2008 movie list

Below is a list of 58 movies that we watched in 2008 via Netflix. Watching movies at home has become one of our favorite things to do. Had we not moved last year, we likely would have added another 20-40 movies to this list.

I cheated and stole the hubby's ratings from our Netflix list. The wife is too lazy to take the time to rate movies.

I find it ironic that when the Lynn wanted to join Netflix, I told him I thought it was a bad idea. I thought that we'd never watch enough movies. It has been fabulous and I love the convenience of it all. I do nothing, Lynn is always putting movies in to the Queue. Most of the time, we watch good movies. Even the occasional duck that I wouldn't have chose has been usually been thought provoking and interesting enough to leave me scratching my head and pondering what I just watched.

Rarely do we watch a dog of a movie. Highlander: The Source was the exception to that rule. We complained throughout the whole movie at just how awful it was. The most surprising movie of the year for me was Outsourced. I was prepared to hate it and I loved it.

The biggest find this year was Lynn's discovery of Hayao Miyazaki, a director of animated films. His movies are magical, extremely creative and we love them.

Hayao Miyazaki Link

My personal favorites from the year are red.

1) 10,000 B.C. ***
2) 2 Days in Paris ***
3) 300 ****
4) A Streetcar Named Desire ***
5) Aeon Flux ***
6) Atonement ****
7) Black Book ****
8) Casablanca ****
9) Castle in the Sky *****
10) Chasing Amy ***
11) Chocolat ****
12) East of Eden***
13) Eragon ***
14) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind *****
15) Evita **
16) Grave of the Fireflies *** (Warning: very hard to watch. Animated film on war, bloody and very sad).
17) Hellboy ***
18) Hellboy II: The Golden Army***
19) Highlander: The Source *
20) Howl's Moving Castle *****
21) In the Valley of Elah ****
22) Jumper ***
23) Juno *****
24) Kiki's Delivery Service *****
25) Lions for Lambs**
26) Logan's Run ***
27) Meet the Robinsons ***
28) Merry Christmas ***
29) My Neighbor Totoro *****
30) Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind *****
31) Nim's Island ****
32) No Country for Old Men ***
33) Outsourced****
34) Pan's Labyrinth****
35) Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End *****
36) Porco Rosso ****
37) Princess Mononoke *****
38) Ratatouille ***
39) Rendition ***
40) Shooter ***
41) Spartacus *****
42) Spirited Away *****
43) Swimming Pool ****
44) The Cat Returns ***
45) The Darjeeling Limited ****
46) The Forbidden Kingdom ***
47) The Island****
48) The Kingdom ***
49) The Kite Runner ****
50) The Royal Tenenbaums ***
51) The Station Agent ****
52) The Wind That Shakes the Barley ****
53) Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion ****
54) Time Bandits ***
55) Total Recall ****
56) Volver ****
57) Waking Ned Devine *****
58) Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit ***