My attempt to watch a movie every day this year didn't go as planned. But I managed to watch a lot of great movies as a result. Here's a list.

Movies that are bold are movies I watched for the first time.

JANUARY

Pulp Fiction

(500) Days Of Summer

Reservoir Dogs

Blade Runner

Jackie Brown

Spirited Away

True Lies

Titanic

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

Catch Me If You Can

Steve Jobs

The Good Dinosaur

Whiplash

The Babadook

Spice World (shut up)

Inside Out

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Lazer Team

Total: 18

First Viewings: 9

January In Review: Whiplash is the best movie I've seen all year. I set a very high bar for myself very early on. I'll need to rewatch Blade Runner, hopefully I'll like it better the second time. Lazer Team is the best type of movie. Stupid fun. My kind of funny.

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FEBRUARY

Sicario

Shame

Role Models

Friday

Independence Day

The Curse Of Chucky

Creed

Ride Along 2

The Night Before

The Last Witch Hunter

Her

The Impossible

Neighbours

Funny Games (Original)

End Of Watch

American History X

Fury

Sabotage

BURN-E

The Cabin In The Woods

The King's Speech

City Of God

Total: 22

First Viewings: 12

February In Review: The Impossible might be the best movie I watched in February. It was hard to choose between The Impossible, Fury, The King's Speech, and City Of God, but The Impossible is the one that stuck with me the most out of the 4.

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MARCH

Shutter Island

Hellraiser

Boogie Nights

The Gift (2015)

Rescue Dawn

Zoolander

Bridesmaids

Amelie

Toy Story of Terror

Wrongfully Accused

The Garbage Pail Kids Movie

Olympus Has Fallen

Letters From Iwo Jima

Up

Calvary

Clue

Youth In Revolt

The Pianist

Four Lions

Pineapple Express

Pixels

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

Grave Of The Fireflies

Life Is Beautiful

The Last Samurai

Spider-Man (2002)

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

The Blair Witch Project

Spider-Man 2

Spider-Man 3

Black Hawk Down

Blood Diamond

The Amazing Spider-Man

Equilibrium

Enemy

Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worring And Love The Bomb

Concussion

Deadpool

The Call

Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens

Jack The Giant Slayer

The Mist

Dude, Where's My Car?

Deadpool

Rock Of Ages

Deadpool

Apocalyto

Easy A

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

I Know That Voice

Waiting...

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Total: 52

First Viewings: 27

March In Review: Holy shit. 52 movies? I remember sitting in the cinema, waiting for Deadpool to start, and I started to tear up a little bit. I was sitting there, about to watch a movie I never though would get made, about a character I fell in love with 10 years ago. I read the script when it leaked in 2010, and when the movie started, and Juice Newton started to play, and we began floating around this scene, frozen in time, exactly how the script described it... It was orgasmic. I went on to watch it multiple times, and it would be my favourite movie of March, if I hadn't also watched Amelie. Amelie was a sweet and lovely watch. I fell in love with the girl, as I'm sure most others did. Amelie would have been my favourite movie of March, if I didn't watch Calvary. Which is my #2 movie of the year. Sweet Jesus, Calvary, what an amazing movie. I really loved Brandan Gleeson's "had enough of everyone's bullshit" character. Calvary, man. Calvary.

And then there's The Last Samurai, another first viewing. That movie made me cry. It was fantastic. I started it, wanting a Tom Cruise action flick set in old Japan. What I got was so much more. Never thought I would feel so sad about someone getting a haircut. This movie has gotta be my #4 for the year, I think.

I really went all out in March. Life Is Beautiful, Black Hawk Down, Olympus Has Fallen, Dr Strangelove, Apocalypto. I can't think of anything negative about these films. They all succeeded in sucking me in and making me feel what they wanted me to feel.

