January tastings

so, my eyes and brain likes to feed on films, like, immensely. I can't get enough of the film world. I talk, read, eat, live films. I watch movies a little too much, and I wish I can get paid doing it, but it's still fantastic when I do it for free. To see how much movies I do watch I started to keep a log of movies I've watched. The rules I game myself are as follows...

• I have to watch least 92.43% of the movies entirety.
• Only movies count (durr!)
• I can watch the movie in separate sittings but will only be recorded on the day of finishing. You'll notice that some days I watch 3, four, or moar movies in a day, but some of those movies may have been finished after midnight. That's how it goes!
• I don't know if I made up more rules so that's it for now.

You may also notice that I watch a variety of movies. Some are good, some are awful, some are international, some are unknown, and some are plain, "WTF, why am i watching this?." Anyway, there may be trends, there may not be, but that's how the cookie crumbles. Now, on to the list...Oh, and i may do some mini-comments below on some of the movies that are worth the mini-comments. LOOK OUT BELOW!...



01.02 Love and Basketball
01.07 The Wrestler*
01.09 Bride Wars*
01.09 Taken*
01.13 Traitor
01.13 Tokyo Gore Police*
01.16 Choke*
01.17 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
01.18 Diggstown
01.20 Open Season
01.20 Igor
01.21 The Land Before Time
01.21 Survive Style 5+*
01.22 Taken*
01.23 My Bloody Valentine 3D*
01.23 The Craft
01.23 In the Land of Women
01.24 Midnight Meat Train*
01.24 My Blueberry Nights
01.24 Red Cliff 1*
01.24 Ferris Bueller's Day Off*
01.24 Surf Ninjas
01.28 Open Season 2
01.31 Quarantine*

*The Wrestler. Was great. If you ever enjoyed wrestling, you'll find a deep appreciation in the film. And if you like Marisa Tomei, you'll like this movie even more...
*Bride Wars. Yeah, I chose to watch it on my own. I tried to cover it up by telling Yaz that she's using her movie coupon on it, but in reality, I wanted to see it. What can I say.
*Taken. Viewing number 3.
*Tokyo Gore Police. Title says it straight up so approach with caution. After Machine Girl I automatically hyped TGP a little too much for myself. Wish I didn't. Still, it's worthy to be a part of my collecton eventually.
*Choke. The spirit of the book was there and Sam Rockwell is always awesome, but the movie styling seemed to indie for what I loved about the book.
*Survive Style 5+. As this is one of my all-time favorite movies it is required viewing if you want to be my friend.
*Taken. Viewing number 4.
*My Bloody Valentine 3D. The 3D was supposed to be gimmicky but I found it not to be gimmicky enough. The twist was so uber obvious that I convinced myself otherwise. Never again. I'd rather be wrong instead of being right, change my mind, than end up being wrong.
*Midnight Meat Train. Ryuhei Kitamura (Versus, Azumi) gives his fresh touch to american horror, and that touch feels tingly, like spider-sense tingly. I thought it would provide a cliche'd horror twist and instead smacks you in the face with fresh meat. Enjoy if you are a fan of horror.
*Red Cliff pt1. This just in! (not really) JOHN WOO IS BACK, in a different yet very very entertaining way. One of the best HK epic films there is.
*Ferris Bueller's Day Off. I usually avoid 80's movies that are not sci-fi, fantasy or horror with a passionate passion that passion envies. But, i found this really enjoyable for some reason, and was my first time watching it. And no, this is not a gateway drug to other 80's movies of the same ilk. still banned: 16 candles and breakfast club and dirty dancing and ... .. .
*Quarantine. meh, i liked [rec] better but if i don't compare it to [rec] than it's a really good movie. but my mind doesn't work that way...

random facts:
favorite (new) movie of the month - Red Cliff
favorite (overall) movie of the month - Survive Style 5+
dud of the month - My Bloody Valentine 3D
#number of horror movies - 3 1/2. TGP isn't really horror but it is gory as fu*k.
#number of international films - 4 (I count Taken because it's a french film with english speaking actors)
most repeated movie - Taken
total movies watched this month - 24
most movies watched on one day - 5 (01.24)
longest span without a viewing - 5 days