Favorite Films Of 2008?
 

Okay it's a little late for a year end list. But no one has made one so...
What are your favorite films of 2008.

Mine:

1. Slumdog Millionaire. An excellent film, enjoyed every second.

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2. Let The Right One In. Amazing Sweden film, see it.

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3. Synecdoche, New York. Another brilliant screenplay by Charlie Kaufman.

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4. Curious Case Of Benjamin Button. David Fincher continues to impress me.

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5. Man On Wire. Amazing story of a man who tight roped across the twin towers. Couldn't put a picture on here. But one of the best documentaries I've ever seen. Highly recommend it.

haven't seen every film I wanted from 2008 yet, but from what I've seen:

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1.The Dark Knight

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2.Wall-E

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3.In Bruges


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4.Slumdog Millionaire


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5.Pineapple Express

These are all tied for my favourite movies of the year: The Dark Knight, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Wall-E (I ♥ Pixar XP). I'm thinking I really need to see Slumdog Millionaire now; the only reason I heard of it was because of all the Oscar nominations XD

Couldn't agree more, I loved this film.

1. Revolutionary Road
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2. Slumdog Millionaire
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3. The Wrestler
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4. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
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5. Doubt
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I haven't seen Synecdoche, New York yet and I think that could take the cake. Kaufman is probably my favorite writer/director and Philip Seymour Hoffman is my favorite actor. I neeeeeed to see it.

The Academy Awards this year are terrible. The nominations are completely ridiculous in every category. And it is unforgiveable that they snubbed Revolutionary Road so badly. Leo's performance was easily one of the best of the year (in my opinion the best) and for Brad Pitt to be nominated instead of him makes me want to cry.

I agree, that Revolutionary Road should be in best pictures nomination. The only reason it's not on my list is because it's way to depressing. And yeah Leo's performance was amazing especially at the hospital.

Plus you should see Synecdoche, New York. It's amazing

So far so predictably boring...

You're just upset no one talked about Milk yet. ;)

(It is an awesome movie, btw).

I think either Revolutionary Road should replace The Reader or Frost/Nixon for the best pic noms. Those two really didn't do anything for me besides the acting.

Where/How did you see Synecdoche? It's been in select cites for a while and I just have no theaters around me that play good movies. I'll have to wait for it to come out on DVD.

I go to Savannah College of Art and Design and every October there is a huge film festival that plays a lot of art films. That's how I saw both Slumdog and Synecdoche, New York. It was pretty cool because I got to meet Danny Boyle.

That's awesome! Danny Boyle seems like such a respectable guy. Did you get to talk to him at all? Or was it just a shake his hand type thing?

Well he had a Q&A and then me and a few friends went up and talked to him. I told him I wanted to be a film director and he was telling me how it's the best job in the world and wished me luck. He was very nice.

I tend to watch movies like a year after they come out, so I've yet to see many of the big titles from this year.

However, I did see Dark Knight and that was Awesome! :D

Pineapple Express by a mile, i've seen it about 7 times now.

Pineapple Express didn't really do anything for me. I just don't like Seth Rogen at all. I think he's a great writer but I just hate his acting.

He plays the same character in every film but to be honest it doesn't really bother me. It's all about Saul for me, what a dude.

Surprisingly enough, PE is not very rewarding if you watch it high...:\

I watched it high but that was on the third time and it gets better and better the more you watch it, for me at least.

Many films mentioned here are only just making it onto our cinema screens and I dont acquire films illegally personally so not much floated my boat last year.

However 'Wanted' was damn brilliant, stupid, crazy fun.

He doesn't bother me when he's just supporting like in Superbad and 40 Year Old Virgin, but he tends to really bother me when he's the main character.

i heard Mezza Streeps' acting in Doubt is ridiculously over-the-top. The trailer seems to confirm this. Just because it's set in a convent school seems to mean it's a weighty significant drama but I find the perpetual Streep-worship a bit much really. Make room for some new faces darling

It can be a bit over-the-top at times but overall it's a still great performance (she's not screaming at Philip Seymour Hoffman the entire movie), definetly not the best of the year though. And I agree that Streep being the godess of acting gets a little annoying.

I'm not gonna lie, my favorite movie of the year is Speed Racer. I usually hate kids movies and obscene amounts of CGI, so I have no business loving it as much as I do. But it took everything to cartoonishly exaggerated extremes that I totally broke down and reverted back to a 7 year old bouncing off the walls on a sugar high. I loved the show when I was younger, so it brought back a lot of nostalgia and stuff.

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Curious Case of Benjaman Button

and, one that has yet to be mentioned:
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Austraila. This movie didn't get all the praise it deserved.

And I really wanted to see: Doubt, The Dark Knight, Changeling, and MILK really badly.

1.) The Wrestler
2.)Mongol
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3.) In Bruges
4.)Slumdog Millionaire
5.)Tropic Thunder

definitely agree with you here. Had a hard time not falling asleep.

The Curiosu case of Benjamin Button was awesome

I think Changeling didn't do too well with the critics but i really liked it, i was nearly welling up at some points.

This is pretty much a prefect list of all the movies I really wanted to see in the past year but didn't get a chance to.

that looks like the nominationlist for best movie form the golden gbloe awads

I guess my list is generic, but here goes:

1. Wall-E (Possibly my favourite movie ever! ^^)
2. The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button (Great, although a bit too similar to Forrest Gump.)
3. The Wrestler (Great, sad, beautiful. Lots of great scenes.)
4. The Reader (Awesome, interesting and.. worth thinking about.)
5. Slumdog Millionaire (I think the ending is just.. cliché, but the rest was great.)

5.The Dark Knight
4.Slumdog Millionare
3.WALL-E
2.Milk
1.Charlie Bartlett(easily)

300.

I'm not sure if it was released in 2007 or 2008, but I know it came out on DVD in 2008.

And my god, is it brilliant. The best film I have ever seen.

you havent seen enough films

1. Mister Lonely
2. The Visitor
3. Let the Right One In
4.The Dark Knight
5. I've loved you so long

Why is Wall- E getting so much love? it failed when the story left Earth.

You failed when the story left Earth.
Feel the sizzle mother****er. :tramp:

You failed.

I think it would have been better if it didn't start focusing on the humans and had less dialogue like the first half. But it's still a brilliant, highly imaginative and even touching film. Best pixar film ever. ****1/2 out of ****

It actually came out in 2006.