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) Iron Man 2) Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 3) Forgetting Sarah Marshall 4) Get Smart 5) Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! 6) Cloverfield 7) Definitely, Maybe 8) Leatherheads 9) College Road Trip 10)
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B+ The Incredible Hulk Iron Man Get Smart The Bank Job Speed Racer The Chronicles of Narnia - Prince Caspian The Spiderwick Chronicles Cloverfield
B- Horton Hears a Who! Vantage Point Flawless Sex and the City
C+ Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull What Happens in Vegas... Made of Honor Meu Nome Não é Johnny
C- 27 Dresses Fool's Gold
D+ John Rambo The Happening Jumper 10.000 B.C.
D- Sexo com Amor? Mad Money The Eye
F Superhero Movie Meet the Spartans
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For Your Emmy Consideration: Kyra Sedgwick - Best Actress in a Drama Series "Damages" - Best Drama Series Glenn Close - Best Actress in a Drama Series Rose Byrne - Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series Zeljko Ivanek - Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
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________________________________________ "Your father Werner was a burger server in suburban Santa Barbara when he spurned your mother Verna for a curly-haired surfer named Roberta. Did that hurt her?" -30 Rock
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+
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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:
Iron Man - 9/10 WALL*E - 9/10 Cloverfield - 8/10 21 - 6/10 Rambo - 6/10 Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull - 5/10 The Strangers - 5/10 Vantage Point - 5/10 The Happening - 3/10 Shutter - 3/10
FILMS I WANT TO SEE: The Air I Breathe The Argentine Assassination of a High School President Australia Blindness Body of Lies The Brothers Bloom Burn After Reading Cassandra's Dream Changeling Choke Cold Souls (if Giamatti confirms) Crossing Over The Curious Case of Benjamin Button The Dark Knight Defiance Doubt The Duchess Eagle Eye Elegy Forgetting Sarah Marshall Frost/Nixon Get Smart The Great Buck Howard Gran Torino Guerrilla Han**** The Husband Leatherheads The List Mamma Mia! Milk Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day Pineapple Express 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 The X-Files II
As the year goes on, I'll clean this list up a bit more.
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My Early Early Oscar Predictions:
PICTURE: Revolutionary Road DIRECTOR: David Fincher, Curious Case of Benjamin Button ACTOR: Leonardo DiCaprio, Revolutionary Road or Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon ACTRESS: Meryl Streep, Doubt or Kate Winslet, Revolutionary Road SUPPORTING ACTOR: Heath Ledger, Dark Knight or Robert Downey, Jr., The Soloist SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Amy Adams, Doubt, or Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Burn After Reading or Milk ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Frost/Nixon, Doubt, or Benjamin Button ANIMATED FEATURE: 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
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Emmy FYCs: (more to come) Julia Louis-Dreyfus, The New Adventures Of Old Christine Ellen Pompeo, Grey's Anatomy Elizabeth Perkins, Weeds Calista Flockhart, Brothers & Sisters Best Drama Series: Damages Best Comedy Series: The Office
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
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For Your Emmy Consideration: Kyra Sedgwick - Best Actress in a Drama Series "Damages" - Best Drama Series Glenn Close - Best Actress in a Drama Series Rose Byrne - Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series Zeljko Ivanek - Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
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For Your Emmy Consideration: Kyra Sedgwick - Best Actress in a Drama Series "Damages" - Best Drama Series Glenn Close - Best Actress in a Drama Series Rose Byrne - Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series Zeljko Ivanek - Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
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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-
For Your Emmy Consideration: Kyra Sedgwick - Best Actress in a Drama Series "Damages" - Best Drama Series Glenn Close - Best Actress in a Drama Series Rose Byrne - Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series Zeljko Ivanek - Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
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