists and turns, pretty entertaining. I've since watched Sleuth, though, and Sleuth was the better of the two.
51. December 22- Annie Hall. I think I just need to take Woody Allen in small doses, because this was a good movie, but it was almost too much after just seeing Whatever Works.
52. December 23- Skyfall. Loved this! 
53. December 26- Superman (1978). So long, but worth it in the end.
54. December 28- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. The first Elizabeth Taylor movie I've ever seen. 
55. December 30- Django Unchained. Pure indulgent entertainment. Some great lines and scenes in this movie.
56. January 2/3- Cleanflix. A doc about Mormons editing Hollywood films in Utah. You can probably imagine the rest from that.
57. January 3- The Terminator. When he said "I'll be back," I was like huh? That's no big deal. Then he came back and I was like OH.
58. January 6- The Land Before Time. Cute.
59. January 7- Goldeneye. After seeing Skyfall, I felt like I should go back and actually watch some other Bond movies, since I've mostly only watched the ones with Daniel Craig and his "lived-in look". Pierce Brosnan was definitely more slick, but still good.
59. January 10- The Jungle Book. Look for the bare necessities, the simple bare necessities, forget about your worries and your strife!
60. January 12/13 - Cool Hand Luke. Nobody can eat 50 eggs. Damn, Paul Newman was a looker.
61. January 14- Sleuth. For being a fairly long film, Sleuth had me on the edge of my seat the entire time. SO good!