I heard they had to start calling it CPK because it's so modified the FDA won't let them say "California" anymore.

I'm always bad at these because I don't keep very good track of what comes out in what year.

Looking things up on Box Office Mojo, the movies I most enjoyed this year:

1. Cloud Atlas
2. Dredd
3. Cabin in the Woods
4. Rock of Ages
5. Ted
6. Dark Knight Rises
7. Avengers
8. Wreck-It Ralph
9. Total Recall
10. Amazing Spider-Man

Movies I least enjoyed:

1. Flight
2. Brave
3. John Carter
4. The Hobbit
5. Dark Shadows
6. Breaking Dawn
7. The Man With the Iron Fists
8. Snow White and the Huntsman
9. Battleship
10. Prometheus

Movies I haven't seen but expect may claim a spot on one list or the other:

Magic Mike
Argo
The Master
Lincoln
Life of Pi
Rise of the Guardians
Moonrise Kingdom
Lawless
Seven Psychopaths
Safety Not Guaranteed
Robot & Frank
Hitchcock
Django Unchained
Les Miserables
Zero Dark Thirty

Oh, I've been going every day, I just haven't been logging it. I often don't have good reception at the gym so I started tracking in a notebook and haven't bothered to copy over.

I'm actually about to head to the gym right now. I'll log it today just for you. 

We are bad at this whole "topics" thing.

But you can afford to think this way. If progress stalls, halts, or even reverses, it doesn't affect you nearly as much.

It wouldn't affect me, either, in terms of gender discrimination. But it's still wrong, it's still there, and the only reason the progress you mention has been made in the last 50 years is because people on the side of equality angrily demanded it. It would be foolish to take the pressure off, especially when such a wave of pushback has risen up in the last decade or so.

Unless it's the second installment in a planned trilogy, in which case it's basically this but stops halfway through, leaving everything unresolved until the next one.

To be fair, we're talking about the plot more than the story. You can boil down any genre like this. The great movies are the ones that make the familiar journey enjoyable to take.

This is how I feel about pretty much every movie now. I basically consider it part of my job to see movies like this and HOBBIT and the like, but I don't get hyped about them anymore.

Regarding the earlier discussion re: "lost" commentaries, here's a list of ones I remember doing that never received a release. Keep in mind that there are commentaries that DID get released which I don't remember doing, so I'm probably forgetting plenty.

Lost commentaries later re-recorded and released:

A.I.: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE - One of our very first recordings, in fact I believe it was our second, recorded the same day as PHANTOM MENACE. Audacity took a massive shit and despite our best efforts the episode was unsalvagable.

DAWN OF THE DEAD '78 - We recorded a commentary for this film, but afterward felt that we could do better. The following weekend we did a new commentary for this film in a double-feature with the 2004 remake.

KICK-ASS - Recorded the same day as SUCKER PUNCH and SOURCE CODE, our first attempt to comment on this film imploded about mid-way through when the mixer came unplugged. Having already done two films and being an early party episode, we decided to cut our losses and just abandon the commentary.

TRON - We lost steam about 2/3 of the way through this commentary, crawling painfully to the finish line. Given that we felt we had plenty to say about TRON: LEGACY, we felt we needed to release something for the original, and we recorded and released a much better episode.

THE FRIGHTENERS - We recorded a full episode for this film which we were quite happy with, but the file became corrupted and when we went to release it we discovered two hours of silence in the file.

STRANGE DAYS - Originally recorded with guest commentator Eric Webb (if memory serves), our first attempt at a STRANGE DAYS commentary suffered a similar mysterious silencing.

Commentaries never released due to either technical error or simply not being up to snuff, not yet re-recorded:

HELLBOY
THE GREEN MILE
SAVING PRIVATE RYAN
GROUNDHOG DAY
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST
THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON
HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS
ZOMBIELAND
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON

Those are all the ones I remember, though I'm sure there were more over the last four years, especially early on.

I was super tempted to bullshit and throw in titles like CITIZEN KANE and BTTF2 but I refrained.

*cough*Amazon Associates links*cough*

Whew. Excuse me. Seasonal allergies.

I'm personally at the point where announcing Spielberg as the director would make me lose interest.

If you want to continue this conversation, take it to PMs. No one is banned yet, but so help me you guys.

And you can have a conversation about it without spelling it out, so in my view there's no need to do so. The DIF forums are not meant to be a comprehensive reference source as Wikipedia is, so the circumstances are different.