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We're watching The Batman. We saw it (twice) at the theater, so that got me thinking about the movies we saw in 2022. I talked about the movies that made the most money, the other day, but I didn't talk about what I liked. As you see (further below), my list is relatively short, anyway. There just wasn't all that much that I was interested in seeing in the first place.

I narrowed it down to a smaller list, but I'm having trouble deciding on one (or even two or three) favorites, so here's the shorter shortlist, anyway:

Cyrano
Everything Everywhere All At Once
She Said
The Woman King

(Nope and The Batman were the last things I eliminated, so I guess they're the 2nd tier. And maybe Wakanda Forever and Dr Strange 2 - and oops, I forgot The Fabelmans, which was also quite good.)

I read Rob the list I had of what he saw, and he said of the horror movies, Terrifier 2 was his favorite, followed by Orphan: First Kill. And that he really liked She Said, too.

(He also just pointed out that The Batman has a really beautiful score - it's by Michael Giacchino. I had noticed the way it was using bits of "Ave Maria" here and there, but I wasn't paying that much attention to the score as a whole til he said that.)

Full list of what Rob and I saw in a theater in 2022, going backwards in time:

The Fabelmans
She Said
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (twice)
The Woman King
Nope
Kiki's Delivery Service (Ghiblifest)
Thor: Love & Thunder
Dr Strange & the Multiverse of Madness
The Northman
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
Everything Everywhere All At Once
The Batman (twice)
Cyrano
Belfast
Spider-Man: No Way Home (our third time seeing it)
Ghostbusters: Afterlife (our second time seeing it)

And Rob also saw:

Violent Night
Bones and All
The Menu
Terrifier 2
Halloween Ends (twice)
Smile
Pearl
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

We're planning to go see The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, which is not something I thought I would ever want to see. But... the reviews are good! And... Pedro Pascal! So yeah, we're going. (I have to work on Sunday, and Rob is off on Monday AND Tuesday - because Tuesday is my birthday - and so we're going Monday night.) (Rob has so much time off built up that he's been taking off nearly every Monday in order to burn some of it.)

We saw the Fantastic Beasts movie last week - it was pretty good, certainly much better than the last one, if not nearly as good as the first one, still. Before that we saw Everything Everywhere All At Once, which was a hoot. We both really loved it, in all its wacky weirdness.

I got my hair colored this week, it is part (or rather most) of my birthday present. I'm not sure how much I'm in love with it, honestly. It's very close to my original natural dark brown and I'm not sure it suits me as much as it used to. I think I may want to go lighter next time. But I haven't even washed it yet (I'll probably do that tomorrow) and it may lighten up a bit and I may decide I feel differently. We'll see. (Also note that I was the one that requested this color, so it's not the stylist's fault if I don't like it.)

I mentioned that I have to work Sunday, and the main way to work - in Galveston - is down the freeway (I-45) which is closed southbound all weekend. There's a huge freeway-widening project going on which has been going on for several years and is not supposed to be done for at least a couple more. It's driving us crazy. (I was driving both of us one day last year, and we almost got mowed down by a semi when the lane we were in suddenly vanished. Stuff like that.) Luckily there is an alternative route, which is the old pre-freeway road to Galveston, and I guess I'm going to have to go that way. (I hate going to Galveston on the weekends and our boss knows that, but somebody quit and somebody else is on vacation so I just have to suck up and do it this time!)

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Movies seen in a theater in 2022

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
Everything Everywhere All At Once
The Batman (twice)
Cyrano
Belfast
Spider-Man: No Way Home (twice in 2022 plus once in 2021)
Ghostbusters: Afterlife (also one we'd seen in 2021)

...and Rob also saw:

X (which apparently is a horror movie about people trying to make a porn movie, thus the title)
The Cursed
Scream

This started out to be a movie update, but I had so little to say about that that I went on to TV and books, too!

So far this year, Rob and I have seen these movies in a theater:

Spider-Man: No Way Home (twice since January 1st, as well as once in December)
Ghostbusters: Afterlife (also one we'd seen in 2021)
Belfast

The usual January movie "desert" was especially lean pickings this year - that's mostly why we went to see Spider-Man so many times! I think there were at least two weeks where we just gave up and stayed home, which is unusual for us! At least the only new-to-us one that we saw (Belfast, that is) was quite good.

Rob has also been to see these without me:

Scream
The Cursed

(He seemed to like The Cursed considerably more than Scream, from what I gathered.)

On TV, we enjoyed The Book of Boba Fett a lot, even if it was a bit uneven. I have also watched a whole lot of Marvel, as usual (Black Widow holds up to repeat viewings much better than I would have expected), and also repeat viewings of Encanto (resulting in a semi-permanent "Bruno" earworm). Rob still watches the news a lot but I have cut back because I find it so depressing. (And he watches a ton of horror movies, mostly when I'm asleep.)

(I've come to think one of the secrets of our going-on-35-year marriage is having schedules that vary enough that each of us can do our own thing while the other one is asleep!)

I've been reading the Cinder series (I guess it's officially The Lunar Chronicles, right?) and re-reading a bunch of other things because I've kind of been in a slump where I can't seem to finish much. I think I've finished a dozen books so far this year that were new to me, but they were mostly short, very easy reading. There's another dozen or more that I started but didn't get very far into - and only a couple that I officially called as DNF. The rest I'll hopefully come back to.

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