12 New Year's Resolutions for 2012 Moviegoers

Just like a year for moviegoing, 2011 certainly had its irritations. Because the calendar has provided us a clean slate, you are prepared to set our resolutions to create 2012 a far greater all year long the large screen. Clearly, you want to obtain Hollywood to produce a unique resolutions (like, say, stop plundering the eighties for remake ideas that finish off trashing the flicks most of us loved as kids), but we can not improve others, only ourselves. So, as moviegoers, let's all resolve in 2012 to follow along with together with the 12 promises available below. (And you will add others inside the comments.) &bull I'll stop needing to pay a pleasant earnings to check out 3d movies that have been not shot in 3d, but merely hastily retrofitted to have the ability to boost ticket prices. (I would get the best for your 'Titanic' re-release, since James Cameron can probably be reliable not to execute a half-assed job in this particular department.) &bull I'll switch off my phone through the film. I won't annoy other patrons with my clicking thumbs, my conversations, or perhaps the competing glow of my own, personal screen. For Just Two several hours, I'll switch off my connect with the outside world and enable myself look around the story -- and enable others to accomplish the identical. &bull I'll leave youthful children in your house. I won't disturb others -- or traumatize my own, personal kids -- by enabling 'The Girl While using Dragon Tattoo' being their babysitter. &bull I'll complain for the theater manager when the projection is just too dim or too fuzzy, or when the appear isn't right. I recognize that theaters won't include a motivation to help keep high standards of presentation, even on pricey new digital projectors, unless of course obviously clients complain en masse whenever we don't get what we should are needing to purchase. &bull I'll support local movie theaters which do maintain quality presentation standards, offer good snack or dining options, and program the kind of movies and non-movie fare that we like. &bull I'll observe that might be more movies being launched this year besides 'The Hunger Games,' the best 'Twilight,' as well as the first 'Hobbit.' Yeah, I'll probably visit a number of these, however may even exceed the hype and consider other potentially interesting movies. &bull I won't believe that everyone who hates a movie I really like can be a philistine, or that everyone who likes a movie Personally, i can't stand is certainly an elitist snob. Which I won't flame people who disagree with me at night of a movie on the internet. &bull I'll uncover a film critic whose tastes generally match mine, a treadmill whose tastes rarely match mine. Either in situation, reading through using that critic's reviews will prove an even more reliable barometer for whether I'll love or hate a movie in comparison to separate-the-difference scores I have available at movie poll sites like Rotten Tomato vegetables or Flixster. Which I'll allow the outlet that employs that critic to keep them within the organization and not replace these with someone generic or syndicated. &bull I will not limit my movie diet to escapism. I'll every so often go to a film making me think, shows me something unfamiliar, challenges my anticipation instead of reassuring and comforting me, or otherwise necessitates that Someone said subtitles. &bull However, I won't believe that, should be movie created buzz at Sundance or Toronto, it's artistic merit. For every 'Martha Marcy May Marlene,' there's certain that need considering a 'happythankyoumoreplease.' Caveat emptor. &bull I'll every so often watch a movie that was made before I used to be born, especially if I will tell it in the theater. I will not dismiss a movie as quaint due to the fact it's old or possibly in black-and-white-colored. &bull I will not pretend that watching a widescreen, visually scrumptious epic by having an iPad or smartphone is any alternative for that immersive reference to watching it round the silver screen. [Photos: Getty Images (3d audience), Lionsgate ('The Hunger Games')] 5 Main Reasons Why You Aren't Going to the films See All Moviefone Galleries » Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook Follow Gary Susman on Twitter: @garysusman