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

[Cap]

40 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:

I don't have 15 movies, so no list from me.

You could always just do what I did and write down Mamma Mia 25 times

[dxmatrixdt]

42 minutes ago, Ethan Hunt said:

yeah

lol

[dxmatrixdt]

The ones in bold I failed to get review in time. 
Left a few off I didn't know where to put.
Deciding whether or not to add Synecdoche, N.Y. to the final list.

 

1 - The Dark Knight
2 - Star Wars: The Clone Wars
3 - The X-Files: I Want to Believe
4 - Blindness
5 - Frost/Nixon
6 - Iron Man
7 - Indiana Jones
8 - Hellboy 2
9 - Wall-E
10 - The Wrestler

11 - Doubt
12 - Tropic Thunder
13 - You Don't Mess With the Zohan
14 - The Pineapple Express
15 - The Reader
16 - Milk
17 - Slumdog Millionaire
18 - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
19 - Step Brothers
20 - Religulous
21 - Changeling
22 - Body of Lies
23 - Role Models
24 - Rachel Getting Married
25 - Vicky Cristina Barcelona

 

26 - Mamma  Mia
27 - Gran Torino
28 - Bolt
29 - Forgetting Sarah Marshall
30 - Revolutionary Road
31 - The Incredible Hulk
32 - Quantum of Solace
33 - Rambo
34 - Speed Racer
35 - Cloverfield
36 - Get Smart
37 - Valkyrie
38 - In Bruges
39 - Wanted
40 - Journey to the Center of the Earth
41 - Mirrors
42 - Four Christmases
43 - Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
44 - The Duchess
45 - Burn After Reading
46 - Defiance
47 - Quarantine
48 - 21
49 - Traitor
50 - Smart People

 

51 - Jumper
52 - Semi-Pro

 

Edited September 7, 2018 by dX airdry zid

[Keanu]

I'll probably get you a list.    Gotta work on it.    Gimmie a couple hours.

 

             

[dxmatrixdt]

somebody thinks that somebody saw this movie before and remembered that scene!!  (bc he wanted me to laugh...)

 

[Amadeus]

1. Changeling

2. Let me in

3. In bruges

4. Baader meinhof complex

5. Still walking

6. Wall-e

7. Synechdochr NY

8. Kung FU panda

9. Speedracer

10. Vicky Christina barcelona

11. The happening

12. Iron man 

13. Taken

14. Doubt

15. Wanted

16. Star Wars: clone wars

17. Burn after reading

18. The dark knight

19. Frost\nixon

20. Indiana Jones 4

[Keanu]

@Ethan Hunt special delivery. 

[Jake Gittes]

27 minutes ago, Amadeus said:

4. Baader meinhof complex

5. Still walking

13. Taken

Ineligible.

[SLAM!]

1. Fireproof
2. The Dark Knight
3. Wall-E
4. In Bruges
5. Doubt
6. Hellboy II: The Golden Army
7. Iron Man
8. Kung Fu Panda
9. Cloverfield
10. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
11. Gran Torino
12. Mamma Mia!
13. Tropic Thunder
14. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
15. Speed Racer

16. Eagle Eye

17. 21

18. Bolt

 

Edit: I went ahead and had the films I haven't seen taken off my list.

Edited September 8, 2018 by Slambros

[dxmatrixdt]

4 minutes ago, Jake Gittes said:

Ineligible.

There could be a way to "write in" movies.  Paddington 2 made the 2017 rankings this year I think, and it might do it again for 2018 lists.  

[CoolioD1]

1 minute ago, Slambros said:

 

* = I haven't seen it, but I do want to support it.

😐

[CoolioD1]

anyway i didn't do this because 2008 sucks so bad. next year i think '99 or '89 would be more interesting to do than 2009.

[dxmatrixdt]

12 minutes ago, CoolioD1 said:

anyway i didn't do this because 2008 sucks so bad. next year i think '99 or '89 would be more interesting to do than 2009.

perhaps the 20 year anniversary of Avatar in 2029 will be a pick me up for other films like Transformers 2.

[Jake Gittes]

1988 would've been the most interesting to do this year. Potentially a four-way race for #1. 

[Tower]

I don't agree that 2008 is weak. Even though I missed some of the movies I would have wanted to see, I still thought it was amongst the stronger years at the top.

[Webslinger]

Got mine in last night. 

Spoiler

1. The Dark Knight

2. WALL-E

3. Slumdog Millionaire

4. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

5. The Wrestler

6. Revolutionary Road

7. Doubt

8. Milk

9. In Bruges

10. Forgetting Sarah Marshall

11. Rachel Getting Married

12. Changeling

13. Snow Angels

14. Tropic Thunder

15. Iron Man

16. Australia

17. Frozen River

18. Happy-Go-Lucky

19. Burn After Reading

20. The Visitor

21. Definitely, Maybe

22. Frost/Nixon

23. Gran Torino

24. Hellboy II: The Golden Army

25. Kung Fu Panda

 

[dxmatrixdt]

1 hour ago, Tower said:

I don't agree that 2008 is weak. Even though I missed some of the movies I would have wanted to see, I still thought it was amongst the stronger years at the top.

I think because of Iron Man, Indiana Jones, and The Dark Knight, a lot of people might have frequented the movies more in 2008 and ignored quality/reviews.  Just a general summoning to the movies year IMO.

Edited September 8, 2018 by dX airdry zid

[Webslinger]

1 hour ago, CoolioD1 said:

anyway i didn't do this because 2008 sucks so bad. next year i think '99 or '89 would be more interesting to do than 2009.

2008 is an odd duck. I think it's pretty top-heavy (Dark Knight and WALL-E are both in my top ten for the 2000s as a whole), then has a whole bunch of movies that are "only" pretty good despite noticeable caveats.

 

We're under an absolute obligation to do a 1999 countdown next year. Such a crazy-awesome year for movies.

[dxmatrixdt]

2008 blew my mind with how many of the films seemed interconnected.  So many of the horrors and dramas all dealt with
psychological issues, drug addiction, schitzophrenia,  and more.  It was crazy 'reading' all of that watching through them.
  However I probably overread it.  It seemed Dark Knight, Indiana Jones, Wall-E, and Iron Man brought out more then the everyday
moviegoer in 2008, and what was leftover at the end of the awards year just got darker, more isolated, and more looney and confused the hell out of everyone who was asking
where the hell is The Dark Knight?.  It was like the end of the year was the 2008 movie Finals/exams and it just kept layering.  
I noticed this year, alot of the movies seem to converge with similar themes too.  As is the history of film, I think.

 

Here are some of the films I am talking about:

The Eye, Mirrors, One Missed Call, The Lazarus Project, Shutter
X-Files 2, Blindness, The Reader, Changeling, Hellboy 2, The Wrestler, Speed Racer, Deception, In Bruges, The Dark Knight
RockNRolla, Max Payne, Rachel Getting Married, Revolutionary Road, Synechdoche N.Y., Doubt, Benjamin Button

Edited September 8, 2018 by dX airdry zid

[filmlover]

I completely forgot to do this. 

 

Oh well, the top two are pretty much set in stone regardless.