Tuesday, January 01, 2008

I saw 154 of the new movies released in 2007, and these are the Best, my favourites, the ones I still need to see, and the worst…

Best Films of 2007:
1. There Will Be Blood
2. The Lives Of Others
3. Ten Canoes
4. No Country For Old Men
5. Eastern Promises
6. The Band's Visit
7. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
8. Lars and the Real Girl
9. Stardust
10. This is England
11. Exiled
12. Once
13. Away From Her
14. Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford
15. Charlie Wilson's War
16. I'm Not There
17. Before The Devil Knows You're Dead
18. Atonement
19. Rescue Dawn
20. Michael Clayton
21. Zodiac
22. Juno
23. The Lookout
24. Across The Universe
25. Gone Baby Gone
26. Margot at the Wedding
27. Lust, Caution
28. Sweeney Todd
29. You Kill Me
30. The Kite Runner

Favourite Films of 2007:
1. Heima

2. Stardust
3. Eagle Vs. Shark
4. Across the Universe
5. Hot Fuzz
6. Exiled
7. Once
8. Simpsons Movie
9. Knocked Up
10. Ratatouille
11. Halloween
12. Taare Zameen Par
13. Sunshine
14. Shoot 'Em Up

Things I Still Need To See: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days; 12:08 East of Bucharest; The Savages; Tropa De Elite; Persepolis

Worst Films
1. Epic Movie
2. Bratz
3. Mr. Bean’s Holiday
4. Southland Tales
5. Dead Silence

Michael Bay Award For Least Deserved Box Office Hit: Transformers and Wild Hogs
Russell Mulcahy Award For Worst Plot: I Know Who Killed Me
for Most Disappointing Sequel: Hills Have Eyes 2
Sylvester Stallone Award For Most Unnecessary Sequel/Prequel: Hannibal Rising and Wrong Turn 2
Farrelly Brothers Award For Most Offensive Film (tie): Dirty Sanchez & Good Luck Chuck
Richard Gere Award For Least Imaginative Film: The Condemned
Bono Award For Most Misguidedly Patriotic: Home of the Brave
Brett Ratner Award For Most Disappointing Film: TMNT and Beowulf
John Carpenter Award For Most Forgettable Film: Outlaw, Blood and Chocolate and Rise: Blood Hunter
Joel Schumacher Award for Messy Direction:
The Number 23

ANGEL'S Top 10
No Country for Old Men
Michael Clayton
Knocked Up
Juno
Ratatouille
3:10 to Yuma
Hot Fuzz
Sunshine
Eastern Promises
The Namesake

...and the Worst
Wendel Baker Story

Feel free to post your own lists as a comment response to this post...

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

i loved southland tales. pure perfection - sure a lil long - but transcendental.
-isaiah

Pat said...

Maybe you meant to do this and I just don't understand, but Stardust and Once are under both Best Films of 2007 and Runners Up.

Unknown said...

The Wind That Shakes The Barley
This Is England
The Black Book
Lust, Caution
Sunshine
Eastern Promises
Control
Exiled
Once
There Will Be Blood