I do not have obsessive compulsive disorder. I do not have obsessive compulsive disorder. Let me make it absolutely clear that I do not have obsessive compulsive disorder.
But … I will admit that I am fanatical about some things.
Since I was a sophomore in high school — a mind-bogglingly shocking twenty-something years ago — I have kept little notebooks in which I record anything even remotely interesting that happened on any given day. Seeing a movie counts as something interesting. That means that I can tell you every movie I’ve seen for the last twenty years.
I’m not insane or anything. I don’t make a note of seeing A Christmas Story six or seven times every Christmas. And I don’t detail if I caught the last forty-five minutes of Die Hard before falling asleep or if I had The Spy Who Loved Me playing on a television in the living room while I was doing dishes in the kitchen.
The year’s not quite finished yet, and I plan on seeing a few films in the next week or so, but we’re close enough to the end that I can post my annual ratings.
So here’s every movie I saw in 2009, along with my five-star rating:
- 01/01 — Tropic Thunder ***1/2
- 01/09 — Doubt ***1/2 (theater)
- 01/10 — Silence of the Lambs ****
- 01/11 — Mr. & Mrs. Smith ****
- 01/15 — Jerry Maguire *****
- 01/24 — The Curious Case of Benjamin Button *** (theater)
- 02/03 — Vicki Cristina Barcelona ****1/2
- 02/08 — Soapdish *****
- 02/13 — Friday the 13th **1/2 (theater)
- 03/07 — Forgetting Sarah Marshall ****1/2
- 03/07 — Casino Royale *****
- 03/12 — Watchmen **** (theater)
- 05/08 — Star Trek **** (theater)
- 05/16 — Minority Report ****
- 05/30 — Terminator: Salvation ***1/2 (theater)
- 06/06 — The Hangover ***1/2 (theater)
- 06/12 — Drag Me to Hell **1/2 (theater)
- 06/13 — The Dark Knight ****1/2 (theater)
- 06/25 — Milk ****
- 07/05 — Duplicity ***1/2
- 08/01 — 500 Days of Summer **** (theater)
- 08/07 — Funny People ** (theater)
- 08/15 — District 9 ***** (theater)
- 09/11 — Inglorious Basterds ****1/2 (theater)
- 09/25 — The Informant **** (theater)
- 10/16 — Paranormal Activity **1/2 (theater)
- 11/24 — Wedding Crashers ****1/2
- 12/18 — The Royal Tenenbaums ***** (multiple times throughout the year)
- 12/19 — Up in the Air ***1/2 (theater)
- 12/20 — Housesitter *****
- 12/20 — Can’t Buy Me Love ****
- 12/20 — He’s Just Not That Into You ***1/2
