Google Doc spreadsheet, actually.

Thanks! I figured something like that. I am going to try to keep track this year.

When I first started my list it was a spreadsheet with:

Title
Date Seen
Year of Release
Where I Watched it
Country of Release
Language
Running time
How much I paid to watch it
Personal Rating

Then with pivot tables I could generate all kinds of interesting (to only me) lists.

But even that ended up being something I'd put off doing that I'd forget to list some, so now it is just Title, Date Seen, Year of Release, Country of Release, Rating.

My columns are Date Seen, title, in theater, first time, release year, rating, notes.

First movie of the year that I couldn't make it all the way through:

Inception

Maybe it was the hype that killed it, but dear god what a stupid movie. Got to about 1 hour 15 minutes in, looked at how much time was left, went "hell no" and went upstairs to play video games. Video games with much more plot, emotion, and entertainment value. I've liked all of Chris Nolan's films until this piece of trash.... I just hate movies that make up whatever ridiculous convoluted rules they want to on the fly, and then break those rules with even more convoluted rules just to fit the plot.

As far as "entering your dreams" goes, that Jennifer Lopez movie from ten years ago was much more fun. Cronenberg's eXistenz was more interesting.

If I wanted to see a pretty world with an incomprehensible plot and a hot guy (Joseph Gordon-Levitt, yummy) then I'll go see Tron:Legacy again (Garrett Hedlund, extra yummy). I was actually able to sit through Tron, even with the horrid 3-D that looked like you were watching the film through a murky green fog.

I didn't make it through either Cherny. I quit pausing when I got up to do this or that. Then it was a bad dvd and stopped halfway through. I ordered a replacement but I can't seem to make myself attempt to figure out where I was so I sent it back.

I enjoyed it well enough. In fact, I would give it some honorary Oscar for the most ridiculous story that was nonetheless played with utter conviction. As for the ending, though, I think you could have picked any number of potential twists out of a hat and it wouldn't have made much difference.

I finally saw The Social Network. I really, really enjoyed it. If it's even half-true Zuckerberg is a world class dbag and the character was played with traits of Aspergers. I see why it won the awards that it did. And man, Justin Timberlake can act.

I'm a little leery of The Social Network. I generally find that a little of the Aaron Sorkin "attractive people who are really good at their job and all talk on three tangents at once and all perfectly understand each other" goes a long way.

In Time's interview with Zuckerberg as its Person of the Year, I learned that practically NOTHING in The Social Network about Zuckerberg was true, except that they got every single T-shirt he wore in the movie exactly right.


This fouls me against the movie before seeing it. I still want to watch it, and it can still be a good movie. But I cannot understand nor can I appreciate so much falsification about its main character.