(k) The 60 movies I saw in 2013 :)

(For a while I thought it might stop at a neat little 40-or-so movies, but then I took a Cusack to the knee.)

 

Only counting movies I saw for the first time. Faves: 10... tentatively. Best: "Blackfish"!

WARNING: LIST MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS!

 

9-Jan-2013: 1. Nobel son

Alan Rickman!!!!!!! plays a Potions mas……… I mean chemistry professor. He fucks a student on a desk and wins the Nobel Prize. (Not for the fucking, you understand.) :D Pretty funny movie, though I didn’t get all the twists. *does not much care*

 

10-Jan-2013: 2. Istanbul

That feeling when you spend 8 years being pretty sure you’ll never see "Istanbul" unless you stumble on a decayed VHS copy at some garage sale (and is your parents’ VCR dead yet?), which is tragic because even though you don’t know what it’s about, Brad Dourif’s role in it appears delicious, and then you find a nice-qualitied, year-old upload on Youtube. And you make a pretty little mp3 of… *le sigh*… that song… 8)

 

11-Jan-2013: 3. Wise blood

Another graily Brad Dourif movie I didn’t walk around expecting to see, but it’s on Youtube as well! :D Boring movie (NOTE: Everyone else likes it, it has ambition, I haz flawed taste!!!!!!!), but Brad plays the main role, so. :) Why yes, I had recently experienced a relapse in my Brad obsession. Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeet.

 

14-Jan-2013: 4. Skyfall

Scotland pr0n! And some fun shit.

 

16-Jan-2013: 5. My boy Jack

DanRad plays a boy who is desperate to get gloriously mauled in World War I.

 

17-Jan-2013: 6. Catch .44

Boring. I only rented it because of Brad Dourif, who was in two scenes. I’ll watch anything for Brad. :D (Ho hum, except, so far, "Deadwood"… Perhaps because it used to air late at night + most characters talked only about business and local politics + I just suck at following shows. So I’d usually doze off on it. Brad’s char was cool though. :) And ONE DAY I may drag "Deadwood" into my cave and I’ll fast forward through the boring bits and watch all the Brad scenes!!!!! :D /tangent)

 

24-Jan-2013: 7. Les misérables

 

25-Jan-2013: 8. The exorcist III

Best bits: Brad Dourif’s scenes :D + the one where the nurse is just walking along and BEHIND HER IS - *SCREEEEEEEEECH*

 

28-Jan-2013: 9. The duchess

I may have listed it because of Ralph Fiennes :B … but forgot all about him being involved until I watched it. Yey. Btw, fur is dead. Sex scene: Probably the most awkward one in film history.

 

29-Jan-2013: 10. I love you, man

Instance #3957345 of gratitude for the near-complete absence of relaaaaaationshiiiiip draaaaamaaaaaaa in my life. :p

 

29-Jan-2013: 11. Veronika decides to die

Nice story, but I thought the movie was pretty boring, at least until they escaped. Nevermind; I like to see anything that features David Thewlis. :) IIRC, I didn’t much care for the book either.

 

1-Feb-2013: 12. The master

Ways in which Joaquin (me crush) reminded me of Jack K (me crush) in this movie: 1. The hair. 2. The hair line. 3. The cigs. 4. The booze. 5. The lack of normality/whatever. 6. The home state of Massachusetts. 7. The mid-1900s. 8. The seaman job. End of list. I guess no one’s gonna cast Joaquin in “Big Sur” since that movie came out this year, but he can… should… must be in “The Dharma bums”. No idea if anyone’s thinking of filming it. FML.

 

2-Feb-2013: 13. Darwin’s nightmare

Fave?! *homosapiensfacepalm #945724957*

 

8-Feb-2013: 14. Child’s play 2

I saw the first movie at least a decade before I became a Brad fan… and rewatched it this year. I even remember seeing the cover in the video shop when I was about two apples tall and probably couldn’t read, but my mum informed me of the title. The Swedish title translates to ”The evil doll”. Groovy.

 

9-Feb-2013: 15. Child’s play 3

 

15-Feb-2013: 16. Bride of Chucky

Fave! The first movie is, I guess, a classic. :B The 2nd and 3rd were kind of typical sequels. The 4th and 5th are charming horror comedies. :D

 

16-Feb-2013: 17. Seed of Chucky

Fave! Not until the credits did I realize that Billy Boyd was in this. :p

One of Chucky’s, ahem, best lines: ”Wait a minute. I’m not gonna let you poison our son’s mind with your touchy-feely twelve-step bullshit. If you two don’t wanna kill anymore, that’s your loss. But don’t look down your noses at me! I’m not ashamed to be a killer. I’m proud of it. It’s not an addiction, it is a choice. And it is not something that you should have to hide in the closet!!!!!!” ((:B

 

18-Feb-2013: 18. The 11th hour

Fave! An environmental documentary in which many awesome things get said! Narrated by Leo DiCaprio.

 

20-Feb-2013: 19. Howl

:B … IN YO FACE, 1950’S!!!

