BOT Revisiting: Top 25 Movies of 2008 | Deadline - September 7 | Read the eligibility rules...Ethan Hunt taking over...send lists to him

[That One Girl]

The title is pretty self-explanatory.  List for your top 25 films of 2008, yada yada.

 

Eligibility

 

Every film from this list below can qualify as long as it had a release in the US in 2008 and is at least 40 minutes long.  If you have any questions on if something qualifies, ask me:

 

https://letterboxd.com/films/popular/year/2008/size/small/

 

In addition to this, I also have a list of films that are listed as other years on IMDb, Wikipedia, Letterboxd, etc. that I will allow to be qualified for this year due to when they were released in America.  They're put under the spoiler tags.  If you think anything shouldn't belong on the list below, let me know.

 

Spoiler

[REC]
Funny Games
Timecrimes
The Fall
Inside
Teeth
Elite Squad
Shotgun Stories
Penelope
My Blueberry Nights
My Winnipeg
Paranoid Park
Tell No One
Encounters at the End of the World
Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone
Diary of the Dead
Son of Rambow
The Visitor
Run, Fatboy, Run
Silent Light
Cassandra's Dream
Still Life
Mister Lonely
Water Lilies
Boy A
Frontier(s)
XXY
Reprise
The Counterfeiters
An American Crime
The Edge of Heaven
The Signal
Rogue
OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
Sukiyaki Western Django
88 Minutes
Love Songs
The Foot Fist Way
Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan
Mad Detective
Snow Angels
In the City of Sylvia
It's a Boy Girl Thing
Mother of Tears
The Secret of the Grain
In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
Super High Me
Flight of the Red Balloon
Chop Shop

 

In addition to this, the following films are not eligible due to when they were released in the US:

 

Spoiler

The Hurt Locker

Taken

Two Lovers

The Brothers Bloom

Bronson

Berlin Calling

Ponyo

Martyrs

Ip Man

Love Exposure

The Good, The Bad, The Weird

Pontypool

The Wave

The Chaser

Still Walking

Sunshine Cleaning

Departures

Food, Inc.

Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging

Lake Mungo

The Headless Woman

Wild Child

35 Shots of Rum

Anvil! The Story of Anvil

Revanche

Summer Hours

Inkheart

Red Cliff

The Beaches of Agnes

Tokyo Sonata

New York, I Love You

Afterschool

Deadgirl

Me and Orson Welles

Il Divo

The Beautiful Person

Tokyo!

Three Monkeys

Mesrine: Killer Instinct

The Children

Sita Sings the Blues

Mesrine: Public Enemy #1

It Might Get Loud

Lorna's Silence

Outlander

Sparrow

Scoring:

The part that I fear the most because I have no idea how I'm supposed to score this.  I'll try my best but if this sounds like a fucking stupid way to you, I probably won't deny it (as long as I trust you ) and might change it.

 

You should submit a minimum of 15 movies, although try to submit 25 if you can.  Each film will be scored as such:

 

1st place - 25 points

2nd place - 24 points

3rd place - 23 points

 

etc.

 

If you would like to submit more than 25 films, 26-50 will be worth a half point, and 51-100 will be worth a quarter point.  You may not submit more than 100 (I highly doubt anyone will try to do this, but just in case)

 

Make sure to submit your list to me via PM if you want it to count.  If you post it in this thread but don't send me a PM, then it won't be eligible.

 

And no, Avatar is not a 2008 film.

 

Have fun!

 

FYC:

 

Spoiler

WALL-E - suggested by That One Guy

Speed Racer - suggested by That One Guy

Mamma Mia! - suggested by That One Guy

The Wrestler - suggested by Rorschach

 

[WrathOfHan]

If y'all motherfuckers get Mamma Mia! higher than Burn After Reading, Imma riot

[That One Girl]

@baumer mind pinning this for a couple of days?  sorry if I'm bothering you

[That One Girl]

FYC:

 

 

 

[DAR]

Should we just say the top 24 after The Dark Knight?

[IronJimbo]

@ me when 2009 starts

[WrathOfHan]

1 minute ago, IronJimbo said:

@ me when 2009 starts

I look forward to seeing Inglourious Basterds winning that one.

