I saw:
Button- disappointing.
Milk- Good but not great, didn't stick with me
Slumdog- started out like it was going to be interesting, then turned into every other stupid sappy movie on the planet

I want to see The Reader because I read the book a few years ago and liked it a lot. Glad to hear you liked it, danf.
I am semi-interested in Doubt.

Oh I saw Milk also, down in the Castro. I thought it was a great movie and seeing it on that street added to it a lot.

Well, I won't be seeing any new movies for the foreseeable future. But I have watched some 2008 releases on netflix in the past couple of weeks.

Control - I'm the Joy Division fan of the family (mr. gaspode didn't even recognise Love will tear us apart) but we both quite liked the movie. Sam Riley looked creepily like Ian Curtis, and did his crazy, scary dancing too well.

Tropic Thunder - Very funny. Lots been said about Robert Downey Jr and how good his character was, but I really liked Jay Baruchel's neophyte actor character.

In Bruges - Loved it. Probably my favorite 2008 movie. Dark, funny, twisted and sad. Ralph Fiennes surely doing a Ben Kingsley homage (Sexy Beast), but doing it awesomely.

Benjamin Button - I enjoyed it immensely and was only slightly distracted by Blanchett's icy performance. Brad Pitt in all his digital ages still managed to deliver a solid although nuanced performance. David Fincher delivers.

Doubt - seemed like a play-to-movie-adaptation and while it was very well acted the direction was a tad distracting.

Milk - a curious docu-drama that mixed archival footage in between acted scenes. Overall, the acting, across the board, was as solid as anything I've seen in some time. I was turned onto the 1984 Academy Award winning documentary that is available on Hulu for free and found striking similarities.

The Tale of Despereaux - delightful but failed to stand out in any way that I had hoped it might. I may have been distracted at another voice turn by Dustin Hoffman (Kung-Fu Panda) or, perhaps, nothing can come close to WALL-E.

Yes Man - This was recommended to me as "one of the best Jim Carrey movies in years". Meh. It was still a Jim Carrey movie and, in retrospect, I got exactly what I should have expected. Some chuckles, some laugh-out-loud moments, along a predictable story arc. Zooey Deschanel was delightful. If you must see it, wait for the DVD.

Let The Right One In (Låt den Rätte Komma In) - I didn't see Twilight but this is the movie involving vampires to see this season. Spooky, tense and enchanting it is the unlikeliest of love stories. In Swedish with English subtitles it has already been picked up for an English language remake to be directed by Cloverfield director, Matt Reeves.

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas - a tragically sad tale of a Nazi Commandant's son and his across-the-fence relationship with a young boy being held in the concentration camp his father runs. A child's perspective on the holocaust. Typically foreign in that I knew none of the actors and enjoyed it all the more for it.

Happy-Go-Lucky - a quirky British film about a girl that manages to stay positive through the strangest of circumstances. I thought she seemed daft. Sweet, but daft.

Slumdog Millionaire - Amazing! The manner in which this film weaves it's story is captivating and the acting was brilliant. Three of the characters are portrayed by three different actors at different ages and the casting and acting was awesome. The film is gritty but not lacking the splashes of Indian color that refocus your attention. I especially loved the way pop-culture was used as a vehicle for the story. I would see this again.

So, that covers the last 45 days of movie going for me.

Right before Christmas I saw JCVD which was awesome. Like In Bruges, it also was filmed in Belgium and made me love the Belgians for more than just their waffles.

Movies that are fresh in my mind after the accident:

Kung Fu Panda (No. 1)
Finding Nemo (A movie which tugged at my heart so much!)
Ratatouille (Good, but maybe a bit too much in the head)

The Dark Knight (Finally, some one who is capable of handling Batman)

Ghajini (Foreign/Indian/Mumbai)

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I saw the following over the holidays:

Yes Man: My friend made me go. I concur with geekyguy. A Jim Carey movie that I didn't hate. A few chuckles.

Four Christmases: My friend made me go, version 2. Sucked, except for the scene where Jon Favreau's MMA-obsessed character and his pregnant wife dominate at a game of Taboo.

Slumdog Millionaire: Good, but kinda sappy for me.

Gran Torino: I'm not quite sure what to think of this one. The plot was totally telegraphed, but Eastwood is quite entertaining as a hateful old man with a penchant for ethnic slurs. Way better than that piece of shit Million Dollar Baby.

Milk: Good, but bio-pics are usually pretty meh in my mind. I'm glad I saw it and learned more about the man, but I wouldn't give it any awards.

Frost/Nixon: Probably my favorite movie of 2008. But I'm a sucker for old white guys with power.

The Wrestler: Saw it last night. Rourke is brilliant, but the movie is all mood and no plot. Not nearly as manic or bizarrely interesting as Aronofsky's other movies, but worth seeing.

No Country for Old Men: I saw it when it opened last year, but it played repeatedly on cable at my parents' house over Christmas. I couldn't stop watching it and I'm even more convinced it's a truly brilliant movie. Way better than the book too.

I saw Slumdog and Doubt with my mom (her choices).

Slumdog was good, although very grim. It sort of felt like someone said "okay, how many shitty things can we make happen to one character?" In that sense, it came across as very contrived. It also felt about an hour longer than it actually was. A good film, but not very much fun to watch.

Doubt was dreadfully boring. Definite play-to-movie feel, as mentioned above. The acting was good, yes, but it was basically Meryl Streep doing the "Oh look, I'm creating a character!" thing. My mom fell asleep and started snoring after about 20 minutes. When we walked out she asked me, "So did he do it?" I said, "We don't know." She replied, incredulously, "After sitting through THAT we still don't KNOW????"

Didn't see any new ones, but we did catch these off the Roku box:

Outsourced: liked it - it was funny, and an interesting portrayal of both city and countryside in India. Not too deep.

Then She Found Me: this movie sucked. It was like they changed the plot toward the end 3 or 4 times because they couldn't decide which one to go with so they crammed them all in. Plus, I've never been a fan of movies which are also directed by the people who star in them. Helen Hunt should've stopped with Mad About You. the 2 movies I've seen with her in them both sucked. This one and As Good As it Gets. Same flat, no emotion, rehearsed delivery & waiting for something to happen. Can you tell I hated it?!

Wanted to see Yes Man but didn't get to it.