Movies, Books, & TV 2008
Complete List of Movies I've Seen in 2008
TITLE
REVIEW
RATING
01.
Master and Commander
02.
Legally Blonde*
03.
No Country for Old Men*
04.
The Laramie Project
05.
Working Girl
here
06.
Like Water for Chocolate
07.
Soldier's Girl
08.
Wristcutters: A Love Story
09.
Fever Pitch (1997)
10.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail*
11.
The Lives of Others
12.
Norma Rae
13.
Stardust
14.
Lars and the Real Girl (x3)
here
15.
Dear Frankie
16.
Jesus Camp
17.
Sunshine
18.
Michael Clayton
19.
My Life Without Me
20.
Interview With A Vampire
here
21.
All About Eve
here
22.
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly**
here
23.
Aliens (Special Edition)
here
24.
Waitress
here
25.
Becoming Jane
26.
3:10 to Yuma
27.
Driving Lessons
28.
French Kiss
29.
Killer of Sheep
30.
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
here
31.
There Will Be Blood
32.
2 Days in Paris
here
33.
Welcome to Durham
34.
Troy
35.
Traffic
36.
This Boy's Life
37.
Ordinary People
38.
I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With
39.
The Great Debaters
here
40.
Casino
here
41.
Candy
here
42.
A Good Year
43.
La Vie En Rose*
44.
War Dance
here
45.
Thelma and Louise
46.
Elling
47.
The Client
48.
Empire of the Sun
49.
No End In Sight
50.
The Brave One
51.
Tsotsi
here
52.
Jeux interdits
here
53.
The Missing
here
54.
Tootsie
55.
Les Jolies Choses (Pretty Things)
56.
The Affair of the Necklace
57.
Thirteen
here
58.
Cashback
59.
Spellbound
60.
Center Stage*
61.
Fried Green Tomatoes*
62.
In the Valley of Elah
63.
Gorillas in the Mist
64.
Coal Miner's Daughter
65.
Life as a House
66.
A Mighty Heart
67.
I Could Never Be Your Woman
68.
Wit
69.
American History X*
70.
Efter brylluppet (After the Wedding)
71.
Gia
72.
Forget Paris
73.
A Cry in the Dark
74.
Se, Jie (Lust, Caution)
75.
I Am Legend *
76.
Dan In Real Life
here
77.
Into the Wild
78.
Man in the Moon
79.
Taking Lives
80.
The Assassination of Jesse James
81.
La Mala Educación (Bad Education)
82.
Sybil
83.
Camille Claudel
84.
Taxi to the Dark Side
85.
Margot at the Wedding
here
86.
Taxi Driver
87.
Children of a Lesser God
88.
The 400 Blows
89.
For The Bible Tells Me So
90.
The Basketball Diaries
91.
Lust och fägring stor (All Things Fair)
92.
À bout de souffle (Breathless)
93.
All the Real Girls
94.
Visions of Light
95.
Marvin's Room
96.
Psycho
97.
Operation Homecoming
98.
Mean Streets
99.
Charlie Wilson's War
100.
Rescue Dawn
101.
Kicking and Screaming (1995)
102.
The Machinist
103.
The Abyss
104.
Pierrot Le Fou
105.
Pote tin Kyriaki (Never On Sunday)
106.
Hoop Dreams
107.
The Thing
108.
The Savages
109.
Baby Mama** (x3)
here
110.
The Thin Blue Line
111.
Veronica Guerin
112.
10,000 B.C.
113.
Shattered Glass
114.
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
115.
War Games
116.
American Graffiti
117.
So Weit Die Fube Tragen (As Far As My Feet Will Carry Me)
118.
The Horse Whisperer*
119.
Year of the Dog
120.
Flakes
121.
Ratatouille
122.
Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage (Sophie Scholl: The Final Days)
123.
Overboard*
124.
Dark Beauty (Lifetime movie, for ridiculous enjoyment only)
125.
One True Thing
126.
Inventing the Abbotts
127.
God Grew Tired of Us*
128.
Kissing Jessica Stein
129.
Bringing Up Baby
130.
El Orfanato (The Orphanage)
131.
Jerry Seinfeld: I'm Telling You for the Last Time
132.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull**
133.
Sense and Sensibility (2008 BBC)
134.
Iron Man**
135.
P.S. I Love You
136.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
137.
Rosemary's Baby
138.
Mongol
139.
