Best of 2008

Best of 2008

  • The Dark Knight

    Votes: 19 36.5%

  • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

    Votes: 5 9.6%

  • Slumdog Millionaire

    Votes: 8 15.4%

  • MILK

    Votes: 3 5.8%

  • Wall-E

    Votes: 2 3.8%

  • Gran Torino

    Votes: 1 1.9%

  • Rachel Getting Married

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Religulous

    Votes: 1 1.9%

  • Doubt

    Votes: 1 1.9%

  • OTHER

    Votes: 12 23.1%
  • Total voters
    52
Zak Forsman said:
this is a little rough but basically in order.

1. Flight of the Red Balloon
2. The Silence of Lorna
3. Wendy & Lucy
4. The Wrestler
5. Milk
6. Ballast
7. Rachel Getting Married
8. Paranoid Park
9. Happy-Go-Lucky
10. Slumdog Millionaire
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If I were a bettin' man (and I am)...
I woulda put money on Frost/Nixon being the film that at long last
marked the crossroads of our respective tastes (yours and mine).

What gives?
 
Zak Forsman said:
this is a little rough but basically in order.

1. Flight of the Red Balloon
2. The Silence of Lorna
3. Wendy & Lucy
4. The Wrestler
5. Milk
6. Ballast
7. Rachel Getting Married
8. Paranoid Park
9. Happy-Go-Lucky
10. Slumdog Millionaire
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Yeah terrific list, especially Paranoid Park being included, just I'm not so sure about Slumdog yet

and Hsiao-hsien Hou is the man
 
Kubrick71 said:
Yeah terrific list, especially Paranoid Park being included, just I'm not so sure about Slumdog yet

and Hsiao-hsien Hou is the man
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you know... i'm iffy on Slumdog too. I didn't buy the love story. i think it's on my list more for the craftsmanship, than the content.
 
Slumdog was so pretty, stylistically. Had great moments. I found the love story trite, though.

I had to vote for "Other," not because I wanted to be contrary, but because there is no doubt for me that the best film I watched was 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days.

I saw it on DVD. It has a slow start and then becomes the most riveting film I've seen in an awfully long time. The tension is intense, but entirely internalized and emotional--it's all about the characters' dilemmas. It has some very innovative style choices too. But it's a story that you can't get out of your mind. I've sorta already forgotten about Slumdog.
 
my list of 08 films I saw from best to not so best, non on the list were bad except Indiana Jones and Wanted.

Iron Man

Kung fu panda,

wall-e

Fireproof

hulk

indi 4, (kidding rather watch wanted again)

Bolt

batman

Narnia


hancock

igor

tropic thunder

be kind rewind
 
i honestly don't know what the fuss is all about with Wall-e. I didn't think it was that good. I thought the plot had a lot of potential but the movie was flat and dry.
 
I was able to see some concept boards for Wall=e a couple weeks ago at pixar, in the original story the humans were translusant jelly blobs, rather than being in space foe hundreds of years, it was going to hundreds of thousands of years, all the writing on earth was going to be in a future text, and we were only going to find out it was earth at the end of the film.
 
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