2011 Movie Recap

Apparently I can't exceed 70 movies in a year. For some reason I thought I had seen less last year, but I watched 66 movies last year and have managed to watch 69 this year. Only 3 more! I suppose I did beat my actual goal of watching at least 50, which is impressive since half of the year I was finishing grad school. Course, I suppose I did have 6 months to catch up too. :)

Of the 79 movies I watched, 22 were movies from last year or earlier, so a good chunk were this year. It is funny seeing what movies I watched in the beginning of the year because it feels like they were in 2010 and not this year! I do suspect the beginning of 2012 will be a lot of 2011 movie rentals, though. It's pretty natural given their DVD release dates.

With that said...I found last year's recap of movies and I did pretty well on my 2011 movie release list and pretty bad on my 2010 movies to watch in 2011.

I didn't watch from 2010 (out of 11):

• Eat, Pray, Love
• The Legend of the Guardians
• The American
• The Social Network

I know, I know! I must be in the minority of movie watchers who has NOT seem The Social Network. I started it. Does that count? LoL I watched literally 5 minutes of it. I need to get back to it, but there are so many other things to watch! I feel like I might have seen Eat, Pray, Love because I saw the trailer so often, but I didn't. Didn't manage The American and The Legend of the Guardians either. Don't miss those so much. :)

And I didn't watch from 2011 (out of 12):

• The Hangover 2
• Puss in Boots
  

Both of these will be, for sure, on the DVD rentals for 2012. Hangover 2, when it came and went, just felt like a DVD rental and Puss in Boots was skipped due to money. So look for their reviews in 2012.

With that said...On to favorites of 2011 movies (will not include movies that came out in 2010 or earlier)!

Favorites of the year (no particular order):

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 (surprised, surprise :P )
• Captain America
• X-Men: First Class
• Crazy, Stupid, Love
• Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
• The Help
  

Definitely a short list of favorites this year...Kind of weird.

Must see movie of the year: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2
Runner-ups: Nothing as a *must* see, but I *highly* recommend The Help, X-Men: First Class, and Crazy, Stupid, Love.

Favorite stupid comedy: Bridesmaids
Runner-ups: Just Go With It (I can't help it. Aniston and Sandler not making a TOTAL dump of a movie?! Beating expectations by a long way is worth a mention! With that said, don't get your hopes up if you watch it. :P) and Horrible Bosses

Romantic/Romantic Comedy: Crazy, Stupid, Love
Runner-up: Friends with Benefits

Horror: N/A - Didn't seen any this year (highly likely I won't ANY year)

Family film (non-animated): Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2
Runner-ups: Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

Family film (animated): Rio
Runner-ups: Cars 2 and Gnomeo & Juliet

Action-Adventure: X-Men: First Class
Runner-ups: Source Code, Lincoln Lawyer, and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Comic: Captain America
Runner-up: Thor

Drama: The Help
Runner-up: Moneyball

Worst of the year: So many bad ones this year (Sucker Punch, Hoodwinked Too, Change-Up, 30 Minutes or Less, etc), but I do think Bad Teacher was my least favorite and that's saying something given I had a string of bad movies the latter half of the year!

2011 Movies to See on DVD in 2012 (no order):

• Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
• J Edgar
• Happy Feet Two
• Hugo
• The Muppets
• New Year's Eve
• The Adventures of TinTin
• Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
• War Horse
• I Don't Know How She Does It
• Hangover Part II
• Ides of March
• Real Steel
• The Descendants
• What's Your Number
  
• My Week with Marilyn
• Puss in Boots
• A Dangerous Method (curious since I read a Jung book in HS and the actors are good)
• Beginners

Three shy of doubling last year's previous year's movie watch list...A lot of these are all movies that came out in the fall and winter and have not made it to DVD yet. I'm sure my list will get added to when the Oscar nominations come out; though, predictions show that I may end up watching all the Best Picture nominations on my own. We'll see!

2012 Movies I Want to (Most Likely) See (release date order):

• Ghost Rider Spirit of Vengeance (2/17)
• Dr. Seuss' The Lorax (3/2)
• Mirror, Mirror (3/16)
  
• The Hunger Games (3/23)
• The Avengers (5/4)
• MIB 3 (5/25)
• Snow White and the Huntsman (6/1)
• Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (6/8)
• Brave (6/22)
• GI Joe: Retaliation (6/29)
• The Amazing Spider-Man (7/3)
• Ice Age: Continental Drift (7/13)
• The Dark Knight Rises (7/20)
• The Bourne Legacy (8/3)
• Taken 2 (10/5)
• Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2 (11/16 - Maybe...I don't want to help it beat HP's records!)
• Rise of the Guardians (11/21 - Know little about it, but it's a DreamWorks Animation)
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (12/14 -- Guess who's watching The Hobbit for her birthday?! Course, maybe I should do a midnight release...I bet they'll have one!)
• Life of Pi (12/21 - Maybe)
• The Great Gatsby (12/25)

I am most excited for The Hunger Games, The Avengers, MIB 3, Brave, Dark Knight Rises, and The Hobbit! Can almost guarantee I'll see those in theater. I'm interested to see the contrast between Mirror, Mirror and Snow White and the Huntsman. 

So...Next year's goal will be to have watched at least 70 movies. We'll see. That seems like an awful lot at this point...but...If I watch every movie I just said I want to see in 2012 (DVD and new), I'd have exceeded half of my goal (39 movies). That's also scary. :P

Anyway, on to 2012! Happy New Year everyone!