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(I was the first person to post on Holidailies this year, not because I was dying to be first but because I wrote my post ahead of time, as I said, so at midnight I was like, well, might as well post it!!)

OK, so, movies. The last movie we've seen is She Said, which is practically the same movie as Spotlight, except here the it's the Times instead of the Globe and the evildoer is Harvey Weinstein rather than priests. (OK, not exactly the same....) I really liked it, but then I always like these movies about newspapers (Spotlight, The Post, All the President's Men...). One thing - we noticed that Rob was possibly the only man in the theater, and there were quite a few people there. I read that this movie was basically considered to be a bomb - the reviews are good, but it's not making money. My guess about that is that the subject is something a lot of men don't want to go to a movie about. (I developed that theory even before we went to see it, but I still suspect I'm basically correct.)

(I would also like to point out, in case the very thought of him puts you off, that Mr Weinstein himself barely appears in the movie. You hear his voice a couple of times and there's one scene toward the end where he - or rather an actor who looks vaguely like him - comes in and yells briefly at the editors before stomping out, as I recall.)

Before that, the last movie *I* saw, anyway - because, y'know, my husband and his horror movies, more on which below - was Wakanda Forever. It wasn't as good as the first one, because how could it possibly be? but it was still pretty good. I think we'll probably go back to that one sometime this month.


Every movie I saw in a theater in fall 2022:

1. She Said
   
2. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
   
3. The Woman King

Honestly, this just tells you the state of the movie industry (i.e., still recovering from covid, I guess?) that I couldn't find a damn thing I wanted to see for over a month at a time in here. (But on the bright side, look at how female-focused all three of those movies are! You used to be lucky if you got one movie like that a year.)

And I said it before: horror movies got made during the pandemic, at least the low-budget ones (Terrifier 2) did, when not much else did. Although that particular one was released on such a microscopic number of screens that if I hadn't poked around the movie release list and said, "hey, this sounds like something you'd like" and then got online and found a place where it was actually showing, Rob might have never seen that one. But that's an outlier, really. (It was unrated and I think they said it cost $300,000 to make, or something absurdly low like that.) Things like X  - still small-budget but not that small - are more like the norm, I think. But I'm not an expert on this subject, I'm just married to a really big fan.

Anyway... in addition to the movies I saw above, Rob also saw:

• Bones and All
• The Menu
• Terrifier 2
  
• Halloween Ends (twice)

Sometimes getting Rob's opinions is a chore. I know he liked Terrifier 2 and he seemed to like Bones and All pretty well. The Menu, I'm not so sure about, although he did try to explain the plot to me at more length than I was really interested in hearing. And he said Halloween Ends was not that great, but he still liked it enough to go see it twice!




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In case you really want to know, here's the whole list:

Movies I saw in a theater so far in 2022, newest to oldest:

1. She Said
   
2. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
   
3. The Woman King
4. Nope
5. Kiki's Delivery Service (Ghiblifest)
   
6. Thor: Love & Thunder
7. Dr Strange & the Multiverse of Madness
8. The Northman
9. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
10. Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
11. Everything Everywhere All At Once
12. The Batman (twice)
13. Cyrano
14. Belfast
15. Spider-Man: No Way Home (our third time seeing it)
16. Ghostbusters: Afterlife (our second time seeing it)

And Rob also saw:

• Bones and All
• The Menu
• Terrifier 2
  
• Halloween Ends (twice)
  
• Smile
• Pearl (which is a prequel to X, below - and is also super-low-budget)
• Barbarian
• Orphan: First Kill (twice)
• Beast
• Nope (without me, then later on with me!)
• The Black Phone
• The Thing (40th anniversary re-release)
• Men
• X
• The Cursed
• Scream

Hey, I have a Black Widow icon! I think I've had it for a couple of years, actually, but still, feels like karma or something, that I came to post for the first time in ages and that's my default icon. (Silly, but there you go.)

Well, I wasn't sure about the Black Widow movie going in, but I liked it, it wasn't great but it was watchable, and entertaining. That's about all I ask. I knew some reviewers didn't like it, so maybe that lowered my expectations a little, which is helpful sometimes.

It was weird to be in a theater with more than a sprinkling of other people. We did go to the occasional movie last year, even, but there was never anybody there to speak of. Sometimes we were the only people in an auditorium.

Anyway, I didn't actually come to post specifically about Black Widow at all - I went through my planner and made a list of what we've seen this year, and I thought I would post that. I've been to eight movies and Rob has been to seventeen, no less. Horror movies were practically the only thing coming out for a while. (Plus he went alone some weeks when I just wasn't in the mood, so his list is not all horror.)

Here's what I've seen:
News of the World (which I think technically came out in 2020 but we saw it in January)
Promising Young Woman
Judas and the Black Messiah
Nomadland
Raya and the Last Dragon
The Courier
Army of the Dead
Black Widow

If I had to pick a favorite, I think I'd pick... hmm, either Promising Young Woman or Judas and the Black Messiah. I liked both of them and they were both depressing as hell in their different ways. (I liked Raya and the Last Dragon a lot, too. All of these were good, even freaking Army of the Dead.)

(I guess Army of the Dead is technically horror, isn't it? For some reason I'll go to a zombie movie occasionally, if it doesn't seem too too creepy. I saw World War Z and both the Zombieland movies and Shaun of the Dead, of course. I'm partial to the funny ones - I love Shaun of the Dead. Although actually I don't think we ever saw it in a theater, come to think of it.)

And then Rob saw all eight above plus these:
The Father
Nobody
The Unholy
In the Earth
Separation
Spiral (the Saw thing)
A Quiet Place 2
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
The Forever Purge

Honestly, he'll go see practically anything horror. You should see the reviews on some of those.