Zomg NROs Apatow fan-boiz!
I've seen exactly zero of the movies listed there. I'm always a year or two behind these things; it takes a lot to get me to a theater because the theater experience is so universally shitty these days (annoying teens, laser pens, babies... those dumb movie-reference questions that some dude yells the answer out like he's some hot shit).
So I guess it's a tie between the Simpsons Movie and Transformers for me, as those were the only movies (along with Golden Compass) that I can remember seeing this year. The Simpsons Movie was pretty good, I thought... definitely much much much better than the straight-to-DVD Family Guy movie. The second half lagged out (live in Alaska, wtf?) and re-tread over the same ground the show has been going over for years (Homer and Marge's strained relationship, that if you believe the future episode will end in divorce and Homer living in an ocean house). But Albert Brooks is the best and funniest non-cast voice actor the show has ever had, imo.
I will try to see No Country before it leaves the theater, if I can finish the book in time. The unvarnished truth in my opinion is this: Cormac McCarthy is the best and most influential living American author.
