WHAT I’VE BEEN WATCHING: NOV 20TH – NOV 26TH

It’s weeks like this that make me realise how little free time I have now that I’m working again. I do know that the fact that I’ve been burning a lot of time running through Batman Arkham Asylum and Modern Warfare 3 has taken away from my movie watching time, but wow only 3 new viewings this week feels kind of small in my mind.

Anyways here’s what I’ve been watching:

FIRST TIME VIEWS

The Devil’s Double (2011) – A brilliant performance by Dominic Cooper, but at the end of the day a middling film.
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010) – Definitely the Christmas movie you have to see. Not only does it discuss a lot of alternate theories as to the origins of this St. Nicholas, but it’s also badass craziness.
The Thing (2011) – Another useless remake/reboot whatever. Biggest issue is that unlike the original it spent too much time being a monster horror film and less being a psychological mind-fuck that is the original.

REWATCHED

Muppets From Space (1999) – You tell him, and I will smack you. I will smack you like a bad, bad donkey, okay! 
The Social Network (2010) – 
I think if your clients want to sit on my shoulders and call themselves tall, they have the right to give it a try – but there’s no requirement that I enjoy sitting here listening to people lie.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) – 
Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.
Muppet Treasure Island (1996) – But Dead Tom’s always been dead. That’s why he’s called Dead Tom. 
Jackie Brown (1997) – Do you believe that shit? It actually says that in the little book that comes with it: the most popular gun in American crime. Like they’re actually proud of that shit.

THE COUNT

233 First Time Watches (99 Films released in 2011)

SONG OF THE WEEK

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Andrew Robinson

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  1. Ryan McNeil

    233 first time watches!!?? I only have 221! Damn all of that podcasting I've done this year with it's required watching…

    It was a nine-film week for me, and the best of the bunch is easily THE MUPPETS: A film so nice I screened it twice. Can't wait to read your thoughts.

    • Andrew Robinson

      2 more weeks till I get to see the new Muppets film… 

      Just imagine if I kept track of my rewatched films. Should I add that next year?

      Also with my podcast. But I think I beat you on first time viewings mainly because there're a ton of films I haven't seen. So whenever I end up watching Kane level films it's a new film to me, rather than connoisseurs like yourself who can claim to be watching it for the fifteenth time.

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