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Post by transformers2 Sat Mar 28, 2009 12:20 am

I did see In Bruges i thought it was pretty good but a little bit overhyped.
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Post by IPKI$$ Sat Mar 28, 2009 1:16 am

1. The Wrestler
2. Burn After Reading
3. Vicky Cristina Barcelona
4. Iron Man
5. Wall-E
6. The Reader
7. In Bruges
8. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
9. The Happening
10. Step Brothers

And, no. I did not forget The Dark Knight or Slumdog Millionaire.
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Post by BanksIsDaFuture Thu Apr 16, 2009 9:53 pm

IPKI$$ wrote:1. The Wrestler
2. Burn After Reading
3. Vicky Cristina Barcelona
4. Iron Man
5. Wall-E
6. The Reader
7. In Bruges
8. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
9. The Happening
10. Step Brothers

And, no. I did not forget The Dark Knight or Slumdog Millionaire.

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Post by NSpan Fri Apr 17, 2009 1:40 am

i had to catch up on some movies over the last couple of months (The Orphanage, Encounters at the End of the World, Hell Ride, Sukiyaki Western Django, In Bruges, Charlie Bartlett, My Name is Bruce, RocknRolla, Sex Drive, Choke, The Bank Job, Rambo, and Yes Man)..

but i got Vicky Cristina Barcelona in the mailbox tonight.. i'm pretty sure that's the last movie i need to see before declaring my "final" Top 10 of '08 list..


and, no, I didn't actually think Yes Man was going to alter the outcome of this list.. but i rented it anyway..

and, i didn't forget, we decided that The Orphanage is technically a 2007 movie.. damn shame
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Post by mfrendo Fri Apr 17, 2009 2:08 am

Wasn't Hell Ride horrible, NSpan? I like biker stories usually (Sons of Anarchy, Hunter Thompson's book, even Beyond the Law with Charlie Sheen and Michael Madsen), but Hell Ride was pretty awful...
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Post by NSpan Fri Apr 17, 2009 2:15 am

it was HORRIBLE... and tragically so--because it almost had some potential.. i mean, it even had a few cool (if fleeting) moments.. it had some great music and some almost memorable characters.. but, man, it just fell flat on its face.. the dialogue was so unimaginably bad that i almost turned it off halfway through.. it's like they took the idea for a cool movie and totally Larry Bishop'ed it

damn shame
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Post by NSpan Fri Apr 17, 2009 3:19 am

NSpan's Top 10 Favorite Movies of 2008

1 ) Step Brothers
2 ) The Wrestler
3 ) The Dark Knight
4 ) Role Models
5 ) Burn After Reading
6 ) WALL-E
7 ) Iron Man
8 ) Let the Right One In
9 ) Pineapple Express
10 ) Choke




15 Notables of '08

RocknRolla
My Name is Bruce
The Strangers
Quantum of Solace
Drillbit Taylor
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
In Bruges
Rambo
Sukiyaki Western Django
Incredible Hulk
Be Kind Rewind
The Foot Fist Way
The Bank Job
Prince Caspian
Get Smart




The 5 Worst Movies of 2008

5) Indiana Jones 4
4) Wanted
3) Hancock
2) Funny Games
1) Synecdoche, New York



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Post by brockman81 Tue Apr 21, 2009 11:36 pm

So I just saw Australia last night for the first time. Man oh man, did that movie skip all over the place. Was it just me or did they just cram a 7 hours worth of material into 3 hours? I mean, it just felt rushed to me, like they had a shitload of material and just crammed it all together. It seemed way over ambitious too and fell way short. I know there are some Aussies on the forum...what did you guys think of the movie?

p.s. Nicole Kidman is an awful actress...how in the fuck does she get paid so much $$ for movies? She must be able to suck a golfball through a hose or something.
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Post by packpaljs Wed Apr 22, 2009 5:12 am

I still don't know what my top 10 would be. The way I watch my movies is a year later. e.g. During 2008, I watched movies from 2007, 1983, 1958, 1933. Present, 25 yrs, 50 yrs, 75 yrs. Now I did find some time to watch movies from my collection that landed in none of these years and I would go to the theatre a bit and saw some 2008. But I wouldn't rent anything from 2008 until 2009. So I'm only 4 months into 2008 and it will be a couple months before I'm done, even watching 1-2 movies a day. So far my list would be this:

1. The Reader (Best Picture Winner IMO)
2. The Dark Knight (No I'm not a fanboy)
3. Forgetting Sarah Marshall (Funniest movie of 2008)
4. Kung Fu Panda (Crazy Animation)
5. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Best Directed Movie)
6. Cloverfield (First movie I watched from 08', Wow!
7. Frost/Nixon, (Best Actor Winner IMO)
8. In Bruges (Ahhh...to enjoy Farrel for the first time)
9. Get Smart (I know I'll be alone on this, but lots of fun)
10. Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull (Cheesy, yes)

Worst Movies (I Have all these ranked the same)
Witless Protection
First Sunday
Doomsday
Boarding Gate
The Spiderwick Chronicles
The Ruins
Meet the Spartans
In the Name of thy King

and

Appaloosa (although, being a big fan of westerns, I'm going to try this one again.
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Post by NSpan Wed Apr 22, 2009 5:17 am

packpaljs wrote:The way I watch my movies is a year later. e.g. During 2008, I watched movies from 2007, 1983, 1958, 1933. Present, 25 yrs, 50 yrs, 75 yrs.
that's pretty crazy, dude..


