Favorite Movies of 2008

[Adeniz19]

It almost seems a little to early too be doing this, because there are still SO many movies out in limited release that I really want to watch, and I know will affect my list. Overall, I'd say this was a great year for going to the theaters. Here is my top 10 as it stands now:

1.The Dark Knight
2.Wall-E
3.The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
4.Burn After Reading
5.In Bruges
6.Cloverfield
7.The Fall
8.The Bank Job
9.Pineapple Express
10.Quantum Of Solace

Honorable Mentions: Iron Man, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Iron ManPrince Caspian, Definitely Maybe, Get Smart, Horton Hears a Who, Zack and Miri, Bolt, Kung Fu Panda

Still Need to See: Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Appaloosa, Choke, Miracle at St. Ana, Rachel Getting Married, RockNRolla, Body of Lies, W., Changeling, Australia, Synecdoche New York, Milk, Gran Torino, The Wrestler, Frost/Nixon, Defiance, Revolutionary Road, Slumdog Millionaire

[Machu505]

1. Doubt
2. WALL-E
3. The Dark Knight

I still haven't seen Milk, Slumdog, The Wrestler, Frost/Nixon, Benjamin Button, Australia, Burn After Reading, In Bruges, or Gran Torino. So therefore I will not make anymore of a list until I see more.

[WakingTheMisery]

I didn't see anything that really wowed me. WALL-E was quite awesome though.

[TEAMRAMROD]

was WALL-E really that good? i haven't seen it but have always had a problem with animated movies

[Machu505]

was WALL-E really that good? i haven't seen it but have always had a problem with animated movies

Second favourite of 2008 for me.

[Adeniz19]

was WALL-E really that good? i haven't seen it but have always had a problem with animated movies
yes. if you like sci-fi and a good love story then check it out.

[TEAMRAMROD]

sounds good. i'll probably check it out when it goes on the used section at blockbuster

[TK]

1. In Bruges
2. The Dark Knight
3. Milk
4. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
5. Slumdog Millionaire
6. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
7. Doubt

[mjr20]

in bruges is overrated. nothing happened in that movie.

[eMart]

I've found it too hard to try and rank my favorite movies of the year, so I'll just list them here in no particular order.

The Dark Knight
Slumdog Millionaire
The Wrestler
Milk
Wall-E
Man On Wire
Religulous
Revolutionary Road
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Cloverfield
Rachel Getting Married
JCVD
Iron Man
Step Brothers
W.
Burn After Reading
American Teen

Though they were tough to rank, it wasn't hard for me to chose my absolute favorite movie of the year. Not only did it manage to meet the Sears Tower high expecations I had for this movie, it rode up them and did a 180 degree about face all over them. The Dark Knight was hands down my favorite movie of 2008.

Best Director - Danny Boyle "Slumdog Millionaire"
Best Actor - Sean Penn "Milk"
Best Actress - Kate Winslet "The Reader"
Best Supporting Actor - Heath Ledger "The Dark Knight"
Best Supporting Actress - Marisa Tomei "The Wrestler"
Best Score - Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard "The Dark Knight"

Unfortunately I didn't get to see all the movies I would've liked to including Let the Right One In, Synechode New York, Doubt, Gran Torino, etc.

[pseudonym28]

if anyone needs help here is wikipedia's 2008 in film hope it helps

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_in_film#January_.E2.80.93_Marc h

[mjr20]

1.Dark Knight
2.curious case of Benjamin button
2a.iron man
3.Tropic Thunder
4.Bank Job
5.Role Models
6.Step Brothers
6a.Gran Turino
7.Wanted
8.Death Race
9.Strange Wilderness
10.Hamlet 2
11.Sarah Marshall
11a.Choke
12.Speed Racer
13.Eagle Eye
14.Quantum of Solace
15.Be kind rewind



Id say it was a pretty solid year for movies except in November and early December I felt like barely anything good was out for a while.

[pseudonym28]

1. the curious case of benjamin buttion
2. slumdog millionaire
3. the dark knight
4. forgetting sarah marshall
5. wall-e
6. the wrestler
7. in brudges
8. milk
9. the reader
10. role models
11. the wackness
12. zac and miri make a porno
13. changeling
14. ghost town
15. the incredible hulk
16. iron man
17. gran torino
18. the promotion
19. nick and norah
20. snow angels

Honorable Mentions: frost/nixon, let the right one in

[Adeniz19]

in bruges is overrated. nothing happened in that movie.because they were stuck in fucking bruges. maybe if you grew up on a farm, and were retarded, In Bruges might impress you, but you weren't so it doesn't.

