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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: kray on December 23, 2007, 05:00:44 PM
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I didn't see a this already in the forum, and being somewhat of a fan of lists, I'll offer up 10 of mine in no particular order:
No End in Sight
Sunshine
No Country for Old Men
Ratatouille
The Darjeeling Limited
Eastern Promises
The King of Kong
Manufactured Landscapes
Hairspray
Broken English
i'm sure i will alter this list some once i watch my screener of Persepolis later today, and also Once, There Will Be Blood, Michael Clayton, and maybe The Savages. I should really swap out Hairspray or Broken English for Rescue Dawn already.
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Top 5, since I doubt I've seen 20 yet:
I'm Not There
No Country For Old Men
Zodiac
The Lives of Others
Ratatouille
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Top 5, since I doubt I've seen 20 yet:
I'm Not There
No Country For Old Men
Zodiac
The Lives of Others
Ratatouillelouie
Fixed!
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No Country For Old Men
Eastern Promises
Once
3:10 To Yuma
The King Of Kong
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La Vie En Rose
Inland Empire
Darjeeling Limited
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Just saw No Country For Old Men & LOVED IT! Want to see it again. SO GOOD!
and The Lives of Others
& Superbad
I also liked Juno, the Darjeeling Limited, Broken English & Half Nelson (though technically 2006).
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I'm going to make at least one movie post some time soon, but I've still got a lot to see. Let's just say, there's no love for EPIC MOVIE.
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in addition to a lot of the movies mentioned above i really enjoyed 'this is england'.
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let's just say 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days is not quite a date movie.
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No Country For Old Men and Assassination of Jesse James are tied for my favorite movie of 2007, but there's still a lot of stuff I want to see: Persepolis, The King of Kong, There Will Be Blood, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, I'm Not There, etc. I still haven't seen The Lives of Others or Ratalouie. I also can't remember anything I've seen before August.
Darjeeling Limited was exceptional, as was Rescue Dawn. Eastern Promises and Zodiac were solid, but felt like letdowns to me. Sweeney Todd was pretty good; a little too much music in the first and last twenty minutes, but the middle was great fun.
The worst movie I saw this year was Margot at the Wedding. Ugh. What a snooze.
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I'm trying to do some catch up before the year ends - still have tons to see - but right now these are my favs of 2007 (in no particular order):
No Country for Old Men
Zodiac
Great World of Sound
The Rat and Louie
The King of Kong
This Is England
The Darjeeling Limited
I've seen an s-hit load of films this year, but I can't even make a top ten!
Still to see though: Diving Bell, Juno, TWB Blood, Michael Clayton, Jesse James, Control, Persepolis, Before TDKY Dead, The Savages, Atonement, Du levande
Worst of the year, not counting crap with no ambition, like Norbit: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Death Proof, Eagle vs Shark, Boarding Gate, Smokin' Aces, 300, Mr. Brooks
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I have no choice but to be a brat and say that I just saw There Will Be Blood at the only screen in NYC that's showing it.
Spoiler alert: It was really good.
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I have no choice but to be a brat and say that I just saw There Will Be Blood at the only screen in NYC that's showing it.
Spoiler alert: It was really good.
I'm jealous. It looks like the movie's not opening in wide release until 1/18.
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There's a preview showing in Georgetown tomorrow night at midnight, should any DC-area FOT like to accompany me.
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I have no choice but to be a brat and say that I just saw There Will Be Blood at the only screen in NYC that's showing it.
Spoiler alert: It was really good.
Same here, except I saw it at Tom's favorite LA establishment, the Arclight.
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I have no choice but to be a brat and say that I just saw There Will Be Blood at the only screen in NYC that's showing it.
Spoiler alert: It was really good.
DAMMIT! Why would I go see it now?!
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I have no choice but to be a brat and say that I just saw There Will Be Blood at the only screen in NYC that's showing it.
Spoiler alert: It was really good.
Same here, except I saw it at Tom's favorite LA establishment, the Arclight.
i'm really hoping they bring it over to the vista theatre jan 4th.
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I have no choice but to be a brat and say that I just saw There Will Be Blood at the only screen in NYC that's showing it.
Spoiler alert: It was really good.
DAMMIT! Why would I go see it now?!
