2007 movies.
© 2007 Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>

For the last several years, I have been posting movie reviews to my blog, but I didn't really post any in 2007, and this is why. I think my new year's resolution may have to be, "I am never going to a movie theatre again, and this time I really mean it." Next year, I should just wait for cable for everything. That way I can fast-forward. And the popcorn will be better, too.

As best I can recall, here are the movies I saw in theatres in 2007, and the shortest possible reviews I can muster, which in two thirds of the cases, is the longest review that they deserve:

Yay:
Children of Men	Great. Interesting story, believable characters, amazing cinematography and future-building. Saw it twice.
The Man From Earth	Great. Saw it twice.
Zodiac	Great. Historical SF reconstructions were neat.
Black Snake Moan	Great.
Ratatouille	Great.
Knocked Up	Great.	How is it that within a four month period, there were three different movies about unwanted pregnancies, and they were all good? That's just weird.
Waitress	Great.
Juno	Great.
Wristcutters: A Love Story	Great.
Ehhh:
No Country for Old Men	Pretty good. Somewhat unsatisfying.
Bourne Ultimatum	Fun. Would have enjoyed it more if I remembered what happened in the first two.
Live Free or Die Hard	Fun fluff.
Balls of Fury	Fun fluff.
Bridge to Terabithia	Pretty good, but I've forgotten it already.
Resident Evil: Extinction	Milla Jovavitch shoots things. Better than the last one.
Grrr:
28 Weeks Later	Weak.
Pan's Labyrinth	Sucked. The dream sequences were good, but I just didn't care in the slightest about the horrible lives the real-world characters lived.
The Number 23	Looked good, stupid lame-assed "twist" ending.
Pirates 3	Pretty much sucked.
Stardust	Mediocre, too long.
Sunshine	60% great, 40% utter crap. Go read BLDBLOG's review for a pretty good explanation (albeit in that weirdly drug-addled and overblown BLDBLOGgish way) of how it was almost a great movie, and then went completely off the rails into OMG Suck.
1408	Terrible.
The Mist	Fuck Stephen King, seriously. What a hack. Didn't I already swear I'd never see another movie that had his stink on it? Dammit.
Shoot 'Em Up	Fun for 30 minutes. The joke is over after that.
300	Very pretty. But crap.
The Golden Compass	Intensely boring. Crap CG animals. At least an hour of superfluous exposition.
Eragon	Mind-blowingly terrible.
Southland Tales	Sucked. How does self-indulgent bullshit like this get made without anyone involved having the sense to say STOP THAT?