I hate to be down on another imdb favorite, by 2001:A space odyssey was unimaginative and extremely boring. Except for HAL. HAL was really cool, well worth fast forwarding through the rest of it. It starts with 3 minutes of blank screen with horrible "kubrick-music" and then 10 minutes of monkeys and then 10 minutes of spaceships floating. Jesus. Apparently the obelisk thing made the monkeys evolve into men, and then we were watching men evolve into giant space babies. Wheee.





The Prestige I think edges out The Departed for best movie of the year. Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Michael Caine and Scarlett Johansson. Director of Memento. Jackman and Bale are rival magicians, obsessed with one upping each other. Really well done, great acting and full of surprises.

Boondock Saints was pretty goofy, and most of the side characters were overdone. Would have been more effective if the other roles had been played straight. Gotta love the irish brothers reciting baddass prayers before shooting a bunch of people though, fun movie.