Movies are life.
My fantasy super power has always been to stop time, and part of what I would do with that power is watch movie after movie (after movie after movie after movie).
If every title I watched this year was only an hour and a half long, I would have spent 9 days movie-watching in 2017. Obviously, many of these films are longer — sometimes much longer — so I have probably spent closer to two weeks immersed in cinema. I’m happy with that life choice. Honestly, I really miss the days when I watched upwards of 200 movies a year.
Here are the films I spent nearly 4% of my year watching. Lots of great ones that keep my love for the medium as strong as ever.
The key is mostly the same as always:
(#) Movie I saw in the theater.
[#] Movie I saw for the first time.
E# Movies I watched with Emily.
Title = Favorites (These underlined films cannot be movies I saw this year for the first time, they have to be movies that have been able to stand up after repeated viewing.)
*Title = Best movies I’d never seen before. (It doesn’t matter when these movies came out, I saw them for the first time this year, and they were awesome.)
Halloween Movie Fest.
1. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot [1] E1
*2. Moonlight [2] (1)
3. Rare Exports [3]
4. High-Rise [4]
5. The Magnificent Seven [2016] [5] E2
*6. Repo Man [6]
7. The Royal Tenenbaums (2)
8. Hitchcock/Truffaut [7] E3
9. Pulp Fiction (3)
10. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
*11. The Last Picture Show [8]
12. Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel [9]
13. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
14. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping [10]
15. The X-Files: Fight the Future – E4
*16. I Am Not Your Negro [11] (4) E5
17. The Lego Batman Movie [12] (5) E6
18. Pete’s Dragon [13]
*19. Everybody Wants Some!! [14]
*20. Get Out [15] (6)
21. The Neon Demon [16]
22. Raiders of the Lost Ark
23. Hellboy
*24. Don’t Think Twice [17] E7
25. The Wolfpack [18]
*26. Logan [19] (7) E8
27. Gantz: 0 [20]
*28. Hell or High Water [21] E9
29. Guardians of the Galaxy – E10
30. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension [22]
*31. Moonlight – E11
32. Beauty and the Beast (2017) [23] (8) E12
*33. Eyes Wide Shut [24]
34. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
*35. Phenom [25]
36. The Secret Life of Pets [26] E13
37. Allied [27]
38. Mad Max (w/ live original score by Morricone Youth Orchestra) – (9) E14
*39. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance [28]
40. David Brent: Life on the Road [29]
41. MST3K: Reptilicus [30]
*42. Moana [31] E15
43. No-No: A Dockumentary [32]
44. The Love Witch [33]
*45. Free Fire [34] (10) E16
46. Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 [35] (11) E17
47. Star Wars: The Force Awakens – E18
48. Winchester ’73 [36]
49. Jackie Brown
*50. Colossal [37] (12) E19
51. Filth [38]
52. A Simple Plan [39]
*53. The Red Turtle [40] E20
54. Mifune: The Last Samurai [41]
*55. A Band Called Death [42]
56. Singin’ in the Rain – E21
57. Wonder Woman [43] (13) E22
*58. John Wick: Chapter 2 [44]
59. La La Land – E23
60. Django Unchained – E24
*61. Baby Driver [45] (14) E25
*62. Boyhood [46]
*63. Split [47]
*64. Okja [48] E26
65. Unbreakable – E27
66. Jaws (15) E28
*67. The Big Sick [49] (16) E29
68. Iron Man – E30
69. Rise of the Planet of the Apes – E31
*70. War for the Planet of the Apes [50] (17)
*71. The Verdict [51]
*72. Spiderman: Homecoming [52] (18) E32
73. Ronin
74. Heat
75. The Nice Guys
76. Collateral – E33
*77. Dunkirk (70mm) [53] (19) E34
78. Inception – E35
79. Nashville [54]
80. How to Steal a Million [55]
81. Train to Busan [56]
82. The Founder [57] E36
*83. Vanishing Point [58]
84. The Incredible Hulk – E37
85. The Girl with All the Gifts [59]
86. Hot Fuzz (20) E38
87. The Battered Bastards of Baseball [60]
88. Kong: Skull Island [61] E39
89. The Breakfast Club – E40
90. The Getaway (1972) [62]
91. The Hot Rock [63]
*92. Ingrid Goes West [64] (21) E41
93. War on Everyone [65]
94. Drive
95. The Ladykillers (1955) [66]
96. Death Note (2017) [67]
97. Out of Sight – E42
98. Stardust
99. Passengers [68]
100. Kingsman: the Golden Circle [69] (22) E43
*101. Chunking Express [70]
102. Housebound
103. The Evil Dead (1981)
104. Evil Dead II
105. Army of Darkness
106. Blade Runner (The Final Cut) – E44
107. The Shining – E45
108. It Follows
109. 28 Days Later
*110. House [71]
111. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre [72]
112. Beetlejuice – E46
113. The Void [73]
*114. It (2017) [74] (23)
115. Room 237 [75] E47
116. Don’t Breathe [76]
117. Tetsuo: The Iron Man [77]
118. XX [78]
119. Coraline – E48
120. Bedknobs and Broomsticks – E49
121. What We Do in the Shadows – E50
122. The Babadook
123. The Haunting – E51
124. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night – E52
125. Shaun of the Dead (24) E53
126. The Devil’s Backbone – E54
127. Pet Sematary [79]
*128. Thor: Ragnarok [80] (25) E55
129. Tombstone – E56
130. Gremlins – E57
*131. Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri (26) [81] E58
*132. The King of Comedy [82]
133. The Room [83] E59
134. Boy – E60
*135. Logan Lucky [84] E61
136. Nocturnal Animals [85]
137. The Nightmare Before Christmas
138. The Bad Batch [86]
*139. The Last Jedi [87] (27) E62
*140. I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore [88]
*141. I, Tonya [89] (28) E63
*142. The Shape of Water [90] (29) E64
*143. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) [91]
*144. Atomic Blonde [92] E65
