Shawn's Look Back At January

For the first time ever, I've actually managed to see every movie that's come out during a month, before the month actually comes to an end. It's a weird feeling. So far I'm actually kind of enjoying this whole seeing every movie thing. Sure it has it's downsides, but there's something kind of fun about it. Like a scavenger hunt or something. I don't know I can't exactly explain it...shut up. I say I enjoy it now but I say probably as soon as the start of March my spirits will just be shattered. So here is my look back at month one of twelve of these damn things.

At the start of the month I refered to it as the dumping ground for shit movies. While there were certainly examples of this throughout the month, it really wasn't as bad as I was expecting. If anything, February looks like it could be a lot worse. But we'll get to that in the next update.

So as of now I'm still not exactly sure how I want to do these end of the month summaries so the pattern could change month by month. For this one, I'm choosing to use categories, so here we go.

Best Movie - Cloverfield

No real surprise here. I think this might be the first time ever that a movie I saw in January will stand a great chance of being in my top 10 movies of the year once December hits. If you haven't seen this one yet get off my planet.

Worst Movie - Meet the Spartans

I've already written close to 3000 words about this movie so there really isn't any need to say anymore about it. It's the worst movie of the month, will almost definitely be the worst movie of the year, and is one of the worst movies ever released. Wow...I just said in like 20 words what took me two rants to get across.

Biggest Surprise - Untraceable

This category was actually kind of hard because there really wasn't one movie this month that I thought was going to be terrible but actually turned out to be great. I was thinking about putting Mad Money because it was worse than I even thought it would be. I decided on this one because I expected it to be just horrible but it was actually surprisingly entertaining. It's getting a lot more shit from critics than it really deserves.

Biggest Disappointment - Bucket List

This movie had the potential to be so much better than it was. If it wasn't for the two actors performances this would not have been very good.

Trend that has to stop IMMEDIATLY - Unfunny spoofs/japanese horror remakes/dance movies

This one had to be a three way tie because all three of these genres need to be stopped. The fact that there are more movies in each of these genres scheduled for release (some of them coming out very soon), this wish won't be granted anytime soon.

That's really all of the categories I have right now. Perhaps if I think of more I will update this thing. Goodbye January! You weren't as terrible as I was expecting you to be.

Overall January Rating - 6.5/10 (yes movie ratings are out of 5 and month ratings are out of 10, DEAL WITH IT!)