CMJ
Dec 31st, 2008, 01:13:11 AM
Now my final list won't be done for probably 2-3 months as I catch up on films I haven't seen. And I still go back every so often and re-evaluate previous years, so I guess these are never COMPLETELY done.
So yeah, I'll be revising this - no doubt in the weeks to come. Some of the order I'm going back and forth on even as I type to be honest. It'll sort of solidify soon enough hopefully, and I may edit this thread a time or two. Nonetheless, here we are as it stands with the year 2008 officially in its final hours.
1. Wall-E - A simply wonderful effort by Pixar. Easily their most adult, deepest, & best picture. I wrote about this at length months ago.
2. The Dark Knight - The best comic book hero film ever. Almost seemed more like a film noir at times.
3. The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons - A magical journey through one man's odd condition of aging backwards. A meditation on aging, life, death, and a variety of other subjects. Asks questions, provides no real answers, but just sort of makes one ponder. Loved this film.
4. The Wrestler - Delving into the world of an aging, washed up, wrestling has-been. Anchored with a phenomenoal performance by Mickey Rourke.
5. Slumdog Millionaire - Not many pictures will make you feel warmer and more gooey inside than this one. A real fairytale. Bollywood mixed with British director Danny Boyle equals genius.
6. Frost/Nixon - A splendid examination of the famous Frost/Nixon interviews where the disgraced president admitted to his mistakes. Great acting, and the kind of classic filmmaking one expects from Ron Howard.
7. Burn After Reading - I love the Coens when they do serious...I love when they do inane comedy. This was the inane comedy variety and it's pure hilarity throughout.
8. Forgetting Sarah Marshall - Another comedy makes my list. This one had me in stitches the whole time. It also has a surprising amount of heart, that really elevate it higher than it should be.
9. The Reader - Just your average teen boy has affair with woman twice her age, finds out she was a Nazi prison guard whi is then accused of war crimes, which haunts man well into adulthood film. :lol Really well acted, but it's the kind of film one more admires than loves. Kate Winslett and the boy are particularly wonderful.
10. Cloverfield - BWP mixed with Godzilla type creature equals total adrenelline high. Kick @ss monster movie.
So yeah, I'll be revising this - no doubt in the weeks to come. Some of the order I'm going back and forth on even as I type to be honest. It'll sort of solidify soon enough hopefully, and I may edit this thread a time or two. Nonetheless, here we are as it stands with the year 2008 officially in its final hours.
1. Wall-E - A simply wonderful effort by Pixar. Easily their most adult, deepest, & best picture. I wrote about this at length months ago.
2. The Dark Knight - The best comic book hero film ever. Almost seemed more like a film noir at times.
3. The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons - A magical journey through one man's odd condition of aging backwards. A meditation on aging, life, death, and a variety of other subjects. Asks questions, provides no real answers, but just sort of makes one ponder. Loved this film.
4. The Wrestler - Delving into the world of an aging, washed up, wrestling has-been. Anchored with a phenomenoal performance by Mickey Rourke.
5. Slumdog Millionaire - Not many pictures will make you feel warmer and more gooey inside than this one. A real fairytale. Bollywood mixed with British director Danny Boyle equals genius.
6. Frost/Nixon - A splendid examination of the famous Frost/Nixon interviews where the disgraced president admitted to his mistakes. Great acting, and the kind of classic filmmaking one expects from Ron Howard.
7. Burn After Reading - I love the Coens when they do serious...I love when they do inane comedy. This was the inane comedy variety and it's pure hilarity throughout.
8. Forgetting Sarah Marshall - Another comedy makes my list. This one had me in stitches the whole time. It also has a surprising amount of heart, that really elevate it higher than it should be.
9. The Reader - Just your average teen boy has affair with woman twice her age, finds out she was a Nazi prison guard whi is then accused of war crimes, which haunts man well into adulthood film. :lol Really well acted, but it's the kind of film one more admires than loves. Kate Winslett and the boy are particularly wonderful.
10. Cloverfield - BWP mixed with Godzilla type creature equals total adrenelline high. Kick @ss monster movie.