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2011 Movies I Need to See Before I Feel Comfortable Making a Personal ‘Best of’ List

Margaret, The Descendants, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, My Week With Marilyn, War Horse, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Shame, The Girl With a Dragon Tattoo, Young Adult, Take Shelter, The Iron Lady

2011 Movies I Would Like to See Before I Feel Comfortable Making a Personal ‘Best of’ List but Which I Can Live Without Seeing

Pina, Into the Abyss, Senna, The Lady, Flowers of War, We Bought a Zoo, The Turin Horse, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, The Skin I Live In, Le Havre, In Darkness, Weekend, We Were Here, Coriolanus

In other words, I want/need/”need” to see so many movies!

I’m watching Rebel Without A Cause for the second time in my life, and it’s even worse the second time around. I really can’t stand James Dean at all - not only don’t I think he’s handsome, but he can barely act. Plus, if you know anything about me, you’ll know that the whole misunderstood, counter-culture, parent loathing teen theme/plot line doesn’t fly with me. If I wanted to watch a bunch of dirty adults pretending to be teenagers knife fight, I’d just watch West Side Story.