- Joined: October 2004
- Location: Grand Rapids
- Post Count: 254
Re: WHere's the "Time to throw down our top 10 of 2008" thread?
Caught Revolutionary Road and Vicky Cristina Barcelona over the weekend. RR gets insterted at #3 behind Encounters and Milk and VCB comes in at a theoretical #11. Great movie, but didn't quite get four stars from me.
- Joined: October 2004
- Location: Grand Rapids
- Post Count: 254
Re: WHere's the "Time to throw down our top 10 of 2008" thread?
Gran Torino vaults to number 1 on my list. A masterpiece of modern cinema.
- Joined: January 2009
- Location: United States
- Post Count: 152
Re: WHere's the "Time to throw down our top 10 of 2008" thread?
The following are subject to change.
1) The Dark Knight
2) 21
3) Hancock
4) Ironman
5) The Incredible Hulk
6) Hellboy II: The Golden Army
7) Tropic Thunder
8) WALL-E
"As soon as television became the only secondary way in which films were watched, films had to adhere to a pretty linear system, whereby you can drift off for ten minutes and go and answer the phone and not really lose your place."
-Christopher Nolan
- Joined: September 2004
- Post Count: 793
Re: WHere's the "Time to throw down our top 10 of 2008" thread?
A double dip this afternoon of Revolutionary Road and The Wrestler have altered the list significantly.
How are Aronofsky and especially Mendes not getting more praise for these two films? I mean, I find The Wrestler the lesser of Darren's work but it's masterfully done. Being a former fan of wrestling, the ins and outs of that life style hit me pretty hard. But, it's the ending that won me over. The ending vaulted the film into the top ten of 2008.
But, damn, Mendes can't seem to get a break over his last two films. Jarhead and now Road are just splendid films. And, I now know why Winslet won last night for best actress in a drama. My goodness. This lady can do anything. She is the greatest actress of her generation by a mile. And that's no slight to the other Cate. And DiCaprio just doesn't get enough praise for the body of work he has done lately. I just don't know what it'll take for people to see past the boyish face of DiCaprio. He's a actor, through and through.
"Because he's the hero Gotham deserves. But, not the one it needs right now. So, we'll hunt. Because he can take. Because, he's not a hero. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector. A DARK KNIGHT."
- Joined: May 2001
- Post Count: 1,359
Re: WHere's the "Time to throw down our top 10 of 2008" thread?
I finally posted mine:
http://www.hometheaterforum.com/htf/3485417-post16.html
- Joined: November 2007
- Location: Virginia Beach, VA
- Post Count: 10
Re: WHere's the "Time to throw down our top 10 of 2008" thread?
My Top 2008 Films
I was deployed in 2008, so I didn't see as many movies as usual, so here's the Top 10 of what I was able to see. There are a handfull of 2008 Movies I will see, and if I update the list, I'll post as such!
1. Dark Knight
2. Cloverfield
3. Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
4. Iron Man
5. 88 Minutes
6. Street Kings
7. Wall-E
8. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
9. Hancock
10. 21
- Joined: August 2001
- Post Count: 2,535
Re: WHere's the "Time to throw down our top 10 of 2008" thread?
I've now seen all of the major films, so here's my list as of now.
Top 10
- In Bruges
- Wall-E
- Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The
- Gran Torino
- The Dark Knight
- The Changeling
- The Reader
- The Wrestler
- Young at Heart
- The Visitor
Also Seen:
Bank Job, The
Burn After Reading
Doubt
Flash of Genius
Frost/Nixon
Heavy Metal in Bagdhad
Milk
Religulous
Revolutionary Road
Sex in the City
Slumdog Millionaire
Snow Angels
Stop Loss
Transsiberian
W
What Would Jesus Buy?
"Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award."
Billy Wilder
"This business has come a long way in the last 30 years, but why should I depress you"
I.A.L. Diamond on the Movie Business (1986)
