![]() Or at least three months of wonderful films. In fact, it was a year of horrible films-but then, strangely, as the year drew to a close, something magical happened, and it became a year of wonderful films. Films like 1408, Premonition and The Reaping all dragged out this tired bit. It was also a year that saw more of one of our least favorite Hollywood themes: movies in which science is bad, and superstition is good. There were major breakthroughs as well: Hitman had a poster that brought new meaning to the term "packaging." It really toed the line, and showed that sometimes, it's hard to tell the difference between a mountain and a molehill. It was also a year of entirely forgettable movies with some sort of three-ness about them: Spider-Man 3, Shrek the Third, Ocean's Thirteen and 300, all of which were like a teen pop star reaching maturity: very pretty, if a little stupid. ![]() So for those who had to sit through Redacted or Like Lions for Lambs, we apologize. ![]() It seemed that in 2006, America woke up, rubbed its eyes and said, "What the hell were we thinking?" That gave permission to the scaredy-cats in Hollywood to release a series of anti-war films, almost all of which were so careful to avoid offending that they arrived at the theater in vacuum-sealed containers with all the life pre-sucked out of them.
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