Best ten fims of 2008

CavanMaestro

Best ten films of 2008:

1. The Dark Knight
2. Iron Man
3. Quantum Of Solace
4. Hancock
5. There Will Be Blood
6. Sweeny Todd
7. Wall-E
8. No Country For Old Men
9. 21
10. Wanted


Any opinions guys?

Pigman II

An impressive mix of great and garbage there.

Basq

Hmmmm... I can pick 7 8 from the top of my head (in no real order).

These threads aren't really appreciated though.

1. The Dark Knight
2. Wall-E
3. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
4. REC
5. Slumdog Millionaire
6. Let The Right One In
7. Cloverfield
8. Gran Torino

Neamhshuntasach

I can't put them in order so here's 10 of the best films i seen this year.

The Wackness
Dark Knight
The Wrestler
Frost/Nixon
Wall-E
Milk
The Visitor
In Bruges
Gran Torino
Hunger

If El Orfanato and Tropa de elite are from 2008 i'd probably include them ahead of Milk and the visitor.

AlmightyCushion

Iron man was pretty ok as was hancock. Nothing amazing but a decent watch, no way deserving of being in the top 10. As for the quantum of solace.

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=quantum_of_phallus

shenanigans1982

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Iron man was pretty ok

Wizard magazine ranked it as the best comic movie of last year and they are supposed to know what they are talking about, but you are right it was an ok movie elevated by a really good performance by Robert Downey Jr.

Best Movies I have seen last year

Dark Knight
Cloverfield
In Bruge
Step Brothers
Hellboy 2
Ironman
Juno
Southland Tales
The Mist (Only for the ending)

Sweeny Todd was also enjoyable, but would have been even more so if it was not a musical.

Worst movie of 2008

Wanted - probably enjoyed it at the time, mainly because of two hours looking at Angelina Jolie but the more I think about it and compare it to the source material the worse it seems.

Otis Driftwood

In before the lock

No particular order


Fetus
Philosophy of a Knife
No Country for Old Men
The Gateway Meat
Goatriders:The Last Silver
The Orphanage
The Elite Squad
Gutterballs
Frontiers
Funny Games

johnny_ultimate

shenanigans1982 wrote: »

Wanted - probably enjoyed it at the time, mainly because of two hours looking at Angelina Jolie but the more I think about it and compare it to the source material the worse it seems.

I think comparing it to the source material elevates it, due to the comic being so absurdly obnoxious. A fun film, not a great one by any stretch, but it at least had the 'subtlety' and 'dignity' to ditch the character made of **** and the rape scenes.

Vokes

Reckon its about time we start the Boards Film Awards ??

The Dark Knight to bring a record haul of boards awards methinks :cool:

LilMiss_NZ

Another +1 for the Dark Knight, loved it!

johnny_ultimate

Vokes wrote: »

Reckon its about time we start the Boards Film Awards ??

The Dark Knight to bring a record haul of boards awards methinks :cool:

Indeed, I think the major awards will be pretty predictable this year. Think we should just give it an honorary "super-special-awesomeness" award and leave the rest of the awards for the significant amount of other good films of the year :pac:.

shenanigans1982

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

I think comparing it to the source material elevates it, due to the comic being so absurdly obnoxious. A fun film, not a great one by any stretch, but it at least had the 'subtlety' and 'dignity' to ditch the character made of **** and the rape scenes.

True that stuff would have needed to be cut anyway, but I mean the General idea

the fact that Wesley, Fox etc were villains who had taken over the world

, as opposed to a group of assassins who got their orders from a Loom.

johnny_ultimate

shenanigans1982 wrote: »

True that stuff would have needed to be cut anyway, but I mean the General idea

the fact that Wesley, Fox etc were villains who had taken over the world

, as opposed to a group of assassins who got their orders from a Loom.

They are very different for sure (although is a loom any more outlandish than some of the stuff in the comic - wasn't there some kind of elf creature involved :pac:). Film was supposedly put into production after the first issue only, which explains the huge difference between the two. I thought the comic was garbage though, as Millar just seemed to be trying to be as immature and 'controversial' as possible without anything really holding it together.

Again, I only really enjoyed the film as a piece of utterly mindless nonsense (probably just caught me in a good mood in hindsight) but compared to the comic its a masterpiece! It is one of the rare cases where I felt departing significantly from the source material worked in the films favour.

Decuc500

The Mist would have made my top 10 if only for that woefully contrived Twilight Zone style trick ending.

Sanjuro

Personally, my top 10 were-

1. There Will Be Blood
2. The Dark Knight
3. Wall-E
4. The Mist
5. The King of Kong
6. In The Shadow of The Moon
7. In Bruges
8. Son of Rambow
9. Man on Wire
10. Tropic Thunder

And in contrast, the 10 worst films of 08 were-

1. 10,000 B.C.
2. The Happening
3. Max Payne
4. Pathology
5. Drillbit Taylor
6. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
7. Mirrors
8. Quantum of Solace
9. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
10. Martyrs

The rest of my yearly rundown is here- Critical Mass

LoLth

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