Today is the first day of 2014. For several years, my friend and I have gone low-key with NYE festivities by eating dinner at Carraba’s and going to the movies to ring in the New Year with some of our favorite actors/actresses. Last night, we saw Anchorman 2 and American Hustle, thereby ringing in the New Year with Christian Bale and Bradley Cooper (not a bad combination). These aren’t the only movies I see during the year, however, and some of my blogs will probably be movie reviews. As a quickie: Anchorman 2 is utterly hilarious, and Steve Carell’s character is side-splittingly funny. It was a great way to start our double feature. American Hustle is right there in line with past Oscar nominees, which I predict it will be one. Christian Bale’s acting is flawless, Amy Adams is awesome, and Bradley Cooper has REALLY nailed the freak out scene between this one and Silver Linings Playbook. With both of these movies, I was lost in the 70’s through the costuming and the soundtrack. It was marvelous.
Here are the rest of the movies I saw during the year 2013:
In the Theater:
1. Promised Land
2. Zero Dark Thirty
3. Silver Linings Playbook
4. Django Unchained
5. Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
6. Jack the Giant Slayer
7. Oz the Great and Powerful
8. Mud
9. The Great Gatsby
10. Iron Man 3
11. Monsters University
12. World War Z
13. Man of Steel
14. Despicable Me 2
15. White House Down
16. The Heat
17. The Lone Ranger
18. RIPD
19. The Wolverine
20. Eric Clapton’s Crossroads 2013
21. The Butler
22. Thor: The Dark World
23. Catching Fire
24. The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug
25. Saving Mr. Banks
26. Anchorman 2 (New Year’s Eve)
At Home, Never Seen Before
1. Looper
2. Beasts of the Southern Wild
3. Timeline
4. El Dorado
5. Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius
6. The Grifters
7. Our Idiot Brother
8. Heavenly Creatures
9. Scream 4
10. Super
11. Serious Moonlight
12. Red
13. The Thing Called Love
14. The Muppets
15. Pitch Perfect
16. The Other Woman
17. Loverboy
18. Men In Black III
19. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
20. Searching For Sugarman
21. Megafault
22. Real Steel
23. Source Code
24. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
25. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
26. Sharknado
27. The Odd Life of Timothy Green
28. Teen Beach Movie
29. Zodiac
30. American Graffiti
31. Downton Abbey, Season 1
32. Downton Abbey, Season 2
33. Limitless
34. The Christmas Ornament
35. The Three Gifts
36. The Sound of Music (Carrie Underwood)
37. A Very Brady Christmas
38. Downton Abbey, Season 3
At Home, Repeat
1. Cocktail
2. The Italian Job
3. The Big Lebowski
4. Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
5. Billy Madison
6. The Book of Eli
7. The Bourne Identity
8. The Bourne Supremacy
9. The Bourne Ultimatum
10. What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
11. We Are Marshall
12. Braveheart
13. Bernie
14. Wayne’s World
15. My Big Fat Greek Wedding
16. Xanadu
17. The Butterfly Effect
18. Across the Universe
19. Veronica Mars, Season 1
20. Veronica Mars, Season 2
21. Veronica Mars, Season 3
22. The Breakfast Club
23. Alias, Season 1
24. Singles
25. Alias, Season 2
26. Alias, Season 3
27. Alias, Season 4
28. Alias, Season 5
29. Thirteen Ghosts
30. Hudsucker Proxy
31. Pulp Fiction
32. Breakin’ 2: The Electric Boogaloo
33. Christmas With the Kranks
34. There Will Be Blood
35. Bridget Jones’ Diary
36. Walk the Line
37. How the Grinch Stole Christmas
38. Elf
39. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
40. Scrooged
41. A Christmas Story
42. Rudolph’s Shiny New Year
43. 200 Cigarettes
