2017 Movies!

As a movie buff, I like to track every movie that I have watched and make a note of them, I even rank them on flickchart, (if you use that website or trakt then let me know!)

So here is my roundup of every film I have watched in 2017 (I will also include shorts.)

Pink are films I have watched for the first time, and purple will be films i have seen before.

Moana

Ballerina

Split

The Peanuts Movie

Sing

The Other Side of the Door

Interview with the Vampire

The Lego Batman Movie

The Hunger Games

Hairspray (1988)

Little Hiawatha

Brave Little Tailor

A Simple Wish

Baby Geniuses

Cell

The Culling

A Killer Among Us

How to Steal a Million

Emelie

Every Secret Thing

Trolls

Little Mermaid 2

St Trinians

College Road Trip

Pantry Pirate

Pay the Ghost

Final Girl

The Tall Man

The Biscuit Eater

Kong: Skull Island

Fun & Fancy Free

Saludos Amigos

Britney Ever After

The Watcher in the Woods

Flowers in the Attic

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Walt Before Mickey

Beauty and the Beast

The Great Gilly Hopkins

Teen Beach 2

Hans Christian Anderson: My Life as a Fairy Tale

Tangled

Down with Love

Night of the Hell Hamsters

The Messengers

Footloose

Power Rangers

Nerve

Rosemary's Baby

Jack

Tangled: Before Ever After

Don't Breathe

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

The Little Rascals

Robot Overlords

Walking on Sunshine

The Reef

After the Wizard

The Legend of Longwood

Stay Tuned

Old Dogs

Minority Report

The Jungle Book (1963)

My Girl 2

An American Haunting

Hook

Babs

A Dog's Purpose

10 Cloverfield Lane

Raising Helen

Let's be Evil

The Conjuring 2

All Hallow's Eve

Miracles from Heaven

Black Swan

Anastasia

War of the Worlds

Priscilla Queen of the Desert

Victor Frankenstein

The Haunting in Connecticut

The Haunting in Connecticut 2

Suicide Squad

The Stepford Wives

Accused at 17

My Girl

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

What Lies Beneath

The Possession

Clown

Patch Adams

The Amityville Horror (1979)

Atlantis: The Lost Empire

Eloise

Dirty Dancing (2017)

The Adventures of Huck Finn

Lost & Found

Burning Bright

The Mummy (2017)

The Boy

Twilight: New Moon

Back to the Future 2

Haunter

Life on the Line

Hercules

Pocahontas

Mamma Mia

Scooby Doo

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Magic Beyond Worlds: J K Rowling Story

The Silence of the Lambs

Despicable Me 3

Taking Flight

The Cat in the Hat

Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)

Pet

Slumlord

The Girl With All the Gifts

Sausage Party

Spider-man : Homecoming

Evil Dead

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

The Wise Little Hen

Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty

French Roast

The Pied Piper

First Kid

In Search of Dr Seuss

The China Plate

June

The Shallows

The Amityville Horror (2005)

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Too Many Crooks

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

In a Heatbeat

Stubble Trouble

Head Over Heels

Ghost

Carrie (2013)

Brewster's Millions

Singin' in the Rain

Beneath the Darkness

Ice Princess

Annabelle: Creation

The Quiet Ones

Sleepy Hollow

28 Days Later

Return to Nim's Island

Joshua

Dark House

Ouija: Origin of Evil

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

When a Stranger Calls

Pleasantville

Raiders of the Lost Ark

As Dreamers Do

Nightwatch

Fun Size

The Box

High School Musical

Practical Magic

It (2017)

Dead Silence

Just Like Heaven

Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin

Who Killed Cock Robin?

Kit Kittredge: An American Girl 

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Return to Oz

Goodbye Christopher Robin

The Uninvited

Hide and Seek

Pixels

Cooties

The Emoji Movie

The Matrix

The Mist

Big Fat Liar 

After.Life

Haunt

A November Christmas

Ice Sculpture Christmas

A Heavenly Christmas

Happy Death Day

Christmas on Chestnut Street

Make Mine Music

Fun in Acapulco

I'm Not Ready for Christmas

The Christmas Parade

Wreck-it Ralph

A Muppet Family Christmas

Carry on Regardless

Blue Hawaii

Murder on the Orient Express (2017)

Finding Mrs Claus

What We Did on our Holiday

Insidious

Insidious 2

My One Christmas Wish

The Three Gifts

Christmas with the Andersons

Paddington 2

Rings

Scrooge (1970)

Countdown to Christmas

One Magic Christmas

A Cinderella Christmas

Carry On Again Doctor

The Adventures of Pinocchio

Eloise at Christmastime

Olaf's Frozen Adventure

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

Louis & Luca and the Snow Machine

Wihin

All I Want for Christmas

Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause

A Christmas Carol (2009)

Prancer

A Journey Back to Christmas

Holiday Inn

Frozen

Jingle All the Way

Oliver!

