As you see films throughout 2008, use this thread to keep your favorites organized. Edit as you go, and offer up your favorite (and least favorite) films, performances, directors, music, etc.
Make sure that you don't include movies that you happened to see in 2008 but were releases from earlier years. This thread is strictly for films that are released for the first time in 2008.
1) The Dark Knight 2) WALL-E 3) Iron Man 4) Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 5) Forgetting Sarah Marshall 6) Tropic Thunder 7) Burn After Reading 8) Get Smart 9) Baby Mama 10) Eagle Eye
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B+ Blindness Vicky Cristina Barcelona The Dark Knight Iron Man The Incredible Hulk Estômago Falsa Loura Get Smart The Bank Job Speed Racer The Spiderwick Chronicles The Chronicles of Narnia - Prince Caspian Cloverfield The X-Files - I Want to Believe
B- Nome Próprio Wanted Baby Mama Eagle Eye Last Stop 174 Tropic Thunder High School Musical 3 - Senior Year Han**** Horton Hears a Who! Vantage Point Era Uma Vez... The Mummy - Tomb of Emperor Dragon Flawless Star Wars - The Clone Wars Sex and the City
C+ Quantum of Solace 15 ans et demi Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Mamma Mia! What Happens in Vegas... Taken Hellboy II - The Golden Army Nights in Rodanthe Nim's Island Penelope Leatherheads Out of Tune Space Chimps Meu Nome Não é Johnny Made of Honor
C- Untraceable 27 Dresses Fool's Gold The Forbidden Kingdom Righteous Kill O Signo da Cidade Babylon A.D. The Strangers Meet Dave
D+ The Women My Mom's New Boyfriend John Rambo Journey to the Center of the Earth The Happening Jumper Bangkok Dangerous 10.000 B.C.
D- Sexo com Amor? Mad Money The Eye
F Superhero Movie You Don't Mess With the Zohan Meet the Spartans
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ChangelingA W.A- The Dark KnightB+ Sex And The CityB+ Forgetting Sarah MarshallB Iron ManB Stop LossB WantedB Baby MamaB- CloverfieldB- Pineapple ExpressB- Vantage PointB- Burn After ReadingC+ Smart PeopleC+ Wall-EC+ The StrangersC UntraceableC- The HappeningD 27 DressesD
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Cloverfield D+ The Other Boleyn Girl B Iron Man A- Chronicals of Narnia Prince Caspian A- Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull B+ Stone Angel B Son of Rambow B Rambo 2008 B-
Jumper C- The Bucket List B Semi Pro C- Sex and The City B+ The Happening B In The Name of The King D- Mad Money B Untraceable C Diary of The Dead B Definitely, Maybe B Spiderwick Chronicles B
10000 BC C- Wall E A+ Wanted D Vantage Point C- Get Smart A In Bruges B+ Hanc0ck B The Ruins C Charlie Bartlett B One Missed Call D+
The Bank Job B+ Journey to the Center of the Earth B Hellboy 2, The Golden Army A- The Dark Knight A Shutter C- The Tracey Fragments C 21 B The Eye D
The X-Files: I Want to Believe C+ Stop-Loss C+ Step Brothers B+ Shine a Light A The Mummy, Tomb of the Dragon Emperor B Super High Me B Nim's Island A Doomsday D- Pineapple Express B The Lost Boys, The Tribe C+
Pistol Whipped B Star Ship Troopers 3, Marauders D+ Tropic Thunder B+ Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day B+ Scorpion King 2, Rise of a Warrior F Death Race B- Mirrors B Babylon A.D. C+
Vicky Cristina Barcelona A- Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? A- The Forbidden Kingdom B Burn After Reading A Baby Mama C- 88 Minutes D Young at Heart A The Love Guru F Made of Honor C Speed Racer C+
Ghost Town A- Run Fatboy Run B CHOKE A The Lucky Ones B Savage Grace C- Forgetting Sarah Marshall B Taxi to the Dark Side A Religulous A You Don't Mess With the Zohan F
The Duchess B- Elegy B City of Ember A- Mongul A+ The Visitor B+ War, Inc. C+ W B Max Payne ? The Signal B- The Incredible Hulk B
The Strangers B- Dance of the Dead C+ Death Defying Acts C+ Changeling B+ Happy-Go-Lucky A- Rachel Getting Married B Star Wars: The Clone Wars C- Dark Floors D Quantum of Solace C+
Kung Fu Panda B- Twilight D+ Meet Dave C-/D+ Australia B+ Transporter 3 B+ Transsiberian B Boy A A-
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Posts: 7526 | Location: canada | Registered: December 22, 2005
Haha. This post just keeps getting bigger and bigger. I am posting every film I've seen, what I want to see, what I want to skip, and then post a couple of very early predictions of this years possible nominees.
