Luis' Movie Log for 2018 (excluding new releases)

As you guys know, I will be watching a lot more new movies this year. I already have over 96 films planned. (12 from each decade starting with the 40s) That list can be seen here. This post will not include films that were released in 2018, I have a separate thread for those films here. If everything goes accordingly, there should be reviews for the movies on the list starting next week, a lot of you guys influenced my list, so thank you!

January
#1 Citizen Kane (1940)
#2 Dial M For Murder (1954)
#3 Paddington (2014)
#4 The Sound of Music (1965)
#5 Taxi Driver (1976)

February
#6 Witness (1985)
#7 Goodfellas (1990)
#8 Memento (2000)
#9 The Incredibles (2004)
#10 Inception (2010)
#11 The Red Soes (1948)
#12 Sunset Boulevard (1950)
#13 Let Me In (2010)
#14 The Matrix (1999)
#15 Rosemary's Baby (1968)
#16 Big Hero 6 (2014)
#17 Kramer vs Kramer (1979)
#18 Frozen (2013)

March
#19 Back to the Future (1985)
#20 Schindler's List (1993)
#21 Back to the Future Part II (1989)
#22 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
#23 Black Swan (2010)
#24 Fantasia (1940)
#25 Life is Beautiful (1997)
#26 Seven Samurai (1954)
#27 Captain America: Civil War (2016)
#28 The Graduate (1967)
#29 Chinatown (1974)
#30 The King's Speech (2010)
#31 The Edge of Seventeen (2016)
#32 Ponyo (2008)
#33 Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)

April
#34 Blue Velvet (1986)
#35 Hot Fuzz (2007)
#36 The Lion King (1994)
#37 This is the End (2010)
#38 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
#39 Doctor Strange (2016)
#40 The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
#41 The 400 Blows (1959)
#42 Scent of a Woman (1992)
#43 Mary Poppins (1964)
#44 Suspiria (1977)
#45 Thelma (2017)
#46 The Princess Bride (1987)
#47 Airplane! (1980)
#48 Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
#49 Hercules (1997)

May
#50 Labyrinth (1986)
#51 Mamma Mia (2008)
#52 Lilo and Stitch (2002)
#53 Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
#54 His Girl Friday (1940)
#55 The Good Dinosaur (2015)
#56 A Bug's Life (1998)
#57 Cars (2006)
#58 Brave (2012)
#59 La Famille Bélier (2014)
#60 Monsters Inc (2001)
#61 Monsters University (2013)
#62 Finding Nemo (2003)
#63 Finding Dory (2016)
#64 Up (2009)
#65 Toy Story (1995)
#66 Toy Story 2 (1999)
#67 Toy Story 3 (2010)
#68 Coco (2017)
#69 Inside Out (2015)
#70 Ratatouille (2007)
#71 A Clockwork Orange (1971)
#72 Saving Private Ryan (1998)
#73 Entre Nos (2009)

June
#74 The Descent (2005)
#75 12 Years a Slave (2013)
#76 Phoenix (2014)
#77 Benny's Video (1992)
#78 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
#79 Peeping Tom (1960)
#80 The Iron Giant (1999)
#81 Pleasantville (1998)
#82 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
#83 Sicario (2015)

July
#84 Assassination (2015)
#85 Spider-Man (2002)
#86 Spider-Man 2 (2004)
#87 Spider-Man 3 (2007)
#88 The Sword of Doom (1966)
#89 The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
#90 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
#91.Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
#92 Samsara (2001)
#93 Iron Man 3 (2013)
#94 The Incredible Hulk (2008)
#95 The Terminator (1984)
#96 The Age of Shadows (2016)
#97 The Leopard (1963)
#98 Bruce Almighty (2003)
#99 Bridesmaids (2011)
#100 Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)
#101 High School Musical (2006)
#102 High School Musical 2 (2007)
#103 High School Musical 3 (2008)
#104 Mission: Impossible (1996)
#105 Mission: Impossible II (2000)
#106 Mission: Impossible III (2006)
#107 Mission:Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)

August
#108 Man of Steel (2013)
#109 X-Men (2000)
#110 Inglourious Basterds (2009)
#111 Django Unchained (2012)
#112 The Big Sick (2017)
#113 The Fault in our Stars (2014)

September
#114 The Conjuring (2013)
#115 The Conjuring 2 (2016)
#116 The Innocents (1961)
#117 Inisidious Chapter 3 (2015)
#118 Sing Street (2016)

October
#119 Låt den rätte komma in (Let the Right One in) (2008)
#120 Birdman (2014)
#121 Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
#122 Whiplash (2014)
#123 La La Land (2016)
#124 Halloween (1978)
#125 Halloween 2 (1981)
#126 Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
#127 Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)
#128 Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989)
#129 Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)
#130 Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998)
#131 Halloween: Resurrection (2002)
#132 Halloween (2007)
#133 Halloween 2 (2009)
#134 Scream (1996)
#135 Scream 2 (1997)
#136 Scream 3 (2000)
#137 Scream 4 (2011)
#138 A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

November
#139 Ghostwatch (1992)
#140 Rush (2013)

December
#141. The Dressmaker (2015)
#142. Incendies (2010)
#143. The Aviator (2004)
#144 Zootopia (2016)
#145 Moana (2016)
#146 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1938)
#147 Love, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
#148 The Jungle Book (2016)
#149 Pinocchio (1940)
#150 The Fox and the Hound (1981)

I havent seen that yet. Any good and who's in it, Luis?

