2008 Movie Review

I’m sure Roger Ebert has me beat, but 191 movies watched in 2008 seems like a lot for one year. I’d like to get the ratio of books read to movies watched a little closer in 2009. Regardless, here are my lists for movies watched in 2008:

Top Ten Movies Watched in 2008
» Hotel Rwanda
» Gone Baby Gone
» Juno
» Once
» Into the Wild
» Lars and the Real Girl
» Outsourced
» The Visitor
» Iron Man
» The Dark Knight

Honorable Mentions
» Wall-E
» Kite Runner
» The Station Agent
» Hellboy
» Mr. Brooks
» Kill Bill Vol. II
» Vanilla Sky

Worst Ten Movies Watched in 2008
» The Contract
» Stone Cold
» Indiana Jones: Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
» Stealth
» You Don’t Mess with the Zohan
» 88 Minutes
» Love Guru
» Forgetting Sarah Marshall
» Snakes on a Plane
» Total Recall

Honorable Mentions
» Flags of our Fathers
» Enchanted
» King Kong
» Walk Hard

Top Five Documentaries Watched in 2008
» Murderball
» Born Into Brothels
» The King of Kong
» Young @ Heart
» War Dance

Most Unexpectedly Fun Movie Watched in 2008
» Music & Lyrics

2008 releases I’m most looking forward to watching in 2009
» Gran Torino
» JCVD
» Miracle at St. Anna
» Righteous Kill
» Henry Poole Is Here
» Body of Lies
» Slumdog Millionaire
» The Wrestler
» Defiance
» Doubt

Honorable Mentions
» The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
» The Express
» Bolt
» W.
» Milk
» Pride and Glory
» Changeling

2009 releases I’m most looking forward to watching in 2009
» Fanboys
» Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
» The Informant
» Inglorious Basterds
» Terminator Salvation
» X-Men Origins: Wolverine
» State of Play
» Duplicity
» The Soloist
» Sherlock Holmes

Honorable Mentions
» Knowing
» Angels & Demons
» Boondock Saints 2
» Night at the Museum 2

6 Comments »

  Rick Boyer wrote @

Hi. I read a few of your other posts and wanted to know if you would be interested in exchanging blogroll links?

  vince wrote @

Lars and the real girl – awesome

looking forward to Che

  mudpuppy wrote @

@vince_ I have Che in my Netflix Que, but that 4+ hour commitment has me waivering. I might have to look at it like a mini series or something.

  Brad Ruggles wrote @

Dang, now that is quite the movie list!! I’d probably agree with most of your placements other than maybe Enchanted. I went and saw that in the Theater with Lisa when we were in Chicago. I thought it was pretty cute.

Another thing I was just talking with Lisa about the other day was how stinking expensive movie tickets have gotten. $9.75 for a single ticket? Come on! and $7.75 for a matinee. That’s just getting ridiculous. We’ve been renting a lot more lately.

  pastorhawkins wrote @

Excellent movie reviews! For the ones I saw, I concur. Amen on the Zohan. I felt like I needed to take a shower after that one. (I’m a little embarrased to admit viewing it!)

  worshipcity wrote @

Total Recall is on the wrong list man!! Are you kidding me? That movie’s hilarious :)
Next needs to be Running Man. Haha.


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