My top 10 films of 2023

As usual, this top 10 is just the new films this year (which does somewhat give away that I will be talking a lot about at least one not-new film in the expanded post with my reasonings).

I have moved everything from 6-11 of these round every time I've written this list so some of them might change again.

The film that didn't make the top 10 is Napoleon, which was every bit as bad as you have been told, but was visually better than most of the other films.

I can only truly recommend the top 2 films (don't get me wrong, I loved Across the Spiderverse, but I do not approve of cliffhangers). I enjoyed everything down to 6, and and am willing to admit the virtues of everything down to 8.

1 - Polite Society
2 - Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning
3 - Across the Spiderverse
4 - Guardians 3
5 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
6 - Antman and the Wasp: Quantumania
7 - Indiana Jones 5
8 - Dungeons and Dragons
9 - John Wick 4
10 - Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan/Three Musketeers: Milady

Leg update

Mid-December was busy, and I had 3 back-to-back days out of the house.

The 15th saw the work Christmas party. Various people were amazed I appeared (in moonboot and on crutches). The crutches were helpful for more than just me. The venue had forgotten that not all disabilities are visible and were being awkward about letting a colleague recovering from a torn ACL use the lift. Cue "she's helping me".

The night also featured a drunken CEO assuring me I was allowed to work from home for as long as I need, and reports back from the most recent Health and Safety disaster, which ... eurgh! (Everyone involved is fine.)

16th was the President's Cup, where one of the Birmingham FC teams won, and not everything went on fire, which was even more pleasing.

17th I went to see the second of the new Musketeer films as a treat. It was non-bon.

On the 20th I came up to Mum's, thanks to colleague S2 allowing himself to be the only one in for one day. I asked for passenger assist. Of the 6 times I needed a ramp, a ramp was provided precisely 0 times. To the extent that I would have been left on the train at Leeds if I wasn't already recovered enough to do my own stepping. Disgruntled email being sent after the second leg.

Other than that, I can now stand on the ill tiptoes only, and can walk up and down stairs if I need to. Intriguingly, upstairs is as easy as pre-break, down is pain and suffering and difficult. There are now evac chairs at new work building but no-one trained to use them so the people who betted on "[real name redacted] will be able to do stairs before there are working evac chairs" won that bet.