2011: The Year in Video

This will be a bit of a mix. I'll list television, video, movies, DVD's, film...genre, non-genre, etc. I won't list "news" necessarily, but will list documentary shows.

So what have I viewed in 2011?

The Big Bang Theory: Pilot. The Big Bran Hypothesis. The Fuzzy Boots Corollary.The Luminous Fish Effect. The Hamburger Postulate. The Middle-Earth Paradigm. The Dumpling Paradox. The Grasshopper Experiment. The Cooper-Hofstadter Polarization. The Loobenfeld Decay. The Pancake Batter Anomaly. The Jerusalem Duality. The Bat Jar Conjecture. The nerdvana Annihilation. The Pork Chop Indeterminacy. The Peanut Reaction. The Tangerine Factor. The Bad Fish Paradigm. The Codpiece Topology. The Barbarian Sublimination. The Griffin Equivalency. The Euclid Alternative. The Cooper-Nowitzki Theorem. The Panty Pinata Polarization. The Lizard-Spock Expansion. The White Asparagus Triangulation. The Vartabedian Conundrum. The Bath Item Gift Hypothesis. The Killer Robot Instability. The Friendship Algorithm. The Financial Permeability. The Maternal Capacitance. The Cushion Saturation. The Terminator Decoupling. The Work Song Nanocluster. The Dead Hooker Juxtaposition. The Hofstadter Isotope. The Vegas Renormalization. The Classified Materials Turbulence. The Monopolar Expedition. The Electric Can Opener Fluctuation. The Jiminy Conjecture. The Gothowitz Deviation. The Pirate Solution. The Creepy Candy Coating Corollary. The Cornhusker Vortex. The Guitarist Amplification. The Adhesive Duck Deficiency. The Vengeance Formulation. The Gorilla Experiment. The Maternal Congruence. The Psychic Vortex. The Bozeman Reaction. The Einstein Approximation. The Large Hadron Collision. The Excelsior Acquisition. The Precious Fragmentation. The Pants Alternative. The Wheaton Recurrence. The Spaghetti Catalyst. The Plimpton Stimulation. The Staircase Implementation. The Lunar Excitation. The Robotic Manipulation. The Cruciferious Vegetable Amplification. The Zazzy Substitution. The Hot Troll Deviation. The Desperation Emanation. The Irish Pub Formulation. The Apology Insufficiency. The 21-Second Excitation. The Boyfriend Complexity. The Alien Parasite Hypothesis. The Justice League Recombination. The Bus Pants Utilization. The Love Car Displacement. The Thespian Catalyst. The Benefactor Factor. The Cohabitation Formulation. The Toast Derivation. The Prestidigitation Approximation. The Zarnecki Incursion. The Herb Garden Germination. The Agreement Dissectin. The Wildebeest Implementation. The Engatement Reaction. The Roommate Transmogrification. The Skank Reflex Analysis. The Infestation Hypothesis. The Pulled Groin Extrapolation. The Wiggly Finger Catalyst. The Russian Rocket Reaction. The Rhinitis Revelation. The Good Guy Fluctuation. The Isolation Permutation. The Ornithopobia Diffusion. The Flaming Spottoon Acquisition. The Speckerman Recurrence.

The Deer Hunter: Clocking in at over three hours, this confused, disjointed mess made me ready to hunt up a Russian Roulette game by the time it was done. Sure, it won a ton of awards...but why?

Dr. Who: The First Doctor: William Hartnell (An Unearthly Child; The Daleks; The Edge of Destruction; Marco Polo reconstructed; The Keys to Marinus; The Aztecs; The Dalek Invasion of Earth; The Web Planet).

Dr. Who: The Ninth Doctor: Chrisopher Eccleston (the so-called "first series) (Rose; The End of the World; The Unquiet Dead; Aliens of London; World War III; Dalek; The Long Game; Father's Day; The Empty Child; The Doctor Dances; Boom Town; Bad Wolf; The Parting of the Ways).

