Movies for 2008

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Okay! I am going to keep track of movies I see for the first time in 2008 with my rating out of five stars for them.


1) The Kite Runner 1/1/08 ***
2) The Great Debaters 1/2/08 ****
3) Persepolis 1/3/08 ****
4) There Will Be Blood 1/5/08 ****
5) Before the Devil Knows You're Dead 1/7/08 **1/2 --severely depressing.
6) Cloverfield 1/19/08 ***
7) 27 Dresses 1/20/08 **1/2
8) Teeth 1/21/08 ***
9) Michael Clayton 2/6/08 ***
10) 4 Months, 3 Weeks, & 2 Days 2/13/08 ****
11) Definitely, Maybe 2/15/08 ***1/2
12) Charlie Bartlett 2/25/08 **1/2
13) Vantage Point 2/26/08 ****
14) The Other Boleyn Girl 3/08/08 **1/2
15) Penelope 3/09/08 ***1/2
16) Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day 4/1/08 ****
17) Be Kind, Rewind 3/12/08 **
18) Sleepwalking 3/19/08 ***
19) The Spiderwick Chronicles 3/26/08 ***
20) Shutter 3/27/08 **
21) La Misma Luna 3/30/08 ***1/2
22) Stop Loss 3/31/08 ****
23) 21 4/01/08 ***
24) The Ruins 4/05/08 1/2
25) Superhero Movie 4/06/08 *1/2
26) Leatherheads 4/07/08 ***1/3
27) Run, Fat Boy, Run 4/08/08 ****
28) Smart People 4/12/08 **1/2
29) Prom Night 4/14/08 **
30) Forgetting Sarah Marshall 4/22/08 **
31) Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay 4/23/08 ***
32) Baby Mama 4/24/08 **1/2
33) Made of Honor 4/25/08 ***
34) Son of Rambow 5/7/08 ****1/2
35) The Counterfeiters 5/8/08 ****1/2
36) Iron Man 5/9/08 ****
37) The Fall 5/9/08 ****
38) Narnia: Prince Caspian 5/18/08 ***
39) Roman De Gare 5/20/08 ****1/2
40) Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 5/21/08 **1/2
41) Before the Rains 6/2/08 **1/2
42) The Strangers 6/3/08 **
43) Kung Fu Panda 6/11/08 ***1/2
44) You Don't Mess With the Zohan 6/12/08 **
45) The Incredible Hulk 6/13/08 ***1/2
46) The Promotion 6/16/08 **
47) The Happening 6/18/08 *
48) The Visitor 6/24/08 ***
49) Mongol 6/25/08 ****
50) Wall-E 6/27/08 ***
51) The Last Mistress 6/28/08 **
52) Brick Lane 7/1/08 ***1/2
53) Hancock 7/2/08 ***1/2
54) Get Smart 7/2/08 ***
55) Hellboy 2 7/12/08 *1/2
56) Wanted 7/17/08 ***
57) Kit Kittredge: An American Girl 7/17/08 **1/2
58) Mamma Mia 7/18/08 **1/2
59) The Dark Knight 7/18/08 ***1/2
60) Swing Vote 8/1/08 **
61) Brideshead Revisited 8/4/08 **
62) Tropic Thunder 8/14/08 ***
63) Hamlet 2 8/25/08 **1/2
64) Henry Poole is Here 8/26/08 ***
63) House Bunny 8/27/08 **
64) The Longshots 8/26/08 **1/2
65) Tell No One 9/2/08 ****
66) Burn After Reading 9/16/08 ***1/2
67) Traitor 9/17/08 ***
68) Igor 9/24/08 **1/2
69) Ghost Town 9/25/08 ***
70) The Duchess ***
71) The City of Ember ***
72) Blindness ***
73) The Secret Life of Bees **1/2
74) The Changeling ***1/2
75) Rachel Getting Married ****
76) W. 11/7/08 **1/2
77) House 11/8/08 **
78) Role Models 11/10/08 **
79) How to Lose Friends and Alienate People 11/10/08 ***
80) Quantum of Solace 11/10/08 **
81) Dark Floors 11/11/08 *1/2
82) Slumdog Millionaire 11/13/08 *****
83) Sex Drive 11/13/08 *1/2
84) My Best Friend's Girl 11/14/08 **
85) Mother of Tears 11/15/08 **1/2
86) Pineapple Express 11/17/08 ***
87) Zack and Miri Make a Porno 11/18/08 **
88) Angus, Thongs, and Perfect Snogging 11/18/08 **1/2
89) Twilight **
90) Bolt 11/30/08 ***1/2
91) Eagle Eye 12/1/08 ***
92) Milk 12/6/08 ****
93) Cadillac Records 12/6/08 ***
94) Australia 12/7/08 ****
95) The Black Balloon 12/8/08 **
96) Four Christmases 12/10/08 **1/2
97) The Children of Huang Shi 12/11/08 ***
98) Frost/Nixon 12/15/08 ****1/2
99) Doubt ***1/2
100) Let the Right One In ****
101) Seven Pounds ***
102) The Curious Case of Benjamin Button ***
103) The Tale of Despereaux ***1/2





0-1 stars: Unbearably bad
1 1/2-2 stars: Pretty bad, but has some redeeming qualities
2 1/2 stars: enjoyable but not outstanding
3 stars: Good, solid movie
3 1/2 stars: Better than average, highly recommended
4 stars: Outstanding
4 1/2-5 stars: Best of the best