My movies this year

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So far this year, I haven't seen any extraordinary movies, and few that I really liked.

Here's my list for the year (in order from most to least) so far:

1. House of Flying Daggers: beautiful and moving
2. Bride & Prejudice: Bollywood-lite and Austin-lite but rather fun. And even Martin Henderson's Darcy won me over by the end.
3. Fever Pitch: sweet and funny
4. Hitchhiker's Guide: pointless but amusing
5. Dear Frankie: well written and well acted but ultimately going nowhere
6. Kung Fu Hustle: some amazing moments, but overall a 2 hour cartoon
7. Sahara: mindless but there are worse ways to waste $
8. Robots: see above. Only with no cute men to compensate.
9. Sin City: dreadful

Just for comparison, here are my last year's Top 10 (with those picks, I am clearly not an Academy member):

1 Hotel Rwanda: so amazing. I did see it this year, but it's last year's movie so goes into this list
2 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: most inventive and romantic movie ever made.
3 Before Sunset: even better than Before Sunrise. And shows that a movie with no kissing can be swoonily romantic.
4 The Aviator: I loved the visual style, and the fascinating central character.
5 Phantom of the Opera: Emotional feast
6 Finding Neverland: I sobbed for half an hour (Yeah, I know it's a better movie than POTO, mut I liked POTO better)
7 Stage Beauty: I love intelligent, witty period movies and this one is.
8 The Incredibles: come on, have you seen it?
9. Spiderman 2: so good. So goooooood.
10. ETA: Collateral: brilliant

Threeway-tie for a honorable mention:
(tie) Troy: cheesy but loads of fun. And Brad Pitt: rowr!
(tie) Shaolin Soccer: so funny.
(tie) Ocean's 12: The plot makes no sense, but who cares: this is too much fun!