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Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 10:12 pm
by Sabin
1994 was an awesome year!
The year with (aside from five pretty awesome Best Picture nominees) Bullets Over Broadway, Ed Wood, Heavenly Creatures, Hoop Dreams, The Last Seduction, Natural Born Killers, Nobody's Fool, Red, Spanking the Monkey, and Speed?
...and if you want to get technical, Chungking Express, Exotica, & Wild Reeds, goddammit!
Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 9:47 pm
by Sabin
(BTW -
1. WALL*E (dir. Andrew Stanton)
2. Reprise (dir. Joachim Trier)
3. Let the Right One In (dir. Tomas Alfredson)
4. Synecdoche, New York (dir. Charlie Kaufman)
5. Chop Shop (dir. Ramin Bahrani)
6. Paranoid Park (dir. Gus Van Sant)
7. The Dark Knight (dir. Christopher Nolan)
8. Milk (dir. Gus Van Sant)
9. Happy-Go-Lucky (dir. Mike Leigh)
10. Burn After Reading (dir. Joel & Ethan Coen)
No.'s 9 & 10 are completely interchangeable with A Christmas Tale, Rachel Getting Married, and The Wrestler among others.)
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Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 7:07 pm
by Bog
--Big Magilla wrote:I thought I already posted this, but...
Ten Best Films of 2008
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (David Fincher)
Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle)
Milk (Gus Van Sant)
The Reader (Stephen Daldry)
Doubt (John Patrick Shanley)
Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard)
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Mark Herman)
WALL-E (Andrew Stanton)
The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky)
The Visitor (Tom McCarthy)
Memories....eager to post that again?
Oscar has come a long way for you since Crash's "upset" victory
Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 5:17 pm
by Precious Doll
I haven't posted mine yet either.
1. My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin)
2. Il Divo (Paolo Sorrentino)
3. Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt)
4. Let’s Talk About the Rain (Agnes Jaoui)
5. Milk (Gus van Sant)
6. Chris and Don: A Love Story (Tina Mascara & Guido Santi)
7. Otto; or, Up with Dead People (Bruce LaBruce)
8. Battle for Haditha (Nick Broomfield)
9. Stranded: I’ve Come from a Plane That Crashed in the Mountain (Gonzalo Arijon)
10. Wrangler: Anatomy of an Icon (Jeffrey Schwarz)
Top Ten List
Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 1:28 pm
by Big Magilla
I thought I already posted this, but...
Ten Best Films of 2008
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (David Fincher)
Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle)
Milk (Gus Van Sant)
The Reader (Stephen Daldry)
Doubt (John Patrick Shanley)
Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard)
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Mark Herman)
WALL-E (Andrew Stanton)
The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky)
The Visitor (Tom McCarthy)
Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 4:12 pm
by Heksagon
I might as well post my own current list:
****
none yet
***½
none yet
***
1. Changeling
2. Gomorra
3. Slumdog Millionaire
4. Milk
5. The Counterfeiters
**½
6. Frost/Nixon
7. The Wrestler
8. Il divo
**
9. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
10. The Dark Knight
11. WALL-E
12. Revolutionary Road
13. Man on Wire
14. Defiance
*½
15. Margot at the Wedding
16. Burn After Reading
17. Mongol
18. Tropic Thunder
*
19. In Bruges
20. Iron Man
21. Kung Fu Panda
22. The Reader
23. The Duchess
24. Frozen River
½
25. Paranoid Park
26. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
no stars
27. Be Kind Rewind
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 5:03 pm
by Sabin
I love it. It's so funny.
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 3:25 pm
by Zahveed
Sabin wrote:ONE STAR BUT ALSO KINDA THE BEST MOVIE OF THE YEAR
53. The Happening (dir. M. Night Shyamalan)
Have we already discussed why this rates in such a way?
I'm intrigued, but I think it might be the worst movie in years and years.
'Cause it's funny. It's so incredibly funny. I mean, it deserves every Razzie in the book but it's such an incredibly entertaining disaster. I'm halfway tempted to put it on my Top Ten List.
It really does borderline on parody. It makes a better Disaster Movie than Disaster Movie probably did.
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 3:21 pm
by Sabin
ONE STAR BUT ALSO KINDA THE BEST MOVIE OF THE YEAR
53. The Happening (dir. M. Night Shyamalan)
Have we already discussed why this rates in such a way?
I'm intrigued, but I think it might be the worst movie in years and years.
'Cause it's funny. It's so incredibly funny. I mean, it deserves every Razzie in the book but it's such an incredibly entertaining disaster. I'm halfway tempted to put it on my Top Ten List.