Luis this list of 96 films looks like one of the most comprehensive list of 'must see' films anyone could ask for. And yes, quite a number of films I value are on it. Looking forward to your reviews - you may wind up teaching a course in cinema someday.

Not very good, a lot of promise and zero substance.

LOL. Sounds like the ideal popcorn flic, my good man.

Looking forward to your list

Thank you for stopping by! Looking forward to get started! Any specific films you absolutely love on here?

LOL, thank you!

Three films I love, and I believe we're on my list of suggestions to you are:
1-Witness
2-The Sound of Music
3- 2001
All these films are visual delights as well as movies I can see again and again.

Other films I m glad to see on the list are:
Taxi Driver
The Grapes of Wrath
Bonnie and Clyde
Harry and Tonto
Dr. Sttangelove

Many others as well, but these are some of my top pics, off the top of my head.

Sound of Music is one of the films I'm most excited about. 2001: A Space Odessy I've seen the openig ape sequence and some other parts in my film class, but never in its entirety.

Look forward to reading, love the 100 point scale.

Thank you! I always loved scales to 100, lol. A bit specific but it satisfies me.

Full list here

No wonder this is an absolute classic, The first film on my list is one of the greatest character studies. The opening 10 minutes are a great set up to our protagonist, Charles Foster Kane as it introduces a series of events that really peak your interest as to who this man was, and how he became so successful. What follows is 90 minutes of a thorough and fascinating dissection of this man's psyche, life and work. We get treated to the pivotal moment that changed his life in his childhood, his first time digging into a world of business, his road to success, his life as a married man, and his ultimate downfall.

Every single flashback scene kept me invested in the narrative of the film. The most powerful thing in this film, in my opinion, is the way it executes the idea of what makes us human. We are taken through this man's most pivotal moments in his life, and we see how his success has been dehumanizing him, and how it has become his downfall. I was beginning to wonder why in the world Welles would leave this character at such an ambiguous point at the end of the movie, until the last shot. The last shot just brings everything together to such a deeply affecting place. It brings forward the idea of how the most warm and human memories from one's childhood can take a toll on one's adult demons, and how it can ultimately bring a man that's become so power hungry to his knees. I've never really seen a story build so much of what makes a character great based solely on one word and one shot, and when that final shot did come, I audibly gasped. It is rare that I give a movie a perfect score, it is even rarer that I give a movie a perfect score on my first watch, but there was not a single moment in Citizen Kane that diminished the narrative flow. I can see this becoming an all time favorite upon rewatch.

SCORE - 100/100

Vertigo still remains as my favorite Hitchcock, with Psycho as a close second. However, this film is a worthy addition to his filmography, and I can see it being some's favorite. The film had me in its grip from beginning to end, and I was very much thrilled to see how everything panned out in the end. I can see that Hitchcock did try to deliver a lot of the shocking narrative turns that he's became notorious for, however they were not nearly as effective as the ones displayed in his other works. At times, it did feel too strategically placed, and a bit of a stretch when compared to the seamless connection of plot points in his other works. I did love the dialogue and the interactions the characters have. In a film that contains only one physical scene, in an ocean filled with character interactions, it was a great how it managed to keep me hooked the entire way through. The characters are also very well realized and they all serve the story well. Overall, I can see this as a film that existed to stretch Hithcock's creative muscles before delivering the epitome of his work as a filmmaker. Definitely do check this out.

Phooey, I just posted a message to you that was full of compliments, ( both for you & the mofo members in general) but somehow the mofo creature ate it (- have you seen Jaws? )

Anyway, since I forgot exactly what I said, I ll keep it short this time:

As regards your fine review of Citizen Kane:

You may be young, but you are wise.

Yes! I've seen and I love Jaws!

Well you just made my night! Thank you so much, it is always so humbling seeing someone react positively to something you work hard on, so again, thank you!

What a sweet film. I don't think there's any aspect in this that yells "cinema perfection", but the film is so warm, and so adorable, and the colorful aesthetic makes you feel right at home. Shortest review ever, I get it, but there isn't anything I want to address. The film doesn't want to deliver a masterpiece in filmmaking, it's just there to make you smile and enjoy the good things in life, which is definitely what made it so effective in my eyes.

Full List here

I haven't seen as much of Hitchcock as I would like, but "Dial M For Murder" will probably remain as my personal favourite from his bunch anyway. He truly is a master at building tension.

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