Last time I did a mid year report some people didn't know I was exaggerating to make a point and got upset. So I am doing two things:
1. I am going to give you a disclaimer if I exaggerate.
2. I am not going to exaggerate.
I need a job.
Yeah by this time last year I had seen a lot more than 10 movies...and this has effected the outlook on the year in a major way but even so taking into account I have seen the big movies up to this point and some of the smaller ones and if I were to take this as a cross section sample of the whole... (It's a math thing lets skip over this boring stuff)
AHEM- My conclusions: 2008 was a very good year as a lot of very good movies came out that year, probably one of my favorite years overall. Now this may be because I have seen more movies but like a I said 2009's sample isn't faring too well as a example. Now by this time 2008 had a lot of bad movies too. So 2009 is kinda sharing a mediocre rating as everything is kinda hanging around the middle. On the flip side there are some exceptions and we have learned some things. So some awards:
The "Sam Raimi didn't lose his mind" award: Drag Me to Hell
The "Tom Cruise was not in Prom Night" award: Christian Bale for Watchmen
The "Isn't Really as Bad as Everyone Says but its Still Lousy" award: Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
The "Good Sequel" award: Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
The" Better than the Last One but Isn't the Best Installment" award: Terminator Salvation
The "Underachieving Sequel/ Paul is going to hate me" award: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
The "I am in freaking everything this year" award: Eric Bana (For Mary and Max, Star Trek, Love the Beast, Funny People, The Time Traveler's Wife and Armored)
Biggest Surprise: Star Trek
The Consistency Award: Pixar for Up and Sam Mendes for Away We Go
Best Poster: Drag Me to Hell
So in Conclusion:
Films I most likely will still be talking about at the end of the year: Watchmen, Up, Away We Go
Other Noble Efforts: Star Trek, Taken, Drag Me to Hell
Everything else has been fun for the moment to forgettable, but luckily nothing has been pure garbage. So like I said, not bad but nothing special. So who do we look for to save the year. Lots of good looking things ahead, my anticipated movie list runs strong but two film stand above them all. Two films I really cant wait for. Two films that look so good that it reignites that fire, they reminds me why I go to movies and make movies:
