365 Films

I watch a lot of films.  I like to do this more than pretty much anything else. I usually try to watch a film every day.   One area that I am not good at is committing to watching films I have not seen before.  I have seen Under Siege 2: Dark Territory five times.  This is not something I am proud of.  And nor should I be.  Once is probably two too many times for that particular "gem"

During a conversation about films it started to occur to me that for all my self-imagined film buff-ness there were some glaring misses. Classics I had managed to not watch.  I am not sure how I have managed to watch Nude Nuns With Big Guns yet have never seen Apocalypse Now.

This could not continue.  I had a birthday coming up so decided that in the 365 days from that annual even until the next one in 2014 I would aim to watch 365 films I have not seen before. I needed something to ensure the quality of the films had a chance of being high. Luckily I was sent a Facebook list to see how many of iMDB's  Top 250 films I had seen.  I have seen 148 of these so that is 102 of my 365 films.

I am currently 3 days into the challenger (almost 1% of the way) and have already seen 5 previously unseen films.

1 - Invictus - A suitable starter film which embodies the indomitable spirit I would need to keep to this challenge.  Matt Damon is never in a bad film (I refuse to acknowledge Stuck On You exists). ⋆⋆⋆

2 - White House Down - Silly, messy and ridiculous.  Not exactly one of the classics I am aiming for with this challenge but it won't be the worst film I watch this year. ⋆⋆⋆

3 - Thor: The Dark World - Too long, too predictable, too disappointing ⋆⋆

4 - Life Of Pi -  Now this is more like it. I watched this straight after getting back from the cinema to watch Thor.  It was beautiful, tense heartwarming and at times really sad. ⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆

5 - Prometheus - A film that was weighed down by its own heritage.  Desperately wanted to live up to the original Alien film but rather than try and tell its own story just got bogged down by endless references and keenness to have a sequel. ⋆⋆⋆

So there we are.  5 films seen and 1 classic already.  At this rate the challenge should be easy.  Let's see how the next week goes.

Be good to each other peeps.