 

21-Feb-2013: 20. Anna Karenina

Didn’t like the book >:( but as “always”, it’s nice to see a movie of something I’ve read. Movie was lively, surreal, and unlike the average costume drama. Which isn’t to say I liked it.

 

22-Feb-2013: 21. The human centipede

Been meanin to watch that for years. Presumably because my system thinks that a Lesson In What To Do If You’re Captured By A Mad German Scientist And Sewn Up To Others’ Mouths And Arseholes… would be useful! Okay! :D Sadly, I found it difficult to identify with the two chicks, as I know how to a) board a bus b) drive on a flat tire c) walk d) distinguish a road from a forest. #pr0nlogic And how long did the doc expect segment 2-3 to survive on fecal nutrients? Still, fairly nicely horrible movie. o_O

 

23-Feb-2013: 22. Mary & Max

Animated Aspie movie!

 

27-Feb-2013: 23. The perks of being a wallflower

I read the book in 2011. In the movie I noted two seconds of a certain saddening attitude, and two seconds of “On the road” by Jack Kerouac. It was the sort of movie where you expect “On the road” to get mentioned. :B

PS. My diary, high school, day 1: ”… Then I saw a bunch of ghosts [from elementary school] and I thought I heard [the voice of my main bully from previous year]. Well… There I was, walking around the grounds/sitting on benches, alone. It didn’t turn out differently. No sick copy of [my fun British ex-email-buddy] came up and made contact and dragged me into a big fun gang of mad people, and I’ve hardly talked to anybody. Because I always think I’ll to be able to talk like someone in Pulp Fiction but I never can. Now that high school is going to hell socially, my life will too. Job interviews, coworkers … If only I get to work with people here and someone maybe… but what the hell.” I then happened to ally myself with a couple of nerdy chicks, and wasn’t bullied (unlike Movieguy). Funnest subjects were Swedish and English, several teachers liked my writing. In other news, I’ve never attended a real teen party. Maybe for 30 minutes on a school trip, but everyone was just kinda sitting there and at the time I thought there was vodka in my soda but maybe there wasn’t. AND NO LSD ACTUALLY MMMM NOM NOM NOM no I haven’t tried that either.

 

28-Feb-2013: 24. Jane Eyre (2011)

I read the book in 2005.

 

2-Mar-2013: 25. Eyes of Laura Mars

 

12-Mar-2013: 26. Coraline

The pointy, twiggy visual style of the characters does not cause me to jizz my pants completely, and I wish the ghost children had been creepy, but it was still brainsplodingly skillfully made. Apparently it’s ALL stop-motion. :O I CAN’T EVEN. I faved the book in 2010.

 

18-Mar-2013: 27. Fatal beauty

 

20-Mar-2013: 28. The impossible

 

3-Apr-2013: 29. Rogue trader

Based on a true story, apparently. I only picked it up because of Ewan McGregor, but I enjoyed this tragic tale, even though I don’t understand shit about trading. It actually seemed like an exciting game for a job. If you’re into heart attacks and prison. %D

 

20-Apr-2013: 30. Tomboy

French movie about a transsexual 12-year-old.

 

23-Apr-2013: 31. Cloud atlas

Several epic moments, such as ”Honour thy consumer”; the Scots in the pub; the meat factory; Angry Slave-Owner Daddy’s clueless speech… Heeheeheehee…! Then I watched the credits. Face blind: Yes. %D

 

12-May-2013: 32. 17 girls

#SmugSpawnfreePerson

 

16-May-2013: 33. Side effects

Confusing

 

17-May-2013: 34. Up

 

8-Jun-2013: 35. Gambit

Alan Rickman!!! What a big desk you have!!!

 

17-Jul-2013: 36. Jack the giant slayer

Unfortunately I watched this on a plane in which I was unfortunately flying and the sound sucked so I missed much of the dialogue but I kind of got the plot anyway.

 

22-Jul-2013: 37. The Bling Ring

To be rewatched, methinks…

 

11-Oct-2013: 38. The butler

Fave?! Revolution, Rickman, and R………………… Cusack! :D

 

18-Oct-2013: 39. Serendipity

Sooooo.

October 11: I see ”The butler”.

October 14: I happen to edit a Cusack-related photo.

October 15: My Facebook status gets set to: ”Hey John Cusack, I know my mild back-o'-the-mind crush on you has only been going on for fifteen years, but I feel it's time we took our relationship to the next level. One where I have seen more than, like, five of your movies.”

 

25-Oct-2013: 40. 2012

It was pretty fun. :D The bad news is that NASA has declared it the most scientifically inaccurate movie ever. It also over-utilizes Talking Is A Free Action unto death but at least THE DOGGIE SURVIVES!!! :D and the movie carries a faint scent of atheism* and… get a load o’ this! THE PRESIDENT FOLLOWS SCIENTIFIC ADVICE WITHOUT MUCH ADO!!!!!!!! :O

#ITOLDYOUITWASUNREALISTIC

* Well, the local critic accused it of Christianism**, but hey, did he not notice how (for example) everyone who Trusts In FSM in this movie sort of dies promptly?

** #ThingsThatHappenInSweden :D

And remember: No women-folk in the cockpit.

