I am a cinephile and last year I made a habit of waiting until my wife and daughter went to bed and then I would sneak off to a late show with my trusty Indiana Jones popcorn bucket ($0.50 refills for 2 years – that thing was awesome!)

Anyways, the other day I found a list of all the films that came out in 2009 and I was curious how many of them I had seen, and how many I saw in the theater. Here were my findings:

• I went to the theater 39 times and saw 41 films (two double features)
• 19 movies I saw by myself
• 5 movies were dates with my wife
• 9 movies were just me and my 2 year old daughter
• 4 movies were my daugther and wife and I at Cinema Grill where we can order dinner while watching a movie
• 4 movies I saw with friends
• So, 41 films that came out in 2009, means I saw 10% of all the films that came out last year in the theater
• If you add in the 20 films I have already rented on DVD I am up to 15%!

So now the big question, “what movies”? Here is the list of films I saw in 2009, I have bolded the best of the best:

500 Days Of Summer
9
All About Steve
A Serious Man
AstroBoy
Battle For Terra
The Brothers Bloom
Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs
Couple’s Retreat
Disney’s A Christmas Carol
District 9
Extract
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Funny People
The Hangover
Ice Age 3
I Love You, Man
Inglorious Basterds
The Invention Of Lying
Knowing
Law Abiding Citizen
The Men Who Stare At Goats
Monsters vs Aliens 3D
Moon
Night At The Museum 2
Planet 51
The Princess And The Frog
Public Enemies
Star Trek
Sunshine Cleaning
The Surrogates
Taken
Terminator 4
Toy Story / Toy Story 2
Transformers 2
The Ugly Truth
Up
Watchmen
Where The Wild Things Are
Wolverine

Rentals:
Paul Blart: Mall Cop
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
Coraline
Fanboys
He’s Just Not That Into You
Duplicity
Observe and Report
State of Play
The Soloist
Powder Blue
Angels & Demons
Away We Go
The Taking of Pelham 123
Year One
Hurt Locker
A Perfect Getaway
G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra
The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard
Pandorum
Zombieland

Here are the movies I somehow missed so far but have plans to see asap:

Precious
Avatar
An Education
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Paper Heart
Adventureland
A Single Man
The Blind Side
Boondock Saints 2
Brothers
Gentlemen Broncos