It seems hard to believe that it's already February 1 and I haven't watched a single movie this year yet. Not only that, but it's almost been a year since the last time I went to the movies, in early March 2020, when theaters went dark after the pandemic we're still living through started sweeping the world.
Eventually, by the end of August, a few chains started reopening, including AMC, the one I always go to now thanks to the A-List subscription model they instituted after the revolutionary MoviePass demonstrated it could be successful . . . before crumbling under poor management.
Still, I've kept clear because frankly it's not worth risking your health (and life) or that of the people around you for a movie (that you can always watch later on TV). And given the anemic box office hauls of the few titles that weren't rescheduled, I wasn't alone in reasoning that way.
Hopefully, with the vaccine rollout, this summer things will start going back to normal. I doubt I'd venture back into a closed environment for hours at a time (I usually go for a double feature) until I've gotten the shot myself.
On top of that, given that I had fallen tragically behind with reviewing the movies I had watched (my list seemingly ran away from me and accumulated over 520 titles!!!), I decided to pause movie-viewing and catch up with the TV shows still on my radar, rather than rent or stream more titles, just so I wouldn't add more to the backlog and to give myself a chance to finally catch up, which I was able to do in the span of about six months.
Anyway, this is the meager list of movies I watched in 2020:
9
8
7
6
Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
5
4.5
3
It's not a lot of titles, but I guess it's better than nothing, right?
Unfortunately, I'd only really list three for the title of Best Picture:
- 1917
- Marriage Story
- The Two Popes
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