2018 Movie Challenge

I used to run these somewhere else so I thought I'd invite you all to join this challenge with me. I did it last year and it was a nice way to incentivize me to watch more films and diversify my viewings.





I know something like this should have been started at January but I just joined. Hopefully you have some sort of thread or list where you can find the films you have watched since the beginning of the year.

I have already been doing this since January and will post my progress soon. The way I try to do this is by using a film only once (and in either the main or the nightmare mode) and i only count films I have watched for the first time. That requires a ton of films though, so if you prefer you can include films you've rewatched this year or use a film in both modes.

Most of all, have fun and keep watching films!

A new category I propose: "Watch 10 films from Mr Minio's top ten".

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Look, I'm not judging you - after all, I'm posting here myself, but maybe, just maybe, if you spent less time here and more time watching films, maybe, and I stress, maybe your taste would be of some value. Just a thought, ya know.

Dully noted. I will take it into consideration.

PS. A challenge in which members propose 10 films and you have to watch at least one of them is not a bad idea. Let me mull it over and perhaps I could make something like this.

Foreign Language: A Fantastic Woman
Animated: The Breadwinner
IMDB Top 250: Dunkirk
Indie: Frances Ha
Black and White: The Public Enemy
Before 1960: Nights of Cabiria
Silent: The Goat
Box Office: Hidden Figures
40000 votes IMDB: Interstellar
Studio Ghibli: The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
Horror: Vampyr
Comedy: Waiting For Guffman
Action: A Bittersweet Life
Sci-Fi: Strange Days
Fantasy: Wolf Children
Romance: Call Me By Your Name
Western: Wagon Master
Post-Apoc, etc: Annihilation
MoFo Hall of Fame: The Ascent
Best Picture: The Shape of Water
Cinematography Oscar: The Quiet Man
Essential Films List: Mr Smith Goes To Washington
Criterion: Early Summer
Disney/Pixar: Coco
Novel/Play Adaptation: Little Women
Musical: A Star Is Born
Box Office Flop: The Master
Directed By A Woman: Tomboy
More than 160 Min: Jeanne Dielman
TV Show Adaptation: Jackass The Movie
Noir: Night and the City
Main Character Dies: Peeping Tom
2017 Academy Award Winner: Phantom Thread
Box Office Wonder: The Last Jedi
Hitchock, etc: Mr and Mrs.Smith
Released in 2018: Ready Player One
In Theatres: We Were Never Really Here
Bogart, etc: Night Nurse
Doesn't Take Place On Earth: The Cloverfield Paradox
Marvel Film: Black Panther
Martial Arts Film: The Raid 2
Score Oscar: Pinocchio
IMDB Bottom 100: Manos: The Hands of Fate (Watched with MST3K, counts right?)
DC Film: Justice League
Palme D'or Winner: Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Aliens Try To Take Over: A Quiet Place
Part of a Franchise: Solo: A Star Wars Story
Lars Von Trier, etc: Bad Education
Garbo, etc: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Blaxploitation Film: Putney Swope

Screenplay Oscar

And my name's Mr Minio. Nice to meet you.

Added Box Office Flop: The Master. According to wiki it cost 32 mil and made 28.3.

Time to post my list.

