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29. Star Trek (2009)

The main reason this ranks so low is because I've always greatly preferred Picard to Kirk. I like how suave and debonair Picard really is (enough to get knighted by the goddamn Queen of England, that's for sure). Seeing Kirk as the star didn't really do anything for me, neither did seeing Harold and Shaun as Sulu and Scotty. Those acting choices just didn't work for me. And I just didn't like Spock's actor. He had too much emotion even in scenes that weren't supposed to have emotion. Leonard Nimoy was much better at being Spock in the same movie. Still, for a Star Trek movie, it was pretty good, action packed, and it had some good references and a bunch of the stuff that made the show so good in the first place. Gotta say though, as hot as she was in this movie, Uhura is hotter when she's three feet taller and blue.

28. Cloverfield (2008)

Unlike Quarantine, in which the whole camera thing felt forced and like it was blatantly trying to capitalize on the success of Cloverfield (and failed miserably because it had no ad campaign and a shitty premise), Cloverfield was pretty fucking awesome. There was some witty dialogue between the characters, even in the midst of all the chaos, and I especially liked the exchanges between Hud and Marlena. Hud's goofy dorkishness was hilarious and definitely lightened the mood of an otherwise really scary and straight-up frightening movie. Marlena's death was so random and awesome, and the ending was just so sad, but I was happy that Rob and Beth, like totally had sex, and then after being apart the whole movie, they found each other once again and died, in love. So touching.

27. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

A lot of people consider this to be the worst of the trilogy, but I personally feel that that title belongs to the shittiness that is Return of the King, or whatever the fuck the third one is called. Two Towers had multiple plots going at once, but I felt they all worked well together. Gollum gets caught, but he really wants to change his ways until he feels tricked and has his little villainous confessional at the end of the movie. The battle at Helm's Deep is epic, especially since the orc horde gets totally owned at the end. I loved the way the ents just fucked Saruman's shit up and basically destroyed his whole operation, just because he was a dick and destroyed their forest. Overall, it was more of an action-packed movie, and I loved it for that fact.

24. 300 (2007)

Speaking of totally badass movies that came out in 2007, how could anyone not like 300 (unless you're disgusting by blood and violence and freakishly deformed people, which seemed to make up half of the cast. Anyway, this was pretty badass because even though it was highly fictionalized, the "based on a true story" aspect of Sparta standing up to Persia is pretty fuckin' cool. The Spartans might as well have played some M.C. Hammer and danced around singing "Can't Touch This" until that traitorous asshole sold them out to the Persians. But at least Leonidas owned Xerxes before he died, and at least the Queen totally stabbed the other traitorous asshole who hate-fucked her the night before. So epic.

22. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)

Yup, 2006 is down to just one entry now. Dead Man's Chest followed the same path as a lot of second films this decade. Attack of the Clones and Two Towers and Matrix Reloaded had the same feel to them, like the creators either had an idea for one movie that was 5 hours long, or they wanted to cut things off right in the middle of the action in order to make sure people went to see the third movie. I hate when movies end like that. This isn't LOST or 24, where we have weekly continuity. This is a movie that will take months or maybe years before we see the final chapter. Still, for all my bitching, Dead Man's Chest had some funny moments, especially with Jack, throughout the movie, and there was some good drama and fighting with the whole love triangle going on.