Watched At Home | Cinema Parrot Disco

Here’s my penultimate 2018 Top Ten List (I just wanted to use the word “penultimate”). This is the list I enjoy doing the most each year since I tend to watch more interesting stuff at home than whatever happens to get released in cinemas. I saw some great films at home this year (I love the Top Five). But I also watched WAY too much shit. I especially seem to watch way too many shitty horror films. I think I just keep hoping that one will actually be good but 90% of modern horror sucks so I don’t know why I keep trying. I’m going to try watching more worthy stuff this year!

As I watched so many films in 2018, I’ll make this a Top 30. Any not in the Top 30 were all pretty rubbish anyway. If you desperately want to see the full list of the 150ish (yikes!) movies that I watched in 2018, the full ranked list is HERE.

Here are My Top Ten Movies Watched At Home In 2018 (counting down from 30 but thanks to a tie it’s actually 31. God I’m annoying…)

Top Thirty

30. Elle – 6.5/10
29. Gleaming The Cube – 6.5/10
28. Hidden Figures – 7/10
27. The King’s Speech – 7/10
26. The Seven Year Itch – 7/10
25. Mudbound – 7/10
24. Personal Shopper – 7/10
23. Thief – 7/10
22. What If (aka The F Word) – 7/10
21. Timecrimes – 7/10

Top Twenty

20. Journey To Agartha (aka Children Who Chase Lost Voices) – 7/10
19. Charade – 7/10
18. The Light Between Oceans – 7.5/10
17. Good Time – 7/10
16. The Florida Project – 7/10
15. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes – 7.5/10
14. The Rose – 7.5/10
13. Citizen Kane – 7.5/10
12. Brigsby Bear – 7.5/10
11. The Theory Of Everything – 8/10

Top Ten

10. Fist Of Fury – 7.5/10

9. TIE: The Garden Of Words – 7.5/10 & 5 Centimetres Per Second – 7.5/10

8. The Handmaiden – 7.5/10

7. War For The Planet Of The Apes – 8/10

6. Colossal – 8/10

5. Mary And The Witch’s Flower – 7.5/10

4. Interstella 5555: The 5tory Of The 5ecret 5tar 5ystem – 7.5/10

3. Metropolis – 8.5/10

2. Splendor In The Grass – 8.5/10

1. Enter The Dragon – 8.5/10

See you tomorrow with my final Top Ten Of 2018: My Top Ten 2018 Movie Releases (based on UK release dates).

I’ll be posting a list of My Top Ten 2015 Movies (by UK release date) tomorrow but, as always, I also like to do a list of my favorite older films that I watched at home for the first time in the past year. I watch more movies at home in a year than I do in the cinema so it seems silly to ignore them as there are often some great ones that I’ve just seen for the first time.

I keep a full (sadly ranked!) list of what I watch throughout the year HERE and see that I watched 73 films at home in 2015. Yikes! That seems excessive. Well, I’ll admit that I don’t pay attention to half of them as they’re playing in the background while I do other stuff (especially those really shitty movies I’ve ranked at the very bottom of the list of 73). But I loved some of them so I’d like to highlight not just ten but the top fifteen. You should all know by now that I can’t ever make a top ten list only containing ten things! 😉 But I did manage no ties…

So here are My Top Ten Movies Watched At Home In 2015 counting down to my very favorite (including the next five as honorable mentions). I’m proud that I’ve managed to review the full Top Ten other than my number one. Hmm… I really should say something about that one!

Honorable Mentions:

15. Miracle Mile
14. The Taking Of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
13. The Unbelievable Truth
12. Waxwork
11. Ladies And Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains

Top Ten:

10. eXistenZ

9. Melancholia

8. Short Term 12

7. Dredd

6. We Are The Best!

5. Road House

4. Escape From Alcatraz

3. The Last Unicorn

2. Grave Of The Fireflies

1. Escape From New York

I wanted to keep this list simple so I’ve said nothing about any of these movies. But feel free to discuss them with me in the comments! 🙂 I’ll say it was pretty easy deciding the order for these but I did have a hard time deciding which movie to put at number one for tomorrow’s list. Number one & two were so close! But I still managed no ties for tomorrow.