“For what it’s worth, it’s never to late, or in my case too early, to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, start whenever you want. You can change, or stay the same. There are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you, and I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.” –Benjamin Button
Movies
8
Jan 07
2006: The Movies
On October 4, 2005, for some unknown reason, I started noting down every movie I watched with the date and a rating from 1 to 10 in my Moleskine. I’ve become rather obsessive about it, but I have noticed that either I only watch good to excellent movies, or my rating scale has a very fucked up bell curve. I am very keen to give 8s and 9s, but hesitant to give anything less than a 6. I’m far too generous, perhaps. Anyway, these are my movies of 2006.
10 – My Favourites
Crash
Mon Oncle
Bad Santa
The Weatherman
Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid
Clerks II
Nacho Libre
Roger & Me
9 – Movies I Liked A Fuck Of A Lot
Garden State
Shaolin Soccer
Howl’s Moving Castle
Freaks
House of Flying Daggers
Office Space
The Hebrew Hammer
Waking Ned Devine
Click
12 Monkeys
The Brown Bunny
Fast Food Nation
Ed Wood
Night on Earth
Casino Royale
8 – Movies I Liked Enough To Probably Watch Again
In Her Shoes
Eddie Izzard: Circle
Love Actually
Lost In La Mancha
Ellie Parker
Sky High
The Pink Panther
Microcosmos
American Pyscho
Mysterious Skin
Pirates of the Caribbean 2
7 – Movies That Were Still Worthy Of My Time
Rumble Fish
Shopgirl
Just Like Heaven
The Exorcism Of Emily Rose
The Legend of Zorro
V For Vendetta
Silent Hill
The Departed
6 – Movies To Watch When There’s Nothing Better To Do
The Fog
The Wedding Crashers
The 40-Year-Old-Virgin
Dear Wendy
Final Destination 3
Miami Vice
Saboteur
5 – Movies I Wish I Could Have Decided Not To Watch
King Kong
X-Men 3
4 – Movies I Should Have Turned Off
Melinda & Melinda
3 – Movies That Never Should Have Been Made
Elizabethtown
Conclusions I Can Draw From This Data
- I am really far too generous with my ratings.
- Some of those top 10- and 9-rated movies would switch around, for example, Shaolin Soccer kicks the arse off (no pun intended, really) Clerks II, but obviously at the time of watching Clerks II I really liked that movie, more than the brilliant Shaolin Soccer.
- I am a sucker for romantic comedies, and really any movie that makes me cry.
- I obviously don’t like Alfred Hitchcock as my previously second-lowest rated movie was The Birds.
- I really like Johnny Depp and Steve Martin.
- Daniel Craig is the best Bond ever.
- Adam Goldberg in shiny blue Speedo underpants with visible cock outline is so hot.
- Adrian, I’m really sorry I didn’t like your movies. You should tell the directors to have better scripts next time.
- I have questionable taste.