I went to the movies twice last week, Tuesday and Friday, both times at the Uptown Cinemas in lower Queen Anne. For the Tuesday night show, “A Film Unfinished,” a documentary analyzing a Nazi propaganda film about the Warsaw ghetto (review up tomorrow), there was only one other person in the audience. For the Friday evening show, the Chinese film “Aftershock,” a melodrama about a family torn apart by the Tangshan earthquake of 1976, the theater wasn't so crowded. It was just me. Seriously.

This is what everyone else was going to see this weekend:

1. An estimated 2,830,200 moviegoers saw the sixth installment of a horror franchise in which a maniac makes victims saw off parts of their own bodies to survive. 
2. Two million people saw the second installment of a horror franchise involving security cameras and the supernatural.
3. More than 1.3 million people went for an action-comedy about four elderly CIA agents who come out of retirement to kill the vice-president of the United States.
4. More than a million people went for a TV comedy/documentary in which amateurs do crazy stunts and hurt themselves.
5. Around 795K tried a drama in which the dead help the living get on with their lives.
6. 637K saw a family film about a 1970s racehorse touched by God.
7. Half a million went for a drama about the founding of Facebook.
8. Half a million saw a romantic comedy about a man and a woman who don't like each other but who have to raise an orphaned girl together.
9. A quarter million went for a drama about the romance between a bank robber and a bank manager.
10. Finally, a little over 200,000 moviegoers saw a based-on-a-true-story drama about a woman who puts herself through law school to help her imprisoned brother.

And all this time I thought I was at odds with my country politically.

The sad totals here.

Of the above movies that I haven't seen, I'm only interested in “The Town” (no. 8), and maybe “Conviction” (no. 10).

The movies I recommend? “The Social Network” and “A Film Unfinished.”

What about you? See anything this weekend? Any recommendations?