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A movie for each year of my life

Movie list created by Lady.Deathcuddle Avatar

As the title says, it is "A movie for each year of my life" ! I have seen a lot of people doing this on youtube, i though it was a funny idea, so I decided to make my own list.
I'm really, really bad at doing reviews so, I have tried a little bit but not a big deal tho, trying to be better at english and mostly the grammar (Hopefully people understand my writing, haha) anyway a lot of the text taglines and trivia writing for each movie is copypaste from IMDB.com Thank you xD
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Runner up:
Batman - Directed by Tim Burton.

1989:
A mermaid princess makes a Faustian bargain with an unscrupulous sea-witch in order to meet a human prince on land.

Fun Fact:
Jim Carrey auditioned for the role of Prince Eric.

Runner up:
Misery - Directed by Rob Reiner.

1990:
A gentle man, with scissors for hands, is brought into a new community after living in isolation.

Fun fact:
The idea for the movie was inspired by a drawing Tim Burton had done when he was a teenager.






Runner up:
Silence of The Lambs - Directed by Jonathan Demme.

1991:
When Captain Hook kidnaps Peter Pans children, an adult Peter Pan must return to Neverland and reclaim his youthful spirit in order to challenge his old enemy.

Fun Fact:
The young Peter Pan is played by Dustin Hoffman's son.



Runner Up:
A League of their own - Directed by Penny Marshall.

1992:
After a simple jewelry heist goes terribly wrong, the surviving criminals begin to suspect that one of them is a police informant.

Fun Fact:
Quentin Tarantino was originally going to play Mr. Pink, although he made a point of letting all the other actors audition for the part. When Steve Buscemi came in to read for it, Tarantino told him that he really wanted the part for himself, and that the only way Buscemi could possibly wrestle it from him was to do a killer audition. Buscemi duly complied.


Runner up:
Jurassic Park - Directed by Steven Spielberg.

1993:
Jack Skellington, king of Halloween Town, discovers Christmas Town, but doesn't quite understand the concept.

Fun Fact:
Some of the presents Jack delivers to the kids are nods to Tim Burton films. The snake looks like a Sandworm from Beetlejuice (1988), and the shrunken head is from the afterlife waiting room in the same film. The Cat and Duck are both featured in Batman Returns(1992) - the Cat as the mascot for Shreck's department store, the duck resembling a vehicle driven by the Penguin.

Runner up:
Dumb and Dumber - Directed by Peter Farrelly.

1994:
Mathilda, a 12-year-old girl, is reluctantly taken in by Léon, a professional assassin, after her family is murdered. Léon and Mathilda form an unusual relationship, as she becomes his protégée and learns the assassin's trade.

Fun Fact:
Natalie Portman's parents were extremely worried about the smoking scenes in the film, and before they allowed Natalie to appear, they worked out a contract with Luc Besson which had strict mandates as regards the depiction of smoking; there could only be five smoking scenes in the film, Portman would never be seen to inhale or exhale smoke, and Mathilda would give up during the course of the film. If one watches the film closely, one can see that all of these mandates were rigidly adhered to; there are precisely five smoking scenes, Portman is never seen inhaling or drawing on a cigarette, nor is she ever seen exhaling smoke, and Mathilda does indeed give up during the course of the film (in the scene outside the Italian restaurant, when Leon asks her to quit smoking, stop cursing, and not hang out with 'that guy. He looks like a weirdo.').


Runner up:
The Usual Suspects - Directed by Brian Singer.

1995:
Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives.

Fun Fact:
Denzel Washington turned down the part that went to Brad Pitt, telling Entertainment Weekly that the film was too "dark and evil." Washington later regretted his decision upon seeing a screening.

Runner up:
Independence Day - Directed by Roland Emmerich.

1996:
A newcomer to a Catholic prep high school falls in with a trio of outcast teenage girls who practice witchcraft, and they all soon conjure up various spells and curses against those who anger them.

Fun Facts:
Actress Fairuza Balk is actually a Wiccan in real life. Balk was also able to help the makers of the movie keep the storyline as realistic as they could, and was able to give them Wicca contacts to help them in areas she couldn't.

Runner up:
Suicide Kings - Directed by Peter O'Fallon.

1997:
Humans in a fascist, militaristic future wage war with giant alien bugs in a satire of modern world politics.

Fun Story:
In a 2016 interview, Casper Van Dien revealed in an interview about an funny incident when he was picking up his two daughters from school, "I went by the line at school to pick up my kids. You know, you drive up to the school and when I get there and there are these six 10 and 8 year old boys hanging out with my daughters. I pull up in the line and the boys go 'Johnny Rico! Why didn't you tell us your dad was Johnny Rico?' And I said 'What are you boys doing watching STARSHIP TROOPERS?' And they said, 'Our dads made us watch it with them!' Then my daughters get in the car and my 10 year old says 'Dad, were you really naked in STARSHIP TROOPERS?' And I said 'Yeah,' and she said 'How could you do that to me?!' Then my 8 year old says 'Wait, like naked naked?' And I said "Yup," and she said 'Oh my God, my life is ruined!' That was the longest three minute ride home I have had in my life."

