Tuesday, January 31, 2012

January: This Month in Movies

So many movies, so little time!  The following are a list, with limited comment, of the movies I watched in January.

Apollo 18 is an engrossing movie with a disappointing ending.  Not surprising since we are dealing with the Department of Defense and a secret mission.

The Birds is an Alfred Hitchcock classic that I am growing to love again.

Captain America is a movie that I have looked forward to for some time.  It was interesting to see how he was introduced in preparation for The Avengers movie.

Cowboys and Aliens I never thought of the Old West as a setting for an  alien invasion movie, but it worked really well.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo thoroughly enjoyable for me, but I had read the books.  The American version relied too much on the prior knowledge of the viewer to know the details of the story.

Psycho is another indulgence of my interest in Hitchcock movies.

Rise of the Planet of the Apes gave the story a strong sense of beginning.  It was one of the best of the Planet of the Apes series.

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