I go to the theater all the time. You can view the tons of great movies being made at the theater, the first thing you need to do is stop assuming everything sucks because that’s just wrong. Here’s some high profile really solid movies this year:
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Harry Potter 7 1/2
Moneyball
Drive
Puss in Boots
the Help
Margin Call
Captain America
Contagion
Adjustment Bureau
Source Code
And that’s just the stuff in the bigs. If you go art house the list is huge. Tons of great movies are still being made, anybody saying otherwise is just doing their crabby old man imitation.
I guess we are just on different wavelengths. Nothing on that list appeals to me.
One of my all time favorites is The Silence of the Lambs.
Movies such as that simply aren’t made anymore, lost art.
‘The Help’ was terrible. It seemed to have been made for ten year olds who don’t know anything about the period going in.
I agree that many you list are very good.
I would add Anonymous, The Way, and a few others released this year to your list.
There are a few like Hobo with A Shotgun that are terrible and not worth anyones time.