Movies I watched at the theater in 2021

There were not as many movies to watch in the theaters in 2021, but more than 2020.  Even still, I did get a chance to watch more than one per month.    

• Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
• Venom: Let There Be Carnage
• Black Widow
• Eternals
• No Time to Die

• A Quiet Place Part II
• Ghostbusters: Afterlife
• Free Guy
• Dune: Part One
• The Matrix Resurrections

• Godzilla vs. Kong
• The Suicide Squad
• The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
• Last Night in Soho
• Malignant

• Nobody
• Reminiscence
• Wonder Woman 1984

2018 - 2019 - 2020 - 2021 - 2022 - 2023 - 2024 - 2025 - 2026

Movies I watched in the theater in 2019

The year was 2019. This was arguably the peak year for going to the theater to see movies. Even still, I saw a surprising 33 movies. That's more than one movie every two weeks!  I was definitely using my AMC A-List membership to its fullest. This was a great year for quality of  movies too. I don't remember trying hard to justify my membership by seeing a bunch of movies just because I could see them for free. There was simply a lot of movies I wanted to see at the theater!

Here is the list of what I watched at the movie theater in 2019:

• Green Book
• Aquaman
• Glass
• Serenity (not the one you might think)
• Alita: Battle Angel

• Happy Death Day 2U
• Captain Marvel
• Apollo 11
• Cold Pursuit
• Us

• Shazam!
• Avengers: Endgame
• Long Shot
• Pokemon Detective Pikachu
• John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum

• Godzilla: King of the Monsters
• The Intruder
• Dark Phoenix (special fan event opening night IMAX)
• Anna
• Annabella Comes Home

• Spider-Man: Far From Home
• Yesterday
• Crawl
• Once Upon a Time...In Hollywood
• Ready or Not

• After the Wedding
• Ad Astra
• Joker
• Zombieland: Double Tap
• Doctor Sleep

• Ford v Ferrari
• Jumanji: The Next Level
• Knives Out

2018 - 2019 - 2020 - 2021 - 2022 - 2023 - 2024 - 2025 - 2026

Movies I watched at the theater in 2020

It is 2026, but I am going to look back at the movies I actually saw at the theater in 2020. That was a tough year for movies, of course. Even still, I ended up going to the theater a bit more than one might now guess. I really started to use AMC A-List in the prior year, but clearly it did not get much use when everything shut down in 2020 and the program was suspended. I actually watched Tenet at a local drive-in.

• Little Women
• 1917
• Uncut Gems
• The Gentlemen
• Parasite
• Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey
• Tenet

2018 - 2019 - 2020 - 2021 - 2022 - 2023 - 2024 - 2025 - 2026

Movies I've seen in 2025 and "why"

Has there been a return to form for movie theaters to pre-pandemic levels? No. However, I found myself going to the cinema more in 2025 than in 2024. The nature of movie-going has fundamentally changed with the dominance of streaming. Patrons now see fewer films in theaters, opting to wait for many of them to arrive at home. This is especially true for movies not designed as a spectacle or an event, creating a fresh challenge for the industry. Still, theaters have faced similar hurdles before, such as when televisions became commonplace in the home.

Eventually, theatrical films improved after over a decade of adjustment throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Even before then, patrons had stopped attending theaters for short serial shows. Additionally, the concept of made-for-TV movies eventually emerged, allowing lower-quality films to be released directly to television without a theatrical run.

Later, both theaters and television were challenged by the introduction of VHS and movie rentals. This led to the straight-to-video concept for lower-budget films, which raised the quality expectations for theatrical releases even higher.

Today, streaming poses yet another challenge. Many high-quality movies do not necessarily require a theater because they do not rely on spectacle to be enjoyed. Even when a large screen might enhance the experience, a story may be perceived as small scale, making it easier to wait for a streaming release.

Despite all of that, I still enjoy seeing various types and scales of movies at the theater. Some films are so massive they demand a theatrical viewing, such as the Avatar franchise. Others are enhanced by the cinema experience even if they have a straightforward story, like Last Breath.

Finally posting my 2025 list

I have been putting off this post for five months for a simple reason: I saw too many movies in 2025 to make this article enjoyable to create while including a poster for every film, such as last year's article. I believe movie posters add value and enhance the post, but including all of them is an immense amount of work. To that end, I am scaling down this year's post to a simple hyperlinked list.

