Ok, so I can’t think of 5 movies or DVDs that was released this year that I felt good enough to mention. Mostly I’ve been catching up on movies that I should have seen a looong time ago, but haven’t.

I will, however, list all the movies that I did enjoy.

  1. V For Vendetta
    I was wondering if I was going to like this movie when I stuck it in my Netflix Queue, but honestly, it drew me right in. Hugo Weaving did an incredible job creating the character of V. From what I understand, it’s extremely hard to convey emotion while acting if your entire face is hidden, but he pulled it off.

    Some people were turned off a bit by the apparent political message of the film, but as weird as this sounds, it made me think of some things from a different angle.

    This is by far the favorite movie I’ve seen this year.

  2. Superman Returns

    I was very, very hesitant to see this movie because I honestly don’t find superman that appealing. However, two weekends ago I was semi-forced into watching it and it’s actually a good movie. The reason I don’t find superman appealing is that he’s too powerful. When the writers have to invent a weakness for him because there’s no other way for him to be defeated…it just makes him that much less interesting. I prefer Marvel heroes generally. They feel more…real.

    But anyway, Kevin Spacey did a wonderful job playing Lex Luthor and Brandon Routh was perfect for his part as well.

  3. Over The Hedge

    Probably my guilty pleasure this year. I was entertained by it quite a bit. Not a deep movie by any means. The most memorable part was probably the kid in the the row behind me who was seeing the movie with his friends and he had obviously seen it before. He decided to preface every funny part of the movie with “THIS IS THE FUNNY PART!!”.

    I so wanted to strangle him after that…