[pseudonym28]

lol

[IAmNietzche]

Paranoid Park
The Signal
Harold and Kumar: Escape From Guantanamo Bay
Wanted
Frost/Nixon
The Dark Knight
RocknRolla
Repo! The Genetic Opera
Slumdog Millionaire
Che

I've yet to see Milk, Gran Torino, Doubt, The Wrestler or Defiance.

[Jessooker]

I have to think about this.

[AShannon04]

1. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
2. Burn After Reading
3. Wall-E
4. Step Brothers (liked this wayyyyy more the 2nd time I saw it)
5. The Fall


Still a ton of "good" movies I haven't seen yet: The Wrestler, Frost/Nixon, Slumdog Millionaire, Milk, Gran Torino, Zack & Miri

[stayillogical]

Going to try and watch Milk and The Wrestler today, then I've watched everything on my list aside from Gomorrah. I'm struggling with picking #1 though. Wall-E or Slumdog? Hmmm.

[fluke182]

So far, with having Revolutionary Road, The Wrestler, Let the Right One In, Doubt, Gran Torino, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, and Happy-Go-Lucky to watch, my list goes as follows...

1a. Slumdog Millionaire
1b. Wall-E
3. The Dark Knight
4. In Bruges
5. Frost/Nixon
6. Man on Wire
7. Kung Fu Panda
8. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
9. Iron Man
10. Cloverfield

[poppa Q]

I feel so dirty posting my list before it's complete, haha. Plus, I feel like I'm still shuffling around the order a bit. Hopefully this thread will still be alive and kicking come early/mid January.

[doyouhas?]

1. Synecdoche: New York (Dir.- Charlie Kaufman)
2. The Fall (Dir. Tarsem)
3. The Curious Case Benjamin Button (Dir. - David Fincher)
4. Doubt (Dir. - John Patrick Shanley)
5. Wall-E (Dir.- Andrew Stanton)
6. Blindness (Dir.- Fernando Meirelles)
7. Reprise (Dir.- Joachim Trier)
8. Paranoid Park (Dir.- Gus Van Sant)
9. Be Kind, Rewind (Dir.- Michel Gondry)
10. Forgetting Sarah Marshall (Dir.- Nicholas Stoller)


Honorable Mention


1. Speed Racer (Dir.- Andy Wachowski)
(http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0905152/)2. Australia (Dir.- Baz Luhrmann)
3. The Boy With Striped Pajamas (Dir.- Mark Herman)
4. The Wackness (Dir.- Jonathan Levine)
5. Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian (Dir.- Andrew Adamson)

[Recovery Room]

15. Iron Man
14. Cassandra's Dream
13. Man On Wire
12. The Reader
11. In Bruges
10. The Visitor
09. Burn After Reading
08. The Fall
07. Milk
06. The Wrestler
05. Doubt
04. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
03. Wall-E
02. Slumdog Millionaire
01. The Dark Knight

I still need to see Revolutionary Road, Gran Torino, The Counterfeiters, The Band's Visit, The Wackness, Frozen River, Ghost Town, Choke, Rachel Getting Married, The Boy With The Striped Pajamas, Happy-Go-Lucky, The Class and Last Chance Harvey.

[stayillogical]

So far, with having Revolutionary Road, The Wrestler, Let the Right One In, Doubt, Gran Torino, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, and Happy-Go-Lucky to watch, my list goes as follows...

1a. Slumdog Millionaire
1b. Wall-E
3. The Dark Knight
4. In Bruges
5. Frost/Nixon
6. Man on Wire
7. Kung Fu Panda
8. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
9. Iron Man
10. Cloverfield

I think I'm going to do what you did.

[thrash brandon]

the dark knight
gran torino
seven pounds
the incredible hulk
burn after reading
cloverfield
slumdog millionare
the curious case of benjamin button
hancock
valkyrie

[Chris M.]

1. The Dark Knight
2. Milk
3. Gran Torino
4. Pineapple Express
5. WALL-E
6. Burn After Reading
7. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
8. Iron Man
9. Quantum of Solace
10. Seven Pounds

Pretty sure those are the only 10 movies I saw from this year too, so I just ranked them.

I still plan on seeing Frost/Nixon, Slumdog Millionaire, The Curious Case..., Man on Wire, The Wrestler, Revolutionary Road, Synecdoche New York, plus a ton of others I'm probably forgetting right now.

