RAMBO

Thinking his days of war and bloodshed are behind him, John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) lives a peaceful life in the jungles of Thailand. Even when Christian aid workers ask the former warrior to take them up the Salween River into Burma to deliver medical supplies, he refuses because he knows how dangerous a trip like that can be. The missionaries go anyway, and when they don't come back, Rambo crosses the border himself and dispatches Burmese soldiers with his traditional gusto to save the kidnapped innocents.

RAMBO received bad reviews from most critics. Although I knew this, as I paid for my ticket, I thought there was still a good chance of liking RAMBO. John Rambo solves problems with violence. Most critics are liberal, so any character that solves problems with violence can not receive a good review. RAMBO is a good movie with a great message. There are bad people in the world and sometimes kicking butt involves killing those bad people. Jamie says "7". Beware, RAMBO is bloodier than any horror movie you'll ever see. RAMBO is rated "R" for a reason.

JUMPER

One day, Davey (Hayden Christensen) discovers he has an amazing ability. He can teleport himself to any location at will. Using his newfound power to rob banks, Davey unwittingly becomes a target of National Security Agency officers and another person with the same exact power. Based on the popular young adult novel by Steven Gould.




Jumper is directed by Doug Liman. Until this disaster, Liman, resume was impressive; Swingers, Go, The Bourne Identity, Mr. & Mrs. Smith. All of these films were smart and interesting. Jumper is boring with poor special effects. Rent Liman's other films. Jumper gets a "2".

TOP TEN MOVIES OF 2007

Believe it or not, I usually have a difficult time creating my top 10 list each year. Typically, after choosing which film is my favorite, I find it to be painstaking effort to categorize the other films on the list. Over the years I’ve come to the conclusion that sometimes on a second viewing, a film that was placed as an Honorable Mention should have been placed in the top 10. I take my movie watching skills and ability very seriously. I have a responsibility to get the list as accurate as possible knowing that it will shape the course of your lives over the next few months.

This year I took extra effort to make sure each film is placed in its rightful position. Be confident that this top 10 list is the list to end all movie lists that encompass 2007. At post time I’ve viewed 101 films that were released in 2007. Like I stated above…I take my job seriously. A short review of most of these films can be found in previous postings. Enjoy.

THE TOP TEN MOVIES OF 2007

1. No Country For Old Men
2. There Will Be Blood
3. Away From Her
4. The Hoax
5. Into the Wild
6. Live Free or Die Hard
7. The Lookout
8. Juno
9. The Bourne Ultimatum
10. Rescue Dawn

Honorable Mentions..in no particular order
Knocked Up
The Mist
Black Book
Joshua
Smokin’ Aces
The Astronaut Farmer
300
Transformers
Oceans 13
1408
Year of the Dog
Grindhouse
Michael Clayton
Breach
The Kite Runner
Things we Lost In the Fire
Dan In Real Life
The King of Kong: Fistful of Quarters
The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford

THE TOP TEN WORST MOVIES OF 2007

As each year passes the year in question is usually remembered by one or two trends. For me, 2007 will be remembered for the failure of the "Hollywood nti-war" film. You may be asking..."What film's are you talking about?". If you ask that question, my point has already been made. Several anti-war films were released in 2007. Almost all received glowing reviews...And all were box-office bombs. Do you remember these films: Lions For Lambs, In the valley of Ellah, Grace Is Gone, and The Kingdom. The Kingdom made just over 50 million, but one can assume with its star power of Jamie Foxx and Jennifer Garner that it cost a pretty penny to be made and distribute. The other films made less than 10 million each.



One of these years Hollywood will give us what we want...Good movies. Most movie goers view movies as entertainment. We don't want to solve the world's problems when seeing a movie. We realize the world's problems can't be solved by sitting in a movie theater.

Why should American movie audiences trust Hollywood when they make and produce drek like the movies on the list below? My hope is that you haven't seen the films below. I hope that after seeing the films on this list that it will prevent you from seeking them out at the local rental out-let. My hope is that when you walk by these movies at your local rental out-let that you feel a sence of pride by not succumbinbg to the big Hollywood machine that continues to feed American audiences crap movies while we smile and ask for seconds.

THE TOP TEN WORST MOVIES OF 2007



1. NEXT Nicholas Cage never ceases to amaze me with his poor film choices. NEXT is an un-explainable action/sci-fi flick. See my review from November 2007.

2. PERFECT STRANGER Has halle berry been in good film since winning an Oscar 6 years ago? See my review from December 2007.

3. GHOST RIDER Nicholas cage officially gets a life-time acheivement from the "bad-movie" society for appearing in 2 of 3 worst movies of the year. See my review from december 2007.

4. DELTA FARCE Like you, I find larry the cable Guy hilarious when guesting on Bob & Tom and seeing him do stand-up on Comedy central. For whatever reason, his act doesn't translate well to the big screen. See my review from Novemeber 2007.

5. BALLS OF FURY I took one for the team by renting this pathetic immitation of a sports movie about an under-ground ping-pong tournament. For more, see my review from December 2007.

6. Shrek The Third Has a third-quel ever dropped so far below its 2 predicessors? I actually heard children crying in the theater while watching this mess of a movie.

7. FANTASTIC FOUR: RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER Like Ghost Rider above, another comic book adaptation bites the dust. Who knew there were surf boards in outer-space?

8. HOSTEL 2 One of the more disappointing films of the year. The first Hostel was legitimately scarey. This edition tried to be funny. It wasn't comical or scarey. Hopefully this will put to bed the "torture porn" films of the past few years.

9. BLADES OF GLORY similar to Balls of Fury, except this involves comepetive figure skating. Will Ferrell is in danger of becoming an SNL also-ran.

10. GOOD LUCK CHUCK Another stand-up trying to convert o films. Dane Cook misses the mark by a mile in this stupid gross-out comedy.

DISHONORABLE MENTIONS

NORBIT-Another stinker from Eddy Murphy
SAW IV-Enough all ready!
CATCH & RELEASE-A romantic comedy that involves a dead guy who cheated on his fiance and his best friend who swoops in to pick up the peices of the fiance's broken heart...Sounds funny doesn't it? This film stars jennifer Garner. I like jennifer Garner. Instead of this aweful film, check her out in 2007's JUNO and THE KINGDOM.