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

[tawasal]

I haven't watched most of these films, but they will most likely be in the top 25. 

I have only watched the ones in bold.

1. The Dark Knight
2. Iron Man
3. WALL-E

4. Gran Torino

5. Mamma Mia!

6. Slumdog Millionaire

7. Wanted

8. The Reader

9. Doubt

10. Milk

11. The Wrestler

12. The Visitor

13. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

14. In Bruges

15. Tell No One

16. Happy-Go-Lucky

17. Man on Wire

18. Waltz with Bashir

19. Let the Right One In (2008)

20. Funny Games

 

Edited August 10, 2018 by tawasal

[Jake Gittes]

7 minutes ago, tawasal said:

The Reader

Who do you think we are, the Academy?

[tawasal]

4 minutes ago, Jake Gittes said:

Who do you think we are, the Academy?

No, I think you are more sinister offshoot of that. 

[tawasal]

2008 was not a good year for top top movies IMO. 2007 was a better year. 

[Jake Gittes]

2008 is one of the weakest movie years so far this century. Especially if you don't count films that first premiered at festivals in 2007.

[tawasal]

15 minutes ago, Jake Gittes said:

2008 is one of the weakest movie years so far this century. Especially if you don't count films that first premiered at festivals in 2007.

So why is BOT revisiting 2008? 2005 wasn't so great either. I think they are the two weakest years in the 2000s. 

[aabattery]

4 minutes ago, tawasal said:

So why is BOT revisiting 2008? 2005 wasn't so great either. I think they are the two weakest years in the 2000s. 

 

Because we did 2007 last year. Ten year anniversary and all that.

[Jake Gittes]

14 minutes ago, tawasal said:

So why is BOT revisiting 2008? 2005 wasn't so great either. I think they are the two weakest years in the 2000s. 

Because TOG really wanted to do a countdown and now he's left so who even knows anymore. But hey lists are fun

[tawasal]

8 minutes ago, aabattery said:

 

Because we did 2007 last year. Ten year anniversary and all that.

Ooh I get now. Every year you guys go...

[tawasal]

2 minutes ago, Jake Gittes said:

Because TOG really wanted to do a countdown and now he's left so who even knows anymore. But hey lists are fun

I do check out the weekend threads every weekend without posting and he seems to be having a hard time every week with something or someone. Like he is having his own kind of femme lesbian struggles. 

[4815162342]

Final list (PMed)

 

1. In Bruges

2. Che

3. The Dark Knight

4. Man on Wire

5. Frost/Nixon

6. WALL-E

7. Burn After Reading

8. Milk

9.  Iron Man

10. Tropic Thunder

11. Forgetting Sarah Marshall

12. RocknRolla

13. Doubt

14. Body of Lies

15. The Wrestler

16. Valkyrie

17. The Visitor

18. Let the Right One In

19. Vicky Cristina Barcelona

20. Slumdog Millionaire

21. Role Models

22. The Bank Job

23. Kung Fu Panda

24. Pineapple Express

25. Rachel Getting Married

Edited August 10, 2018 by 4815162342

[Jake Gittes]

Just now, 4815162342 said:

 

9. The Brothers Bloom

 

Ineligible

[aabattery]

Going through the 2008 stuff I've seen, it really was a bit shit. There's some stuff near the top I really like but then it almost immediately nosedives into total whatevers.

[4815162342]

2 minutes ago, Jake Gittes said:

Ineligible

fuck. IMDB lied.

[Jake Gittes]

6 minutes ago, 4815162342 said:

fuck. IMDB lied.

Nah they're correct but you better go by BOM for the purposes of this one.

[4815162342]

1 minute ago, Jake Gittes said:

Nah they're correct but you better go by BOM for the purposes of this one.

I fixed the list. Took it out, bumped everything up one, and the new #25 is Rachel Getting Married

[tawasal]

My favorite movie of 2008 after TDK wasn't even released in NA at all. 

 

Is it Yip Man or Ip Man? Cuz I have seen written both ways. 

Edited August 11, 2018 by tawasal

[Tower]

because of the FYC I ended up seeing Speed Racer. 

 

I now have my the fist film that will definitely not be making my list, that was bad.

Edited August 11, 2018 by Tower

[dxmatrixdt]

here are my rankings of how I think the 2008 Academy Awards ended.

 

Best Picture                          Director
1. Slumdog Millionaire      1. Slumdog - Boyle
2. Benjamin Button              2. Button - Fincher
3. Frost/Nixon (+1)              3. Frost/Nixon - Howard
4. The Reader (-1)                4. Milk - Van Sant
5. Milk (-2)                            5. Reader - Daldry

 

Actor                                     Actress
1. Milk - Penn                    1. Reader - Winslet
2. Wrestler - Rourke            2. Rachel - Hathaway
3. Button - Pitt                     3. Changeling - Jolie
4. Visitor - Jenkins               4. Doubt - Streep
5. Frost/Nixon - Langella     5. Frozen River - Leo

 

S. Actor
1. TDK - Ledger
2. Milk - Brolin
3. Revolutionary Road - Michael Shannon
4. Doubt - Phillip Seymour Hoffman
5. Tropic Thunder - Robert Downey Jr.

 

S. Actress
1. Vicky Cristina Barcelona - Penelope Cruz
2. The Wrestler - Marisa Tomei
3. Benjamin Button - Taraji P. Henson
4. Doubt - Amy Adams
5. Doubt - Viola Davis

 

Original Screenplay   Adapted Screenplay  
1. Milk                        1. Slumdog Millionaire
2. WALL-E                    2. Benjamin Button
3. In Bruges                  3. The Reader
4. Frozen River             4. Doubt
5. Happy Go Lucky       5. Frost/Nixon

 

Score              Sound Mixing     Sound Editing
1. Slumdog       1. Slumdog       1. TDK
2. Button            2. TDK               2. WALL-E
3. WALL-E          3. Benjamin       3. Slumdog
4. Defiance         4. WALL-E         4. Iron Man
5. Milk                5. Wanted         5. Wanted

 

Art Direction          Cinematography   Editing    
1. Benjamin             1. Slumdog          1. Slumdog
2. TDK (+1)                2. TDK                   2. TDK
3. Changeling (+1)     3. Benjamin           3. Milk (+2)
4. Dutchess (-2)          4. Reader (+1)        4. Benjamin (-1)
5. Revolutionary          5. Changeling (-1)   5. Frost/Nixon (-1)

 

Costume               Visual FX      Makeup              Song
1. Duchess             1. Button     1. Button         1. Slumdog
2. Button                 2. TDK          2. Hellboy (+1)  2. WALL-E
3. Australia              3. Iron Man  3. TDK (-1)         3. Slumdog
4. Milk (+1)
5. Revolutionary (-2)

Edited September 7, 2018 by dX airdry zid

[dxmatrixdt]

Just finished The Lazarus Project.  It was okay, it felt like it was a derivative of something else.  It was low budget though and can be seen a number of different times experimentally.  Coincidentally, I rented the 2018 film Unsane which I am watching next and I think its going to be similar in a grouping aspect.  Must have had psychological thriller genre on my mind at the rental booth.

I'd probably give the Lazarus Project a C- w/ room to grow.  the is probably directors commentary rewatches via dvds on Ebay.

In 2008, that is a decent enough score to make the top 100.