My Top Ten Movies of 2008!

Postby **SlappyMcGee** » 2008.12.25 (22:31)

List yours:

10. Paranoid Park
9. Iron Man
8.Rachel Getting Married
7. Wall-E
6. Tropic Thunder
5. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
4.Synecdoche, New York
3.Milk
2.Burn After Reading
1.The Wrestler

And the absolute worst of 2008 in my eyes, The Other Boelyn Girl. Awful, awful film.

http://nmaps.net/user/astheoceansblue · Postby **a happy song** » 2008.12.25 (23:30)

I've yet to watch The Wrestler, Wall-E, and Man on Wire, and a lot of others... I've been mostly focusing on music and quality TV this year.

I can top five (albeit at a stretch, I'm going with UK release dates here...)

FIVE iron man
FOUR in bruges
THREE no country for old men
TWO there will be blood
ONE the dark knight

Postby **SlappyMcGee** » 2008.12.26 (00:45)

atob wrote:I've yet to watch The Wrestler, Wall-E, and Man on Wire, and a lot of others... I've been mostly focusing on music and quality TV this year.

I can top five (albeit at a stretch, I'm going with UK release dates here...)

FIVE iron man
FOUR in bruges
THREE no country for old men
TWO there will be blood
ONE the dark knight

lols, if NCFOM and TWBB are considered '08 films, they certainly make my list, but considering they've already won their Oscars for 2007, I didn't consider them.

http://nmaps.net/user/astheoceansblue · Postby **a happy song** » 2008.12.26 (00:55)

I know, but I found 2008 too dry to play by the proper rules. I'll cut my cacti where I can.

http://nmaps.net/user/clovic · Postby **Clovic** » 2008.12.26 (04:26)

The Wrestler isn't even out yet is it? I sure do love Aronofsky, his work is always astounding and I'm hoping for an amazing movie. Pi, The Fountain, Requiem; all 3 masterpieces.

So basically, my question is: How good is it, /really/?

I'll cut my cacti where I can.

Or you could just eat it...

Postby **Lenny** » 2008.12.26 (04:49)

Haven't seen too many new movies this year, but Wall-E is definitely the best. I've also really liked Twilight, and Horton Hears A Who.

http://nmaps.net/user/eganic · Postby **sheganican** » 2008.12.26 (05:09)

1: The Dark Knight
2: Kung Fu Panda
3: Wall-E
4: Iron Man
5: I am Legend
6: Tropic Thunder

i wanted to see a bunch of others like Spirit, Benjamin Button, Bedtime Stories, and Mummies: Tomb of the yadyada

Postby **SlappyMcGee** » 2008.12.26 (05:36)

Clovic wrote:The Wrestler isn't even out yet is it? I sure do love Aronofsky, his work is always astounding and I'm hoping for an amazing movie. Pi, The Fountain, Requiem; all 3 masterpieces.

So basically, my question is: How good is it, /really/?

I'll cut my cacti where I can.
Or you could just eat it...

It is, in my opinion, the best Aronofsky yet. It's almost... funny. It's hard to explain, really, but it's surely his masterpiece, which is saying something considering The Fountain was already the overbudget-ed masterpiece and Requiem was already the powerful masterpiece (And yeah, Pi was the "black-and-white is cool" masterpiece), but this is just fantastic. I saw it at a little film fest thing that went down in the city last week.

11/10 stars.

http://nmaps.net/user/clovic · Postby **Clovic** » 2008.12.26 (06:13)

And before I grace you with my list, what's up, you guys didn't like Pineapple Express?

All you gotta do to get off all that stress is *duh*duh* get some...Pineapple...Express

And I'm going to do 15, instead of 10, because I want to.

Anyone who hasn't heard of Mongol or The Air I Breathe, you need to go watch them now. Seriously.

And my list:

Mongol
The Air I breathe
Horton Hears a Who
Burn After Reading
Get Smart
Pineapple Express
Semi-pro
Batman
Saw V
Mirrors

Honorable Mentions:

Wall-E - 2 hours of the first half of this movie and it would be top 3. The end, you know with the humans and all the fat people, yeah, that sucked. I realize they were making a point, but I liked the points they were making better when Wall-E was exploring and being hilarious.

Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian - Really good, but just barely misses out in my opinion

Strange Wilderness - HILARIOUS movie, definitely recommended

The Forbidden Kingdom - Pretty silly, but that's a lot of its charm

Be Kind Rewind - This movie gets major originality points, plus it is hilarious.

Sex Drive - Surprisingly funny, go see it if you haven't, you may be surprised.

Kung Fu Panda - Fun and hilarious

Tropic Thunder - With all the hype, it should have been even funnier, but it was a riot nonetheless..."We gotta hurry, they'll wake up in 16 hours!"