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 12:03 pm
by Jim20
1. The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan)
2. The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky)
3. Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme)
4. In Bruges (Martin McDonagh)
5. Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle)
6. The Visitor (Thomas McCarthy)
7. Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard
8. Wall-E (Andrew Stanton)
9. Che (Steven Soderbergh)
10. Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood)
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 9:26 am
by Bog
Sabin wrote:ONE STAR BUT ALSO KINDA THE BEST MOVIE OF THE YEAR
53. The Happening (dir. M. Night Shyamalan)
Have we already discussed why this rates in such a way?
I'm intrigued, but I think it might be the worst movie in years and years
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 12:11 am
by Sabin
I wish I could stop drinking.
Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 11:06 pm
by Zahveed
I wish I could see that many films.
Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 10:13 pm
by Sabin
****
1. WALL*E (dir. Andrew Stanton)
2. Reprise (dir. Joachim Trier)
3. Let the Right One In (dir. Tomas Alfredson) (NEW)
4. Synecdoche, New York (dir. Charlie Kaufman) (NEW)
5. Chop Shop (dir. Ramin Bahrani)
***1/2
6. Paranoid Park (dir. Gus Van Sant)
7. The Dark Knight (dir. Christopher Nolan)
8. Milk (dir. Gus Van Sant) (NEW)
9. Happy-Go-Lucky (dir. Mike Leigh) (NEW)
10. Burn After Reading (dir. Joel & Ethan Coen)
11. The Wrestler (dir. Darren Aronofsky) (NEW)
12. Rachel Getting Married (dir. Jonathan Demme) (NEW)
13. A Christmas Tale (dir. Arnaud Desplechin) (NEW)
14. The Band's Visit (dir. Eran Kolirin)
15. Iron Man (dir. Jon Favreau)
16. In Bruges (dir. Martin McDonagh)
17. Man on Wire (dir. James Marsh) (NEW)
18. Waltz with Bashir (dir. Ari Folman) (NEW)
***
19. Shotgun Stories (dir. Jeff Nichols)
20. Son of Rambow (dir. Garth Jennings)
21. The Incredible Hulk (dir. Louis Leterrier) (more like ***1/2 for everything up to the big fight at the end, and then a rapid plummet)
22. Hellboy 2: The Golden Army (dir. Guillermo Del Toro)
23. Frost/Nixon (dir. Ron Howard) (NEW)
24. Role Models (dir. David Wain) (NEW)
25. Be Kind, Rewind (dir. Michel Gondry)
**1/2
26. Doubt (dir. John Patrick Shanley) (NEW)
27. Cloverfield (dir. Matt Reeves)
28. Roman de Gare (dir. Claude Lelouch)
29. The Visitor (dir. Tom McCarthy) (NEW)
30. Slumdog Millionaire (dir. Danny Boyle) (NEW)
31. Tropic Thunder (dir. Ben Stiller) (NEW)
32. Zach and Miri Make a Porno (dir. Kevin Smith) (NEW)
33. Forgetting Sarah Marshall (dir. Nick Stoller) (NEW)
34. Wendy and Lucy (dir. Kelly Reichardt) (NEW)
35. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (dir. David Fincher) (NEW)
36. Changeling (dir. Clint Eastwood) (NEW)
37. Frozen River (dir. Courtney Hunt) (NEW)
38. Revolutionary Road (dir. Sam Mendes) (NEW)
39. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (dir. Peter Sollett)
40. Boarding Gate (dir. Olivier Assayas) (NEW)
41. 21 (dir. Robert Luketic)
42. 007: Quantum of Solace (dir. Marc Forster) (NEW)
43. Hancock (dir. Peter Berg)
**
44. Gran Torino (dir. Clint Eastwood) (NEW)
45. In Search of a Midnight Kiss (dir. Alex Hornridge - and will somebody please fuck this guy?) (NEW)
46. The Fall (dir. Tarsem)
47. My Blueberry Nights (dir. Wong Kar-wai)
48. Baby Mama (dir. Michael McCullens)
49. W. (dir. Oliver Stone) (NEW)
*1/2
50. Vicky Christina Barcelona (dir. Woody Allen)
51. Pineapple Express (dir. David Gordon Green)
52. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (dir. Steven Spielberg)
ONE STAR BUT ALSO KINDA THE BEST MOVIE OF THE YEAR
53. The Happening (dir. M. Night Shyamalan)
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Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 6:36 pm
by abcinyvr
As usual I only make a top 10 list and these are my favorites:
Slumdog Millionaire
Milk
Heaven On Earth (Canada)
Doubt
The Reader
Sell Out! (Malaysia)
Tricks (Poland)
The Good, The Bad, And The Weird (South Korea) http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=imgdpz_0m-8
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Vicky Christina Barcelona
Best non-2008 film I saw in 2008 - Sunshine (2007)
Total: 20 + 37 (Film Fest) = 57