My New Years resolution for 2018 was to watch one movie a day for the entire year. Despite many complications and difficulties I managed to finish with my resolution in tact. Here is what I watched, including rankings and some comments.

The movies in bold are movies that I have already seen and the numbers in brackets represent the year in which the movie came out.

January 1st – IT (2017)

January 2nd – Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

January 3rd – Elf (2003)

January 4th – The Lego Batman Movie (2017)

January 5th – Beauty and the Beast (2017)

January 6th – George of the Jungle (1997)

January 7th – Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

January 8th – Moana (2016)

January 9th – Groundhog Day (1993)

January 10th – Psycho (1960)

January 11th – The Imitation Game (2014)

January 12th – Moonlight (2016)

January 13th – The Terminator (1984)

January 14th – Back to the Future (1985)

January 15th – Blade Runner (1982)

January 16th – The Time Traveller’s Wife (2009)

January 17th – Rocky (1976)

January 18th – Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (1937)

January 19th – Grease (1978)

January 20th – Warcraft (2016)

January 21st – Night at the Museum (2006)

January 22nd – Duel (1971)

January 23rd – Dark Shadows (2012)

January 24th – Kong: Skull Island (2017)

January 25th – Stand by Me (1986)

January 26th – Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)

January 27th – Coraline (2009)

January 28th – Good Will Hunting (1997)

January 29th – The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008)

January 30th – Paddington (2014)

January 31st – Silence of the Lambs (1991)

 

February 1st – Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

February 2nd – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

February 3rd – Pocahontas (1995)

February 4th – Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)

February 5th – Pokémon: Spell of the Unown (2000)

February 6th – Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)

February 7th – Trainspotting (1996)

February 8th – Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)

February 9th – Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003)

February 10th – Pokémon: Genesect and the Legend Awakened (2013)

February 11th – Shrek (2001)

February 12th – Swiss Army Man (2016)

February 13th – Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell no Tales (2016)

February 14th – Room (2015)

February 15th – Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

February 16th – X-Men (2000)

February 17th – When Harry Met Sally… (1989)

February 18th – Ghostbusters (1984)

February 19th – Batman (1989)

February 20th – The Iron Giant (1999)

February 21st – Black Panther (2018)

February 22nd – La La Land (2016)

February 23rd – Wonder Woman (2017)

February 24th – The Land Before Time (1988)

February 25th – Thor: Ragnarok (2017)

February 26th – Robocop (1987)

February 27th – The Matrix (1999)

February 28th – The King’s Speech (2010)

 

March 1st – The Godfather (1972)

March 2nd – Baby Driver (2017)

March 3rd – Men in Black (1997)

March 4th – Get Out (2017)

March 5th – X2 (2003)

March 6th – Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016)

March 7th – Back to the Future: Part 2 (1989)

March 8th – X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)

March 9th – T2 Trainspotting (2017)

March 10th – Inside Out (2015)

March 11th – Halloween (1978)

March 12th – Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

March 13th – Shrek 2 (2004)

March 14th – Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

March 15th – Big Trouble in Little China (1986)

March 16th – Anomalisa (2015)

March 17th – Alien: Covenant (2017)

March 18th – Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)

March 19th – The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

March 20th – Annihilation (2018)

March 21st – Paddington 2 (2017)

March 22nd – Frankenstein (1931)

March 23rd – Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

March 24th – 9 (2009)

March 25th – Iron Man (2008)

March 26th – Star Wars: A New Hope (1978)

March 27th – John Wick (2014)

March 28th – What We Do in the Shadows (2014)

March 29th – Big Hero 6 (2014)

March 30th – Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004)

March 31st – Sleeping Beauty (1959)

 

April 1st – X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)

April 2nd – Life (2017)

April 3rd – Corpse Bride (2005)

April 4th – Cars (2006)

April 5th – Beetlejuice (1988)

April 6th – I, Robot (2004)

April 7th – Doctor Who: The Movie (1996)

April 8th – Horns (2013)

April 9th – The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)

April 10th – John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)

April 11th – The Road to El Dorado (2000)

April 12th – High School Musical (2006)

April 13th – Airplane! (1980)

April 14th – Dumbo (1941)

April 15th – Power Rangers (1995)

April 16th – The Prince of Egypt (1998)

April 17th – Monsters, Inc (2001)

April 18th – How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)

April 19th – X-Men: First Class (2011)

April 20th – Toy Story (1995)

April 21st – Pokemon: The First Movie (1998)

April 22nd – Toy Story 2 (1999)

April 23rd – Predator (1987)

April 24th – Alien (1979)

April 25th – Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

April 26th – Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)

April 27th – Storks (2016)

April 28th – The Emperor’s New Groove (2000)

April 29th – Twilight (2008)

