Hey, that didn’t take long at all.
What I’ve learned from watching 100 movies and making 100+ cocktails is: 1) There are a lot of bad cocktail recipes out there. 2) New movies suck. 3) The WordPress spell checker doesn’t think that “movie” is a word.
But I swore to never use the word “film”. Just to annoy people.
Oops.
My selection turned out to be a bit Now That’s What I Call Quite Early 90s Film Club, which is kinda natural, since that’s where I left off. I tried getting a bit more current by buying 
I mean, I do have patience with “boring” stuff as long as it’s good. (For instance India Song or Blue.) But when my bullshit detector goes off, I get cranky.
And I have little in the current crop of European art movies, like Antichrist or Irreversible. And I loathe Haneke. Basically crappy and dehumanising movies that have delusions of relevancy. While probably functioning like the R&D division for commercial movies.
Anyway.
I’ve tried scoring the movies based on whether they’re good or not, and not whether I like them. I do have great taste, though, so these are correlated, of course. I sometimes like bad movies a lot, and (somewhat less often) I hate some good movies.
Here’s the complete list. 1 star means “awful”, 2 “bad”, 3 “not good, but watcheable”, 4 “not bad, but misseable”, 5 “good”, 6 “fantastic”.
| ★★★★☆☆ | 1978 | Jubilee | Derek Jarman |
| ★★★★★☆ | 1972 | Solaris | Andrei Tarkovsky |
| ★★★★☆☆ | 1981 | The Pee-Wee Herman Show | Marty Callner |
| ★★☆☆☆☆ | 2009 | District 9 | Neill Blomkamp |
| ★★★★★☆ | 1947 | Black Narcissus | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger |
| ★☆☆☆☆☆ | 2005 | Batman Begins | Christopher Nolan |
| ★★★★★☆ | 1938 | Bringing Up Baby | Howard Hawks |
| ★★★★★★ | 1964 | Bande à part | Jean-Luc Godard |
| ★★★☆☆☆ | 2008 | The Dark Knight | Christopher Nolan |
| ★★★★★★ | 1996 | Nénette et Boni | Claire Denis |
| ★★☆☆☆☆ | 2012 | Beasts of the Southern Wild | Benh Zeitlin |
| ★★☆☆☆☆ | 2005 | Red Eye | Wes Craven |
| ★★★★☆☆ | 2005 | Me and You and Everyone We Know | Miranda July |
| ★★★★★★ | 1963 | 8½ | Federico Fellini |
| ★★★★☆☆ | 2004 | Palindromes | Todd Solondz |
| ★★★☆☆☆ | 2010 | Tron: Legacy | Joseph Kosinski |
| ★★★☆☆☆ | 1968 | Rachel, Rachel | Paul Newman |
| ★★☆☆☆☆ | 2008 | Be Kind Rewind | Michel Gondry |
| ★★★★★☆ | 2009 | Κυνόδοντας | Yorgos Lanthimos |
| ★★☆☆☆☆ | 2011 | Like Crazy | Drake Doremus |
| ★★★★★☆ | 1959 | Hiroshima, mon amour | Alain Resnais |
| ★★★★★☆ | 2004 | Mean Girls | Mark Waters |
| ★★★★★★ | 2012 | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | Peter Jackson |
| ★★☆☆☆☆ | 1980 | Rude Boy | Jack Hazan, David Mingay |
| ★★★★★☆ | 2009 | The Limits of Control | Jim Jarmusch |
| ★★★★★★ | 1975 | India Song | Marguerite Duras |
| ★★★☆☆☆ | 2010 | L A Zombie | Bruce LaBruce |
| ★★★☆☆☆ | 2013 | Elysium | Neill Blomkamp |
| ★★★★★☆ | 2013 | I’m So Excited | Pedro Almodovar |
| ★★☆☆☆☆ | 2007 | Superbad | Greg Mottola |
| ★★★★★☆ | 1993 | Blue | Derek Jarman |
| ★★★★☆☆ | 2009 | Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen | Michael Bay |
| ★★★☆☆☆ | 1930 | Menschen am Sonntag | Kurt Siodmak, Robert Siodmak, Edgar G Ulmer, Fred Zinnemann & Rochus Gliese |
| ★★★☆☆☆ | 1996 | Bottle Rocket | Wes Anderson |
| ★★★★★☆ | 1937 | Shall We Dance | Mark Sandrich |
| ★★★★★☆ | 2000 | In The Mood For Love | Kar Wai Wong |
| ★★★★★☆ | 1988 | Chocolat | Claire Denis |
| ★★★★★☆ | 2010 | Winter’s Bone | Debra Granik |
| ★★★★☆☆ | 1963 | Shock Corridor | Samuel Fuller |
| ★★★★★☆ | 1945 | Brief Encounter | David Lean |
| ★★★☆☆☆ | 2011 | Scream 4 | Wes Craven |
| ★★★★★★ | 1979 | Woyzeck | Werner Herzog |
| ★☆☆☆☆☆ | 2013 | Pacific Rim | Guillermo del Toro |
| ★★★★★★ | 2007 | Paranoid Park | Gus van Sant |
| ★★★★★★ | 1983 | L’Argent | Robert Bresson |
| ★★★★☆☆ | 2007 | Eastern Promises | David Cronenberg |
