September 2013 50 Movie Challenge

[Travis]

Originally Posted by chris_sc77

Five movies from the year you were born.
Five movies from a foreign director in the English language (example : Trouffats Farenheit 451)

Yeah! 1975! One of the best years for movies!

Jaws
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Taxi Driver
Dog Day Afternoon
French Connection 2

And sure a few more in my collection to pick from

[Travis]

Originally Posted by cinemaphile

I can't find even a single movie from my birth year that I am the least bit interested in, much less five.

Really?

Just looked at my collection, Where's Rollerball on Blu?

[Al_The_Strange]

Oh snap, there's two challenges going on for September?

Still not sure how this month will work out for me, so I'll shoot for 50 or 100 or whatever, and post as appropriate.

[Al_The_Strange]

My first two main categories to start with shall be:

#1: Sci-Fi (always a requisite for me )

#2: Movies never seen before (of which I have plenty, and I figure this would offer a little more flexibility)

[cinemaphile]

Originally Posted by Al_The_Strange

Oh snap, there's two challenges going on for September?

Still not sure how this month will work out for me, so I'll shoot for 50 or 100 or whatever, and post as appropriate.

there were two in August as well. Just like this month, one was pure quantity (100) and the other was by category. No way I'm hitting 100, plus I like that the categories push you to watch things you otherwise might not, so I'm sticking with this one.

[gaboman]

100 movies is essentially 3 movies a day; 4 on at least 10 of those days. Just boggles the mind. I'm yet to make it to 50 but if the challenge is fun enough, I'm going to give it a go.

[CoolRanch]

Drama
Prisoners --- 8/10 --- [September 22nd]

Horror
Nosferatu (1922) --- 8/10 --- [September 2nd]
Evil Dead (2013) --- 8/10 --- [September 2nd]
Insidious: Chapter 2 --- 8/10 --- [September 13th]
The Evil Dead (1981) --- 7/10 --- [September 15th]
Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn --- 8/10 --- [September 16th]

Comedy
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy --- 7/10 --- [September 7th]
This is the End --- 8/10 --- [September 10th]
Jack and Jill --- 6/10 --- [September 11th]
Anger Management --- 5/10 --- [September 17th]

Films from a Director You've Seen No Prior Work From: David Fincher
The Social Network --- 9/10 --- [September 12th]

Creature Features

Action/Adventure
The Fast and the Furious --- 7/10 --- [September 7th]
2 Fast 2 Furious --- 6/10 --- [September 7th]
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift --- 2/10 --- [September 8th]
Fast and Furious --- 4/10 --- [September 8th]
Fast Five --- 7/10 --- [September 9th]

Five Movies from the Year You Were Born: 1995

Sci-Fi
Pitch Black --- 5/10 --- [September 5th]
Riddick --- 8/10 --- [September 6th]
Star Trek Into Darkness --- 7/10 --- [September 14th]

Martial Arts

Wildcards
Limitless --- 7/10 --- [September 14th]

[CoolRanch]

#1: Martial Arts

#2: Creature Features (Movies featuring animal or animal-like monsters such as Godzilla, Pacific Rim, Jaws, etc.)

[Al_The_Strange]

Originally Posted by cinemaphile

there were two in August as well. Just like this month, one was pure quantity (100) and the other was by category. No way I'm hitting 100, plus I like that the categories push you to watch things you otherwise might not, so I'm sticking with this one.

I seem to have forgotten about the other August challenge then.

I do agree that the categories are helpful in getting people to watch stuff they normally wouldn't. I don't think I would have ever seen all those sports movies last month otherwise.

[Britbuffguy]

Originally Posted by Al_The_Strange

I seem to have forgotten about the other August challenge then.

I do agree that the categories are helpful in getting people to watch stuff they normally wouldn't. I don't think I would have ever seen all those sports movies last month otherwise.

Yeah, I have been watching 50-70 new movies from the library every month this year...until my job situation turns around, but I HAD been just knocking them out by year. I started with 1985, then 1990 and starting 1975.

These challenges help cause I have a long list of movies to watch and I just seek out the genres in those years first, then branch to other stuff.

I'd have to check, but I know I have watched nearly 600 movies this year, and I'd bet 90% have been first timers.

