Post my Annual "Top 10 Films" list

1. Serenity
2. Ice Age 2
3. Walk the Line
4. Pirates of the Carribean 2
5. Cars
6. The Interpreter
7. The Lake House
8. Narnia
9. Mission Impossible 3
10. The Break-Up
    Munich still comes in last at #22 out of the new films I saw last year.

I’m glad I did this goal, it made me see far more films and actually think about the kind of things I like watching.

Trennung mit Hindernissen
Sorry I don’t know the english title, it’s the Jennifer Aniston/Vince Vaugn film. Totally not the usual hollywood love story, for which I quite liked it. Funny for the most part, but really took a while to get going I thought.

12. Die fetten Jahren sind vorbei:
I saw this on DVD for the first time last weekend. I liked the story and the idea. I thought it was rather clever, but it isn’t a film I could watch over and over again.

13. Nirgendwo in Afrika:
I saw this on DVD for the first time last weekend too. I thought it was better than “die fetten Jahren sind vorbei”. The scenery helped I think.

Pirates of the Carribean 2
This gets 4.5 stars out of 5. The music was great, I loved the special effects and the new baddies (well I hated them, but I loved how they looked). The end was totally unexpected. It loses the half star for the length.

The Lake House
I really liked the way this was done. I guessed the twist a lot sooner than most other people in the cinema. I still liked watching it to the end to see how it would play out. And I cried buckets.

I saw Mission Impossible 3 just now. I am not a fan of sequels in general, but MI2 was so much better than the first and I had heard good reviews of this one and the trailer looked fun.
It was kinda cool, but not as funny as the second. It’s nowhere near the top of my list of favourite films of the year.

the 8th new (to me) film I’ve seen this year is The 40 year old Virgin. Hillarious, but not as funny as Ice Age 2.

was Basic Instinct 2
to be honest I didnt realise there was a second one and it was about 5 mins into the film before I realised the London scenery was a bit new for the original (which I have not seen so do not know where it is set).
Seeing it in German kinda changes my experience of it a bit, but it was still good. I have nothing to compare it too though – I will have to see the original one day.

this year was Ice Age 2, which was possibly even better than the first (in my eyes at least). Some of the old well-loved gags as well as a barrel full of new ones. A few interesting new twists and a lot more Scrat. I’ll have to let it settle in my head for a while before I decide where to put it in the rankings for this year so far.

I just got back from seeing Walk the Line at the cinema. It was really good for many reasons. I loved the music, the cinematography, the actors and well all of it.