A Life in Movies Blogathon

Last year, you may remember Fandango Groovers Movie Blog did a Desert Island DVD Blogathon, and I participated! Well, they're back with another Blogathon, A Life In Movies.

Following the unexpected popularity of the Desert Island DVDs blogathon I organized last year I am inviting fellow bloggers to tell us what their favourite* movies are from each year of their life so far.  You can put as much or as little effort into you list as you wish. It could just be a list of movies, you may with to add a sentence or two about the movies or what they mean to you, you can brighten it up with images, posters or trailers. The choice is yours.

 Well, hells bells, that sounds fun. Fun enough for me to take some time out from blatant self promotion and join in!

So, I was born in 1980, and haven't seen a single movie that came out in 2011 so far. So, that establishes our range. So...lets start:

	Year	Title	Comments
	Welcome to the 80's!
	1980	The Empire Strikes Back	Like I would put something ELSE in here!
	1981	Raiders of the Lost Ark	Tough one. I love Clash of the Titans and History of the World, Part 1...but I love Raiders just a little bit more!
	1982	Blade Runner	Another tough one because The Thing was great, but Blade Runner has just had too big an impact on me.
	1983	Return of the Jedi	Jedi. Done.
	1984	Temple of Doom	Real tough one here. This is the first year where I start remembering seeing a lot of different movies. I'm giving the nod to Indy because it's one I still love to watch.
	1985	Return of the Living Dead	Re-Animator is a close 2nd.
	1986	Big Trouble in Little China	Shut up, Mr. Burton! You were not brought upon this world to get it!
	1987	Evil Dead II	Jaws 4 is, and I'm not kidding, a very close 2nd.
	1988	Young Guns	Did you see the size of that chicken?
	1989	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade	It's my favorite of the three in fact.
	Onward to the 90's!
	1990	Back to the Future: Part III	I might be the only person you know who says that this is their favorite of the 3.
	1991	T2	Of course.
	1992	Encino Man	It's Pauly Shore's best work and you know it.
	1993	Jurassic Park	I don't even know what else came out this year.
	1994	Clerks	Just for the sheer impact it had on me.
	1995	Johnny Mnemonic	What? We all know I love this movie. And while some amazing movies came out this year, if you put all of them on DVD in front of me, I would end up watching Johnny Mnemonic. I know I would!
	1996	Star Trek: First Contact/Trainspotting	It's a tie. One is my favorite Star Trek movie, the other my favorite Danny Boyle movie.

	1997	Grosse Pointe Blank	This just as easily could have been Event Horizon or The Fifth Element or Cube or The Game. In fact, if I swapped GPB out for any of those others, I would be just as comfortable/conflicted with my choice.
	1998	Zero Effect	I really had to fight not to say Armageddon, as bad as it is, I really do like it.
	1999	Godzilla 2000	This was the Godzilla movie that really got me into the series. For that reason, it barely beats out The Matrix.
	Into a new century
	2000	Snatch	Though Battle Royale would have been just as acceptable.
	2001	Session 9	While it could have (and probably SHOULD have) been something else, I really do love this movie.
	2002	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	This is one of my favorite movies of ANY year.
	2003	Oldboy	This would have been my first exposure to Korean movies
	2004	Shaun of the Dead	I hate not having Kung Fu Hustle here, but I can't
	2005	Serenity	It was almost Land of the Dead
	2006	Pan's Labyrinth	I really REALLY wanted to put Slither here.
	2007	Hot Fuzz	Nothing else even comes close.
	2008	Let the Right One In	Hellboy 2 was here until I remembered that this one came out in 08 and I saw it in SLC.
	2009	The Brothers Bloom	Once again, it's just a movie that I love, regardless of year. Nothing else from 09 was going to come close.
	The twenty...teens?
	2010	True Grit	I really didn't see many movies in 2010. I did see this, and enjoy it. Centurion would have been another good choice.
	2011	Dead Woods	Ok, so it's the movie I was in. I know I said I'd get away from self promotion for the day...I lied. Oh well. http://www.deadwoodsmovie.com

* I was about to correct the spelling of favorite, but then it occurred to me that it must be a British site, and I will respect that particular cultural difference.

Want a FREE copy of Dead Woods?

If you've been reading here (which if you're reading this, I'm just going to assuming...), or following me, or the blog, on Twitter, you may have heard that I was in a movie last year called Dead Woods. Well, that movie is finished, printed and ON SALE NOW.

That's not what I'm here about today though. I was very involved in this movie. I just can't be objective about it. I need someone who can be. So, I'm going to give away a copy of the movie*. That's right, I have a copy of Dead Woods that I want to mail to someone. So what do you need to do? Well, there's two things, 1) Have a movie blog and 2) send me a link to it before 11:59 on May 15t!. You can comment on this post, or you can send me and email at dreamrot @ 7dollarpopcorn.com! That's it! I'll pick a winner at random and
mail off a copy of the movie! It's a pretty simple little contest!

That's right. The copy I hold in my hand there could be YOURS!

*Right now, I only have one copy to give away, but if there are enough people who message me about it, I might try to get a couple more.