Movies of the Year

Last time I bored you senseless with a tedious list of books that I read in 2007. Now I can do the same with the list of all the movies that I watched in 2007. Well, not all the movies; only the ones that came to me in little red envelopes from the NetFlix corporation. They have a handy feature which lets you see the list of films that you've viewed, so it's just a matter of cut and paste. Just think, with increasing automation, soon everything you do, read, or watch can be conveniently documented, annotated, datamined and exploited. Won't that be fun? I could even trawl through my last.fm history and see what I listened to in 2007, but that would bore even me. Anyway, here's the list (with the customary 7 word review):

1. Fantastic Four: silly emotionless by-the-comic-book adaptation
   
2. Hellboy: Animated: Blood & Iron: fun but simplistic animated comic book movie
   
3. Topkapi: Peter Ustinov heist caper with Rififi riff
   
4. Garden State: You'll believe New Jersey can be romantic!
   
5. The Philadelphia Story: "screwball" Hepburn comedy with surprisingly few laughs
   
6. Local Hero: quicky rom-com: landscape is the love interest
   
7. Layer Cake: half Bond, half Lock-Stock, all half-baked
   
8. March of the Penguins: Just a nature documentary, why the fuss?
   
9. Firewall: Implausible Ford thriller, with too little technology
   
10. Little Miss Sunshine: Vastly over-rated failed to raise a smile
    
11. Accepted: Feel-good fake university comedy of the year
    
12. The Graduate: Parodies are more amusing than the original
    
13. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room: Scary story of corporate greed and fraud
    
14. Tommy: Quirky comic opera - an overlooked rock classic
    
15. Hacking Democracy: Troubling tale of tallies that don't tally
    
16. Passport to Pimlico: Amusing high concept lacks any noticeable jokes
    
17. Crank: Preposterous action video game in movie form
    
18. The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill: Hymn to San Francisco's birds and hippies
    
19. Catwoman: Surprisingly underrated comicbook caper ticks the boxes
    
20. Moulin Rouge: Dark musical with some show-stopping numbers
    
21. Wordplay: Gripping documentary on crosswords and their solvers
    
22. Flushed Away: Aardman's first CGI makes rats almost lovable
    
23. Man of the Year: Shows why Stewart-Colbert couldn't (shouldn't?) happen
    
24. Ocean's Eleven: Likeable heist movie carried by cast's charisma
    
25. A Prairie Home Companion: Weak adaptation but makes Lindsay Lohan likeable
    
26. Network: "I'm not going to take this anymore!"