The Good Girl*
140.
Wait Until Dark
141.
Grace is Gone
142.
The Human Stain
143.
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi*
144.
One Hour Photo
145.
The Four Feathers
146.
Sherman's March
147.
La Veuve de Saint Pierre (The Widow of St. Pierre)
148.
Prime Suspect
149.
Antz*
150.
Now, Voyager
151.
Rushmore
152.
Big*
153.
Liar Liar*
154.
Incredible Hulk**
155.
Sex and the City: The Movie
156.
Funny Games
157.
Be Kind Rewind
158.
Fool's Gold
159.
The Bourne Supremacy*
160.
Alien 3
161.
Die Hard
162.
The Andromeda Strain
163.
Control
here
164.
Le Mépris (Contempt)
165.
Brief Encounter
166.
Death at a Funeral
167.
Donnie Brasco
168.
2001: A Space Odyssey
169.
King of California
170.
This is England
here
171.
Amelie*
172.
The People vs. Larry Flynt
173.
Suspicion
174.
Bella Martha (Mostly Martha)
175.
WALL-E**
here
176.
The Mist (Bonus Material B&W version)
here
177.
My Blueberry Nights
178.
Strangers on a Train
here
179.
Cocoon
here
180.
Places in the Heart
here
181.
Full Metal Jacket
here
182.
Boy A
here
183.
Titanic (1953)
184.
Wanted**
185.
Do The Right Thing
186.
25th Hour
187.
The Dark Knight (x2)**
here
188.
History of the World Part 1
189.
Transformers
190.
Batman*
191.
Building the Alaska Highway
192.
21
193.
Grease*
194.
Alaska (1996)
195.
Tropic Thunder**
196.
Hannah and Her Sisters
197.
Meet Bill
here
198.
Heavy Metal in Baghdad
199.
Brubaker
200.
Batman: Gotham Knight
201.
Joy Division (2007)
202.
The Dark Knight: IMAX Experience**
203.
Semi-Pro
204.
The Game
205.
New York documentary (1999)
206.
Fall From Grace
207.
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
208.
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
209.
Get Smart** (x2)
210.
Boys on the Side
211.
The Happening
here
212.
The Strangers
here
213.
Cassandra's Dream
214.
Spanglish*
215.
Dawn of the Dead
216.
Malice
217.
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
218.
Legally Blonde*
219.
Burn After Reading**
220.
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (x2)
221.
Rocky
222.
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
223.
Lost Boys of Sudan
224.
All the President's Men
225.
In Bruges
226.
Mad Max
227.
Son of Rambow
228.
Kathy Griffin: Allegedly
229.
Goodfellas*
230.
The Power of Nightmares
231.
Horton Hears a Who
232.
Robot Chicken Star Wars
233.
The Visitor
here
234.
Autism: The Musicial
235.
Happy-Go-Lucky
here
236.
The Fall
237.
Zack and Miri Make a Porno**
here
238.
Children of Paradise
239.
Changeling**
here
240.
Croupier
241.
Dog Day Afternoon
242.
Then She Found Me
243.
Body Heat
244.
The Thin Man
here
245.
Quantum of Solace**
here
246.
The Bank Job
247.
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
248.
Role Models
here
249.
After the Thin Man
250.
Bigger, Faster, Stronger
251.
Undercover Blues
252.
What Happened in Vegas
253.
Magnolia
254.
Star Trek VII: Generations
255.
Milk
here
256.
Revolutionary Road**
here
257.
The Others*
258.
Transsiberian
259.
Star Trek VIII: First Contact
260.
Burn After Reading*
261.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button**
here
262.
Hamlet*
263.
Miss Austen Regrets
264.
Wendy and Lucy
* not the first viewing
** in the theaters
TV Seasons I've Completed in 2008
TITLE
REVIEW
RATING
01.
Mad Men S1
02.
The Office S4
03.
30 Rock S2
04.
Lost S4
05.
Mad Men S2
06.
Project Runway S5
07.
Pushing Daisies S1
08.
Dexter S3
09.
The Sopranos S1
My movie star ratings are based on my ratings on Netflix. They say:
= Hated It
= Didn't Like It
= Liked It
= Really Liked It
= Loved It
Complete List of Books I've Read in 2008
(doesn't include books read for school)
TITLE
REVIEW
RATING
01.
The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
here
02.
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
03.
A Lifetime of Secrets: A PostSecret Book, Frank Warren
04.