[StreetSpirit76]

Like everybody else I have a ton still to see, but here's how it's shaping up so far:

1. The Dark Knight
2. Cloverfield
3. Iron Man
4. The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
5. Man On Wire

[gloriousmuse]

1. Slumdog Millionaire
2. Milk
3. The Wrestler
4. Benjamin Button
5. Kung Fu Panda
6. Bolt
7. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
8. Let the Right One In
9. High School Musical 3 (Don't judge me. I enjoyed it a lot.)
10. Iron Man/Cloverfield

[anamericangod]

1. In Search Of A Midnight Kiss
2. Milk
3. The Dark Knight
4. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
5. The Wrestler
6. Slumdog Millionaire
7. Body of Lies
8. Iron Man
9. Frost Nixon
10. The Bank Job
11. Pineapple Express
12. Wanted
13. Quantum of Solace
14. Eagle Eye
15. Choke
16. Blindness
17. The Edge of Love
18. X Files: I Want To Believe
19. Burn After Reading
20. Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay


I still need to see: In Bruges, Benjamin Button, Wall-E, Man On Wire, Revolutionary Road, Gran Torino, Australia, and a few more. Can't believe how many movies I've actually watched this year.

[FondestMemory]

1. in bruges
2. the signal
3. seven pounds
4. dark knight
5. young people fucking

[Recovery Room]

1. In Search Of A Midnight Kiss
Never got around to seeing this and totally forgot about it until you mentioned it here.

[gnarly sky]

1. Burn After Reading
2. The Strangers
3. Wall-E
4. The Dark Knight
5. Iron Man

It was a weak year in my opinion. This list is definitely the most main stream list I have come up with. But Burn After Reading definitely takes the cake for 2008.

[c_rob2700]

I kept thinking Cloverfield was released in 07, damn January releases. Anyway, i'm seeing Benjamin Button & The Spirit sometime this week, i'll make my list after that

[c_rob2700]

1. in bruges
2. the signal
3. seven pounds
4. dark knight
5. young people fucking
I think Y.P.F. was 07

[TSLROCKS]

1.) Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
2.) The Dark Knight
3.) In Bruges
4.) Iron Man
5.) The Wrestler
6.) Burn After Reading
7.)Body Of Lies
8.) Eagle Eye
9.) 7 Pounds

Have yet to see a whole bunch of amazing movies yet so my list will definitely change but those are some of my favorites so far. Pride And Glory was the biggest letdown of the year for me

[Drew Beringer]

The Dark Knight, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Tropic Thunder, Benjamin Button, Burn After Reading were some of my favorites.

[s.t.e.v.e.n.]

i am awful at putting things in order, so in a somewhat particular order but more just off the top of my head, my favorites were

The Dark Knight
Burn After Reading
Doubt
Horton Hears a Who!

I am yet to see Milk, Benjamin Button, The Wrestler, or Frost/Nixon and I imagine those will make my list

I enjoyed Tropic Thunder, Body of Lies and a host of other moves I saw this year but the others stand out more

[Robototron]

There's a lot out this year that I've been meaning to see, but haven't. I went by American theatrical release dates, which is why some movies I included were previously released elsewhere:

1. Vicky Christina Barcelona
2. Boy A
3. Tell No One
4. Son of Rambow
5. The Counterfeiters
6. OSS 117: Cairo - Nest of Spies
7. Tropic Thunder
8. Reprise
9. The Bank Job
10. Iron Man

[Ailite]

My list still has some work needed but I will post it in the next few days

[airik625]

Some favorites in no particular order:

The Dark Knight
Cloverfield
Pineapple Express
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Iron Man
The Bank Job
Wanted
Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay
Hancock

and there are still a shit ton I haven't seen that I think would make this list of memorable favorites of '08.
Tropic Thunder

[a speedo model]

2. Boy A

How did I forget about this movie, so fantastic. It'll definitely be on my list.

[c_rob2700]

Pineapple Express >>>>>>> Tropic Thunder

[Robototron]

Pineapple Express >>>>>>> Tropic Thunder

Hollywood comedies >>>>>>> stoner comedies

[c_rob2700]

Hollywood comedies >>>>>>> stoner comedies
I'd agree if outside of one scene Tropic Thunder was funny

[poppa Q]

I still need to see Revolutionary Road, Gran Torino, The Counterfeiters, The Band's Visit, The Wackness, Frozen River, Ghost Town, Choke, Rachel Getting Married, The Boy With The Striped Pajamas, Happy-Go-Lucky, The Class and Last Chance Harvey.

The Counterfeiters is one of the best movies I've seen all year. Even though its American release was '08, it was officially an '07 release and I just yesterday took it off my list.

[Drew Beringer]

Pineapple Express >>>>>>> Tropic Thunder
falsesies

[AShannon04]

I wanted to like Tropic Thunder so bad, but couldn't get into AT ALL. Huge disappointment for me.

[Robototron]

I'd agree if outside of one scene Tropic Thunder was funny

Uh, what about Tropic Thunder wasn't funny? That movie was comedy gold. Robert Downey Jr. alone was worth the price of admission.

