Kalo Posted February 19, 2017 Share Posted February 19, 2017 2007, it was a much better year for film imo and I saw a lot of fantastic movies from that year recently, though couldn't you do both? and reveal them in one list simultaneously? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TalismanRing Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 Who do we PM the list to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dxmatrixdt Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 FYC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dementeleus Posted February 20, 2017 Author Share Posted February 20, 2017 2 hours ago, TalismanRing said: Who do we PM the list to? It'll be me (possibly with @grim22's help, since I'll be using his spreadsheets). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Stingray Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 1. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 2. No Country for Old Men 3. Zodiac 4. Sunshine 5. [Rec] 6. There Will Be Blood 7. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 8. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters 9. Trick 'r Treat 10. The Bourne Ultimatum 11. Michael Clayton 12. The Mist 13. The Host 14. Grindhouse 15. American Gangster 16. Into the Wild 17. 28 Weeks Later 18. Superbad 19. The Poughkeepsie Tapes 20. Timecrimes 21. The Orphanage 22. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead 23. Disturbia 24. Gone Baby Gone 25. 300 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BadAtGender Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 The nice thing about doing an older year is we can have an agreed-upon criteria for which movies qualify for that year, and it'll be far easier for people to rank because they'll probably have seen them, regardless. No worrying about, oops, that November movie in the US doesn't come out until July in your country! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Gittes Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 1 hour ago, DamienRoc said: The nice thing about doing an older year is we can have an agreed-upon criteria for which movies qualify for that year, and it'll be far easier for people to rank because they'll probably have seen them, regardless. No worrying about, oops, that November movie in the US doesn't come out until July in your country! Well now there are the films that had a festival premiere in 2006 but didn't come out in the US until 2007. The biggest example is 300 which IMDb still lists as a 2006 movie because it premiered in December at the butt-numb-a-thon. Away from Her is another one that springs to mind (premiered in Toronto in 2006, didn't have a commercial release until May 2007) although I don't think enough people here saw it for it to find a spot on the eventual list. But still. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AniNate Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 Not sure if it would be included in this, but I like the idea of continuously revisiting what the box office was like this weekend 10 years ago. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmlover Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 13 minutes ago, tribefan695 said: Not sure if it would be included in this, but I like the idea of continuously revisiting what the box office was like this weekend 10 years ago. Coming up this weekend: the 10th anniversary of The Number 23 (aka the film that ended Joel Schumacher's tenure as a commercial director). I saw that crap in theaters. Yikes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethan Hunt Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 I should probably catch up on some 2007 movies before I do a list for this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rukaio101 Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 FYC: 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dementeleus Posted February 20, 2017 Author Share Posted February 20, 2017 Okay, it's official, we'll do 2007 first. I'm open to perhaps doing 2002 or 2012 a little bit later, depending on how smoothly this goes. Just to be clear: we're going off US public release date (festivals don't count). It's easy to check on IMDB simply by going to Release Dates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baumer Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 Transformers. End of story. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmlover Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 7 minutes ago, baumer said: Transformers. End of story. No no no. It has to be Georgia Rule. A feel good dramedy about incest from Garry Marshall. Fun for the whole family. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TalismanRing Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 (edited) 7 hours ago, DamienRoc said: The nice thing about doing an older year is we can have an agreed-upon criteria for which movies qualify for that year, and it'll be far easier for people to rank because they'll probably have seen them, regardless. No worrying about, oops, that November movie in the US doesn't come out until July in your country! Damn, I forgot about US release dates being the arbiter. My #1 was going to be Sword of A Stranger which came out in 2007 in Japan but not in the US until 2009 Also, just checked and Les Chansons d'amour (Love Songs) didn't get a US limited release until 2008. Damn What happens with foreign films that never got a US release date but went straight to video or only ever got a festival release? Not eligible at all? Edited February 20, 2017 by TalismanRing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dementeleus Posted February 20, 2017 Author Share Posted February 20, 2017 4 minutes ago, TalismanRing said: Damn, I forgot about US release dates being the arbiter. My #1 was going to be Sword of A Stranger which came out in 2007 in Japan but not in the US until 2009 Also, just checked and Les Chansons d'amour (Love Songs) didn't get a US limited release until 2008. Damn What happens with foreign films that never got a US release date but went straight to video or only ever got a festival release? Not eligible at all? If they came out on video in 2007 they're eligible. Festival releases aren't, though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmlover Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 I kinda want Spider-Man 3 to take the top spot just to watch all the misery that would unfold. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goffe Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 @Jake Gittes @CoolioD1 any fyc suggestions? i'm not comfortable with how mainstream my list looks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dementeleus Posted February 20, 2017 Author Share Posted February 20, 2017 37 minutes ago, Goffe said: i'm not comfortable with how mainstream my list looks. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Gittes Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 32 minutes ago, Goffe said: @Jake Gittes @CoolioD1 any fyc suggestions? i'm not comfortable with how mainstream my list looks. Shotgun Stories, Margot at the Wedding, Brand Upon the Brain!, Bug. No idea if you'd like any of them of course. @Telemachos Is Black Book eligible if it wasn't commercially released in the States until April 2007, but was submitted for a foreign language Oscar to the February 2007 awards? See also The Lives of Others which was also released in theaters in February 2007 but won the Oscar at the same ceremony which was honoring the best films of 2006. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...