My Attempt at a 2007 List... Thing
Wednesday, January 2
Forgive the random unorganized structure of the following post. I'm simply just sitting in front of the computer typing random thoughts that will pop into my head, and that's just dangerous.
My Attempt at a 2007 List... Thing
Um, Band/Artist that really clicked with me:
I would probably have to say Flyleaf. After running their cover of "Pride (In the Name of Love)" from the Family Values Tour cd, I purchased their album and find it in my CD player for extended lengths of time.
Runner Up tie: Ozzy Osbourne & 10 Years
Book I Actually Read and/or enjoyed:
Well, this is a short list. I don't read many books. In fact I think it was only these two.
The winner would be Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. After enjoying the series of Harry Potter movies, to my astonishment found that they were based on books (ha ha). So, instead of foolishly reading the series from the beginning, I said to myself, "Just read the next book after the last movie." And so that's what I did. And as I read it I found myself just plugging the actors into every role. I could probably hear the John Williams score in the background at times. I look forward to seeing this made into a film, and for the first time I'll understand all the complaints about stuff being left out by people who actually read the books.
Runner Up: Clapton - The Autobiography
Best New TV Series of 2007:
Holy crap, it's a show on the CW. Behold! Reaper! A show about a guy who turns 21 and finds out that his parents sold his soul to the Devil, and becomes the Devil's goto guy for capturing escaped souls from hell. But that's just the premise, the real show is about his life at work and his friends; namely a guy named Sock.
CURSES YOU WGA STRIKE, this show only has 13 episodes under it's belt and has now gone into hiatus. I fear the strike maybe harmful to many new shows future.
Runner Up: The Soup on E! (ha, it's not REALLY a new show, but it's new to me!)
Best Movie I Saw In a Theatre in 2007:
Now, I'm kinda horrible at remembering all the movies that came out almost a year ago. But I do know I haven't seen a movie really since all the summer blockbusters. And not all of those were winners. So, to best that I can remember, I would have to say that Grindhouse was the best theatrically seen film I saw in 2007. It was fun. It was funny. It was wrong. It was two, TWO Movies in ONE! It had a great overall feel to it, and I want another one. Too bad the box office take didn't fair too well for it. Hopefully DVD sales and word of mouth will make both "Planet Terror" & "Death Proof" into cult status films. Personally, I'm waiting for the eventual box set.
Runners-Up: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End
Movie Disappointments of 2007 (Theatrically):
Tie! Shrek the Third - Spider-man 3 - Transformers!
The Shrek series keeps getting worse with each installment. Just like Mike Myers other franchise Austin Powers. I think I only really laughed when Snow White made a funny at Led Zeppelin's expense.
Other than that, it just didn't do much for me. Spider-man 3's problem was that they crammed two movie's worth of plot into one movie. Much like the 90's Batman films, when you start throwing multiple villains into the mix, let alone two love interests, holy crap, you've got one hell of a long jumbled movie. And finally Transformers. Don't get me wrong. This was close to going into the best of category, it was funny at times and the action was good. Graphics, what have you. But it's those unnecessary for the sake of a joke moments (Bumblebee "pissing" on a guy) and deviating from the original source material (where the fuck was Soundwave?) that kept me from fulling enjoying this film. However, with that said, bring on the sequel!
Runner Up: Hot Fuzz - Say what? Yeah, you go in expecting a movie like Shaun of the Dead or the show Spaced. The pacing was very slow and took away from me fully getting into it. I absolutely LOVED the end of the film, where it shined in poking fun at the genre it set out to mimic (i.e. buddy action flicks).
Best Show I Discovered After It Was Released On DVD in 2007:
Um, I've only watched a handful of episodes of this series, so this first season could easily go to crap, but for what I've seen... it's Jericho. First off, it takes place in Kansas, which I'm easily a sucker for (Smallville). And then it's got nuclear bombs exploding all over the place (I like them mushroom clouds, I think they're pretty looking). But in all seriousness, America is pretty well hit across the nation with nukes, and the people of Jericho are shown dealing with the aftermath. I'm digging it so far.
Runner Up: Scrubs (yeah, took me a while)
Best Video game of 2007:
Um... Can I say Guitar Hero II? Technically it was released in November of 2006 but I played the hell out of it in 2007. If not, then hell... Guitar Hero III! HA HA HA HA.
Runner Up: Um... Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80's? Where there any other games released this year?
Best Comics of 2007: Quick Rundown
Best New Series - Justice Society of America. Lots of characters. Good stories. A series to care about by a great creative team.
Runners Up: Booster Gold & Avengers: Initiative
Worst New Series - Countdown. And it's why I stopped purchasing it. God I hope it doesn't get good.
Runners Up: Infinity Inc. (this series better pick up REALLY fast), Teen Titans (just a dry spell, I'm sure), and Batman and the Outsiders (this should be a great book, BUT it's changing too fast for any enjoyment to be had... damn DC... get it together).
Best Mini-series - Black Adam. It's not even over yet. Without a finale, I still read this amazed by just how much I care about the world surrounding this super mass murder of nations. I think this character just generated so much sympathy when he went legit, and then watched his world crumble beneath him.
Runners Up: Sub-Mariner & New Avengers: Illuminati
Best "Event" - Sinestro Corps. A galactic adventure with cream of the crop baddies.
Runners Up - Civil War & 52
Worst "Event" - Spider-man: One More Day. I only read the first half of this it was so bad. But I hear how it ended. Is it wrong of me to judge something I didn't finish? Oh well, who's reading this anyway?
Runner Up - World War Hulk. The only thing I really dug was the X-Men plug they spun a mini-series out of it.
