Manhattan Buckeye;998612 wrote:Lots of movies suck. On the other hand there are lots of movies I like. '10 had one of the best years for movies, I watched True Grit, King's Speech, Toy Story 3 and Black Swan back to back to back to back on a plane and enjoyed all of them.
'11 has pretty much stunk. Aside from X-Men First Class the superhero films weren't great, with Captain American being partly watchable. Pixar's offering this year was subpar with Cars 2. The other animated films (Rio, Rango, etc.) weren't anything to write home about. Super 8 was probably the most overrated film of the year, although my wife liked it. Probably the best comedy was Bridesmaids which was ok, but not as good as previous years' best comedy and Moneyball was the best drama film, and I wouldn't put it in the same category as the top films of '10.
If a movie stinks, I'm not going to candycoat it, and Spielberg has put out some crap lately. For God's sake just try to defend Indy 4. Even the actors admit it was terrible.
I keep hearing how good Bridesmaids was. Whoever makes trailers for movies didn't do a very good job for that flick then because I didn't really see much in the preview that made me think it would be funny. I have yet to check it out for myself though. I really liked Change Up though. I thought it was the best comedy that I caught at the theater. I concur about Super 8 being the most overrated film of the year.
