Best/Worst of 2008

VICTORY IS MINE.

In an attempt to explore one of my favorite forms of entertainment, I set a random number of movies for myself to see that year. I put no restriction on if I had seen the movie before. The previous year I had a goal of 100 and fell short. This year I added 20 to the tally and went to work. Early on in the year I fully anticipated to shatter the number, as I kept on pace through July and figured I could even increase my consumption as the year continued. Boy was I wrong. Coming into the last week of 2008, I was still 12 movies short. I knew that I had to go on a binge and just put my head down and do nothing for one whole day but watch movies.

In the future I will avoid this technique in completing my tasks. I ended up focusing on movies that I had readily available that where short in length. I ended up finishing movie 120 around 8:30 on New Year's Eve. In the previous 36 hours I had watched 12 movies and was ready for a break.

Onto the stats and the ever present best and worst movies of the year. As a rule, I only counted movies that I watched in 2008 regardless of if they came out in 2008 or not. You may notice a few on my list that technically came out in 2007, but that I watched early in the year that still made the list. Get over it if it bothers you.

Of the 120 movies:
20 were viewed in a theater
19 I had seen before
12000 minutes (average of 100 minutes per movie) or 200 hours spent watching movies

This doesn't count any TV shows that I watched. I watched the entire run of Sex and the City, Veronica Mars season 2, and various other current tv shows. I would say I watched AT LEAST the same amount of TV as movies, if not more. And I don't want to hear anything about it.

Top 10 of 2008

10. The Mist
9. Pineapple Express/Foot Fist Way *TIE*
8. Hatchet
7. Wall-E
6. Tropic Thunder
5. Iron Man
4. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
3. The Dark Knight
2. No Country for Old Men
1. There Will be Blood

Worst of 2008

11. Doomsday
10. Because I said So
9. 27 Dresses
8. Superhero Movie
7. Hannibal Rising
6. Ghost Rider
5. Wanted
4. Meet the Spartans
3. Untracable
2. Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull bullshit
1. The Love Guru and House *TIE*

That's pretty much it. I didn't include any movies on these lists that I had seen before. My bottom 3 movies will go down as some of the worst I have ever seen. So kudo's for that.

For next year I have decided to add on 14 movies to my total, bringing it to a robust 134. That will add about 24 more hours to the experience. Feel free to comment on my lists if you so choose so we can engage in a hearty debate about why I am right and you are wrong.