[cantnokdahustle]

1) Wall*E
2) Let The Right One In
3) The Dark Knight
4) Milk
5) Slumdog Millionaire
6) The Brother's Bloom (fantastic fest)
7) Man on Wire
8) Young@Heart
9) Role Models
10) Hamlet 2

most disappointing:
1) Ben Button
2) Quantum of Solace
3) Australia
4) Blindness
5) City of Ember

[Drew Beringer]

Uh, what about Tropic Thunder wasn't funny? That movie was comedy gold. Robert Downey Jr. alone was worth the price of admission.
RDJ and Tom Cruise owned it.

[stayillogical]

As much as I love RDJ, Tropic Thunder was a big letdown for me as well. He had maybe one or two good moments. It was just so over the top and not remotely funny most of the time. Pineapple Express, on the other hand, made me laugh a lot.

[c_rob2700]

falsesies
See below
I wanted to like Tropic Thunder so bad, but couldn't get into AT ALL. Huge disappointment for me.
Uh, what about Tropic Thunder wasn't funny? That movie was comedy gold. Robert Downey Jr. alone was worth the price of admission.
I found myself trying to force myself to laugh, I thought the movie was really original and had it's moments, but overall not very funny

[fluke182]

1. In Search Of A Midnight Kiss

Awesome movie. Good call.

[pseudonym28]

i thought step brothers was funnier than tropic thunder.

[Recovery Room]

The Counterfeiters is one of the best movies I've seen all year. Even though its American release was '08, it was officially an '07 release and I just yesterday took it off my list.
That's what I had thought, thanks.

[Recovery Room]

Tropic Thunder was much funnier than Pineapple Express (I only really laughed ONCE), but both were equally disappointing.

[AShannon04]

i thought step brothers was funnier than tropic thunder.

Me too

[pseudonym28]

Tropic Thunder was much funnier than Pineapple Express (I only really laughed ONCE), but both were equally disappointing.

pineapple express wasn't that funny but i felt like it was more entertaining than tropic thunder. the only thing i liked about tropic thunder was RDJ.

[fadedmemories]

Uh, what about Tropic Thunder wasn't funny? That movie was comedy gold. Robert Downey Jr. alone was worth the price of admission.
qft

[iheartmusic043]

I loved Dark Knight. Heath Ledger was so insane in that movie. Other than the length, that movie had to be the best movie of the year and one of the best superhero movies ever.

[StreetSpirit76]

I haven't seen Pineapple Express yet, but I tend to be very indifferent when it comes to Seth Rogan movies. And Tropic Thunder was a disappointment for me, which is a shame because it seems like they put a lot of time and money into it.

That being said, Tropic Thunder at least managed to provide Tom Cruise with one of the very few roles I have ever enjoyed him in.

[Ailite]

Tom Cruise was fucking hilarious in Tropic Thunder. Really, I was very surprised at how much I enjoyed him.

[StreetSpirit76]

Tom Cruise was fucking hilarious in Tropic Thunder. Really, I was very surprised at how much I enjoyed him.

Me too. At first I wasn't even aware that it was him, and once I realized that it was I almost had to double check because I couldn't believe I was actually enjoying his performance. Haha.

[stayillogical]

1. Slumdog Millionaire
2. Wall-E
3. Let The Right One In
4. In Bruges
5. Milk
6. The Dark Knight
7. The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
8. Iron Man
9. The Wrestler
10. The Fall

Honorable mentions: Revolutionary Road, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Cloverfield, etc.

Disappointments: Choke, Quantum of Solace, Tropic Thunder.

Still need to see: Gomorrah, Frost/Nixon, Boy A, Burn After Reading, Man on Wire, The Wackness, In Search of a Midnight Kiss, Australia, Gran Torino, Doubt, etc.

[AlternateToLife]

I haven't seen that many new films this year, but from what I have:

The Dark Knight
Milk
Wall-E
Pineapple Express
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist


But I still haven't seen Slumdog Millionaire, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Seven Pounds, or Benjamin Button. Which I think could all weigh in.

[c_rob2700]

Dark Knight x10

[MIKEY_HORROR]

1- The Wrestler
2- Slumdog Millionaire
3- REC
4- Burn After Reading
5- Milk
6- The Ruins
7- Pineapple Express
8- Poultrygeist
9- Role Models
10- Splinter

Honorable Mentions: Step Brothers; Forgetting Sarah Marshall; All The Boys Love Mandy Lane

Still Need to See: Let the Right one In; Benjamin Button; Valkyrei

[Tails_Prower7]

1:The House Bunny
2:Twilight
3:Step Brothers
i dont really remember most of them heh

[clandestinerdc]

I don't know really, I haven't seen many of the award nominated movies (milk, slumdog, wrestler, etc).

But I feel like those ones probably wouldn't have been my favorites necessarily except maybe slumdog.

My favorites this year were.

