1.) My Winnipeg
2.) Happy-Go-Lucky
3.) Il Divo
4.) Ashes of Time Redux
5.) Summer Hours
6.) The Fall
7.) Vicky Christina Barcelona
8.) Synecdoche, New York
9.) Burn After Reading
10.) Doubt

EDIT: I guess I didn't make this clear enough. What are YOUR top 10 films of 2008?

EDIT2: Saw Doubt, Gran Torino, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button since posting this. Doubt was great and replaced #10 on my list, Gran Torino was decent, and Benjamin Button sucked.

Cloverfield.

Quantum of Solace.

I missed Happy-Go-Lucky and Vicky Christina Barcelona when they came through the other month, I really want to see them.

Oh man, Happy-Go-Lucky is fantastic. And really surprising coming from Mike Leigh, whose films generally provide a pretty good argument for killing yourself (Naked in particular). Sally Hawkins is the one who's getting all the accolades, and she's great, but the scenes with Eddie Marsan as the fucked up paranoid driving instructor is where the movie really stands out, one of my favorite performances of the decade for sure. People bitch about the lack of plot and so on but they don't get where the Mikester is coming from, it's just a slice of life and a character study.

I was never a Woody Allen fan in the past -- the goofy neurotic NYC Jew thing never really did much for me -- but I really dig the stuff that's come out of his recent "serious" turn, and Vicky Christina Barcelona is pretty much the peak of that so far -- better than Match Point. Plus I'm obsessed with Scarlett Johansson.

There are torrents out there for Happy-Go-Lucky, the DVD came out a few months ago in the UK.

Synecdoche, New York is still fucking with my head. I've gotta see it again.

How about "Doubt". Just judging from the trailer looks interesting, plus I loved Philip Seymour Hoffman in Owning Mahowny, am wanting to go see that one, oh and you forgot to mention Wall-E.

no mention of the dark knight?

Nothing that looks cool is coming out on Christmas except for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, so let's just get this shit started already.

1.) My Winnipeg
2.) Happy-Go-Lucky
3.) Il Divo
4.) Ashes of Time Redux
5.) Summer Hours
6.) The Fall
7.) Vicky Christina Barcelona
8.) Synecdoche, New York
9.) Burn After Reading
10.) Encounters at the End of the World

I swear you just make these names up.
I'll check em out tho. God knows I find it hard enough finding decent movies nowadays. Perhaps we have similar tastes.

speed racer!

speed racer!

gee whiz you might as well throw mamma mia in there.

actually, that was a pretty fun movie

How about "Doubt". Just judging from the trailer looks interesting, plus I loved Philip Seymour Hoffman in Owning Mahony, am wanting to go see that one, oh and you forgot to mention Wall-E.

He's not putting Wall-E b/c these are mostly indie films, not commercialised films.

where the fuck is rambo 4

Hey dudes, I'm not seeing any top 10s or even top 5s. I didn't just post this so we could talk about my taste in movies.

no mention of the dark knight?

Good, but not great. The first time I saw it I was too overwhelmed by nostalgic fanboyism, I was just like "Holy shit a Batman movie that doesn't make me cringe." But it didn't really hold up as well the second time around. Kind of boring at parts, I found myself spacing out during speeches and just waiting for the next Joker scene.

How about "Doubt". Just judging from the trailer looks interesting, plus I loved Philip Seymour Hoffman in Owning Mahowny, am wanting to go see that one, oh and you forgot to mention Wall-E.

Doubt hasn't been released in my area yet, in fact it might not be coming around at all, I dunno. Looks good though. I actually had Wall-E on here at first but replaced it with Encounters at the End of the World, mostly due to my obsession with Antarctica, Werner Herzog's oddly soothing German accent, and the stunning visuals.

I swear you just make these names up.
I'll check em out tho. God knows I find it hard enough finding decent movies nowadays. Perhaps we have similar tastes.

I'm not trying to be obscure, I promise. It's just that when you've seen a shitload of movies, almost everything Hollywood puts out nowadays feels like you've already seen it a hundred times. Hit up your local art theater if for no other reason than the fact that they can't show explicit female masturbation at the cineplex. If you don't have a local art theater, seek out a Netflix membership or a KG invite (I don't have any, my ratio is shit).

Top 5

1: No Country for Old Men
2: The Dark Knight
3: Changeling
4: Waltz With Bashir
5: Lust, Caution

Worst 5

1: Zombie Strippers
2: The Mummy 3
3: The Incredible Hulk
4: Max Payne
5: X Files: I Want To Believe

Oh man, Happy-Go-Lucky is fantastic. And really surprising coming from Mike Leigh, whose films generally provide a pretty good argument for killing yourself (Naked in particular). Sally Hawkins is the one who's getting all the accolades, and she's great, but the scenes with Eddie Marsan as the fucked up paranoid driving instructor is where the movie really stands out, one of my favorite performances of the decade for sure. People bitch about the lack of plot and so on but they don't get where the Mikester is coming from, it's just a slice of life and a character study.