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APRIL

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

Hot Rod

The following movies are a result of spending a week with my nieces. They mostly got to choose what we watched. One is obsessed with horror movies, and is in love with Jeepers Creepers 2

Deadpool

Jeepers Creepers

Jeepers Creepers 2

Jeepers Creepers 2

Goosebumps

Tangled Ever After

See No Evil 2

Pitch Perfect 2

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Inside Out

Unfriended

Tucker and Dale Vs Evil

Event Horizon

Oculus

Jeepers Creepers 2

Nightmare On Elm Street (2010)

Aliens In The Attic

Charlotte's Web

Zombieland

Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous

Time with nieces ends

Lolita (1962)

Chicago

Daddy's Home

The Conjuring

Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice

Almost Famous

Hail, Caesar!

Countdown

21 Jump Street

The Other Guys

22 Jump Street

The Beaver

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Hellboy

Barbershop

Barbershop 2: Back In Business

Pacific Rim

Parkland

JFK

99 Homes

The Intern

Blade

Blade II

Blade: Trinity

The Wizard Of Oz

This Is The End

Avatar

Sisters

Charlie's Angels

Return To Oz

True Story

Mulholland Drive

The Internship

Buried

The Graduate

Captain America: Winter Soldier

Whiplash

Zack and Miri Make A Porno

Knocked Up

Juno

Lars And The Real Girl

Now You See Me

The Change-Up

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Big Trouble In Little China

The Social Network

Horrible Bosses 2

Fanboys

Edward Scissorhands

Rush

A Knight's Tale

The Family

30 Minutes Or Less

Chicken Little

The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty

Butter

Gone With The Wind

8 Mile

The Way Way Back

Flight Of The Navigator

Total: 83

First Viewings: 29

April In Review: It's worth noting, I've been unemployed and severely depressed for the vast majority of this year. Which has allowed me to watch so many movies. This post right now is the first time I'm seeing all this information at once, and I'm quite flabbergasted at the amount I've been able to watch in just a month's time. Fuck me, 83 movies.

Rush might be the movie of April. Loved Daniel Bruhl as Niki Lauda. I watched Mulholland Drive and spent 90 minutes after the movie, reading essays on the movie, just so I could understand just what I had watched. I now understand, at least I understand someone else's interpretation of the film. Good enough for me.

99 Homes reminded me how great Andrew Garfield can be. I'm a long time fan of Michael Shannon, so it was a treat having to watch him, but Garfield stole the movie for me. I finally managed to watch Gone With The Wind. 4 hours. Good movie. Probably never watch it again, but I'm glad I finally watched it.

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MAY

Wet Hot American Summer

The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button

Dog Day Afternoon

The Omega Man

Soylent Green

The Ten Commandments

The Jungle Book (2016)

Dirty Grandpa

Zoolander 2

10 Cloverfield Lane

Cop Car

Man Up

Special Correspondents

Mississippi Grind

The Family Fang

Kindergarten Cop 2

Danny Collins

How To Be Single

I Am Wrath

God Bless America

Little Miss Sunshine

Mama

10 Cloverfield Lane

Krampus

Winnie The Pooh (2011)

Meteor Man

Click

Transformers

Reign Over Me

25th Hour

Capote

Frequency

Sleeping Beauty

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

The Full Monty

The Heat

Maleficent

Flight

Lilo & Stitch

The Avengers

The Lion King

The Boss

Harold and Kumar Go To Whitecastle

The Avengers: Age Of Ultron

Captain America: The First Avenger

Frozen

R.I.P.D.

Ted

Ant-Man

Captain America: Civil War

The Villain/Cactus Jack

Alive

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

The Jungle Book (2016)

Zootopia

10 Cloverfield Lane

Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen

The Angy Birds Movie

High School Musical

The Jungle Book (1967)

Batman & Robin

The Lego Movie

Yong Einstein

The Flintstones

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

Krampus

Neighbours 2: Sorority Rising

Keanu

Hardcore Henry

The Lobster

Total: 70

First Viewings: 38

May in Review: Reign On Me. Movie of May, absolutely. Sandler's monologue about his family is truly heartbreaking. I went on a Charlton Heston-a-thon with Soylent Green, Omega Man, and Ten Commandments. Ten Commandments is about as epic as an epic can be, I think. Omega Man was my favourite out of the three, though.