There's still plenty of stuff I didn't give away, and it should be showing in Knoxville by March 2009.
Save youself the trouble: I'm an asshole, I know.
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Crimestick, don't bother with Before the Devil Knows You're Dead. I love Sidney Lumet but I thought it was unwatchable. I did like Margot at the Wedding, though, but not as much as The Squid and the Whale.
I still have yet to see a lot of '07 movies, but my favorites included Ratalouie and No Country for Old Men. Lives of Others was one of the best movies I've seen in years.
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Crimestick, don't bother with before the Devil Knows You're Dead. I love Sidney Lumet but I thought it was unwatchable. I did like Margot at the Wedding, though, but not as much as the Squid and the Whale.
A big problem I had with Margot is that it just felt like too much of a retread of what Squid was. Hell, Margot and her husband were both writers, just like Laura Linney and Jeff Daniels. Also, there was the whole masturbation-as-sign-of-emotional-turmoil aspect that the youngest son in Squid already personified to a tee. It just seemed to me that, as a writer, Baumbach just doesn't have that big a toolkit at his disposal. He's smart, but not smart enough; I mean, could there have been a situation more embarrassingly on-the-nose as the whole tree-climbing incident?
I should point out that I love The Squid and the Whale, however. I'm glad you liked the film, Jason, and maybe I'll get something more out of it should I ever see it again.
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They closed the video store by my house which I used to drop by on the way to work. Now, it's really out of my way to rent a movie so I'm stuck with dropping by the Redbox and seeing if they have decent new releases. Of course, they don't most of the time. But, in truth there weren't many movies that were released this year that I really wanted to see anyways.
There's a bunch of stuff in the theaters the past couple months that looks really good (most of it has been mentioned) but if I don't have time to drive 20 minutes to a decent rental place obviously I don't have time to go to the theater.
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I'll have to see No Country for Old Men and There Will be Blood a couple more times before I can decide which one I liked more, but as of right now, both are firmly in my all-time top 10.
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Crimestick, don't bother with Before the Devil Knows You're Dead. I love Sidney Lumet but I thought it was unwatchable.
I have a screener of it, so it won't be that much of a bother to see it. Thanks for the heads-up though.
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Crimestick, don't bother with Before the Devil Knows You're Dead. I love Sidney Lumet but I thought it was unwatchable.
You might like it - some people whose opinions I respect thought it was pretty good. But I walked out of it, maybe the second movie I've ever done that with.
I have a screener of it, so it won't be that much of a bother to see it. Thanks for the heads-up though.
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I watched Before the Devil Knows You're Dead yesterday - first film of 2008! - and it won't be making my top ten of 2007. Not awful, not great.
Biggest complaint: the completely unnecessary broken timeline. Also: a bit annoyed by (SLIGHTLY SPOILERISH) the loose ends - I'm not a plot wrap-up fanatic, but c'mon guys. However: I am a Philip Seymour Hoffman completists, and he certainly made the film memorable.
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I gotta say, i just saw No Country for Old Men a few days ago, and would give it a B+ at best.
great acting: yes. some great scenes: yes. do I need to watch it again: not anytime soon
Maybe I would have liked it better if I had be paying attention during the last Tommy Lee Jones "dream" monologue. What was he talking about? his dad and a horse?
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Yeah, I remember getting really bored during that part.
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1. There Will Be Blood
And in no particular order:
Michael Clayton (most underrated movie of the year)
Eastern Promises
Knocked Up/Superbad
Bourne Supremacy
No Country for Old Men
I still have yet to see Ratatatatatouille, Diving Bell and Sweeney Todd. And I know it's not a movie but Id like to throw the final season of the sopranos up there as well.
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And I know it's not a movie but Id like to throw the final season of the sopranos up there as well.
Agreed. I've never seen anything like those last few episodes. It was like the apocalypse.
Allow me to go on the record as saying that The Sopranos only got stronger as it went on. Downhill after Season 3? Shame on you, Omar. In my opinion, Season 3 was the weakest overall season of The Sopranos, while Season 6 is my favorite. You put Part One and Part Two of Season 6 together, you're looking at one of the great seasons of any show, ever. There's never been anything on TV that even approaches the atmosphere of those final nine episodes.