2008 FILMS:
Dark Knight - 9/10 Iron Man - 9/10 WALL*E - 9/10 Cloverfield - 8/10 Pineapple Express - 8/10 Han**** - 7/10 21 - 6/10 Rambo - 6/10 X-Files: I Want to Believe - 6/10 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - 5/10 StepBrothers - 5/10 The Strangers - 5/10 Vantage Point - 4/10 The Happening - 3/10 Shutter - 3/10
FILMS I WANT TO SEE: The Argentine Australia Blindness Body of Lies Burn After Reading Cassandra's Dream Changeling Choke Cold Souls (if Giamatti confirms) Crossing Over The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Defiance Doubt The Duchess Eagle Eye Elegy Forgetting Sarah Marshall Frost/Nixon Get Smart The Great Buck Howard Gran Torino Guerrilla The Husband Leatherheads Mamma Mia! Milk Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day The Reader Revolutionary Road Righteous Kill Romulus, My Father Seven Pounds Shine A Light The Soloist Speed Racer Synecdoche, New York Wanted You Don't Mess With The Zohan
FILMS I WILL SKIP: Amusement Babylon A.D. College Road Trip Dragonball The Eye Fame Jurassic Park 4 (learn to say "stop") Meet the Spartans Motel Hell The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor Prom Night The Ruins Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants 2 Space Chimps Step Up 2 Superhero Movie
As the year goes on, I'll clean this list up a bit more.
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My Oscar Predictions:
PICTURE: Milk or Dark Knight DIRECTOR: David Fincher, Curious Case of Benjamin Button ACTOR: Sean Penn, Milk or Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon ACTRESS: Meryl Streep, Doubt or Kate Winslet, Revolutionary Road SUPPORTING ACTOR: Heath Ledger, Dark Knight or Michael Shannon, Revolutionary Road SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Kate Winslet, The Reader, or Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Milk ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Slumdog Millionaire ANIMATED FEATURE: Wall.E BEST ORIGINAL SONG: Peter Gabriel, Thomas Newman, "Down to Earth" BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: Thomas Newman, Wall.E
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Semi-Pro: B- I Could Never Be Your Woman: B+ Be Kind, Rewind: B+ Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day: A Horton Hears a Who: B Run, Fatboy, Run: B+ Smart People: B Forgetting Sarah Marshall: A Baby Mama: B Iron Man: A- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: C+ Kung Fu Panda: A- Romulus, My Father: B- You Don't Mess With the Zohan: A- Get Smart: B+ Wanted: A- WALL-E: B Hanc***: A- The Dark Knight: A Step Brothers: A- Pineapple Express: B Tropic Thunder: A The House Bunny: B Burn After Reading: B+ Ghost Town: A- W.: B Zack and Miri Make a Porno: B Role Models: A Madagascar - Escape to Africa: B+ Bolt: B+ Four Christmases: B Slumdog Millionaire: B+
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Posts: 2469 | Location: Earth | Registered: April 11, 2005
As it may get frustrating having to check the American release date of every movie I see in 2008, I will go by Australian release dates (but will still restrict it to 2008 releases):
Jan 6 - LUST, CAUTION: 8/10 Jan 9 - JUNO: 8/10 Jan 18 - AMERICAN GANGSTER: 8/10 Jan 25 - WALK HARD: THE DEWEY COX STORY: 7/10 Jan 26 - SWEENEY TODD: 8/10 Jan 29 - I AM LEGEND: 8/10 Jan 30 - THE WATER HORSE: 8/10
FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION
Best Documentary Oscar: FORBIDDEN LIE$
Winner: Best Doco - AFI, Australian Film Critics Circle. Best Non-fiction Screenplay, WGA (Silverdocs)
Posts: 215 | Location: Canberra, Australia | Registered: October 06, 2005
Have yet to see Cloverfield, but what I did see made me sick I loved There will be blood and I just watched Vantage Point So Cloverfield ? TWWB A+ Rambo C Vantage Point D- One missed call C-