Best Movie, 2007?

Question: Is it too early in the year to declare the "Best Movie Of 2007?" Of course, I was ready to declare the worst movie of 2007 the week Pirates of the Carribean III came out, so maybe August isn't so bad. Of course, it's not like I make a habit of declaring the best and worst of any year...the last time I declared a "Best Of", it was in November of 2004, when Finding Neverland came out, and I was confident that I wasn't going to see anything else the rest of the year that would match it.

ANYWAY...if you are a fan of fantasy...you really need to see STARDUST.

And with that, I'm not going to offer a single word of explanation or comment. This movie, I think, will be best experienced without any more explanation than you get from the movie's tagline: In a countryside town bordering on a magical land, a young man makes a promise to his beloved that he'll retrieve a fallen star by venturing into the magical realm.

So there you have it. Even if it doesn't turn out to be the best of 2007, it is certainly the best I've seen so far this year!

Now, I have to make a disclaimer - there is a possibility (though I doubt it) that I will change my tune in October, when a movie titled "The Seeker" comes out. This is a Walden Media production, and I hadn't heard a word about it, until today when I saw a preview for it. So what is it? I'll tell you what it is.

It is the movie version of The Dark is Rising

I am both exhilarated and terrified by the fact that Walden Media is turning my childhood favorite fantasy series into a movie. Exhilarated because it never occurred to me that anyone would ever do this.

Terrified because, based on what I saw of the preview, I am afraid that they have butchered it. Even if they faithfully follow the book (which I'm pretty confident that they haven't), I'm so afraid that their mental image of the book won't be anything like mine.

Regardless, come October, I will be going to see this one!