[Ghoulish Delight]

For the first time I manged to keep an accurate list of my movie watching for a year. Kinda interesting looking back. I noted the movie, whether it was the firs time seeing it, the release year, whether we saw it the theater, wrote some quick thoughts, and gave each a rating. I tried as best I could to make the ratings simply "how did I feel at the time about the movie" and not necessarily a comparator between movies, so it's pretty fascinating to see those in hindsight and compare them to each other. Like the fact that I rated Observe and Report below Smiley Face, a truly awful, amateurish attempt at stoner comedy. Man did I not like O&R.

Movies watched: 39
First Time: 36 (wow, I don't rewatch movies as much as I used to)
2010 releases: 11
In Theater: 4 (all after June)
Highest Rated: Tie - Scott Pilgrim vs. The World and ODDSAC (experimental music video/movie from Animal Collective)
Lowest Rated: The aforementioned Observer and Report

In hindsight, I think the only real change I'd make is to have rated Imaginarium of Dr. Parnasus a little higher, making a 3-way tie for first. Scanning the list, that one jumps out as being as enjoyable to watch as the others.

Meanwhile, we watched the original Tron this weekend. Sigh, not quite what I remembered (not childhood memories, really only saw it for the first time 5 or so years ago). It was not as technically detailed (in terms of depth of analogy between program "characters" and actual programming concepts) as my memory was giving credit for. I guess I was handicapping it for having the audacity to allude to ANY sort of technical computer concepts in an era where they were completely foreign to most. Alas, they really didn't do much more than throw some jargon in to sound impressive.