2012 Film List

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Lots of movies I haven't seen and a few I have. Can't compare Hairspray and Mamma Mia. I agree Hairspray is the better of the two, but it's overly sugaryness gives me a toothache so I can't watch it a lot, lol. Loved Bane in Batman as well. He was a true villain but with a side you sympathized with inside. And Michael Cane, love him as well. Have you seen The Quiet American?

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Haha, you couldn't say the same about Mamma Mia? At least Hairspray had quality actors, a good original score and a sense of a deeper story. Mamma Mia was a shallow story about shallow people with a load of ripped off pop songs squashed into situations they didn't really fit in because they weren't written for the show. It all felt so self-indulgent and self-congratulatory for the main cast (I'm talking Meryl Streep and Pierce Brosnan here mainly - Christine Baranski and Julie Walters can Do No Wrong and should have been on screen more), and all those scenes with Donna loving up her glory days were painful.

I haven't see the Quiet American - I've heard it's very good. I think one of my favourites of his is Secondhand Lions, although The Italian Job is up there too.

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This is such a good idea! I should keep a list of the movies I watch and the books I read each year.

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It just almost gives me a sense of justification for all the crap I watch and read! It feels a bit less like I'm waiting my time, and gives me a sense of accomplishment.

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Not at all, I've added you back. :)

Haha, yeah, I probably flush a lot of my life away watching movies, but I really do enjoy them. Working on the basis that each of those is 2 hours (some'll clock over, some'll clock under), It would take me 5.17 days to watch all these movies if I watched them back-to-back nonstop. Phew.

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I do love period films, or period adaptations, but my standards are pretty high, and I get dead picky about them.