I'm lumping together the two "actually good" categories of movies I saw in the theater because, really, after posting about the so-bad-they're-brilliant movies, I've just lost a lot of the oomph to keep going. So here we are, two weeks into 2012, finishing off my remembrances of 2011.

2011's Actually Good Movies

( Lots of discursion, needs a cut. )

At last! I come to the list of movies that were so bad they were AWESOME. Included in this list is one that was slightly less shitmazing (TM glvalentine) but that was no less a fun outing with awesome people who took the mickey out of it SO HARD to make up for it. That's what you get when you try to rewrite Greek history around a bunch of people who were ( Read more... )

I wanted to get to the So-Bad-It's-Brilliant category right away, but I have to stop first and pay respects to the other milestone on the way to the better movies.

( Better than they had any right to be. (No, really!) )

Having been on an emotional rollercoaster today, I remain now kind of wrung-out and vaguely indifferent to my own existence. It seems a perfect time to continue on with my roster of movies seen in the theaters in 2011, especially this particular genre.

Disappointing, Unaffecting, and Other Movies That Were (and Weren't Anything Else)

( This may be the category with the most entries, come to think of it. )

New Year's Resolutions are kind of the bane of my existence. Looking back at what I've previously resolved, I see so much that I've not done. I resolved three years ago to finish the cross-stitch for my sister's wedding. (It is now going on seven years late!) I have resolved, every year since I went, to make a scrapbook of my time in Australia. I ( Read more... )

( Just some stuff I've been doing. )

I'm at work, but my brain is on vacation and has been for hours. So to kill time, after I realized that my movie resolution is in peril of failing after August because I haven't added any movies to it, I went to the IMDB to see updated release dates for movies (and to check if some movies I've been looking for have gotten release dates yet).

At the ( Read more... )

I shit thee not, friends, I'm looking forward to the next few weeks. Yeah, I have to spend (according to my own rules) at least an hour a day (three on weekend days) on studying for my upcoming GRE (four weeks away! aaaaaaH!!!!), but I'm going to see SO MANY movies in the upcoming weeks. I'm driven to the point of distraction over it, even.

I really ( Read more... )

I saw three movies in the theater this weekend, and they run the gamut between good, bad, and oh-my-God-this-is-for-real-awesome. They would be Source Code, Sucker Punch, and Unknown, respectively. All you need to know about Unknown is that it's a thriller about conspiracies surrounding an assassination, and Liam Neeson is in it. It's truly fun in ( Read more... )

As part of my on-going resolution to see a movie-a-week in the theater, I went to see I Am Number Four at a matinee yesterday morning. I'm glad I went to a matinee as this movie really is only about $6 worth of movie. That's not to say it's terrible, just that it's extremely average and does nothing whatsoever that's really clever or new. The plot ( Read more... )