Lobster was disappointing. The first half was great, second half ruined the movie for me.

Zoolander 2. The Family Fang. Special Correspondents. Man Up. These movies really soured May. Though, movies like Alive, Zootopia, Captain America, Flight, and Capote are reason enough to not totally hate May.

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JUNE

Hush

Jaws

Foxcatcher

The Do-Over

Conspiracy

The Brothers Grimsby

Predestination

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi

Ted 2

The Decendants

Compliance

Little Shop Of Horrors

Spotlight

A Most Violent Year

Planes, Trains and Automobiles

All The Way

The Dictator

X-Men: Days Of Future Past

The Breakfast Club

Winter's Bone

Not Another Teen Movie

All Star Superman

National Lampoon's Vacation

Crash

World's Greatest Dad

Awakenings

The Taking Of Pelham One Two Three (1974)

The Help

Project X

Willow

Ghostbusters (1984)

Dumbo

High School Musical 2

Grease

Dinosaur

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping

Finding Dory

Billy Madison

Little Shop Of Horrors

Evolution

Total: 41

First Viewings: 26

June In Review: About midway through June, I had to move into my brother's house. So now I'm living with my nieces, being a full time uncle, what and how much I watch isn't entirely up to me as much as it was once upon a time.

Between Conspiracy, The Decendants, Little Shop Of Horrors, Winter's Bone, Spotlight, Awakenings, The Help, and Popstar, it's a little difficult choosing a favourite. Ah hell, it's Little Shop. Fell in love with the soundtrack, fell in love with Seymore, and Audrey, and Audrey II, and Skidrow, and the puppetry. I've listened to 'Feed Me (Git It)' a few dozen times. Conspiracy is #2. Listening to Nazis discussing what the Final Solution should be is a little scary. Especially how nonchalant they were about the whole thing.

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JULY

The Lost World: Jurassic Park

The Emperor's New Groove

Barbershop: The Next Cut

Little Miss Sunshine

Jurassic World

LEGO Friends: Girlz 4 Life

Gremlins 2: The New Batch

Into The Abyss

The Simpsons Movie

Batman: The Killing Joke

Kindergarten Cop

Edward Scissorhands

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie

Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice

High School Musical 2

Jeepers Creepers 2

Lemonade Mouth

School Of Rock

Elvis & Nixon

Total: 19

First Viewings: 6

July In Review:* Ah. 19. That's a little more respectable. No movie really stands out to me this month. Elvis & Nixon, I guess. Michael Shannon, as much as I love him, was weird casting for The King. I was, uh, forced to watch that LEGO Friends movie, by the way. Nieces.

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AUGUST

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

The Breakfast Club

Sisters

Back To The Future

What We Do In The Shadows

The Mummy

The Mummy Returns

The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor

Bedazzled

The Scorpion King

Imperium

The Green Mile

Star Wars

Mulan

The Hunchback Of Notre Dame

Total: 15

First Viewings: 2

August In Review: What We Do In The Shadows, without a doubt, best movie of August. Best comedy of my year.

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SEPTEMBER

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out Of The Shadows

The Secret Life Of Pets

Central Intelligence

Suicide Squad

The Legend Of Tarzan

Hellboy

The Land Of The Lost

10 Things I Hate About You

Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Liar Liar

Sky High

Can't Hardly Wait

17 Again

Total: 13

First Viewings: 5

September In Review: Ninja Turtles was alright. Cool seeing Beebop, Rocksteady, and Krang brought to life like that. Uuuumm. Tarzan, I think, movie of September. It was fun. Enjoyed the scene where Tarzan reunites with his lion friends.