| ★★★☆☆☆ | 2005 | New York Doll | Greg Whiteley |
| ★★★☆☆☆ | 1985 | Subway | Luc Besson |
| ★★★★★☆ | 1980 | Berlin Alexanderplatz | Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
| ★★★☆☆☆ | 2002 | Solaris | Steven Soderbergh |
| ★★★★☆☆ | 2002 | The Rules of Attraction | Roger Avary |
| ★★★☆☆☆ | 1971 | Two-Lane Blacktop | Monte Hellman |
| ★★☆☆☆☆ | 1934 | Of Human Bondage | John Cromwell |
| ★★★★☆☆ | 2013 | The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug | Peter Jackson |
| ★★★★★★ | 1965 | Pierrot le fou | Jean-Luc Godard |
| ★★★☆☆☆ | 2002 | Resident Evil | Paul W S Anderson |
| ★★★★☆☆ | 2005 | The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy | Garth Jennings |
| ★★★★★☆ | 1953 | Tokyo Story | Yasujirô Ozu |
| ★★★☆☆☆ | 2004 | 2046 | Kar Wai Wong |
| ★★★☆☆☆ | 1999 | Jawbreaker | Darren Stein |
| ★★★★★★ | 2006 | Inland Empire | David Lynch |
| ★★★★★☆ | 1990 | Cry-Baby | John Waters |
| ★☆☆☆☆☆ | 1970 | Husbands | John Cassavetes |
| ★★★★★☆ | 2012 | Hunger Games | Gary Ross |
| ★★★★★☆ | 2010 | Sound of Noise | Ola Simonsson, Johannes Stjärne Nilsson |
| ★★★☆☆☆ | 1993 | Three Colours: Blue | Krzysztof Kieslowski |
| ★★★★☆☆ | 1930 | Animal Crackers | Victor Heerman |
| ★★★★★☆ | 2004 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Michel Gondry |
| ★★☆☆☆☆ | 2008 | The Day The Earth Stood Still | Scott Derrickson |
| ★★★★☆☆ | 2011 | Midnight in Paris | Woody Allen |
| ★★★★★☆ | 1981 | Death in Venice | Tony Palmer |
| ★★★★☆☆ | 1943 | Destination Tokyo | Delmer Daves |
| ★★★★★☆ | 1987 | Out of Rosenheim | Percy Adlon |
| ★★★☆☆☆ | 1977 | The Serpent’s Egg | Ingmar Bergman |
| ★★★☆☆☆ | 1995 | The Flower of My Secret | Pedro Almodóvar |
| ★★★★☆☆ | 1992 | Simple Men | Hal Hartley |
| ★★★★☆☆ | 1988 | Heathers | Michael Lehmann |
| ★★★★★☆ | 2013 | G B F | Darren Stein |
| ★★★★☆☆ | 1994 | Prêt-à-Porter | Robert Altman |
| ★★★★☆☆ | 2013 | Gravity | Alfonso Cuarón |
| ★★★★★☆ | 1935 | Top Hat | Mark Sandrich |
| ★★★★★☆ | 2009 | White Material | Claire Denis |
| ★★☆☆☆☆ | 2012 | Promised Land | Gus Van Sant |
| ★★★★☆☆ | 2008 | Adoration | Atom Egoyan |
| ★★★☆☆☆ | 2010 | You Again | Andy Fickman |
| ★★★★★☆ | 1960 | Breathless | Jean-Luc Godard |
| ★★★☆☆☆ | 2013 | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire | Francis Lawrence |
| ★★★★☆☆ | 2011 | Limelight | Billy Corben |
| ★★★★★★ | 1948 | Bicycle Thieves | Vittorio De Sica |
| ★★★★☆☆ | 1973 | Day For Night | François Truffaut |
| ★★★★★☆ | 1942 | To Be Or Not To Be | Ernst Lubitsch |
| ★★☆☆☆☆ | 2013 | CBGB | Randall Miller |
| ★★★☆☆☆ | 1936 | Theodora Goes Wild | Richard Boleslawski |
| ★★★★☆☆ | 1939 | The Rules of the Game | Jean Renoir |
| ★★★☆☆☆ | 2009 | Inglorious Basterds | Quentin Tarantino |
| ★★★☆☆☆ | 2005 | A History of Violence | David Cronenberg |
| ★★★☆☆☆ | 2010 | Blue Valentine | Derek Cianfrance |
| ★★★★☆☆ | 2006 | Small Town Gay Bar | Malcolm Ingram |
| ★★★★☆☆ | 1940 | Foreign Correspondent | Alfred Hitchcock |
| ★★★★☆☆ | 1948 | The Red Shoes | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger |
I started CM&C partially because I had too many unseen DVDs on the shelves. After finishing it, I have more unseen movies than I started with.
And I have way more booze in the cupboard than anybody should have.
I peeked at imdb scores for the films I was watching, and it seems like virtually all movies get a rating between 6.5 and 7.5. The only exceptions are truly awful ones, that get 5.7-6.3, and totally horrible fan service ones that get a rating of 8.0-8.5. Any newer movie with a rating over 7.5 is almost certainly execrable.
Hm… perhaps I should do a correlation matrix between my ratings and imdb ratings… but that seems like work.
And now I never have to watch another movie again in my life! Whoho! I have my life back!