The Greatest Showman

Everything, Everything

Arachnophobia

Bedknobs and Broomsticks

Hook

The Harvest

Maggie

As you can see I have mostly watched new movies this year, which was one of my resolutions last year. I hope to keep up the good work in 2018. If you have any recommendations for me based on the films I have watched, please comment and let me know.

DISNEYLAND PARIS V.I.P TRIP!

DISNEYLAND PARIS V.I.P TRIP!

Well for those of you who don't know, I won a V.I.P trip to Disneyland Paris with AttractionTix!!!

The moment I saw the post on their facebook page saying that you could win this trip I knew I had to put effort into attempting to win such an amazing prize.

The brief was to film a video with only 2 main components. Firstly, you had to say which Disney character was your favourite as a child and why. And then secondly, you had to do an impression of that character.

When I was around the age of 3, Snow White was my favourite character. She was the Princess I aspired to be and would re-watch the film over and over and over again. So she was the character I chose for the video. I brainstormed a few ideas on a Microsoft Word document. My first option was to make up a song (which I had done previously for a different competition to win a trip to Disneyland which unfortunately I didn't win!) I started trying to come up with some lyrics, but soon scrapped this idea. Then all of a sudden I had a brainwave, I was going to show how I was the complete opposite of Snow White and why I want to be like her, then I would magically transform into her and be able to do all the things I couldn't. I knew I wanted it to be humorous, as I thought this would stand out. 

I watched the film for the 100000th time and read her wikipedia bio. I wrote down 4 themes on paper.

1. Baking

2. Talks to animals

3. Cleaning

4. Likes apples

This was all I needed to come up with my final idea. I will leave the video below so you can see precisely what I am talking about.

Click Here to see my Competition Entry!

I waited anxiously all day during the day it was being announced. I had found a couple of other entries on YouTube and comping groups and was sure I hadn't won, even though I was actually really proud of my entry. About 7pm I gave up staring at the Facebook page and refreshed it to go to my timeline. When all of a sudden I spotted my video at the top of my timeline! I literally screamed!!! I was shaking, couldn't believe I'd managed it!

Okay so enough of all that, here is the really exciting bit! The prize details....

Firstly, Lucy, Pete and Disneyland newbie Meryn are coming on the trip with me, and I could not be happier!

We are travelling down on the Eurostar, which means that we get to spend a day eitherside in London too!

We are staying in the Newport Bay Hotel for 2 nights, which I am really excited about because I stayed there as a child and loved it!

We have the Disney Express Luggage Service added to the package which is great as I suffer from CFS and dragging luggage is the hardest part of a trip for me.

We also have the Full Board Plus meal plan which is truly amazing! We had a meal plan for my birthday trip in June and we adored it. This time we are going to try Bistrot Chez Remy which is somewhere I've always wanted to try!

As well as this, we have Plaza Gardens for a character dining Breakfast and Buffalo Bill's on our first night!

We have V.I.P Fastpasses for our trip and V.I.P Parade and Firework Viewing! Which is truly magical! I can't wait to see Illuminations close up.

Me and Lucy are going to be going on a V.I.P guided tour which has been a dream of mine since I first went to a Disney park, I love learning facts about the parks (although I probably already know them all!)

And lastly, there is apparantly going to be a Disney surprise in the room when we arrive!

I am literally freaking out about how amazing this prize is! We leave for London on the 13th of November, we're in Disneyland the 14th - 16th and then have the 17th in London again! If you're going to be in the parks let me know so we can say hi!

A-Z of Characters - The Letters X, Y & Z!

X,Y OR Z is for...

Absolutely nobody! I thought I'd stick the last 3 letters together as I haven't met anyone beginning with any of these letters!

A-Z of Character - The Letter W!

W is for...

Winnie the Pooh is one of my favourite characters to meet, he is so cuddly and just overall so cute!

Wreck-it Ralph, as said in an earlier post, he met in Hollywood Studios with Vanellope!

Woody Woodpecker was spotted randomly both times I have met him in Universal Studios & Islands of Adventure!

A-Z of Characters - The Letter V!

V is for...

Vanellope Von Schweetz met with her buddy Wreck-it Ralph in Hollywood Studios Art of Animation before it closed down!

A-Z of Characters - The Letter U!

U is for...

I haven't met any characters beginning with U.

A-Z of Characters - The Letter T!

T is for...

I had never met Tarzan until 2016. I asked a cast member where to find him in Animal Kingdom and they pointed us in the right direction.

I have met Tigger on a few occasions so I am going to try and pull as many photos as I can find into this blog post!

Tinkerbell was really sweet. She got mad when she saw Wendy on my shirt until I pointed out that Tinkerbell was pulling her hair on the shirt! Then we discussed who could pull the funniest face!

I have met the Tweedles a few times over the years too, they are always really funny!!

