2013 Movies

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I kept a list of movies I'd seen for part of the year, and then I went through tweets a couple of weeks ago looking for references to going to movies, to find the ones that hadn't made it onto the list. So this is probably a reasonably complete list. I don't go to a whole lot of movies these days - we used to go almost every weekend, back when we lived in Galveston - mostly because I work two out of three weekends a lot of the time, but also because I have gotten pickier, I think. I won't go to a movie unless I'm fairly sure it's something I'm going to like. Rotten Tomatoes has spoiled me in a way - I don't only go to movies that get very high ratings, but if I go to one that got a lower rating, at least I know to have lower expectations! (And a lot of the time that really helps, I find.)

Rob goes to a lot more movies than I do, mostly on the weekends that I'm working, but only a few of those are movies that I would have seen, anyway, because he likes horror movies and I won't go to most of those. Luckily he's willing to go to those without me.

So here's everything I could come up with that I saw in a theater last year:
Django Unchained (on New Year's Day)

The Impossible

Zero Dark Thirty

Silver Linings Playbook

Star Trek: Into Darkness

Iron Man 3

Pacific Rim

Elysium

Rush

Thor: The Dark World

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (on Thanksgiving Day)

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

American Hustle

Most of these were really very good movies (particularly The Impossible, Zero Dark Thirty, American Hustle, and surprisingly to me, Iron Man 3) but I have to say that probably my very favorite was really Pacific Rim. Because I am a geek at heart.

(Rush was also quite good, and it's a movie nobody much saw, I think. I am not much into car racing, so when I tell you that I enjoyed this, it wasn't just because I liked watching the cars go fast. Although admittedly I have a bit of a thing for Hemsworth-the-Elder, so that helped.)

ADDED: this entry from earlier in the month has some notes about a couple of these movies.