Obligatory End of Year Wrap Up Post

In 2008, I wasn't organized enough to keep a list of which books I read as I did in 2007, but it was probably rather less than 50. But, thanks to Netflix, I am able to easily recover a list of which films made it through my rather idiosyncratic random selection system again. So here they are, along with my sardonic short reviews:

1. Man on Wire: not to be confused with Man on Fire.
2. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer: Completely unmemorable
3. Porco Rosso: You'll believe a pig can fly!
4. The Yes Men: Pranksters take down the WTO
5. Kevin Smith 2: Evening Harder: Disc 1: Diminishing returns
6. Man on Fire: not to be confused with Man on Wire
   
7. Wishful Thinking: irredeemable weak rom-com
   
8. A Few Good Men: the truth hurts
   
9. Helvetica: You'll believe a font can love!
   
10. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: can't get you out of my head
    
11. The Cat's Meow: the truth Hearst
    
12. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End: and don't come back
13. Collateral: Damaged thriller
    
14. Adaptation: A proper Charlie
    
15. Chasing Amy: If you seek Amy?
    
16. Quadrophenia: Where do the Who live?
    
17. The Sting: Call the police!
    
18. Blade: Good clean Vampire fun
    
19. The Cheap Detective: The Falk Guy
    
20. Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic: Same jokes, different order
    
21. Steamboy: Steam punk
    
22. The Collected Shorts of Jan Svankmajer: Eat my shorts!
    
23. Ralph Nader: An Unreasonable Man: You'll believe a man can lose an election
    
24. Howl's Moving Castle: More Miyazaki Madness
    
25. King Kong: Gorilla goes Ape
    
26. D.E.B.S.: Oddly positioned lesbian love story
    
27. The Godfather: not the head you want to be given
    
28. Sketches of Frank Gehry: mind the sharp edges
    
29. All the President's Men: the truth brings down the pres
    
30. Street Fight: dirty politics in Newark
    
31. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington: best fillibuster in movie history
    
32. North by Northwest: crop-duster
    
33. Lost in Translation: Come again?
    
34. Ocean's Twelve: A sequel too far
    
35. Van Helsing: Mindless action
    
36. Maxed Out: apparently we're borrowing too much
    
37. Why We Fight: to feed the military-industrial complex
38. Silent Running: psychopath murders crew in space
    
39. Starter for Ten: UBris hubris