A-Z of Character - The Letter S!

S is for...

Scrooge McDuck, this one was my friend Pete's main choice to meet at the Very Merry Christmas Party. Scrooge was really funny and was trying to steal peanuts from the set behind him! He met with his nephew Donald!

Sadness isn't one of my favourite movie characters, but as a character to meet she was amazing! She knocked my friend Lucy's ears off whilst hugging her and instantly slumped to the floor in...well...sadness! We had to pick her up and we tried to cheer her up by spinning happily with Joy!

The Sheriff of Nottingham was hilarious in Disneyland Paris. I was sat on a bench having a rest and him and a few other characters popped out of the gate and started messing around. He was chasing me around the area and getting right up in my face while I took photos!

Snow White I managed to meet in Disneyland Paris when I was 3. She was in the Disneyland Hotel as we were wandering through and at the time she was my favourite character!!

Sleepy and the rest of the dwarves were out in a very rare moment in Disneyland Paris when I was 3 and I was in awe!! 

I met Stitch in Magic Kingdom randomly when I was visiting with Lucy in 2014! He's always a fun character to meet!

Sulley was with his buddy Mike in Hollywood Studios in 2014!

Shaggy and Scooby Doo can go together as I have only ever met them as a pair!

A-Z of Characters - The Letter R!

R is for...

Rafiki, I really wanted to meet Rafiki as he looked like a fun character to meet! I got to meet him in Animal Kingdom aged 6 and again in 2016!

Rapunzel is one of my favourite Disney Characters and I have definitely wanted to meet her (I also wanted some tips on how to be more Rapunzel like!) I got to meet her twice in 2016, once with Flynn and once on her own. Both times we talked about Flynn's smoulder!

Robin Hood was a proper gentleman, at aged 6 he kissed my hand & gestured to say I looked pretty! 

Russell was really funny in Animal Kingdom, he was posing like a superstar!

A-Z of Characters - The Letter Q!

Q is for....

Nobody :( as I haven't met any characters beginning with Q. I saw the Queen of Hearts from a distance when I was 3 but was too scared to go near her!

A-Z of Characters - The Letter P!

P is for...

Pluto is the first character I think of beginning with P, he's also one of my favourites to meet. I've met him in Paris and Florida! He's so funny!

Piglet is another of my absolute favourite characters to meet. He had a straw fight with my friend Pete at Crystal Palace and it was hilarious!

Philoctetes is a very rare character that I met, he's from Hercules! He was randomly located in Hollywood Studios one day in 1998.

Pinocchio is another character that I would like to meet again, I met him once in Paris with Geppetto and he was really cute.

Pocahontas was someone I'd never met until Florida 2016 when Becca said she was her favourite character.

Prince Charming was very charming at 1900 Park Fare, he took my arm and said I looked lovely.

A-Z of Characters - The Letter O!

O is for...

Olaf! The lovable snowman from Frozen who meets in Hollywood Studios in a sunscreen scented room! He was so much fun, even though he accidentally stuck his nose in my friend Becca's ear!

A-Z of Characters - The Letter N!

N is for...

Naveen was meeting with Tiana during the Christmas Party. It was a nice surprise!

A-Z Of Characters - The Letter M!

M is for....

How can I not start with the main man himself: MICKEY MOUSE!! I have probably met Mickey more than any other character, from the age of 3 right up to present day!

Minnie Mouse has been one of my favourite characters since I first went to Disneyland Paris!!! I always love to meet her, she is just so darn cute!

Mary Poppins was another character I've always wanted to meet. I adore the musical and love her as a character. I got to meet her twice in 2016 in WDW, once at 1900 Park Fare breakfast and then again in Magic Kingdom on the Hub Grass. She was lovely, talked to us about how to be prim and proper.

The Mad Hatter was also at 1900 Park Fare for breakfast and he was definitely one of the characters I was determined to find. He was HILARIOUS! We told him we were headed to the Animal Kingdom and he called us a bunch of WILD PARTY ANIMALS! And then we all took a silly selfie!

Mike Wazowski used to meet in Hollywood Studios with his best buddy Sully. They don't anymore I believe. I found it a very awkward meet and greet though as Mike could barely move, bless him! 

Mulan we managed to meet by accident in the China Pavilion in Epcot last year. We just wandered in and there was a queue to meet her. I'm not a huge Mulan fan but I loved her, she taught us how to do a strong pose to defeat the hun!

We definitely weren't getting away without meeting Marilyn Monroe in Universal Studios! My friend Clinton is a huge Marilyn fan and we tried to meet her a few days in a row. We finally watched her show and the boys got to participate, then we queued up to meet her and her backup dancers. I really like the photo!

Minions! I know they have names but I can not figure out which ones I have met so let's just call them the Minions! I have met them twice now, they are outside the Despicable Me Ride in Universal Studios. They are very cute.