Movies this year...

[Speed Tracer]

So I figure we can use a thread to discuss the movies we've seen this year. I will tell you that I spend a lot of my time at local film festivals and traveling the state for stuff I think I may wanna see, and that's actually how I saw most of the movies in my top category. It's been a good year so far.

P.S. No I don't see EVERYTHING. If I have a slight interest in something, or if someone invites me to something, I'll see it. Yes, there's a lot of crap, but ya never now... the worst movies can have slightly redeeming qualities. If nothing else, I know that I've gotten that out of the way and if the opportunity should arise to see it again, I know I can back out. Plus I'm justified in hating on it.

Fantastic (9 - 10/10

"American Teen" - 9/10
"Baghead" - 9/10
"The Band's Visit" - 9/10
"Chicago 10" - 9/10
"Encounters at the End of the World" - 9/10
"The Fall" - 9/10
"The Foot Fist Way" - 9/10
"Forgetting Sarah Marshall" - 9/10
"Funny Games" - 9/10
"Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson" - 9/10
"In Bruges" - 9/10
"The Incredible Hulk" - 9/10
"Iron Man" - 9/10
"Kung Fu Panda" - 9/10
"Leatherheads" - 9/10
"Man on Wire" - 9/10
"Mongol" - 9/10
"My Winnipeg" - 9/10
"OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies" - 9/10
"Paranoid Park" - 9/10
"The Promotion" - 9/10
"Redbelt" - 9/10
"Snow Angels" - 9/10
"Son of Rambow" - 9/10
"The Spiderwick Chronicles" - 9/10
"The Signal" - 9/10
"Speed Racer" - 9/10
"Standard Operating Procedure - 9/10
"Taxi to the Dark Side" - 9/10
"The Visitor" - 9/10
"Young@Heart" - 9/10

Good (7 - 8/10)

"The Bank Job" - 7/10
"Be Kind Rewind" - 8/10
"Bigger, Stronger, Faster*" - 8/10
"Cassandra's Dream" - 7/10
"Chaos Theory" - 7/10
"Charlie Bartlett" - 8/10
"City of Men" - 8/10
"CJ7" - 8/10
"The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian" - 7/10
"Get Smart" - 7/10
"Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay" - 7/10
"Horton Hears a Who!" - 8/10
"Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" - 8/10
"Married Life" - 7/10
"Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day" - 7/10
"Penelope" - 7/10
"Rambo" - 8/10
"Run, Fatboy, Run" - 7/10
"Shine a Light" - 8/10
"Smart People" - 8/10
"Spiral" - 7/10
"Teeth" - 7/10
"Then She Found Me" - 8/10
"Trailer Park Boys: The Movie" - 7/10
"Under the Same Moon" - 7/10
"When Did You Last See Your Father?" - 7/10
"Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?" - 7/10

Average (5 - 6/10

"21" - 6/10
"Baby Mama" - 5/10
"Cloverfield" - 5/10
"Deception" - 5/10
"Definitely, Maybe" - 5/10
"Diary of the Dead" - 6/10
"Doomsday" - 6/10
"Drillbit Taylor" - 5/10
"Flawless" - 6/10
"The Grand" - 5/10
"Jumper" - 6/10
"Nim's Island" - 6/10
"The Other Boleyn Girl" - 5/10
"Pathology" - 6/10
"The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie" - 6/10
"Stop-Loss" - 6/10
"Strange Wilderness" - 6/10
"The Strangers" - 6/10
"Street Kings" - 5/10
"Vantage Point" - 6/10
"War, Inc." - 6/10
"You Don't Mess with the Zohan" - 6/10

Bad (3 - 4/10

"27 Dresses" - 4/10
"Fool's Gold" - 4/10
"The Forbidden Kingdom" - 3/10
"My Blueberry Nights" - 4/10
"The Ruins" - 3/10
"Semi-Pro" - 4/10
"Sex and the City" - 4/10

Terrible (1 - 2/10

"88 Minutes" - 2/10
"The Happening" - 1/10
"The Love Guru" - 1/10
"Postal" - 1/10

Will be updated as the year goes on.

 

[Ilikemuppets]

So, I take it "You Don't Mess with the Zohan", "Sex and the City" and "The Love Guru" are allover rated, right?

 

[Speed Tracer]

So, I take it "You Don't Mess with the Zohan", "Sex and the City" and "The Love Guru" are allover rated, right?

"Zohan" is actually not awful. I feel like it's Adam Sandler's best Adam Sandler movie in years (this is discounting his unusual dramatic fare like "Punch-Drunk Love", "Spanglish", and "Reign Over Me", all of which he's wonderful in). It's still really, really stupid. But it entertains.

I am not the target audience for "Sex and the City" so my rating should be kaput. However I was dragged to see it and my impression was that materialism gets really boring after fifteen minutes; two and a half hours is overkill.

As for "The Love Guru", I wouldn't say it's overrated, as the universal consensus is that it's fairly awful. If anything, someone who even remotely likes it will find it underrated. I found it offensive in many ways but mostly as a fan of Mike Myers. I laughed once, and that was at Justin Timberlake. Jus. Tin. Tim. Ber. Lake. I have no idea what's wrong with the world.

 

[Ilikemuppets]

I laughed once, and that was at Justin Timberlake. Jus. Tin. Tim. Ber. Lake. I have no idea what's wrong with the world.

You laughed at him or at something he said?