The Alamo Drafthouse sent me a summary of my 2019 movies, claiming I’d been to the theater 56 times in 2019. Which really isn’t true and would be over a movie a week. Maybe they were counting refunded tickets? Or times I bought tickets for others? But it had me curious enough that I went and counted in my purchase history and I did go 31 times in 2019.
At the Alamo last year I watched:
- On The Basis of Sex
- The Kid Who Would Be King
- How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (x2)
- Captain Marvel (x2)
- Shazam
- Friends With Benefits
- Aladdin
- Spider-Man: Far From Home (x4 . . . plus one more time at a non-Alamo theater)
- Booksmart
- The Dead Don’t Die
- Toy Story 4
- The Lion King
- The Goonies
- Hustlers
- Abominable
- The Addams Family
- Zombieland: Double Tap
- JoJo Rabbit
- Last Christmas
- Charlie’s Angels
- Frozen II (x2 . . . plus one more at a non-Alamo theater)
- Knives Out
- Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
- Little Women
- Spies in Disguise
In early summer they came out with their season pass (~$21/mo for unlimited movie tickets) so I at least go two or three times a month now . . . or basically what I did before but a little more economical.
It’s probably evident what my favorite releases are from the number of times I watched them, but for the sake of documentation here’s my top 5 from that list:
- Spider-Man: Far From Home
- Frozen II
- How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
- Captain Marvel
- JoJo Rabbit
I’m off to a pretty slow start in 2020 with only one movie at the Alamo so far (Like a Boss, meh), but I did see an incredible film last night called Weathering With You. It’s a Japanese animated film done by the same creator of Your Name (another amazing movie), but I had to go to a Regal cinema to see it since it wasn’t in any of the Drafthouse theaters. The premise: a runaway boy befriends an orphan girl who can control the weather in a near-future Tokoya plagued by constant rain. There’s a lot of love and found family along with mounting stakes and violent situations that is my perfect mix in movie-watching.
There’s a lot more movie-watching to look forward to in 2020 (Mulan, anyone?).
With Love,
Natalie