AN OKAY YEAR AT THE MOVIES 2012: One man. One year. 366 movies. Approximately 732 minutes. No mercy.

With all the New Year's resolutions flying about, we at Torturously Okay have one of our own.

This year, the Year of Our Lord (or lack of Lord, depending on your background) 2012, Torturously Okay will watch a movie a day.

All movies that we have never seen.  And we'll write about it each week.

Naturally, since we at T.Ok. have a job and a personal life, there will be some days where no movies will be watched.  There will be some days where more than one will be watched.  But at the end, 366 movies will have been viewed.

It can be done.  In 2007 we performed a similar experiment, and got up to 379.

Here are the rules:

• All movies must begin after 12:00am on January 1 and be finished by 11:59pm on December 31.  The date listed on each entry is the date of completion.  No movie can have been viewed in any significant amount by T.Ok. before January 1 of this year.  For example, I've gotten through about an hour of Red Riding Hood (by the grace of God).  Although I will technically finish watching it in 2012, it will not count.
• All movies will be feature-length (at least 40 minutes).
• All movies must be cinematic releases (theatrical, DVD, on-demand); no TV movies or miniseries, unless they were slated for simultaneous or eventual theatrical release (e.g. Carlos or the Red Riding trilogy).

In addition to my resolution to complete 366 movies, here are a few other minor resolutions:

1. To see every film by the following directors: Martin Scorsese, Orson Welles, Michael Haneke, Robert Altman, Brian De Palma.
2. To have seen at least one film by each of the following directors: Robert Bresson, Satjayit Ray, Yasujiro Ozu, Emeric Pressburger, Lindsay Anderson, Jean Rollin, Atom Egoyan, Kenneth Loach, Jean Cocteau, Douglas Sirk, Wim Wenders, Luchino Visconti, Alejandro Jodorowsky.
3. To watch both Cannonball Run movies and the remaining Smokey and the Bandit films, as well as Stroker Ace.

Further challenges may follow, and as always I'm open to suggestions.  First update will be next Sunday 1/8.  Wish me luck.  Happy New Year, everyone.