Because why not– I did it for books (why do my fingers keep wanting to capitalize that?) & comics, and I’ve got a Letterboxd membership where I’m tracking movies, so let’s do those, too.
Before getting into this, I should note that we didn’t watch a whole lot of new movies in 2021, and there’s a larger number of rewatches than would be typical for me. Some of this is thanks to COVID, some of it not.
January
We only watched four movies the whole month, so I’ll just list them all:
February
We spent February re-watching the Avengers/Captain America movies, with a couple new items sprinkled in. None of them were particularly memorable, but I’ll give Flora & Ulysses a shout-out since that was the reason for the short story contest I entered.
March
February’s Marvel marathon led me to finally watch Point Break, though the better/more interesting films were:
- Cooley High
- The Lady Eve
- Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
- The Death of Stalin
- The Skeleton Twins
- Happy Feet
- Rock ‘n’ Roll High School
- 13 Going on 30
- Bowfinger
April
We somehow managed to watch all three Witch Mountain movies in a day, which was kind of like watching one each Connery, Timothy Dalton, and Daniel Craig Bond flick. The movies are all in the same world, but they’re very different from each other. That aside, the two highlights of the month have to be Blood Simple and Promising Young Woman.
May
Three movies that were better than I expected:
One movie that I’d seen before, and would watch again in a heartbeat:
June
Two Disney movies: Raya and the Last Dragon didn’t do much for me, but I did enjoy Luca. My favorite of the month has to be A Colt Is My Passport, which sent me hunting for the soundtrack as soon as the credits finished. Streets of Fire was…interesting.
July
Two “what did I just watch” flicks: Zola and Tank Girl. Also of note:
August
September
Two action movies of note here– The Fugitive and The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. Speed also holds up pretty well, though George of the Jungle maybe not so much.
October
October was Universal Horror month, though I have to confess that I fell asleep during half of them. Creature from the Black Lagoon is the best of the bunch, IMHO. I also watched Jennifer’s Body, which was much funnier than I had expected.
Another in the category of “what did I just watch”: Mind Game.
However, Dune was far and away the best movie of the month.
November
December
Finally got around to watching Parasite, and caught The Matrix Resurrections on opening weekend. We also took in No Time to Die, and are looking forward to the new series starring Ana de Armas that they are surely making, right? Right? Our most notable re-watch was Matchstick Men.
…and we bridged the new year with the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Whew…thassalotta movies.