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FFA Movie Poll - 2007 Lists due 8/12 (1 Viewer)

Not giving many points this year.  Haven't see a lot.

No Country for Old Men - 25

Zodiac - 22

The Mist - 15

Superbad - 10

28 Weeks Later - 8

Knocked Up - 7

Grindhouse - 6

Disturbia - 4

I Am Legend - 3

1408 - 1

Bee Movie - 1

Paranormal Activity - 1
 
shuke said:
Weren't they shown together under one billing?  Do you want them split?
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It's fine, I was just asking.  I have seen them listed both ways, but yes - I believe the theatrical release had the movies as a double feature with the fake trailers shown in the intermission.  (wasn't one for Machete?)

 
Have seen a few from 2007 that were new to me:

Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford- great film making, reminds me of a Terrence Malick film. I can see it being slow for some, but every shot looks good. 

Hot Fuzz: Hilarious, but it got a little too over the top at the end. 

Gone Baby Gone: Didn't care for at all. 

The Orphanage: It was pretty good but ghost stories and modern horror films aren't my thing. 

 
Ilov80s said:
Have seen a few from 2007 that were new to me:

Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford- great film making, reminds me of a Terrence Malick film. I can see it being slow for some, but every shot looks good. 

Hot Fuzz: Hilarious, but it got a little too over the top at the end. 

Gone Baby Gone: Didn't care for at all. 

The Orphanage: It was pretty good but ghost stories and modern horror films aren't my thing. 
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I'm going to have to check back in on Gone Baby Gone. I loved it when it came out (having grown up very much within the society in which it's set) but it really seemed to have dropped off in regard the last few yrs.

The Orphanage was the best horror/whatever picture i've seen in some time, but that's another "old white guy listens to rap" thing, i'm sure

Hot Fuzz: you nailed it

AoJJbyCRF is not the worst movie i've seen this century, but the most "i'll never get that time back" one.

 
I watched Hot Fuzz again last night, and I still think the over-the-top action at the end is still fun and it's way of making fun of the 80s buddy cop movies. That said, as I look at my list, I am not sure any comedies besides Superbad will be getting points.  It will be close with HF though.  

 
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Ilov80s said:
Have seen a few from 2007 that were new to me:

Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford- great film making, reminds me of a Terrence Malick film. I can see it being slow for some, but every shot looks good. 

Hot Fuzz: Hilarious, but it got a little too over the top at the end. 

Gone Baby Gone: Didn't care for at all. 

The Orphanage: It was pretty good but ghost stories and modern horror films aren't my thing. 
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Wow, I'm surprised you didn't like Gone Baby Gone.  I haven't seen it since it was out, but remember loving it.

KP, I just noticed that The Florida Project, one of my 2017 recommendations to you, is streaming free on Amazon Prime.  I also saw that A Ghost Story was on there, and despite your hatred for it, I started watching it anyway.  Holy hell is this terrible.  I just got through the part that's like a 20-minute scene of the wife eating a pot pie or something.

 
krista4 said:
Wow, I'm surprised you didn't like Gone Baby Gone.  I haven't seen it since it was out, but remember loving it.

KP, I just noticed that The Florida Project, one of my 2017 recommendations to you, is streaming free on Amazon Prime.  I also saw that A Ghost Story was on there, and despite your hatred for it, I started watching it anyway.  Holy hell is this terrible.  I just got through the part that's like a 20-minute scene of the wife eating a pot pie or something.
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I've seen Florida Project, and wrote a brief thought in the rental thread.  I like what the director brings to the table, thought Dafoe was great in it, but I couldn't turn my parent brain off long enough to fully embrace it and love it.    Ghost Story might be one of the worst critically acclaimed movies I've seen in quite awhile.  I honestly thought my bluray was skipping at least a half a dozen times as they just froze on scene/pose for minutes at a time.  #### that movie.  

 
Could someone give me a comparison of Hot Fuzz to something else similar?  I'm trying to decide if I should watch it.  I'm going to watch Superbad because I just noticed it's free on Prime.

If I only had time for one, as between The Mist and The Orphanage I should watch the latter, right?

 
krista4 said:
Could someone give me a comparison of Hot Fuzz to something else similar?  I'm trying to decide if I should watch it.  I'm going to watch Superbad because I just noticed it's free on Prime.

If I only had time for one, as between The Mist and The Orphanage I should watch the latter, right?
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@krista4 - its the same guys who did Shaun of the Dead, (if you've seen that) but it's a send up of 80s action movies.   If you haven't seen Shaun of the Dead, it's the action movie equivalent of Cabin in the Woods.  

I would still say to try The Orphanage.  I enjoy The Mist, but it has more of a B-movie feel to it with a kick ### end.  I think The Orphanage is more of a straight horror movie and a little bit creepier.  

 
KarmaPolice said:
@krista4 - its the same guys who did Shaun of the Dead, (if you've seen that) but it's a send up of 80s action movies.   If you haven't seen Shaun of the Dead, it's the action movie equivalent of Cabin in the Woods.  

I would still say to try The Orphanage.  I enjoy The Mist, but it has more of a B-movie feel to it with a kick ### end.  I think The Orphanage is more of a straight horror movie and a little bit creepier.  
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I liked Shaun of the Dead. :thumbup:  

 
Hot Fuzz started out like a TV sitcom but took a turn towards being a movie somewhere in the middle.  I thought that was unnecessary but the film made $80M worldwide so I guess they were right.

 
I'm currently watching American Gangster but It hasn't clicked with me yet.  By the time I realize it's not going to click, I'll be committed to watching it through to the end.

I'd like to catch The Counterfeiters before the deadline.  It's an Austrian film that won the Best Foreign Film Oscar.  I'm fascinated by stories about forgers and the premise of a Jewish counterfeiter working with the Nazis seems like a good setup.

 
Eephus said:
I'm currently watching American Gangster but It hasn't clicked with me yet.  By the time I realize it's not going to click, I'll be committed to watching it through to the end.

I'd like to catch The Counterfeiters before the deadline.  It's an Austrian film that won the Best Foreign Film Oscar.  I'm fascinated by stories about forgers and the premise of a Jewish counterfeiter working with the Nazis seems like a good setup.
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The Counterfeiters was terrific

 
I'm putting a list here in spoilers... not my final list or in any order other than chronological release per the site I'm using. but if there are any here deemed to be the wrong year, lemme know.

Alpha Dog

Bridge to Terabithia

Zodiac

Once

Mr. Brooks

Ratatouille

Rescue Dawn

Hairspray

This is England

Stardust

The King of Kong

Eastern Promises

In the Valley of Elah

Michael Clayton

Control

Lars and the Real Girl

Gone, Baby, Gone

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

American Gangster

Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten

No Country for Old Men

Enchanted

The Savages

Juno

Charlie Wilson's War

Jackass 2.5

There Will Be Blood

Into the Wild

Waitress

The orphanage

The diving bell and the butterfly

Superbad
 
Eephus said:
I saw it in the theater and loved it.  Tried watching it again on TV and bailed.  There will be points but I have no idea how many.
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Interesting. Obviously it’s always compared with No Country. Initially I preferred NC but I think prefer Zodiac and TWWB to it now.

 
Ilov80s said:
Interesting. Obviously it’s always compared with No Country. Initially I preferred NC but I think prefer Zodiac and TWWB to it now.
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This is how I was/am as well.  I honestly thought Blood was a bit of a bore when it came out and No Country was a bit better, but that has flipped as I watched these movies multiple times.  

 
El Floppo said:
:lol:

but mofo :popcorn:   fosho
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Well, a retired guy who writes all the time - especially one like your humble servant who enjoys opening files 100squillionx more than finishing them - usually has an idea or two he'd jump right into if he ever had something hit. My two are a sequel to Breakfast at Tiffany's which i've talked about at length in these pages and the other was an idea i got when everybody was wondering if Dave Chappelle would ever come back to show business.

During my second watch of the magnificent Diving Bell & the Butterfly in '08 - the year i retired -  i became extra horrified at the scene where the night nurse leaves the television on when Bauby actually can't stand television and is trapped watching it because he can't call anyone to shut it off.

The whole next day i kept trying to imagine the mind tricks i would try to employ to endure such a horror. The thing i came up with was that i would make my own version in my head of whatever was on and focus on that til the morning crew came in and shut it off. And i realized what an interesting format that would be to satire television at large - to inject yourself and your imagination into old movies, infomercials, reality shows, news, whatever and riff on it. Thought about that a while and figured, if they changed the victim of LockedIn Syndrome from a French fashion editor to a Hollywood comedy writer, it would work.

Right after i finished the outline, i saw yet another story on Chappelle with him saying he wouldn't return to TV/movies without a completely different way to do what he does. WAIT A MINUTE, MOFO, I GOT ONE!!!! says i. For weeks i couldnt stop thinking about it and it's perfect for him - he could win awards for his acting chops playing a paralyzed guy, could totally riff on anything that might find its way to a TV screen AND explore the metaphor between LockedIn Syndrome and being a person of color. It's been a decade and i still like the idea just as well for him, which is unusual in my world. So there's that....

 
El Floppo said:
I'm putting a list here in spoilers... not my final list or in any order other than chronological release per the site I'm using. but if there are any here deemed to be the wrong year, lemme know.

Alpha Dog

Bridge to Terabithia

Zodiac

Once

Mr. Brooks

Ratatouille

Rescue Dawn

Hairspray

This is England

Stardust

The King of Kong

Eastern Promises

In the Valley of Elah

Michael Clayton

Control

Lars and the Real Girl

Gone, Baby, Gone

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

American Gangster

Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten

No Country for Old Men

Enchanted

The Savages

Juno

Charlie Wilson's War

Jackass 2.5

There Will Be Blood

Into the Wild

Waitress

The orphanage

The diving bell and the butterfly

Superbad
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Alpha Dog is 2006

 
Deepest year since the first one we did. My 2nd 20 in '07 is stronger than my top 20 some years.