April 30th – The Hunger Games (2012)

 

May 1st – Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone (2001)

May 2nd – Coco (2017)

May 3rd – The Wolverine (2013)

May 4th – The Duchess (2008)

May 5th – Bran Neu Dae (2009)

May 6th – The Simpsons Movie (2007)

May 7th – Madagascar (2005)

May 8th – The Wizard of Oz (1939)

May 9th – Footloose (1984)

May 10th – Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie (1997)

May 11th – X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)

May 12th – The Lion King (1995)

May 13th – The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011)

May 14th – WALL-E (2008)

May 15th – Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)

May 16th – My Life as a Zucchini (2016)

May 17th – The Beguiled (2017)

May 18th – Jackie (2016)

May 19th – Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009)

May 20th – Lady and the Tramp (1955)

May 21st – Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)

May 22nd – The Greatest Showman (2017)

May 23rd – 12 Angry Men (1957)

May 24th – X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

May 25th – Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)

May 26th – The Rugrats Movie (1998)

May 27th – Lady Macbeth (2016)

May 28th – The Scorpion King (2002)

May 29th – The Last of the Mohicans (1992)

May 30th – Aliens (1986)

May 31st – Logan (2017)

 

June 1st – Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)

June 2nd – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)

June 3rd – Your Name (2016)

June 4th – Megamind (2010)

June 5th – The Prestige (2006)

June 6th – Black Swan (2010)

June 7th – Blue Jasmine (2013)

June 8th – The Passion of the Christ (2004)

June 9th – Kung Fu Panda (2008)

June 10th – The Red Turtle (2016)

June 11th – The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)

June 12th – Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013)

June 13th – War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)

June 14th – Alice in Wonderland (1951)

June 15th – The Shape of Water (2017)

June 16th – 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984)

June 17th – Star Trek (2009)

June 18th – Bruce Almighty (2003)

June 19th – The Queen (2006)

June 20th – The Truman Show (1998)

June 21st – Johnny English (2003)

June 22nd – A Ghost Story (2016)

June 23rd – Sister Act (1992)

June 24th – Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

June 25th – Billy Elliot (2000)

June 26th – 127 Hours (2010)

June 27th – Midnight in Paris (2011)

June 28th – The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)

June 29th – Zoolander (2001)

June 30th – Spirited Away (2001)

 

July 1st – Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)

July 2nd – Anastasia (1997)

July 3rd – Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

July 4th – The Cabin in the Woods (2012)

July 5th – The Cake Eaters (2007)

July 6th – A Few Good Men (1992)

July 7th – Twilight: New Moon (2009)

July 8th – The Pink Panther (1963)

July 9th – Grease 2 (1982)

July 10th – Get Smart (2008)

July 11th – Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)

July 12th – Muriel’s Wedding (1994)

July 13th – Early Man (2018)

July 14th – Ice Age: Collision Course (2016)

July 15th – Scream (1996)

July 16th – The Bucket List (2008)

July 17th – The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)

July 18th – Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

July 19th – Hotel Transylvania (2012)

July 20th – Mamma Mia (2008)

July 21st – A Quiet Place (2018)

July 22nd – Independence Day (1996)

July 23rd – The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)

July 24th – Deadpool (2016)

July 25th – Evan Almighty (2007)

July 26th – Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring(2001)

July 27th – Godzilla (2014)

July 28th – The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

July 29th – Legally Blonde (2001)

July 30th – Punch-Drunk Love (2002)

July 31st – 21 Jump Street (2012)

 

August 1st – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)

August 2nd – Shakespeare in Love (1998)

August 3rd – Rango (2011)

August 4th – The Man from Snowy River (1984)

August 5th – The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

August 6th – Doctor Dolittle (1998)

August 7th – Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989)

August 8th – Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

August 9th – The Addams Family (1991)

August 10th – Police Academy (1984)

August 11th – Aladdin (1992)

August 12th – Jurassic Park (1993)

August 13th – Thor (2011)

August 14th – The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

August 15th – Pokemon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew (2005)

August 16th – Spider-Man (2002)

August 17th – Monty Python and the Life of Brian (1979)

August 18th – Sully (2016)

August 19th – The Land Before Time: The Great Valley Adventure (1994)

August 20th – Signs (2002)

August 21st – The Breadwinner (2017)

August 22nd – Deadpool 2 (2018)

August 23rd – Peter Rabbit (2018)

August 24th – Mamma Mia 2: Here We Go Again (2018)

August 25th – Journey to the Centre of the Earth (2008)

August 26th – The Shining (1980)

August 27th – Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

August 28th – Grave of the Fireflies (1988)

August 29th – The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

August 30th – 12 Years a Slave (2013)

August 31st – Space Jam (1996)

 

September 1st – Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)

