Sunday, October 28, 2007

Oh 2007...

Going to do a top 10 list of movies released in 2007 in the US of A. It's obviously going to be a work in progress. I'm going to try to do other top 10 lists for each year.

Official End of the Year List

2007
1. Fay Grim(dir. Hal Hartley)
2. Offside(dir. Jafar Panahi)
3. Death Proof(dir. Quentin Tarantino)
4. Pirates of the Carribean: At World's End(dir. Gore Verbinski)
5. Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters(dir. Dave Willis and Matt Maillero)
6. Red Road(dir. Andrea Arnold)
7. Broken English(dir. Zoe R. Cassavetes)
8. Gone Baby Gone(dir. Ben Affleck)
9. The Darjeeling Limited(dir. Wes Anderson)
10. Southland Tales(dir. Richard Kelly)

English Language Films:
1. Fay Grim(dir. Hal Hartley)
2. Southland Tales(dir. Richard Kelly)
3. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End(dir. Gore Verbenski)
4. Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford(dir. Andrew Dominik)
5. Death Proof(dir. Quentin Tarantino)
6. We Own the Night(dir. James Gray)
7. The Darjeeling Limited(dir. Wes Anderson)
8. Redacted(dir. Brian De Palma)
9. Red Road(dir. Andrea Arnold)
10. The Game Plan(dir. Andy Fickman?)

Foreign Language Films:
1. Election(dir. Johnnie To)
2. Syndromes and a Century(dir. "Joe")
3. Exiled(dir. Johnnie To)
4. Golden Door(dir. Forgot)
5. Offside(dir. Jafar Panahi)
6. The Wayward Cloud(dir. Tsai Ming-liang)
7. Triad Election(dir. Johnnie To)
8. Drama/Mex(dir. Forgot)

Honorable mentions: 28 Weeks Later..., The Game Plan, Election, Exiled, We Own the Night, Triad Election, The Wayward Cloud, I Am Legend, Live Free or Die Hard[Unrated Cut], Drama/Mex, Ratatouille, The Simpsons Movie, Zodiac, Eastern Promises, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, Blades of Glory, Superbad, Knocked Up, Hot Fuzz, Vacancy, Waitress, Redacted, Juno(kind of), Ocean's Thirteen(kind of), Rush Hour 3(kind of), Tears of the Black Tiger(kind of), Black Snake Moan(kind of), and yeah...

Need to see: 2 Days in Paris, The Host, The King of Kong, I Don't Want To Sleep Alone, The Boss of It All, Persepolis, Into Great Silence, 12:08 East of Bucharest, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, The Savages, This Is England, Youth Without Youth, Smiley Face, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, La Vie en Rose, Private Fears in Public Places, Regular Lovers, Breach, The Wind That Shakes the Barley, and Lust, Caution

Dishonorable mentions: 300, TMNT, Wild Hogs, 1408, The Bourne Ultimatum, Premonition, License to Wed, A Mighty Heart, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, I'm Not There, The Hunting Party, Rendition, The Brothers Solomon, Transformers(kind of), Spider-Man 3(kind of), and maybe more?

Noteworthy Performances by an Actor:
Michael Cera in Juno
Casey Affleck in Gone Baby Gone
Will Smith in I Am Legend
Tony Curran in Red Road
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson in The Game Plan

Noteworthy Performances by an Actress:
Parker Posey in Fay Grim
Parker Posey in Broken English
Amy Ryan in Gone Baby Gone
John Travolta in Wild Hogs
Sandra Bullock in Premonition

Guilty Pleasure of the Year:
The Game Plan

Unguilty Pleasure of the Year:
I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry

All Films Released in 2007 Seen:
3:10 to Yuma
28 Weeks Laters
1408
Alvin and the Chipmunks
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Move Film for Theaters
Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The
Atonement
Awake
Away from Her
Bee Movie
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Black Book
Black Snake Moan
Blades of Glory
Bourne Ultimatum, The
Bridge to Terabithia
Broken English
Bug
Charlie Wilson's War
Control
Dan in Real Life
Darjeeling Limited, The
Day Night Day Night
Death Proof
Drama/Mex
Eastern Promises
Election
Enchanted
Evan Almighty
Exiled
Fay Grim
Flanders
Game Plan, The
Golden Door
Gone Baby Gone
Heartbreak Kid, The
He Was a Quiet Man
Hoax, The
Hot Rod
I Am Legend
I'm Not There
I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry
In the Valley of Elah
Into the Wild
Juno
Kingdom, The
Knocked Up
License to Wed
Live Free or Die Hard(+ different cut)
Lookout, The
Margot at the Wedding
Martian Child
Meet the Robinsons
Mighty Heart, A
Mist, The
Mr. Brooks
Nanny Diaries, The
No Country for Old Men
Offside
Once
Paprika
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Planet Terror
Premonition
Ratatouille
Redacted
Red Road
Rescue Dawn
Rush Hour 3
Simpsons Movie, The
Southland Tales
Spider-man 3
Stardust
Sunshine
Superbad(+ different cut)
Syndromes and a Century
Tears of the Black Tiger
There Will Be Blood
Transformers
Triad Election
Walker, The
Wayward Cloud, The
We Own the Night
Zodiac

Total Amount of Films Seen(excluding different cuts): 84
Total Amount of Films Seen(including different cuts): 86

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