* According to IMDb Voters

What started out as my version of Blindspot (before someone else coined and popularised the term), I nowadays use as a secondary set of twelve films to watch in a year. Whereas Blindspot is focused on some version of quality and/or popularity, WDYMYHS (for short) has some kind of theme.

This year, I was rather coming up short for what that should be. Via some series of connections or other, I ended up at iCheckMovies, which, for those who don’t know it, was sort of like Letterboxd before Letterboxd came along and did a similar thing but better. iCM is still going, for whatever that’s worth, and I still look at it from time to time to see how I’m progressing on various lists. That’s where the inspiration for this year’s grab bag-type WDYMYHS selection came from: a few of my favourite IMDb genre lists that I haven’t yet completed. When combined, the number of films I haven’t seen on the lists for Sci-fi, Action, Adventure, Mystery, and Thriller (which is the order I looked at them in) comes out at exactly… eleven. But one of those is a two-part film that everyone else lists as two films, which brings us to exactly the number I need for WDYMYHS.

I’m happy to admit it’s not my best theme ever, but it’ll do.

So, in alphabetical order, this year’s films are…

	The Cremator
Dersu Uzala
	Gangs of Wasseypur Part 1
Gangs of Wasseypur Part 2
	The Great Escape
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
	The Handmaiden
Infernal Affairs
	PK
A Wednesday!
	White Heat
Woman in the Dunes

A couple of motes of trivia to end on. Both The Great Escape and The Handmaiden were possible films for WDYMYHS 2024, also thanks to IMDb user-voted lists (I was aiming to finish the Top 250, which meant I had 19 films for the 12 slots. I didn’t finish the Top 250, but I did watch 12 films — not including those two, obviously).

There’s also a WDYMYHS repeat in this year’s Blindspot selection: The Royal Tenenbaums was supposed to be watched in 2019, but I fell short that year. There were quite a few films I failed to watch from that set (I listed them in 2020’s Blindspot post), but this is the only one still outstanding. Hopefully, I won’t say the same in 2027…