Leading up to and including New Year's Day, my wife (aka "the girl") and I got a nice five-day weekend (Friday, 28 December to Tuesday, 1 January) that we used to watch as many movies as possible. We were able to catch up on a lot of stuff from 2011 and 2012, as we didn't get out to the theater as much as we had hoped during that time (work and whatnot kept getting in the way).
Below are mini-reviews of the 25 movies we watched, in chronological order of their being watched, followed by the top 5 of the weekend (by special request).
Of special note, almost all of these movies are based on a previously published text of some sort, whether that be a book, a comic book, a television show, or a movie (remake or sequel). Are these just the movies that we as consumers choose to watch (we know the source material and have a reasonable expectation of liking the movie based on it), so the movie industry makes movies catering to us; or, is the movie industry making movies like this, and we have no choice but to watch them because there's not much else? I suspect the former is truer than the latter.
