Best Film of the Year - Nomination

[nite-owl]

Zodiac
American Gangster
Borne Ultimatum

 

[Rez]

THE MIST

The Darjeeling Limited

Uh.

Man, this year sucked.

 

[primemover]

Of what I've seen.

Ratatouille
Superbad
Transformers

 

[Heisenberg]

No Country For Old Men
The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford
There Will Be Blood

 

[DX]

The Bourne Ultimatum
Spider-Man 3
Hot Fuzz
300
The Simpsons Movie

Honorable mentions: Die Hard 4.0 and Transformers

 

[Poeman]

Assisination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
No Country for Old Men
Bourne Ultimatum

 

[Shuley]

Before The Devil Knows Your Dead
No Country For Old Men
The LookOut

 

[Kanon]

The Bourne Ultimatum
Fantastic Four Rise of the Silver Surfer
28 Weeks Later

Mentions: Bee Movie, Zodiac,300
Older movies that were released this year where I live and kicked all kind of ass: Rocky Balboa

 

[Agentsands77]

Uh.

Man, this year sucked.

See NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, THERE WILL BE BLOOD, and SWEENEY TODD. Three genuine classics in one year? That's rare, but now it has happened. In 2007.

 

[Drizzle]

The two best films?

Superbad and Sweeney Todd.

I still haven't seen No Country For Old Men.

 

[Carmine Falcone]

1. Zodiac
2. Hot Fuzz
3. The Bourne Ultimatum

All the stuff that looks fantastic such as No Country For Old Men, Sweeney Todd, There Will Be Blood and The Darjeeling Limited are 2008 movies here.

 

[kane9321]

spider-man 3
300
zodiac
Bourne Ultimatum

 

[Untilteld]

1. Transformers
2. Alvin and the Chipmunks
3. Super Bad
4. Sweeney Todd
5. Hot Fuzz
6. 300
7. The Simpsons Movie
8. Saw IV
9. Knocked Up
10. Disturbia

 

[Two-Face]

Transformers
Superbad
Hitman

 

[DACrowe]

I have not seen Charlie Wilson's War, Atonement, There Will Be Blood or Juno yet, so this is not a complete list, me guesses.

1. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
2. Into the Wild
3. Sweeney Todd
4. Zodiac
5. American Gangster
6. Eastern Promises
7. 3:10 to Yuma
8. Michael Clayton
9. No Country for Old Men
10. Hot Fuzz

There are my nominees, but runner-ups:

11. The Bourne Ultimatum
12. Black Snake Moan
13. Waitress
14. Gone Baby Gone
15. Superbad
16. Knocked Up
17. Ratatouille
18. Paris, Je t'aime
19. Harry Potter 5
20. Alpha Dog
21. The Darjeeling Limited
22. 1408
23. Hairspray
24. Amazing Grace
25. Spider-Man 3
26. Beowulf
27. Grindhouse
28. Live Free or Die Hard

 

[DACrowe]

Nominees for worst of list (from what I've seen):

-Ghost Rider
-POTC3
-FF2
-Across the Universe
-300

I must now run for my life.

 

[Hunter Rider]

Seeing this lists makes me realise how much i missed this year.

DaCrowe that looks like your entire cinema going for the year.

 

[DACrowe]

Not quite and a few of those were rentals, actually.

There is probably about a half dozen+ more I saw this year in between my "quality list" and my "crap list," which thankfully has been small this year.

 

[Spider-Vader]

I think you and VileOne will be the only ones that mention this. It was one of the best films of the year, yet, I don't think many here saw it.

I did, but it's my least favorite Pixar movie.

The Simpsons Movie
Knocked Up
Live Free or Die Hard

Runners-Up:
Spider-Man 3, Transformers

 

[Hunter Rider]

Not quite and a few of those were rentals, actually.

There is probably about a half dozen+ more I saw this year in between my "quality list" and my "crap list," which thankfully has been small this year.

Good year for movies, especially the last 3rd. I am definitely gonna catch, Sweeney, no Country and Gone Baby Gone when they release here.

 

[BloodyWolverine]

Pirates 3.

Eastern Promises.

Stardust.

Transformers.

The Kingdom.

I Am Legend.

National Treasure 2

 

[WorthyStevens]

The Mist
Zodiac
The Bourne Ultimatum

Runner-ups:

Ratatouille
Grindhouse
Superbad
American Gangster

I still have to watch Juno, 3:10 to Yuma, Michael Clayton, Sweeney Todd, Charlie Wilson's War, There Will be Blood, Eastern Promises, Gone Baby Gone, Into the Wild, the Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, No Country for Old Men, The Darjeeling Limited, Rescue Dawn, Amazing Grace, the Lookout, Breach, the Host, and Before the Devil Knows You're Dead.

 

[L0ngsh0t]

While my favorite was Spider-Man 3, I do not think it was the overall best (as it had some flaws). I think the overall 3 best are:

I don't think I have ever understood this statement

I generally see it as someone wanting to pass their opinion in movies off as credible when their favorite movie is one like a spider-man 3 that gets pretty lambasted at times (maybe over so).

Stand up for your opinion man POTC3 is probably in my top 15 somewhere and that gets as **** canned as SM3, but I'll still stand by it I thought it was better than all but about 12-15 flicks this year that I saw.

My favorite movies are the movies I think that are best, or they wouldn't be my favorites, so I guess you gotta find what works best for you, but that is the logic that makes the most sense to me

top 15 out of what I have seen (my sig says other wise I have been to lazy to change it, recent DVD viewings have altered my opinion a bit on different movies)

1. Gone, Baby, Gone
2. No Country
3. Hott Fuzz
4. Zodiac
5. Knocked Up
6. Superbad
7. Grindhouse
8. Die Hard
9. Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix
10. National Treasure 2
11. Halloween
12. Bourne Ultimatum
13. 3:10 to Yuma
14. Hairspray
15. Walk Hard/Blades of Glory/Oceans 13 (one of those good but not great comedies)

oh wow guess it didn't make the list wow, ether way..

great year for comedies though: Walk Hard, Oceans, Blades, Knocked Up, Superbad, Hott Fuzz, normally we get like two comedies of this caliber

worst movies of the year:
Ghost Rider, Hitman, Pathfinder, War

 

[Hunter Rider]

I think there is a difference between having fun with a movie that you know is flawed and enjoying a movie that you also know is brilliantly made. I.e I had a lot of fun with Transformers but i also thoroughly enjoyed Last king of Scotland, they aren't comparable in how and why i enjoyed them, but when asked which was the better film it's clearly The Last king of Scotland from a cinematic viewpoint, which is what the question of this thread is.

 

[War Party]

I nominate:

No Country For Old Men
Sweeney Todd
There Will Be Blood (early screening)