Best movie of 2008

[UngodlyWarlock]

Here's my top 10:

1) Iron Man
2) Rambo
3) Dark Knight
4) Incredible Hulk
5) Cloverfield
6) Hellboy 2
7) Mother of Tears (had some silly parts, but still really enjoyed it)
8) Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (I'm sorta like Butters in the SP episode....didn't see what all the hate was about).
9) Death Race (Just watched it recently and found it to be quite entertaining for the mood I was in)
10) Doomsday

Here's movies still yet to see to explain why they are not on my top 10:
Gran Torino
The Wrestler
Let the Right One In
Wanted

Biggest Disappointments:
1) Diary of the Dead (C'mon George.....)
2) The Strangers (though I didnt have any expectations either...which really spoke to me just how badly I thought it sucked.
3) Get Smart (How do you have such an unfunny movie with such funny people?)
4) Teeth (awfully unclever, unfunny, unscary, unsexy, unartistic, feminist shit...)

Movie that I thought was released this year, and would have been my #2

2) Inside (Super impressed with how it managed to be horrifying in the right way that I like a horror movie to be horrifying...much better than most of the french horror I have seen lately)

My tastes are my own and my criteria is not really based on good scripts, good acting, or critical acclaim.

-D

[Roderick Usher]

Originally Posted by UngodlyWarlock

[4) Teeth (awfully unclever, unfunny, unscary, unsexy, unartistic, feminist shit...)

I really like TEETH. I thought it was charming and kind of sweet. The brother stuff was a little heavy-handed, and it isn't really a horror film... more of a superhero origin story.

[bwind22]

Top 10 of 08

1-Tropic Thunder
2-Pineapple Express
3-Diary of the Dead
4-Cloverfield
5-The Dark Knight
6-Doomsday
7-The Strangers
8-Ghost Town
9-Iron Man
10-The Incredible Hulk


Honorable Mention

(I enjoyed all of these very much, but they didn't quite make the top 10.)

Rambo
Wall-E
Midnight Meat Train
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo
Hellboy 2: The Golden Army
Kung Fu Panda


11 Lamest of 08

Be Kind Rewind
Day of the Dead: The Need to Feed
The Happening
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Lost Boys: The Tribe
Semi-Pro
Prom Night
The Love Guru
Meet the Spartans
Wanted
You Don't Mess with the Zohan

(Disclaimer: The Lamest are not necessarily the 11 worst movies of the year for me. They just happen to be 11 films I had higher hopes for and was ultimately very disappointed with.)

[UngodlyWarlock]

Originally Posted by Roderick Usher

I really like TEETH. I thought it was charming and kind of sweet. The brother stuff was a little heavy-handed, and it isn't really a horror film... more of a superhero origin story.

I just (hehe, obviously) had the completely opposite feeling about it. I felt the entire movie was heavy-handed. I dunno what I expected.

Also...I completely forgot about Tropic Thunder. I'd put that somewhere around my #6 and #7, bumping stuff down as necessary. Really funny flick.

-D

[Elvis_Christ]

Hell Ride was hands down my favorite followed by Stuck.

[hacelikewhoa]

I wasn't excited about very many movies that were out last year. The only movies I really got into were The Strangers, Let the right one in, Cloverfield, and Wanted.

[Dante'sInferno]

Clover was sexy. Like i'm going to stomp on you, then eat you sexy.




I NEED SLEEP. Insomnia is not fun children. Neither is an all-night coke session with 4 hookers.

[illdojo]

The Angra Knight
Gran Torino
Seven Pounds
Religulous

[Despare]

Originally Posted by newb

I agree........its all subjective

And this being a horror forum I would not be surprised on any given year if many of our members had horror films as their "best film of the year".

[becky.horror]

Without a doubt it would be Inside, probably Seed, i did like The Strangers especially the ending.
Fond of monster films so Cloverfield made me happy.
Teeth was alot better than i thought it would be, as was Wrong Turn 2.
Nameless
Feast - was it 08 or 07?
Planet Terror
Il think of some more . . .

Has any1 seen Donkey Punch yet?