Greg McElhatton

For the past few years, I tracked which movies that I saw in the theatre. It was fun to look back and see how many (and what) I’d seen, and this year I decided to take it a step further and add books and graphic novels into the mix, with the help of Goodreads. (I also decided to allow movies I saw on DVD, even though that tally turned out to be just one.)

I ended up tying 2007′s movie tally with 20 films, and amusingly enough that was also the number of novels I read. As for graphic novels… well, let’s just say the final tally was a wee bit higher.

Movies:

1. The Women (the 1939 version)
2. Frost/Nixon
3. Watchmen
4. Every Little Step
5. Star Trek
6. Little Ashes
7. Away We Go
8. Up
9. Public Enemies
10. The Hurt Locker
11. (500) Days of Summer
12. Paris
13. Inglorious Basterds
14. An Education
15. Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ By Sapphire
16. A Room With a View
17. A Serious Man
18. Fantastic Mr. Fox
19. Up in the Air
20. A Single Man

Books:

1. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
2. Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan
3. Wicked Gentlemen by Ginn Hale
4. All Seated On The Ground by Connie Willis
5. Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks
6. Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
7. Sea, Swallow Me and Other Stories by Craig Laurance Gidney
8. The Cabinet of Light by Daniel O’Mahony
9. The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
10. Shell Shock by Simon A. Forward
11. Farthing by Jo Walton
12. The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories by John Kessel
13. Listening Is an Act of Love edited by Dave Isay
14. A Companion to Wolves by Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear
15. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith and Jane Austen
16. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
17. Psycho by Robert Bloch
18. After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
19. The Host by Stephenie Meyer
20. Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

(more…)

This is more for my own amusement than anything else; these are the movies that I saw in the theatre (versus on DVD, or watched on a plane, or some other non-movie-theatre option) in 2008.

1. Charlie Wilson’s War (1/11)
2. Persepolis (1/25)
3. 27 Dresses (2/02)
4. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (3/08)
5. Run, Fat Boy, Run (03/30)
6. Le Voyage du Ballon Rouge (04/18)
7. Baby Mama (04/26)
8. Jellyfish (05/21)
9. Iron Man (05/25)
10. Sex and the City (06/07)
11. WALL-E (07/13)
12. The Dark Knight (7/26)
13. Vicky Cristina Barcelona (8/23)
14. Frozen River (8/30)

…and then I forgot to keep this listing up to date. But here are some other movies, in no particular order, that (upon retrospect) I did also see in 2008:

15. The Quantum of Solace
16. Slumdog Millionaire
17. Milk
18. Rachel Getting Married

There might have been more!

This is more for my own amusement than anything else; these are the movies that I saw in the theatre (versus on DVD, or watched on a plane, or some other non-movie-theatre option) in 2007. My list for 2006 is pretty pathetic (it was a bad year for me getting out and catching a flick!), so the difference should hopefully be pretty significant!

1. Dreamgirls (01/07)
2. Pan’s Labyrinth (01/11)
3. Casino Royale (01/14)
4. Volver (02/09)
5. Children of Men (02/10)
6. Babel (02/24)
7. Hot Fuzz (05/06)
8. Ratatouille (07/01)
9. 1408 (07/13)
10. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (07/15)
11. The Bourne Ultimatum (08/18)
12. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (09/03)
13. The Brave One (09/16)
14. Death at a Funeral (09/26)
15. Eastern Promises (09/30)
16. The Darjeeling Limited (10/07)
17. Michael Clayton (10/21)
18. Enchanted (11/25)
19. Atonement (12/15)
20. The Savages (12/30)

This is more for my own amusement than anything else; these are the movies that I saw in the theatre (versus on DVD, or watched on a plane, or some other non-movie-theatre option) in 2006.

1. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe (01/01)
2. Last Holiday (01/15)
3. The Devil Wears Prada (06/30)
4. Superman Returns (07/03)
5. X-Men: The Last Stand (07/04)
6. Snakes on a Plane (08/19)
7. Feast (09/18)
8. For Your Consideration (12/09)
9. The Good Shepherd (12/23)