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| The 2014 Watch List | |
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| rodney | Dec 31 2014, 07:06 AM Post #1 |
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I don't get to watch as many classics as many of the posters here, but this is what I did manage to see this year: 1. 1/2/14 - Cat People (1942) 2. 1/9/14 - The Deadly Mantis (1957) 3. 1/10/14 - Earth Vs The Spider (1957) 4. 1/14/14 - Don't Gamble With Strangers (1946) 5. 1/19/14 - Two Arabian Knights (1927) 6. 1/25/14 - The Leech Woman (1960) 7. 1/25/14 - Front Page Woman (1935) 8. 1/28/14 - Foreign Correspondent (1940) 9. 1/30/14 - The Woman In Green (1946) 10. 2/2/14 - Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993) 11. 2/6/14 - Fast Company (1937) 12. 2/12/14 - Rear Window (1954) 13. 2/14/14 - The Three Caballeros (1945) 14. 2/15/14 - Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1942) 15. 2/22/14 - Fast and Loose (1938) 16. 3/1/14 - To Catch a Thief (1955) 17. 3/1/14 - Thunder Mountain (1947) 18. 3/4/14 - Broadway Bad (1934) 19. 3/8/14 - The Kennel Murder Case (1933) 20. 3/13/14 - Fast and Furious (1939) 21. 3/14/14 - The Raven (1963) 22. 3/19/14 - The Cocoanuts (1929) 23. 3/22/14 - Under the Tonto Rim (1947) 24. 3/22/14 - Private Hell 36 (1954) 25. 3/25/14 - Law of the Lash (1947) 26. 4/2/14 - Women In Bondage (1943) 27. 4/6/14 - Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde (1920) 28. 4/8/14 - Wild Horse Mesa (1948) 29. 4/17/14 - China Girl (1942) 30. 4/19/14 - Border Feud (1947) 31. 4/20/14 - Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950) 32. 4/30/14 - His Kind of Woman (1951) 33. 5/4/14 - Western Heritage (1948) 34. 5/8/14 - Hell Is a City (1960) 35. 5/12/14 - Pioneer Justice (1947) 36. 5/19/14 - Murder Is My Beat (1955) 37. 5/24/14 - Follow the Boys (1943) 38. 5/28/14 - Room Service (1938) 39. 6/10/14 - Arizona Ranger (1948) 40. 6/14/14 - The Gangster (1947) 41. 6/15/14 - Ghost Town Renegades (1947) 42. 6/21/14 - Rose of Washington Square (1939) 43. 6/22/14 - Dial Red "O" (1955) 44. 6/22/14 - Guns of Hate (1948) 45. 7/5/14 - The Well (1951) 46. 7/9/14 - Stage to Mesa City (1947) 47. 7/10/14 - Hollywood Cavalcade (1939) 48. 7/13/14 - Sudden Danger (1955) 49. 7/16/14 - Appointment In Honduras (1953) 50. 7/18/14 - Strangers In the Night (1944) 51. 7/18/14 - Jungle Jim (1949) 52. 7/18/14 - The Great American Broadcast (1939) 53. 7/19/14 - Angel Face (1953) 54. 7/20/14 - Escape to Burma (1956) 55. 7/20/14 - Death in Small Doses (1957) 56. 7/21/14 - The Lost Tribe (1949) 57. 7/26/14 - Hello Frisco Hello (1943) 58. 8/1/14 - Calling Homicide (1956) 59. 8/2/14 - Sunset In the Rockies (1946) 60. 8/3/14 - Experiment In Terror (1962) 61. 8/4/14 - Captive Girl (1950) 62. 8/5/14 - Three Jills and A Jeep (1944) 63. 8/9/14 - The Emperor's Candlesticks (1937) 64. 8/15/14 - Song of the Islands (1942) 65. 8/23/14 - Ruthless (1948) 66. 8/30/14 - Mark of the Gorilla (1950) 67. 8/31/14 - Charlie Chan In Panama (1940) 68. 9/7/14 - Animal Crackers (1930) 69. 9/10/14 - Beautiful Blonde of Bashful Bend (1949) 70. 9/18/14 - The Crimson Kimono (1959) 71. 9/28/14 - Dead Men Tell (1941) 72. 9/30/14 - Gildersleeve's Bad Day (1943) 73. 10/12/14 - The Black Bandit (1938) 74. 10/20/14 - The Second Woman (1950) 75. 10/26/14 - Fury in the Congo (1950) 76. 10/30/14 - Charlie Chan In Rio (1941) 77. 11/6/14 - House By The River (1950) 78. 11/6/14 - The Last Stand (1938) 79. 11/12/14 - Hunt the Man Down (1951) 80. 11/15/14 - Jungle Manhunt (1951) 81. 11/20/14 - Murder Over New York (1940) 82. 11/21/14 - 13 Ghosts (1960) 83. 11/30/14 - Last Train To Bombay (1952) 84. 12/4/14 - Western Trails (1938) 85. 12/13/14 - The Hoodlum (1951) 86. 12/16/14 - Jungle Jim in the Forbidden Land (1952) 87. 12/16/14 - Charlie Chan in the Wax Museum (1940) 88. 12/22/14 - Arsene Lupin (1932) 89. 12/23/14 - Remember the Night (1940) 90. 12/27/14 - Border Wolves (1938) |
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| Laughing Gravy | Jan 1 2015, 11:52 AM Post #2 |
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In December, I watched 52 movies. Break it down! 1920s: 5 1930s: 4 1940s: 29 1950s: 2 1960s: 6 1970s: 1 1980s: 1 1990s: 1 2000s: 1 2010s: 2 Total watched for the year: 435. Again, this is feature films only, unless I had a marathon of shorts at one time (four Laurel & Hardy 2-reelers at once sitting, f'rinstance). With my ITB Shock Theatre, Detective series, and Lippert marathon all in 1940s films, it was really a '40s month 'round here. I didn't go to an actual movie theatre this month, though. |
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| The Batman | Jan 1 2015, 01:20 PM Post #3 |
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I managed to watch 501 films in 2014. Don't think I'll try that again, anytime soon. |
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| Frank Hale | Jan 1 2015, 02:19 PM Post #4 |
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The bad news for you two is that there have been at least 500 features a year since the mid-teens. It's even worse now, with all the indies (the NYT reviewed over 900 pix this year). So you will never see them all, and you're not even keeping up with inflation! (Of course, a lot of them probably weren't worth seeing to begin with, but Mr. G is apparently trying to prove that statement wrong.) I had 173, somewhat low for me, but I also read 36 books plus a lot of old pulps. I don’t have a handy way to list the films, but the majority were from the early 30's, with a fair number of later widescreen pix I tossed in so as to keep my outboard pixels happy. To tell you the truth, the subject of what DVD's we watched makes me a little uneasy. We're so fortunate to live in countries where we don’t have to worry about sniper fire when we walk out the door, or where our next meal is coming from. The "year in review" articles in the papers are especially grim this year. Let's give appropriate thanks that we enjoy the freedom and comfort that we do. |
