Sunday, February 24, 2008

2007 Movie List

Just in time for the Oscars. There were either better films in 2007 than there were in 2006 or I did a better job of staying away from too much crap.

Final Update: 12/3/08
Total: 83 Movies

MY LEAST FAVORITE FILM OF THE YEAR
Black Snake Moan

OTHER STINKERS
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

Spider-Man 3

Live Free or Die Hard

Charlie Wilson's War

MEDIOCRE
I Think I Love My Wife

Sunshine

Into the Wild

The Italian

Margot at the Wedding

Transformers

My Blueberry Nights

KIND OF GOOD: ENOUGH GOOD MOMENTS TO BE BETTER THAN MEDIOCRE
Gone Baby Gone

American Gangster

Dan in Real Life

Ocean's 13

Blades of Glory

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Time

Juno

I Am Legend

Right at Your Door

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

I Don't Want to Sleep Alone

I'm Not There

Once

PRETTY GOOD
Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten

Billy the Kid

Wristcutters: A Love Story

The Namesake

Deep Water

Sigur Ros: Heima

Control

3:10 To Yuma

Talk to Me

Sicko

Black Book

The Camden 28

Atonement

The Darjeeling Limited

The Devil Came on Horseback

The Savages

The Host

Breach

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

GETTING WARMER
Smiley Face

The Band's Visit

Away From Her

Brand Upon the Brain

Year of the Dog

Hot Fuzz

In the Valley of Elah

Grindhouse

28 Weeks Later

No End In Sight

You're Gonna Miss Me

The Simpsons Movie

The Bourne Ultimatum

Exiled

Ratatouille

An Unreasonable Man

Taxi to the Dark Side

Nanking

TOP NOTCH
Zodiac

12:08 East of Bucharest

In Between Days

Persepolis

Great World of Sound

Knocked Up

Eastern Promises

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Michael Clayton

Offside

THE TOP 10
Rescue Dawn

This is England

Ten Canoes

Triad Election

King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters

No Country For Old Men

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

Daratt

There Will Be Blood

MY FAVORITE FILM OF THE YEAR (AND I STILL CAN'T BELIEVE IT)
Superbad

Ten Other Films I Wrote About in 2007 That I Really Liked And You Will Too:

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Vengeance is Mine

Killer of Sheep

Little Dieter Needs to Fly

Blackmail

The Window

The Crowd

Election

Raise the Red Lantern

17 comments:

Anonymous said...

yes!!! totally superbad! that movie rocked!

u should totally see "penelope" with cristina ricci and james mcavoy. thats really good.

Anonymous said...

Has to be the worst made list ive never seen. oops i mean i wish i never saw it... do us favors and never make a list again!!!! Thank You

Listmaker said...

2nd anonymous,

has to be the most insightful comment i've never seen. oops i mean i wish i never saw it ... do me a favor and never made a comment here again!!!!
Thank You

Anonymous said...

Terrible.
I think you have the your list backwards, as some of the movies in the "Kind of good" section should definitely be in the "Pretty good" or "Getting warmer" part of the list. Example - I Am Legend.
So i'm thinking theres two options, either you have NO sense of telling which movie is good or not or you accidentally put some films where they shouldn't be.
Thank You.

Listmaker said...

Peter Travers,

Is that you again?

Please don't be shy.

Anonymous said...

No it's not, just another person thinking your list is terrible.

Listmaker said...

Dear Will Smith,

Please stop leaving harassing comments on my blog pretending that you are a concerned moviegoing citizen.

Stay classy!

Listmaker

lolrim said...

dude I Am Legend is a reaaly good movie and i hate superbad!

Anonymous said...

i find it funny that you try and make fun of others who disagree with your list....stay classy listmaker!

Listmaker said...

i find it funny that you have nothing better to do on christmas morning than harass a stranger on his blog.

thanks - i will stay classy.

now - please just go away and find some another blogger to pester anonymously.

Anonymous said...

Hello dude

you have a real wire likes. that why most of the people don't like your list or doesn't agree with it.

I can't say I like it, but also I can't say I don't like it. I think is just a totaly diferent way to qualify movies. Maybe if you establish your parameters to qualify movies, the people outside can a little better comprehend you.
But with that, looks totaly insane list and suck

Listmaker said...

Well said. You have quite a way with words.

Anonymous said...

I was looking for a list of movies made in 2006 to filter through the ones I missed. I have seen most of these, and I have to agree with the majority of comments above. Your list doesn't 'suck' but your taste is pretty erratic. Three burials > Jesse James? The simpsons > Atonement? 28 Weeks later > darjeerling, 3:10 to yuma, gone baby gone, etc.
Its not a discussion of semantics over particular case films, but now i have to keep looking for another list bc i dont trust your judgment. Hope your other lists are better, but I wont be reading them.
b
ps- being classy is the opposite of getting the last word in on an argument. And i liked before the devil knows your dead.

Listmaker said...

i'm a bit confused by your comment. the movies listed in the first pargraph are good or bad in your opinion? some of them i have ranked fairly high and some i don't. are you saying that all of them are ranked incorrectly?

i'm fine with your comment. at least you are trying to have some sort of coherent discussion rather than just ripping me.

i'm just a guy who likes movies and lists. that's all. i don't pretend to be roger ebert. i've been doing these lists for years but for some reason this particular year's list keeps getting random rude comments. it's odd. that's all.

i see your point about being classy. and i see that you are trying in a witty way to say that i'm not. ok. that's fine. i'm just simply retorting to a bunch of obnoxious unconstructive commenters who i know will never look back at this site ever again. it's my blog. people are rude. i don't see how i'm being unclassy by retorting on my own blog to anonymous rude comments but ok.

obviously we have different tastes if you liked before the devil knows your dead.

i'm just wondering - when you say you've seen most of these movies - how many of my top 10 have you actually seen? just wondering ...

Anonymous said...

Don't you love it when people tell you what you should or shouldn't love? I mean, I don't agree with everythig you said about these movies but I highly doubt anyone would agree with my taste either.
But I CAME TO THIS PAGE, my choice, to check out a list of movies...AND YOU provided a list....WHOO HOO! What kind of doosh bag gets their panties in a twist about what you chose to post on your own page? Oh...wait...I see...Those people right there -points down- Way to go doosh bags. Heh...anyway thanks for the list I found a few I might watch today. tata

Listmaker said...

finally a voice of reason!!

thank you!

Anonymous said...

Hey dudes!


chill...

the list is ...quite bizarre indeed but opinions can vary (maybe quite a bit at this case but still :D) I wanted to see a list of 2007 movies and this dude's list has proven quite usefull. Hopefully this guy's next year movie list will prove to be more to my taste too! But in order for him to make a list next year just CUT THE FREEKING CRAPY COMMENTS and please let the man do his thing.