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OCTOBER

Without A Paddle

Independence Day: Resurgence

X-Men

Gravity

Welcome To Monster High

Monster High: Haunted

Sausage Party

DC Superhero Girls: Hero Of The Year

Star Trek Beyond

Ghostbusters (2016)

Mascots

I Know That Voice

Monsters High Ghouls Rule

Monsters High Freaky Fusion

Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone

Mr Holmes

The Big Lebowski

X-Men: Apocalypse

The Wolverine

The BFG

The Wild Life

Green Room

Total: 22

First Viewings: 15

October In Review: Mr Holmes, I think takes #1 for October. Ian McKellan as an aged Sherlock Holmes. It's a nice, quiet movie, good for a relax.

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NOVEMBER

Godzilla (2014)

Blue Ruin

Piper

Borrowed Time

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

District 9

Home Alone

300

The Raid: Redemption

The Raid 2

Ip Man

Lava

We Were Soldiers

Hunt For The Wilderpeople

The Monster

Doctor Strange

Ip Man 2

Wu Xia

Ong-Bak

What We Do In The Shadows

The Nice Guys

Pete's Dragon

Sorority Boys

The Sixth Sense

Rumble In The Bronx

Lava

Lights Out

The Man From Nowhere

The Stanford Prison Experiment

Sisters

Hairspray (2007)

Hacksaw Ridge

Snowden

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Citizenfour

Keanu

Beverly Hills Cop

Total: 36

First Viewings: 21

November in Review: November was the month I developed a fascination with martial arts movies. The Raid opened that door for me, and I loved that first movie. The second one, while great, not as good as the first one, in my opinion. Ip Man is #1 for November. Donnie Yen as Master Yip is really quite calming. Even when he's angered, and fighting 10 men, I feel a sense of calm whenever he's on screen. Donnie Yen has a smile that reassures me everything will be okay.

Borrowed Time is a short film from the guys at Pixar, I believe. Brutal and depressing. Check it out!

I need to watch The Nice Guys again. Not because I didn't understand it the first time. I just really wanna watch it again. #2 comedy for my year.

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DECEMBER (So far...)

Wreck-It Ralph

Pet

Doubt

Storks

Sully

The Magnificent Seven (2016)

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

The Santa Clause

The Mummy

David Brent: Life On The Road

Kung Fury

American Ultra

Rush Hour

Moana

Anthropoid

Team Foxcatcher

Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them

Welcome To Leith

The Fear Of 13

The Butler

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

The Great Escape

Deepwater Horizon

Boyhood

Trolls

Home Alone 2: Lost In New York

A Christmas Story

Trolls

The Accountant

Whiplash

Westworld

Sicario

Total: 32

First Viewings: 20

December in Review: I watched Westworld today, and I can't get Yul Brenner's face out of my mind. That deadly stare. Boyhood is December's #1. I barely even connected with any of the characters on a personal level, but I really enjoyed watching everyone grow up, and just live their lives. Fear Of 13, and Welcome To Leith are 2 fantastic documentaries I suggest you watch.

I didn't enjoy Fantastic Beasts all that much. Being in that world again, without the kids... Feels off.

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2016 In Review

Total Movies Watched: 423

Total First Viewings: 210

So, while I may have failed in watching a movie every single day of the year, I succeeded at watching a year's worth of daily movies, with a little change. And almost half my total watched were first viewings. Not too shabby.

Whiplash is my #1 for my 2016. Calvary #2. Both 2014 films. Was 2014 a good year for movies overall?

Best movie I watched in 2016 that was made in 2016? Hacksaw Ridge. With Silence coming out, 2016 has been a great year for Andrew Garfield, and I can't wait to see him in more roles.

423 movies. Jesus Christ.

Submitted December 27, 2016 at 08:06PM by ProfessorSomething http://ift.tt/2imTUby