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| panzer the great & terrible | Jan 1 2015, 08:25 PM Post #5 |
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Amen, Frank. I don't keep track of what I do. Usually at least three a day, but I won't pretend I watch every shot. If it's something I haven't seen before I do watch carefully, but that doesn't happen as much as it once did. There are only a couple hundred movies on my bucket list now, and thanks to TCM I knocked off two of them this week. You can actually see all the good stuff. I'm 71, and now I'm working on Frank Borzage. As far as I know he's the last really undiscovered good one until the good ones these days, which I'm no longer able to research properly. That has to be done by people who live in today's culture. |
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| Frank Hale | Jan 2 2015, 03:29 PM Post #6 |
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Well, there's that word "good". I expect we all have our own definitions. As to the lists, the "Have I seen this before?" moments, to which Gravy alludes on the current "Sky Liner" thread, are the main reason I started keeping track a few years ago. Unfortunately, those moments have continued with increasing frequency. I try to resist goal-setting, although I admit it's firmly in my nature. Hey! We're here to have fun. Just remember: There are no "great" pictures! |
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| Laughing Gravy | Jan 2 2015, 03:39 PM Post #7 |
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There aren't? Even when, oh, you compare one to Last of the Wild Horses? It is fun. I enjoy very much watching great movies, and I also enjoy very much watching B-movies and series pictures and 1930s cartoons. It's all fun to me. But then, I'm not anywhere near 71 yet. Check back with me in 15 or 20 years and we'll see how I feel; I may be strictly watching Borzage then. |
| "I'm glad that this question came up, because there are so many ways to answer it that one of them is bound to be right." - Robert Benchley | |
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| panzer the great & terrible | Jan 2 2015, 05:57 PM Post #8 |
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Nobody's "strictly" watching Borzage, wise guy. He's just the last one I haven't seen enough of. Well, the last American one. Can't get enough Renoir and Mizoguchi. C'mon. Different things are fun to different people. |
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| Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer | Jan 5 2015, 09:54 AM Post #9 |
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Rodney's number are pretty decent, but Batman's and Gravy's (you know how hard it was to NOT type Robin) numbers are astronomical. I don't think Alex from A Clockwork Orange watched THAT much! I've been recording the foreign movie from TCM that are shown on Sunday nights, and sometimes I do the same with the silents that are shown just before the foreign ones. I take a while to watch them though, like just last week I watched The Match Factory Girl--a film I recorded in April of last year--and Saturday I watched The Shop On Main Street--a film I recorded last year in April or May. |
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| Laughing Gravy | Jan 5 2015, 10:42 AM Post #10 |
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I typically watch a movie first thing in the morning and last thing at night, and don't watch TV except for TV classics on my schedule. Weekends are a LOT of movies. I've given up dating, you see, so other than delicious female friends coming over to watch a movie, I'm not really a going-outer. And my sterling reviews are written so fast they'd make your head spin. (Obviously, if you've ever read any.) |
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| The Batman | Jan 5 2015, 10:44 AM Post #11 |
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I attempted to watch 500 films in 2014, just to see if I could do it. It was a bit of a marathon, one that I don't think I will attempt again. In a "normal" year, I would estimate that I watch between 250-300 films. |
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| Laughing Gravy | Jan 5 2015, 10:47 AM Post #12 |
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Also, by burning through all these 1-hr. B movies, well, clearly I save time. And I don't even have to select what to watch: I just look at my chronological lists! See? Easy peasy. |
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| The Batman | Jan 5 2015, 10:48 AM Post #13 |
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That is my main reason for rating movies on IMDb, Mr Hale. It is a quick and convenient way for me to keep track of the films I have watched. In addition, you can rate shorts, cartoons, individual TV episodes, etc; so it really is the ultimate tracking guide, IMHO. |
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| Frank Hale | Jan 5 2015, 01:33 PM Post #14 |
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I just use spreadsheets. I'm not sure I would want Jeff Bezos knowing all the trash I watch, apart from the site-crash issues. Actually, I've always had something going, even when it was index cards back in the 60's, but the viewing dates are a recent improvement. I could never keep up with you guys. My days of double and triple features are gone for good. |
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| The Batman | Jan 5 2015, 01:36 PM Post #15 |
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I like spreadsheets and use them to track other stuff, but once I discovered IMDb, I just found it the easiest way for me. And you never know, Jeff Bezos could be a Balcony lurker and already know all about you. |
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