 

26-Oct-2013: 41. The paperboy

I’d never seen John Cusack in psycho killer redneck mode before. :) He and Kidman are… gutsy. o_O

 

31-Oct-2013: 42. 1408

Scarier than expected. D: I watched it alone in the evening, which was a rush. Hhhhhhhhhhh.

 

1-Nov-2013: 43. The raven

About Edgar Allan Poe, but a speculation rather than a biopic.

 

2-Nov-2013: 44. Grosse Pointe Blank

Fave?! I taped it in 2001!!!!!!! and chopped up the watching, but my journal never mentions watching the last bit, so I better assume 2013 as the official firstwatch. :B Anyway. I didn’t much notice in 2001, but it’s a pretty unique and funny movie. :) John Cusack should write a few hundred more films, considering he co-wrote this and ”High fidelity” and ”War, Inc.” The style is my cuppa. Perhaps GPB and WI made me wanna write something… :q

 

4-Nov-2013: 45. Grace is gone

Fave?! An award-winning drama about what it’s like when Bush kills your wife or mum!!!!!!!

I heard something about the Bush administration banning photos of soldiers’ coffins coming home; this was one of the reasons the movie got made. So I bought it. >:D I hope an alarm on Bush’s desk goes off every time somebody does that, which hopefully causes Bush to scream ”SHIT, NOT AGAIN!!!!!!!1!!” Yeah! (Like in some Simpsons episode where a writer got notified whenever someone bought his book. x) )

 

5-Nov-2013: 46. Max

”Hitler! C'mon, I’ll buy you a glass of lemonade.”

 

8-Nov-2013: 47. Curse of Chucky

I had never even heard of this 6th Chucky movie :D until I spotted it on the rental shelf. *GRAB* *heart*

 

9-Nov-2013: 48. Hot tub time machine

”It’s the fucking 80’s, guys! Let’s do what we wanna do! Free love!”

”That’s the 60’s, dipshit.”

”No. We had, like, Reagan and aids. Let’s get the fuck out of here, okay?”

 

22-Nov-2013: 49. War, Inc.

Fave?! Lolwat.

 

2-Dec-2013: 50. The young black stallion

The first two stallion movies (fucking awesome) were from 1979 and 1983, this one’s from 2003. And 48 minutes long. And they assumed nobody would remember that in “The black stallion returns”, his mother was a chestnut named Aisha. Etc. OH WELL

 

13-Dec-2013: 51. Say anything…

The afterglow scene. I died from the cute. x)

 

15-Dec-2013: 52. Secretariat

 

16-Dec-2013: 53. The factory

 

22-Dec-2013: 54. Identity

Amanda Peet in behind-the-scenes interview: ”Well, we keep asking for a sex scene, but… Or I do, anyway. But I don’t think it’s gonna happen. Every morning I go to Jim’s door and I’m like ‘Can I just kiss John Cusack, pleeeeease?’ He’s like ‘It doesn’t work for the story, Amanda.’ And I was like ‘I know, but what does that matter? It doesn’t matter.’ :D ”

Rat: ”… I like the way you think.”

Lucky wench.

 

23-Dec-2013: 55. Martian child

Fave?! :B ”… Dennis, can I just say one last thing about Mars, which may be strange coming from a science fiction writer, but right now, you and me, here, put together entirely from atoms that have been part of millions of other organisms before they became us, sitting on this round rock with a core of liquid iron, held down by this force that so troubles you, called gravity, all the while spinning around the sun at 67 000 miles an hour and whizzing through the Milky Way at 600 000 miles an hour, in a universe that very well may be chasing its own tail at the speed of light… And amidst all this frantic activity, fully cognizant of our own imminent demise – which is a very pretty way of saying we all know we’re gonna die – we reach out to one another. Sometimes for the sake of vanity, sometimes for reasons you’re not old enough to understand yet,* but a lot of the time we just reach out and expect nothing in return.** Isn’t that strange? Isn’t that weird? Isn’t that weird ENOUGH?*** What the heck do you need to be from Mars for?”

* BOOBS!!!!!!

** Evolutionary psychology, my boy, evolutionary psychology. Which is approximately as awesomesauce as astronomy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! %D

*** Hey.

PS. The movie is based on a true adoption story, which involved a gay man. However, the moviemakers figured they had to rewrite him into a straight widower. For the homophobes. :| … ‘MURICA!!! (And co. A lot of co.) Maybe 200 years from now you’ll understand.

 

24-Dec-2013: 56. Big Sur

*poke*

 

25-Dec-2013: 57. The frozen ground

 

25-Dec-2013: 58. Til siste hinder

Norwegian horse movie. (I guess the cover pic I got hold of is in Danish, though.)

 

30-Dec-2013: 59. Pushing tin

Concerning a testosterone-festy pissing contest.

 

31-Dec-2013: 60. Blackfish

Fave! MUST-SEE documentary on why keeping orcas captive is a terrible idea. :’C

”If you were in a bathtub for 25 years, don’t you think you’d get a little irritated? Aggravated? Maybe a little psychotic?”

 

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