Your Best of 2007 Lists - Page 2

1. Rush Hour 3
2. Shrek the Third
3. Evolution
4. Fantastic Four 2: Rise of the Silver Surfer
5. Transformers
6. Southland Tales
7. Shoot 'Em Up
8. Once
9. Live Free or Die Hard
10. Windtalkers

10)Superbad
9)Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
8)Sicko
7)Enchanted
6)Rescue Dawn
5)No Country For Old Men
4)Eastern Promises
3)Stardust
2)Hot Fuzz
1)3:10 To Yuma

They might not be the literal "best", but dammit they're my faves, and I'm stickin' to 'em!

10. The Darjeeling Limited
9. The Mist
8. Eastern Promises
7. Juno
6. Grindhouse(the theatre experience. didn't hold up nearly as well on DVD)
5. Ratatouille
4. Hot Fuzz
3. Superbad
2. The Host(came out here in March, so I'm counting it as 2007)
1. Zodiac

This list is for sure gonna change in the next couple weeks when I actually get a chance to see all the movies my lame friends refused to see or saw without me including Into The Wild, There Will Be Blood, No Country For Old Men, Control, Gone Baby Gone, Before The Devil Knows You're Dead, I'm Not There and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. So really, I don't even like my own list very much.

The votes from the Swedish jury (keep in mind, not all films have reached these shores):
1. Once
2. No Country for old Men
3. The Bourne Ultimatum
4. Zodiac
5. Eastern Promises
6. Ratatouille
7. I'm a Robot, but that's OK
8. Hot Fuzz
9. Exiled
10. The Kingdom

Worst: Rush Hour 3, T4xi,
Honorable mention: 300, 3:10 to Yuma, Superbad, Stardust, 28 Weeks Later, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, Das Leben der Anderen, Sunshine, TMNT
Best film I saw in '07: La Battaglia di Algeri (1966)

The list is subject to change without prior notice due to no reason other than I felt like it.

Yeah, again. Deal with it.

1. Once
2. There Will Be Blood
3. No Country For Old Men
4. Gone Baby Gone
5. Knocked Up
6. Ratatouille
7. Sicko
8. Zodiac
9. Hot Fuzz
10. The Mist
11. Juno
12. Beowulf
13. The Bourne Ultimatum
14. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street
15. Grindhouse


Honorable Mention: American Gangster, King of Kong, Stardust, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, TMNT, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Transformers, 300, Alpha Dog, Black Snake Moan, Eastern Promises, Walk Hard, Superbad, Sunshine

Still Haven't Seen: Into The Wild, I'm Not There, The Assassination of Jesse James, Margot At The Wedding, Behind The Mask, Darjeeling Limited, Southland Tales, Persepolis, Redacted, Shoot 'Em Up, Charlie Wilson's War, I Am Legend.

1. Zodiac (becoming one of my favorite movies ever)
2. Into the Wild (so well done, absolutely everything about it)
3. The Bourne Ultimatum (lean and mean)
4. Sweeney Todd (creativity and director/star perfection)
5. The Mist (Darabont is 3 for 3 w/ King adaptations -- I knew it might be good, but not this good)

These four films are the ones that I will continue to watch for years to come. Nothing else really comes to mind.

Worst of the year: Planet Terror (Grindhouse) (and I really liked Death Proof)

Still want/need to see: No Country, There Will Be Blood, Michael Clayton, Juno, Eastern Promises, 3:10 to Yuma, Assassination of Jesse James, Gone Baby Gone

Instead of making a list ranking the order of my favorite films in 2007, I figured I'd just throw out the few films that really stood out for me.

Grindhouse - Hands down, the most fun I had watching a movie in a very long time. The solo title DVD's don't do the experience justice. I feel like if you didn't see the movie in the theatres with all the fake trailers, you lost something.

The Mist - I was expecting a decent horror film going in but this one really went the extra mile. It reminds me of the old school Romero zombie flicks where the monsters seem more like a metaphor with the real conflict being between the human characters. This is a very well-done film and the ending is easily the most memorable one in awhile. I wasn't crazy about a few of the CGI effects but even so, an amazing movie.