[Al_The_Strange]

51/60
Average: 1.79 a day

MAIN SELECTIONS
Sci-Fi
Enemy Mine (Sept. 7th, BD, 4/5)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Sept. 15th, BD, 4/5)
2010: The Year We Make Contact (Sept. 15th, BD, 3.5/5)
Doomsday (Sept. 19th, BD, 3/5)

Movies Never Before Seen
Trance (Sept. 4th, BD, 3.5/5)
The Incredible Melting Man (Sept. 16th, BD, 3/5)
The Evil Dead (2013) (Sept. 16th, BD, 3.5/5)
Hands of the Ripper (Sept. 17th, BD, 3.5/5)
Mass Effect: Paragon Lost (Sept. 18th, DVD rental, 3.5/5)

Horror
Stranded (Sept. 3rd, BD, 3/5)
Pitch Black (Sept. 7th, BD, 3.5/5)
Riddick (Sept. 12th, Cinema, 4/5)
Sharknado (Sept. 13th, BD, 2.5/5)

Comedy
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (Sept. 5th, BD, 4/5)
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Sept. 6th, BD, 3.5/5)
God Bless America (Sept. 14th, DVD rental, 4/5)
The Three Amigos! (Sept. 14th, BD, 4/5)
Brave (Sept. 29th, BD, 3.5/5)

Underrated/Lesser-Known Movies
Detective Dee (Sept. 17th, BD, 3.5/5)
They Live (Sept. 20th, BD, 4.5/5)
Halloween III: Season of the Witch (Sept. 26th, BD, 3.5/5)
Atlantis: The Lost Empire (Sept. 29th, BD, 3.5/5)

Erotic Thrillers
Birdemic: Shock and Terror (Sept. 14th, BD, 1.5/5)
Immortal (Sept. 1st, BD, 4/5)
American Beauty (Sept. 2nd, BD, 4/5)
Videodrome (Sept. 20th, BD, 3.5/5)

Action/Adventure
Daredevil (Director's Cut, Sept. 1st, BD, 3/5)
The Last Stand (Sept. 2nd, DVD, 3/5)
Chronicles of Riddick (Sept. 7th, BD, 4/5)
Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury (Sept. 7th, DVD, 4/5)
A Company Man (Sept. 16th, BD, 3.5/5)

Drama
Watchmen (Director's Cut, Sept. 1st, BD, 4.5/5)
Escape From New York (Sept. 8th, BD, 4/5)
Collateral Damage (Sept. 10th, DVD rental, 3/5)
New World (Sept. 11th, BD, 3.5/5)
A Night to Remember (Sept. 24th, BD, 4/5)

Creature Features
Creature from the Black Lagoon (Sept. 22nd, BD, 3.5/5)
Bride of Frankenstein (Sept. 22nd, BD, 3.5/5)
The Mummy (Sept. 23rd, BD, 3/5)
The Fly 1958 (Sept. 24th, BD, 4/5)
The Birds (Sept. 25th, BD, 4/5)

Miscellaneous
Watchmen: Tales of the Black Freighter (Sept. 1st, BD, 4/5)
Watchmen: Under the Hood (Sept. 1st, BD, 4/5)
Street Trash (Sept. 19th, BD, 3.5/5)
Street Trash (Original Short Film) (Sept. 19th, BD, 4/5)

Unable to Categorize
White Heat (Sept. 24th, BD, 4.5/5)
Rear Window (Sept. 25th, BD, 3.5/5)
A Good Day to Die Hard (Sept. 26th, BD, 3/5)
The Trouble With Harry (Sept. 27th, BD, 4/5)
Atlantis: The Lost Empire (Sept. 29th, BD, 3.5/5)
The Bourne Legacy (Sept. 30th, DVD rental, 3/5)

OPTIONAL SELECTIONS (1 possible swap-out)

[Show spoiler]Computer Animation
Films from a Director that You Have Seen No Prior Work From
3-D Movies
Movies with Actors Who've Never Won an Oscar for Acting
Movies Made before 1920
Five Movies from a Foreign Director in the English Language

Letterboxd Edition

[Travis]

Still need one more category!

[unsung122212]

Here are my categories for this month. Only got 44 movies in for August with 4 of those not able to fit the categories I'd chosen.

