Movies of 2012

[mellicious]

I nosed around other people's lists and finally googled for a list of what was released last year, and came up with this. Very possibly we saw some things early in the year that were 2011 releases, but if so I haven't figured out what those are. In no particular order, here are the movies I saw in theaters this past year:

Snow White and the Huntsman
The Hobbit
Skyfall
John Carter
The Avengers
The Secret World Of Arrietty
The Hunger Games
Moonrise Kingdom
Lincoln
Argo
Les Miserables

I'm sure I'm missing a thing or two, but that's pretty close. I work two out of every three weekends, and we generally only go to movies on the 3rd weekend or if there's a holiday or something, so my movie-going opportunities are pretty limited. And these days I, quite frankly, only go see things I'm pretty sure I'm going to enjoy - and I did quite well with that this year; every one of these were quite acceptable as an afternoon's entertainment.

What stood out? that's more difficult. The Avengers as summer blockbuster fodder, certainly. Moonrise Kingdom for whimsy (and not in a bad way). Lincoln as a history lesson. Argo as an utterly different sort of history lesson. Les Miz for getting Americans to go see opera (without ever realizing that that was what they were seeing, in most cases.)

And hmm, if we add a "lightweight class" to summer blockbusters for hugely underrated movies, I would have to stick John Carter in there (even though it actually came out in the spring). Because I enjoyed the hell out of it.