5. Assassin's Creed II
4. Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising
3. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
2. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
1. Borderlands

Adventureland Review
by Eli G.

    I remember back in 2007, me and my brother saw a trailer for this movie that looked quite funny called Superbad.  We ended up going to see that movie and it turned out that me and him were right...it was quite funny.  To me, Seth Rogen is what made Superbad funny because it was; 1. based off his life; 2. written by him and; 3. he starred in it.  The only thing this man did not do on the production of Superbad was direct it and pay prison-style conjugal visits to the cast of the movie.  Actually, I'm not sure if I can promise the latter, but to my original point...Superbad in fact was not directed by Seth Rogen, but it was directed by a man named Greg Mottola.  That must mean something for him, right? Apparently not.
    Adventureland is the next movie Greg Mottola directed after he did Superbad.  It is also worth pointing out that Greg Mottola wrote it too.  The movie revolves around pathetic, hated, and pointless characters that work in an amusement park named, you guessed it, "Adventureland" back in the year 1987.  Now to me, a movie with bad characters sort of makes for a bad movie.  Your inability to connect or even like anyone in it makes the movie dull to me.  I will say that I did like Bill Hader, Kristin Wiig, and Martin Starr's roles in the movies.  Granted, none of them were the main characters and they had pretty small parts in it.  The plot of the movie is bland.  Some "nobody" kid goes to work at an amusement park and falls in love with a whore.  Not to mention, he's a virgin. Yeah...maybe Greg is onto something.  Opposites seem to attract.  I think Greg's next movie should be a version of Harold and Maude, but Harold is a pedophile.  See what I did there, opposites?  You know, Harold likes raping kids and Maude is some old bitch?  Well, whatever.
    The movie's story is nothing better than an old episode of Saved By The Bell.  Plus, it can be covered in half an hour or less.  But of course, this movie is two hours long and it feels like a good four hours.  All you will do is come out of this movie feeling depressed and sadder than when you went into in.  Maybe instead of watching Adventureland, you can watch the Kennedy assassination over and over again for two hours.  You'll get the same feeling as when you watched Adventureland, but it would be entertaining in the least.
    The acting in Adventureland isn't terrible, but it's nothing special.  The guy that plays the main character talks and acts just like Michae Cera, but looks like if Michael Cera, Andy Samberg, and a Down's child had a threesome and made a kid.  Damn, that's really disgusting to picture.  For the other people...honestly, I really don't feel like talking about them.  There isn't much to say.  You pretty much want to strangle most of them all to death out of your hate for them and for the rest you want to strangle them to death to put them out of their misery.  The 80's setting helps a bit because well...I like 80s music.  And characters addicted to cocaine.  Sadly, you barely get either of those.  One more thing I would like to say about the characters.  You know the cellphone commercials where the kid argues with his mom about roll-over minutes?  That kid is in this movie and he's as big of a douche as something Star Jones would've done before the surgery.
    Seriously, I found this movie to be awful.  It seems like the main character's part was written for Michael Cera and they couldn't get him to do it, so they got some guy that seems like Michael Cera to play him.  He is my Christian Slater to my Jack Nicholson.  This movie is just...so dull and boring.  Instead of watching this, just watch Superbad. Or...I don't know...contemplate killing yourself?

5. Gears of War 2
4. Fallout 3
3. Left 4 Dead
2. Grand Theft Auto IV
1. Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots

5. Dead Space
4. Guitar Hero: World Tour
3. Fallout 3
2. Resistance 2
1. Far Cry 2

(Note: I do not mention any 360 games, because I do not own one at the moment. I really want Gears of War 2, though.)