Watched List: 34/50

Latest movies watched: The Sorcerer and the White Snake on September 29 with Highlander to finish this months challenge on September 30.

[Show spoiler]
*Indicates a movie I haven't seen before

SciFi
1. Riddick (September 7)*
2. Star Trek ('09) (September 10)
3. Star Trek Into Darkness (September 10)*
4. Alien (September 27)
5.

Martial Arts
1. The Legend of the Drunken Master (September 2)*
2. IP Man (September 13)*
3. IP Man 2 (September 13)*
4.
5.

Horror
1. Bram Stoker's Dracula (September 7)*
2. Night Watch (September 15/6)*
3. Day Watch (September 16)*
4. From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter (September 22)*
5. World War Z (September 26)

Comedy
1. Wanderlust (September 8)*
2. Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (September 14)
3.
4.
5.

Action & Adventure
1. Soloman Kane (September 12)*
2. GI Joe: Retaliation (September 28)
3. The Sorcerer and the White Snake (September 29)*
4.
5.

Drama
1. Reservoir Dogs (September 1)*
2. Life of Pi (September 6)*
3. Trouble with the Curve (September 11)*
4. The Principal (September 22)
5.

Five Movies from the Year You Were Born: 1986
1. Howard the Duck (September 9)*
2. Labryinth (September 15)
3. Aliens (September 27)
4. Highlander (September 30)
5.

Contenders: Top Gun, Star Trek IV TVH, Platoon, Big Trouble in Little China, Highlander, Heat or The Fly.

Creature Features My Alternative
1. Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II (September 20)
2.
3.
4.
5.

Computer Animation My other Alternate
1. Finding Nemo (September 1)
2. Brave (September 15)*
3. Ice Age: Continental Drift (September 20)
4.
5.

Miscellaneous
1. Vanishing on 7th Street (September 2)*
2. Apollo 18 (September 8)*
3. Legend (September 11)*
4. Core (September 20)
5. Outpost (September 22)*

Extras

[MrBlonde]

Originally Posted by Travis

Still need one more category!

Hmm...since nobody has given one, maybe just do a wildcard spot? Where we can choose any genre we want, whether it's listed or not.

[cinemaphile]

Originally Posted by Travis

Still need one more category!

well since we have the rest of the majors (drama, comedy, action, etc...) why not just round it out with one of the remaining few, like musicals or family.

Originally Posted by unsung122212

Here are my categories for this month.
...
Five Movies from the Year You Were Born: 1986
Tentative outline for this category
1. Aliens
2. Top Gun
3. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
4. Platoon
5. Big Trouble in Little China
maybe Highlander, Heat, Labyrinth or The Fly.

I'm so jealous of you guys with great years to choose from! I don't like anything from mine. Maybe I should lie about my age

[Travis]

Originally Posted by MrBlonde

Hmm...since nobody has given one, maybe just do a wildcard spot? Where we can choose any genre we want, whether it's listed or not.

Sounds good!

[Britbuffguy]

Originally Posted by cinemaphile

well since we have the rest of the majors (drama, comedy, action, etc...) why not just round it out with one of the remaining few, like musicals or family.

I'm so jealous of you guys with great years to choose from! I don't like anything from mine. Maybe I should lie about my age

I'd have to take 1978, and that year just doesn't look very interesting to me.

[Abdrewes]

Originally Posted by Britbuffguy

I'd have to take 1978, and that year just doesn't look very interesting to me.

1978 is one of the weaker, if not the weakest, year of the 1970s.

Still alot of good stuff though.

•Days of Heaven
•Deer Hunter
•Gates of Heaven
•Halloween
•The Fury
•Superman
•Midnight Express
•Autumn Sonata
•The Driver
•36th Chamber of Shaolin
•The Last Waltz
•Dawn of the Dead

...and many others.

[Travis]

Originally Posted by Britbuffguy

I'd have to take 1978, and that year just doesn't look very interesting to me.

A few of my all time favorites are from '78.
Halloween...but yeah, will probably watch it next month.
Midnight Express, incredibly good prison movie.
The Deer Hunter, what an awesome score!
Watership Down, cartoon that will give kids nightmares for years...I know!

[cinemaphile]

mine would be 1972. A whole lot of nothing. Even the popular ones such as Deliverance, Cabaret - yes, even The Godfather - I don't care for at all.