What I Watched in December

So ends another moviegoing year and in total I saw 30 more than the last.  In truth, I wish I could have squeezed in another 40-60 (in theory roughly one more per week).  As a father of a toddler and infant, full-time worker, and juggling other hobbies/interests, it's been an interesting but welcomed challenge to find time to enjoy the cinema.  Due to those restrictions toward the last third of the year I shifted focus more on newer releases and genre fare but in the new year I aim to mix in more independent, classic, and art films.  I'd also like to make more theater visits.  I discovered lots of great films, performances, directors, etc. this year.  If I can I may do some sort of video or article detailing in a bit more depth some of my thoughts on the best (and maybe worst?) of what I saw in 2012.  See you at the multiplex, I'll grab the popcorn, you grab the drinks (just ditch the giant soda for water for me -- that's a New Year's resolution from last year I've stuck to!).

December

1. Piranha 3DD (Gulager, 2012)

2. Savages (Stone, 2012)

3. Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (Neveldine, Taylor, 2011)

4. The Mill and the Cross (Majewski, 2011)

5. The Dark Knight Rises (Nolan, 2012)

6. A Christmas Story 2 (Levant, 2012)

7. Disk Jockey (Yoshioka, 2005)

8. How to Make a Monster (Huang, 2001)

9. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (Bekmambetov, 2012)

10. Black Ice (Brakhage, 1994)

 11. The Expendables 2 (West, 2012)

12. Arthur Christmas (Cook, Smith, 2011)

13. The Dictator (Charles, 2012)

14. Terri (Jacobs, 2011)

15. Tiny Furniture (Dunham, 2010)

16. Creative Nonfiction (Dunham, 2009)

17. Hellraiser: Deader (Bota, 2005)

Total films watched in 2012: 164

What I Watched in Oct. & Nov.

October

1. Yi Yi (Yang, 2000)

2. Boogeyman 3 (Jones, 2008)

3. Aliens (Cameron, 1986)

4. Marvel One-Shot: Item 47 (D'Esposito, 2012)

5. The Cabin in the Woods (Goddard, 2011)

6. Battleship (Berg, 2012)

7. It's Spring Training, Charlie Brown! (Jaimes, 1996)

8. The Godfather (Coppola, 1972)

9. Moonrise Kingdom (Anderson, 2012)

November

1. Katy Perry: Part of Me (Cutforth, Lipsitz, 2012)

2. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1 (Olivia, 2012)

3. The Double Hour (Capotondi, 2009)

4. The Amazing Spider-Man (Webb, 2012)

Total films watched in 2012: 147

What I Watched in September

September

1. The Raid: Redemption (Evans, 2011)

2. Superman vs. The Elite (Chang, 2012)

3. Wanderlust (Wain, 2012)

4. The Broken Tower (Franco, 2011)

5. Lego Star Wars: The Padawan Menace (Scott, 2011)

6. The Hunger Games (Ross, 2012)

7. Enter the Void (Noé, 2009)

8. Killer of Sheep (Burnett, 1979)

9. Horsemen (Åkerlund, 2009)

11. The House of the Devil (West, 2009)

10. The Three Stooges (Farrelly, Farrelly, 2012)

11. WWE: OMG! - The Top 50 Incidents in WWE History (Dunn, 2011)

12. Haywire (Soderbergh, 2011)

13. The Weather Underground (Green, Siegel, 2002)

14. Chronicle (Trank, 2012)

Total films watched in 2012: 134

What I Watched in August

August

1. Silent House (Lau, Kentis, 2011)

2. Casa de mi Padre (Piedmont, 2012)

3. Love Exposure (Sono, 2008)

4. Ghost Rider (Johnson, 2007)

5. The Edge of Heaven (Akin, 2007)

6. Hunger (McQueen, 2008)

7. The Innkeepers (West, 2011)

8. The True Story of WrestleMania (Dunn, 2011)

9. 21 Jump Street (Lord, Miller, 2012)

10. I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer (White, 2006)

11. Randy Orton: The Evolution of a Predator (Dunn, 2011)

12. Return to House on Haunted Hill (García, 2007)

Total films watched in 2012: 120