Runner ups:
Armageddon - Directed by Michael Bay, and Small Soldiers - Directed by Joe Dante.

1998:
Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.

Fun Fact:
Mel Gibson and Harrison Ford were both considered for the role of Capt. John Miller, before Steven Spielberg decided on casting Tom Hanks.


Runner up: Dogma - Directed by Kevin Smith.

1999: Fraternal twins set out to rid Boston of the evil men operating there while being tracked down by an FBI agent.

For people who know me pretty well, this isn't coming as a suprise for them. I have seen this awesome masterpiece plenty of times, and

Fun Fact: Kevin Spacey was the original choice for Paul Smecker, and Mark Wahlberg turned down one of the lead roles in order to star in Boogie Nights.


Runner up:
American Psycho - Directed by Mary Harron.

2000:
The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island people are shattered when their addictions become stronger.

Fun Fact:
Director Darren Aronofsky asked Jared Leto and Marlon Wayans to avoid sex and sugar for a period of 30 days in order to better understand an overwhelming craving.


Runner up:
Thir13en Ghosts - Directed by Steve Beck.

2001:
A troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes, after narrowly escaping a bizarre accident.

Fun Fact:
The scene where Donnie corrects Gretchen was improvised because the actress could not say the name Prof. Kenneth Monnitoff, correctly.


Runner up:
About Schmidt - Directed by Alexander Payne.

2002:
Four weeks after a mysterious, incurable virus spreads throughout the UK, a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary.

Fun Fact:
The hospital in the film is a real day hospital, open only during the week. The trust managers of the hospital hire out the building to filmmakers for weekends, and the productions pay the hospital directly, meaning the money from filming goes directly to the hospital's trust fund.


Runner up:
Big Fish - Directed by Tim Burton.

2003:
Blacksmith Will Turner teams up with eccentric pirate "Captain" Jack Sparrow to save his love, the governor's daughter, from Jack's former pirate allies, who are now undead.

Fun Fact:
HIDDEN MICKEY: The final cannon shot during the Black Pearl's siege of the town, billows into a Mickey Mouse head shape against the night sky.


Runner-up:
The Machinist - Directed by Brad Anderson

2004:
A man's uneventful life is disrupted by the zombie apocalypse.

Fun Fact:
George A. Romero, creator of the films to which this movie pays homage and lampoons, was so impressed with Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright's work that he asked them to cameo in Land of the Dead (2005) as zombies.

Runner up:
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith - Directed by George Lucas.

2005:
John Beckwith and Jeremy Grey, a pair of committed womanizers who sneak into weddings to take advantage of the romantic tinge in the air, find themselves at odds with one another when John meets and falls for Claire Cleary.

Fun Fact:
A real wedding planner was kept onset to make sure the weddings in the movie looked real.


Runner up: The Prestige - Directed by Christopher Nolan.

2006: In the falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.

Fun Fact: Guillermo del Toro gave up his entire salary, including back-end points, to see this film become realized. To this day, he believes it was worth it.

Runner up: Ratatouille - Directed by Brad Bird.

2007: A freak storm unleashes a species of blood-thirsty creatures on a small town, where a small band of citizens hole up in a supermarket and fight for their lives.

Fun Fact: During an action scene in the film, a man runs into a wire rotating-book shelf in the grocery store. If you look carefully, you can clearly see that all the books on the shelf are written by Stephen King.
Runner up: The Dark Knight - Directed by Christopher Nolan.

2008: After being held captive in an Afghan cave, an industrialist creates a unique weaponized suit of armor to fight evil.

Fun Fact: It took around 17 years to get the film into development. Originally, Universal Pictures were to produce the film in April 1990. They later sold the rights to 20th Century Fox. Later, Fox sold the rights to New Line Cinema. Finally, Marvel Studios decided to handle their own creation.


2009: A shy student trying to reach his family in Ohio, a gun-toting tough guy trying to find the last Twinkie, and a pair of sisters trying to get to an amusement park join forces to travel across a zombie-filled America.

Fun Fact: The man that is eaten in the bathroom at the beginning of the film is the same person that Little Rock and Wichita did their ring scam on.

Runner up:
Inception - Directed by Christopher Nolan and Tangled - Directed by - Byron Howard, Nathan Greno.

2010:
A group of students investigates a series of mysterious bear killings, but learns that there are much more dangerous things going on. They start to follow a mysterious hunter, learning that he is actually a troll hunter.