1. Sweeney Todd, 30 pts (27 wikkid pts)

2. Juno 30 pts (25 wikkid pts, the most point i've given a comedy yet, i think)

3. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 30 pts (24 wikkid pts)

4. Mongol  30 pts (19 wikkid)

5. Once 20 pts (14 wikkid)

6. Zodiac 10 pts

7. Smokin' Aces 10 pts

8. Bourne Ultimatum 10 pts

9. Enchanted 10 pts

10. Walk Hard (The Dewey Cox Story) 10 pts

11. Gone Baby Gone 1 pt (9 wikkid)

12. No Country For Old Men 1 pt (9 wikkid)

13. The Kite Runner 1 pt (9 wikkid)

14. The Orphanage 1 pt (8 wikkid)

15. Hot Fuzz 1 pt. (6 wikkid)

16, There Will Be Blood 1 pt (6 wikkid)

17. Reign Over Me 1 pt (5 wikkid)

18. Into the Wild 1 pt (5 wikkid)

19. La Vie En Rose 1 pt (5 wikkid)

20.  28 Weeks 1 pt (5 wikkid)

I'm Not There, Superbad, Ratatouille, Grindhouse, Charlie Wilson's War, Elizabeth, Michael Clayton, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, Atonement, Stardust, The Simpson's Movie, King of Kong, the miraculous Young at Heart, Talk To Me, Eastern Promises, Alpha Dog, Painted Veil, Love in the Time of Cholera, Last Mimzy, August Rush would all have made Top 20 (if not Top 10) in other years.
 
Mongol 30

Hot Fuzz 30

Ratatouille 22

No Country For Old Men 20

Superbad 15

Juno 15

Eastern Promises 12

Waitress 12

The Counterfeiters 12

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 8

Le Vie En Rose 8

Death At A Funeral 5

King Of Kong 5
 
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Ilov80s said:
Damn I might need to see Mongol
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It's probably not for everybody, but if you like sweeping historical/biographical type pseudo-epics you might like it. I'm a sucker for stuff like that, plus its one of the few sympathetic views you'll ever get of Ghengis Khan in film or television, and I find him to be a fascinating historical figure. The bad news is, this is only the 1st half of what was to be (I think) a two film series on him. They never made the 2nd film that covers him taking over the world.

Also got some of the best advice from that movie I've ever gotten: "Marry a woman with strong legs."

 
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Ilov80s said:
Damn I might need to see Mongol
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Best epic i've seen since David Lean was making movies and even better in some respects because there was no imperialist sheen to the storytellng. The unfortunate thing about it is that it was intended to be a trilogy but funding/site clearance never got off the ground, so you're only seeing the Temujin part of the story and will likely never see the Khan parts. Damn shame.

 
wikkidpissah said:
Best epic i've seen since David Lean was making movies and even better in some respects because there was no imperialist sheen to the storytellng. The unfortunate thing about it is that it was intended to be a trilogy but funding/site clearance never got off the ground, so you're only seeing the Temujin part of the story and will likely never see the Khan parts. Damn shame.
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I haven't watched it in a while, but I recall some of the cinematography and locations being breathtaking. They actually shot some of it in Mongolia.

 
Just started The Orphanage. :popcorn:

I watched half or more of Superbad yesterday but found it Superboring.  I realize that makes me...unusual.

 
This was my toughest year to cut down to 20 - and there are a few all-time classics (one of which I gave some points, but I'm just not a fan)

No Country For Old Men 28

Zodiac 26

Gone Baby Gone 15

Michael Clayton 14

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead 14

Sunshine 14

The Kite Runner 13

The Simpsons Movie 12

The Bourne Ultimatum 11

I Am Legend 10

The Assassination of Jesse James… 8

American Gangster 8

Into the Wild 6

There Will Be Blood 5

3:10 to Yuma 5

Charlie Wilson's War 4

I'm Not There 3

Atonement 2

Reign Over Me 1

Stardust 1
 
Just submitted my list.  Funny year.  Had four 20+ and then a bunch of good not greats.

Going forward, will probably just submit without doing much research beforehand since the NFL is gearing up.

 
here it is... 1-12 AND 13-30 a real tossup- if I submitted this last week it would've been totally different. fwiw, only count the top 20 for the ratings.

  1. The King of Kong
  2. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
  3. Once
  4. No Country for Old Men
  5. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
  6. Control
  7. Juno
  8. This is England
  9. Zodiac
  10. The Savages
  11. Lars and the Real Girl
  12. Ratatouille
  13. Rescue Dawn
  14. Stardust
  15. Eastern Promises
  16. American Gangster
  17. Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten
  18. Enchanted
  19. Charlie Wilson's War
  20. Waitress
  21. Jackass 2.5
  22. Into the Wild
  23. There Will Be Blood
  24. The orphanage
  25. Bridge to Terabithia
  26. Michael Clayton
  27. Gone, Baby, Gone
  28. In the Valley of Elah
  29. Superbad
  30. Hairspray
 
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