Favorite Movies from 2011 (a year without the Coen brothers)

“You’ve been fooled into thinking,
That the finishin’ end is at hand.
Yet there’s no one to beat you,
No one to defeat you,
‘Cept the thoughts of yourself feeling bad.”

Bob Dylan’s “To Ramona”



Here’s the list of all the 2011 movies I saw during 2011. In order from most favorite to least favorite.

1. The Future
2. Beginners
3. Into the Abyss
4. Melancholia
5. The Tree of Life
6. Moneyball
7. Certified Copy
8. The Descendants
9. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
10. X-Men: First Class
11. Bridesmaids
12. Cold Weather
13. Drive
14. 50/50
15. The Ides of March
16. The Skin I Live In
17. Terri
18. Shame
19. Martha Marcy May Marlene
20. Meek's Cutoff
21. Midnight in Paris
22. Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
23. Win Win
24. The Muppets
25. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part Two
26. Tabloid
27. Tucker & Dale vs. Evil
28. Higher Ground
29. Everything Must Go
30. Contagion
31. Crazy, Stupid Love
32. The Adventures of Tintin
33. Rango
34. Another Earth
35. Cars 2
36. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
37. The Green Hornet
38. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
39. Attack the Block
40. Cedar Rapids
41. 30 Minutes or Less


Am I completely satisfied with this list? Not really. But I am sure about certain parts of it. 30 Minutes or Less was absolutely my least favorite movie of the year. And The Future was absolutely my favorite. I’m not sure why Attack the Block is so low. Perhaps it is simply because the list is skewed by me seeing movies that I generally wanted to see. We’ll see...
But I will have future posts explaining reasons for my favorite movies, especially in the one through five range.