7 Word Weekend Movie Review: Season of the Witch, Nic Cage sucks, and my best of 2010

New Movie Releases Reviewed in 7 Words Each

Season of the Witch - I say let's just burn Nicolas Cage.

Alternatively Red Mor suggested to me: If you watched Ghost Rider, don't bother

Which I quite liked.

One movie? Must be January.

For awhile January was little more than a dumping ground for pictures that studios either gave up on or never had any faith in. More recently, because of that, it's become a time for throwing out a couple bigger pictures that won't have to compete against any real films. Cloverfield, for instance, did pretty well despite being hated, partly for its release in January (and partly because Abrams is often a better marketer than a film maker). The result is that it's no longer the barren movie watching time it once was. Though it still largely sucks.

Blah blah blah... Nic Cage... Blah blah blah... Who cares... Blah blah.

I think Corrupt Camel really said everything on the subject of Nic Cage in this post. Personally, I do think there's still hope of good films out of him yet, but darn it, Camel's passion on the subject of killing Cage, is just too infectious. 

As it's a quiet week and this column was silent for the past couple weeks I thought I would do that sort of end of the year, best of worst of thing, that probably would have been better last month. Mind you I was busy watching the complete series of Dark Oracle (review next week) and just being lazy in general. So here are my picks, not necessarily reflective of what were the best or worst in terms of quality, but completely biased in every way. I can be objective some other time.

Naturally they're all reviewed in 7 words.

7 Best movies of 2010:

 7. Get Low - Feel good funeral movie of the year.

6. Monsters - Monsters lead such interesting lives, monsters do.

5. Toy Story 3 - Better than two, but still no one.

4. Exit Through the Gift Shop - Vandalism never looked like so much fun.

3. How to Train Your Dragon - Vikings flying on dragons... can't beat that.

2. Despicable Me - Clearly the cutest animated film this year.

1. Scott Pilgrim vs The World - The favorite for all the cool kids.

7 Worst movies of 2010:

7. Dear John - Dear Sparks, I hate you. Sincerely, Me.

6. Diary of a Wimpy Kid - I now hate children thanks to this.

5. Letters to Juliet - Really I'm against any Seyfried postal movies.

4. A Nightmare on Elm Street - I think Freddie Krueger is finally dead.

3. The Last Airbender - Let us all hope he's the last.

2. Grown Ups - Original title, "The Seventh Layer of Hell".

1. Jonah Hex, Jonah Hex - So very bad, I named it twice.

Next week sees the release of The Green Hornet which I'm hopeful will kick some proverbial butt.

Have a great weekend everyone!