September 2nd – Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)

September 3rd – The Railway Man (2013)

September 4th – Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011)

September 5th – The Mummy (1999)

September 6th – Twister (1996)

September 7th – Mean Girls (2004)

September 8th – The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 (2014)

September 9th – Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)

September 10th – The Usual Suspects (1995)

September 11th – Pulp Fiction (1994)

September 12th – The Fifth Element (1997)

September 13th – The Breakfast Club (1985)

September 14th – Shutter Island (2010)

September 15th – Despicable Me (2010)

September 16th – Dredd (2012)

September 17th – Taxi Driver (1976)

September 18th – Saving Private Ryan (1998)

September 19th – It Follows (2014)

September 20th – Rain Man (1988)

September 21st – Justice League (2017)

September 22nd – Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015)

September 23rd – Rocky II (1979)

September 24th – Hot Fuzz (2007)

September 25th – Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)

September 26th – Fight Club (1999)

September 27th – Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)

September 28th – Village of the Damned (1995)

September 29th – Pokemon: The Movie 2000 (1999)

September 30th – Addams Family Values (1993)

 

October 1st – Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince* (2009)

October 2nd – Mission: Impossible (1996)

October 3rd – Shaun of the Dead (2004)

October 4th – Dirty Dancing (1987)

October 5th – Top Gun (1986)

October 6th – Zombieland (2009)

October 7th – Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)

October 8th – The Man from U.N.C.L.E (2015)

October 9th – The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

October 10th – Edward Scissorhands (1990)

October 11th – No Country for Old Men (2007)

October 12th – Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)

October 13th – Surf’s Up (2007)

October 14th – Digimon: The Movie (2000)

October 15th – Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)

October 16th – Transformers (2007)

October 17th – E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

October 18th – Babe (1995)

October 19th – Whiplash (2014)

October 20th – Little Shop of Horrors (1960)

October 21st – Pokemon: The Rise of Darkrai (2007)

October 22nd – I, Tonya (2017)

October 23rd – Hotel Transylvania 3 (2018)

October 24th – The Green Mile (1999)

October 25th – Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)

October 26th – V for Vendetta (2005)

October 27th – Donnie Darko (2001)

October 28th – Frankenweenie (2012)

October 29th – Six Degrees of Separation (1993)

October 30th – An American Werewolf in London (1981)

October 31st – Dr. No (1962)

 

November 1st – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)

November 2nd – Halloween (2018)

November 3rd – The Good Dinosaur (2015)

November 4th – Land Before Time: The Time of the Great Giving (1995)

November 5th – Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

November 6th – Men in Black 3 (2012)

November 7th – Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

November 8th – The Dressmaker (2015)

November 9th – Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

November 10th – Pinocchio (1940)

November 11th – 28 Days Later (2002)

November 12th – Cloud Atlas (2012)

November 13th – Twilight: Eclipse (2010)

November 14th – Calvary (2014)

November 15th – The Fountain (2006)

November 16th – The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 (2015)

November 17th – Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)

November 18th – Hugo (2011)

November 19th – Call Me by Your Name (2017)

November 20th – Easy A (2010)

November 21st – Atonement (2007)

November 22nd – Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

November 23rd – Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)

November 24th – Blazing Saddles (1974)

November 25th – Moon (2009)

November 26th – The Crow (1994)

November 27th – Cinderella (2015)

November 28th – Incredibles 2 (2018)

November 29th – Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (1983)

November 30th – Finding Neverland (2004)

 

December 1st – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)

December 2nd – The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

December 3rd – The Polar Express (2004)

December 4th – A Christmas Carol (2009)

December 5th – Creed (2015)

December 6th – Twilight: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 (2012)

December 7th – Gravity (2013)

December 8th – Australia (2008)

December 9th – The Avengers (2012)

December 10th – 22 Jump Street (2014)

December 11th – BlacKkKlansman (2018)

December 12th – Teen Titans Go! To the Movies (2018)

December 13th – Christopher Robin (2018)

December 14th – Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

December 15th – Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)

December 16th – The Star (2017)

December 17th – Die Hard (1998)

December 18th – Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

December 19th – Gandhi (1982)

December 20th – Casablanca (1942)

December 21st – Frozen (2013)

December 22nd – 10 Things I Hate About You (1999)

December 23rd – The Great Dictator (1940)

December 24th – Se7en (1995)

December 25th – It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)

December 26th – Dead Poets Society (1989)

December 27th – American Beauty (1999)

December 28th – Amelie (2001)

December 29th – We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)

December 30th – The Ten Commandments (1956)

December 31st - Lady Bird (2018)

 

Monthly Rankings! The Top 10 for each month.

