As a lot of you know – I’m an avid film fan. at the start of 2014, I decided to make a list of every film I saw at the cinema for the year. What I’m going to do is list them here for you all to see. Any with an asterisk (*) next to it means I found the film really good or better than what I expected. I’m also adding the date that I saw the film too – by the end of it, I may give a top 3 films of 2014 at the end.
* Secret Life of Walter Mitty (3rd January) American Hustle (17th January)
* Railway Man (18th January) Last Vegas (18th January)
* 12 years a slave (29th January) I, Frankenstein (7th February)
Wolf of Wall Street (9th February) * Lone Survivor (12th February)
Robocop (15th February) * Dallas Buyers Club (19th February)
Stalingrad (22nd February) Her (26th February)
The Monuments Men (2nd March) Non-Stop (5th March)
Yurusarezaru Mono [Unforgiven] (6th March) Under the Skin (19th March)
Need for Speed (20th March) The Long Way Down (24th March)
Starred Up (24th March) Captain America: Winter Soldier (26th March)
* Raid 2: Berendal (31st March) * The Grand Budapest Hotel (2nd April)
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (16th April) Divergent (29th April)
Blue Ruin (6th May) Brick Mansions (6th May)
Bad Neighbors (14th May) Sabotage (16th May)
Godzilla (18th May) * X-Men: Days of Future Past (24th May)
Edge of Tomorrow (4th June) A Million Ways to Die in the West (11th June)
Devils Knot (14th June) * Chef (28th June)
Cold in July (1st July) Transformers: Age of Extinction (11th July)
Begin Again (16th July) * Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (22nd July)
The Purge: Anarchy (26th July) Hercules (30th July)
* Guardians of the Galaxy (9th August) Inbetweeners 2 (10th August)
Hector and the Search for Happiness (16th August) The Rover (20th August)
* The Expendables 3 (23rd August) Lucy (24th August)
Sin City 2: A Dame to Kill For (3rd September) The Guest (7th September)
Let’s Be Cops (17th September) A Most Wanted Man (20th September)
* Before I Go To Sleep (20th September) A Walk Among The Tombstones (27th September)
What We Did on Our Holiday (27th September) * The Equalizer (2nd October)
Dracula Untold (11th October) The Maze Runner (11th October)
’71 (15th October) Gone Girl (19th October)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (21st October) * Fury (7th November)
* Nightcrawler (15th November) * Imitation Game (20th November)
The Drop (20th November) * Interstellar (29th November)
Hunger Games: Mockingjay pt 1 (7th December) The Grandmaster (7th December)
The Hobbit: Battle of Five Armies (15th December)
There you go, that is the list of films I saw in 2014 – 67 films by my count. I was hoping for over 80, but with work and time constraints and periods of time where I had saw everything I wanted to see at that time meant I could only see these 67.
The best of the pick? I’ll give you my top 5 of the year:
5 – 12 Years a Slave
4 – Imitation Game
3 – Raid 2: Berendal
2 – Lone Survivor
1 – Interstellar
It’s been a very good year for films – for definite. Guardians of the Galaxy didn’t quite make it to top 5 for myself, Fury was also close as was The Grand Budapest Hotel. I picked the top 5 from what I remember about the acting, the atmosphere of the film and the sheer quality of how it was filmed. Let’s hope 2015 brings some quiet gems into the mix as well – I absolutely love going to see a film that doesn’t have too much of a hype to it and it turning out to be amazing.