BLOG -- My Movie-Watching History (in Theatres) [2018]

Here is my movie-watching (in theatres) history for 2018. I did not get to watch as many movies as I had liked.

For me, 2018 was kinda "just okay" for movies -- maybe a handful of really good, really awesome titles... and then a lot that were "just okay". Maybe I'm getting more critical? Or maybe there were actually a lot of really great movies and I just missed watching them?


Now... even though I've covered these throughout the year in my end-of-month blogs, here are all the movies I've watched in theatres for 2018, with additional commentary for most, if not for all.

SPOILER ALERT WARNING!!

Since I will be mentioning a good number of movies in this blog, some of them will contain spoilers. Any movie that will contain a spoiler will be marked. If you see that spoiler mark and you don't want to be spoiled, scroll down to the next movie!

MOVIE: Black Panther [SPOILER]
DATE: February 27
RATING (OUT OF 5): ****

COMMENTS: I loved the sibling banter. It took me a good while to realize the actress who plays The Walking Dead's Michonne was in it -- which likely spoiled something major for me for The Walking Dead *sigh*... >____<.

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MOVIE: Annihilation [SPOILER]
DATE: March 13
RATING (OUT OF 5): ***

COMMENTS: It's a thought-provoking and uneasy movie. I have my own ideas about the ending. I think that during the course of Lina's recounting, the shimmer refracted in Lina's body so much that she was no longer Lina by the end of the movie.

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MOVIE: Ready Player One
DATE: March 30
RATING (OUT OF 5): ***

COMMENTS: I loved parts of it, and then other parts I kept thinking about how plausible it was in relation to real life movements. The second challenge was the best!

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MOVIE: A Quiet Place
DATE: April 17
RATING (OUT OF 5): ****

COMMENTS: Very intense at times. Other times -- Omg, why would you do this?! I don't think I'd be able to live in a world where I had to stay quiet for my whole life.

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MOVIE: Incredibles 2
DATE: July 3rd
RATING (OUT OF 5): ****

COMMENTS: So... awesome! Every scene with Elastigirl in action -- super amaaaaaazing! <3. Everything was so well done. It was totally worth the long, long wait.

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MOVIE: Ant-Man and the Wasp
DATE: August 28
RATING (OUT OF 5): ****

COMMENTS: The same kind of nice humour as the first movie. I liked everything except for the ending.

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MOVIE: Nekrotronic
DATE: September 9
RATING (OUT OF 5): ****

COMMENTS: Just from the premise it could have been a really campy, bad movie, but it wasn't. It was crazy and wild. Good job.

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MOVIE: A Simple Favor
DATE: September 18
RATING (OUT OF 5): ***

COMMENTS: It was unexpectedly funny. The plot twists and reveals were pretty interesting, too.

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MOVIE: House with a Clock in its Walls
DATE: October 9
RATING (OUT OF 5): ****

COMMENTS: Some of the plot points were really predictable, but I liked the overall themes and messages. I would love to learn magic and I love my own weirdness.

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MOVIE: Ralph Breaks the Internet
DATE: November 24
RATING (OUT OF 5): *****

COMMENTS: This was great. It was worthy of being a sequel to Wreck-it Ralph.

You can read my review of it here.

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Movies I wanted to watch in theatres but missed:

Red Sparrow

Avengers: Infinity War

Deadpool 2
Widows

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Movies I wanted to watch, BUT GLAD that I missed:

The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
Winchester

For fun, below are a couple polarizing video reviews for Ready Player One (where I can agree with both perspectives!):

Chris Stuckmann's review.

Review from YourMovieSucksDOTorg (YMS).

This one is SPOILER-HEAVY so don't watch this 

unless you have watched Ready Player One. 

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That's it for this blog. Thanks for reading! If you have any comments about anything (even if you greatly disagree with anything I've said, or if this made you think about the movies you've watched and want to share), feel free to comment! :)