1. a foreign language film. [ Battle Royale ]
2. an animated film. [ From Up on Poppy Hill ]
3. a film in the IMDb Top 250. [ Come and See (Idi i Smotri) ]
4. a film in the IMDb Bottom 100. [ Ed ]
5. an indie film. [ Election ]
6. a black and white film. [ Five Graves to Cairo ]
7. a film released before 1960. [ The Seven Year Itch ]
8. a silent film. [ The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ]
9. a film that topped the weekly box office within 2017. [ War for the Planet of the Apes ]
10. a film with more than 400,000 votes on IMDb [ Crazy, Stupid Love ]
11. a Studio Ghibli film. [ Ocean Waves ]
12. a DC film. [ Batman vs Two-Face ]
13. a Marvel film. [ Thor: Ragnarok ]
14. a film whose main genre is Horror. [ Underworld: Blood Wars ]
15. a film whose main genre is Comedy. [ Small Time Crooks ]
16. a film whose main genre is Action. [ Body of Lies ]
17. a film whose main genre is Science Fiction. [ The Man from Earth: Holocene ]
18. a film whose main genre is Fantasy. [ Bright ]
19. a film whose main genre is Romance. [ Allied ]
20. a film whose main genre is Western.
21. a blaxploitation film.
22. a post-apocalyptic/apocalyptic/dystopian film. [ Steel Dawn ]
23. a film in the MoFo Fall of Fame
24. a Palme d'Or winner
25. a film that has won the Academy Award for Best Picture. [ Ordinary People ]
26. a film that won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay [ Hannah and Her Sisters ]
27. a film that won an Academy Award for Best Original Score
28. a film that won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography
29. a film included in the National Society of Film Critics' 100 Essential Films list.
30. a film that is part of the Criterion Collection [ Traffic ]
31. a martial arts film.
32. a Disney or Pixar film. [ Monsters University ]
33. a film that is a novel or play adaptation. [ Three Days of Condor ]
34. a musical film.
35. a film directed by a woman [ Julie & Julia ]
36. a film more than 160 minutes long.
37. a film that has been adapted to or from a TV series. [ The Addams Family ]
38. a (neo) noir film. [ Scarface (1932) ]
39. a film in which the main character dies. [ Man on the Moon ]
40. a film in which aliens (or other terrestrial species) tries to eliminate mankind. [ Pacific Rim: Uprising ]
41. a film that doesn't take place on Earth or takes place in an alternate world. [ Lost in Space ]
42. a film that won any type of Academy Award for 2017.
43. a box office flop (made less money that it cost). [ Elvis & Nixon ]
44. a box office wonder (made at least 3 times as much as it cost). [ Wag the Dog ]
45. a film with a budget lower than 1 million. [ Blue Ruin ]
46. a film that is part of a franchise with more than 5 sequels/remakes/reboots. [ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III ]
47. a Lars von Trier/Andrei Tarkovsky/Bernardo Bertolucci/Pedro Almodóvar film.
48. a Stanley Kubrick /Francis Ford Coppola/Alfred Hitchcock/Sidney Lumet film.
49. a Greta Garbo/Audrey Hepburn/Barbra Streisand/Vivien Leigh/Elizabeth Taylor film. [ Roman Holiday ]
50. a Humphrey Bogart/James Stewart/Clark Gable/Orson Welles/Gregory Peck film. [ You Can't Take It with You ]
51. a film released in 2018.
52. a film in theaters. [ Black Panther ]

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1. watch 10 foreign language films [ First They Killed My Father, Jeux d'enfants ]
2. watch every film nominated in 2017 for the Academy Award for Best Picture [ Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Lady Bird, The Shape of Water, Phantom Thread ]
3. watch 10 films released before 1960 [ Forbidden Planet ]
4. watch 20 films released in the same decade (going for '60s) [ Wild River, Zulu, Village of the Damned (1960), Advise & Consent, Casino Royale (1967), The Trial ]
5. watch 20 films of the same genre (going for Science Fiction) [ Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, Infinity Chamber, Geostorm, Annihilation, Ready Player One, The Cloverfield Paradox, Doom, Okja ]
6. watch 10 films released before 2000 that have won an Academy Award at any category [ A Streetcar Named Desire, Midnight Cowboy, Zorba the Greek ]
7. watch 10 films in the IMDb Top 250 [ Jagten, The Kid, Blade Runner 2049, Once Upon a Time in the West, Life Is Beautiful, Les Diaboliques, Amores Perros ]
8. watch 10 animated films
9. watch 10 films from the same director (going for the Coen Brothers) [ Blood Simple., Raising Arizona, The Hudsucker Proxy, Miller's Crossing, The Man Who Wasn't There, The Ladykillers, Intolerable Cruelty, Barton Fink, Inside Llewyn Davis ]
10. watch 10 films released in 2018
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1. Yojimbo
2. Kung fu panda
3. The shawshank redemption
4. Batman and robin
5. Blue velvet
6. On the waterfront
7. Vertigo
8. Metropolis
9. Beauty and the beast
10.Inception
11.Spirited away
12.Batman vs Superman
13.Xmen: the last stand
14.Be afraid
15.Wedding crashers
16.Taken
17.Children of men
18.Wizard of oz
19.The notebook
20.Unforgiven
21.Shaft
22.The day after tomorrow
23.The apartment
24.The square
25.Spotlight
26.Get out
27.The lion king
28.The sound of music
29.Annie hall
30.Rushmore
31.Enter the dragon
32.Cars
33.Macbeth
34.High school musical
35.Suffragette
36.The green mile
37.12 monkeys
38.Blood simple
39.Gladiator
40.War of the worlds
41.After earth
42.Boyhood
43.Cutthroat Island
44.Pretty woman
45.Eden lake
46.Harry potter and the order of the Phoenix
47.The passion of the christ
48. The shining
49.Roman holiday
50.The third man
51.Black panther
52.A quiet place

