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The Best Movies Of 2008
Topic Started: Dec 26 2008, 12:00 PM (255 Views)
JeffLynnesBeard
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Which movies, released - or first seen by yourself - in 2008, were your personal favourites of the year?

My personal favourites have been;

No Country For Old Men
There Will Be Blood
The Dark Knight
Milk
WALL-E
Cloverfield (so much better than many critics said it was!)
Run, Fatboy, Run
Swing Vote

Which have been the ones you enjoyed the most this year?
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Beatlelicious
The Women
The Dark Knight
Twilight
The mummy
hellboy 2
baby mama
get smart
Indaina jones/skill
The love Guru
Cloverfield
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wackadoo
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Atonement

There Will Be Blood

Fireproof

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Well, here's another clue for you all, the Walrus was Paul...
The Dark Knight was brilliant.
No Country for Old Men was brilliant.
And Twilight was my favorite. (Yes, I'm one of THOSE people)

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Slumdog Millionaire was excellent. Everyone has to see that right now.

Also, The Dark Knight was great. As was WALL-E.
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I didn't watch many movies, just 4, and I don't have any opinion to give about the movies I watched.
My 4 miserable movies

Sex and the city
Indiana Jones
James Bond
and today The Spirit.


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Everything becomes a blur for me.I'm shocking when it comes to remembering releases of stuff.

No Country for Old Men
Juno
The Dark Knight

Just like to also say I thought Sex and the City, Mamma Mia and Indiana Jones were complete shite (its good that, I tend to remember the things I dont like more. Its the pessimistic side in me
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DCBeatle64
Dec 28 2008, 04:45 PM
Everything becomes a blur for me.I'm shocking when it comes to remembering releases of stuff.
That's why I write everything down in a notebook... I have one for books, and one for films.

Movies that I've enjoyed this year:

Cloverfield
The Savages
The Orphanage
Juno
Be Kind Rewind
The Wackness
Vicki Christina Barcelona
Wall-E
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Pineapple Express


I've also seen, but didn't love:

No Country for Old Men
Batman: The Dark Knight
There Will Be Blood


There were others, but these were the ones I enjoyed most.
What a long, strange trip it's been....
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I need to add a movie to my list:

VALKYRIE I just saw it 2 days ago. It was excellent and, contrary to what I had heard, Tom Cruise did a great job.
Edited by wackadoo, Dec 29 2008, 07:02 AM.
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We saw Atonement the other day - and, while it was one of the saddest movies I've ever seen, I have to admit that I loved it.
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wackadoo
Dec 29 2008, 06:58 AM
I need to add a movie to my list"

Valkyrie. I just saw it 2 days ago. It was excellent and, contrary to what I had heard, Tom Cruise did a great job.
I'd really like to see that movie - although there have been some mixed reviews, some of the more respected reviewers I know have given it a very good write-up.
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The Dark Knight
No Country For Old Men
There Will Be Blood
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
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I loved Atonement, Andy. One of the things I liked the most is the cinematography.

Valkyrie is definitely worth seeing. I think you would like it.

I also want to see The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. I THINK I would like it.
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Vicky Cristina Barcelona [Woody Allen]
Vals im Bashir [Ari Folman]
Burn After Reading [Joel and Ethan Coen]
Doubt [John Patrick Shanley]
Die Welle [Dennis Gansel]
Happy Go Lucky [Mike Leigh]
Låt den rätte komma in [Tomas Alfredson]
What Just Happened? [Barry Levinson]
Se-Jie [Ang Lee]
There Will Be Blood [Paul Thomas Anderson]
Direktøren for det hele [Lars von Trier]
Persepolis [Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi]
Ji Jie Hao [Feng Xiogang]
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas [Mark Herman]
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead [Sidney Lumet]
Le Scaphandre et le papillon [Julian Schnabel]
Defiance [Edward Zwick]
La Zona [Rodrigo Plá]
Terror's Advocate [Barbet Schroeder]
Milk [Gus Van Sant]
The Reader [Stephen Daldry]
Shine a Light [Martin Scorsese]
A Complete History of My Sexual Failures [Chris Waitt]
Sous les bombes [Philippe Aractingi]
Couscous [Abdel Kechiche]
Auf der anderen Seite [Fatih Akin]
Gran Torino [Clint Eastwood]
Niwemang [Bahman Ghobadi]
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People [Robert Weide]
Jodhaa Akbar [Ashutosh Gowariker]
Planet B-Boy [Benson Lee]
Religulous [Larry Charles]
Gake no ue no Ponyo [Hayao Miyazaki]
Le Silence de Lorna [Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne]
Revolutionary Road [Sam Mendes]
Definitely, Maybe [Adam Brooks]
Appaloosa [Ed Harris]
In Bruges [Martin McDonagh]
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button [David Fincher]
Frost/Nixon [Ron Howard]
Gone Baby Gone [Ben Affleck]
Mamma Mia [Phyllida Lloyd]
Horton Hears a Who [Jimmy Hayward and Steve Martino]
Slumdog Millionaire [Danny Boyle]
Surfwise [Doug Pray]
W [Oliver Stone]
In Search of a Midnight Kiss [Alex Holdridge]
Cloverfield [Matt Reeves]
My Winnipeg [Guy Maddin]
L'Heure d'été [Olivier Assayas]
Boy A [John Crowley]
Couscous [Abdel Kechiche]
Taxi to the Dark Side [Alex Gibney]
Chocolate [Prachya Pinkaew]
Il y a longtemps que je t'aime [Philippe Claudel]
Kenny [Clayton Jacobson]
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One of my favourites this year was "The Happening".

Not universally loved from what I've read, but I thought it was good.
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Being a huge admirer of (most of) Woody Allen's work, I'm surprised that Vicky Cristina Barcelona passed me by. I think I need to start subscribing to Empire again.
...and in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
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Mmmmmmmm :ponder: I'm trying to think of movies this year....My absolute favorite was......... MILK!!!! A beautiful picrure....Sean Penn was BRILLIANT! Also, Dark Knight, Duchess, Quantum of Solice, There Will Be Blood....and I can't think of anymore!!!! :no: I'm sure I'm leaving 1 or 2 out.....my other favorite was not a movie, but TRUE BLOOD!!!!!! :devil:
[AND IN THE END.....THE LOVE YOU TAKE...IS EQUAL TO THE LOVE YOU MAKE
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