I was never a Woody Allen fan in the past -- the goofy neurotic NYC Jew thing never really did much for me -- but I really dig the stuff that's come out of his recent "serious" turn, and Vicky Christina Barcelona is pretty much the peak of that so far -- better than Match Point. Plus I'm obsessed with Scarlett Johansson.

There are torrents out there for Happy-Go-Lucky, the DVD came out a few months ago in the UK.

Dude thank you so much for reminding me about that Naked movie. Briliant that was!

Best
5. Role Models
4. Gomorrah
3. Wanted
2. Felon
1. Rambo (epic lulz)

Worst
5. Jumper
4. Fool's Gold
3. 10,000 B.C.
2. The Love Guru
1. The Happening

Not too many good movies this year.

Biggest Letdowns.
5. The Dark Knight (Christian Bale probably shouldn't suck on gravel)
4. Max Payne
3. Hancock
2. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom etc. etc.
1. Iron Man

This! I loved that film!

Good call on Max Payne. I'm taking Indy of my worst 5 and adding Max Payne. That was a supershitefest.

I saw burn after reading on a few xanax bars, and I don't remember a single scene from it.

No love for Somers Town?

...Magical sex chair?

Haha...uh..

Tropic Thunder.

Mongol. Fucking amazing movie.

Mongol. Fucking amazing movie.

I almost fell asleep during this one, thought it was very disappointing. Overlong, boring, messy, none of the characters were interesting, and it was pretty sappy for a movie about one of the most ruthless tyrants who ever walked the earth. All it really had going for it: good landscape shots and battle scenes.

I almost fell asleep during this one, thought it was very disappointing. Overlong, boring, messy, none of the characters were interesting, and it was pretty sappy for a movie about one of the most ruthless tyrants who ever walked the earth. All it really had going for it: good landscape shots and battle scenes.

Sounds like every sword and sandals epic post LOTRs.

I absolutely loved Encounters at the End of the World.

I suppose I'll watch Vicky Christina Barcelona tonight.

I haven't heard of any of the movies in the OP.

Dark Knight
Tropic Thunder
Role Models
Zac and Miri Make a Porno

I dont know anymore in a top 10 but
ghost town
100 feet
pathology
7 pounds
all good ones

waiting for ben button to be online hope its worth the hype

I almost fell asleep during this one, thought it was very disappointing. Overlong, boring, messy, none of the characters were interesting, and it was pretty sappy for a movie about one of the most ruthless tyrants who ever walked the earth. All it really had going for it: good landscape shots and battle scenes.

I loved that it was sappy, for the most part. Every history writing of him portrays him as barbaric, but the Mongol based writings described him as being an honest and loyal dude who was true to his word.

I was a little disappointed with the ending though, coulda used a few more battle scenes, just because of the interesting tactics he used.

Pinnaple express deserves an honourable mention!

You deserve an honourable kick in the ass.

I loved that it was sappy, for the most part. Every history writing of him portrays him as barbaric, but the Mongol based writings described him as being an honest and loyal dude who was true to his word.

I was a little disappointed with the ending though, coulda used a few more battle scenes, just because of the interesting tactics he used.

Great Sky God Tengri is win.

Zac and Miri Make a Porno

...was a shit movie.

*ObZ

Why the fuck hasn't In Bruges (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780536/) been mentioned yet.

There is a sad lack of Marley and Me in the thread.

Quantum of Solace.
Quantum of Solace is a shitpile. (http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=quantum_of_phallus)

(I haven't seen it yet.)

Quantum of Solace is a shitpile. (http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=quantum_of_phallus)

(I haven't seen it yet.)

This.

And I'll second In Bruges for being awesome. Oh and Slumdog Millionaire was really amazing.

waiting for ben button to be online hope its worth the hype

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4605541/The.Curious.Case.Of.Benjamin.Button.2008.DVD.Scree ner-Bloodshot

1. Dark Knight
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2. Tropic Thunder
3. In Bruges
4. No Country for Old Men
5. Rambo (because it was so lulzily OTT)

That's all I can think of, I've got a whole bunch on my hard drive waiting to be seen.
I was going to add Gone Baby Gone but imdb tells me it was a 2007 release...