but i will agree with you that Get Smart was a lot of fun.. shit, we even watched Get Smart's Bruce and Lloyd Out of CONTROL.. and i thought it wasn't all that terrible.. i guess i could be considered pretty crazy too
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Post by packpaljs Wed Apr 22, 2009 5:37 am

Every year I move on to the next. It's much easier than just throwing movies at me from every year possible. I did that from 04-06 and it was too hard to change gears. Plus by focusing on 4 years at a time lets me watch most of the movies from that year and I can experience cinema in the way it was that year.
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Post by NSpan Wed Apr 22, 2009 6:22 am

i don't have much of a theme to my movie-watching--but i do like watching several films by the same director in succession.. or, occasionally, we'll go on a horror (or sci-fi) bender.. and we'll usually observe the release of a sequel or a remake by re-watching the original(s).. likewise, anytime a notable actor or filmmaker dies, we'll try to honor their memory with a screening of some of their best work.. (i jokingly wished for the death of Gene Hackman recently.. you know, just so we could sit down and watch The Conversation, the Royal Tenenbaums, and either The French Connection or Unforgiven all in a row)
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Post by undeadmonkey Wed Apr 22, 2009 6:41 am

packpaljs wrote:

Worst Movies (I Have all these ranked the same)
Witless Protection
First Sunday
Doomsday
Boarding Gate
The Spiderwick Chronicles
The Ruins
Meet the Spartans
In the Name of thy King

and

Appaloosa (although, being a big fan of westerns, I'm going to try this one again.


agreed! the others I havent seen
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Post by mfrendo Wed Apr 22, 2009 7:06 am

packpaljs wrote:

Worst Movies (I Have all these ranked the same)
Witless Protection
First Sunday
Doomsday
Boarding Gate
The Spiderwick Chronicles
The Ruins
Meet the Spartans
In the Name of thy King

and

Appaloosa (although, being a big fan of westerns, I'm going to try this one again.

I thought the Ruins was a pretty good flick actually. It surprised me. Otherwise, I've seen Doomsday and Appaloosa from that list, and I agree with your take on both. I don't know how you even sat down for Witless Protection...
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Post by BanksIsDaFuture Wed Apr 22, 2009 12:02 pm

The Spiderwick Chronicles among the worst of the year? I thought it was a good kids movie, nice story, great acting from Freddie Highmore and the girl who played his sister.

Even Seth Rogen got some laughs in that one.
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Post by Buscemi Wed Apr 22, 2009 12:06 pm

The Spiderwick Chronicles had great cinematography. Caleb Deschanel (yes, Zooey's father) was unjustly snubbed for an Academy Award nomination. He was also robbed of an Oscar for The Passion Of The Christ's cinematography.
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Post by packpaljs Wed Apr 22, 2009 6:43 pm

The Spiderwick Chronicles - I've only seen once and let me set the mood. Maybe this has something to do with my poor rating. I watched in on an airplane from Hawaii while holding a baby less than 1 year old. So it was a miserable flight. To boot, I hate Freddie Highmore, if I could fight any child star dead or alive I would pick him, 2nd would be young Mickey Rooney.
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Post by transformers2 Wed Apr 22, 2009 7:02 pm

pack i also thought Get Smart was quite enjoyable. Proably the biggest surprise of 2008 for me.
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Post by packpaljs Wed Apr 22, 2009 8:36 pm

[quote="mfrendo

I thought the Ruins was a pretty good flick actually. It surprised me. Otherwise, I've seen Doomsday and Appaloosa from that list, and I agree with your take on both. I don't know how you even sat down for Witless Protection...[/quote]

I watched Witless Protection for one reason. I enjoyed Heatlh Inspector and thought maybe it would be enjoyable as well. I was wrong, but it still wasn't as bad as Delta Farce.
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Post by Donte77 Sat Apr 25, 2009 12:24 am

I will be posting mine shortly. I have Doubt at home and The Wrestler and The Reader should be here within a week or two. List so far is; (in rough order)

Gran Torino
Son of Rambow
In Bruges
Iron Man
The Dark Knight
Wall-E
Milk
Choke
Tropical Thunder
The Incredible Hulk
Step Brothers
Burn After Reading
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Post by Donte77 Sat Apr 25, 2009 12:27 am

I would have liked The Ruins better but I read the book first.

Also honorable mention to The Strangers except that I hate stupid protagonists. The movie was creepy as hell though.
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Post by packpaljs Sat Apr 25, 2009 12:34 am

I haven't seen it yet, but the trailer alone scared me. pale
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Post by mfrendo Sat Apr 25, 2009 1:48 am

I thought the Strangers was boring as shit. It was just people knocking on the door over and over. Me and the friends I went with weren't creeped out at all. And the protagonist was really stupid.
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Post by NSpan Sat Apr 25, 2009 2:02 am

The Strangers was the best American horror movie of 2008.. (i say American because Let the Right One In was better).. besides that, Cloverfield was decent enough.. Quarantine was watchable.. The Signal was a failed experiment--but, if you view it as three separate short films, the first was amazing and the second wasn't bad...

that's just about all the horror from 2008 that i can think of as even worth mentioning..
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Post by silversurfer19 Sat Apr 25, 2009 11:52 am

Best horror movies from last year were all foreign. Let The Right One In, The Orphanage and [REC] certainly top the list (at least they were all released in 2008 over here). Cloverfield was the best of the US. Teeth was good too, with a great performance from the lead.
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