I was kinda hoping that this list, would be topped by a fitting farewell to Harry Potter. Harry Potter on my lists has been, sort of a Neville Longbottom. Not to any fault of the series, but to an abundance of nerdy, geeky, blockbustery cinematic goodness. I wouldn't call Potter's decade a golden age for genre movies; during the interim after the Archon Masquerade, but before the awards, music was playing, movie music, the genre's greatest hits. The golden age was from Jaws to Jedi. This is also why Prometheus has such a special anticipation. Ridley Scott hasn't done a Sci-Fi movie since the Golden Age, and both of his contributions to Sci-Fi back then, are still just as watchable, no, even more watchable today, if only because the average home theater today is really delivering a better experience than most of the few screen, dimly projected, an old lady's hair in your way, my arm is stuck to the seat,would someone close the door the sun is shining on the screen (Did NOT make that up!!!!) theaters we got to view Empire, and Khan in.
I haven't seen most of the movies that are topping the "critical" lists yet. Most of those lists though are made out of buzz, and fashion. Almost no one ever says what they like anymore. Well, I apparently liked X-Men: First Class quite a bit. I almost can't imagine how much I'd love this movie it it'd been about Jean, Scott, Warren and Hank. But, had they been in this movie, it wouldn't have been about Erik and Charles. That's the beauty of the X-Men comics, the good characters' powers and code names are completely irrelevant. Cyclops the guy who can shoot beams out of his eyes isn't important. Scott, the guy Jean chooses over Warren, and later Logan, is. Sounds a bit like Twilight... I'll gag later. But I don't think Bella ever becomes a God powered, nearly immortal entity that is wanted dead by galactic superpowers, nor has a clone who will make a demonic pact unleashing Hell on earth, or that their child will come back from the future to be a cybernetic bad-ass! On to the list!
Oh, at #14: That's this...
An animated anthology starring Nathan Fillion as Hal Jordan. NOT a Ryan Reynolds stripped naked except for underwear to fight the potty monster who can be defeated by what every rookie lantern is taught in basic training. Mad at me for spoiling it? No. Because you deserve a better Green Lantern movie than that. Oh, and If I hate the live action one so much, why is it at #37? Ahead of much better movies? I LOVE Green Lantern. I love the idea of it being a live action movie just that much. There were some... a few good, and enjoyable things of that movie. Pirates 4 is a fine movie, just disappointing to it's pedigree. And, Game of Shadows... I'll revisit it at some point. Good friends with good taste love this movie. But, for right now, Sherlock Neo and the Sundance Kid in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen just doesn't do it for me.
- X-Men: First Class
- Harry Potter the Deathly Hallows: Part II
- Captain America: The First Avenger
- Rise of the Planet of the Apes
- Thor
- The Muppets
- Paul
- Conan the Barbarian
- Too Big to Fail
- Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
- All-Star Superman
- Transformers: Dark of the Moon
- Fright Night
- Green Lantern: Emerald Knights
- Source Code
- Batman: Year One
- Paranormal Activity 3
- The Adventures of Tintin
- Kung Fu Panda 2
- The Adjustment Bureau
- Dylan Dog: Dead of Night
- Larry Crowne
- Cowboys & Aliens
- Bad Teacher
- Rango
- Thor: Tales of Asgard
- Your Highness
- The Three Musketeers
- Fast Five
- Arthur
- Midnight in Paris
- Sucker Punch
- Super 8
- No Strings Attached
- Red Riding Hood
- Final Destination 5
- Green Lantern
- Drive Angry
- The Lincoln Lawyer
- Mars Needs Moms!
- Season of the Witch
- The Green Hornet
- Red State
- The Smurfs
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Stranger Tides
- Atlas Shrugged: Part 1
- Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
- Bridesmaids
- Immortals
- The Tree of Life
- Just Go with It
- Margin Call
- The Help
- Cars 2
- Battle: Los Angeles
- The Eagle
- Gnomeo and Juliet
- The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 1
- Rio
- Priest
- Limitless
- The Sunset Limited
- I Am Number Four
- Sanctum
- Almighty Thor
- Hall Pass
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