Wow. Strong words sir. I will have to see it for myself.

http://www.nmaps.net/user/Aidiera · Postby **aids** » 2008.12.26 (07:33)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_in_fi ... 8_releases

1. Charlie Bartlett - the plot is terrific.
2. Yesman - Jim Carrey + Zooey Deschanel = <3
3. Sex Drive - HAHA!
4. The Dark Knight - why so serious?
5. Step Brothers - Will Ferrel can sing? Wow.
6. Tropic Thunder - three funny guys in a funny movie.
7. Role Models - McLovin strikes again.
8. Iron Man - the best special effects of 2008.
9. Kung Fu Panda - Jack Black is meant to be animated.

Honorable Mentions:

Wanted - too surreal to be believable
Pineapple Express - not my type of humor
Death Race - too violent for me
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist - too romantic
Eagle Eye - too predictable

http://nmaps.net/user/littleviking001 · Postby **LittleViking** » 2008.12.26 (07:52)

My final top ten list for 2008 contains zero movies. Absolutely none. Granted, I haven't seen some of the potential high points like Milk, Man on Wire, and Burn After Reading.

http://nmaps.net/user/T3chno · Postby **T3chno** » 2008.12.26 (07:53)

Is Benjamin Button worth the watch? Seems interesting.

http://nmaps.net/user/condog_111 · Postby **Condog** » 2008.12.26 (11:17)

I'll tell you what's not on my list: The Day the Earth Stood Still. The animation and Keanu were the only good things in it (although granted, they were pretty sweet), but that didn't make up for it's other misgivings.

http://nmaps.net/user/pni · Postby **Pixon** » 2008.12.26 (13:44)

I only saw four in theatres this year :( .

1. Indiana Jones
2. WALL-E
3. Run Fat Boy Run
4. Quantum of Solace

Postby **SlappyMcGee** » 2008.12.26 (15:27)

Techno wrote:Is Benjamin Button worth the watch? Seems interesting.

Well, look at it this way.

Brad Pitt + David Fincher = Genius (Re: Fight Club, Se7en)

http://nmaps.net/user/gloomp · Postby **unoriginal name** » 2008.12.26 (16:53)

Alphabetically:

Burn After Reading
Cloverfield
The Dark Knight
The Fall
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Religulous
Son of Rambow
Synecdoche, New York
W.
WALL-E

I saw way less '08 movies this year then I thought, thus the strange mix blockbuster and art-house pictures.

http://www.nmaps.net/user/Aidiera · Postby **aids** » 2008.12.26 (18:08)

LittleViking wrote:My final top ten list for 2008 contains zero movies. Absolutely none.

bah. you have no taste in good movies.

Postby **Calcy** » 2008.12.26 (23:14)

My top movies in no particular order:

Iron Man
Speed Racer
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
WALL-E
The Dark Knight
Tropic Thunder
Burn After Reading
Slumdog Millionaire
Quantum of Solace
Religulous

http://nmaps.net/user/Cerberus%5B%5D · Postby **Cerberus** » 2008.12.28 (06:55)

I have yet to see many movies of some your top movies. I really want to see Benjamin Button, Milk, Burn After Reading and The Wrestler.

http://nmaps.net/user/bobaganuesh_2 · Postby **bobaganuesh_2** » 2009.01.03 (07:46)

haven't gone to the movies much this year, though I've seen alot of non-2008 movies. Anyways:

1. The Dark Knight
2. Run, Fatass, Run!
3. Iron Man
4. Valkyrie
T
hat's pretty much all the movies I saw in 2008. I wanted to In Bruges, though

http://nmaps.net/user/ · Postby **capt_weasle** » 2009.01.04 (01:33)

In no particular order:

Cloverfield
The Dark Knight
Wall-E
Iron Man
Tropic Thunder - may not be a best, but still surprisingly funny
Hancock
Yes Man - Holy crap Zooey Deschanel is amazing

Postby **Lenny** » 2009.01.04 (04:54)

[quote="capt_weasle"]Yes Man/quote]
Oh, is that good? I've seen the trailers, and it looked really fun - would you recommend it?

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http://nmaps.net/user/ · Postby **capt_weasle** » 2009.01.04 (06:33)

It was pretty good. I would recommend it, although it does have a similar feel to Liar Liar.

http://www.nmaps.net/user/Aidiera · Postby **aids** » 2009.01.04 (06:36)

capt_weasle wrote:Yes Man - Holy crap Zooey Deschanel is amazing

QFE!!!

http://nmaps.net/user/epigone · Postby **epigone** » 2009.01.05 (06:12)

Slumdog Millionaire was really good, and I notice that only Calcy mentioned it. I assume most people probably didn't see it though.

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