What In Tarnation?!?!? In the Classroom

Every year Entertainment Weekly has their critics take a look at the past year and list their favorite and least favorite movies, books, momments in TV, music, etc. I have decided to take a look back at the year as well. This time I will look at movies.

1. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - I have been upfront about being a Harry Potter fan on this blog. The second movie only improves on the first. I really enjoyed the darker feeling of the movie.
2. Lord of the Rings: Two Towers - Unlike Harry Potter, I didn’t enjoy it quite as much as the first, but it is still a wonderful movie. This is the first movie that has a CGI character that I like, Gollam rocks!
3. Spiderman - What a fun movie that does justice to the source material. The casting was some of the best of the year. I am looking forward to more Spiderman movies, I hope that they realize that with great power come great responsibility (I love that line.)
4. Ice Age - I finally got to see this animated flick just last week and boy and I glad I did. It had the heart of Monsters, Inc. and the humor of Shrek.
5. Signs - Shyamalan is back on top of his A game. This alien invasion movie had some good shocks in it, it’s just too bad the ending had to be so contrived.
6. We Were Soldiers - Here is Mel Gibson again. This look at the Vietnam War was interesting.
7. Panic Room - I really enjoyed the look and the tension of this film. Yes, I did like the camera that glided through the house.
8. Minority Report - Cruise + Spielberg + Sci-fi story = entertaining movie.
9. The Ring - I thought it was twisted and I enjoyed the twisted ending, sue me!
10. Two fun sequels: Die Another Day and Star Trek: Nemesis - I am a sucker for series.

Now a look at the worst:

1. Time Machine - And it has nothing to do with the second row seats that I had to endure to watch this insipid movie.
2. Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones - Well at least the parts that were supposed to be a love story. Yoda kicked butt though!
3. Men in Black II - If I had wanted to see Men in Black, I would have rented it.
4. The Scorpian King - The Rock needs to keep with wrestling.
5. Crossroads/A Walk to Remember - Didn’t see these movies but I know that I would hate them.

A list of movies that I have not seen that could change these lists:

• All About Schmidt
• Chicago
• The Bourne Identity
• Road to Predition
• Catch Me if You Can
• Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

You can pick my picks apart in the comments.