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My vote for worst season of The Sopranos goes for season 2. Im not sure if you're fan of The Wire but the last episode of season 4 was pretty emotionally wrenching. Between losing the wire and the sopranos, Im going to have a pretty large hole in my heart in 08 and all the World According To Jim's in the world won't be able to fill it.
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Between losing the wire and the sopranos, Im going to have a pretty large hole in my heart in 08 and all the World According To Jim's in the world won't be able to fill it.
Well, don't go gettin' all sad just yet: http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117978257.html?categoryid=14&cs=1&nid=2562 (http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117978257.html?categoryid=14&cs=1&nid=2562)
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Allow me to go on the record as saying that The Sopranos only got stronger as it went on. Downhill after Season 3? Shame on you, Omar. In my opinion, Season 3 was the weakest overall season of The Sopranos, while Season 6 is my favorite. You put Part One and Part Two of Season 6 together, you're looking at one of the great seasons of any show, ever. There's never been anything on TV that even approaches the atmosphere of those final nine episodes.
I really liked Pt. 2 of Season 6 but I thought Pt. 1 was the weakest stretch of episodes in the series. The dream sequences while Tony is in the hospital and the Vito-comes-out storyline were pretty much awful (IMO, of course), theso Season 6 ended up being half terrible and half great. I think the worst season overall was 4.
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My vote for worst season of The Sopranos goes for season 2.
I'll second that. Not exactly a sophomore slump, but still...
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Well, don't go gettin' all sad just yet: http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117978257.html?categoryid=14&cs=1&nid=2562 (http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117978257.html?categoryid=14&cs=1&nid=2562)
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I'll only be happy if theres a love triangle involving:
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(http://www.hbo.com/thewire/img/castcrew/character_season04/snoop.jpg)
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I don't think Be Kind Rewind is even out in America yet, but have you Nu-Yorkers heard about this thing (http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/12/30/be-kind-rewind-movie-studio-to-open-in-new-york-city/) that Michel Gondry is doing? It looks amazing!
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I don't think Be Kind Rewind is even out in America yet, but have you Nu-Yorkers heard about this thing (http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/12/30/be-kind-rewind-movie-studio-to-open-in-new-york-city/) that Michel Gondry is doing? It looks amazing!
he did pretty much the same thing with the sets from The Science of Sleep last year. I went it was really cool.
This looks alot more elaborate though.
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters
I'm having trouble even thinking of any other movies I've seen that came out in 2007. But I can easily say that the aforementioned film was probably the single most entertaining movie theater experience I've ever had.
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did anyone mention this is england yet? might have been released earlier in england but new to me this year.
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did anyone mention this is england yet? might have been released earlier in england but new to me this year.
it'll be on my list for sure.
anything that begins with roland rat CANNOT FAIL.
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This Is England is on my list aswell.
Atonement, which I watched yesterday, is not. The first hour's bizarre shifts in tone and perspective completely threw me, and I couldn't recover. My mind went something like this: "Ah, boring old wartime British upperclass ennui, how about that... Wait a second, isn't that a Ben Stiller-romcom-like plot device? What, it's a thriller all of a sudden? Now it's a war movie? And how come it's almost a decent movie whenever Ikea Nightley isn't on screen, and it's abysmal when she is? And get out of town with that attention-whoring long shot."
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Did anybody see Talk To Me?
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BREAKING NEWS:
I watched Juno and Control. Neither made my top ten.
I also watched Smiley Face. Didn't made my top ten either, but it was funnier than Control.
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once, no country for old men, american gangster, into the wild
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Saw Once last night with my Wednesday night movie group, we all loved it, including the guy most inclined not to. Saw This Is England last weekend; I'm probably a namby-pamby, but I am a little uncomfortable with films that cast such young actors in such unsavory settings, impressionable as they are. Saw Eastern Promises last week; Viggo Mortensen is good AGAIN (10 years ago I would have but that fragment on the list things I will never say,) but good GOD is the violence tough to watch. Not to mention how hard it was to make me review some of it up to 6 times, in slow motion and reverse.
Netflix has opened a distribution center in Knoxville! So my average turn around has gone from 6 days to 3 days; now if only someone will invent a way to get more time.