Another year, another list. Two straight years with an American movie as my number one film. Must be some sort of record.
Final UPDATE: 12/31/08
78 Movies
MY LEAST FAVORITE FILM OF THE YEAR
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
OTHER BIG STINKERS
Leatherheads
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Zach and Miri Make a Porno
The Reader
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
MEDIOCRE
The House Bunny
Revolutionary Road
City of Men
Kabluey
Baby Mama
W.
Gran Torino
Be Kind Rewind
Frownland
Snow Angels
Quantam of Solace
ENOUGH GOOD MOMENTS TO BE A BIT BETTER THAN MEDIOCRE
Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay
Tropic Thunder
Religulous
Tell No One
City of Ember
Diminished Capacity
At the Death House Door
GOOD ENOUGH
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
The Last Mistress
Frozen River
Chop Shop
The Visitor
Momma's Man
Standard Operating Procedure
Man on Wire
The Dark Knight
Burn After Reading
Frost/Nixon
Funny Games
GOOD
Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback
Iron Man
The Strangers
Still Life
Joy Division
Trouble the Water
Surfwise
Reprise
Role Models
Step Brothers
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Slumdog Millionaire
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
Kung Fu Panda
Trumbo
In Bruges
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
Milk
VERY GOOD
Synecdoche New York
Pineapple Express
A Christmas Tale
Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story
Mongol
Wall-E
Harvard Beats Yale 29-29
Encounters at the End of the World
Wendy and Lucy
Flight of the Red Balloon
Paranoid Park
The Betrayal
Operation Filmmaker
TOP NOTCH
Edge of Heaven
Ballast
Let the Right One In
The Wrestler
Up the Yangtze
Waltz With Bashir
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Happy-Go-Lucky
TWO VERY CLOSE SECOND PLACE FILMS
My Winnipeg
The Class
MY FAVORITE FILM OF 2008
Rachel Getting Married
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13 comments:
Happy Birthday!
you suck. man on wire was the bomb-diggity.
dn
I have seen almost none of these but I agree with you on those I did see (this might be the first year!). Indy was the absolute worst waste of money ever. Wall-E was awesome. Burn After Reading was fine. I also saw Seven Pounds and didn't like it, which is saying something because that's usually the sort of schlock I lap right up. Maybe it's that I have SO little money and even less time that I just end up pissed if I go to the movies and don't enjoy it. Plus I was in the TINY Pavillion theatre from hell. Why bother?
I have Vicky Cristina sitting in my living room waiting for us to have two spare hours and Milk and In Bruges and Rachel Getting Married are all on our Netflix holding pattern.
Oh, and Happy Birthday! Hope you aren't sharing it with Double Trouble.
Apparently I saw the two worst movies of the year with you - and I agree wholeheartedly.
ugh, nick and norah. can't believe that's the last movie i've seen in a theater.
not sure how i feel about being married to a man who thinks forgetting sarah marshall is a good movie. that might have been worse than nick and norah.
I loved Forgetting Sarah Marshall - I watched it two times in a row!
I am basically convinced that youthlarge does not like movies unless they are ironically bad. Forgetting Sarah Marshall was great.
I would drop Tropic Thunder to mediocre, and Snow Angels might be my least favorite movie experience of the year. Notice I didn't say the movie was "bad" in terms of film making but I found about as unpleasant a cinematic experience can be, and not in the "made you think though" way.
My guess is I would like Religulous more than you, but I love Maher and have a high tolerance for him.
i dont see much to argue with here though, especially when you account for differences in personal taste.
Not sure about my fave yet...
david,
you suck.
civility is the bomb diggity.
chris,
not sure if i agree with your critique of youthlarge's tastes.
agreed on tropic thunder. i should drop down. but then again, robert downey by himself raises it a little. then again, i really didn't like it. i liked the first hour of snow angels, kind of.
i wanted more from religulous but i didn't hate it.
sorry i touched a nerve. your hormones must be raging.
dn
witty! where do you come up with these dave?
Yeesh. Easy, guys.
I'd have thought my "you suck" comment would have been taken in the spirit of friendly jest.
I shall rephrase/repost:
"You suck. Not literally, of course. And not even figuratively, as one might direct the phrase toward Matt Army or George Bush or Armando Benitez. No, you suck in the gentle elbow nudge, slightly disappointed but not really, oh man I'm actually a little surprised you didn't love that documentary about the crazy French tightrope walker as much as I did sense.
Man on Wire was the bomb-diggity."
dn
Just to make myself clear, I'm totally joking, Dan (& Sujan). I loved the movie and Dan didn't--that's pretty much it. If I seemed like a dick in my comments, I didn't mean to--please chalk it up to lack of tact rather than any intent or genuine disregard of anyone's opinion or feelings.
dn
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