Ranking every movie I saw in theaters in 2019

47. Action Point
46. Insidious: The Last Key
45. Tomb Raider
44. The Greatest Showman
43. Peter Rabbit
42. Truth or Dare
41. Teen Titans Go! to the Movies
40. The Grinch
39. The First Purge
38. Unfriended: Dark Web
37. Goosebumps 2
36. Skyscraper
35. Hotel Transylvania 3
34. Christopher Robin
33. Oceans 8
32. Pacific Rim: Uprising
31. Wreck it Ralph 2
30. Venom
29. Lady Bird
28. The Meg
27. A Quiet Place
26. Tag
25. Rampage
24. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
23. Annihilation
22. Sorry to Bother You
21. The House With a Clock in its Walls
20. Bumblebee
19. Ant Man and the Wasp
18. Solo
17. Blockers
16. Strangers: Prey at Night
15. Incredibles 2
14. Aquaman
13. Game Night
12. Bohemian Rhapsody
11. Love, Simon
10. Ready Player One
9. Black Panther
8. Halloween
7. Hereditary
6. Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse
5. Call Me By Your Name
4. Mission Impossible: Fallout
3. Deadpool 2
2. Avengers: Infinity War
1. Get Out

Most anticipated Movies of 2019

With 2018 about to wrap itself up, we look ahead to 2019 and the movies I look forward to the most this year. I did a most anticipated movies of 2018 list a year ago and its funny to see how some movies anticipation dropped significantly and some rose quite a bit by the time they came out. For example, I had "The Predator" as my number 3 most anticipated movie of 2018 last December, but its August release date got pushed back to September and reports came out the movie was terrible and the director got fired and by the time it came out in September I didn't even bother to see it in theaters at all. Same can be said for Goosebumps 2 which I listed as my 5th most anticipated movie of 2018. As soon as the first trailer was released I could tell this was just a lazy rehash of the first one and my excitement went out the window totally. So this is my list as of today, but who knows which movies I will gain or lost interest in over time. Should be a super fun year, the summer lineup this year is stacked.

25. The Curse of La Llorona-April 19th
24. Glass-January 18th
23. Terminator -November 8th
22. Sonic the Hedgehog - November 15th
21. Star Wars Episode 9-December 20th
20. Knives Out-November 29th
19. MIB: International-June 14th
18. Joker-October 4th
17. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark-August 9th
16. Annabelle 3-July 5th
15. Toy Story 4-June 21st
14. Childs Play-June 21st
13. Pet Semetary-April 5th
12. Happy Death Day 2U-February 14th
11. The Lion King-July 19th
10. Captain Marvel-March 8th
9. Jumanji 2-December 13th
8. Detective Pikachu-May 10th
7. Shazam!-April 5th
6. Godzilla-May 31st
5. Us-March 15th
4. Are you Afraid of the Dark? -October 11th
3. Spider-Man: Far From Home-July 5th
2. IT: Chapter 2-September 7th
1. Avengers: Endgame-April 26th

Good god this is going to be an amazing year. The top 8 are movies I am absolutely at a 10/10 hype level for. Jumanji 2 at number 9 is a question mark, if it captures the tone of the first one then this could easily be a top 5 movie of the year, but if the cast is different this movie could also suck too, we just don't know enough about it yet. Its going to be an all time incredible year for horror as 9 of my top 17 most anticipated movies of the year are horror movies (If you are counting Godzilla as horror, which I am.) Four of the remaining 8 are superhero movies which means only 4 of my top 17 are neither superhero or horror movies (Toy Story 4, Lion King, Detective Pikachu, and Jumanji 2)

Ranking every Halloween Movie

On Thursday I get to see a movie I feel like I have waited my whole life for. A new Halloween movie on the big screen. With Jamie Lee Curtis and the original Michael Myers actor Nick Castle. Halloween has to be straight up the most wild and bizarre horror franchise in terms of the course its taken, and that is saying a lot because there is a lot of crazy horror franchises. This is a horror franchise that

-Has one movie totally unrelated to all the others (Halloween 3)
-Has a movie end on a cliffhanger that in the next movie they totally ignored and pretended never happened (4 into 5)
-Has a movie that has two completely different versions of it, a theatrical cut and a directors cut (Halloween 6)
-Halloween H20 ignores everything that happened in Halloweens 4-6
-The new Halloween ignores everything that happened in Halloweens 2-10, basically acting as a direct sequel to the first movie

That'a a lot of wackiness. Despite all this wackiness I love this classic franchise and always revisit every single movie in it during Halloween season (Which runs August 1st-November in this household) SO before the I see the new one, here is my current ranking of every halloween movie

10. Halloween: Ressurection-This may be my least favorite horror movie ever. It is straight awful and I am not the only one who thinks so as Bloody Disgusting recently called this the worst horror sequel ever out of more than 150 horror sequels.

9. Halloween 2  (2009): The second of two Rob Zombie Halloween movies

8. Halloween (2007): The remake does some things right but loses the fun of the other movie in favor of gore and a much more serious tone.

