The One Year Movie Challenge!

Note: This is not my collection, not even a small fraction of my collection.

   I started this back in May in a note on Facebook, but I've decided to share it with the rest of the world too.

   I'm a very avid movie fan, always have been, always will be. I own nearly 3000 dvd's. I watch an inordinate amount of films, though ironically not nearly as many since I started this challenge. Basically what I am doing though is keeping track of all of the movies I watch, be it on DVD, at the theater, on a BluRay disc, Netflix or even on plain old TV.  I'm keeping a list and updating it regularly.  I'll give periodic updates here in case anyone is interested. Here is a copy of the original note and the list from May 1 until now. Note that TV series do not count on this, yet I do watch those in complete season sets as well.

Starting May 1, 2011 I'll be attempting to create a list of every single film I see this year.  I'll note whether it was on TV, DVD or in theater, but in essence Ill be keeping a daily track of which films I see from May 1, 2011 through April 30, 2012.

Feel free to add your own comments or observations on this note as it is updated and changed over the year, or to make your own list as well. Also feel free to let me know who else to tag, I've got too many moviephiles on my friends list to know who all would be interested in this.

And now, for the list...

1. Tek War -via Netflix. Been trying to catch this for a long time, based on a series of books written by William Shatner, and it caused a spin off TV series that lasted one season. Directed by William Shatner as well.

2. Easy A- via Netflix, starring Emma Stone.

3. Dogs Decoded- via Netflix, a documentary about dogs.

4. 9/11: The Myth & the Reality, via netflix.

5. The Green Hornet -Blu-Ray DVD.

6. The One Percent via Netflix.

7. Thor at the Theater.

8. Hot Tub Time Machine -DVD.

9. Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie -Netflix.

10. Up in the Air -DVD (loved the ending.)

11. Thor: Tales of Asgard -Blu-Ray

12. The Rookie - on TV.

13. Being Lincoln: Men in Hats - on TV, very strange documentary.

14. Power Rangers: Mystic Force - Dark Wish. - DVD

15. X-Men First Class - in theater.

16. The Untouchables - on TV.

17. The Four-Faced Liar - Netflix

18. Rookie of the Year. -Netflix.

19. X-Men First Class. - Theater.

20. Green Lantern -Emerald Knights -Blu-Ray.

21. Diner -Netflix.

22. Then & Now An Evening with Joe Quesad and Stan Lee -DVD.

23. The Green Lantern - in Theater.

24. Chasing Amy -Netflix

25. The American President -Netflix.

26. True Blue 10 years of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour -Cable

27. The Phantom -Cable.

28. Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie -Cable. (yes cable is that sad in a hotel room on vacation...)

29. Hooper -Dvd

30. Stroker Ace -Dvd.

31. The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg - Netflix.

32. Varsity Blues -Cable.

33. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II. -Theater

34. Captain America: The First Avenger- Theater

35. Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief.-DVD.

36. Undiscovered: Disney Parks. - Netflix.

37. Between the Folds. -Netflix.

38. The Almighty Thor -Netflix   (Total trash)

39. Skyline - Netflix

40. The Missing -TV

41. Young Guns -TV

42. Black Swan -BluRay

43. Predators -DVD.

44. Hobo with a Shotgun -Netflix

45. Paper Man -Netflix

46. The Expendables -Netflix

47. Tangled - Netflix.

48. The Fighter -Netflix.

49. Indiana Jones & The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull -TV

50. Zombieland -TV

51. The Bounty Hunter -TV

52. X-Men: First Class -Blu Ray

53. Thor -Blu Ray

54. Weird Science -Netflix

55. I Love You Phillip Morris -Netflix.

56. Star Trek (2009) -DVD

57. Inspector Gadget's Last Case -Netflix.

58. The Bob & Tom Comedy Tour -Netflix

59.

X-Men: No Class

   OK, the film doesn't really have no class, but it's far from "first class" entertainment when it comes to tying into the other movies in the series.  It obviously was trying to tie into those movies based on cameos and other small things, but way to many things don't add up when it comes to series continuity.  That aside, the film was still enjoyable. I mean who doesn't want to watch X-Men fight Nazi's? OK sure, that doesn't technically happen, but it could have.

   Plot Synopsis: Before Charles Xavier (McAvoy) and Erik Lensherr (Fassbender) took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time, working together to stop the greatest threat the world has ever known.  The film  features a star-studded supporting cast, including Academy Award-nominee Jennifer Lawrence (Winter’s Bone), January Jones (“Mad Men”), Rose Byrne (28 Weeks Later), Zoë Kravitz (“Californication”), Nicholas Hoult (A Single Man), Lucas Till (Walk the Line), and Emmy Award-nominee Oliver Platt (“The West Wing”).

   I'll start with the visuals like I did in my last review the transfer to the disc is great, very few flaws, and watching it HD rather than on the grainy theater screen was a true treat. (Jennifer Lawrence half naked most of the time didn't hurt either...) The effects were all pretty believable in this world, but nothing to write home about.

   The audio here was pretty standard, again nothing to write home about.  The only thing stood out as excellent to me was Magneto's daunting theme music, but nothing was blatantly bad so it's slightly above average at best. The sound mix worked well together, but it just felt like it was lacking something to me.

Now for the extras, this disc isn't packed full geeky goodness like some, but what it has is fantastic.  First off it starts with 10 free digital comics that help to tell the back story of the actual "first class" and they are all great, though I'm still adapting to the digital comic phenomena. Also included is a 7 part making of documentary, that while annoying to be broken into segments that run about 10 minutes a piece, is still a very fine documentary in the long run.  Several deleted/extended scenes are included (sorry I didn't count them and don't have the disc sitting next to me as I write this), as is some behind the scenes info on scenes, and a really cool feature that lets the viewer 'control' cerebro in a feature that when you find and click on the various mutants you get scenes from all of the films that mutant has been in within the live-action franchise.  The glaring  omission is the lack of a director's commentary.

Final grade is a 3 out of 5 on this one. There just isn't enough stuff to put this edition over the top.