[IronJimbo]

Just now, WrathOfHan said:

I look forward to seeing Inglourious Basterds winning that one.

That's odd where was Inglorious Basterds in the Bot Top 100 Movies 2018? I didn't see it.

[WrathOfHan]

1 minute ago, IronJimbo said:

That's odd where was Inglorious Basterds in the Bot Top 100 Movies 2018? I didn't see it.

It was higher than Avatar

[IronJimbo]

Why is Hurt Locker (the film that robbed Avatar of it's best picture award) in that letterboxed page?

 

anyone got a list of 2008 films which is less than 500

Edited June 26, 2018 by IronJimbo

[That One Girl]

2 minutes ago, IronJimbo said:

Why is Hurt Locker (the film that robbed Avatar of it's best picture award) in that letterboxed page?

 

anyone got a list of 2008 films which is less than 500

 

It's not eligible, it's listed there because of a film festival release

 

Generally you can double check IMDb and see when it was released in the US if you want to confirm

[IronJimbo]

3 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:

It was higher than Avatar

Holy crap you're right, that's shameful. Remind me to skip the 2009 edition.

[Brainbug]

I saw Hurt Locker - twice actually. But not Avatar

Anyway, this is the list of best movies of 2008 after TDK right?

[That One Girl]

3 minutes ago, IronJimbo said:

Why is Hurt Locker (the film that robbed Avatar of it's best picture award) in that letterboxed page?

 

anyone got a list of 2008 films which is less than 500

 

Also you can sort the list by popularity or highest rating if you wanna prioritize anything, shouldn't be too hard to skip through the stuff you don't wanna watch

[dxmatrixdt]

everyone make sure to watch an additional 100 new movies from 2008 to confuse and sink your temporary 2008 list and rewrite general consensus 

[That One Girl]

Oh and make sure to submit your list to me via PM if you want it to count.  If you post it in this thread but don't send me a PM, then it won't be eligible.

[IronJimbo]

Ok these are the films I've watched and this is how the list would look if I don't watch anymore

 

the dark knight  (9.2)
Slumdog Millionaire (8.6)
wall-e (8.5)
IP MAN (8.3)
iron man (8.2)
Taken (8.1)
Ponyo (8.1)
Step brothers (8)
kung fu panda (7.7)
tropic thunder  (7.5)
Mamma Mia! (7.5)
Death Race (7.3)
Hell Boy 2 (7.2)
Transporter 3 (7.2)
cloverfield (7.1)
twilight (7)
wanted (7)
Yes man (7)
Jumper (6.9)
Pineapple Express (6.9)
Max Payne (6.9)
The Punisher (6.7)
Narnia Prince Caspian (6.6)
The Mummy Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (6.6)
Hancock (6.5)
Zohan (6.5)
the incredible hulk (6)
Disaster Movie (5.6)

 

[dxmatrixdt]

4 minutes ago, That One Guy said:

Oh and make sure to submit your list to me via PM if you want it to count.  If you post it in this thread but don't send me a PM, then it won't be eligible.

to everyone here, I wont be PMing my list, I will just be posting it on here.  If you like any of the movies on my list and you want them to show up, make sure to PM then yourself and rank them high!!!

[Daxtreme]

Ip Man aka one of the best martial arts movies of all-time doesn't qualify  

 

By released in the US can it be like a festival?

 

Like would this movie make it? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1183252/releaseinfo?ref_=tt_ov_inf

 

 

[Daxtreme]

May I suggest dropping this "released in the US in 2008" thingy? 

 

Why not just go with the release date on official movie database websites?

 

I understand why it's important for recent years (2016, 2017, etc) to give time to watch them, but 2008... it's a bit of a while ago to be honest. Everyone had time to catch up with foreign movie releases since 2008 if they really wanted to.

 

Really makes it very complicated to keep track. On the letterboxd list above many movies aren't eligible, and then we also have to check 2007, 2006, 2009 lists to see if titles from these years are elligible?

 

 

Just a suggestion, do whatever you want. But I think it needlessly complicates things for movies made 10 years ago.