36. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. July 2011. David Yates.

36. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. July 2011. David Yates.

It all ends. Probably one of the best movies of the year, probably the best HP movie. I liked it for many reasons:

1) It is the epic conclusion to a story with which I grew up and is exciting to see it represented in "real life". Sentimentally is good to see the end of the story and look backwards to all the series.

2) It was my first movie on IMAX, and the experience is excellent, is the best possible image, surrounded with the clearer sound you can get in the biggest screen I have ever been.

3) The movie itself is fast paced and exciting, the left all the good stuff for the end, with all the battles and the tension moments.

4) The movie is very well done, it has some problems comparing with the books (but is the movie and it always will happen), but for the people who hasn't read the books is perfectly understandable.

5) They spent all the money they needed to get excellent visual effects and great scenes, specially the battles, finally a big battle showing great spells and the final confrontation between Voldemort and Harry.

Of course the movie has some flaws but the good things are much more important than the details.

35. Blue Valentine. June 2011. Derek Cianfrance.

35. Blue Valentine. June 2011. Derek Cianfrance.

I liked the feelings of the movie, how a relationship can goes from the wonder of the beginning to a complete failure. Works with the idea that people can have good and bad things and that many adjectives are not exclusive and everybody has some good and evil. My classic example for this is that you can be an excellent doctor and be mean with patients, being nice and being a good doctor are not exclusive. The usual saying that a relationship has to be nurtured everyday is a cliche but is true (another example of non exclusive adjectives).

"So if I break your heart last night is because I love you most of all".

34. Sucker Punch. June 2011. Zack Snyder.

34. Sucker Punch. June 2011. Zack Snyder.

I only watched this movie because of the director, and expecting to see the visual settings and the colors of the movie. The movie is bad, the story has no foundation. But as I expected the music and the pictures were good, as the name in spanish they are surreal. Of course this aspects do not make a good movie. The first fight with the giant samurais is excellent.

"We control the worlds we create"

33. Kung Fu Panda. June 2011. John Wayne Stevenson.

33. Kung Fu Panda. June 2011. John Wayne Stevenson.

The story is very similar to the first one, a simple story with an already predetermined end. The characters are good, the action sequences are great, especially when the 5 warriors are fighting simultaneously. But unfortunately they just tell the same jokes from the first one, and they repeat more or less some of the situations. Despite this I stay with my idea that this kind of movies are offering something else to the adult public, and the things they are creating with computers are very entertaining to see.

25. A Feast for Crows.

25. A Feast for Crows. June 2011. George R. R. Martin. 753 pages. July 2011.

Again for the third time in a row more of the same. More inconclusive plots of different stories. The best ones are the shortest ones the other ones do not add much to the story or are very slow. Despite all the bad feelings about the series, I already bought the fifth book and I am going to keep reading until it finishes just for seeing the end. I am convinced now that this series is for very faithful fans or for experienced fantasy readers. It is not like HP (I like HP), that anyone who picks up the series will finish it. I hope the TV series creates more fans for the books, and encourages GRRM to write faster.