It’s the end of the world as we know it, said some people who paid a mite too much attention to an ancient calendar. But though the world did not end, 2012 most certainly has, so it’s time to reflect.

I say “it’s time to” — most websites, magazines and what have you have already done so. But for a blog that counts how many new films one has watched in a year in its entirety, everything — to the very last minute — counts. And what number has that count reached, you may ask. Well…

Drumroll please

And the final total is… 97.

That makes only the second time I’ve failed to reach 100, and it was even closer (last was 2009, when I reached 94). A helluvan end to the year for all the wrong reasons put paid to much film watching, including plans to see The Hobbit (which I’ll hopefully now see soon and not let slide into another Avengers situation), and I couldn’t quite drag it back in the closing days. It’s disappointing, of course, but not the end of the world. Unless this is what the Mayans meant.

December’s films

#92 The Keep (1983)
#93 Predators (2010)
#94 The Expendables (2010)
#94a Room on the Broom (2012)
#95 Iron Sky (2012)
#96 Stiff Upper Lips (1998)
#97 The Plank (1967)

Next time on the all-new 100 Films in a Year monthly update…

And so the cycle begins again.

Will I reach 100 in 2013? Well, last time I failed, the next year wound up my second-best ever. Just sayin’