Best Movies of 2011

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what did you see this year that you rated. maybe your guiltiest pleasure, biggest blockbuster or hipest indie

for me

Tree of Life
The Guard
Drive
We need to talk about kevin
The Artist
Moneyball
The Skin I love in

not sure it was as good a year as last year but ive been pretty entertained

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What I went to see at the movies this year:
- Babycall
- Tree of Life
- Drive
- The Adventures of Tintin

Other movies I've seen:
- The Green Hornet
- Kill The Irishman
- Limitless
- The Lincoln Lawyer
- Paul
- Insidious
- The King's Speech
- Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (ugh!)
- The Hangover Part II
- X-Men: First Class
- Super 8
- Transformers: Dark of the Moon (ugh!)
- Horrible Bosses
- Cowboys & Aliens (ugh!)
- Crazy Stupid Love
- Rise of the Planet of the Apes
- The Help
- 30 Minutes or Less
- Conan the Barbarian (ugh!)
- Our Idiot Brother
- The Debt
- Contagion
- Puss in Boots
- Carnage

My favorites would have to be Tree of Life, Drive, The King's Speech and The Help.

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Movies I still want to see:
- 50/50
- Shame
- A Dangerous Method
- The Muppets
- J. Edgar
- Immortals
- The Ides of March
- My Week with Marilyn
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

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Bibliotheque Pascal
The King's Speech
Factotum
Harry Potter 7: Part 2
Water for Elephants
The Secret In Their Eyes
Biutiful
A Dangerous Method
Rum Diary
Sleeping Beauty 2011
Midnight In Paris

Not all of them are 2011's movies, but I've seen them this year.

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ooops i forgot to mention the Help hadnt read the book but really enjoyed the film. am going to see what theyve done to The Girl with.... tonight

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This has been such a shite year for movies. To be honest I didn't bother to go see many. However, I did enjoy The Skin I Live In, Drive and Tree of Life (sort of).

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I don't know whether I should watch The Skin I Live In. The movie gives the impression of being somewhat boring.

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The last Harry Potter went well. I don't remember what else I saw this year.

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Tuffy wrote:
The last Harry Potter went well. I don't remember what else I saw this year.

That's pretty much exactly what I was about to say.

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My Favorites:
Mr. Nobody
The Rum Diary
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Part 2
My Week with Marilyn

Movies I still need to see:
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
J. Edgar
Drive
The Artist
Immortals (Guilty Pleasure)
Midnight in Paris
Melancholia
Angels and Airwaves-LOVE
50/50

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50/50 is good. i wasn't expecting much when i saw it.

harry potpot is also another but from what i remember, the king's speech takes it this year for me.

edit: king's speech is 2010? my world is destroyed now.

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damien_mayfair wrote:
edit: king's speech is 2010? my world is destroyed now.

Argh! Wikipedia lied to me! I was looking at a list of movies released in 2011 and it was on that damn list.

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I saw it in 2011, so there.

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Movies I still need to see:
Melancholia

Really, don't bother. Nothing happens and then the world ends.

But first, nothing happens. For over two hours.

And then the world ends.

/spoilers

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Harry Potter and Drive are the only two movies I remember going to the movies to see. I didn't do a lot of movie watching this year, it feels like. I saw a few movies that came about before. But I didn't feel like there were a lot of movies I was really excited to see.

That's okay, Drive made it all worth it.

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MONEYBALL!!!!!!

That is all.

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"The year 2011 is notable for containing the release of the most film sequels in a single year, at 28." - Wikipedia.

Really says something, yeah?

Of the films released in 2011, I saw the following:

  • Gnomeo & Juliet - Passable animated children's film. Not particularly worth seeing again.
  • Red Riding Hood - Shit.
  • Rio - Better animated children's film.
  • Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil - Animated children's film. I fell asleep. Cannot rate beyond that.
  • X-Men: First Class - Suck.
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 - A solid entry in the Potter series and a good ending.
  • Captain America: The First Avenger - No Iron Man, but a decent super hero action flick.
  • Cowboys & Aliens - Decent. Loses its way at the ending.
  • Melancholia - Two hours of boredom and then the world ends.

So... Best movies of 2011 from what I saw were Harry Potter and Captain America.

Sad.

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I think the only movie I saw (at the movies) last year was Harry Potter.

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Mine were, in total; cinema, PPV, TV, cable, whatever. I saw exactly one of those films at the theater - Harry Potter. Weird thing is I was certain I made it to the theater more than once this past year, but if I did, IMDB nor Wikipedia list it as being released this year. Very odd.

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You need to see Drive, Tuffy. I'm convinced that'd take the place of either of those movies. Though, you didn't actually see it IN 2011

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Drive was awful.

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I bet none of you profanities even saw it! Blasphemy to even mention michaelbaycrap like captain america in this thread.

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You're so much better than absolutely everyone else, Garrett. You should run for office.

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I liked X-Men: First Class.

I'm still not sure what to think of Tree of Life. I need to see it again.

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I liked X-Men: First Class.

I'm still not sure what to think of Tree of Life. I need to see it again.

I feel the same way about Tree of Life...I thought it was a beautiful, visual film but that's all I got out of it. I need to see it again.

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Been there done that twice. And you know this, maaaaaaan.

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Yeah, I just wanted to make sure you remembered.

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Drive was fantastic.
Muppets were great.
Capt Am and XMen were good.

God, what else did I see?

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Oh yeah. Money ball was good.

Brides Maids was funny.

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I don't even remember if I went to the movies in 2011... I'm sure I did though.

I have the memory of a goldfish. Just another reason I should do a daily journal.

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PGoutis01 wrote:
I don't even remember if I went to the movies in 2011... I'm sure I did though.

I have the memory of a goldfish. Just another reason I should do an hourly journal.


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You're probably right. Especially with the amount I drink.

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I watched many movies in 2011 but i most like Super 8.I watched it first day first show in theater with my friends.It released on 14sep,2011.We really enjoyed to watching this movie.

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Um. Good for you?

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