Dr. Who: The Tenth Doctor: David Tennant: The Christmas Invasion; New Earth; Tooth and Claw; School Reunion; The Girl in the Fireplace; Rise of the Cybermen; Age of Steel; The Idiot's Lantern). The Impossible Planet. The Satan Pit. Love & Monsters. Fear Her. Army of Ghosts. Doomsday. The Runaway Bride. Smith and Jones. The Shakespeare Code. Gridlock. Daleks in Manhattan. Evolution of the Daleks. The Lazarus Experiment. 42. Human Nature. The Family of Blood. Blink. Utopia. The Sound of Drums. Last of the Time Lords. Voyage of the Damned. Partners in Crime. The Fires of Pompeii. Planet of the Ood. The Sontaran Strategem. The Poison Sky. The Doctor's Daughter. The Unicorn and the Wasp. Silence in the Library. Forest of the Dead. Midnight. Turn Left. The Stolen Earth. Journey's End. The Next Doctor. Planet of the Dead. The Waters of Mars. The End of Time, Part 01. The End of Time, Part 02. (36 episodes viewed a second time through with my daughter.)

Dr. Who: The Eleventh Doctor: Matt Smith: The Eleventh Hour, The Beast Below, Victory of the Daleks, The Time of Angels, Flesh and Stone, The Vampires of Venice, Amy's Choice, The Hungry Earth, Cold Blood, Vincen and the Doctor, The Lodger, The Pandorica Opens, The Big Bang, A Christmas Carol, The Impossible Astronaut, Day of the Moon, The Curse of the Black Spot, The Doctor's Wife, The Rebel Flesh, The Almost People, A Good Man Goes to War, Let's Kill Hitler, Night Terrors, The Girl Who Waited, The God Complex, Closing Time, The Wedding of River Song, The Doctor, The Widow and The Wardrobe (28 episodes).

Eureka: Pilot; Many Happy Returns: Before I Forget; Alienated; Invincible; Dr. Nobel; Blink; Right as Raynes; Primal; Purple Haze; H.O.U.S.E. Rules; Once in a Lifetime; Phoenix Rising; Try, Try Again; Unpredictable; Games People Play; Duck, Duck Goose; Noche de Suenos; Family Reunion; E = MC...?; Sight Unseen; God is in the Details; Maneater; All That Glitters... (Part 01); A Night at Global Dynamics (Part 02); Bad to the Drone; What About Bob?; Best in Faux; I Do Over; Show Me the Mummy; Phased and Confused; Here Comes the Suns; From Fear to Eternity. Welcome Back Carter. Your Face or Mine? Insane in the P-Brane. It's Not Easy Being Green. If You Build It... Ship Happens. Shower the People. You Don't Know Jack. Have an Ice Day. What Goes Around Comes Around. Founder's Day. A New World. All the Rage. The Story of 02. Crossing Over. Momstrosity. Stoned. The Ex-Files. I'll Be Seeing You. O Little Town. Liftoff. Reprise. Glimpse. Up in the Air. Omega Girls. Of Mites and Men. Clash of the Titans. The One Time At Space Camp.... One Small Step. One Giant Leap. Do You See What I See.

Falling Skies: New television series on TBS, executive produced by Steven Spielberg. Tried to get through two episodes, they've managed to make alien invasion and the apocalypse dull.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (and a second time) (and a third time, finally got my wife to watch it as well).

Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts: Two-DVD set of the film and quite a few hours of extras. Fascinating portrait of one of my favorite composers.

Hamburger Hill: Might have been better if the first 30 minutes or so was cut or used as flashbacks. The introduction of various characters is so cliched in parts that I don't get to "know" any of them. When the action picks up, you haven't really connected with anybody, so various deaths and injuries are not as shocking. Maybe fewer characters to focus on would have been better? Coming at the tail-end of Hollywood's "Vietnam revival", this one apparently did not fare as well as previous efforts. I'll probably pass on picking up Charlie Optic (from around the same part of the production sequence).

Heartbreak Ridge: One of Clint Eastwood's directorial efforts. Good portrayal of the rebuilding of a unit. Clint carries the movie.

Letters from Iwo Jima: Another directorial effort by Clint Eastwood. Amazing film, first of a pair.

No Country for Old Men: Great movie, great directing, great acting.

Restrepo: Amazing and devasting documentary. Reality TV? Hah. This is real.

Sherlock (A Study in Pink; The Blind Banker; The Great Game): Modern-day "reboot" of the great detective. Left us hanging on a cliff, and I'm not sure when we'll be back! (Update: Watched them again this weekend, and the news hints we'll see him again in Fall 2011.) (Another viewing!)

Stargate SG-1: Season 01 (Children of the Gods—2 parts; The Enemy Within; Emancipation; The Broca Divide; The First Commandment).

Items viewed (as of December 31, 2011): 320.