1. a foreign language film: Caché
2. an animated film: Life is Flashing Before your Eyes
3. a film in the IMDb Top 250: L.A. Confidential
4. a film in the IMDb Bottom 100: Manos: The Hands of Fate
5. an indie film: Withnail and I
6. a black and white film: Grand Illusion
7. a film released before 1960: Freaks
8. a silent film. Sherlock Jr.
9. a film that topped the weekly box office within 2017. It
10. a film with more than 400,000 votes on IMDb Interstellar
11. a Studio Ghibli film. My Neighbour Totoro
12. a DC film. Teen Titans Go! To The Movies
13. a Marvel film: The Avengers
14. a film whose main genre is Horror. Theatre of Blood
15. a film whose main genre is Comedy. The 'Burbs
16. a film whose main genre is Action. Free Fire
17. a film whose main genre is Science Fiction. Upstream Colour
18. a film whose main genre is Fantasy: Orlando
19. a film whose main genre is Romance. Call Me By your Name
20. a film whose main genre is Western. 3:10 to Yuma
21. a blaxploitation film. The Beast Must Die
22. a post-apocalyptic/apocalyptic/dystopian film: It Comes at Night
23. a film in the MoFo Fall of Fame: WALL-E
24. a Palme d'Or winner Brief Encounter
25. a film that has won the Academy Award for Best Picture. The Apartment
26. a film that won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay: The Piano
27. a film that won an Academy Award for Best Original Score The Red Shoes
28. a film that won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography The Revenent
29. a film included in the National Society of Film Critics' 100 Essential Films list. Do the Right Thing
30. a film that is part of the Criterion Collection The Red Balloon
31. a martial arts film. Ip Man
32. a Disney or Pixar film. Coco
33. a film that is a novel or play adaptation. The Innocents
34. a musical film. A Hard Days Night
35. a film directed by a woman The Babadook
36. a film more than 160 minutes long. It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
37. a film that has been adapted to or from a TV series. Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
38. a (neo) noir film. In a Lonely Place
39. a film in which the main character dies. A Ghost Story
40. a film in which aliens (or other terrestrial species) tries to eliminate mankind: Annihilation
41. a film that doesn't take place on Earth or takes place in an alternate world: Passage of Venus
42. a film that won any type of Academy Award for 2017. The Silent Child
43. a box office flop (made less money that it cost). The Field
44. a box office wonder (made at least 3 times as much as it cost). Lady Bird
45. a film with a budget lower than 1 million. Krisha
46. a film that is part of a franchise with more than 5 sequels/remakes/reboots. Saw
47. a Lars von Trier/Andrei Tarkovsky/Bernardo Bertolucci/Pedro Almodóvar film. All About My Mother
48. a Stanley Kubrick /Francis Ford Coppola/Alfred Hitchcock/Sidney Lumet film. Dracula
49. a Greta Garbo/Audrey Hepburn/Barbra Streisand/Vivien Leigh/Elizabeth Taylor film. The Lavender Hill Mob
50. a Humphrey Bogart/James Stewart/Clark Gable/Orson Welles/Gregory Peck film. The Magnificent Ambersons
51. a film released in 2018. Unsane
52. a film in theaters. Creed 2

1. watch 10 foreign language films
1. Eyes Without a Face
2. The Ascent
3. Europa Europa
4. In the Park
5. Nothing Bad Can Happen
6. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
7. Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
8. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
9. Aguirre: The Wrath of God
10. Vivre sa Vie

2. Watch every film nominated in 2017 for the Academy Award for Best Picture:
Need to see Shape of Water, don't want to see Darkest Hour

3. watch 10 films released before 1960
1. The Jazz Singer
2. The Music Box
3. Black Narcissus
4. The Lady From Shanghai
5. The Ladykillers
6. A Short Vision
7. The Thing From Another World
8. Seven Samurai
9. Way Out West
10. The African Queen

4. watch 20 films released in the same decade
1.Game Night
2.The Post
3.Phantom Thread
4.I, Tonya
5.Three Billboards
6.Best F(r)iends Volume One
7.Good Time
8.The Killing of a Sacred Deer
9.Lou
10.Garden Party
11.Brigsby Bear
12.Bad Day For the Cut
13.Icarus
14.David Lynch the Art Life
15.Hacksaw Ridge
16.The Young Offenders
17.Deadpool
18.Sicario
19.The Drop
20.Nightcrawler