7. Halloween 5: Honestly Ive watched this one 10+ times and still barely remembet anything about it, so its pretty forgettable.

6. Halloween 6: This one is famous for establishing Michael Myers as not a human, but a product of an ancient druid cult who picks a vessel to cause mayhem on Halloween. A bizarre turn for the franchise and one that turned off many fans.

5. Halloween 4: Now we are getting into the ones I really really enjoy. This one sees the franchise at its peak when it comes to combining campy horror with legit horror. 1-3 were straight horror, while the later ones laid on the camp a bit too thick, but this one had the best balance.

4. Halloween H20: The return of Laurie Strode, this Halloween breathed new life into the franchise after the duds that were 5 and 6, thanks to a renewed interest in slasher movies after the success of Scream.

3. Halloween 3: The one infamous for not having Michael Myers at all. Many hate it, many love it, put me in the love category.

2. Halloween 2: The sequel to the original is not often seen as reaching the highs of the first, but I think its almost just as good. The Halloween atmoshphere may actually be better here, and the kills are top notch.

1. Halloween: Obvious. Ive never in my life seen a ranking of the Halloween movies without the first one as number one and I wont be the first to not put it there.

Bloody Good Horrors top 23 Horror Movies of 2018

Bloody Good Horror is my absolute favorite horror movie website. Its a site with several writers who review and discuss both new and classic horror movies. Every year each writer submits a list of their top 10 horror movies of the year, and then I take those lists and create my own comprehensive list from theirs. a 10th place vote gets 1 point, 9th place gets 2 points and so on. One amazing thing about this years list is that the top 3 are all "mainstream" horror movies, which is incredibly rare. These are horror snobs who usually prefer the artsy horror movies that arent super popular, for example last years number one of the year was "The Witch." Anyway here it is, the top 23 horror movies of the year.

23. Alien Convenant: 8 Points
22. The Killing of a Sacred Deer: 8 Points
21. Tragedy Girls: 8 Points
20. Kong: Skull Island: 8 Points
19. Thelma: 10 Points
18. The Beguiled: 11 Points
17. The Babysitter: 12 Points
16. The Girl With all the Gifts: 15 Points
15. The Devil's Candy: 15 Points
14. It Comes at Night: 17 Points
13. The Void: 23 Points
12. Super Dark Times: 23 Points
11. Gerald's Game: 23 Points
10. Raw: 30 Points
9. Creep 2: 33 Points
8. The Shape of Water: 36 Points
7. A Dark Song: 45 Points
6. Mother!: 55 Points
5. Split: 60 Points
4. The Blackcoat's Daughter: 62 Points
3. Happy Death Day: 68 Points
2. IT: 80 Points
1. Get Out: 144 Points

Biggest Box Office successes and dissapointments of 2017

One of the things I really enjoy following is how movies perform at the box office. It's exciting to see official predictions for movies and whether or not they meet those expectations, surpass them, completely fall short, and then the aftermath and reaction to however it performs. 2017 had a ton of massive failures and incredible success stories. Here were the top 5 of each.

Failures
5. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Predicted Total: $175 Million
Actual Total: $41 Million

4. The Dark Tower
Predicted Total: $120 Million
Actual Total: $50 Million

3. The Mummy
Predicted Total: $250 Million
Actual Total: $80 Million

2. Blade Runner 2049
Predicted Total: $300 Million
Actual Total: $91 Million

1. Justice League
Predicted Total: $550 Million
Actual Total: $230 Million

Successes
5. Baby Driver
Predicted Total: $34 Million
Actual Total: $107 Million

4. Wonder Woman
Predicted Total: $225 Million
Actual Total: $412 Million

3. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
Predicted Total: $130 Million
Actual Total: $251 Million and counting, on pace for between $330 and $400 Million

2. Get Out
Predicted Total: $30 Million
Actual Total: $175 Million

1. IT
Predicted Total: $70 Million
Actual Total: $327 Million

Most Anticipated Movies 0f 2018

Not that we've hit the new Year, its time to look ahead. There are a lot of good movies coming out in 2018, here are my top 25 ranked in order, with their release date.

25. Tomb Raider-March 16th
24. The Purge 4-July 4th
23. Insidious 4-January 5th
22. Rampage-April 20th
21. Venom-October 5th
20. Aquaman-December 21st
19.Truth or Dare-April 27th
18. The Grinch-November 9th
17. The Incredibles 2-June 15th
16. God Particle-February 2nd
15. Wreck it Ralph 2-November 21st
14. Ready Player One-March 30th
13. Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse-December 14th
12. Ant Man and the Wasp-July 6th
11. Hellfest-October 12th
10. The Meg-August 10th
9. The Nun-July 13th
8. Deadpool 2-June 1st
7. Black Panther-February 16th
6. The Strangers 2-March 9th
5. Goosebumps 2-October 12th
4. Jurassic World 2-June 22nd
3. The Predator-August 3rd
2. Halloween-October 19th
1. Avengers: Infinity War-May 4th