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This has been percolating in the back of my mind for a while now - like an itch I couldn’t quite scratch, but today it finally bubbled to the front of my brain. Something seems to have changed for me regarding Screen Rant, but it creeped up on me slowly so I didn’t really notice what was happening. I think I may have to thank my pal John from The Movie Blog for providing the trigger along with a post I read over at Dosh Dosh regarding shifting from being a writer to an editor in chief of a website.

It may seem like we just went through a redesign, but that was not only not that different from the one before, but was purely cosmetic. This time we’ve gutted it and moved it to a completely different platform. We will be adding features that I’ve wanted to offer you for a long time but haven’t had the ability to implement.

I just pulled an all nighter so the site is up but no bells and whistles beyond the new look yet. If you were subscribed to comments on posts, you’ll need to re-subscribe to continue to get updates on those.

There will no doubt be lots of little buggy issues and if you find any please let us know about them by either leaving a comment here or shooting me and email via the contact page.

I hope you folks like the new design and I’ll alert you as new features come online.

Thanks,

Vic Holtreman
Owner: ScreenRant.com

Hey gang, just a quick note that the comment feature will be turned off at approximately 11AM PST / 2PM EST today so we can do some work on the website. Comments will be re-enabled by tomorrow morning at the latest.

FYI, if you subscribe to comments on various posts, unfortunately you’re going to have to RE-subscribe to those when the upgrade is complete as we’re going to a different system. So you may want to bookmark your favorite discussion posts so you can come back to them later.

Hi folks,

If you experience any site wierdness this weekend it’s because we’re moving Screen Rant to a new host and server. I apologize for any inconvenience and don’t hesitate to let me know about anything that doesn’t seem to be working right.

Thanks for your patience,

Vic

Hey folks. Screen Rant is moving to a new server in order to improve performance of the site. The temporary downside is that due to the nature of this sort of thing, some comments may be lost during the transfer for technical reasons.

Due to the way the internet works, some of you will be looking at the version of ScreenRant.com that is on the old server (on which this post won’t even appear) while others will be looking at the site on the new server.

It may take a couple of days for all this to work itself out and I apologize for any annoyance caused by comments that will seem to have vanished. I’ll probably even end up losing some emails in the process.

To be honest I’m not happy with the way the hosting company is handling this and I when I have the time I will probably look at finding a new company.

Thanks for your patience.

Here is the official Screen Rant 2008 movie preview! Below you’ll find a list of 48 movies that you’ll most likely consider seeing this year along with a description, month of release and recommendation for each one.

I realize that “Top 10″ lists are all the rage at the end of the year and you’ve probably noticed that there haven’t been any of those here. I did think about it, but really - there were already so many other sites churning them out (and some of them did quite a nice job) that I didn’t feel the need. Plus, I just didn’t see enough movies in 2007 to be able to create my own list of best, worst or otherwise.

However 2008 looks like it’s going to be a pretty awesome year for movie fans. To prove it, from the list below movies that get a pre-release recommendation from me outnumber obvious stinkers by a margin of almost three to one! I was truly not prepared for numbers like those when I set out to create this preview.

Now I’m not going to mention every movie under the sun here - just the ones that I think Screen Rant readers will be most interested in. Namely, sci fi, fantasy, and superhero flicks with a few others thrown in. There are view-worthy movies not mentioned below as well as upcoming bombs that are missing from the following list.

Keep in mind that my predictions are based on my most excellent gut-check instincts but are no guarantee that I am 100% on the mark regarding how great or awful the movies listed below will be.

So read on to see Screen Rant’s 2008 movie preview and recommendations of what you should go out of your way to see - and what you should avoid like the plague.

I just wanted to wish our readers a very Merry Christmas (or Happy Hanukkah). Heath, Niall and I are all spending time with our families and that’s why the last couple of days have been light on articles. And being that tomorrow is Christmas Day, I will NOT be seeing AVP-R… at least if I don’t want to sleep on the couch for the foreseeable future.
Don’t worry, I will get a review of that out since I’ve been looking forward to seeing whether it will be better than the last one.

In any case, here’s wishing you and your families a very happy holiday and I hope you have a safe one with Santa bringing you lots of great stuff.
Sincerely,

Vic Holtreman

P.S. Alcadyzaar, if you look in the upper right corner you’ll see a little Christmas present: Movie quotes are back.

I thought you might be interested in an update on what’s going on with the site.

First off I want to congratulate the winners of the Screen Rant Suggestion contest:

“Zipper” Stevens and Andrew Phillips

They’ve each won a $20 Amazon.com gift certificate (BTW guys, let me know if you haven’t received them yet).

Zipper was the random winner and Andrew won for best suggestion(s). There were a bunch of great ones and it really helps me to know what you would like to see (or not see) here at Screen Rant.

Among Andrew’s suggestions that I thought were great:

Hey, here’s a chance for you to make Screen Rant a cooler place to visit, and to win something at the same time!

I am forever on the lookout for ways to make ScreenRant.com a better movie and TV site. I want to make it a place that you’ll want to come back to more often. A place that you’ll enjoy so much that you’ll want to tell your friends about it and have them become regular visitors as well.

So I figure what better way to do that than to ask YOU what you’d like to see on the site?

Wow.

It’s hard to believe that Screen Rant has been online four years already. When I started this site on November 11th, 2003 I had no idea what I was doing… I’d just always been a movie and Sci Fi fan and with this whole internet thing that seemed to be up and coming, I decided that I wanted a place online where I could talk about movies and TV, both the good and the bad. I never thought anyone would read it outside a couple of friends of mine.

The first thing I ever posted was Sandy Collora’s short fan film Batman: Dead End. One of the coolest things I’d ever seen up to that point (I wonder what he’s up to these days…). Other early posts included my review of the horribly dissapointing Matrix Revolutions, how much I disliked the Battlestar Galactica pilot and a rant against talking in movie theaters.