5. watch 20 horror films
1. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
2. The Burning
3. The Invisible Man
4. Jack Frost
5. The Old Dark House
6. Oculus
7. Whistle and I'll Come To You
8. They Live
9. Clover-field
10. Blade
11. Ghost-watch
12. Suspiria
13. Martyrs
14. Don't Look Now
15. The Devil's Doorway
16. The Skin I live In
17. Night of the Creeps
18. The Editor
19. Christine
20. The Devil's Doorway

6. watch 10 films released before 2000 that have won an Academy Award at any category
1. The Mission
2. JFK
3. Miracle on 34th Street
4. Rush
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7. watch 10 films in the IMDb Top 250
1. Diabolique
2. The Thing
3. Die Hard
4. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
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8. watch 10 animated films
1. The Adventures of Prince Achmed
2. Yellow Submarine
3. Kiki's Delivery Service
4. Duck Amuck
5. The Plague Dogs
6. Princess Mononoke
7. The Iron Giant
8. Beauty and The Beast
9. Bao
10. Aladdin

9. watch 10 films from the same director
1. The Lady Vanishes
2. The Wrong Man
3. I Confess
4. Stage Fright
5. The Man Who Knew Too Much
6. The 39 Steps
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10. watch 10 films released in 2018
1. RSC Live: Twelfth Night
2. Hereditary
3. Tully
4. Incredibles 2
5. Isle of Dogs
6. Searching
7. Game Night
8. A Quiet Place
9. Infinity War
10. Deadpool 2

I have a question - if I've already watched all nine Best Picture nominees but most of them were originally watched in 2017, do I still have to re-watch them in order to count them towards this challenge?

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I was thinking the same thing because it applies to me as well. Since it is a very specific category, I think it should still count. No point re-watching a film you watched a few months ago just for the challenge.

i've seen them all too then, most of them in 2018 actually but i did see a couple in 2017.

I'm not sure why these are hidden in spoilers...

Anyhoo, I'm assuming you have to watch a different movie for each category? Because some films will fit multiple.

For example:

1. a foreign language film.
2. an animated film.
11. a Studio Ghibli film.

Anything from Ghibli is going to fit all three of these and probably Fantasy as well.

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Added the watch a Clark Gable, etc film as i watched Night Nurse yesterday. And yeah if we can count films twice like Hashtag did i can cross of more of those.

Nightmare Mode:

1. watch 10 foreign language films (A Visitor To A Museum, My Friend Ivan Lapshin, Planet of Storms, Martyrs, Jules and Jim, Winter Light, Leviathan, Our Little Sister, Like Father Like Son, I Wish)
2. watch every film nominated in 2017 for the Academy Award for Best Picture [ Lady Bird, Dunkirk, Call Me by Your Name, Darkest Hour, Phantom Thread, The Post, Get Out, The Shape of Water, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri ]
3. watch 10 films released before 1960 (The Cranes Are Flying, A Face in the Crowd, The Gunfighter, Ballad of a Soldier, Europe '51, Rio Bravo, The Long Gray Line, Johnny Guitar, Night and the City, Kiss Me Deadly)
4. watch 20 films released in the same decade (1930's) (The Only Son, Baby Face, The Black Cat, Imitation of Life, Footlight Parade, Duck Soup, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Captains Corageous, You Only Live Once, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Jezebel, Fury, Mr Deeds Goes To Town, La Chienne, Boudu Saved From Drowning, Ruggles of Red Gap, You Can't Take It With You, Scarface, Osaka Elegy, The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum)
5. watch 20 films of the same genre (Comedy) (The Disaster Artist, Europa Europa, The Last Supper, Fist Fight, Jackass The Movie, Jackass Number Two, The Heartbreak Kid, Waiting For Guffman, A New Leaf, Punch-Drunk Love, Braindead, Trouble in Paradise, Wild Tales, Frances Ha, This is the End, Bowfinger, Walk Hard, Tommy Boy, Paddington, The Burbs)
6. watch 10 films released before 2000 that have won an Academy Award at any category (10/10) La Strada (Best Foreign), Nights of Cabiria (Best Foreign), Dodsworth (Best Art Direction), Mr Smith Goes to Washington (Best Original Story), The Quiet Man (Best Director), Mildred Pierce (Best Actress) Sunrise (Unique and Artistic Picture), Black Swan (Best Actress), Day For Night (Best Foreign), Cabaret (Best Actress).
7. watch 10 films in the IMDb Top 250 (Interstellar, Avengers: Infinity War, M, Requiem For A Dream, Come and See, Wild Tales, Stalker, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Amores Perros, Barry Lyndon, The Handmaiden)
8. watch 10 animated films (The Breadwinner, Whisper of the Heart, Sleeping Beauty, Coco, Wolf Children, The Tale of Princess Kaguya, Winnie The Pooh. My Life As A Zucchini, Early Man, Isle of Dogs)
9. watch 10 films from the same director (10/10 - Sion Sono) (Love Exposure, Suicide Club, Noriko's Dinner Table, Why Don't You Play In Hell?, Strange Circus, Tokyo Tribe, Cold Fish, Guilty of Romance, Antiporno, The Virgin Psychics)
10. watch 10 films released in 2018 (10/10) (Won't You Be My Neighbour?, Gotti, Mute, Summer of 84, Hereditary, Deadpool 2, Tully, 14 Cameras, Red Sparrow, Tomb Raider)

