I’ve only seen 55 movies this year (theater visits, not individual movies). Better step it up over the next six months!
January (10): Young Adult, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, Joyful Noise, The Iron Lady, Haywire, Underworld: Awakening (3D), Haywire, One for the Money, The Iron Lady
February (8): New Year’s Eve, Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, This Means War, The Woman in Black, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (3D), Thin Ice, Wanderlust, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (3D)
March (9): Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (3D), Gone, Gone, 21 Jump Street, A Thousand Words, John Carter (3D), Seeking Justice, Jeff Who Lives at Home, Mirror Mirror
April (5): Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, Lockout, Cabin in the Woods, Coriolanus, Safe
May (13): A Five-Year Engagement, Safe, The Avengers, Dark Shadows, Damsels in Distress, The Avengers, Battleship, Girl in Progress, Dark Shadows, Men in Black 3, Wrath of the Titans, Battleship, Lockout
June (10): Snow White and the Huntsman, Chernobyl Diaries, The Avengers, Prometheus, Prometheus (3D), Prometheus, Moonrise Kingdom, Men in Black 3, Brave, People Like Us
Top Five of 2012 (so far): Haywire, Prometheus, Coriolanus, Gone, Damsels in Distress
Best Summer Movies (so far): Prometheus, Dark Shadows, Men in Black 3, The Avengers, Battleship
Mom’s Top Five of 2012: The Avengers, John Carter, Battleship, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, Safe and Lockout (tie)
Dad’s Top Five of 2012: The Avengers, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, Men in Black 3, Dark Shadows, Prometheus and Seeking Justice (tie)
Worst Movie of 2012: The Woman in Black. I get what they were going for, but (a) Daniel Radcliffe has Elijah Wood Syndrome and will always be 12 years old; (b) 90 minutes of Radcliffe sorting papers and looking scared is not, in the classic sense, “interesting.” Add a pointlessly downbeat ending, et voila, the least enjoyable 90 minutes I’ve spent in a movie theater this year. (They’re making a sequel, naturally.)
eating junk, watching rubbish 