A Long-Awaited Breath of Fresh Movie Air

Originally posted: Friday, November 16, 2007 7:43pm

After what seems like an ETERNITY of mediocre film casting, production, and distribution, we have finally broken into an absolutely excellent film season. Let's compare for just a moment or two, shall we?
Movies I avoided like the Plague of Black Death:
Stomp the Yard
Catch and Release
The Hills Have Eyes II
Georgia Rule
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Hostel, Part II (the first one was sooo unbelievably painful, I can't believe they got funding for a sequel!)
License to Wed (and Jon Krasinsky in IN my Top Five!)
Transformers
Harry Potter 20: Order of the Phoenix
Hairspray
I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry
The Bratz Movie (come ON!)
Daddy Day Camp
Rush Hour 3
Good Luck Chuck



The last few movies I'd seen this year before nearly giving up :
300 (meh)
Premonition (worst movie I've seen in months!)
Shooter (Mark Wahlberg let down)
Blades of Glory (might need to see this one again to fully appreciate it--like ALL Will Ferrell movies I see)
Fracture (way worse than I thought it would be)
Knocked Up (a big disappointment after 40-Year-Old Virgin)
Live Free or Die Hard (meh 'shoot em up')
Ratatouille (good for a movie about rats in a kitchen)
The Bourne Ultimatum (meh)
Becoming Jane (actually liked this one)
The Brave One (intriguing, but not a keeper)
3:10 to Yuma (okay, not great)
Elizabeth: The Golden Age (PALE comparison to the first film)

OKAY--so enough negative--it's finally time to focus on the solution to our movie woes and here they are!! :
Into the Wild (fantastic book, fantastic movie)
The Kingdom
Lust, Caution
Michael Clayton (although I did see this movie a few years ago. It was called Erin Brockovich)
American Gangster
No Country for Old Men
Gone Baby Gone
Lars and the Real Girl (unconfirmed--but seems promising)

Ahh--it's like deep, sweet inhalation of movie choices after a long and tortuous box office suffocation--a damn near complete crucifixion of film production. Go forth, settle in with the kettle corn, diet pepsi, and sour patch kids--there are FINALLY movies worth spending money on these days. Hoorah!