6/10 of the Oscars one. La Strada (Best Foreign), Nights of Cabiria (Best Foreign), Dodsworth (Best Art Direction), Mr Smith Goes to Washington (Best Original Story), The Quiet Man (Best Director), Mildred Pierce (Best Actress).

@Miss Vicky you can count a film only once. Otherwise you could knock the main challenge off with 30 or so films.

Have added The Cloverfield Paradox to "Doesn't Take Place On Earth", forgot all about that since it is so bad.

1. a foreign language film. In the Mood For Love
2. an animated film. Ferdinand
3. a film in the IMDb Top 250. Forrest Gump
4. a film in the IMDb Bottom 100.
5. an indie film.
6. a black and white film. On the Waterfront
7. a film released before 1960. All the King's Men
8. a silent film.
9. a film that topped the weekly box office within 2017.
10. a film with more than 400,000 votes on IMDb Gladiator
11. a Studio Ghibli film.
12. a DC film.
13. a Marvel film.
14. a film whose main genre is Horror. Poison for the Fairies
15. a film whose main genre is Comedy.
16. a film whose main genre is Action.
17. a film whose main genre is Science Fiction.
18. a film whose main genre is Fantasy.
19. a film whose main genre is Romance.
20. a film whose main genre is Western. 3:10 to Yuma (2007)
21. a blaxploitation film.
22. a post-apocalyptic/apocalyptic/dystopian film.
23. a film in the MoFo Fall of Fame The Station Agent
24. a Palme d'Or winner
25. a film that has won the Academy Award for Best Picture. 12 Years a Slave
26. a film that won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
27. a film that won an Academy Award for Best Original Score
28. a film that won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography
29. a film included in the National Society of Film Critics' 100 Essential Films list. The Godfather
30. a film that is part of the Criterion Collection L'Avventura
31. a martial arts film.
32. a Disney or Pixar film Coco
33. a film that is a novel or play adaptation. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
34. a musical film. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
35. a film directed by a woman Big
36. a film more than 160 minutes long.
37. a film that has been adapted to or from a TV series.
38. a (neo) noir film.
39. a film in which the main character dies. Glory
40. a film in which aliens (or other terrestrial species) tries to eliminate mankind.
41. a film that doesn't take place on Earth or takes place in an alternate world.
42. a film that won any type of Academy Award for 2017. Call Me By Your Name
43. a box office flop (made less money that it cost).
44. a box office wonder (made at least 3 times as much as it cost).
45. a film with a budget lower than 1 million.
46. a film that is part of a franchise with more than 5 sequels/remakes/reboots.
47. a Lars von Trier/Andrei Tarkovsky/Bernardo Bertolucci/Pedro Almodóvar film.
48. a Stanley Kubrick /Francis Ford Coppola/Alfred Hitchcock/Sidney Lumet film. Rebecca
49. a Greta Garbo/Audrey Hepburn/Barbra Streisand/Vivien Leigh/Elizabeth Taylor film. Wait Until Dark
50. a Humphrey Bogart/James Stewart/Clark Gable/Orson Welles/Gregory Peck film. Mutiny on the Bounty
51. a film released in 2018.
52. a film in theaters. You Were Never Really Here

There are probably more that I have done already, but I'll look at it again later.

You've inspired me to change it.