Alita and Deadpool and a lot of horror movies I didn't see

[mellicious]

I was leafing through my planner earlier, and I discovered that the list of movies that I've been adding to all year is missing a movie. Actually I thought briefly that it was missing two, but then I decided that no, it was only one.

Movies seen at a theater in 2019:

1. Bumblebee

2. Into the Spider-verse (our second time)

3. Lego Movie 2

4. Alita: Battle Angel

5. Captain Marvel (three times)

6. Shazam!
7. Avengers: Endgame (four times)
8. Field of Dreams (30th anniversary)
9. Spiderman: Far From Home
10. Ad Astra
11. Ghostbusters (35th anniversary)
12. Zombieland: Double Tap
13. Terminator: Dark Fate
14. Ford vs.Ferrari
15. Knives Out

So the missing movie is Alita: Battle Angel. I think I liked Captain Marvel so much that I just forgot about poor Alita when I went to talk about movies after that. But it actually is a decent movie. It has lovely animation and the story was interesting, if apparently somewhat forgettable. I really don't think it deserved to be ignored as roundly as it was.

The movie I thought was missing but really wasn't was Once Upon a Deadpool, because we did see it, we just didn't see it in a theater. It was in the planner with a time like we actually went, and I knew I had seen it. What I think happened was that we were going to go, and we got there and the theater was incredibly crowded and we just turned around and left and went to dinner, or something. And then we figured out (or maybe we already knew) that Once Upon a Deadpool was available online by that time anyway. (If you don't know, Once Upon a Deadpool is just a PG cut of Deadpool 2 with a funny wrap-around starring Fred Savage - it's a Princess Bride send-up, see. It's cute if those things are in your wheelhouse, but it's not really a must-see.) So we just rented it the next day and watched it at home instead.


While I was writing down a list of movies (and also of TV and books that I'll hopefully get around to talking about later), I also made a list of what Rob went to see without me, because apparently I started writing that down too, at some point. I'm sure I've explained this numerous times: we've always done this, because he likes horror movies and I don't. And especially this year because of my health issues (something I've avoided talking so far this Holidailies but I'll probably get around to eventually) I've sent Rob off to the movies without me a whole lot. So I thought somebody might be interested in seeing the list I came up with. If not, just stop here!

(in chronological order, and I won't swear I'm spelling all these right)

• Escape Room
• Vice
• Glass
• The Prodigy
• Us
• Hotel Mumbai
• Pet Sematery
• The Curse of La Llorona
• Ma
• Midsommar (twice)
• Crawl
• Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark
• Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
• It Chapter 2 (twice)
• Rambo (Last Blood, I think?)
• The Lighthouse
• Doctor Sleep

It's very possible I'm missing a couple - I just did bullet points instead of numbering but I'm pretty sure that list is already longer than the one above it. You can see that many of these are horror movies but not all. Some of those I just wasn't in the mood to go see, and some of them are because I wasn't feeling good at the time - sometimes a little of both. Luckily he doesn't mind going by himself. Some of the ones I skipped, I will probably watch eventually - pretty definitely with Once Upon a Time... maybe even Midsommar, although I'm still not really sure about that one.

Oh, and I showed him the list and he said that easily the worst of those movies was the new version of Pet Sematery.

Comments

[bunny42]

Merry Christmas! I was wondering about how your health issues were coming along. I hope you're pretty much past it all now. We're coming up on a new year. Things need to be better.

Wishing you well!
Bunny

[mellicious]

Hi Bunny! Me and my health issues are fine (knock on wood). I'm definitely hoping for better things in 2020.

[bunny42]

Okay, so this needs a different name from Holidailies, right? 8-D Maybe Holiweeklies? That takes some of the pressure off.

The Star Wars movie sounds like a fun thing to do for Christmas, but maybe everybody will be thinking that and we won't be able to get near the theater. We'll see. Definitely off the agenda for opening weekend. Sean's father died a few weeks ago and left us with a boatload of DVDs of movies I haven't seen. I'm sure we can find something to watch in our copious free time. Like we have that. Sigh...

Glad to hear you are doing so well. Isn't modern science the greatest?

[mellicious]

I've been mad at Holidailies because my links were posting wrong, and instead of asking them to fix it I just flounced off and played games instead. I'll probably get around to writing a little more before December's over. Hopefully.

(I bought my Star Wars tickets early, and I'm so glad I did. I wasn't sure it was necessary, but I guess maybe it was.)