2005 Movie Challenge Recap
I watched 62 movies in 2005, fifteen of them on film in theaters. Given that I’ve got a toddler, I think that the averages of more than one movie a week, and more than one in theaters a month are good; I doubt my ability to keep up those stats once I have two little ones to watch over, at least at first. But the discouraging percent is that I’d only highly recommend three of those movies I saw in theaters, and one was a revival–On the Waterfront at the Oak Street Cinema. That’s only 20%. Of the remaining dozen, there was only one–March of the Penguins–that I actively disliked. The other eleven ranged from good to very good, but not quite good enough to recommend highly. I’d like to have a greater percent of highly recommended films this year among those that I do manage to see in the theater.