Suite Francaise, Irene Nemirovsky
05.
The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
here
06.
Timeline, Michael Crichton
07.
Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
08.
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
09.
The Red Tent, Anita Diamant
10.
Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
11.
Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates
12.
I Feel Bad About My Neck, Nora Ephron
13.
Out of the Silent Planet, C.S. Lewis
14.
The Stand, Stephen King
here
15.
Out of the Silent Planet, C.S. Lewis
16.
Ladies of Liberty, Cokie Roberts
17.
A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
18.
Blindness, José Saramago
here, here
19.
Where Angels Fear to Tread, E.M. Forster
20.
Batman: Year One, Frank Miller
21.
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Frank Miller
22.
Cold Spring Harbor, Richard Yates
23.
Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?, Alan Moore
24.
DC Universe: The Stories of Alan Moore, Alan Moore
25.
Batman: The Long Halloween, Jeph Loeb
here
26.
Batman: Dark Victory, Jeph Loeb
27.
The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
28.
Watchmen, Alan Moore
29.
Memo to the President Elect: How We Can Restore America's Reputation and Leadership, Madeleine Albright
30.
Klondike Fever: The Life and Death of the Last Great Gold Rush, Pierre Berton
here
31.
The Killing Joke, Alan Moore
32.
The Collected Stories of Richard Yates, Richard Yates
here
33.
The Haunted Knight, Jeph Loeb
34.
Batman: Hush, Vol. 1, Jeph Loeb
35.
Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines, Nic Sheff
36.
The Arrival, Shaun Tan
37.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1, Alan Moore
38.
Infected, Scott Sigler
39.
Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
here
40.
Then We Came to the End, Joshua Ferris
here
41.
The Innocent, Harlan Coben
42.
Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Robert T. Kiyosaki
43.
The Easter Parade, Richard Yates
44.
Debt-Free by 30: Practical Advice for the Young, Broke, and Upwardly Mobile , Jason Anthony
45.
The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous & Broke, Suze Orman
46.
Cold Sassy Tree, Olive Ann Burns
47.
Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Susan Vreeland
48.
Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
49.
The Little Book, Selden Edwards
My book star ratings are based on my ratings on Goodreads. They say:
= Didn't Like It
= It Was OK
= Liked It
= Really Liked It
= It Was Amazing
TITLE
REVIEW
RATING
01.
Master and Commander
02.
Legally Blonde*
03.
No Country for Old Men*
04.
The Laramie Project
05.
Working Girl
here
06.
Like Water for Chocolate
07.
Soldier's Girl
08.
Wristcutters: A Love Story
09.
Fever Pitch (1997)
10.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail*
11.
The Lives of Others
12.
Norma Rae
13.
Stardust
14.
Lars and the Real Girl (x3)
here
15.
Dear Frankie
16.
Jesus Camp
17.
Sunshine
18.
Michael Clayton
19.
My Life Without Me
20.
Interview With A Vampire
here
21.
All About Eve
here
22.
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly**
here
23.
Aliens (Special Edition)
here
24.
Waitress
here
25.
Becoming Jane
26.
3:10 to Yuma
27.
Driving Lessons
28.
French Kiss
29.
Killer of Sheep
30.
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
here
31.
There Will Be Blood
32.
2 Days in Paris
here
33.
Welcome to Durham
34.
Troy
35.
Traffic
36.
This Boy's Life
37.
Ordinary People
38.
I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With
39.
The Great Debaters
here
40.
Casino
here
41.
Candy
here
42.
A Good Year
43.
La Vie En Rose*
44.
War Dance
here
45.
Thelma and Louise
46.
Elling
47.
The Client
48.
Empire of the Sun
49.
No End In Sight
50.
The Brave One
51.
Tsotsi
here
52.
Jeux interdits
here
53.
The Missing
here
54.
Tootsie
55.
Les Jolies Choses (Pretty Things)
56.
The Affair of the Necklace
57.
Thirteen
here
58.
Cashback
59.
Spellbound
60.
Center Stage*
61.
Fried Green Tomatoes*
62.
In the Valley of Elah
63.
Gorillas in the Mist
64.
Coal Miner's Daughter
65.
Life as a House
66.
A Mighty Heart
67.
I Could Never Be Your Woman
68.
Wit
69.
American History X*
70.
Efter brylluppet (After the Wedding)
71.
Gia
72.