1. Dark Knight
2. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
3. Iron Man
4. Quantum of Solace
5. Pineapple Express
6. Benjamin Button (should be 1 or 2 on this list for best movie)
7. Kung Fu Panda

Still need to see Wall-e and Bolt, and of course the ones who will get the oscar noms.

I hope I effectively worded what I was trying to get across that these were my favorites but not necessarily the best.

[jwelborn]

1. The Wrest​ler
2. Let the right​ one in
3. Forge​tting​ Sarah​ Marsh​all
4. Milk
5. Slumd​og Milli​onair​e
6. Vicky​ Crist​ina Barce​lona
7. Doubt​
8. Frost​/​Nixon​
9. Relig​ulous​
10. Revol​ution​ary Road

Note: Still​ need to see The Reade​r,​ The Curio​us Case of Benja​min Butto​n,​ Synec​hdoch​e NY, Rache​l Getti​ng Marri​ed.​

Honor​able Menti​ons:​ Wall-​E,​ Man on Wire,​ The Wackn​ess,​ Gran Torin​o,​ Augus​t,​ Choke​,​ Appal​oosa,​ The Visit​or,​ The Boy in the Strip​ed Pajam​as,​ Bigge​r Stron​ger Faste​r.​

[Adeniz19]

tropic thunder was pretty disappointing. RDJ and Cruise were funny but it wasn't enough to make the whole movie good.

[c_rob2700]

Okay, anyone who doesn't put Dark Knight in the Top 10 of the year is just doing it to be a douchebag

[stayillogical]

Okay, anyone who doesn't put Dark Knight in the Top 10 of the year is just doing it to be a douchebag

:hitself:

[mjr20]

Gran Torino is a fuckin sick movie I just saw it.. Clint Eastwood plays a badass old racist as one of the best characters I have ever seen in a movie.

[AShannon04]

Okay, anyone who doesn't put Dark Knight in the Top 10 of the year is just doing it to be a douchebag

I personally find it to be pretty over-rated. Still a good movie, but definitely not among the best I've ever seen. :shrug:

[airik625]

1. The Wrest​ler
2. Let the right​ one in
3. Forge​tting​ Sarah​ Marsh​all
4. Milk
5. Slumd​og Milli​onair​e
6. Vicky​ Crist​ina Barce​lona
7. Doubt​
8. Frost​/​Nixon​
9. Relig​ulous​
10. Revol​ution​ary Road

Note: Still​ need to see The Reade​r,​ The Curio​us Case of Benja​min Butto​n,​ Synec​hdoch​e NY, Rache​l Getti​ng Marri​ed.​

Honor​able Menti​ons:​ Wall-​E,​ Man on Wire,​ The Wackn​ess,​ Gran Torin​o,​ Augus​t,​ Choke​,​ Appal​oosa,​ The Visit​or,​ The Boy in the Strip​ed Pajam​as,​ Bigge​r Stron​ger Faste​r.​

No love for The Dark Knight?

[c_rob2700]

No love for The Dark Knight?
= Douchebag

[stayillogical]

= Douchebag

No.

[Juturna25]

1. milk
2. the dark knight
3. let the right one in
4. doubt
5. wanted
6. wall e
7. kung fu panda

[MIKEY_HORROR]

Okay, anyone who doesn't put Dark Knight in the Top 10 of the year is just doing it to be a douchebag

I dont have it in my top 10. I watched it, and I think it is highly over-rated (sadly due to the Ledger tragedy)..and I also cannot stand Batman/Ironman/Spiderman type movies. So I dont think it makes me a douche, because I dont like a movie.

[jwelborn]

No love for The Dark Knight?

I'm just not a big fan of superhero films.

[jwelborn]

Okay, anyone who doesn't put Dark Knight in the Top 10 of the year is just doing it to be a douchebag

= Douchebag

You are an idiot. People have different opinions.

[life changer]

1. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
2. Wall E
3. Burn After Reading
3a. The Dark Knight
5. Charlie Bartlett

[c_rob2700]

I dont have it in my top 10. I watched it, and I think it is highly over-rated (sadly due to the Ledger tragedy)..and I also cannot stand Batman/Ironman/Spiderman type movies. So I dont think it makes me a douche, because I dont like a movie.
to each his own i suppose, i don't think it's like the greatest movie of all time by any means, just a Top 3or4 of the year for sure

[TJ Wells]

(10) Hunger
(09) American Teen
(08) In Bruges
(07) Rachel Getting Married
(06) A Christmas Tale
(05) Let the Right One In
(04) Man on Wire
(03) The Wrestler
(02) Slumdog Millionaire
(01) WALL-E

[fluke182]

Over the holiday weekend, I'm watching the Wrestler, Let the Right One In, Revolutionary Road, the Visitor, and a couple of others. I feel like my top 10 will be unrecognizable by then.

