Movies 2008

Better late than ever.

Here's the movies I saw in 2008:

Cloverfield
The Spiderwick Chronicles
Be Kind Rewind
Semi-Pro
The Bank Job
Charlie Bartlett
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Smart People
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Baby Mama
Iron Man
Speed Racer
Young @ Heart
In Bruges
Drillbit Taylor
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Son of Rambow
You Don't Mess with the Zohan
Leatherheads
The Foot Fist Way
Girls Rock!
The Promotion
WALL-E
Hancock
Kung Fu Panda
The Dark Knight
Step Brothers
Space Chimps
Pineapple Express
Bigger, Stronger, Faster*
Tropic Thunder
The Wackness
Horton Hears a Who!
The Rocker
Hamlet 2
The House Bunny
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Zack and Miri Make a Porno
Role Models
Rachel Getting Married
Synecdoche, New York
Religulous
Bolt
Slumdog Millionaire
Frost/Nixon
Yes Man
Milk
Doubt
The Wrestler
Waltz with Bashir
Gran Torino
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Not as many as last year, but what can you do?

Top 10:

10. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - I might be overrating this, or I might be underrating it in fear that I'm overrating it. But having seen this about a week ago, desperate to get out of the house on a Tuesday and going to the world famous Pollack Cinemas and seeing it with a fairly-packed theater that was pretty much all captivated by the movie for the entire 2 hours 45 minutes (myself included)... it was MAGIC. I sn't it? That is what the movies are about folks. I don't know if I'll still care about this movie by the time it's a part of the Criterion Collection. But right now, I love it.

I don't have comments for the rest of the list :(

9. Frost/Nixon
8. Tropic Thunder
7. The Foot Fist Way
6. Waltz With Bashir
5. Drillbit Taylor
4. WALL-E
3. Synecdoche, New York
2. The Dark Knight
1. Cloverfield

Some honorable mentions (not in any order):

Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Iron Man
Religulous (liked this when I saw it, might not if I saw it again)
Role Models
Slumdog Millionaire

Overrated/Underrated:

Underrated: The Rocker - Man, was this movie that bad? You know what, maybe it was. I mean, obviously I'm going to like a movie about a drummer who helps a bunch of kids realize their rock and roll dreams. But what's so wrong with that?!

Overrated: Bolt - This movie isn't TERRIBLE, sure, but it's not that good. Kind of surprised how the reviews have been almost unanimously positive, cause it's pretty damn mediocre. It felt like Disney trying to not make a "generic Disney movie" and instead just making a generic movie. Personally, I'd rather take a generic Disney movie over Bolt. Even Dinosaur, huge piece of crap, just feels more like a Disney movie to me than this.

Favorite thing overheard in a theater: "Mickey Rourke, he used to be pretty handsome" - older lady to other older lady before The Wrestler started.

BONUS: Favorite thing overheard in a theater, 2007: "She's so flat-chested." - older lady to other older lady during Juno, in the scene where Juno is acting a fool in Jennifer Garner's bathroom.

Top 5 worst movies I saw this year:

5. Be Kind Rewind - Yeah, really didn't like this. I dunno, what did you think?
4. Non-post-makeover-Kat Dennings parts of The House Bunny.
3. Space Chimps - Not even Funniest Living Human Andy Samberg could help this crap. (YEAH I KNOW IT'S JUST A KIDS MOVIE, indulge me)
2. Baby Mama - aka Hey Judd Apatow and Jason Reitman, If You Wanted Me To Hate Knocked Up or Juno, Respectively, You Should Have Made It Like This
1. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - Oh man, South Park already made fun of this, I'm such a cliche.

See you next year. (?)