That's it. I pretty much ran out of stuff (for the moment) to comment upon. That's a rap... and possibly my longest post.
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My Attempt at a 2007 List... Thing
Um, Band/Artist that really clicked with me:
I would probably have to say Flyleaf. After running their cover of "Pride (In the Name of Love)" from the Family Values Tour cd, I purchased their album and find it in my CD player for extended lengths of time.
Runner Up tie: Ozzy Osbourne & 10 Years
Book I Actually Read and/or enjoyed:
Well, this is a short list. I don't read many books. In fact I think it was only these two.
The winner would be Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. After enjoying the series of Harry Potter movies, to my astonishment found that they were based on books (ha ha). So, instead of foolishly reading the series from the beginning, I said to myself, "Just read the next book after the last movie." And so that's what I did. And as I read it I found myself just plugging the actors into every role. I could probably hear the John Williams score in the background at times. I look forward to seeing this made into a film, and for the first time I'll understand all the complaints about stuff being left out by people who actually read the books.
Runner Up: Clapton - The Autobiography
Best New TV Series of 2007:
Holy crap, it's a show on the CW. Behold! Reaper! A show about a guy who turns 21 and finds out that his parents sold his soul to the Devil, and becomes the Devil's goto guy for capturing escaped souls from hell. But that's just the premise, the real show is about his life at work and his friends; namely a guy named Sock.
CURSES YOU WGA STRIKE, this show only has 13 episodes under it's belt and has now gone into hiatus. I fear the strike maybe harmful to many new shows future.
Runner Up: The Soup on E! (ha, it's not REALLY a new show, but it's new to me!)
Best Movie I Saw In a Theatre in 2007:
Now, I'm kinda horrible at remembering all the movies that came out almost a year ago. But I do know I haven't seen a movie really since all the summer blockbusters. And not all of those were winners. So, to best that I can remember, I would have to say that Grindhouse was the best theatrically seen film I saw in 2007. It was fun. It was funny. It was wrong. It was two, TWO Movies in ONE! It had a great overall feel to it, and I want another one. Too bad the box office take didn't fair too well for it. Hopefully DVD sales and word of mouth will make both "Planet Terror" & "Death Proof" into cult status films. Personally, I'm waiting for the eventual box set.
Runners-Up: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End
Movie Disappointments of 2007 (Theatrically):
Tie! Shrek the Third - Spider-man 3 - Transformers!
The Shrek series keeps getting worse with each installment. Just like Mike Myers other franchise Austin Powers. I think I only really laughed when Snow White made a funny at Led Zeppelin's expense.
Other than that, it just didn't do much for me. Spider-man 3's problem was that they crammed two movie's worth of plot into one movie. Much like the 90's Batman films, when you start throwing multiple villains into the mix, let alone two love interests, holy crap, you've got one hell of a long jumbled movie. And finally Transformers. Don't get me wrong. This was close to going into the best of category, it was funny at times and the action was good. Graphics, what have you. But it's those unnecessary for the sake of a joke moments (Bumblebee "pissing" on a guy) and deviating from the original source material (where the fuck was Soundwave?) that kept me from fulling enjoying this film. However, with that said, bring on the sequel!
Runner Up: Hot Fuzz - Say what? Yeah, you go in expecting a movie like Shaun of the Dead or the show Spaced. The pacing was very slow and took away from me fully getting into it. I absolutely LOVED the end of the film, where it shined in poking fun at the genre it set out to mimic (i.e. buddy action flicks).
Best Show I Discovered After It Was Released On DVD in 2007:
Um, I've only watched a handful of episodes of this series, so this first season could easily go to crap, but for what I've seen... it's Jericho. First off, it takes place in Kansas, which I'm easily a sucker for (Smallville). And then it's got nuclear bombs exploding all over the place (I like them mushroom clouds, I think they're pretty looking). But in all seriousness, America is pretty well hit across the nation with nukes, and the people of Jericho are shown dealing with the aftermath. I'm digging it so far.
Runner Up: Scrubs (yeah, took me a while)
Best Video game of 2007:
Um... Can I say Guitar Hero II? Technically it was released in November of 2006 but I played the hell out of it in 2007. If not, then hell... Guitar Hero III! HA HA HA HA.
Runner Up: Um... Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80's? Where there any other games released this year?
Best Comics of 2007: Quick Rundown
Best New Series - Justice Society of America. Lots of characters. Good stories. A series to care about by a great creative team.
Runners Up: Booster Gold & Avengers: Initiative
Worst New Series - Countdown. And it's why I stopped purchasing it. God I hope it doesn't get good.
Runners Up: Infinity Inc. (this series better pick up REALLY fast), Teen Titans (just a dry spell, I'm sure), and Batman and the Outsiders (this should be a great book, BUT it's changing too fast for any enjoyment to be had... damn DC... get it together).
Best Mini-series - Black Adam. It's not even over yet. Without a finale, I still read this amazed by just how much I care about the world surrounding this super mass murder of nations. I think this character just generated so much sympathy when he went legit, and then watched his world crumble beneath him.
Runners Up: Sub-Mariner & New Avengers: Illuminati
Best "Event" - Sinestro Corps. A galactic adventure with cream of the crop baddies.
Runners Up - Civil War & 52
Worst "Event" - Spider-man: One More Day. I only read the first half of this it was so bad. But I hear how it ended. Is it wrong of me to judge something I didn't finish? Oh well, who's reading this anyway?
Runner Up - World War Hulk. The only thing I really dug was the X-Men plug they spun a mini-series out of it.
That's it. I pretty much ran out of stuff (for the moment) to comment upon. That's a rap... and possibly my longest post.
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