January:

1: Back to the Future

2: Good Will Hunting

3: Rocky

4: Psycho

5: Silence of the Lambs

6: Coraline

7: Moonlight

8: The Imitation Game

9: IT

10: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

 

February:

1: Pan's Labyrinth

2: Room

3: The Kings Speech

4: The Matrix

5: Kill Bill: Volume 1

6: La La Land

7: Robocop

8: Ghost Busters

9: The Land Before Time

10: Black Panther

 

March:

1: Terminator 2: Judgement Day

2: Paddington 2

3: The Godfather

4: Get Out

5: Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark

6: X2

7: Kill Bill: Volume 2

8: John Wick

9: Halloween

10: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

 

April:

1: Avengers: Infinity War

2: Airplane!

3: Beetlejuice

4: Corpse Bride

5: The Prince of Egypt

6: Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

7: How to Train Your Dragon 2

8: X-Men: First Class

9: I, Robot

10: The Hunger Games

 

May:

1: WALL-E

2: Logan

3: Kubo and the Two Strings

4: 12 Angry Men

5: Aliens

6: Coco

7: The Last of the Mohicans

8: Mrs. Doubtfire

9: Florence Foster Jenkins

10: The Beguiled

 

June:

1: Spirited Away

2: Your Name

3: Billy Elliot

4: Midnight in Paris

5: War for the Planet of the Apes

6: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

7: The Prestige

8: 127 Hours

9: Black Swan

10: Blue Jasmine

 

July:

1: A Few Good Men

2: Slumdog Millionaire

3: 21 Jump Street

4: Monty Python and the Holy Grail

5: A Quiet Place

6: The Cabin in the Woods

7: Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

8: Independence Day

9: Pink Panther

10: Punch- Drunk Love

 

August:

1: Grave of the Fireflies

2: The Shawshank Redemption

3: 12 Years a Slave

4: Shakespeare in Love

5: Edge of Tomorrow

6: The Shining

7: The Grand Budapest Hotel

8: Signs

9: Rango

10: Mamma Mia 2: Here We Go Again

 

September:

1: Saving Private Ryan

2: Fight Club

3: Pulp Fiction

4: The Usual Suspects

5: Hot Fuzz

6: Rocky II

7: Taxi Driver

8: Four Weddings and a Funeral

9: Dredd

10: Rain Man

 

October:

1: Donnie Darko

2: E.T the Extra Terrestrial

3: The Green Mile

4: Whiplash

5: V for Vendetta

6: Zombieland

7: No Country for Old Men

8: Edward Scissorhands

9: Babe

10: Bad Times at the El Royale

 

November:

1: Atonement

2: Finding Neverland

3: The Crow

4: Moon

5: Bohemian Rhapsody

6: 28 Days Later

7: Halloween

8: Blazing Saddles

9: Rosemary's Baby

10: Incredibles 2

 

December:

1: Se7en

2: The Ten Commandments

3: Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

4: The Great Dictator

5: Casablanca

6: BlackKklansman

7: It's a Wonderful Life

8: Christopher Robin

9: American Beauty

10: Die Hard

 

Ultimate Top 12 Ranking: (Top movie from each month)

1: Terminator 2: Judgement Day

2: Pan's Labyrinth

3: Back to the Future

4: Grave of the Fireflies

5: Saving Private Ryan

6: Atonement

7: Se7en

8: Donnie Darko

9: Spirited Away

10: Avengers: Infinity War

11: WALL-E

12: A Few Good Men

 

Final Comments:

Although i'm happy with my monthly rankings, I feel like some movies were hindered simply because I had seen them before (with the obvious exception of WALL-E) Movies like Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter probably would have done better if I was viewing them for the first time.

And also I feel some months were stronger than others, and a movie that came second or third in one month, would've come first in another month, Pulp Fiction or Fight Club for example

There are still quite a few movies I didn't get to which i'm disappointed about. If our Internet hadn't gone down the crapper on multiple occasions I wouldn't have had to watch the Twilight Series on DVD (thanks mum...) But hey, at least I skipped Breaking Dawn Part 1 and went straight to Part 2 because I do have some standards. But usually multiple re-watches in a short period of time was the times our Internet was dead.

Only 3 movies nearly brought me to tears this year: Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, Perks of Being a Wallflower and Grave of the Fireflies...Grave of the Fireflies made those other 2 look like comedies by comparison. Took ages after watching it before I could even talk about it without getting choked up.

I also learnt I don't have a specific genre that I like more than others. Going into 2018, if you had asked me what my favourite genre was I would have said sci-fi/fantasy. Now i'm open to pretty much anything.

Overall: I'm happy that I managed to accomplish this, but man i'd never do it again. The stress of not thinking I was not going to be able to do it on a few occasions was tough. But i'm happy with how many movies I have seen now.

Thanks for reading!

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