Forget Paris
73.
A Cry in the Dark
74.
Se, Jie (Lust, Caution)
75.
I Am Legend *
76.
Dan In Real Life
here
77.
Into the Wild
78.
Man in the Moon
79.
Taking Lives
80.
The Assassination of Jesse James
81.
La Mala Educación (Bad Education)
82.
Sybil
83.
Camille Claudel
84.
Taxi to the Dark Side
85.
Margot at the Wedding
here
86.
Taxi Driver
87.
Children of a Lesser God
88.
The 400 Blows
89.
For The Bible Tells Me So
90.
The Basketball Diaries
91.
Lust och fägring stor (All Things Fair)
92.
À bout de souffle (Breathless)
93.
All the Real Girls
94.
Visions of Light
95.
Marvin's Room
96.
Psycho
97.
Operation Homecoming
98.
Mean Streets
99.
Charlie Wilson's War
100.
Rescue Dawn
101.
Kicking and Screaming (1995)
102.
The Machinist
103.
The Abyss
104.
Pierrot Le Fou
105.
Pote tin Kyriaki (Never On Sunday)
106.
Hoop Dreams
107.
The Thing
108.
The Savages
109.
Baby Mama** (x3)
here
110.
The Thin Blue Line
111.
Veronica Guerin
112.
10,000 B.C.
113.
Shattered Glass
114.
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
115.
War Games
116.
American Graffiti
117.
So Weit Die Fube Tragen (As Far As My Feet Will Carry Me)
118.
The Horse Whisperer*
119.
Year of the Dog
120.
Flakes
121.
Ratatouille
122.
Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage (Sophie Scholl: The Final Days)
123.
Overboard*
124.
Dark Beauty (Lifetime movie, for ridiculous enjoyment only)
125.
One True Thing
126.
Inventing the Abbotts
127.
God Grew Tired of Us*
128.
Kissing Jessica Stein
129.
Bringing Up Baby
130.
El Orfanato (The Orphanage)
131.
Jerry Seinfeld: I'm Telling You for the Last Time
132.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull**
133.
Sense and Sensibility (2008 BBC)
134.
Iron Man**
135.
P.S. I Love You
136.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
137.
Rosemary's Baby
138.
Mongol
139.
The Good Girl*
140.
Wait Until Dark
141.
Grace is Gone
142.
The Human Stain
143.
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi*
144.
One Hour Photo
145.
The Four Feathers
146.
Sherman's March
147.
La Veuve de Saint Pierre (The Widow of St. Pierre)
148.
Prime Suspect
149.
Antz*
150.
Now, Voyager
151.
Rushmore
152.
Big*
153.
Liar Liar*
154.
Incredible Hulk**
155.
Sex and the City: The Movie
156.
Funny Games
157.
Be Kind Rewind
158.
Fool's Gold
159.
The Bourne Supremacy*
160.
Alien 3
161.
Die Hard
162.
The Andromeda Strain
163.
Control
here
164.
Le Mépris (Contempt)
165.
Brief Encounter
166.
Death at a Funeral
167.
Donnie Brasco
168.
2001: A Space Odyssey
169.
King of California
170.
This is England
here
171.
Amelie*
172.
The People vs. Larry Flynt
173.
Suspicion
174.
Bella Martha (Mostly Martha)
175.
WALL-E**
here
176.
The Mist (Bonus Material B&W version)
here
177.
My Blueberry Nights
178.
Strangers on a Train
here
179.
Cocoon
here
180.
Places in the Heart
here
181.
Full Metal Jacket
here
182.
Boy A
here
183.
Titanic (1953)
184.
Wanted**
185.
Do The Right Thing
186.
25th Hour
187.
The Dark Knight (x2)**
here
188.
History of the World Part 1
189.
Transformers
190.
Batman*
191.
Building the Alaska Highway
192.
21
193.
Grease*
194.
Alaska (1996)
195.
Tropic Thunder**
196.
Hannah and Her Sisters
197.
Meet Bill
here
198.
Heavy Metal in Baghdad
199.
Brubaker
200.
Batman: Gotham Knight
201.
Joy Division (2007)
202.
The Dark Knight: IMAX Experience**
203.
Semi-Pro
204.
The Game
205.
New York documentary (1999)
206.
Fall From Grace
207.
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
208.
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
209.
Get Smart** (x2)
210.
Boys on the Side
211.
The Happening
here
212.