Here is the list of what I watched at the movie theater in 2025:

• Nosferatu
• Captain America: Brave New World
• Last Breath
• Novocaine
• Thunderbolts*

• Ballerina
• 28 Years Later
• F1 The Movie
• Superman (special Amazon Prime Early Screening)
• Jurassic World Rebirth

• The Naked Gun
• Alien Earth (special FX preview of first episode)
• Nobody 2
• Weapons
• Eden

• Caught Stealing
• Good Fortune
• Black Phone 2
• Shelby Oaks
• Predator: Badlands

• Avatar: Fire and Ash

2018 - 2019 - 2020 - 2021 - 2022 - 2023 - 2024 - 2025 - 2026

Places I've Visited So Far Winter 2025-2026

It's 2026 and I have expanded the places visited, both within the US and Internationally. I've not expanded travel within Canada and Mexico, so I won't include specific maps for those.

Welp, two more states I've visited

I've been able to visit two more states. I've added no countries or Canadian provinces, however.  I hoped to get one other state before this update, but that wasn't meant to be, yet. There's just 7 states remaining.

What it takes to earn Elite rank in Exobiology

It takes a great many scanned lifeforms to earn Elite rank in Exobiology within Elite Dangerous! Check out this slideshow of start to end in a journey around the Galaxy. This three year project is now complete. I'm now working for Elite V, but I'm only going to take a few selfies with the more interesting lifeforms for now on. Enjoy! Oh, and there is additional content in the video throughout, so be sure to watch to the end (I know they always say that).

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New Patent issued

  

Linking views/states of 3d models and propagating updates in same

Japan Patent 7357715

Issued: Sept 28, 2023

Inventors: Felipe Martínez Quiroz and Matthew Lorono

Linking of 3D views within a 3D model, such as saved views and presentation states, into parent and child relationship. Automatically propagate changes to child views and their associated annotations when the orientation and other aspects of the parent view are changed, where the child views change to remain at the same relative orientation to the parent view, and where the annotations of a child view are modified so that their orientations are aligned with changes to the orientation of the associated child view.

[Normally, the US patent is first to be issued (ahead of international patents). However, in this case, the Japanese Patent Office worked faster than the USPTO; so it's the issuance of Japanese Patent that marks this achievement. I like the Japanese patent certificate.]

Patent link

Possible resurrection of the landing page

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In the early days of the internet, landing pages were often little more than menus that website visitors use to navigate to different pages and sites. Software at the time also heavily relied on menu-based interfaces. Even the most expensive applications had very simple menus as their landing page, often called "main menu".

However, for decades, forcing users into a main menu or other landing page has been considered bad user interface design. Menus were moved from the opening screen to the top bar, bottom bar, and even along the sides of the window/screen. For a long time, applications would open directly into the application's workspace, where users would then navigate menus to open files. Similarly, websites commonly started directly on the content page, with navigation moved to the sidebar.

About ten years ago, user interface design started to shift back to special pages for operational activities such as opening documents. Let's call these collectively as "operations pages." Microsoft Office returned to the idea of a special page for operations in recent versions, though these pages are optional. Other applications also now have operations pages that are not optional.  (These are sometimes called splash pages.) The interfaces of these operations pages vary quite a bit from application to application, with many applications (including Office applications) trying to use all the extra real estate to provide some additional functionality.

Linktree

In 2016, Linktree came along and rebranded the old-fashioned landing page. It was created because social media websites don't allow their users to place more than one website in their profile pages. Linktree hosts a page that acts as a personal landing page for all of your various social media profiles. Linktree is a bit fancier than what was used in the 1980s and 1990s, but functionally identical from the perspective of the website visitor. From the perspective of the Linktree's customer, it provides some useful services for a fee (such as tracking visitor data).

There are now other Link in Bio hosting services as well.

WordPress

In 2023, WordPress is finally getting into this game with w.link. WordPress supports the creation of a landing page that looks very similar to Linktree's concept. The advantage of WordPress' solution is that users can self-host their landing page. Even with self-hosting, WordPress still offers some useful services for a fee.

However, for users who are already self-hosting and don't need those additional services, there's no need to use Linktree, WordPress, or any other "Link in Bio" services. You can just make your own landing page with relatively few lines of code in an HTML file.

fcsuper's place

I've literally been using a landing page from day-one on my website fcsuper.com (since mid-aughties).  I'm sure many of my visitors over the years sneered when they arrived upon my original landing page.  My original landing page was ugly, but functional.

After seeing the concept of the landing page undergoing a resurrection, I decided it was time to refresh my own. My new landing page has been active for a few months. It was modernized to be flexible, allowing it to display correctly on both phones and computers. It's still very simple, but it has some previews of content. It has no ads (yet) and no tracking. It's literally just a menu of my personal web across the internet.

However, this has now led me to a new thought. Should I make two landing pages: one for my truly personal activities, and one for my career-related activities? I guess I'll figure that out soon enough.

Update on the countries and states I've visited

 The number of countries I've visited is still scant, but I added a whole new continent to my list in 2019.

Coverage within the US has expanded a little too, as of 2022.

My coverage within Canada last expanded in 2019 too.

My Mexico coverage hasn't expanded in more than a few years.

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