Fun Fact:
The film contains several references to old Scandinavian folklore. For example, the goats on a bridge and a troll under it are a reference to the "Three Billy Goats Gruff". At one point Kalle mentions an eating competition, a reference to the story "Askeladden".

Runner Ups: Drive - Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, and Hanna - Directed by Joe Wright.

2011: Two British comic-book geeks traveling across the U.S. encounter an alien outside Area 51.

Fun Fact: Simon Pegg and Nick Frost made the film to demonstrate their love for Steven Spielberg's sci-fi classics,Close Encounters of the Third Kind(1977) and E. T. (1982). When Spielberg got wind of the project, he happily suggested that he make a cameo appearance of some sort, in this case a voice on a speakerphone.

Runner ups: Prometheus - Directed by Ridley Scott, and ParaNorman - Directed by Chris Butler, Sam Fell.

2012: Five friends go for a break at a remote cabin in the woods, where they get more than they bargained for. Together, they must discover the truth behind the cabin in the woods.

Fun Fact: Among the possible choices on the facility's betting board are the following: Werewolf, Alien Beast, Mutants, Wraiths, Zombies, Reptilius, Clowns, Witches, Sexy Witches, Demons, Hell Lord, Angry Molesting Tree, Giant Snake, Deadites, Mummy, The Bride, The Scarecrow Folk, Snowman, Dragonbat, Vampires, Dismemberment Goblins, Sugarplum Fairy, Merman, The Reanimated, Unicorn, Huron, Sasquatch/Wendigo/Yeti, Dolls, Zombie Redneck Torture Family, The Doctors, Jack O' Lantern, Giant, Twins, and Kevin.

Runner up: Thor: The Dark World - Directed by Alan Taylor.

2013: Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse.

Fun Fact: The real Perron family visited the set of The Conjuring.

Runner ups: Guardians of the Galaxy - Directed by James Gunn, Whiplash - Directed by Damien Chazelle, and Maze Runner - Directed by James Dashner.

2014: Dave Skylark and his producer Aaron Rapoport run the celebrity tabloid show "Skylark Tonight". When they land an interview with a surprise fan, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, they are recruited by the CIA to turn their trip to Pyongyang into an assassination mission.

Fun Fact: A group of political activists in South Korea, reportedly planned to purchase one hundred thousand copies of The Interview (2014) (with Korean subtitles) and drop DVDs and U.S.B. sticks containing the film, with balloons over North Korea. It is illegal to watch this film (and other foreign media, except from China and Vietnam) in North Korea, but a black market exists, and many citizens have private access to DVD players and other media.

Runner ups: Mad Max: Fury Road - Directed by George Miller, and The Hateful Eight - Directed by Quentin Tarantino.

2015: The special bond that develops between plus-sized inflatable robot Baymax, and prodigy Hiro Hamada, who team up with a group of friends to form a band of high-tech heroes.

Fun Fact: Baymax's movement and posing was modeled after studying the movement of baby with a full diaper. (Source: movie extras)

Runner up: Deadpool - Directed by Tim Miller, and Dont Breathe - Directed by Fede Alvarez.

2016: As an Orc horde invades the planet Azeroth using a magic portal, a few human heroes and dissenting Orcs must attempt to stop the true evil behind this war.

Fun Fact: Director Uwe Boll contacted Blizzard about directing the film, but Blizzard refused. As quoted by MTV news Uwe Boll stated: "I got in contact with Paul Sams of Blizzard, and he said, 'We will not sell the movie rights, not to you... especially not to you. Because it's such a big online game success, maybe a bad movie would destroy that ongoing income, what the company has with it."

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Runner up: Get out - Directed by Jordan Peele.

2017: A group of bullied kids band together when a shapeshifting monster, taking the appearance of a clown, begins hunting children.

Fun Fact: Many lines of dialogue were improvised by the actors. Much of the Richie / Eddie banter was improv. Jack Dylan Grazer (Eddie) actually wrote a lot of Finn Wolfhard's (Richie) jokes.

Runner up: A quit place - Directed by: John Krasinski, Avengers: Infinity Wars - Directed by: Anthony Russo and Joe Russo.

2018: When a young boy accidentally triggers the universe's most lethal hunters' return to Earth, only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and a disgruntled scientist can prevent the end of the human race.

Fun Fact: Shane Black wrote Thomas Jane's character Baxley with Tourette's symptoms because Black has Tourette's. Also: Arnold Schwarzenegger turned down the opportunity to return as Dutch.

Runner up:

2019: After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War (2018), the universe is in ruins. With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers assemble once more in order to reverse Thanos' actions and restore balance to the universe.

Fun Fact: Robert Downey Jr. once told Anthony Russo and Joe Russo about how one of his children said "I love you 3000" to him. The directors liked the phrase so much that they decided to include it in the film.

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