Aaaaaaaaand we're back!
Having addressed the horror genre in the previous entry (hey, this is HORROR 101 after all), it’s now time to give the civilian flicks a moment in the sun. As always, all titles listed were encountered for the first time from January 1 to December 31, 2016 (i.e. no repeat viewings were eligible), with top picks denoted with an asterisk. (*)
As I mentioned in the horror wrap-up post, I didn't spend a whole lot of effort keeping up with 2016's output - I don't think I indulged in more than two or three cineplex binge-trip theater-hop voyages, so most of the current crop were viewed in the latter half of the year once they'd hit home video. I'm genuinely surprised I saw as much as I did, since this year wasn't really calling to me.
Additionally, as you'll see below, this marks the fewest total films I've seen in probably 15 years, due to work and travel and interneting. But hey, Life takes its turns and shifts, and I'm okay with it, so hopefully you are as well. We'll see what 2017 has in store!
Let the OCD madness begin!!!
TOP CIVILIAN RELEASES OF 2016
Everybody Wants Some!
Green Room
*The Handmaiden
Hell or High Water
Swiss Army Man
TOP 2015 MOVIES SEEN IN 2016
The Big Short
The Gift
The Revenant
Room
Sicario
TOP CIVILIAN DISCOVERIES (i.e. non-2016 movies seen for the first time)
Bad Words
Best of Enemies
Blackfish
Comin’ At Ya!
Killing Them Softly
The Intruder (1962)
Life Itself
Monsieur Hire
The Night Listener
Night Moves (2014)
Stray Dog
2016 Totals: 272 films, 183 1st time views, 131 horror, 31 cinema
(2015 Totals: 352, 190, 224, 41)
(2014 Totals: 399, 203, 251, 48)
(2013 Totals: 306, 240, 185, 69)
(2012 Totals: 607, 520, 362, 166)
(2011 Totals: 640, 419, 355, 59)
(2010 Totals: 364, 253, 242, 45)
(2009 Totals: 472, 276, 289, 38)
(2008 Totals: 384, 278, 226, 39)
(2007 Totals: 409, 284, 260, 40)
DOUBLE VIEWS (SO NICE WE WATCHED IT TWICE):
Bad Words
Blood Glacier
Manos: The Hands of Fate
DOCUMENTARIES: 18
Amy
Best of Enemies
Blackfish
The Complete Bob Wilkins Creature Features
De Palma
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild Untold Story of Cannon Films
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
It Runs in the Family: Making of Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
Invaluable
The Killing of America
Life Itself
Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan
Somm
That's Sexploitation!
The Trail of Dracula
The Trouble with Titian Revisited
Watch Horror Films, Keep America Strong!
MOST WATCHED DIRECTORS:
Robert Aldrich (11)
(Twilight's Last Gleaming, The Longest Yard, The Killing of Sister George, Kiss Me Deadly, The Dirty Dozen, The Big Knife, The Grissom Gang, Vera Cruz, 10 Seconds to Hell, The Legend of Lylah Clare, Hustle)
Juame Collet-Serra (3) (The Shallows, Non-Stop, Unknown)
Francis Ford Coppola (3) (The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, The Conversation)
Brian De Palma (3) (Mission: Impossible, Raising Cain, Carrie)
Jose Ramon Larazz (3) (Vampyres, Symptoms, Black Candles)
Justin Lin (3) (Star Trek: Beyond, Fast & Furious, Fast Five)
James Cameron (2) (Aliens, The Terminator)
J. C Chandor (2) (A Most Violent Year, All Is Lost)
Scott Cooper (2) (Black Mass, Out of the Furnace)
Seth Gordon (2) (Identity Thief, Horrible Bosses)
Gordon Hessler (2) (Rage of Honor, Pray for Death)
Nathan Juran (2) (The Brain from Planet Arous, The Boy Who Cried Werewolf)
Sidney Lumet (2) (Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon)
Michael Mann (2) (Manhunter, The Insider)
Philip Noyce (2) (Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger)
Jeremy Sauliner (2) (Blue Ruin, Green Room)
Quentin Tarantino (2) (Kill Bill Vol 1, Kill Bill Vol. 2)
Adam Wingard (2) (Blair Witch, The Guest)
LONGEST STREAK OF SEEING FILMS FROM EACH YEAR
1994 – 1965 (somehow didn’t see anything from 1995 or 1997, which killed my 2016-backward momentum)
GOING A-Z
Came close to seeing movies starting with every letter of the alphabet – missed Q and X this year. (One of these days I’m actually going to think about this before the end of the year rolls around.)
NOTABLE 2016 VIEWING MILESTONES
8 Jason Bateman movies
7 Al Pacino Movies
All 5 Jack Ryan films
All 4 Critters movies
EARLIEST FILM WATCHED
A Farewell to Arms (1932)
FIRST MOVIE OF 2016
The Revenant (2015)
LAST MOVIE OF 2016
Amelie (2001)
COUNTRIES OF RECORD: 23
Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Russia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, UK, USA
VIEWINGS BY MONTH:
January – 24
February – 15
March – 24
April – 28
May – 20
June – 12
July – 21
August – 24
September – 13
October – 35
November – 23
December – 34
VIEWS BREAKDOWN BY DECADE:
1920s – 0
1930s – 1
1940s – 2
1950s – 8
1960s – 14
1970s – 40
1980s – 39
1990s – 25
2000s – 31
2010s – 115
That’s all, folks! See you next year...
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