Watched Happy-Go-Lucky last night and found it intermittently cute, intermittently hateable. Couldn't decide which won out.

[Recovery Room]

(10) Hunger
(09) American Teen
(08) In Bruges
(07) Rachel Getting Married
(06) A Christmas Tale
(05) Let the Right One In
(04) Man on Wire
(03) The Wrestler
(02) Slumdog Millionaire
(01) WALL-E
Kind of surprised not to see Milk or The Dark Knight on there.

I still need to see Let The Right One In, Hunger, American Teen and Rachel Getting Married, though.

[fantasma]

updated

Top 10 Movies of the Year 2008
1. Wall-E
2. The Dark Knight
3. Man On Wire
4. The Wrestler
5. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
6. Slumdog Millionaire
7. Happy-Go-Lucky
8. In Bruges
9. Cloverfield
10. Revolutionary Road


Honorable Mentions:
Vicky Cristina Barcelona, The Wackness, Gran Torino, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Snow Angels

[stayillogical]

(10) Hunger
(09) American Teen
(08) In Bruges
(07) Rachel Getting Married
(06) A Christmas Tale
(05) Let the Right One In
(04) Man on Wire
(03) The Wrestler
(02) Slumdog Millionaire
(01) WALL-E

Your list on your blog has Slumdog as #1. Did you have trouble choosing between Slumdog and Wall-E as I did? Haha. I went with Slumdog as first too though. But then again, tomorrow I'll change my mind and say Wall-E. Eh, either one.

[FondestMemory]

to each his own i suppose, i don't think it's like the greatest movie of all time by any means, just a Top 3or4 of the year for sure

for you, sure.

i don't see why you care if somebody doesn't put it in their top 10.

[RiCCioLi]

The Dark Knight
Step Brothers
Cloverfield
Pineapple Express
Iron Man
Forgetting Sara Marshall

[Ailite]

1- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2- Wall-e
3- The Dark Knight
4- Milk
5- Slumdog Millionaire
6- Frost/Nixon
7- The Wrestler
8- Forgetting Sarah Marshall
9- Gran Torino
10- Burn After Reading

Honorable mentions- Doubt, Iron Man, Kung Fu Panda, In Bruges, The Visitor
(still haven't seen Rachel Getting Married, Let The Right One In, Synecoche New York)

[Thomas Balkcom]

1. Slumdog Millionaire
2. Synecdoche, New York
3. The Wrestler
4. Man on Wire
5. Let the right one in
6. Revolutionary Road
7. The Dark Knight
8. Milk
9. In Bruges
10. Forgetting Sarah Marshall

http://thomasbalkcom.wordpress.com/2009/01/01/69-best-of-2008/

[8:17am]

Synecdoche, New York
Burn After Reading
Humboldt County
The Dark Knight
Pineapple Express
The Wrestler
Zach and Miri Make a Porno
Forgetting Sarah Marshall

The combination of Charlie Kaufman and Phillip Seymour Hoffman in Synecdoche was amazing. If you haven't seen it, it should be on your to do list.

[bradyreier]

1. The Dark Knight
2. Wall-E
3. Slumdog Millionaire
4. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
5. Milk
6. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
7. Man On Wire
8. Frost/Nixon
9. Iron Man
10. The Wrestler
11. In Bruges

Couldn't leave In Bruges off.

[Teumessian Fox]

So I am really against ranking systems for films/music/art...whatever people rank... I just am not a fan of it. I do like "Highly Anticipated" lists and then going back and seeing if they met or fell short of expectations both artistically and theater gross but I have found a great list on Ricky Gervais's Blog that is pretty much the greatest thing I have ever read. It is a "Top Ten Best/Worst Films of 2008 "written by Matthew Alexander who is co-writing "This Side of The Truth" with the beforementioned Gervais. Enjoy!

TOP TEN WORST FILMS OF 2008:

10. Fool's Gold -- I don't have anything funny to say about this movie. I'm just fed up. Just fucking stop it. Seriously. You're not getting anything out of it. I'm not getting anything out of it. Even "your audience" isn't getting anything out of it. You know what this movie cost? $70 million. You know what it grossed? $70 Million. It's a cats game. You're literally doing nothing.

9. You Don't Mess with the Zohan -- Remember in the trailer when Adam Sandler's little legs pop up and start kicking that guy in the face? So do I.

8. The Happening -- Nail in the coffin. Fucking took long enough. If anyone is keeping score at home, just know that if you write and direct a great film that grosses nearly $300 million (and one slightly over-rated yet entertaining super-hero movie) they will let you direct FOUR FILMS OF YOUR CHOOSING. Lucky for us all, The Happening was number four.