1. The Dark Knight
2. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
3. Slumdog Millionaire

These are the top three.

i saw The Spirit and Benjamin button... they were both really gay. Yes Man the week before that was great though. I was stoned on each occasion but that doesnt change how I feel about these 3.

Fuck you asshole

Yes man was COMPLETE UTTER SHIT. You should delete your account on totse and go to jim carey's house to commit murder suicide. Seriously... he threw away his career on that one.

Fuck you asshole

Yes man was COMPLETE UTTER SHIT. You should delete your account on totse and go to jim carey's house to commit murder suicide. Seriously... he threw away his career on that one.

as I said, I would feel that same way if I was sober when I watched it.

as I said, I would feel that same way if I was sober when I watched it.

You never said that, you fucking imbecile. Do you not understand the English language?

You said it doesn't change how you feel.

You never said that, you fucking imbecile. Do you not understand the English language?

You said it doesn't change how you feel.

Because I think your mother was a bad lay.

Fuck, chill out - ruckus has got nothing on some of the slobs over at IMDB's Yes Man board. Shit scrilla-generating movie with far too blatent product placement and jokes that were really quite lame, but nothing to lose your temper over.

:o

Because I think your mother was a bad lay.

Sense: You make none.

I guess dying in a fire is your best option.

Fuck, chill out - ruckus has got nothing on some of the slobs over at IMDB's Yes Man board. Shit scrilla-generating movie with far too blatent product placement and jokes that were really quite lame, but nothing to lose your temper over.

:o

Baaaaaaaaaaaaaw!

That's what you're doing. Stop.

1. dark knight - only because of heath ledger.
2. wall-e - i fucking loved this movie
3. no country for old men - slow an beautiful, just how i like em
4. RocknRolla - almost pure win, needed more skin
5. Rambo - a good sequel with plenty of action
6. W. - when looking back on GWB life epic lulz ensue
7. frost/nixon - almost pure win, needed more headshots
8. the ruins - i liked the book more, but this was good too
9. valkyrie - say what you will about tom cruise, but this movie is fairly good
10. cloverfield - i really enjoyed it. fuck you

rocknrolla was the shit. and the happening was shit, possibly the worst movie i've ever watched the whole thing of. that's my take on 2008's movies.

*The Dark Knight (apparently Christian Bale's voice was too gravely. I couldn't say - I wasn't really paying much attention to him. Ledger deserves an Oscar gravestone)
*Zack and Miri make a Porno (funny)
*Indiana Jones IV (nonstalgic)
*Gran Torino (nonstalgic)
*Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr = tres' cool)
*Son of Rambow (not the Stallone film)
*Wall-E (cute, long, preachy, but good)

I'd include No Country for Old Men, but it won Javier Bardem an Oscar last year..

Worst?
Dunno, the worst one I saw was
'X-Files I want a Refund'.
Didn't like
'Burn before Viewing' either.

Sense: You make none.

I saw the movie faded. I thus liked it. I realize it would be utter shit if I was sober when I watched it, but since I wasn't that means I still enjoyed watching it. This doesn't mean that I think it was a good movie or that I would reccommend it to anyone, because I honestly wouldn't.

Don't get your panties all in a bunch, it's just a movie.

In no particular order.

Slumdog Millionaire
Seven Pounds
Changeling
Gran Torino
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
I thought The House Bunny was really good too.

*The Dark Knight (apparently Christian Bale's voice was too gravely. I couldn't say - I wasn't really paying much attention to him. Ledger deserves an Oscar gravestone)
*Zack and Miri make a Porno (funny)
*Indiana Jones IV (nonstalgic)
*Gran Torino (nonstalgic)
*Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr = tres' cool)
*Son of Rambow (not the Stallone film)
*Wall-E (cute, long, preachy, but good)

.

You have terrible terrible taste

You are mentally retarded

Benjamin Button.

Benjamin Button.

that movie sucked, faggot

I thought it was pretty sweet.

You have terrible terrible taste

Thanks, I'll try to be more trendy next time.

(house bunny?)

Thanks, I'll try to be more trendy next time.

(house bunny?)

It's a funny movie. You should watch it. Granted it is a studio comedy, but it's still very good for what it is. Anna Ferris put on an excellent performance.

It's a funny movie. You should watch it. Granted it is a studio comedy, but it's still very good for what it is. Anna Ferris put on an excellent performance.
You're joking, right? House Bunny was awful.

You're joking, right? House Bunny was awful.

you ain't got no taste

fkn that. and Slumdog Millionaire.. I dont watch that many never movies thought, maybe i should check out some,.

You deserve an honourable kick in the ass.

You need to learn the difference between fact and opinion.

I thought Funny Games was pretty good too although I'm sure the original is better.