The Strangers
here
213.
Cassandra's Dream
214.
Spanglish*
215.
Dawn of the Dead
216.
Malice
217.
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
218.
Legally Blonde*
219.
Burn After Reading**
220.
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (x2)
221.
Rocky
222.
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
223.
Lost Boys of Sudan
224.
All the President's Men
225.
In Bruges
226.
Mad Max
227.
Son of Rambow
228.
Kathy Griffin: Allegedly
229.
Goodfellas*
230.
The Power of Nightmares
231.
Horton Hears a Who
232.
Robot Chicken Star Wars
233.
The Visitor
here
234.
Autism: The Musicial
235.
Happy-Go-Lucky
here
236.
The Fall
237.
Zack and Miri Make a Porno**
here
238.
Children of Paradise
239.
Changeling**
here
240.
Croupier
241.
Dog Day Afternoon
242.
Then She Found Me
243.
Body Heat
244.
The Thin Man
here
245.
Quantum of Solace**
here
246.
The Bank Job
247.
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
248.
Role Models
here
249.
After the Thin Man
250.
Bigger, Faster, Stronger
251.
Undercover Blues
252.
What Happened in Vegas
253.
Magnolia
254.
Star Trek VII: Generations
255.
Milk
here
256.
Revolutionary Road**
here
257.
The Others*
258.
Transsiberian
259.
Star Trek VIII: First Contact
260.
Burn After Reading*
261.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button**
here
262.
Hamlet*
263.
Miss Austen Regrets
264.
Wendy and Lucy
* not the first viewing
** in the theaters
TV Seasons I've Completed in 2008
TITLE
REVIEW
RATING
01.
Mad Men S1
02.
The Office S4
03.
30 Rock S2
04.
Lost S4
05.
Mad Men S2
06.
Project Runway S5
07.
Pushing Daisies S1
08.
Dexter S3
09.
The Sopranos S1
My movie star ratings are based on my ratings on Netflix. They say:
= Hated It
= Didn't Like It
= Liked It
= Really Liked It
= Loved It
Complete List of Books I've Read in 2008
(doesn't include books read for school)
TITLE
REVIEW
RATING
01.
The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
here
02.
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
03.
A Lifetime of Secrets: A PostSecret Book, Frank Warren
04.
Suite Francaise, Irene Nemirovsky
05.
The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
here
06.
Timeline, Michael Crichton
07.
Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
08.
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
09.
The Red Tent, Anita Diamant
10.
Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
11.
Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates
12.
I Feel Bad About My Neck, Nora Ephron
13.
Out of the Silent Planet, C.S. Lewis
14.
The Stand, Stephen King
here
15.
Out of the Silent Planet, C.S. Lewis
16.
Ladies of Liberty, Cokie Roberts
17.
A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
18.
Blindness, José Saramago
here, here
19.
Where Angels Fear to Tread, E.M. Forster
20.
Batman: Year One, Frank Miller
21.
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Frank Miller
22.
Cold Spring Harbor, Richard Yates
23.
Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?, Alan Moore
24.
DC Universe: The Stories of Alan Moore, Alan Moore
25.
Batman: The Long Halloween, Jeph Loeb
here
26.
Batman: Dark Victory, Jeph Loeb
27.
The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
28.
Watchmen, Alan Moore
29.
Memo to the President Elect: How We Can Restore America's Reputation and Leadership, Madeleine Albright
30.
Klondike Fever: The Life and Death of the Last Great Gold Rush, Pierre Berton
here
31.
The Killing Joke, Alan Moore
32.
The Collected Stories of Richard Yates, Richard Yates
here
33.
The Haunted Knight, Jeph Loeb
34.
Batman: Hush, Vol. 1, Jeph Loeb
35.
Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines, Nic Sheff
36.
The Arrival, Shaun Tan
37.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1, Alan Moore
38.
Infected, Scott Sigler
39.
Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
here
40.
Then We Came to the End, Joshua Ferris
here
41.
The Innocent, Harlan Coben
42.
Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Robert T. Kiyosaki
43.
The Easter Parade, Richard Yates
44.
Debt-Free by 30: Practical Advice for the Young, Broke, and Upwardly Mobile , Jason Anthony
45.
The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous & Broke, Suze Orman
46.
Cold Sassy Tree, Olive Ann Burns
47.
Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Susan Vreeland
48.
Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
49.
The Little Book, Selden Edwards
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