7. The Love Guru -- Here's when you know that you've stopped trying: you're still using mini-me in a movie that doesn't have a character in it named mini-me. This is exactly like George Lucas making Boba Fett one of the central story lines of the prequels. Sometimes "giving the people what they want" isn't the right thing to do. This is also why there are so many obese children.

6. Fireproof -- THIS DOES NOT BODE WELL. This makes me miss The Passion of the Christ. At least that had a few movie stars and some violence. Next up: the Mormon film movement. Oh wait... that's already started... and it's on this list.

5. Beverly Hills Chihuahua -- See above.

4. How She Move -- Seems beside the point. What about How She Talk?

3. Be Kind Rewind -- I actually walked out of this one angry. Such a disappointment to realize where the talent lies with Michel Gondry (Clue: not in his writing). I agree there isn't enough of people laughing and looking like they're having fun in comedy films nowadays, but conversely, there's also nothing more awkward than watching two guys pretending to be laughing and having fun.

2. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull -- YOU CHOSE... POORLY.

1. Twilight -- Dear Fat Girls of America, I know times are tough. I know how it feels to be overweight, and unpopular, to feel that no one really understands you and to wallow away at night, lying in your big bed, snacking and wishing there was an effeminate vampire boy-child to come steal you away and show you how shiny he looks in the sunlight. (I don't). But this is not the answer. I say it again, ma'am: THIS IS NOT THE ANSWER. I know it's too late to stop this train, but let us all agree that the Twilight books make Harry Potter look like Proust. And even worse, the Twilight film makes Disaster Movie look like The Leopard.

TOP TEN BEST FILMS OF 2008:

As always, my Top Ten is the closest melding I can muster of what I consider to be the best films and the films I flat out enjoyed the most.

Apparently, as is obvious by many of my selections, this was the year that I was a nine year old boy.

10. Iron Man -- Just fun.

9. Synecdoche, New York -- I like to imagine that Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman made a bet to see who could do the other person's job better. You know, like an I Love Lucy episode. But in this I Love Lucy episode Kaufman walked into the candy factory like he was Gordon Ramsey on Kitchen Nightmare and made the best damn candy that candy factory had ever produced. On the flip side, Gondry, in an attempt to clean the house and take care of Little Ricky, burned down the entire brownstone and drowned Little Ricky in the tub.

8. Tropic Thunder -- It still bothers me that we live in a culture where Tom Cruise has to do public penance for being crazy by embarrassing himself with ridiculous dance moves. But almost everything else I enjoyed. I think it would have been better, as it was supposed to be, with Owen Wilson in the Jack Black role, though.

7. Ghost Town -- It would make the list regardless. It's fantastic. And the ending makes me well up with tears like a little girl-gay. And it stars my favorite actor in the whole world. Tea Leoni.

6. Let the Right One In -- A slap in the face to all that is bad in the world of cinema. Quite literally the anti-Fool's Gold. It's exactly what we need.

5. Speed Racer -- I'm sick of defending this film. But fuck it, one more go. Look, you're wrong. It's as simple as that. If you haven't seen it, whatever you think of it, you're just wrong. If you have seen it and didn't like it, well... you don't understand what you saw. This film is so far ahead of its time the closest thing I can compare it to is 2001. So there. That's a hyperbolic statement I will live to regret. But, hyperbole is necessary sometimes to prove a point. This film is amazing. It's even important. It's amazing storytelling, it's technically leagues ahead of anything else and here is the main reason people hate it: it is like nothing that has even been before.

4. Kung-Fu Panda -- Some of the best storytelling I've seen in a long time. Like a perfectly mechanized little watch. I bet that at this point in the list you're thinking that I'm praising some pretty childish and "light" films for their "good storytelling". But I just call 'em like I see 'em. And some of the best storytelling I saw this year took place in films aimed at children.

3. Wall-E -- The first time I watched it was on my laptop and it was a bootlegged version I downloaded from some asshole with a camcorder pointed at the screen. That's how bad I wanted to see it (I was in England where it wasn't releasing for another three weeks and I couldn't wait). Even with the crappy quality, it still did what it was supposed to do. Something I can't shake though: I don't totally understand how or why this film was allowed to be.

2. The Dark Knight -- I don't have anything interesting or funny to say about this. Oh wait... A Jew with a Barfing Dick. There we go. A chuckle, there.

1. The Wrestler -- hands down the best storytelling I've seen in a long time. There's nothing more impressive to me than a simple story you've seen a million times, presented in a way that makes you feel like you've never seen it before. Aranofsky-world -- here we come.

P.S. For those of you who think this list is missing Benjamin Button, or Slumdog Millionaire, or Milk, or Revolutionary Road, or any of the other films on most peoples' lists, please don't assume I just didn't see those films. I did. I saw every film you're saying "but what about..." to. They just didn't make the list. But I liked a lot of them. Just not as much as you.

