Goodbye Boondock Sandler

Has it been three weeks since I wrote anything? It's hard to believe it.

A bout of late season flu laid me up for more than a week in late April. After I recovered I went on an incredible run of theater-going. Now I have fallen way behind on this blog. Actually this lag in my write-ups has been good thing, because it allows me to boil down what I was going to say, into just a few statements.

Among other things, I've made a decision: at the end of May, it will have been two years exactly since I set off on the quest to see all the movies released in theaters in the U.S., or as many as possible. I've done pretty well, by my reckoning, but all good things must end.

Frankly I'm tired out. I was going to suspend this at the first of the year, but Extraordinary Measures gave me a late rally to finish it out until now.

This doesn't mean I'm going to stop seeing movies---in theaters or otherwise---anytime soon. It just means I'm not geoing to be obsessive about seeing everything in the theaters. I'll probably still see almost everything at the Lyric (although Ben tells me that he'll look out for any Boondock Saints II that I could skip), and I'm still going to see plenty of first run movies, the ones that people talk about. I'm still going to write about it all here in this blog.

But last week while watching a trailer for the new Adam Sandler movie, the one where he pees in the swimming pool, and after seeing that it wasn't coming out until June, I felt a great sense of relief in saying to myself I'm not going to see that movie.

Best of 2009 (updated 4)

Best period drama Sixties movie: A Serious Man
Best Eighties movie: The Informant!
Best costumes: Bright Star

Best coming of age story (female): An Education Fish Tank

almost forgot about that little movie I saw in Galway.

Best of 2009 (updated 3)

Best teen movie: Adventureland I Love You, Beth Cooper
Best coming of age story (male): Adventureland
Best coming of age story (female): An Education

I have to give the Best teen movie award to a the traditional kind of full-of-life comedy, out of the spirit of what teen movies are supposed to be like.

Best supporting actor: Adam Rodriguez in I Can Do Bad All By Myself Timothy Spall in The Damned United

Best of 2009 (updated 2)

Best supernatural: Drag Me to Hell
Best Nazis: Inglourious Basterds Dead Snow
Best zombies: Zombieland Dead Snow
Best movie-within-a-movie: Stoltz der Nation, in Inglourious Basterds
Best cameo: Bill Murray in Zombieland

Best of 2009 (updated)

Best teen movie: Fired Up Adventureland
Best cheerleader movie: Fired Up
Best musical: The Hannah Montana Movie
Best song: "Friends on the Other Side," word and music by Randy Newman, performed by Keith David in The Princess and the Frog.