FINAL Top Ten (Or So) Films Of 2008!!!

OK, so by now, I'm assuming that most of you guys have checked out all those pesky, Oscar-chasing, late 2008 limited releases. Especially the bigger ones, like Slumdog, Doubt, Revolutionary Road, etc. So it's time to post your final Top 10 (or so) list of your favorite films of last year. Honorable mentions welcome, of course.

Mine:

1) Slumdog Millionaire
2) Gran Torino
3) Kung Fu Panda
4) The Dark Knight
5) In Bruges
6) The Changeling
7) Be Kind Rewind
The Bank Job
9) Cadillac Records
10) Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Honorable Mentions: The Wackness, Henry Poole Is Here, Role Models, Tropic Thunder, Seven Pounds

I always find it EXTREMELY hard to do this, but here goes nothing:

1. Changeling
2. The Dark Knight
3. SlumDog Millionaire
4. The Wrestler
5. Son of Rambow
6. In Bruges
7. The Bank Job
8. Let the Right One In
9. Under the Same Moon
10. Wall-E

Honorable Mentions:
Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
Get Smart
RocknRolla
Gran Torino
Tropic Thunder
Kung Fu Panda
REC
Burn After Reading

Not exactly final (still haven't seen Revolutionary Road or Let The Right One In) but here goes:

1.Wall-E
2.Man On Wire
3.Under The Same Moon
4.Milk
5.Gran Torino
6.Slumdog Millionaire
7.The Wrestler
8.Mongol
9.The Dark Knight
10.The Wackness
11.Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order)
The Boy In The Striped Pajamas
Changeling
Charlie Bartlett
Doomsday
Doubt
Flash Of Genius
Frost/Nixon
Hamlet 2
Quarantine
Religulous
Shine A Light
Son Of Rambow
The Visitor

Well there's still a few left to see, such as Synocdoche NY, Encounters at the End of the World, Il Divo, and Religulous, but here's what I've got


1 Waltz with Bashir
2 The Wrestler
3 In Bruges
4 Vicky Cristina Barcelona
5 Milk
6 Frozen River
7 The Class
8 Wall E
9 The Dark Knight
10 Man on Wire

Like most, I haven\'t seen all the films yet (still got to see Milk, Wall-E, In Bruges, etc.), but here\'s what I got so far.

1. Revolutionary Road
2. Vicky Cristina Barcelona
3. Let The Right One In
4. How To Lose Friends and Alienate People
5. Repo: The Genetic Opera
6. Rachel Getting Married
7. The Changeling
8. Doubt
9. Defiance
10. Young People Fucking


Honorable Mentions (in no particular order):
Gran Torino
Redbelt
Brideshead Revisited
Pineapple Express
Frost/Nixon
Dark Knight
The Reader
Nobel Son

Favorite ("Most fun") Films

1. The Dark Knight
2. Slumdog Millionaire
3. Wall-E
4. Revolutionary Road
5. Rachel Getting Married
6. The Wrestler
7. Doubt
8. Burn After Reading
9. Curious Case of Benjamin Button
10. Iron Man

Honorable Mentions: Tropic Thunder, Pineapple Express (Unrated), Kung Fu Panda, Milk, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, W., Be Kind Rewind, Cloverfield, etc.

Most Influential ("Most Thoughtful or Personal")Films

1. Waltz With Bashir
2. Man on Wire
3. Dear Zachary
4. Che
5. The Band's Visit
6. The Wackness
7. The Visitor
8. Redbelt
9. Sukiyaki Western Django
10. Frost/Nixon

This sounds fun, here we go:

1. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2. Iron Man
3. The Dark Knight
4. Seven Pounds
5. Marley and Me
6. Cloverfield
7. Stop-Loss
8. Definitely, Maybe
9. Tropic Thunder
10. Vicky Cristina Barcelona

I liked Stop-Loss (in fact, it's the first time I've seen Channing Tatum give a good performance) but I hated the ending. It seemed that it rendered the point of the film (a character and his beliefs vs. the government and its soullessness) useless.

I suspect the studio tampered with the ending so not to cause controversy. Either that or they didn't expect anyone to see the film (which is why they buried it when it opened, choosing to give crap like The Ruins better marketing campaigns).

1. Slumdog Millionaire
2. The Dark Knight
3. In Bruges
4. Wall-E
5. Wanted
6. Iron Man
7. Vicky Christina Barcelona
8. Burn After Reading
9. Frost/Nixon
10. Gran Torino

Got a feeling I'll be the only one with Wanted on my list


Honorable Mention
The Bank Job
Pineapple Express
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
The Wrestler
Tropic Thunder
Milk

I looked up a list of 2008 films and re-edited my list above to include one's that I missed before. It's posted above, but I'll repost here to keep discussion flowing...

1. Revolutionary Road
2. Vicky Cristina Barcelona
3. Let The Right One In
4. How To Lose Friends and Alienate People
5. Repo: The Genetic Opera
6. Rachel Getting Married
7. The Changeling
8. Doubt
9. Defiance
10. Young People Fucking


Honorable Mentions (in no particular order):
Gran Torino
Redbelt
Brideshead Revisited
Pineapple Express
Frost/Nixon
Dark Knight
The Reader
Nobel Son

It's kind of interesting how differing our opinions all are...that being said, here are my worst movies of the year. Of course, to even get to this list they had to pass a certain criteria, as I never watched anything with a talking dog, or right wing Christian propaganda, or any dance movies, or anything with Larry the Cable Guy, so those can't be included. That being said, here's the worst of the year, which I didn't bother to put into any order:

Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull
Seven Pounds
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Hancock
The Strangers
Hell Ride
Henry Poole is Here
Doomsday
Man on Wire
Punisher: War Zone

And that concludes our time for today (or at least this hour)...

You hated Man On Wire? You may be the first person I know of who didn't like it.

Buscemi wrote:You hated Man On Wire? You may be the first person I know of who didn't like it.

Count me as the second. I remember when this event occured. It was an amzing event chronicled in an ungodly boring movie.

I wanted to like it, heard good things about it, and tried to like it, but I was just bored the whole time, wondering why the hell I was watching this...

Ha! Just noticed...my ranking is Oldboy! Awesome!

Buscemi wrote:You hated Man On Wire? You may be the first person I know of who didn't like it.

i didn't care for it.. i think people are confusing the subject matter with the FILM itself.. there's a great story to be told--but the movie was horribly directed.. apart from the genuinely interesting (and true) story it attempted to tell, its one saving grace was good music..

mfrendo wrote:

as I never watched anything with a......right wing Christian propaganda....

Yet you watched Henry Poole Was Here? Although, I'll admit the previews were very misleading for this movie. I thought it looked interesting from the preview, but I struggled to even get through the movie. Just not my cup of tea.

BTW, Religulous almost made my top 10. That movie was fucking hilarious.