BOT: THE REVISITING -- TOP 25 of 2007! | Calculations Done. Reveal whenever Tele finds the time.

[Viceversa]

1. No Country for Old Men
2. 3:10 to Yuma
3. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
4. Ratatouille
5. Children of Men
6. There Will Be Blood
7. Sunshine
8. Stardust
9. Bourne Ultimatum
10. Into the Wild
11. Hot Fuzz
12. Last King of Scotland
13. Michael Clayton
14. Superbad
15. No End in Sight
16. The Host
17. The King of Kong
18. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
19. Shrek the Third
20. Knocked Up
21. Lust, Caution
22. Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
23. American Gangster
24. Pirates of the Caribbean: at World's End
25. Transformers
26. I am Legend
27. Resident Evil: Extincition

Edited February 27, 2017 by Viceversa

[TalismanRing]

@Viceversa  Children of Men & Last King of Scotland  are 2006 films

 

Edited February 24, 2017 by TalismanRing

[mahnamahna]

1. Once 
2. The Bourne Ultimatum 
3. Enchanted
4. The Simpsons Movie
5. 3:10 to Yuma 
6. Juno 
7. Ratatouille
8. Hairspray
9. Stardust
10. Dan in Real Life
11. Hot Fuzz 
12. Meet the Robinsons 
13. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
14. Disturbia 
15. Atonement
16. Blades of Glory
17. Transformers
18. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
19. The Bucket List 
20. Surf's Up
21. Beowulf
22. The Host 
23. The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep 
24. Wild Hogs
25. The Nanny Diaries 

Someday I'll see enough 2007 films to where #24 and #25 won't be anywhere close to being finalists  

Edited February 24, 2017 by mahnamahna

[Viceversa]

2 hours ago, TalismanRing said:

@Viceversa  Children of Men & Last King of Scotland  are 2006 films

 

 

ah i was going off the US release dates sorry.

[Tower]

2 minutes ago, Viceversa said:

 

ah i was going off the US release dates sorry.

This list also goes by US release dates, but it includes limited releases, which Children of men had in 2006. Last King of Scotland looks like it should be fine on this list though.

[Plain Old Tele]

18 minutes ago, Viceversa said:

 

ah i was going off the US release dates sorry.

 

LAST KING OF SCOTLAND is actually weird in that IMDB is completely wrong -- it was released in the US in Sept 2006 (according to BoxOfficeMojo).

[TalismanRing]

27 minutes ago, Telemachos said:

 

LAST KING OF SCOTLAND is actually weird in that IMDB is completely wrong -- it was released in the US in Sept 2006 (according to BoxOfficeMojo).

 

Yep, it was released in 2006 and Whitaker won Best Actor in 2007 for it.

 

https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2007

 

 

[Goffe]

On 2/20/2017 at 1:22 PM, CoolioD1 said:

i dunno with you. i might hit you up w/ a rec and get a "i've seen it and it's traasssshh" back."

having just seen it, i have to say it's going to make my list...

 

Spoiler

of worst movies.

 

Edited February 24, 2017 by Goffe

[Amadeus]

On 2017-02-23 at 6:12 PM, trifle said:

 

 

 

Well, I did vote for 2012 to begin with....

2012 (tied with 1975) is the year with most aces on my behalf. Prometheus, The Master, Holy Motors, The Place Beyond the Pines, Laurence Anyways. All great. All great. 

[Amadeus]

19 hours ago, mahnamahna said:

1.  
2. Wild Hogs

 

Ah, that third act is quite something. 

[Ethan Hunt]

I just found I have amazon prime. So anyone know any good 2007 movies that are in there?

[Goffe]

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead: It's fun seeing all these actors on screen, but I didn't think it was much more than that. 7/10

 

[REC]: There isn't much to it and the characters are dumb as hell. Plus, add that to the fact most of the time you can barely see what's going on because the cameraman is having epilepsy (or at feels like it), which brings me to the point of how frustrating it is when the technique calls attention to itself  by having the characters yelling the cameraman to back off or shut down his recording device. As someone who rarely complains about the found footage style, here it was more irritating than effective. 3/10

 

3:10 to Yuma: I kept thinking 'I wish Christian Bale was in more movies', and that was about the biggest reaction the movie elicited from me. 6/10

 

The Orphanage: Bayona is not one of those directors who can elevate the material, exactly what this movie desperately needed. Felt like I had seen the same movie a million times, and done better, too. 5/10

 

Trick r Treat: Predictable and boring. Yet another example that horror anthologies are no good at all. 4/10

 

The Host: Now, that's a fantastic film.  9/10

Edited March 1, 2017 by Goffe

[Empire]

Just saw this, so I will try to get a list in. 

[Viceversa]

On 2/23/2017 at 11:04 PM, mahnamahna said:

1.  

Spoiler

 

1. Once 
2. The Bourne Ultimatum 
3. Enchanted
4. The Simpsons Movie
5. 3:10 to Yuma 
6. Juno 
7. Ratatouille
8. Hairspray
9. Stardust
10. Dan in Real Life
11. Hot Fuzz 
12. Meet the Robinsons 
13. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
14. Disturbia 
15. Atonement
16. Blades of Glory
17. Transformers
18. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
19. The Bucket List 
20. Surf's Up
21. Beowulf
22. The Host 
23. The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep 
24. Wild Hogs
25. The Nanny Diaries 

Someday I'll see enough 2007 films to where #24 and #25 won't be anywhere close to being finalists  

 

 

 

Do you keep track of your seen films on sites such as IMDB or Letterboxd?

Edited February 27, 2017 by Viceversa

[Goffe]

Teeth

8/10

 

Gone Baby Gone: Kinda loses me when the detectives'  convoluted plan start to take center stage and I don't know if I agree with the choice Affleck makes at the end, although that wouldn't have been necessary (me agreeing with the protagonist) if he hadn't been so moralizing about it. 7/10

 

Lust, Caution: Ang Lee doing his thing. 8/10

 

Away from Her: Going by the trailer I thought this had enormous potential to go wrong, so I looked up the director's resume, which included the excellent doc Stories We Tell, and based on that I gave it a shot. Great fucking choice. The shot in the dinner room where it is shown relatives socializing with their loved ones, then going away one by one, leaving the nursing home residents contemplating their loneliness broke me.  9/10
 
Atonement: It did very little for me despite Wright technical expertise. Strong ending, though. 6/10

Edited March 1, 2017 by Goffe

[aabattery]

Atonement is one the movies I had to watch for English class and as a result I don't like it very much. Watching movies in chunks with the teacher pausing it and pointing out things they know nothing about is probably the worst way to watch a movie.

[Plain Old Tele]

ATONEMENT is pretty bad on most levels, though the cinematography is nice.

[aabattery]

One of the other movies that was kind of ruined for me by English class was Gallipoli, which is probably scandalous to say given some members thoughts on Peter Weir.

 

Highly enjoyed the techno music in it though. That was a good laugh.

[Goffe]

Use of sound was pretty cool as well. The way ambient noises were incorporated into the music was tremendous. 

[narniadis]

I will forever Stan for Atonement....  ten years on and it still has yet to be bumped from my top spot for 07. 

 

Watched Persepolis last night - great film.