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2012: The Year of the Movie

Since it’s that time of the year and everybody else is doing it, I thought I’d chime in with an end-of-the-year list of my own. While reading a couple of ‘Top Ten Movies of 2012’ lists over on Badass Digest the other day, it dawned on me that I had seen a lot of movies this year. That lead to the thought that I should try to come up with a list of movies I had seen in 2012. After spending several hours poring over my GetGlue check-ins, foursquare check-ins, Netflix history, and iTunes rental history, I believe I have a pretty complete list.

But a couple of random notes and stats first: 

• I did not count made-for-TV movies or movies that I only partially watched on TV
• I saw 35 movies at the theater (34 at Alamo Drafthouse, one at Violet Crown Cinema)
• I watched 46 movies at home (nine via Netflix, nine via iTunes rental, one via Amazon Prime Instant Video, six on DVD, and 21 via regular and premium cable)
• I watched two (rented) movies on a plane (X-Men: First Class and Rise of the Planet of the Apes)
• I attended three movie marathons at Alamo Drafthouse (The Avengers marathon, The Dark Knight marathon, and The Lord of the Rings marathon)
• I saw six movies twice, but only counted them once for this list (Moneyball, Iron Man 2, Hanna, The Empire Strikes Back, The Dark Knight Rises, and Project X)
• I saw one movie in 35mm (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan)
• I saw one movie in 70mm (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade)
• I saw one movie in 3D (Frankenweenie)
• I saw one IMAX movie (The Dark Knight Rises)
• I saw one movie in the theater twice (The Dark Knight Rises)
• I attended a movie alone for the first time in my life (The Wrath of the Titans)
• I watched two classics, Planet of the Apes (at home) and Cool Hand Luke (at Alamo Drafthouse)
• I watched slightly less than 30 minutes of Everyman’s War; it was so horrible and the suffering was so bad, I thought it deserved inclusion on this list

So without further adieu, here, in chronological order, is my list of movies I watched in 2012:

1. Burzynski
2. Middle Men
3. X-Men: First Class
4. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
5. Black Death
6. Act of Valor
7. Moneyball
8. The Ides of March
9. Planet of the Apes (1968)
10. The Hunger Games
11. Clash of the Titans
12. Wrath of the Titans
13. Cool Hand Luke
14. Iron Man*
15. The Incredible Hulk
16. Iron Man 2*
17. Thor*
18. Captain America: The First Avenger*
19. The Avengers
20. Hanna
21. Bernie
22. Rampart
23. Men In Black 3
24. The Hunter
25. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan*
26. Senna
27. Open Range*
28. Ted
29. Love and Other Drugs
30. Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith*
31. Secretariat
32. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back*
33. Moonrise Kingdom
34. Confessions of an Eco-Terrorist
35. Robin Hood
36. Batman Begins*
37. The Dark Knight*
38. The Dark Knight Rises
39. Hesher
40. The People vs. George Lucas
41. Batman: Gotham Knight
42. Batman: Under the Red Hood
43. Batman: Year One
44. The Campaign
45. Die Hard*
46. The Bourne Identity*
47. The Bourne Supremacy*
48. Killer Joe
49. The Bourne Ultimatum
50. The Bourne Legacy
51. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade*
52. God Bless America
53. Everyman’s War
54. Punch-Drunk Love
55. Project X
56. Dances With Wolves*
57. Frankenweenie
58. Looper
59. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off*
60. Argo
61. Flight
62. Casino Royale
63. Quantum of Solace
64. Skyfall
65. Colombiana
66. The Town*
67. Citizen Gangster
68. Lincoln
69. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring*
70. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers*
71. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King*
72. Elf
73. The Shawshank Redemption*
74. Jack Reacher
75. Bad Teacher
76. Silver Linings Playbook
77. The Adventures of Tintin
78. Love Actually
79. Transformers: Dark of the Moon
80. Django Unchained
81. Safety Not Guaranteed
82. Cowboys & Aliens
83. The American

* first viewing prior to 2012