Knocked Up - It takes a lot to get me to laugh out loud when I'm watching a movie by myself. There were a few scenes in this movie that literally had me laughing until I cried. I recently watched it again and found myself laughing just as hard at the same scenes. A lot of the humor is pretty crude at first but it also manages to sneak a few sweet moments in from time to time.

God of Vampires - This was a low-budget horror film I caught at a film festival during a horror convention involving an Asian hitman who is hired to assasinate a vampire. While it might not be for everyone, the experience in watching this movie was almost like "Grindhouse" in that the director managed to take everything that I like about movies and incorporate it into the film. Being a fan of John Woo's Hong Kong action films and vampire films in general, this was the stand-out film of this weekend's festival. It reminded me of a low-budget "Big Trouble In Little China" mixed with elements of a Lucio Fulci film. The movie has yet to get an official DVD release but if you somehow get a chance to see it, I would take it.

The Simpsons Movie - Being a fan of the show since the first episode, it was something else to finally see my favorite series up on the big screen. Some will argue that it wasn't nearly as funny as the classic seasons but the bottom line was the movie entertained me a lot.

Hot Fuzz - Can't go wrong with "The Shaun Of The Dead" guys doing a take on fun but dumb buddy cop action films. Everything I expected and a few twists that I didn't see coming.


NOTE: I still have yet to see "American Gangster" but purchased it on Tuesday. Been so busy that I haven't had the time to committ to watching it.

Honorable Mentions : We Are The Night, Spider Man 3, The Host, Eastern Promises, 1408, Superbad.

The Worst Of 2007: The Condmened, Halloween, Captivity, Saw IV, I Know Who Killed Me.

1. THE HOST
2. BUG
3. PARIS, JE T'AIME
4. ANGEL-A
5. SUNSHINE
6. RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER
7. DEATH PROOF
8. THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES

I hated just about everything else I saw, including NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN and MICHAEL CLAYTON.

Forgot about Bug. I'd give that one honorable mention as well.

Not to be a dick, but I implore you, take that argument to the NCFOM thread. I would REALLY like to hear how you justify that Rise of the Goddamned Silver Surfer's better than that film.

I've seen neither film but I'd be amused to see that argument myself.

Seen as my post was eaten in the switchover and I've just laboured for 2 hours on this blog entry I present the link to my top 15 films of 2007

http://whatspikelikes.wordpress.com/...op-15-of-2007/

Now I feel I've seen enough to accurately redo my list, and it only took me until April!

1. There Will Be Blood
2. No Country For Old Men
3. Hot Fuzz
4. Zodiac
5. Grindhouse
6. Ratatouille
7. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
8. Transformers
9. The Mist
10. America Gangster

I still need to see Bourne and Eastern Promises, but I think this top ten is pretty much a lock.

1. There Will Be Blood
2. No Country for Old Men
3. Into the Wild
4. Juno
5. Once
6. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
7. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
8. Ratatouille
9. The Mist
10. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Might change once I see the following four films:
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
The Orphanage
The Savages
I'm Not There

Damn, I still have far too many '07 releases I haven't seen to be able to make a decent list. Oh well, I'll make due with what I have:

1. There Will Be Blood - 10/10 (in the top 30 films I've ever seen)
2. No Country for Old Men - 10/10 (in the top 70)
3. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford - 9/10
4. Once - 9/10
5. Ratatouille - 9/10 (I love you, Pixar)
6. Zodiac - 8/10
7. Superbad - 8/10
8. Eastern Promises - 8/10
9. Grindhouse - 8/10
10. 3:10 to Yuma - 8/10 (better than the original)
11. Hot Fuzz - 8/10
12. The Bourne Ultimatum - 8/10 (I might get hurt for putting this one so low)
13. Joshua - 8/10
14. The Simpsons Movie - 7/10 (yeah, I liked it)
15. 28 Weeks Later - 7/10
16. Knocked Up - 7/10
17. Rescue Dawn - 7/10
18. The Mist - 7/10
19. Inside - 7/10
20. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - 7/10
21. Sunshine - 7/10
22. Breach - 7/10
23. I Am Legend - 7/10

Honorable Mention: Wrong Turn 2: Dead End - tons of fun

I haven't seen the usual suspects.

EDIT: I forgot to add Breach and finally saw some of the "usual suspects."

I decided to finally update my list. It still pains me to say I'm not completely caught up. 2007 was such a fantastic year.