Movies of 2007

Here’s the full list of 992 movies released in 2007.

And here’s the list of movies I saw–mostly when they came to DVD, since I can’t justify paying $40 to take my wife and kids to a theater (we had a couple of free passes for the only movie we all went to see this year, The Water Horse). Those that I’d recommend are in bold:

• Bridge to Terebithia (good film version of Katherine Paterson’s book)
• Amazing Grace (must see, about Wilberforce’s long effort to end slavery)
• 300 (graphic account of Thermopylae)
• TMNT (well, better than the other ones of this ilk)
• Spiderman 3 (ranks well below other two)
• La Vie en Rose (aka La Môme; disjointed biopic of Edith Piaf)
• Pirates of the Caribbean–At World’s End (way overblown)
• Ratatouille (cute)
• Fantastic Four–Rise of the Silver Surfer (yawn)
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (jogs the memory of scenes in the book)
• Underdog (cute)
• High School Musical 2 (my daughter loved it; I slept)
• Beowulf (gory re-paganized version of classic poem)
• The Water Horse (good children’s film)