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59. Paul Mooney: Analyzing White America
Paul Mooney was first introduced to me on Chappelle's show and I was intrigued by his delivery and style of comedy. He's quite up front and confrontational about his perceived slights. This was a recording of his stand up routine. While he's not very animated, and spends the entire set sitting back in a chair, he is no less captivating or boring because of it. While some of his material is more social commentary than actual comedy, he still delivers some funny stuff and entertains throughout.

61. 27 Dresses
Adie enjoyed this one. It starred Katherine Heigel, who I used to enjoy on Grey's Anatomy and in Knocked Up but who has fallen out of grace with me after she publicly bashed Knocked Up and it's creators as being misogynistic and exploitative. Here's a quick thought. If you thought it was derogatory and a bad role for you, don't take it. Here's one more. Don't bash the people that launched your movie career only after you've made a few more films (read: money). Anyway, this was a "rom-com" centered around weddings and whatnot. I'm sure it resonated a bit more with Adie due to the pending nuptials. I watched it with her one night to pad the stats for this year. It was light on both the rom and the com and ended up being really boring to me. Feel free to skip this unless your body possess ovaries.

62. The Love Guru
Skip it. It's not funny. It's borderline offensive if you think you know what funny is. I equated this the other day to a friend to be "Mike Meyers did something funny that was funny in 1997. And he's never changed the jokes. Just the wording. But the jokes remain the same. And if you hear a joke now that you heard 11 years ago, it's not going to be funny anymore." I only laughed one time, and it was during a scene where Mike Meyers was no where to be found.

63. The Dark Knight
You may have noticed, intrepid reader that I skipped a number earlier. Or you may have not noticed at all, in which case, shame on your head. You must read every last character that I churn out here. For they are all my children and I love them equally. Anyway, I saw The Dark Knight twice in a week. Thus the skipping of order.
It was awesome.
Dark, violent, and well paced. I love that Nolan doesn't have to bow to any pressures from the studio to make it family friendly like the original sequels. There isn't the need for huge tie ins to every imaginable product that must be acceptable to everyone in the world. The studio let the people make an awesome movie, and they will end up making close to a billion dollars on the whole thing when it's said and done.
The Joker is the best villain Batman has, and they nailed it down in the film. He's presented just as he should be in this type of movie. He's just a crazed man not afraid of anything and ready to deal out mayhem at the drop of a card.
My one complaint is the completely overacted and distractingly funny way Bale decides to voice Batman. They explain why he does it in the movie, to hide his real identity, but it's just so cheesy and fake. But if that's my only complaint about the movie, then they kicked some major ass.

64. Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Tour
One dark and gloomy day I found myself at home alone. Faced with a dark cloud overhead and nothing else to distract me I turned to Netflix and their wonderful new "View it now" option. I ended up watching three comedies in hopes of boosting my mood.
The first was this Vince Vaughn project. Much like the Dane Cook Tourgasm from a few years ago, they filmed a group of lesser know comics on the road with a well known headliner. The four guys they picked for the show were funny at times, adequate the rest of the time. It was more a documentary about their travels as they put on 30 shows in 30 nights. They toured the hurricane damaged south and donated money to charity. They toured around and did whatever they wanted for 30 days.
Overall it was funny at times. If you like seeing the behind the scenes stuff that goes into a traveling concert tour, than this will appeal to you more. But if you think your just going to see two hours of comedy, than you would be disappointed.

65. The Comedians of Comedy: The Movie
This was a repeat for me, but I knew it would guarantee a laugh. I love the four comics that they used for this project. Much like the previous entry, they followed comics trying something different and documented not only the shows by the rest of their travels. Check it out. It's much better put together and features some truly alternative and subversive comedy that will entertain to no end.

66. Super High Me
A documentary featuring known pot head Doug Benson in his quest to see the effects on his body after not smoking weed for 3o days, and then smoking weed all the time for 30 days following. He went to numerous doctors and psychologists to test his memory, IQ, psychic ability, sperm count, and overall health while he was "clean" and then took the same tests during his month long high. Overall it didn't make a huge difference either way to any of the tests. His one major revelation was that he thought he would be sick of smoking after 30 days, and he wasn't. And when I say he was high for 30 days, I mean all fucking day. He would smoke as soon as he got up and continue throughout the day until he went to sleep. There wasn't a waking moment for him that month that he wasn't high.
And much like Dave Chappelle has admitted, random people will recognize him and just give him drugs. So he's never at a shortage for weed.
This also featured a sub plot about the licenced and legal distributors in California who provide weed and weed products to those prescribed it medically. I'm not saying that those people shouldn't be able to use the drug to dull their pain. But instead of focusing on the patients and their true need for it, they just focused more on how the DEA wants to shut them down and how stupid hippies in cali think that their rights are being infringed upon. They call for the local government and police to enforce the state law, which allows the medical sale of weed, over the governmental jurisdiction. The funny part is that anywhere else in America you could never do what they do there. And they are all up in arms when one dispensary gets shut down for like a week. But the movie makes a point of pointing out that the number of dispensaries is constantly on the rise, and that there were like 300 others in the LA area that they could go to during that ONE WEEK they couldn't go to their preferred weed dealer.

67) Blade 2
I re-watched this one morning instead of tuning into my regular morning dose of sportscenter. And it pretty much was what I remembered. I think it was the best of the three blade offerings. The first movie was pretty awesome, but they had to set up all the back story and whatnot which had a tendency to drag on. The second offering in the series already had the basics established. Right off the bat they introduce the main villain, who kicks alot of ass. A new breed of vampire that was genetically modified by the other vampires in hopes that their known weaknesses would be erased. But in doing so, they created a creature much stronger than anything else, and someone who is really pissed at being cast off. So instead of the vampires feasting on the humans, and Blade trying to save them, it's a Vampire turning other vampires into it's bitch. Of course eventually they would turn on the humans once they ran out, but this movie doesn't fall into that old trap.
The visuals are pretty cool, the fight scenes passable. It was pretty good I thought. Any horror movie that takes a oft-tread theme, such as vampires or zombies, and can create something new out of it I will typically be a fan regardless.