Matt Robinson


Obviously "Ghost Town" is on there cuz Gervais is enthusiastically in love with himself and only makes friends/works with people who feel the same way about him... but see... I never saw it so it could be the greatest film ever made and I am just making assumptions. But hear me on this one... anything that resembles "Ghost Dad" deserves to be mocked and ridiculed... and yeah... a ghostlike Kinnear just reminds me too much of pudding man. And that's not supposed to be racist.

Shit. It kind of is. Fuck it. I don't like Cosby or anything he is apart of... I eat Yoplait.

el Fine'

[fake empire]

1. The Dark Knight
2. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
3. Let The Right One In
4. Wall-E
5. Snow Angels
6. Slumdog Millionaire
7. Role Models
8. Tropic Thunder
9. Pineapple Express
10. Cloverfield

[speakhandsforme]

The Dark Knight and Burn After Reading were my favorites but I never got around to seeing Milk or Frost/Nixon, which I imagine would also top my list.

[Charles777]

1. Pineapple Express
2. The Dark Knight
3. Hancock (I love Will Smith, no homo)
4. You Don't Mess With The Zohan
5. Step Brothers

I usually go for the comedies more than action movies. Helps me stay in a good mood.

:P

[fluke182]

So far, with having Revolutionary Road, The Wrestler, Let the Right One In, Doubt, Gran Torino, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, and Happy-Go-Lucky to watch, my list goes as follows...

1a. Slumdog Millionaire
1b. Wall-E
3. The Dark Knight
4. In Bruges
5. Frost/Nixon
6. Man on Wire
7. Kung Fu Panda
8. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
9. Iron Man
10. Cloverfield
Revised:

1a. Slumdog Millionaire
1b. Wall-E
3. Let the Right One In
4. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
5. In Bruges
6. The Dark Knight
7. The Visitor
8. Frost/Nixon
9. Man on Wire
10. The Wrestler

[poppa Q]

20. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
19. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
18. In Bruges
17. Cloverfield
16. Son of Rambow
15. The Fall
14. Vicky Cristina Barcelona
13. Transsiberian
12. Doubt
11. Snow Angels
10. Slumdog Millionaire
9. Revolutionary Road
8. Wall-E
7. The Wrestler
6. Frost/Nixon
5. Milk
4. Let the Right One In
3. The Dark Knight
2. Synecdoche, New York
1. Man On Wire

Something like that.

[jbaseball44]

1. Slumdog Millionaire
2. The Wrestler
3. Curious Case of Benjamin Button
4. Frost/Nixon
5. Dark Knight
6. In Bruges

havent seen Synecdoche, New York or Revolutionary Road

[Mistaken_music]

1. The Dark Knight
2. Iron Man
3. Hancock
4. Wall-e
5. Kung Fu Panda
6. Horton Hears a Who

[pshh]

1. The Wrestler
2. The Dark Knight
3. Slumdog Millionare
4. Man on Wire
5. Curious Case of Benjamin Button
6. Frost/Nixon
7. Let the Right One In

[mikeyxxcore]

Nick And Norah, The Dark Knight, Hancock, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Zach And Miri, Slumdog Millionaire.

[Ryzenfall]

So far, with having Revolutionary Road, The Wrestler, Let the Right One In, Doubt, Gran Torino, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, and Happy-Go-Lucky to watch, my list goes as follows...

1a. Slumdog Millionaire
1b. Wall-E
3. The Dark Knight
4. In Bruges
5. Frost/Nixon
6. Man on Wire
7. Kung Fu Panda
8. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
9. Iron Man
10. Cloverfield

Wow. My to-see list is pretty much identical to yours. Except I need to add Man On Wire there.

Slumdog Millionaire beat out Wall-E for me. Kung Fu Panda and Cloverfield are such an underrated films.

Props to your avatar. The special edition physical copy is incredible.

[Uzumaki]

1. Sweeney Todd
2. Juno (saw it 28 times)
3. The Dark Knight (saw it 5 times in theaters)
4. Wall-E
5. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
And that's really all for me.

[pseudonym28]

i want to see "man on wire"

[spriltsc]

i want to see "man on wire"
it was surprisingly good. didn't even feel like a documentary

[spriltsc]

1. Sweeney Todd
2. Juno (saw it 28 times)
3. The Dark Knight (saw it 5 times in theaters)
4. Wall-E
5. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
And that's really all for me.
watch slumdog.

[Stephen Chamberlain]

Of Time and the City
Adoration
The Class
Il Divo
I've Loved You So Long
Three Monkeys
Milk
Che
Gomorrah
Waltz with Bashir
Hunger