2012 Movies #166-172

  • Les Miserables
  • Jack Reacher
  • Zero Dark Thirty
  • Django Unchained
  • Total Recall (2012)
  • Push
  • Sound of My Voice

And so my final tally for 2012 is 172 movies… Honestly, I was hoping to get over 200, but I think this isn’t a bad showing.

2012 Movies #141 - 165

  • The Road Warrior
  • The Master
  • Umbrellas of Cherbourg
  • Step Brothers
  • Evil Dead 2
  • Great Expectations (2012)
  • Silver Linings Playbook
  • Indie Game The Movie
  • Hobo With A Shotgun
  • Skyfall
  • Miami Connection
  • Babe
  • West Side Story
  • The Red Shoes
  • A Clockwork Orange
  • Back to the Future
  • Frankenstein (1931)
  • Lincoln
  • Back to the Future 2
  • Back to the Future 3
  • Secret Documentary At Sundance 2013
  • Alien 3
  • The Hobbit (2D - 24fps)
  • The Campaign
  • Life of Pi (3D - Atmos sound)

My favorites amongst the bunch (in screening order) were The Road Warrior, The Master, Evil Dead 2, Indie Game The Movie, Babe, West Side Story, The Red Shoes, and Back to the Future.

I’ve become really terrible at blogging about each film as I see it, and I’m trying to evaluate whether I should keep blogging about the films I watch in 2013. As a reader of this blog, please let me know what you think. Is it even of interest to anyone?

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From the Controversy over ingredients section in the Chili con carne Wikipedia entry.
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As of the time of this post, there are 24-hours left on Michel Gagné’s Kickstarter campaign for “The Saga of Rex.” By the time you read this, the deadline might just be a couple hours away, or the campaign might be already over. If he raises another $7,000 in the next 24-hours he will have reached his final stretch goal for the project. Michel is trying to make a 4-minute short film from his beautiful graphic novel “The Saga Of Rex” If he gets to $60,000 he’ll be able to do another 30-second of animation and also create a two minute trailer for a feature film version of Rex. A feature film version that I would desperately love to see! Michel is a legendary artist and animator who has worked on An American Tail, The Land Before Time, The Iron Giant, The Incredibles, and Ratatouille. He also created the BAFTA Award Winning videogame Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet. I’m really just scratching the surface of his amazing career. To give you a sense of the quality of animation in Rex, here’s a clip that Michel has already finished, and if you’re like me you’re going to fall in love with Rex immediately. If you’re a fan of animation or art or beautiful things, I strongly suggest that you chip in for Michel’s campaign. The short film is going to be beautiful, and Michel is going to document the whole filmmaking process on a secret production blog. Imagine the things you can learn about animation and filmmaking from watching the process of a master animator creating a new film. If you missed it the first time, here’s the link to Michel’s Kickstarter campaign. High-res

As of the time of this post, there are 24-hours left on Michel Gagné’s Kickstarter campaign for “The Saga of Rex.” By the time you read this, the deadline might just be a couple hours away, or the campaign might be already over. If he raises another $7,000 in the next 24-hours he will have reached his final stretch goal for the project. Michel is trying to make a 4-minute short film from his beautiful graphic novel “The Saga Of Rex” If he gets to $60,000 he’ll be able to do another 30-second of animation and also create a two minute trailer for a feature film version of Rex. A feature film version that I would desperately love to see!

Michel is a legendary artist and animator who has worked on An American Tail, The Land Before Time, The Iron Giant, The Incredibles, and Ratatouille. He also created the BAFTA Award Winning videogame Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet. I’m really just scratching the surface of his amazing career.

To give you a sense of the quality of animation in Rex, here’s a clip that Michel has already finished, and if you’re like me you’re going to fall in love with Rex immediately.

If you’re a fan of animation or art or beautiful things, I strongly suggest that you chip in for Michel’s campaign. The short film is going to be beautiful, and Michel is going to document the whole filmmaking process on a secret production blog. Imagine the things you can learn about animation and filmmaking from watching the process of a master animator creating a new film.

If you missed it the first time, here’s the link to Michel’s Kickstarter campaign.

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2012 Movies #136 - 140

  • Skyfall (2012)
  • confidential submission
  • Tremors (1990)
  • Predator (1987)
  • Waking Sleeping Beauty (2009)

I can’t talk about the confidential submission, but I loved the other four films I watched since my last film2012 blog post.

Skyfall is by far my favorite Bond film, and if I wasn’t out with the flu all of last week I would have already seen it a second time in theaters.

Predator is another case where I was convinced I had seen the film as a kid, and realized a couple minute into the film that I had only imagined watching the film. On a side note, is it really weird that I keep imagining that I’ve seen R-rated films from the 1980s? My memory seems to be full of imaginary versions of R-rated movies.

As an animation fan, Waking Sleeping Beauty was delightful to watch. I was already well versed on the business aspects of that period of Disney’s history, mostly from John Taylor’s 1987 book Storming the Magic Kingdom. However, it was great to see it all told from the perspective of people who worked for Disney Animation. I hope one day soon we’ll see another golden age of Disney traditional animation.