I watched 87 movies for the first time over the last year. This is the list.

[Dave Gray]

13th
Arrival
Atomic Blonde
Atonement
Baby Driver
Barton Fink
Better Off Dead
Bicentennial Man
Carrie
Cheech and Chong's  Up in Smoke
Chef
Cinderella Man
Cloverfield
Cool Hand Luke
Creed
Darkman
Doctor Strange
Dunkirk
Europa Report
Fantastic Four
Fences
Following
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Ghost I the Shell
Guardians of the Galaxy 2
Hacksaw Ridge
Hell or High Water
Hidden Figures
I Love You Phillip Morris
Invastion of the Body Snatchers
Jedi Junior High
Kubo and the Two Strings
La La Land
Les Miserables
Lion
Logan
Lord of War
Mad Max: The Road Warrior
Man vs. Snake
Manchester By the Sea
Miami Vice
Midnight in Paris
Minimalism: A Documentary about the Important Things
Moana
Moonlight
My Neighbor Totoro
Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
OJ: Made in America
Once
Poltergeist
Ponyo
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
Primer
Rogue One
Safety Not Guaranteed
Seven Samurai
Sing Street
Snakes on a Plane
Spider-man: Homecoming
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
The B.F.G.
The Color of Money
The Crying Game
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The Host
The Lego Batman Movie
The Longest Yard
The Lost Boys
The Magnificent Seven
The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
The Natural
The Nice Guys
The Producers
The Red Turtle
The Sting
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Untouchables
Tickled
Time Crimes
Trading Places
Trollhunter
Trolls
Valerian and the City of 1000 Planets
War of the Planet of the Apes
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Witness
Wonder Woman

Let me know if there's anything you want to know about.

[Fau Teixeira]

Do you understand Primer?
have you seen the info-graphic about it?



nothing says easy to follow plot like 9 concurrent timelines !

and dollar for dollar it was the best movie on your entire list.

7k budget for that whole movie.

[DaLittle B]

Invastion of the Body Snatchers

1956 version or 1978 version? I rewatched the 1956 version a couple years ago,Liked it for the most part...

Carrie
Poltergeist (1982 Craig T. Nelson & Jobeth Williams, 2015 Sam Rockwell)
The Day the Earth Stood Still  (1951 Michael Rennie ,2008 Keanu Reeves)
The Producers (1967 Gene Wilder,2005 Nathan Lane)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974 Marilyn Burns, 2003 Jessica Biel)

Originals or remakes?

I loved the originals of Poltergeist,and the Day the Earth Stood still...

A lot of movies I liked on the list,a few I've seen a few times...I'm fairly odd,as I like the Arrival,and Bicentennial Man.I also have a softspot in heart for the Natural,and Trading places...(I still quote Trading places too often.... )

[Sunstroke]

On a quick scan, I've seen roughly half of the movies on that list. Pretty much all of the older ones, and a decent amount of the newer ones. There's a lot of damned good movies on this list.

I'm fairly odd,as I like the Arrival,and Bicentennial Man.I also have a softspot in heart for the Natural,and Trading places...(I still quote Trading places too often.... )

I could take or leave Arrival (which is odd, given my background in cryptography), but Bicentennial Man and The Natural are both on my list of "Movies that I seem to like a lot more than most people I know."

[Phishfan]

That is an impressive list and I must say that I'm a bit surprised some of these were your first viewing given how much you like movies.

[Dolphster]

I watched one movie in the last year.  I'm not sure if that means I'm doing something really wrong with my life or I'm doing something really right with my life.   

[masterfins]

Some of my all time favorites on the list: Cool Hand Luke, The Natural (impressive list of actors in this movie), and Poltergeist.  I also like The Color of Money, but you really need to watch The Hustler first in order to get the full meaning of The Color of Money.

[Tenshot13]

What's your top 5 from your list Dave?

I know The Sting would be in mine.

[Dave Gray]

Do you understand Primer?
have you seen the info-graphic about it?



nothing says easy to follow plot like 9 concurrent timelines !

and dollar for dollar it was the best movie on your entire list.

7k budget for that whole movie.

I quite enjoyed Primer, but definitely had to read to understand it.  I think you have to really carefully study to understand 100%, and even then, it's probably debatable, but to understand the story, in full, even the complexities, I think you can do by watching once and reading.  To go it alone, it'll be really tough to figure out.

I did watch Christopher Nolan's Following, which was made on $5000 pounds and I enjoyed it a lot.  It's on Netflix.

If you're looking for another interesting Time Travel film, TimeCrimes was pretty good, as well.

[Dave Gray]

Originals or remakes?

I watched the original of every movie you listed there, except for The Producers, in which I watched the musical.  ...not sure if that's considered a remake or not.  I found both The Day the Earth Stood Still and Invasion of the Body Snatchers a tough watch.  They're just so old and the pacing and acting is weird by today's standards.

I liked Poltergeist (didn't realize it was as silly and "fun"...always thought of it more as a horror film.  And I thought Texas Chainsaw was f'ing terrifying and creepy and really held up.

I HATED Bicentennial Man, though.  It was one of the worst films of the year, for me.  I found it incredibly corny and cringey....some people love that movie...not sure what's up with that.

[Dave Gray]

What's your top 5 from your list Dave?

I know The Sting would be in mine.

It's really hard to compare old movies with new movies.  Sometimes, when I watch an old movie, I feel like I'm "appreciating" it more than enjoying it.  But I'm glad you mention the Sting. 

That movie fucking rocked my goddamn socks off.  It was amazingly good and I loved it.  It was definitely in the top few on the list, and it was absolutely the best of the old movies.

Newer stuff, I loved Arrival (that seems to be "meh" around here) and I loved La La Land and Lion and Hell or High Water.  And Sing Street and Baby Driver were a really good time.

[Phishfan]

I loved La La Land

Your movie credibility just got knocked down a few spots with me. 

[Fau Teixeira]

12 angry men is a good example of a movie that has 2 different versions .. the Henry Fonda version and the Jack Lemmon version .. and both are great and both are done in a way that fit the time that they were made in.  I've watched both and it's really hard to pick a "better" version .. but I do have a favorite version.

[DaLittle B]

I find it awesome you watched the original versions Dave!

My underlings  at work will hear me reference a movie, ask me about,then say they didn't see the reference...They saw the remake....