Top Ten Movies of 2008

This is probably too early for most people, especially since the very best films of '08 were so heavily released at the end of the year. More than usual, even. I haven't had a chance to see some of the glitzier awards bait type stuff like Doubt yet (now I have seen Doubt), but I've seen everything I was really jazzed up for. I'll check those other flicks out as they come to DVD and whatnot, but as of now my 2008 top ten looks like this...



1. In Bruges
2. Pineapple Express
3. Let the Right One In
4. Stuck
5. Revolutionary Road
6. Doubt
7. Milk
8. Happy-Go-Lucky
9. The Dark Knight
0. Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Other Films I Liked
The Wrestler, Wall·E, Be Kind Rewind, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Hancock, Burn After Reading, Role Models, Teeth, The Visitor, Iron Man, Funny Games, The Hammer, Transsiberian, City of Ember, Hamlet 2, The Fall , Waltz With Bashir

Films I Thought Were Average
Valkyrie, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, 21, Baby Mama, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Kung-Fu Panda, Leatherheads, Speed Racer, Tropic Thunder, Rachel Getting Married, Frost/Nixon, The Reader

Films I Didn't Like
Slumdog Millionaire, Wanted, The Mutant Chronicles, The Bank Job, Cassandra's Dream, Doomsday, Run Fatboy Run, Semi-Pro, Zach and Miri Make a Porno, You Don't Mess With The Zohan, W., Synecdoche, New York, Redbelt






And here are my top ten (actually 20) performances of the year. Each list is in no particular order...

Male
Sean Penn in Milk
Eddie Marsan in Happy-Go-Lucky
Ray Fiennes in In Bruges
Michael Pitt in Funny Games
Robert Downey Jr. in Iron Man
Josh Brolin in W.
PS Hoffman in Doubt
Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight
Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler
Frank Langella in [i]Frost/Nixon/I]

Female
Mena Suvari in Stuck
Sally Hawkins in Happy-Go-Lucky
Alexis Zegerman in Happy-Go-Lucky
Rosemarie DeWitt in Rachel Getting Married
Lina Leandersson in Let the Right One In
Marisa Tomei in The Wrestler
Catinca Untaru in The Fall
Jess Weixler in Teeth
Meryl Streep in Doubt
Tildon in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Overall, 2008 was a much less impressive year in film than 2007. For my taste, at least. I still haven't seen a bunch of movies from '08, I know, but I'm very confident in that unfair generalization. I wrote this somewhere else (and I stole it from someone else), but if 2007 was a good year for great movies, then 2008 was a great year for good movies. There were a buttload of movies I really liked this year, but only a few I really loved. I'm looking forward to 2009.

Technically Stuck is from 2007 and The Fall is from 2006 despite them being released in some areas just last year.

I liked most of your list though. I haven't really seen enough 08 films to make a good list of my own, but I am working on one.

From what I have seen so far The Wrestler was the best by a mile. Not only my preferred from 08 so far, but one of the greatest films I've ever seen. I presumably enjoyed it so much since I used to be a die hard wrestling fanatic. I went to live wrestling events almost on a weekly basis. Take it from me that The Wrestler is as realistic as a film can get. I appreciate that it shows what pro wrestling is honestly like. That it is fake/choreographed, yet the performers are genuine athletes that put their bodies on the line in every match they compete in.

That being said, here is what I've come up with so far:
1. The Wrestler
2. The Midnight Meat Train
3. In Bruges
4. The Dark Knight
5. Let the Right One In
... Burn After Reading
... Cloverfield
... Iron Man

I'll post an update once I've seen more.

Nice one, bruv.

In Bruges is really all that then? I haven't heard a bad thing said about that film. Towards the end of the year I didn't see that much films, which is a first for me. This year has been beyond hectic for me. In fact, i've seen very little films this year. Something that won't EVER happen again.

I'll do my list a bit later. But you can guess what's going to be my number one this year..

They were both released in the US in 2008; so that's the logic behind sticking them on this list.

The Dark Knight
In Bruges
WALL-E
Benjamin Button
Slumdog Millionaire

In Bruges- too bad it wasn't a box office success but the performances were incredible

My list is pretty weak. After May my movie-watching slowed down quite a bit and still hasn't picked back up. In terms of sentimental value Tell No One holds the number one spot but Speed Racer was the best film, at least from a visual-narrative standpoint.

Speed Racer
Tropic Thunder
Tell No One
Ashes of Time Redux
Leatherheads
Synecdoche
The Forbidden Kingdom
The Dark Knight
Slumdog Millionaire
Milk
Wall-E
Be Kind Rewind
Let the Right One In
Indiana Jones 4
Jumper
Red Belt
Cloverfield
Deception

Muh-muh-muh-make me make a list will you? I'll make a make a list that'll make you want to barf! Just kidding!

I know we have a million of these threads , but I'll post my slightly changed top movies again.

(and Wall-e)

then again I'm not anywhere near done with 2008 , as I still have to see these ones

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My top ten list is still subject to change -- because I have yet to see Doubt and Revolutionary Road, but anyway:

1. The Wrestler
2. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
3. Encounters at the End of the World
4. Synecdoche, New York
5. Frost/Nixon
6. The Dark Knight
7. My Winnipeg
8. Paranoid Park
9. Snow Angels
10. Shotgun Stories

NO.1 Transformes, thanks for giving me the memory of my childhood.
No.2 The dark knight. So awasome film...
No.3 Wall-E... So interesting love... So good story that makes me thinking the future... About the environment...

My favorite movie of 2008 was The Dark Knight.

Great, Gunn. Can you name nine more?

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my top ten:
1. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2. The Dark Knight
3. Burn After Reading
4. Appaloosa
5. Step Brothers
6. Iron Man
7. Twilight
8. Changeling
9. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
10. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Krystal Skull

I plan on seeing Frost/Nixon, The Wrestler, Milk and Gran Torino, so my list is subject to change.

:O none of those!

It's a good little film and Brendan Gleeson's my pick for the GG, but, although I didn't really have a problem with the film, it didn't do anything for me.

In Bruges is still comfortably in my Top 10, but it's still too early for me to say it's locked in. However, it's well worth watching. I'm just a weird guy because I just don't pay attention to hype, whether from critics, IMDb, websites, forums, etc. So my advice to you is watch it, and every movie (for that matter), with no expectations, and if you find that impossible, then try bringing the lowest expectations possible to every movie. I believe it will help most viewers enjoy themselves and also make one more objective (at least if you believe that opinions can somehow be objective). HA!

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Everytime I try to watch In Bruges I get distracted. It's just to slow moving really. But since Sweds thinks so highly of it, I'll watch it tommorow with Son of Rambow.

Anyway top 10:

1. The Wrestler
2. Milk
3. The Dark Knight
4. Doubt
5. Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
6. Revolutionary Road
7. Step Brothers (it was funny, kay?)
8. Iron Man
9. Hellboy II:The Golden Army
10. The Fall (still haven't done a write-up. Bad me!)


Still want to see: Frost/Nixon, Rachel Getting Married, Chop Shop, The Reader, and Frozen River.

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In no particular order I would have to go with:

The Wrestler
Burn After Reading
The Dark Knight
Wall-E
Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Revolutionary Road
The Reader
Milk
In Bruges
Speed Racer

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What happened to Kung Fu Panda?

I'm so behind in seeing current films. There's only two films I've seen from 2008 that I'd possibly put on a top ten list, WALL-E and The Dark Knight.

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Those are probably my Top 2, so that's a good start.